Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Social Proof Seminar (coordinated by Fenner Tanswell)

BPR - Big proof

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Modelling the way mathematics is actually done

BPR - Big proof

Joe Corneli (University of Edinburgh; University of London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An overview of the Flyspeck project

BPR - Big proof

Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Concise - a synthesis of types, grammars, semantics

BPR - Big proof

Arnold Neumaier (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Building blocks towards modeling the physical world: analysis, geometry, computer arithmetics

BPR - Big proof

Yves Bertot (INRIA Sophia Antipolis).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 25 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Big Proof & Education

BPR - Big proof

Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 24 July 2017, 15:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Language and automation in mathematics

BPR - Big proof

Natarajan Shankar (SRI International); Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research); Arnold Neumaier (Universität Wien); Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Dr Kirsty Kuo, .

Trinity College - room B2 Great Court.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reasoning by equivalence: the start of proof in elementary education

BPR - Big proof

Chris Sangwin (University of Edinburgh; University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 21 July 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computer Algebra and Formal Proof

BPR - Big proof

James Davenport (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 21 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions

Pang Wei Koh, Stanford University.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice-ocean interaction at the Totten Glacier

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

Alessandro Silvano, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Social proof: social session on the POPL experience

BPR - Big proof

Ursula Martin (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Socialising proof

BPR - Big proof

Lorenzo Lane (University of Edinburgh; University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Measuring Sample Discrepancy with Diffusions

SIN - Scalable inference; statistical, algorithmic, computational aspects

Andrew Duncan (University of Sussex; The Alan Turing Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 15:40-16:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Go forth and multiply! Imperatives in mathematical proofs

BPR - Big proof

Fenner Tanswell (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Multi-scale algorithms for simple fluids

SIN - Scalable inference; statistical, algorithmic, computational aspects

Anthony Maggs (City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution, (ESPCI)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 15:00-15:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Combining Machine Learning and Automated Reasoning: Some Training Examples

BPR - Big proof

Josef Urban (Czech Technical University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sampling with non-reversible dynamics

SIN - Scalable inference; statistical, algorithmic, computational aspects

Michela Ottobre (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 12:50-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Event-chain algorithms: taming randomness in Monte Carlo methods through irreversibility, factorization and lifting

SIN - Scalable inference; statistical, algorithmic, computational aspects

Michel Manon (Orange Lab).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 12:10-12:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mining Human Proofs from Machine Proofs

BPR - Big proof

Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary University of London; Queen Mary University of London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How does breaking detailed balance accelerate convergence to equilibrium?

SIN - Scalable inference; statistical, algorithmic, computational aspects

Robert Jack (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 11:00-11:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Piecewise deterministic Markov processes and efficiency gains through exact subsampling for MCMC

SIN - Scalable inference; statistical, algorithmic, computational aspects

Joris Bierkens (Delft University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 July 2017, 10:20-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A simple prover in the browser

BPR - Big proof

Edward Ayers (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Auto2 prover in Isabelle

BPR - Big proof

Bohua Zhan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Evaluating winding numbers through Cauchy indices in Isabelle/HOL

BPR - Big proof

Wenda Li (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

SMTCoq, a plug-in for the trustworthy integration of SAT/SMT solvers into Coq

BPR - Big proof

Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Tissues

Mark Skyler-Scott, Harvard University.

LR5, CUED.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

CDSAT: conflict-driven theory combination

BPR - Big proof

Maria Paola Bonacina (Università degli Studi di Verona).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 17 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Children in Distress: past precedents and current experience

Sir Tim Brighouse, Dr Carl Emery (University of Manchester), Dr Carrie Herbert MBE (Red Balloon Learner Centre Group), Caroline Peet (Queens’ Federation) and Alison Roy (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel on future directions for Big Proof

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

William Timothy Gowers (University of Cambridge); Natarajan Shankar (); Patrick Ion (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel on future directions for Big Proof

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

William Timothy Gowers (University of Cambridge); Natarajan Shankar (); Patrick Ion (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rational Metallodrug Development: Novel Pharmacophores and Mode of Action Investigations

Christian G Hartinger, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

After Math: Reasoning, Computing, and Proof in the Postwar United States (via Skype)

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Stephanie Dick (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Proof Archeology: Historical Mathematics from an Interactive Theorem Proving Standpoint

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lightweight and Heavyweight Methods for Integrating Mathematical Libraries

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Michael Kohlhase (Jacobs University Bremen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The role of explanation in mathematical research

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Alison Pease (University of Dundee).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 July 2017, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Machine Learning for Interactive Theorem Proving: Revisit, Reuse and Recycle your Proofs

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Katya Komendenskaya (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Accessible Reasoning with Diagrams: Ontology Debugging

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Optimization and risk assessment of tall reinforced concrete buildings

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Dyson Building Teaching Room.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

University High Performance Hub for Informatics Q&A

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?js369

Professor John Suckling, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sulfur Chemistry for Biology and the Environment

