SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Philip Campbell.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 20:00-21:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s

María Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Cold gas outflows and lifecycle of radio galaxies

Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Metropolis dynamics of mean-field spin glasses

Jiri Cerny, Vienna.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

The plectic Taniyama group

Chris Blake (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:15-17:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Social Learning Strategies & Cumulative Culture

Dr Rachel Kendal, University of Durham.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Knotted structures of light, gravitational radiation, and plasma

Dirk Bouwmeester (UC Santa Barbara & Leiden).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Composite leptoquarks and anomalies in B decays

Sophie Renner (DAMPT).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Cluster growth in a forest fire model

Nic Freeman, Bristol.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chemical Adventures Using the Unified Principles of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas, Emeritus Professor.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

TBA

Antonios G. Kanaras , University of Southampton.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Ex-infinity

Sean Moss (DPMMS).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

The effects of different sudden stratospheric warming types on the ocean

If external to BAS, contact the organiser for gaining access to building.

Amee O'Callaghan, University of East Anglia.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Report from SENSORNETS 2015

Helen Oliver (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The ka-girl with a baby knife: understanding youth-urban languages in Kampala-Uganda

Dr Saudah Namyalo, Centre of African Studies.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:10-14:00

ARClub Talks

The brain of the beholder: Honouring individual representational idiosyncrasies.

Ian Charest, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Children's Perceptions of their Sibling Relationships: Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Naomi White, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Systems Biology of Cancer

Host: Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Graduate Student Society

Professor Jussi Taipale, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Sweden .

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Design and Evaluation of Proxemic-Aware Environments to Support Epistemic Activities

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

Roman Radle, University of Konstanz.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 10:00-11:00

Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars

Workshop: Machine Learning in Cambridge 2015

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

Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Flying 300 underwater Planes and other Oil Industry Innovations

Dr Simon Bittleston, Vice President Research, Schlumberger.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

How to Measure Facial Behaviour in Animals Using FACS

Cátia Caeiro, University of Lincoln.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Local Transcriptomes and proteomes in neurons

Erin Schuman. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

From research to practice in working memory: The challenges of making a difference

Susan Gathercole (MRC CBSU) .

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 16:00-17:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Synchrotron radiation and beamlines at 3rd generation synchrotrons

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Experimental investigations of the resonant dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms

Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique, France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 02 March 2015, 15:30-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

An exponential integrator for the 4D-Vlasov-Poisson system with strong magnetic field

Emmanuel Frenod, Bretagne-Sud.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 02 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Inter-hemispheric symmetry or asymmetry in variations of tropical rainbelt during the last glacial cycle? perspectives from a climate model-data comparison

Dr Joy Singarayer (Reading).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800

Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

The role of mesoscale processes in biogeochemical cycling during the last glacial termination

Kate Hendry (Earth Sciences).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations

Dan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 02 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Death, Identity, and the Social Network

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

Jed Brubaker, University of California.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 10:00-11:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TCSA, or: yet another look at the Ising phase transition

Matthijs Hogervorst (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Experimental and petrological modelling of magma chamber cooling histories

Andrew Gilbert (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Complexity analysis of the Lasso regularization path and an application of sparsity to isoform detection in RNA-seq data

Julien Mairal, INRIA, Grenoble.

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

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Identification of a model of driver steering behaviour based on human sensory dynamics

Chris Nash, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Motion of the cello bridge

Ailin Zhang, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Energetics of vertical dispersion in simple and double-diffusive turbulent stratified fluids

Remi Tailleux (University of Reading).

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

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bioengineering Seminar Series

Directed Growth of CNS Tissue on Engineered and Active Surfaces for Neural Device Application

Prof. Golam M. Newaz.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Automated Progress Monitoring Using Augmented Reality

Marianna Kopsida - PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:30-16:00

Zangwill Club

Neural representation of complex space

Professor Kate Jeffery,Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Long-running programs

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Automated as-built modelling using machine learning

Ioannis Anagnostopoulos - PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-15:30

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Rationality of blocks of quasi-simple finite groups

Niamh Farrell City University, London.

CMS, MR14.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanics affecting the ballistic limit of thin metal plates

Dr Benjamin P Russell, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Programming and reprogramming to the trophoblast lineage

Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Fibroblastic reticular cells as anti-inflammatory agents: pre-clinical proof-of-principle

Anne Fletcher, hosted by Alice Denton for the postdocs

Anne Fletcher, Univeristy of Birmingham.

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

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quantifying the Entropy of Binding for Water Molecules In Protein Cavities by Computing Correlations

David Huggins, University of Cambridge.

Todd Hamied Room, Dept. of Chemistry.

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Rotating shells, non-spherical gravitational collapse and cosmic censorship

Jorge Rocha (IST/Lisbon).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Tool development work (tbc)

Imoh ILEVBARE (Education and Consultancy Service, IfM).

Lecture Theatre 2, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 27 February 2015, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS- A Pancreatic Challenge in a Jack Russell Terrier

Chaired by Lucy Davison .

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 27 February 2015, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge RNA Club

"HSV-1 causes widespread host-specific disruption of transcription termination"

Andzrej Rutkowski, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

“The Nuclear Matrix Protein Matrin3 Regulates Splicing and Forms Overlapping Networks with PTB”

Miguel Coelho - Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 18:00-20:00

Parasitology Seminars

VSG identity and structural integrity determine growth rate of bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei

POSTPONED - to be rescheduled

Angela Schwede, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult Brain

Dr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Probing surface structure and interactions of ionic liquids

Karen Syres, Department of Physics, University of Central Lancashire.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Rigorous Analysis of a Randomised Number Field Sieve

Jonathan Lee (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Long-term performance and immobilisation mechanisms of stabilised/solidified contaminated soils

Ms Fei (Tiffany) Wang, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity

Guillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) .

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

Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty

Eran Tal (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Causes and Consequences of New Mutations.

