Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

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

Dr Charlotte Coles (University of Cambridge) Breast Cancer Programme and Hilary Stobart.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 18 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Exotic Hadrons with Heavy Quarks

**Note unusual day/time of this talk**

Marek Karliner, University of Tel Aviv.

Potter Room, B1.19.

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A homogenization result in the gradient theory of phase transitions

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A homogenization result in the gradient theory of phase transitions

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 15:30-16:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Topological and Charge-Ordered Phases in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

Professor Phil King, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, UK.

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

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Saturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

The President and Officers.

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

Friday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Friday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Infant feeding and post-natal depression: quantitative and qualitative evidence on the role of maternal aspirations and the management of childbirth

Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Phenomapping mtDNA. New perspectives in personalised medicine

Aurora Gomez-Duran, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Next Steps and Close

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Next Steps and Close

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Challenges - Group Discussion

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 10:45-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Challenges - Group Discussion

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 10:45-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Themed Session 3 - Mathematical Challenges Introduction

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Ke Chen (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 10:40-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Themed Session 3 - Mathematical Challenges Introduction

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Ke Chen (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 10:40-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Personalised Treatments: Precision Medicine Beyond Prediction

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:40-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Personalised Treatments: Precision Medicine Beyond Prediction

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:40-10:20

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 2

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

Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd.

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

Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Innovations and Challenges in Digital Healthcare - an Industry Perspective

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Maria Lomeli (Babylon Health).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:00-09:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Innovations and Challenges in Digital Healthcare - an Industry Perspective

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Maria Lomeli (Babylon Health).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:00-09:40

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

A 3D cell model for developmental biology: Using gastruloids to study early developmental events

Dr. Peter Baillie-Johnson (SCI), Dr Naomi Moris (Genetics) and Dr David Turner (Genetics).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 18:30-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Population Medicine - Group Discussion

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 16:15-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Population Medicine - Group Discussion

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 16:15-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Themed Session 2 - Population Medicine Introduction

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Nicholas Hill (SofTMech - University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 16:10-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Themed Session 2 - Population Medicine Introduction

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Nicholas Hill (SofTMech - University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 16:10-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Simulation in the Life Sciences – A Look Ahead

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Clint Davies-Taylor (Dassault Systémes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 15:10-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Simulation in the Life Sciences – A Look Ahead

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Clint Davies-Taylor (Dassault Systémes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 15:10-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Clinical Support Systems - Group Discussion

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:45-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Clinical Support Systems - Group Discussion

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:45-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Themed Session 1 - Clinical Support Systems Introduction

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

John Terry (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:40-13:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Themed Session 1 - Clinical Support Systems Introduction

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

John Terry (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:40-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From Neural Fields to the Clinical Field in Epilepsy

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Dean Freestone (University of Melbourne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 12:00-12:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From Neural Fields to the Clinical Field in Epilepsy

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Dean Freestone (University of Melbourne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 12:00-12:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modelling of Stenting in Blood Vessels

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Alexander Movchan (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 11:20-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modelling of Stenting in Blood Vessels

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Alexander Movchan (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 11:20-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 1

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

Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd.

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

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 10:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to the EPSRC Centres

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge); Ke Chen (University of Liverpool); Nicholas Hill (SofTMech - University of Glasgow); Mauricio Barahona (Imperial College London); John Terry (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 10:10-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to the EPSRC Centres

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge); Ke Chen (University of Liverpool); Nicholas Hill (SofTMech - University of Glasgow); Mauricio Barahona (Imperial College London); John Terry (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 10:10-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Peter Ashwin (University of Exeter); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGMW63 - Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices

Peter Ashwin (University of Exeter); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Fellow Lecture: Three Character Archetypes in Energy Optimisation

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Claudia Sagastizabal (Universidade Estadual de Campinas).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Programming materials with classical conditioning algorithms

Prof. Olli Ikkala, Molecular Materials (Molmat) - Aalto University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 15:10-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Assessing the contribution of hydrogen-deformation interactions to hydrogen-induced intergranular fracture in nickel-base alloys