Dr Justin Chalker.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal Verification of Financial Algorithms, Progress and Prospects

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Grant Passmore (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mining the Archive of Formal Proofs

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Tobias Nipkow (Technischen Universität München).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scaffolds and frames: the MathComp algebra formal library

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Georges Gonthier (INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Everything's Bigger in Texas: ``The Largest Math Proof Ever''

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Marijn Heule (University of Texas at Austin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The social machine of mathematics

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Ursula Martin (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hammers and Model Finders, and Beyond

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Jasmin Blanchette (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est; Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

ARClub Talks

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

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Metaprogramming with Dependent Type Theory

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formally Verified Approximations of Definite Integrals

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Assia Mahboubi (INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Schemas and semantics for Higher Inductive Types

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Timothy O'Leary (Control Group).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Small Proofs

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Dan Licata (Wesleyan University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Homotopy Type Theory in Lean

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Floris van Doorn (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Logic in univalent type theory

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Impredicative encodings in HoTT

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 July 2017, 09:00-10:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Pauline Chiu, Hong Kong University.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Knowledge at Scale

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Stephen Watt (University of Waterloo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Proof Assistants: From Symbolic Logic To Real Mathematics?

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Larry Paulson (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 10 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

UniMath - its present and its future.

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Big Conjectures

BPRW01 - Computer-aided mathematical proof

Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 10 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

International Knowledge Management Trust

BPR - Big proof

Stephen Watt (University of Waterloo); Patrick Ion (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Sunday 09 July 2017, 14:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An Industrially Useful Prover

BPR - Big proof

J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin; University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Homotopy Type Theory in Agda

BPR - Big proof

Dan Licata (Wesleyan University); Kuen-Bang Hou (Favonia) (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 12:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Inference in generative models using the Wasserstein distance

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Christian Robert (CNRS & Université Paris-Dauphine ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Lean HoTT library

BPR - Big proof

Floris van Doorn (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 11:30-12:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

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

Prof Grudinin, founder and CEO of Fianium.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exact Sampling for Multivariate Diffusions

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Jose Blanchet (Columbia University; Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The HoTT library in Coq

BPR - Big proof

Bas Spitters (Aarhus Universitet).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 11:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Overview of Unimath

BPR - Big proof

Benedikt Ahrens (INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique); Catherine LELAY (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bradley-Terry models for pair-comparison networks: Structure and scalability

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

David Firth (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Langevin MCMC: theory and methods

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Eric François Moulines (Télécom ParisTech).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 July 2017, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Interpretation of the Calculus of Constructions in dictoses

BPR - Big proof

Martin Hofmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Discrete Bouncy Particle Sampler

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Chris Sherlock (Lancaster University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 16:15-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scalable Monte Carlo inference for state-space models

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Sinan Yildirim (Sabanci University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 15:30-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nominal applications of the classifying space of the finitary permutation group

BPR - Big proof

Ulrik Buchholtz (Technische Universität Darmstadt).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

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

Dr. Paul Shaw, University of Queensland.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Correlated Pseudo-Marginal Method

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 14:15-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Verified ODE Solver and Smale's 14th Problem

BPR - Big proof

Fabian Immler (Technische Universität München).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 13:40-14:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Importance sampling type estimators based on approximate marginal Markov chain Monte Carlo and exact approximation

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Matti Vihola (University of Jyväskylä ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 13:30-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Type theory and higher categories

BPR - Big proof

Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 13:00-13:40

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

From neuroscience to ultra-brief treatments for anxiety disorders

Dr Andrea Reinecke, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Community recovery in weighted stochastic block models

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Po-Ling Loh (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 11:45-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

David Barrett, DeepMind.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Detecting radiological anomalies

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

James Scott (University of Texas at Austin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Industrial Use of a Mechanical Theorem Prover

BPR - Big proof

J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin; University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey

Soundscape ecology: what sound can tell us about ecological functioning

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

Rachel Buxton, Colorado State University.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mobile Apps and Machine Learning for Improving Healthcare

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Katherine Heller (Duke University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hierarchy-preserving regularization solution paths for identifying interactions in high dimensional data

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Helen Zhang (University of Arizona).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards Encrypted Inference for Arbitrary Models

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Louis Aslett (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 16:15-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fast Bayesian Boolean Matrix Factorisation

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Chris Holmes (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 15:30-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Social Proof Seminar (coordinated by Fenner Tanswell)

BPR - Big proof

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 15:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimisation and complexity for Gibbs samplers for hierarchical and crossed-effect models

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 14:15-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exact Bayesian Inference for Big Data: Single- and Multi-Core Approaches

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Murray Pollock (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 13:30-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Semi-Automatic Asymptotics in Isabelle/HOL

BPR - Big proof

Manuel Eberl (Technische Universität München).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 13:30-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire.