Host: Cahir O'Kane

Dr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Interplay of X-ray Spectroscopy with Functional Materials - Addressing Scientific Issues with Synchrotron Capabilities

Information Materials RIG seminar

Professor Tsun-Kong Sham, Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Canada.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Maximal clades in random binary search trees

Svante Janson (Uppsala University).

MR12.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

The semi-direct product of categories

Guilherme Lima de Carvalho e Silva (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR13.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Towards bi-treated glass

Marco Zaccaria.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Decreasing the oxygenase activity of Rubisco: a synthetic biology approach

Marek Szecowka (Hibberd Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

CEB Career Talks

"A career in design"

Talk is free but advance registration is required on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events/talks

Harry Claxton, Technology Development Manager Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pembroke St, New Museums Site, Shell Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Rainbow Group Part II Student Project Presentations

Speaker to be confirmed.

Rainbow Seminar Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

BPI Seminar Series

A computational model for macroscale simulations of moving contact lines

Yi Sui, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Thursday 26 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Making light from the dark universe

Dr Joseph Conlon (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase

Professor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Garnir relations and Dyck tilings

Matt Fayers, QMUL.

MR12.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Nutritional and immunoparasitological insights into the cause of death in a wild ruminant population

Dr Romain Garnier, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Teichmüller curves in genus three and unlikely intersections

Martin Moeller, MPI & Frankfurt.

MR13.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Looking inside moons using gravity and topography

Dr Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Biogenesis of mitochondrial membrane protein complexes

Professor Peter Rehling, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany.

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Einstein’s 1913 Vienna Lecture: Modeling Gravitational Theory on Electrodynamics

Jurgen Renn.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How cells get to be the right size and put things at the right place inside them

Martin Howard, John Innes Centre.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

TBC (SP Workshop)

Miss Cassandra Chua, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Transcriptional Network Control of Blood Cell Development

Professor Bertie Göttgens, Department of Haematology.

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Publishing in the Nature Group

Dr Enda Bergin, Associate Editor, Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, London.

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Digital by Default - A Paradigm Shift in Government

Stephen Allott - Crown Representative for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Cabinet Office.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Psychometric validation as theory avoidance

Anna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? Repetition suppression and perceptual expectation in the typical and autistic population

Michael Ewbank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

How protein plasticity influences MHC class I peptide selection: insights into mechanism

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

Dr Andy van Hateren and Dr Alistair Bailey, Unversity of Southampton.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonic vibrations and the neutral vacancy in diamond and silicon

Joseph Prentice (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Superconductivity in high-pressure phases of hydrogen sulfides

Joseph Nelson (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 11:00-11:40

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Considering Tools for Artists, Creative Processes, and Design Ideation

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

Michael Golembewski, University of Nottingham.

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

in vivo models

Please note: this talk takes place on WEDNESDAY!

Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Defects in materials and how to describe them

Sir John Ball, University of Oxford.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL)

Enterprise Tuesday 2015: Rough diamonds pitch for your support

Guest panellists: Peter Cowley, Max Bautin and Simon Walker.

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 18:00-21:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Malthus and the South Sea

Alison Bashford (Faculty of History).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

LITTLE THINGS and other things: probing star formation near and far

Elias Brinks (University of Hertfordshire).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

The what of p-adic L-functions

David Hansen (Columbia University).

MR13.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Does swimming behind get you ahead?: The energetic benefits of moving in fish schools

Dr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Under pressure: Environmental stressors alter relationships between physiology and behaviour in fishes

Dr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

The course of developmental health in autism spectrum disorder; the pre-school years

Professor Peter Szatmari, Chief, Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at SickKids and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health & Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alec Greaves-Tunnell (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Continuity and stability of the cut locus of the Brownian map

Brett Kolesnik (UBC).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

BRC Seminar Series

"Experimental therapeutics for neuromuscular disease"

Professor Matthew Wood.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Mass renormalization in (super)string theory

Arnab Rudra (DAMTP).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

(In)stability of anti-de Sitter?

Claude Warnick, University of Warwick.

CMS, MR14.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Title to be confirmed

Karthik Tadinada.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Defining performance: the categories of creativity in music and law

Dr Ananay Aguilar, Faculty of Music.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Creating desired impressions: Children’s understanding of the implications of self-presentation and tactic use

Dr Dawn Watling Royal Holloway, University of London.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The atomic structure of the APC/C: implications for understanding regulation and mechanism of protein ubiquitination

David Barford, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A* Sampling

Chris Maddison (U Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Beyond acceleration: time, narratives, and the design of multiple worlds

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

Larissa Pschetz, University of Edinburgh.

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

Professor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

BRC Seminar Series

"Gene therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases"

Professor Mimoun Azzouz.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

CMS Colloquia

Purely Kinetic Lagrangians.

Professor Nick Manton, DAMTP..

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Personality Assessment in Juvenile Guide Dogs: Methods and Application

Naomi Harvey, University of Nottingham.

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Bayesian inference and primary visual cortex: An introduction

Richard Turner (Department of Engineering).

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Free curves on varieties

Frank Gounelas (Humboldt University of Berlin) .

CMS MR5.

Monday 23 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature

Claire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Towards a new dynamics for Earth's core

Andrew Jackson (ETH Zurich).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Old Solvents: New solutions?

Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE FRS.

The McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

Friday 20 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Aspects of Vector Like Confinement

Michele Redi (INFN,Florence).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Holocene surface ruptures in the Lower Rhine Graben, Germany - New insights from paleoseismology, remote sensing and geophysics

Christoph Gruetzner (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Spectral thresholding in quantum state estimation for low rank states

Madalin Guta, University of Nottingham.

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

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Microfabricated acoustic biosensors for detections of clinical biosensors

Nikki Weckman, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Is the coefficient of restitution energentically consistent?

Professor Bill Stronge, CUED (emeritus).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Closed-form Green’s functions for the barotropic vorticity equation: new results on Bessel functions

Leo Maas (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research).