Dr Zachary Harris. University of Virginia.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Assembly of nano-polysaccharides and plant polyaromatics at interfaces

Prof. Orlando J. Rojas, Aalto University (Finland) & North Carolina State University (US).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-14:50

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Wood Hemicelluloses: Molecular Structure and Interactions in Woody Tissues

Prof. Francisco Javier Vilaplana Domingo, UNIVERSITETSLEKTOR.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 13:00-13:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hardy-type inequalities for fractional powers of the Dunkl--Hermite operator

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Luz Roncal (BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hardy-type inequalities for fractional powers of the Dunkl--Hermite operator

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Luz Roncal (BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs

Abir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Getting Under Europa’s Skin

Anyone external to BAS wishing to attend please contact the seminar organiser.

Dr. Britney Schmidt (Georgia Tech).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Monday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Crystallography and strain mapping: some new theory for Geometric Phase Analysis (GPA)

Prof. Martin Hytch, CEMES-CNRS.

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

Monday 08 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Rigid Blocks for Masonry with an application to open-well spiral stairs

Prof. Maurizio Angelillo, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, University of Salerno.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 05 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diversity Oriented Biosynthesis: Making Complex Cyclic Peptides Using a Combination of Synthesis and Enzymes

Prof. Marcel Jaspars (Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Attention modifies the weights of competing stimulus sources during integrated visual decision making

Professor Jason Mattingley.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-13:00

Optoelectronics Group

Control of Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Materials

Professor Vinod Menon (City University of New York).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 April 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Multi-Hazard Modelling of Dual Row Retaining Walls

Dr Srikanth Madabhushi, UC Davis.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Global model explainability via aggregation

Umang Bhatt, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-16:45

Optoelectronics Group

Perovskite PV Research at ANU: From Drift-Diffusion Models to High Efficiency Tandems

A/ Professor Tom White (Australian National University).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Dementia Journal Club

Blood Brain Barrier breakdown in Neurodegeneration

Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Improving the physical health of people with severe mental illnesses

Professor David Osborn, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Direct neuronal reprogramming of patient skin fibroblasts: a new approach to study idiopathic Parkinson's disease

Janelle Drouin-Ouellet, University of Montreal.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud.

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

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud.

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

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality

Professor Craig Crews, Yale University..

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hard and soft packing in the molecular organization of liquid crystals

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Claudio Zannoni (Università di Bologna).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 15:50-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hard and soft packing in the molecular organization of liquid crystals

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Claudio Zannoni (Università di Bologna).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 15:50-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic ordered structures of a thin film of a chiral liquid crystal

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Jun-ichi Fukuda (Kyushu University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 15:10-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic ordered structures of a thin film of a chiral liquid crystal

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Jun-ichi Fukuda (Kyushu University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 15:10-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Passages from discrete to continuous systems allowing for fracture, external forces and heterogeneities

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Anja Schlömerkemper (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 14:30-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Passages from discrete to continuous systems allowing for fracture, external forces and heterogeneities

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Anja Schlömerkemper (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 14:30-15:10

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling as Optimization

Eric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15

Sensors CDT seminars

Latest Advances in Glucose Sensing

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/latest-advances-in-glucose-sensing-an-industry-talk-by-abbott-tickets-59176234711

Michael Thatcher and Jana Kogulanathan, Abbott.

Lecture Room 3, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Tuesday 02 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Imagers Interest Group

Towards a theory of functional MRS

Paul Mullins, Bangor University.

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

Monday 01 April 2019, 12:30-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Mathematikum in Giessen/Germany, a Science Centre for the Public

M Buhmann (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 01 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

Cambridge Concert Orchestra.

Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

Saturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Mini Colloquium on Itinerant Electron Ferromagnetic Superconductors and Related Materials - Chair and Discussion Lead: Malte Grosche

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 29 March 2019, 14:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: self-assembled tunable photonic bandgap materials - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 29 March 2019, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and the direct conversion of heat to electricity - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 29 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Foster Talks

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: self-assembled tunable photonic bandgap materials - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: self-assembled tunable photonic bandgap materials - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 14:45-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and the direct conversion of heat to electricity - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The role of technology in improving the accessibility and quality of mental healthcare and accelerating research

Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Calcium-mediated processes as a potential common denominator in motor neuron degeneration

Roland Patai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: self-assembled tunable photonic bandgap materials - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and the direct conversion of heat to electricity - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 10:15-11:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

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

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and the direct conversion of heat to electricity - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modified nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

Prof Michal Hocek - IOCB Prague - Czech Republic.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University; Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care

David Sontag, MIT.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Longitudinal analysis of intracortical microstructural profiles during adolescent development

Dr Richard Bethlehem, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University; Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Incommensurate 2D Materials - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

The nature of chemistry publishing

Dr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor Nature Chemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Incommensurate 2D Materials - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry and assembly at fluid boundaries - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Kathleen J. Stebe (University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 14:45-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry and assembly at fluid boundaries - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Kathleen J Stebe (University of Pennsylvania ; University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University; Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University; Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Incommensurate 2D Materials - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

The new framework in European Family Law

Lucia Ruggieri, University of Camerino.

Herchel Smith Building.

Monday 25 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Incommensurate 2D Materials - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry and assembly at fluid boundaries - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Kathleen J Stebe (University of Pennsylvania ; University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 March 2019, 14:45-15:45

Applied and Computational Analysis

Deterministic Solution of the Boltzmann Equation: Fast Spectral Methods for the Boltzmann Collision Operator

This is a joint ACA-GAPDE seminar

Jingwei Hu, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University.

MR 14.

Monday 25 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry and assembly at fluid boundaries - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Kathleen J Stebe (University of Pennsylvania ; University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morrey sequence spaces

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Dorothee Haroske (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Alex Hopkins Lecture - ‘Is the Milky Way Special?’ Professor Chris Lintott

Professor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

Steve Wilson, University College, London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 22 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The All-in-one Relaxion

Rick Gupta (Durham).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 22 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Long-term generation capacity expansion models in JuDGE

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Andy Philpott (University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 15:45-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the Rigorous Evaluation of Stochastic Approaches to Power Systems Operations

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Jean-Paul Watson (Sandia National Laboratories).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 14:30-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Accounting for uncertainty when using computer models as decision-support tools in energy system planning

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Amy Wilson (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 13:45-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Risk and Optimization in Future Network Planning

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Duncan Burt (National Grid, Electricity System Operator).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 12:00-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Strategic Storage Use in a Hydro-Thermal Power System with Carbon Constraints

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Afzal Siddiqui (University College London; Stockholm University; Aalto University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Energy system decarbonisation: informing reform of energy market and regulatory framework

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Goran Strbac (Imperial College London; Imperial College London; Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 10:00-10:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Societal objectives and their impact on the electricity system of the future

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Andrew Wright (University of Durham).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Abigail Burns.

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

Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems with Application to Spot Markets with Gas Transport

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Michael Hintermüller (Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:30-17:15

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Stochastic auctions to accommodate the future flexi-grid

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Golbon Zakeri (University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 15:45-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymmetric Risk and Fuel Neutrality in Capacity Markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Jacob Mays (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 14:30-15:15

Dementia Journal Club

Recognition of the amyloid precursor protein by human γ-secretase

Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Distributionally robust chance-constrained generation expansion planning

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Jalal Kazempour (Technical University of Denmark).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:45-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Valuation of floating price contract formulae for financial renewable PPAs

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Gauthier de Maere d'Aertyrcke (Tractebel Engie).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 12:00-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Modelling 100 percent renewable electricity

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Michael Ferris (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Risky Capacity Equilibrium Models for Risk Averse Investment Equilibria with Incomplete Markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Danny Ralph (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 10:00-10:45

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Risk premium and stochastic equilibrium in generation capacity expansion models

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Yves Smeers (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transforming cancer care

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:45-20:10

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Single Cell Multi-Omics Technologies and Applications

Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger) & Mr Ricard Argelaguet (EMBL-EBI).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

What Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?

Professor John Ellis FRS .