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

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

BRC Seminar Series

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

Professor Shlomo Rotshenker,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the ordering of some nonreversible Markov chain and Markov process Monte Carlo methods

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Christophe Andrieu (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kinetic energy choice in Hamiltonian/hybrid Monte Carlo

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Sam Livingstone (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 11:00-11:45

ARClub Talks

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

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Validating approximate Bayesian computation on posterior convergence

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Wentao Li (Lancaster University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymptotics of Approximate Bayesian Computation

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Category theory and functional programming for scalable statistical modelling and computational inference

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 16:15-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Transferability: as easy as ABC?

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 15:30-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Big Proof and Education (coordinated by Jeremy Avigad)

BPR - Big proof

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 15:30-17:30

Optoelectronics Group

TBD

Professor Frank Wuerthner, University of Wurzburg.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Designing efficient composite likelihoods

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Cristiano Varin (Università Cà Foscari di Venezia).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 14:15-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Coresets for scalable Bayesian logistic regression

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Tamara Broderick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 13:30-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Classical Analysis in Lean & Isabelle

BPR - Big proof

Johannes Hölzl (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Jun Liu (Harvard University; Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Comparing Consensus Monte Carlo Strategies for Distributed Bayesian Computation

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Steven Scott (Google).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computational Higher-Dimensional Type Theory

BPR - Big proof

Kuen-Bang Hou (Favonia) (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Unbiased approximations of products of expectations

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Anthony Lee (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Variational, Hamiltonian and Symplectic Perspectives on Acceleration

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Michael Jordan (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Inference Algorithms

BPR - Big proof

Natarajan Shankar (SRI International).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scalable statistical inference with INLA

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Havard Rue (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 July 2017, 16:15-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Inference with approximate likelihoods

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Helen Ogden (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 July 2017, 15:30-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Proof Automation - Automation in Isabelle's Analysis

BPR - Big proof

Johannes Hölzl (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 July 2017, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Monte Carlo without rejection

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Alexandre Bouchard (University of British Columbia).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

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

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Conference Theatre.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Data compression with statistical guarantees

SINW01 - Scalable statistical inference

Sylvia Richardson (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 July 2017, 13:30-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Synthetic topology in Homotopy Type Theory for probabilistic programming

BPR - Big proof

Bas Spitters (Aarhus Universitet).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey

Exploring complexity in seabird foraging behaviour

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

Xavier Meyer, BAS .

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Left-orderability and 3-manifold groups: Rothschild Lecture

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Cameron Gordon (University of Texas at Austin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 30 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A tutorial introduction to Agda

BPR - Big proof

Andreas Abel (Göteborgs Universitet).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 30 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A tutorial introduction to the PVS proof assistant

BPR - Big proof

Natarajan Shankar (SRI International).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 30 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Quantum Annular Link Homology via Trace Functor

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Anna Beliakova (Universität Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Correlation between reflected and transmitted light in scattering media

Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti, University of Exeter.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

HoTT research seminar (Coquand & Rijke)

BPR - Big proof

Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 15:30-17:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

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

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards a categorical boson-fermion correspondence

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Yian Tian (Tsinghua University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

OSQP: An Operator Splitting Solver for Quadratic Programs

Bartolomeo Stellato, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some webs and q-Howe dualities in types BCD

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Daniel Tubbenhauer (Universität Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Non-multiplicative TQFTs and diagrammatic categorifications of the polynomial ring

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Radmila Sazdanovic (North Carolina State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Lean Theorem Prover

BPR - Big proof

Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

2-Verma modules and the Khovanov-Rozansky link homologies

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Pedro Vaz (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

Bryan Wilson, University of Bergen.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Categorical diagonalization

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Matthew Hogancamp (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 28 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Effectivity and Complexity Results in Hilbert's 17th problem Marie-Françoise Roy Université de Rennes 1, France

BPR - Big proof

Marie-Françoise Roy (Université de Rennes 1; Université de Rennes 1).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 28 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Categorified knot invariants and algebraic geometry

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Andrei Negut (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 28 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On colored link homologies

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Paul Wedrich (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dhruva Raman (Control Group).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

MSSM: muon g-2, dark matter and cosmology

Matthew Talia (University of Sydney).

B1.19, DAMTP.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Representation theory and the Coulomb branch

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Ben Webster (University of Virginia).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using Agda to Explore Path-Oriented Models of Type Theory

BPR - Big proof

Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An Upsilon-like invariant from Khovanov-Rozansky homology

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Lukas Lewark (Universität Bern).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to p-dg 2-representation theory

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Vanessa Miemietz (University of East Anglia).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Univalent type theory and modular formalisation of mathematics

BPR - Big proof

Thierry Coquand (Göteborgs Universitet).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How to categorify the ring of integers localized at two

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Around Chebyshev's polynomial and the skein algebra of the torus

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Hoel Queffelec (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université de Montpellier).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Traces, current algebras, and link homologies

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

David Rose (University of North Carolina ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Dr Richard Judson, EPA National Centre for Computational Toxicology.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hall algebras and Fukaya categories

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Peter Samuelson (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Craik Club

Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex

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

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

Ecology and diversity of Southern Ocean pelagic amphipods

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

Charlotte Havermans, University of Bremen.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lattices and Homological Algebra

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Zsuzsanna Dancso (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

Cara Nissen, ETH Zurich .