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

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Active Sensing and Brain oscillations

Professor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Faster C++

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 20 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Anthropogenic and natural alterations of shallow groundwater temperatures

Dr Kathrin Menberg - Research Associate Structures Group.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 20 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

Dr Davide Marenduzzo, Lecturer in Biophysics, University of Edinburgh.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Fracturing of geomaterials

Professor Kenichi Soga, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BRC Seminar Series

“Functional circuit plasticity after spinal cord injury: the role of Wnt signaling”

Edmund Hollis, University of California, San Diego.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional networks in the developing Xenopus embryo

Jim Smith, MRC National Institute for Medical Research London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Improved mismatched cell transplants for cancer immunotherapy

Dr Francesco Colucci (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

A back-stage tour of polymer phase behavior with self-consistent field theory

Nicholas Tito, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Coset Constructions and Modified Gravity

Garrett Goon (DAMTP).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Argument Mining from Text for Teaching and Assessing Writing

Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Charge, spin and vacancy ordering in perovskites obtained from high pressure and reductive chemistry.

Dr Angel Arevalo Lopez, CSEC, University of Edinburgh.

TCM Seminar room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 20 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

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

Production Processes Group Seminar - "NanoManufacturing @ IfM"

Michael De-Volder.

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

Friday 20 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

Manufacturing Research Forum

Designing user behaviour: a new direction for Sustainable Design

Tracy Bhamra (Design School, Loughborough University).

Seminar Room 1, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 20 February 2015, 10:00-10:45

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Un-Computing: Shaking off the ‘Computer’ Baggage

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Sarah Gallacher, University College London.

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

Friday 20 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Solving QBF by Counterexample-Guided Abstraction Refinement

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

Mikoláš Janota, INESC-ID, Lisbon.

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

Friday 20 February 2015, 09:00-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Assessment of pain in sheep

Carlos Rebelo, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 20 February 2015, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Host protection, autoinflammation and cell death: the NLRP3 inflammasome

Alessandro Rizzo, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 20 February 2015, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum cryptography: the ultimate physical limits of privacy

Professor Artur Ekert (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

African natural products

Chiyedza Heri.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Talks

How to build political will for a stable climate

Joe Robertson, Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 19:30-20:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Prestige Lecture: Advanced Materials and 3D Printing for the Regeneration of Human tissues

Tea is served from 6pm

Professor Kevin Shakesheff, Director Wolfson Centre for Tissue Engineering .

Wolfson Lecture Room , Churchill College, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Usability Group

UX design, mobile phones and saving eyesight

Book free tickets at: https://ux-mobile-phones-saving-eyesight.eventbrite.co.uk

Kate Tarling, Peek.

Red Gate Software 12 Cambridge Business Park Cambridge CB4 0WZ.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 corpora

Florence Myles, University of Essex.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Prion propagation and neurotoxicity

Prof. John Collinge, UCL .

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:15-18:00

Foster Talks

Neural Processing of Naturalistic Features by the Hoverfly Visual System

Dr Karin Nordström, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Scanning helium microscopy (SHeM): Real space imaging of delicate surfaces

David Ward, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Decomposition of multiple coverings of the plane

Dömötör Pálvölgyi (Rényi Institute, Budapest).

MR12.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory

Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) .

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)

Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Aestheticodes: Beautiful Interaction

Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non lithium based technologies: walking on the sodium side

Dr Rosa Palacin, CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat Barcelona, Spain.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.

Host: Viji Draviam

Dr Reto Gassmann, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Portugal .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

The Ramsey Theory of Ordinals

Thilo Weinert (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Making Smarter Artificial Muscles

Stoyan Smoukov (University of Cambridge).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Credit Ratings and Structured Finance

Joel Shapiro is Associate Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

10 Trumpington Street.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

women@CL Speaker Lunch Series

"You Had me at Hello, World: 1:1 Mentoring with the Leaders of Tech"

Dona Sarkar, Microsoft.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Can genomics impact forestry?

Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The epidemiologist as culture hero: visualising humanity in the age of 'the next pandemic'

Christos Lynteris (CRASSH, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Seminars in Cancer

Cell-specific analysis of tumour-stroma signalling

Dr Claus Jorgensen (CRUK Manchester Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Resource efficiency: what are the limits?

Jonathan Cullen, Dept of Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The DNA repair machinery; more than just repairing DNA

Dr Brian Ferguson, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Perspectives on Designing Optimal User Interfaces

Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge).

Rainbow Seminar Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 11:15-12:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Genomic technologies

Jason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s

Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Algebra Seminar

The graded representation theory of the symmetric group and dominated homomorphisms

Liron Speyer, QMUL.

MR12.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Magmatism on the terrestrial planets

Dr Chloe Michaut, IPGP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

L-spaces versus non-left-orderability for graph manifolds

Liam Watson, Glasgow.

MR13.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunities

Professor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The first massive black holes

Marta Volonteri.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Genus 0 correspondence theorem for relative Gromov-Witten invariants of P^1

Hannah Markwig, University of Saarbrucken.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

The Evolution of Sophos

Dr Jan Hruska - Sophos Ltd..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nested Sampling for bulk materials

Gabor Csanyi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards a molecular psychophysics of decision making in neuro-development and repair

Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London.

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Some dynamics of brine and compressible vapour flows in permeable conduits

Prof. Herbert Huppert, FRS, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge .

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

The hidden meteorites of Antarctica

If you wish to attend this talk are not a member of staff at the British Antarctic Survey please contact me at jonngs@bas.ac.uk to let me know that you are coming. Thank you

Geoff Evatt, University of Manchester.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Knowledge Research

Keteven Tsereteli, Bloomberg.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)

Christian List (London School of Economics and Political Science).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental differences in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD

Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells regulate the innate and adaptive immune response to inhaled allergens

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

Dr Tim Halim, MRC LMB, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

"The ER-mitochondria axis and neurodegenerative diseases".

Professor Chris Miller, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Protecting encrypted cookies from compression side-channel attacks

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

Douglas Stebila, Queensland University of Technology.