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Architecture & Education: Methodologies for investigating loose ends and ongoing stories

Dominic Cullinan, Eva Zepp, Tom Bellfield and Karolina Szynalska.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The mathematics of charged liquid drops

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Cyrill Muratov (New Jersey Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Persistent Topics - How persons shape language that is about to stay.

Peter Romero.

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Models for self-similarity and disclinations in martensite

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Pierluigi Cesana (Kyushu University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Analysing effects of short- and long-term uncertainty on capacity expansion in European electricity markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Asgeir Tomasgard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 12:00-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Effect of Capacity Payments on Peaking Generator Availability in PJM

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Stein-Erik Fleten (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 11:15-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Two talks on Ice-Ocean interaction in East Antarctica

Takeshi Tamura (National Institute of Polar Research) and Daisuke Hirano (Institute of Low Temperature Science).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Capacity markets, risk modelling and decision support

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Chris Dent (University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 10:00-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hierarchical optimisation and equilibrium problems in electricity systems: challenges and status quo

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Sonja Wogrin (None / Other).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Harmonizing energy planning and market mechanisms to ensure supply adequacy in electricity markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Luiz Augusto Barroso (PSR Energy Research and Analytics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 16:30-17:15

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Ta-Chu (Calvin) Kao -- CBL.

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

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Two-stage Stochastic Programming with Linearly Bi-parameterized Quadratic Recourse

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Jong Shi Pang (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 15:45-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Light-Conversion Mechanisms in Metal Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Prof Laura Herz (University of Oxford).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Market Design Considerations for Scarcity Pricing: A Stochastic Equilibrium Framework

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Anthony Papavasiliou (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 14:30-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Two-Stage Model for Planning Energy Investment under Uncertainty

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Claudia Sagastizabal (Universidade Estadual de Campinas).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 13:45-14:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Out-of-term seminar

Alexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sources and Implications of Inaccuracies in Capacity Credit Calculations: A Static Analysis of Electric Generation Capacity Markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Ben Hobbs (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 12:00-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Merchant Storage Investment in a Restructured Electricity Industry

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Ramteen Sioshansi (Ohio State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Assessing Potential Benefits of Increased Gas-Electric Coordination by Stochastic Optimization

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Sarah Ryan (Iowa State University ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 10:00-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Incentives, Regulation and Analysis for Investments in ISO Markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Richard O'Neill (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Long Term Electricity Market Design: Pricing Quality?

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Hannes Weigt (Universität Basel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 March 2019, 16:30-17:15

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write a Fellowship proposal

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

MSR Cambridge Cloud Talk Series; Structured light: seeing less to see more in optical microscopy

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

Professor of Photonics, Mark Neil, Imperial College London .

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The role of submodularity in capacity auctions

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Eddie Anderson (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 March 2019, 15:45-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Capacity mechanisms and the technology mix in competitive electricity markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Pär Holmberg (Research Institute of Industrial Economics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 March 2019, 14:30-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal storage, investment and management under uncertainty - It is costly to avoid outages!

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Richard Green (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 March 2019, 13:45-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Investments in flexible generation capacity in an energy-only market

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Bert Willems (Universiteit van Tilburg; Université de Toulouse).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 March 2019, 12:00-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Competition among Renewables

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 March 2019, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Market and regulatory design for renewables dominated systems

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

David Newbery (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 March 2019, 09:45-10:45

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.

Professor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 15 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A regenerative approach to glass façade design with a focus on end-of-life challenges

Rebecca Hartwell, PhD Candidate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 15 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The Missing Link: Efficient connections to high performance façade panels for all building forms

Florence Maskell, PhD Candidate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 15 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Generation of Geometric Digital Twins of Rail Infrastructure

Mahendrini Fernando Ariyachandra, PhD Candidate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 15 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms

Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Institut d’Optique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 15 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time; out-of-term seminar

Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter).

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

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

What difference does one tonne make?

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

David Carter, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Switchable Polymerization Catalysis: Ordered Block Polymers from Monomer Mixtures

Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Imagers Interest Group

Practical Power Estimation for fMRI

Tom Nichols, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 15 March 2019, 10:00-12:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bioengineering Conference

Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bioengineering-conference-tickets-54846325837

Mihaela van der Schaar, Somenath Bakshi, Sebastian Pattinson, Fumiya Iida, Rasha Rezk, Felice Torrisi, George Malliaras, James Ward, Roger Mason, Andrew Flewitt, Flavia Mancini.