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Big Proof Agenda for Mechanizing Mathematical Discourse

BPR - Big proof

Natarajan Shankar (SRI International).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Non semisimple TQFTs from quantum sl(2)

HTLW04 - Quantum topology and categorified representation theory

Christian Blanchet (Université Denis Diderot).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The borders of Outer space

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Karen Vogtmann (University of Warwick; Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

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

Prof Stuart Burgess, University of Bristol.

Teaching Room JDB, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topology of ends of nonpositively curved manifolds

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Grigori Avramidi (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

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

Mary Van Vleet, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free-by-cyclic groups and trees

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Christopher Leininger (University of Illinois at Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Action dimension and L^2 Cohomology

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Kevin Schreve (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The dynamics of classifying geometric structures

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Bill Goldman (University of Maryland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 June 2017, 09:00-10:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

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

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Extending group actions on metric spaces

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Denis Osin (Vanderbilt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Foster Talks

Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspective

Professor John Montgomery (University of Auckland).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Chaucer Club

Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition

Kate Jeffrey (UCL).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hyperbolic groups with boundary an n-dimensional Sierpinski space

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Jean-Francois Lafont (Ohio State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Special Departmental Seminars

ARE WE ALONE SEARCHING FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

Dr S. Pete Worden, Chair of the Breakthrough Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vanishing simplicial volume for certain affine manifolds

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Michelle Bucher (Université de Genève).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry

Professor Jean-Marie Lehn.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

L2-torsion of free-by-cyclic groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Matt Clay (University of Arkansas).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Vladimir Markovic (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 09:00-10:00

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Comparative genomics to understand the roots of antibiotic resistance in bacteria: find ways to address it

Prof. Stephen D. Bentley: Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Dr. Florent Lassalle: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Dr. Marco Galardini: EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 18:30-20:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Biological Systems as Communication Networks

Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6.

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

British Antarctic Survey

The euphausiid exception in the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ)

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

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

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Surface subgroups of graphs of free groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Henry Wilton (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Time series forecasting touching on evolutionary numerical optimization

Prof Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University.

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

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

ARClub Talks

The impact of personal relevance and person perception on social cognition

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The boundary of hyperbolic free-by-cyclic groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Yael Algom Kfir (University of Haifa).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generalized Bestvina-Brady groups and their applications

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Ian Leary (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 09:00-10:00

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

Characters in Comics: Some Medium-Specific Qualities

Dr Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Ion Channels as Targets for CNS Disease

Prof. Derek Bowie,Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The evolution of L2-Betti numbers

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Roman Sauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Conformal and projective compactifications in GR

Rod Gover (Auckland NZ).

MR11.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group actions on C*-algebras and obstruction theory

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Masaki Izumi (Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

LHCb: a general purpose detector in the forward region

Xabier Cid Vidal (Santiago).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Effective quasimorphisms on right-angled Artin groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Jing Tao (University of Oklahoma).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

Jessica Ericson, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Groups acting on trees: representation theory and operator algebras

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Sven Raum (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

Nicole Hellessey, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

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

BRC Seminar Series

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

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

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

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Polynomial invariants of graph maps and applications to Out(Fn) and Mod(Sgn)

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Eriko Hironaka (American Mathematical Society; Florida State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Universal L2-torsion for free-by-cyclic groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Dawid Kielak (Universität Bielefeld ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kaehler groups and CAT(0) cubic complexes

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Thomas Delzant (Université Louis Pasteur).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geodesic currents and counting problems

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Kasra Rafi (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Around a big mapping class group

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Juliette Bavard (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The uniform boundary condition and simplicial volumes

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Clara Löh (Universität Regensburg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bounded cohomology and combinatorial volume forms

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Roberto Frigerio (Università di Pisa).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey

The 2016 K-axis Voyage: A Salpa thompsoni goldmine

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

Paige Kelly, Australian Antarctic Division.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Compactifications of spaces of maximal representations and non archimedean geometry

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Marc Burger (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Are Animals Musical?

Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 16 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

BSS Formal Seminars

How to read and write mechanical information in DNA molecules

prof. dr. Helmut Schiessel, University of Leiden.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Z’ physics at the LHC

Elena Accomando (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley meeting room 1.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Easter Term Poster Session

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Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The truth about finite group orbifolds

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Terry Gannon (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 16 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

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

Karina Hudson, University of New South Wales.