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling cross-shelf heat transport along the West Antarctic Peninsula

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

Jennifer A. Graham, Old Dominion University (VA, USA) and University of East Anglia (UK).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Context-aware programming languages

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Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Towards the Evolutionary Genesis Engine

Prof Lee Cronin.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL)

Enterprise Tuesday 2015: Leading Globally - The importance of diversity and creativity

Sir Paul Judge, Chairman of the Enterprise Education Trust and Patron of Cambridge Judge Business School.

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

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 18:00-21:00

Early Medicine Seminars

Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626–1694)

Sophie Mann (University of Essex).

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

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Science with ALMA: the cool side of the universe

Leonardo Testi (ESO).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

L-functions as distributions

Andrew Booker (University of Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

From species to individuals, a survey of variation in the immune function of birds.

Dr Kevin Matson, University of Groningen.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

From the twistor action to amplitudes, Wilson loops, dlogs and dilogs

Lionel Mason (Oxford).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

probability

Liouville Brownian motion and thick points of the Gaussian free field

This talk has been canceled/deleted

Henry Jackson, Cambridge.

MR12, CMS.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Liouville Brownian motion and thick points of the Gaussian free field

Henry Jackson, Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

An overview on AIRS observations of stratospheric gravity waves

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

Dr Lars Hoffmann, Juelich Research Centre, Germany..

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 14:30-15:00

Category Theory Seminar

Algebraically coherent categories: definition, examples and basic properties

Tim Van der Linden (Université catholique de Louvain).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

An overview of MIPAS observations of polar stratospheric clouds

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

Dr Reinhold Spang, Juelich Research Centre, Germany..

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 14:00-14:30

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Managing Sensor Processing Tasks in the Heterogeneous Mobile Environment: Scheduling Computations across the CPU, DSP and Cloud Services

Petko Georgiev (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

What goes up must come down: the decline of the renaissance codpiece

Victoria Miller, Faculty of History.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

ARClub Talks

Studies of prenatal testosterone and autism-relevant behaviour in non-human animals

Dr Gillian Brown, Lecturer, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, UK.

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

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Towards Full-Stack Security Analysis of Web Applications

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

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud.

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

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Some of my Accidents

Prof. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Defining and Assessing Pain in Animals

Lynne Sneddon, University of Liverpool.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

What’s the point of functional imaging for cognitive theory

Rik Henson (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

On the Cauchy problem for the homogebeous Boltzmann-Nordheim equation for bosons

Marc Briant, Brown University.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 16 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Levitated Optomechanics

Peter Barker (UCL).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 16 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Long-term trends in ozone concentrations in the UK: local, regional and global influences

Dr Mike Jenkin.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Functional inequalities in Sobolev spaces: From isocapacitary estimates to Littlewood-Paley theory

Ali Taheri, University of Sussex.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 16 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Modulation of THz Metamaterials Using Graphene Surface Plasmons

Dr Isaac Luxmoore, University of Exeter.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Using random linear network coding in dynamic storage environments

Prof. Muriel Medard, Department of EECS, MIT.

LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Monday 16 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Winner Take(s) All Society: The Self in Status Contests

Dr Niro Sivanathan, London School of Business.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Monday 16 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650–1720

Alexander Wragge-Morley (University College London).

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Ascending plumes and descending thermals: aspects of convection in the atmosphere

Gabriel Rooney (Met Office).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 16 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The Difficulty of Preventing Code Reuse Attacks

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

Felix Schuster, University of Bochum.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 09:00-10:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

Professor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Induced seismicity and stress shadowing from the 2014 Bardabunga-Holuhraun dyke intrusion

Rob Green (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Some ideas in nonparametric estimation

Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics.

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

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Assuming a purely sinusoidal input force......

Dr Tore Butlin, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The phase field crystal method: From convection to the evolution of crystals

Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University).

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

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bioengineering Seminar Series

Elastic instability and morphogenesis of the brain

dr John Biggins.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The Evolution of Culture

Professor Kevin N. Laland, School of Biology, University of St Andrews.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++, the Standard Library, and overloading

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Automated building structural design?

Dr Manuel Davila - Research Associate Structures Group.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Prime graphs, simple groups and Goldbach's conjecture.

Elisa Covato University of Bristol.

CMS, MR14.

Friday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Game Semantics for Interface Middleweight Java

Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

How to solve Ax=b when A is really big: applications in solid mechanics and geophysics

Dr Garth N Wells, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions

Dr Vincent A. Martinez, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The collective cell biology of organ formation

Darren Gilmour, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

What counts as evidence? Some reflections on what counts as 'good enough' evidence in public health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Mark's main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, systematic reviews, and the evaluation of the health effects of social policies

Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Nuclear architecture dictates HIV-1 integration into a subset of active genes at the nuclear periphery

Marina Lusic, hosted by Paul Lehner

Marina Lusic, University Clinic Heidelberg.

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

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quasicrystals, Charge Ordering and the Quantum Hall Effect

Felix Flicker, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Acausality in Massive Gravity: Problems and (Attempted) Solutions

McCullen Sandora (CP3 Origins).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpreting Document Collections Using Topic Models

Nikos Aletras, UCL.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Developing low carbon supply network: an Influence-Measurement-Improvement Framework

Jialun Hu (Centre for International Manufacturing, IfM).

Seminar Room 1, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 13 February 2015, 10:00-10:45

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Modeling, Quantifying, and Limiting Adversary Knowledge

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

Piotr Mardziel, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Friday 13 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Communities, conservation, and climate change in the Pacific Islands

Pepe Clark.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Shocking temperatures. 1: What did you expect?

David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory

Neil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) .

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory

Frank Uekotter (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variance Reduction Techniques and Stochastic Optimisation for Monte Carlo

Matt Hoffman; Yutian Chen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Computers, Clocks and Network Time: Everything you never wanted to know about time

George Neville-Neil (Neville-Neil Consulting).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.

Host: Boris Adryan

Professor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Cycles in Oriented 3-Graphs

Ta Sheng Tan (University of Malaya).