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

Friday 15 March 2019, 08:45-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Kevin Hand.

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Stereoelectronic control of cyclizations, fragmentations, and unusual molecules

Professor Igor Alabugin, Florida State University.

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Sterile Neutrinos in Reactor and Accelerator Experiments

Alvaro Hernandez Cabezudo (KIT).

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Fracture by a million impacts: Erosion of polycrystalline diamond at temperatures up to 600 ˚C

Arthur Henderson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system

Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

The K-FAC method for neural network optimization

James Martens, Google Deep Mind.

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Catalytic Activation of Renewable Resources to make Polymers and Fuels

Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Lecture Cancelled.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Relativistic fluid flows

Professor Nils Andersson, University of Southampton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Dementia and brain ageing in populations

Professor Carol Brayne, Cambridge Institute for Public Health.

pin Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Title to be confirmed

Cao Wenxuan, Peking University.

The Auditorium, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The Professor in Children's Literature: A Corpus Based Analysis of Expertise in Books Marketed to a Young Audience

Professor Melissa Terras, University of Edinburgh.

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Exploring female arts students’ transitions from studying to working in the arts and how students can help eradicate abuse in the arts

Jennifer Tuckett and Titilola Dawudu, University Women in the Arts.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Comparing nudges and boosts for financial decisions under uncertainty

Matija Franklin .

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How Space Constrains Evolution: Lessons from Microbes and Bacteriophage

Dr Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Variational Inference

Andrew Foong (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Liquid Infused-Elastomers as a New Material in Implantable Bioelectronics

Dr Alexandra Rutz, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics

Maarten Steenhagen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

Professor Mike Cates.

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Politics Gone Missing

Dr Graham Denyer-Willis (POLIS and Queens' College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

Early Science and Medicine

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Establishing meso-methyl BODIPYs as viable visible-light excitable photocages

Roy Weinstain - Tel-Aviv University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Phi^4 kinks on a wormhole spacetime

Alice Waterhouse (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Metric Approximation of Set-Valued Functions

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Elena Berdysheva (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 15:00-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Highly Luminescent Nanocrystals of Caesium and Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskites: From Discovery to Applications

Prof Dr Maksym Kovalenko.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Sensors CDT seminars

Introduction to Intellectual Property

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-intellectual-property-tickets-58109182128

Emma Foster and Mash-Hud Iqbal.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial evolution in the human gut

Pauline Scanlan (University College Cork).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Your personal list

Open Issues in Build Systems

Ulf Adams, Google.

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Arts Education in Singapore and Hong Kong - a Cultural Management Perspective

Benny Lim, University of Hong Kong.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room 2S7.

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

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

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

The role of lateral rheology contrasts in the evolution of mountain ranges

Camilla Penny, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Mental Health Life Course Lecture Series

Blueprint: The DNA revolution and a lifespan approach to psychological traits

Professor Robert Plomin.

Cambridge Institute of Public Health Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR.

Monday 11 March 2019, 12:30-14:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Science of Musical Meaning

Professor Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute).

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

Sensing enhanced by DNA nanotech

Prof. Philip Tinnefeld, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Gravity and seismic measurements using vibrating beam MEMs accelerometers

Professor Ashwin Seshia, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Rigid-foldable quadrilateral creased papers and its application on approximating a target surface

Zeyuan He, Phd Candidate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 08 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Wind dynamics of next-generation tall timber

Bridget Fryer, PhD Candidiate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 08 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Carbon Nanotube Mechanics: nano and macro; liquid and solid; stiff and soft—but always conductive

Prof Pasquali, Rice University, Huston Texas.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Cambridge Natural History Society

Parasitic plants

Helen Moore.

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration

Frank Bradke, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany..

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling

Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

V-Dem: measuring democracy

Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Looking forward to new physics with FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC

ATTENTION: the talk has been anticipated to 3:30 (1/2 hour earlier)

Sebastian Trojanowski (NCNR Warsaw & CFP, Sheffield).