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

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

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Conformal nets, VOAs and their representations

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Sebastiano Carpi (Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 16 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

What to expect from logarithmic conformal field theory

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Simon Wood (Cardiff University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 16 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the Classification of holomorphic vertex operator algebras of central charge 24

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Ching Hung Lam (Academia Sinica).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 16 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On questions around reconstruction program

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Feng Xu ().

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 16 June 2017, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Affine centralizer algebras

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Lilit Martirosyan (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Foster Talks

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

Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Chaucer Club

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

Mark Johnson (UoC).

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

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Computer-assisted proofs for dynamical systems

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

MR 14, CMS.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bicommutant categories

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Andre Henriques (University of Oxford; Universiteit Utrecht).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The string group and vertex algebras

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Christian Voigt (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Stimulant treatment and the developing brain in ADHD

Dr Lizanne Schweren, Research Associate, Developmental Psychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 15 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Induced C*-hulls for *-algebras

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Ralf Meyer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Loop groups and noncommutative geometry

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Robin Hillier ().

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Conformal Field Theory, Operator algebras and symmetric Fuchsian equations

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Antony Wassermann (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 09:00-10:00

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

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

Sophie Masson.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Time and space in insect segmentation

Erik Clark (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Knots and links from the Thompson groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Line bundles over noncommutative spaces

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Giovanni Landi (Università degli Studi di Trieste ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Computational Neuroscience

motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networks

Vincent Fortuin (ETH).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigation

Stefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An application of T-duality to K-theory

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Pedram Hekmati (IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro; University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction times

Yul Kang (Columbia University).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kramer-Wannier and electro-magnetic duality in field theory

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Constantin Teleman (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 09:00-10:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany

Professor Sir Richard Evans, FBA (President of Wolfson College and Provost of Gresham College, London).

Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 17:45-19:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Quantum Sine-Gordon model in perturbative AQFT

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Kasia Rejner (University of York).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Matthew Kerr (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab

Wesley Ketchum (FNAL and University of Bern) .

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Yang-Baxter representations of the infinite symmetric group

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Gandalf Lechner (Cardiff University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Excitable behaviors

Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Baxterising using conserved currents

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Paul Fendley (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Associative algebras and conformal field theories

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Hubert Saleur (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Strong property (T), subexponential growth of derivatives and invariant metrics

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

David Fisher (Indiana University; Indiana University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Synergy on quon language

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Zhengwei Liu ().

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Subfactors with infinite representation theory

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 09:00-10:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theory RIG Informal Symposium

Fredrik Svensson, Laura Mitchell & Brian Ng.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: Classification of von Neumann algebras

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Stefaan Vaes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion about the Landauer principle (and bound)

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Roberto Longo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 12 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

Prof Michael Edgeworth McIntyre (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

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

Prof. Francois Dubin, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The relative Drinfeld commutant and alpha-induction

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Yasu Kawahigashi (University of Tokyo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On Picture Language

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Arthur Jaffe (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Phase transitions in the semicontinuous limit of a quantum spin chain

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University; University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 12 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia.

Dr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 09 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vibration performance of London's Millennium footbridge

Professor David Newland and Dr James Talbot, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Stellar cooling bounds on new light particles: including plasma effects

Edward Hardy (ICTP Trieste).

B1.19, DAMTP.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Steve Denton.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications

Dr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology for pointed links

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Adam Levine (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission

Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

MR2, CMS.

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

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

Mastering the time in music performance (and elsewhere): Reconnecting with the past, feeling the future and enjoying the present

Dr László Stachó, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest & Faculty of Music, University of Szeged.

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

Thursday 08 June 2017, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

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

Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morse Structures on Open Books

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Joan Licata (Australian National University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:15-16:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Prof. Jens Paaske, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to continuous fields of C*-algebras and their topological invariants (Part 3)

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University; Purdue University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

3D printed Porous Media - Disrupting the Packed Bed Paradigm

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pimsner legacy

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Emmanuel Germain (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 12:45-13:45

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Exploring psychotic experiences in ‘non-need for care’ populations: Findings from the UNIQUE study

Dr Emmanuelle Peters, Reader in Clinical Psychology, King’s College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 08 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Epigenomics: When high-throughput sequencing met epigenetics

Melanie Eckersley-Maslin and Christel Krueger (Babraham Institute).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 18:30-20:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

AI and Healthcare Open Evening at Microsoft Research

Christopher Bishop.

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

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

Cavendish Physical Society

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

caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CCIMI Seminars

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

Erwan Faou (Inria).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating

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

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

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

Dr Christian Buckingham (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

ARClub Talks

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

Rhys Jenkins.