MR12.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Combined TCM Seminars and TCM blackboard seminar listing

Topological order from parafermions

Paul Fendley, Oxford University, All Souls College.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data-driven Nonlinear Control Design Using Robust Adaptive Dynamic Programming

Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang, New York University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Computation of water-wave profile: An analytical approach

Konstantinos Kalimeris.

MR 5, CMS.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Simplicial sets and their homotopy theory

Sean Moss.

CMS, MR13.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Assessing the energy, water and land nexus in China

Ying Qin, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

women@CL Speaker Lunch Series

women@CL Talklets - NLIP

Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolution of the miRNA-mediated RNA silencing pathway: the plant that wanted to be an animal

Adrian Valli (Baulcombe Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

BPI Speakers

Stefano Rocco, Tim Beeson-Jones, Tom Eaves - BPI.

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Computational Biology

This talk was postponed from February 5 2015

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Concurrent Algorithms for Emerging Hardware Platforms

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

Irina Calciu, Brown University .

Indigo Meeting room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Network events

Cambridge Network event: Breakfast Workshop - Creating High Performance Organisations and Teams

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 08:00-10:30

Foster Talks

*CANCELLED: TERRY SEJNOWSKI TALK ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 12 FEB*

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Philip Campbell (editor-in-chief, Nature).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Kashiwara's Theorem for D-cap modules on rigid analytic spaces

Konstantin Ardakov, University of Oxford.

MR12.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Finding cancer drivers in mouse, man and dog

Dr David Adams, Experimental Cancer Genetics, Faculty Lead Mouse Genetic Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Sums of excursions along random Teichmuller geodesics and volume asymptotics in the moduli space of quadratic differentials

Vaibhav Gadre, Warwick.

MR13.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lepton Flavor Violation in B decays?

Diego Guadagnoli (Annecy,LAPTH) .

MR15, CMS.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Death of a dynamo: a time-series record of magnetic activity on the pallasite parent body

Dr Richard Harrison, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Who is talking with who in hte OXPHOS system, and how?

Dr Jose Antonio Enriquez Dominguez, CNIC, Madrid.

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Sarkisov program for Mori fibered lc Calabi--Yau pairs.

Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros (Brunel).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Inflation after Planck 2015

George Efstathiou.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modelling by Natural Moves

Peter Minary, University of Oxford.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Compressed sensing in the real world - Why and what actually works

Dr Bogdan Roman - DAMPT, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Particle-Laden Flows in Rotating Drums: The Silent Secrets

Prof. Peter Thomas, Fluid Dynamics Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Warwick.

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Image analysis tools for cancer biology: how could we make it better?

Patrice Mascalchi. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute..

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

REMS lunch

Linking and ELF

nonstandard room: FW26

Stephen Kell / Dominic Mulligan.

FW26.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics

Jonathan Knowles (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Emergent phenomena in the BiS2 family of superconductors from first principles

Corentin Morice (TCM) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Classical statistical mechanics with nested sampling

Robert Baldock (TCM) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-11:40

Machine Learning @ CUED

Orthologous networks in biological systems

Dr Christopher Penfold (Warwick).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Haematopoiesis Seminars

Predictive Engineering of Cell Fate

Please note that this seminar is at 10am

Prof. Peter Zandstra, University of Toronto.

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computation, Technology and the New Era of STEM

Conrad Wolfram.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL)

Enterprise Tuesday 2015: Make It Brilliant & They Will Come

William Tunstall-Pedoe, Founder of Evi (formerly True Knowledge - part of the Amazon group of companies), and Founder & Owner of Genius 200.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 18:00-21:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine

Caitjan Gainty (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Detecting and Characterising Planets with Direct Imaging

Beth Biller (Royal Observatory Edinburgh).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Euler systems and the Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Sarah Zerbes (University College London).

MR13.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The adaptive use of information within and across generations

Dr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

From the positive Grassmannian to shallow water waves, via soliton solutions to the KP equation

Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Ryutaro Tanno (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Engineering complex metabolic feedback in Escherichia coli

Dr Felix Moser, MIT Bioengineering & Broad Institute.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Probability

Analysis of a stochastic branching recursion related to the Anderson transition

Dr. Christian Webb.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 15:45-16:45

Category Theory Seminar

KZ diagonal fillers

Ignacio Lopez Franco (University of Cambridge).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology Open Day

Professor Simon Tavaré and Dr Stephen Eglen.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Integrating mobility sensing with SDN for disaster resilient networks.

Zafar Gilani (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The debates on GM crops in the framework of sustainable development.

Dr Ksenia Gerasimova, Centre of Development Studies.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Elian Fink, UCL .

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adaptive Codes for flexible behaviour in the human brain.

Zoe Kourtzi. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Developing Evidence to Support Decision-Making in the Primary Assessment of Equine Colic

Laila Curtis, University of Nottingham.

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Ni-catalyzed Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide and C-O Bonds"

Professor Rubén Martín Romo.

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:00-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matt Davis (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Interaction of x-rays with matter

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Minimizing interacting energies

José Antonio Carrillo, Imperial College London.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 09 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Reflection without Remorse: Revealing a hidden sequence to speed up monadic reflection

Oleg Kiselyov.

SS03.

Monday 09 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Single cell transcriptomics.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Dr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Monday 09 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Steps towards understanding tropospheric composition variability

Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis (Imperial College).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

Debugging Distributed Systems: A worked example

Note unusual venue

George Neville-Neil .

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 09 February 2015, 14:05-14:55

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Neural simulation on diverse computational hardware

Dr Dan Goodman, Imperial.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 09 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)

Sophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Periodic and quasiperiodic vortex shedding in the wake of a rotating sphere

Benoit Pier (Ecole Centrale, Lyon).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

Professor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Algorithmic Approaches to Statistical Estimation under Structural Constraints

Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh.