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Bayesian inversion for tomography through machine learning

Ozan Öktem (KTH Stockholm and Alan Turing Institute).

MR 14.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

Chemical Engineering and Career Development in the Food and Chemical sectors

Free talk for department members, no need to register. External guests wishing to attend please contact organiser in advance.

Philip Mak MA MEng CEng MIChemE.

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:30-16:00

Dementia Journal Club

Leptin and AD risk

Selena Sephton, WBIC.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

How to see, measure and capture the arts experience

Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room 2S7.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

100 years since Nijinsky met Bleuler: What can we learn from individual cases in psychiatry?

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Neurons without batteries: Dissecting cell type-specific neuronal contribution to mitochondrial disease

Albert Quintana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

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

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Glucose monitoring for diabetes

Dr Hannah Hare, TTP plc.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Creating predictable gene knock-outs at scale with CRISPR/Cas9

Dr. Luca Crepaldi (Sanger) & Dr. Felicity Allen (Sanger).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

Indo-European Seminar

A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor

Tea served from 4.15

Bill Short University of Exeter .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On some meta-materials with micro-resonators and their effective equations

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Ben Schweizer (Technische Universität Dortmund).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization

Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. .

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the Ericksen-Leslie's hyperbolic model for liquid crystals

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Ning Jiang (Wuhan University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Vibrational Dynamics of the Hydrated Proton

Professor Joel Bowman, Emory University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and Approaches

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction

CANCELLED

Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Chemical Control of Correlated Metals as Transparent Conductors

Dr. Jonathan Alaria, University of Liverpool.

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 11:15-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

Dr Anne Corcoran.

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Musicians, Tazkiras, and the Scattering of Mughal Delhi: where music went after Muhammad Shah

Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

ATLAS Trigger Level Analysis

William Kalderon (Lund).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild

Susan Johnston (University of Edinburgh).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.

Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The Professor in Children's Literature: A Corpus Based Analysis of Expertise in Books Marketed to a Young Audience

Professor Melissa Terras, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

On discovery in catalysis

Professor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

AMOP list

Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 04 March 2019, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Air Pollution in Delhi, India

Ying Chen, Lancaster.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Power System Modeling

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Janusz Bialek (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 04 March 2019, 14:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Sources of hydrographic variability in Sermilik Fjord, a major glacier fjord in southeast Greenland

Irena Vankova, BAS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Deep Reinforcement Learning: from AlphaGo to AlphaStar

Dr David Silver, DeepMind.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Monday 04 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Power System Operation

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Janusz Bialek (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 04 March 2019, 10:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

Professor Alison Murdoch.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in Colombia

Professor Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Inspiring Social Transformation - From Soviet Decay to a National Health Service for Ukraine

Dr Uliana Suprun (Acting Minister of Health Care of Ukraine).

Peterhouse Theatre, Peterhouse College.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-19:00

Zangwill Club

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Building the UK’s Nuclear Future: Seismic Challenges

Harry Edwards, PhD Candidate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR11.

Friday 01 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Computational modelling of reinforced concrete members with peridynamics.

Mark Hobbs, PhD Candidate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR11.

Friday 01 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Simulating higher spatial dimensions with atoms and photons

Dr. Hannah Price, University of Birmingham.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

Dr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Biotechnology meets Breeding in Baker's Yeast

Professor Ed Louis, University of Leicester.

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

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Using scanning probes to fabricate and characterise nanoscale donor devices in silicon

Neil Curson, Centre for the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Samir Zard, Ecole Polytechnique, France.

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice investigation of charmed and bottom hadrons

CANCELLED

Padmanath Madanagopalan (Regensburg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s

Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

Tamar Makin (UCL).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Equilibria configurations for epitaxial crystal growth with adatoms

Riccardo Cristoferi, Heriot-Watt University.