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

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disorder by Design

Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

Pfizer LT.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The LHCb Upgrade and Flavour Physics Prospects

Johannes Albrecht (Technical University of Dortmund).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Vibrational coherence spectroscopy applied to biomimetic molecular photoswitches

Dr. Jeremie Leonard, University of Strasbourg.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to continuous fields of C*-algebras and their topological invariants (Part 2)

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University; Purdue University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

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

Prof Leticia Aviles (University of British Columbia).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bivariant and Dynamical Versions of the Cuntz Semigroup

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Joachim Zacharias (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 12:45-13:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

James Delbourgo (Rutgers University).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Adhesion Strength Diversity in Brain Tumours

Dr Rasha Rezk, Engineering, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 02 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The role of sensory dynamics in driver sterring control

Chris Nash, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Drops: A tool to structure materials

Prof. Esther Amstad, EPFL. Soft Materials Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Sam Brockie, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Jet Production at High Energy Colliders

Jennifer Smillie (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to continuous fields of C*-algebras and their topological invariants (Part 1)

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University; Purdue University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upscaling Building Semantics to Address Urban Sustainability and Resilience Scenarios

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Many-body localization: How quantum dynamics wins against thermodynamics

Ulrich Schneider (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

MR 14, CMS.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Foster Talks

Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How to compute torus link homology

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Matthew Hogancamp (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

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

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

MR 14, CMS.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

On signatures of Majorana fermions

Dr Benjamin Béri (University of Birmingham) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Low-Rank Inducing Norms with Optimality Interpretations

Christian Grussler, University of Lund.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece

Dr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 17:15-18:45

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

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

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, Obedience, and Religious Experience: The Virgin Mary in a world after Kant

Ruth Jackson (Research Fellow, CRASSH and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

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

Book Launch: From Tongue To Text

Dr Debbie Pullinger.

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Reflection Positivity: Something Old and Something New

Arthur Jaffe (Harvard, visiting INI).

MR11.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

CANCELLED (Searches for exotic physics with photons in ATLAS)

Miguel Villaplana (University of Milan) .

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Moebius Geometry of Boundaries''

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Viktor Schroeder (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Are geodesic metric spaces determined by their Morse boundaries?

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Ruth Charney (Brandeis University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Buildings, surfaces and quaternions

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Alina Vdovina (Newcastle University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Do we need to be concerned about the rise of e-cigarettes?

Dr. Milica Vasiljevic, Primary Care Unit.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 26 May 2017, 17:45-19:10

BSS Formal Seminars

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Low vibration design for science facilities

Lynden Spencer-Allen, Ramboll UK Ltd.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Searches for light BSM higgs bosons and constraints on BSM models

Claire Shepherd (Rutherford Lab.).

B1.19, DAMTP.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

PETs, pseudogroup actions, and renormalisation

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 26 May 2017, 10:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dimensionality Reduction Techniques in Medical Data Analysis

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Joan Lasenby (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:15-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Dynamics of carbon and hydrogen on Ru(001)

Peter Townsend, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Large Data Limits for Graphical Models

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Matthew Thorpe (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:35-16:15

Chaucer Club

Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy

Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Something about the Khovanov space

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Andrew Lobb (University of Durham).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

High Dimensional Changepoint Estimation via Sparse Projection

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Tengyao Wang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 14:35-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Dr George Booth.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed schemes for stability and optimality in power networks

Andreas Kasis, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

H^3 and twisted K-theory for compact Lie groups

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Maryland).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometric Methods for the Approximation of High-Dimensional Data Sets and High-Dimensional Dynamical Systems

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Mauro Maggioni (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 13:50-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Your Browser Can Prove Your Lemmas

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Edward Ayers (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:45-12:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Novel Uses of Shipping Data in Commodity Markets

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Andrew Celsus (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:40-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nonparametric Estimation of Diffusions in the Low-Frequency Setting

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Sven Wang (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:35-12:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reconstruction Methods in Transmission Electron Tomography

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Robert Tovey (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:30-12:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Learning a Sampling Pattern for MRI

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Ferdia Sherry (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approaches to Sampling and Inference for Bayesian Nonparametrics

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Sam Power (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:20-12:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Photoacoustic Tomography with Total Variation Regularisation

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Erlend Riis (Cambridge Centre for Analysis).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:15-12:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Quantum Entropies Through Convex Optimisation

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Eric Hanson (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:10-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sparse Principal Component Analysis via Random Projections

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Milana Gataric (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:05-12:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Elevator Pitches

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:00-12:05

Machine Learning @ CUED

On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks

Martin Arjovsky.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Surface Approximations and Geometric Energies

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Simon Masnou (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 10:55-11:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using Novel Data Sources to Model Commodity Markets

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Chris Longworth (Cantab Capital Partners).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 10:10-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction, Update from CCIMI

TGMW46 - High Dimensional Mathematics - A Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

The birth of a memory in wakefulness and sleep

Dr. Aya Ben-Yakov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) and Dr. Anat Arzi (Dept. of Psychology).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

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

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

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

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The pentagram map and discrete integrable systems

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

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

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

BRC Seminar Series

"Polymerase Chain Reaction: Methods, Principles and Application"

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

Herchel Smith Building Lecture Theatre.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

Helen Mallet, University of East Anglia.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcism

Boyd Brogan (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: LIGO and Beyond

Professor Kip Thorne.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Integrable systems associated to submanifolds in Grassmanians

Boris Kruglikov (Tromso, visiting DAMTP).