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

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

BSM Primary effects

Rick Gupta (Weizmann).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Seismological constraints on fault plane curvature and the formation of core complexes

Kirsty Reynolds (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Pharmacology Tea Club Lent 2015

PI3Ks; the rules of engagement

Phill Hawkins (Babraham Institute, Cambridge).

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual Judgments

Dr Simone Schnall, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++ and the Standard Library

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

"Project Successes and Failures in Analysis and Testing"

Ed Moseley, Design Director for AKT II Consulting Structural & Civil Engineers.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Embodied intelligence: How the body shapes the way robots behave

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Dr Fumiya Iida, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 06 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Soluble profinite groups

Ged Corob-Cook, Royal Holloway.

CMS, MR14.

Friday 06 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Capturing pluripotency form early mammalian embryos

Jenny Nichols, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Novel functions for IgG in modulating immune highways and DC trafficking

Menna Clatworthy, hosted by Clare Bryant

Dr Menna Clatworthy (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 06 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravity as gauge theory squared: from amplitudes to black holes

Ricardo Monteiro (Oxford).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 06 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity (out of and in Context) Based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts

Ivan Vulic, KU Leuven.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Nanoparticle growth and Ostwald ripening: aggregate growth, size distributions, and the breakdown of scaling

Prof. Dr. Juergen Vollmer, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Goettingen, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Network events

Making the Most of Cambridge Network Membership - Lunchtime Seminar

The Cambridge Network Team.

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

Friday 06 February 2015, 11:00-13:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Evolvable Manufacturing Processes and Systems – Towards Open, Adaptable and Context-Aware

Svetan Ratchev (Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, Nottingham University).

Seminar Room 1, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 06 February 2015, 10:00-10:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Putting the flowers of Fenland on the map

Owen Mountford.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda

Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Foster Talks

Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Hepcidin in Iron Homeostasis

Dr Carole Peyssonnaux, INSERM, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Quasi-elastic neutron scattering: a powerful tool to investigate molecular dynamics in two dimensions

Irene Calvo Almazán, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Variability in visual processing between and within individuals

Sam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) .

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cause, causatives and theories of causation

Julian Reiss (Durham University).

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

GraphChi and GraphChi-DB: large-scale graph computation on just a PC

Aapo Kyrölä (Facebook).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.

Host: Yuu Kimata

Dr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Tiling the Grid

Vytautas Gruslys (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

TCM's "Dragon's Den"

multiple internal speakers - see abstract.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Human factors and missed solutions to WWII Enigma design weaknesses

Prof. Harold Thimbleby CEng FIET FRCPE FLSW HonFRSA HonFRCP.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Junior Category Theory Seminar

On the analogy between Galois and fundamental groups.

Georgios Charalambous.

CMS, MR13.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Data With Everything

Dr Tim Whitley, BT Distinguished Engineer, MD, Research & Innovation.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Sciences Group

Why do black holes shine?

Prof. Christopher Reynolds, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, USA.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Excessive Creation of Sequel Firms

Pierre Mella-Barral, Professor - Speciality: Finance, EDHEC Business School.

10 Trumpington Street.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Evolution of Imprinted Gene Expression in Cultivated Rice

Daniel ZIlberman, Berkeley.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' – the myth of the mad scientist in early horror films

Vanessa Toulmin (University of Sheffield).

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Einstein on the beach: fluid flow on a curved space

Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Uni of Winsconsin.

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Poxvirus Entry and Uncoating

Dr Jason Mercer, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK.

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Some applications of multispectral reflectance imaging in biological materials and industrial surface coatings

Dr. José M. Medina, University of Granada.

LR3B, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Computational biology

This lecture has been postponed. It will now take place on February 12 at 9:30.

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Gaia satellite / 3D map of the galaxy

Professor Gerry Gilmore (IoA, Cambridge University).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

HPS History Workshop

Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750

Clare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Between Scylla and Charybdis: the sensitivity of the obstetric dilemma to short- and long-term ecological trends

Professor Jonathan Wells, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health .

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:30-17:00

Algebra Seminar

Isomorphisms of affine Schur algebras

Vanessa Miemietz, UEA.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

From disease ecology to disease control: is elimination of rabies possible

Dr Katie Hampson, University of Glasgow, Institute of Biodiveristy Animal Health and Comparative medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Lagrangian unknottedness in the cotangent bundle of a torus and applications

Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

From mapping to temporal monitoring: Exploring the characteristics of fault creep with SAR Interferometry

Dr Romain Jolivet, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materials

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial complex I assembly; regulating the metabolic regulator

Dr Leo Nijtmans, Nijmegen Centre for Mitochondrial Disorders.

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The Turing trap. How the universal computer is making the internet less secure.

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

Will Harwood and Roger Gross, Silicon Safe Ltd.

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Light, gravity and fencing off the swampland

Tim Hollowood.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sampled Energy Landscapes: Analysis and Comparison

Frederic Cazals, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, Algorithms-Biology-Structure.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Decomposition of D-module categories and modified Hyper-Kahler Kirwan surjectivity

Kevin McGerty (Oxford).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

TBC (SP Workshop)

Mr Frederik Floether, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Genomics of transcription factor redundancy

Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Non-Photorealistic Rendering of Images

Prof. Paul Rosin - Cardiff University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Industrial sustainability - a key manufacturing paradigm

Dr Dai Morgan, EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainabilty, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Does the missing fundamental require an inferentialist explanation?

Jenny Judge (Centre for Music and Science, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Development of speech perception in native and non-native listeners

Matt Davis (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Bacterial autophagy and the cytoskeleton in host defence

Host: Dr Milka Sarris (ms543@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Serge Mostowy, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Impact of Glacio-Mediated Sea Level Changes on the Tides in the Past and Future

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

Sophie-Berenice Wilmes, Bangor University.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

PSLP: Padded SLP Automatic Vectorization

Vasileios Porpodas, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The antibody revolution

Sir Greg Winter.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Cold gas outflows and lifecycle of radio galaxies *** Seminar cancelled ***

Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Asymptotic Growth of Torsion Homology of Arithmetic Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds

Haluk Sengun (Sheffield University).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of social behaviour in wild populations: European badgers & Seychelles warblers

Dr Hannah Dugdale, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Tree-Level S-Matrices: from Einstein to Yang-Mills, Born-Infeld, and More

Ellis Yuan (Perimeter Institute) .