MR 14.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic

If external to BAS, please email aling@bas.ac.uk in advance to gain access to the building

Dr Jiankai Zhang (Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Flexible a-IGZO TFT Technology: Recent Developments & Applications

Dr Auke Kronemeijer (Holst Centre, TNO).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Enhancing materials design using microscopy and modelling

Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hierarchical probabilistic forecasting of electricity demand with smart meter data : Souhaib Ben Taieb

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hierarchical probabilistic forecasting of electricity demand with smart meter data : Souhaib Ben Taieb

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory

Paolo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

Neural Code Comprehension: A Learnable Representation of Code Semantics

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

Tal Ben-Nun, ETH Zurich.

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tracking neuroinflammation in the brains of depressed patients

Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Long-term stability of human neurons in an organotypic slice culture system – a new model to study disease mechanisms of neurological disorders

Henner Koch, University of Tübingen.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Marginal copula scores for multivariate foecasting evaluation

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Florian Ziel (Universität Duisburg-Essen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 10:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Marginal copula scores for multivariate foecasting evaluation

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Florian Ziel (Universität Duisburg-Essen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 10:30-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection; general principles and specific examples

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

Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generalised additive models for electricity demand forecasting : Matteo Fasiolo

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generalised additive models for electricity demand forecasting : Matteo Fasiolo

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Classification Game: Topological Insulators and Other Beasts

Professor Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Inspiring Women Talks

Future of Scientific Publishing

Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-chief of Nature.

Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Foetal adaptations to adversity and effects on human behaviour

Professor Jonathan Hill.

pin Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion & Questions

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:40-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

Anna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bottom-up Robotics - Emerging Intelligence in Materials

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Stoyan Smoukov (Queen Mary University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:15-16:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bio-inspired Soft Robotics: Turning Soft Materials into Intelligent Machines

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 15:45-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lifesaving Capsule Robots

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Pietro Valdastri (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:50-15:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mechanocaloric Materials for Environmentally Friendly Refrigeration

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Xavier Moya (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:20-14:50

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Use of different types of information to better understand compounds’ Mechanism of Action.

First Year PhD Report

Maria-Anna Trapotsi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:15-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Domestic-scale Thermal Storage Using Phase Change Materials and Heat Pumps

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Andrew Bissell (Sunamp).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:50-14:20

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning

Chaochao Lu (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Aspect of High Dimensional Energy Modelling and Forecasting

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Jethro Browell (University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Aspect of High Dimensional Energy Modelling and Forecasting

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Jethro Browell (University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:30-16:00

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lyapunov exponents for batch process intensification/Unusual numerical solver for ODEs with discontinuities

Walter Kähm/Hyun Il Park, CEB.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

You literally cannot pay me to look at poop: The astounding lack of habituation to disgust as measured through oculomotor avoidance

Dr Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

New Concepts for the Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:15-12:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Materials for Regenerative Medicine

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Ruth Cameron (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:45-12:15

Computational Neuroscience

Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex

Gergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Opportunities for Novel Actuators in Surgical Robotics

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Chris Wagner (Cambridge Consultants).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:55-11:25

ARClub Talks

Experience of Motherhood for Autistic Women

Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Shape Memory Thin Films for Medical Applications

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Eckhard Quandt (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:20-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme 'The Mathematics of New Matierals'

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Xian Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Multiple forecasting based on time series PCAs

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 09:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Multiple forecasting based on time series PCAs

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 09:30-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

Professor Danny Dorling.

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The restitution of Nazi-looted art in post-fascist Austria, Italy and West Germany

Dr Bianca Gaudenzi, Wolfson College, Cambridge and German Historical Institute, Rome.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Dostoevsky, Sechenov and reflexes of the brain: to a stylistic genealogy of Notes from Underground

Dr Aleksei Vdovin (HSE, Moscow).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

THE POWER OF CATALYTIC CONVERSATIONS: An unexpected journey and response to the question 'How do we turn STEM into STEAM?

Carole Bent, Creative Catalyst, Advisor and Art Partner .

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Effective behaviour of critical-contrast PDEs: micro-resonances, frequency conversion, and time dispersive properties.

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Kirill Cherednichenko (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:30-17:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Magnetic Skyrmions at critical coupling

Calum Ross (Heriot-Watt).