MR11.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Dark Matter Searches at CMS

Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College London).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

Dr. Till Biskup, University of Freiburg.

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

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

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nilpotent Lie groups: Fourier inversion and prime ideals

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Ying-Fen Lin (Queen's University Belfast).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uniformly recurrent subgroups and rigidity of non-free minimal actions

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Nicolas Matte Bon (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Affine actions, cohomology and hyperbolicity

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Erik Guentner (University of Hawaii).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Slavonic Studies

Inventing 'Heterosexuality' Through Ethnographic Knowledge Production: Tradition of Premarital Sleeping Together in Ukraine(XIX-the beginning of XX century), Dr Maria Mayerchyk

Maria Mayerchyk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge.

Monday 22 May 2017, 17:30-19:00

AMOP list

Quantum metrology with Bose Einstein condensates

Markus Oberthaler (Universitat Heidelberg).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone in the Earth system

Fernando Iglesias Suarez, Lancaster University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

Gael Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The metalsmith of the future

Dr. Evripides Loukaides, Lecturer, University of Bath.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 19 May 2017, 17:45-19:10

Zangwill Club

Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The extreme values of random frequency response functions

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamic comfort of road cyclist

Dr Julien Lepine, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Fractal based observables to probe jet substructure of quarks and gluons

Joseph Davighi, DAMTP, Cambridge.

B1.19, DAMTP.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Thurston's Shapes of Polyhedra

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 19 May 2017, 15:45-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Combinatorial Tangle Floer homology

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Vera Vertesi (University of Strasbourg; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:30-14:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Enhanced structural evolution in the dynamic plasticity of fcc metals

Lewis Lea, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific habits circa 1900

Henry Cowles (Yale University).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Categories of curved complexes for marked surfaces

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Claudius Zibrowius (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:15-16:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic Moment Fragmentation in Spin Ice and Artificial Spin Ice

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

L^2-Betti numbers of universal quantum groups

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

David Kyed (University of Southern Denmark ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

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

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

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

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration Languages

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

Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration Languages

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

Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Psychological health of professors: Transforming university culture

Dr Valerie Peters, Université Laval, Quebec.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Scott Lectures

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

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Role of Morphology in Organic Thermoelectric Materials

Professor Michael Chabinyc.

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

Thomas Barningham , UEA, School of Environmental Sciences.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 307.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Iterated barycentric subdivision and steerable semigroups of SL_n(R)

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

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

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley).

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation

Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

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

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

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

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Captured and Alive: War satire, time and space

Jane Chapman (Lincoln University; College Research Associate, Wolfson College).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The geometry of the space of BPS vortex-antivortex pairs

Martin Speight (Leeds).

MR11.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Brian Trippe (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

PRaVDA project for Proton Computed Tomography

Dr. Tony Price (University of Birmingham).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Subfactors related to certain symmetric spaces

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Hans Wenzl (University of California, San Diego).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Sperm Donation and Motherhood: British and French perspectives

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

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rieffel deformation, tempered distributions and the Gabor wavefront set

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Dorothea Bahns (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 12:45-13:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Commensurating actions of groups of birational transformations

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Yves de Cornulier (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris-Sud 11 ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The action dimensions of some discrete groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Michael Davis (Ohio State University; Ohio State University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris.

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

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

AMOP list

Spin-wave quantum memories for single photon storage and generation

Hugues de Riedmatten (ICFO).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Cooling Nano-electronic Devices to Ultra-Low Temperatures

Dr Lev Levitin, Royal Holloway University of London.

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tropospheric ozone: Short-lived climate forcer

Dr Richard Derwent, rdscientific.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Performance Verification and Optimal Synthesis of Embedded Optimization-Based Controllers

Colin Jones, EPFL, Switzerland.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Christina Skott (Faculty of History).

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Dr David Cole, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Observation of phononic frequency combs in micromechanical resonator

Adarsh Ganesan, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

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

German Sborlini (IFIC, Valencia).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Equilibrium: fact or fiction?

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A random walk around soluble group theory

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Peter Kropholler (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

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

Prof Dave Rugg, Senior Fellow, Rolls Royce.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How to quickly generate a nice hyperbolic element

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Emmanuel Breuillard (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:30-14:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

CEB Career Talks

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

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

Malcolm Wilkinson. Kirkstall CEO.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Laminations and external angles for similarity pairs

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Danny Calegari (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

Drosophila Aggression: Agonistic interaction as a strategic action

Kenta Asahina, Assistant Professor, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies .