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Meta-Interpretive Learning and Program Induction

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

Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, London.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Top/Higgs gateway to new physics

Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Louvain).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Manuel Davila - Research Associate Structures Group.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Kathrin Menberg - Research Associate Structures Group.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sandrine Heutz (Imperial College London).

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Approximation in Stochastic Scheduling

Nicole Megow (TU Berlin).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Title to be confirmed

Malcolm Scott (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Another take on frac(king): the triumph of the frock coat and the lounge suit

Tim Milner, Darwin Deputy Praelector and University Ceremonial Officer.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

ARClub Talks

Brain hypoconnectivity as a potential endophenotype of autism

Dr Rachel Moseley & Dr Rolf Ypma, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Imitation in Early Social and Cognitive Development

Dr Janine Oostenbroek, University of York.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Manifold correspondence: a signal processing perspective

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

Michael Bronstein, USI Switzerland.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

MYC Oncoproteins act as Epigenetic Modifiers

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar - Host by: Dr Anna Philpott

Dr Frank Westermann, Research Group Neuroblastoma Genomics, DKFZ, Heidelberg.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Biological insights into mutagenesis through modern sequencing technologies

Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

PhD Student Seminars

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

British Antarctic Survey.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Predictable and Dependable Low-power Wireless Networks

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

Marco Zimmerling, ETH Zurich.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One

Prof. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Engineering at Microsoft Research - Open Evening

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit

Naoshige Uchinda, Harvard University.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Ethical Concepts and Dilemmas in Emergency Treatment of Farm Animals

Paul Roger, RCVS and EBVS Recognized Specialist in Sheep Health and Production.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

From x-ray tubes to storage rings and beyond

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

The parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel equation

Kleber Carrapatoso, ENS Cachan.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 02 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

How well do we know halogen chemistry in the Marine Boundary Layer?

Dr Roberto Sommariva (Leicester).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Cabinet of Natural History

'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth

Sophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Building ventilation and applications in practice

Shaun Fitzgerald (Breathing Buildings, Engineering).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametrics with heterogeneous data

Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia.

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

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Dark matter decay into gamma-ray lines

Tiziana Scarna (Brussels ULB & Cavendish).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Periodicity of the Iceland Plume and a Dynamical Analysis of Plume Activity

Matthew Commin (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Driveability of low carbon vehicles

Henry Cathcart, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Some strange and useful properties of random frequency response functions

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Convective and absolute instabilities in eccentric Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille flow

Benoit Pier (Ecole Centrale Lyon).

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

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bioengineering Seminar Series

The mechanical control of neuronal growth in the developing brain

dr Kristian Franze.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

How and why does an extra sex chromosome affect neurodevelopment?

Professor Dorothy V. M. Bishop. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 30 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

LaTeX for Report Writing

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 30 January 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Prestressing in Coventry Cathedral

Dr Chris Burgoyne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 30 January 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

A novel (pre-)metric for causal graphs

Jonas Peters, ETH Zürich.

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

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

The transport of active swimmers in shear flows

Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Dynamics of fluid driven delamination and fracturing in elastic and magneto-elastic materials

Dr Jerome A Neufeld, BP Institute, Dept of Earth Sciences & Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Bayesian Fusion of Hyperspectral and Multispectral images

Qi Wei, University of Toulouse.

LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genome-wide loss-of-function screening using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

Kosuke Yusa Wellcome, Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 January 2015, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Circadian regulation of Inflammation

David Ray, hosted by Edwin Chilvers

David Ray, University of Manchester.

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

Friday 30 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

3d gravity and dual (warped) CFTs

Geoffrey Compere (ULB).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 30 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards quantum algorithms for natural language processing

Will Zeng, University of Oxford.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 30 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Reconsidering old questions with new simulation techniques: Fluctuations and Frank constants in polymeric liquid crystals

Dr. Kostas Daoulas, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

International operations networks from the emerging country multinationals

Afonso Fleury (Department of Production Engineering, Sao Paulo University, Brazil).

Lecture Theatre 2, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 30 January 2015, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Molecular tools for detection and control of Streptococcus suis infection in pigs

Thomas Wileman, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 30 January 2015, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Rescuing Rhino

Dr Nicky Holdstock, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 30 January 2015, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Chemical and proteomic analysis of spliceosomes and multi protein complexes

Angus Lamond, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Annotation and identification of potentially functional lncRNAs

Wilfried Haerty, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 18:00-20:00

Parasitology Seminars

Beyond genomes: new insights into the trypanosome-tsetse interactions

POSTPONED - TO BE RESCHEDULED

Alvaro Acosta Serrano, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Laws of Programming with Concurrency

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

Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft.

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture - Laws of Programming with Concurrency

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

Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research.

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Taming a protein destruction machine

Nicolas Thoma, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Reearch, Basel, Switzerland.

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Haematopoiesis Seminars

Opening up the stem cell niche for human and mouse hematopoietic stem cells

Please note the different location of this seminar

Prof. Claudia Waskow, Center for Regenerative Therapies TU Dresden.

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Nanostructures for tuning of optical properties: Light and matter wave applications

Martin Greve, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

How the brain exploits binaural hearing: more than just two bites of the cherry

Alan Palmer (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham) .

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The rationality of science in relation to its history

Sherrilyn Roush (King's College London).

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Transfer Learning

Yingzhen Li; Eddy Pei-Hao Su.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Advanced Physical Layer Techniques for Wireless Multihop Networks

Adrian Loch (Technische Universität Darmstadt).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Imaging gene activity in living cells.

Host: Viji Draviam

Dr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Colouring graphs with no odd holes

Alex Scott (University of Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Two-dimensional Valence Bond Solid (AKLT) states from t2g electrons

Maciej Koch-Janusz, Weizmann Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

A Bayesian approach to multicanonical Markov chain Monte Carlo

Dr Jes Frellsen, CBL, CUED.

Board Room, CUED.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Junior Category Theory Seminar

The functor of points

Zhen Lin Low (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR13.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – modelling with airborne lidar

Will Simonson (Coomes Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

Craik Club

Material matters: the brain knows the binocular statistics of gloss

Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology.

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

CEB Career Talks

“A Career in the Food and Drink Industry - Sweet Success and travelling the World to find the perfect Pint”

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

Rachel Cooke Manufacturing Development Manager, SABMiller plc.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pembroke St, New Museums Site, Shell Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Causal Inference and Domain Adaptation

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

Jonas Peters, ETH Zurich.

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Hydrodynamic Theory of Coating

Jens Eggers, Bristol.

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Latent Branching Trees

Dr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 29 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Stem cells and cancer

Phil Jones, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Network events

Cambridge Network Breakfast Networking: How To Build Your Business into A Brilliant Brand – from the inside out

Paul Lewis, lewis andersen and Joss Anderson, Carpe Diem Coaching.

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 08:00-10:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Cosmology/inflation talk (title TBC)

Dr Daniel Baumann (DAMTP, Cambridge University).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

DNA Sequencing and Other Applications of Engineered Protein Nanopores

NB Location and time have changed

Prof. Hagan Bayley FRS, Department of Chemistry, Oxford.

Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Algebra Seminar

Seminormal representations of the partition algebras

John Enyang, City University.

MR12.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The political economy of bovine tuberculosis

Richard Bennett, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Director of Research and Enterprise, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:15-17:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Metal-Organic Nontrivial Molecules: From Structure to Application

Professor Ali Trabolsi .

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

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-18:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Categorified colored HOMFLY invariants of rational tangles

Paul Wedrich, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Observations of Stress on Faults

Dr Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Homological projective duality

Richard Thomas (Imperial College).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

A twistorial approach to string theory

Malcolm Perry.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

MOLECULAR STRUCTURES AND MACHINERY FROM DNA: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY FROM THE BOTTOM UP

Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Interacting with Infrastructure: Home Networking and Beyond

Dr Richard Mortier - University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

The Hydrodynamics of Particulate Flow: a Multi-scale Approach

Prof. Raffaella Ocone FREng, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University.

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

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Colloquium

An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts.

Reinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research), Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich).

MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-18:10

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical Image Analysis for Cancer Research

Joana Grah, DAMTP.

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

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely?

Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Kinds and degrees of (scientific) understanding

Henk de Regt (VU University Amsterdam).

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

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:30

REMS lunch

ARM semantics update

Shaked Flur.

FW11.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive and neurobiological markers of anxiety and treatment success

Andrea Reinecke (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Human Cytomegalovirus the paradox of immune evasion and control

Host: Professor John Trowsdale (jt233@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Mark Wills, Dept of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

"Looking at vision and behavior from visual cortex"

Dr Matteo Carandini, University College London..

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Ab initio study of phosphorus anode for lithium and sodium-ion batteries

Martin Mayo (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Towards time-dependent current density functional theory in real time

José María Escartín Esteban (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 11:00-11:40

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Protein folding, misfolding, disease and cancer

Sir Alan Fersht.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 20:00-21:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France

Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Galactic Astroarchaeology: Constraints on Formation and Evolution of Galaxies

Francesca Matteucci (Trieste University, Italy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Stark points and p-adic iterated integrals attached to modular forms of weight one

Alan Lauder (University of Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:15-17:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cooperation under the bark: Understanding sociality and symbioses in ambrosia beetles

Dr Peter Biedermann, Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

An Abelian-Higgs vortex on a compact hyperbolic surface

Rafael Maldonado (DAMTP).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Category Theory Seminar

Universal geometric tensor categories

Daniel Schappi (University of Sheffield).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 14:15-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

Deep vertical propagation of mountain waves above Scandinavia and New Zealand

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

Andreas Dörnbrack,Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Repeatable execution, and why operating systems should support it

Stephen Kell (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The archaeology of North West Cambridge (including the Darwin family's)

Christopher Evans, Director, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Men, maternity and moral residue: negotiating the moral demands of the transition to first time fatherhood

Dr Jonathan Ives, University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room, Old Cavendish Laboratory, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Optimizing Image Guided Radiotherapy for Patient Benefit”

Host: Professor Neil Burnet

Dr Peter Remeijer, Medical Physicist NKI /Avl, Amsterdam.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motors

Professor Eugene Terentjev, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Branching and Synoptogenicsm in Fly and Frog CNS

Dietmar Schmucker. VIB Vesalius Research Centre, KULeuven.

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

Monday 26 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Current Developments in Religious Slaughter Practices, Legislation and Animal Welfare Issues

Haluk Anil, formerly University of Bristol.

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

Monday 26 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Theory in the cognitive and brain sciences

Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 26 January 2015, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Cercignani's conjecture between multiples of the equilibrium

José A. Cañizo, Granada University .

CMS, MR13.

Monday 26 January 2015, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Volcanic outgassing

Dr Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain

Allegra Fryxell (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 26 January 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

On the effect of fluid injection on seismic and aseismic fault slip

Jean-Philippe Avouac (Bullard, Earth Sciences).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 26 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Cutting tail latency in cloud data stores via adaptive replica selection

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

Marco Canini, Université catholique de Louvain.

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

Monday 26 January 2015, 10:00-11:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Genome-wide transcriptional control of blood cell type identity

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

Felicia Ng, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

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

Monday 26 January 2015, 10:00-11:00

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

From Waste to Wealth using Green Chemistry

Prof. James Clark (University of York).

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

Friday 23 January 2015, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

Dr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Gauge theory webs in coordinate space

Ozan Erdogan (University of Cambridge).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 January 2015, 16:00-17:00