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Friday 12 May 2017, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Old results and new questions on the rapid decay property

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Indira Chatterji (Université de Nice).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 May 2017, 09:30-10:30

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis

Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Subexponential growth, measure rigidity, strong property (T) and Zimmer's conjecture

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

David Fisher (Indiana University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

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

Njemile Faustin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Mark Stokes (Oxford).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The diameter of the symmetric group: ideas and tools

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Harald Helfgott (Université Paris 7 - Denis-Diderot).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces

Professor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Verification of Control Laws Using Formal Methods

Kestutis Siaulys, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

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

Ruth Wainman (University of Kent).

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What’s New in Lewy Body Disease?

Professor Ian McKeith, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Newcastle.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximating simple locally compact groups by their dense subgroups

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Phillip Wesolek (Binghamton University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Large scale geometry in large transformation groups

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Kathryn Mann (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Unitary representations of reflection groups and their deformations.

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 09:00-10:00

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Next Generation Gravimetric Biosensing Using FBARs

Dr. Mario De Miguel Ramos and Dr. Ewelina Wajs, Department of Engineering.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

Slavonic Studies

Two Souls of Revolution, The Seventh Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening

Admission is free, but registration is required via www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org

Mikhai Tymoshenko and Kyrylo Horishnyi.

Pitt Building, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Norwegian Romani - the 'languageness' of a Para-Romani variety

Tea and biscuits from 16.45

Jakob Wiedner, University of Oslo.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 17:15-19:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Microfluidics, biomimetic channels, networks and self assembly

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

“Topology in materials science”

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 14:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?

Catherine Kendig (Michigan State University).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

British Antarctic Survey

Molecular biomarkers for seabird age estimation

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

Ricardo De Paoli-Iseppi, Australian Antarctic Division.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention

Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Convex cocompactness in real projective geometry

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Fanny Kassel (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observations of turbulent dissipation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

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

Yvonne Firing, NOC, Southampton.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Winton Discussions

The Status of Mini-Grids: Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion?

Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, UC Berkeley.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Homology torsion growth of higher rank lattices

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Nikolay Nikolov (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vectorial metric compactification of symmetric spaces and affine buildings

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Anne Parreau (Université de Grenoble).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 09:00-10:00

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

Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

Philip Nel, Kansas State University.

Boulind Room 6/7, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Post-Modern Narratives and Pre-Modern Devotion: the Icon of the Three-Handed Mother of God among the Slavs, Dr Elena Boeck

Dr Elena N. Boeck, Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.

Domus Room, Clare College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Negative curvature and rigidity for von Neumann algebras

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Stefaan Vaes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Tests of lepton universality in B decays

Patrick Owen (University of Zurich).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Revealing the charge carrier dynamics in metal halide perovskites using time-resolved microwave conductivity

Professor Tom Savenije, Delft University of Technology.

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

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Arithmetic of Dehn surgery points

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Alan Reid (University of Texas at Austin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Dirac Lecture

Antimatter: Dirac's incredible prediction and its consequences

All are welcome to attend.

Professor Helen Quinn (Harvard).

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

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Representation theory of Drinfeld doubles (Part 4)

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Yuki Arano (Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Ping Pong on CAT(0) cube complexes

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Aditi Kar (University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Local testability in group theory II

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Oren Becker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Local testability in group theory I

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation

Andreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen.

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Characterizing a vertex-transitive graph by a large ball

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Mikael de la Salle (ENS - Lyon; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture

Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Richard Tillyer, Merck.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On finitarily approximable groups

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Andreas Thom (Technische Universität Dresden; Technische Universität Dresden).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Prebiotic Chemistry on Other Worlds

Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towers of regular self-covers and linear endomorphisms of tori

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Wouter Van Limbeek (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:30-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly

Mark Wormald (Pembroke College).

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Degenerations of maximal representations, non-Archimedean upper half space and laminations

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Alessandra Iozzi (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey

Krill feeding in fjords of the West Antarctic Peninsula (and a few penguins & seals)

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

Alison Cleary, Norwegian Polar Institute.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Monday 08 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximations of infinite groups

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Goulnara Arzhantseva (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

Do we control language or does language control us?

Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Controlling the Climate: can we refreeze the Arctic?

Dr Hugh Hunt, CUED.

LR4, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Microfabricated acoustic sensors for biosensing

Nikki Weckman, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic lattices and simple locally compact groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 05 May 2017, 15:45-17:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance

Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Impact of a high SUSY scale in the MSSM and beyond

Florian Staub (CERN).

B1.19, DAMTP.

Friday 05 May 2017, 11:30-13:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

High strain rate deformation response of titanium for aerospace gas turbines

Steven Lainé, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.

Jennifer Lau (KCL).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The materials for trust-building in expertise

Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids

Ludovic Jaubert, University of Bordeaux.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Nuclear norm methods for frequency domain system identification

Roy Smith, ETH Zurich.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free entropy dimension and the orthogonal free quantum groups

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Roland Vergnioux (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00