MR11.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

A chemical biology approach to the modulation of cell fate and cell state

Dr Luke Lairson, Scripps.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal design of multi-component fractured media

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Marco Morandotti (Politecnico di Torino).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:45-16:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Oxidation catalysis imparted by donor-flexible ligands

Professor Martin Albrecht (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Fits to top data in the SMEFT

Emma Slade (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

New directions for random search

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Chris Pickard (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-15:45

Optoelectronics Group

Deep Blue Organic TADF Emitters for Electroluminescent Devices

Prof Eli Zysman-Colman (University of St Andrews).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph

Roderick Page (University of Glasgow).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Robust and online learning with the BOA algorithm : Olivier Wintenberger

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 10:40-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Robust and online learning with the BOA algorithm : Olivier Wintenberger

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 10:40-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Forecasting electricity consumption by aggregating forecasts

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt; ENS - Paris).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Forecasting electricity consumption by aggregating forecasts

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt; ENS - Paris).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Researching LGBTQ+ Issues: Building Community

Charlotte Allen, Frank Frangeskou, Becky Moses, Lucian Stephenson.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy

Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC).

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

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discrete Spherical Averages

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Michael Lacey (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Assisting control room operators with artificial intelligence : Antoine Marot

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 February 2019, 14:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Assisting control room operators with artificial intelligence : Antoine Marot

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 February 2019, 14:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

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

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

From a steady plume to periodic puffs during confined carbon dioxide dissolution

Francois Nadal, Loughborough University.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Data Analytics for Short Term Operation

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Stephen Haben (University of Reading).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 February 2019, 09:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Data Analytics for Short Term Operation

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Stephen Haben (University of Reading).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 February 2019, 09:30-12:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

My part in the discovery of the black hole in Cygnus X-1

Professor Paul Murdin.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Maximising urban freight: Does size matter?

Chris Eddy, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Coupled mechanical and electronic fields in graphene and their optimization for nanomechanical devices

Dr Gareth Wyn Jones, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

Oatley Meeting Room.

Friday 22 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:40-16:45

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Cavendish Inspiring Women Talks

Fixing the Standard Model: from the chemistry lab to the chocolate shop

Claire Malone (University of Cambridge).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some Sparse Recovery Methods in Compressed Sensing

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Song Li (Zhejiang University; Zhejiang University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Least squares regression on sparse grids

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Bastian Bohn (Universität Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Shift-invariant Spaces of Multivariate Periodic Functions

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Jürgen Prestin (Universität zu Lübeck).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 09:00-09:35

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

Greg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Margaret Kehoe (University of Geneva) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:10-16:45

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Making the tiniest machines

Professor David Leigh, University of Manchester.

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The Higgs Bottom Line of Run II

Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hyperplasticity

Prof. G.T. Houlsby, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people

Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-16:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lower semicontinuity and relaxation of nonlocal $L^\infty$ functionals.

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Elvira Zappale (Università degli Studi di Salerno).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal recovery using wavelet trees

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Markus Weimar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:20-14:55

Theory of Condensed Matter

Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension

Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Block Scaled Diagonal Dominance for Applications in Control Theory and Optimisation

Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Confidence for Monte Carlo Integration of Smooth Functions

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Robert J. Kunsch (Universität Osnabrück).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:40-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Monte Carlo methods for $L_q$ approximation on periodic Sobolev spaces with mixed smoothness

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Heping Wang (Capital Normal University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Explicit error bounds for randomized Smolyak algorithms and an application to infinite-dimensional integration

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Michael Gnewuch (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Best m-term approximation of the "step-function" and related problems

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Konstantin Ryutin ().

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

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

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Preasymptotic estimates for approximation of multivariate periodic Sobolev functions

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Thomas Kuehn (Universität Leipzig ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:00-09:35

Cambridge University Physics Society

Ultracold Atomic Gases: The Coldest Stuff in the Universe

Professor Zoran Hadzibabic, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian

Prof Janet Watson, Leeds University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

From Stars to Life

Dr. Paul B Rimmer (Cavendish, LMB) and Dr Claudia Bonfio (LMB).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal honeycomb structures

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Dorin Bucur (Université de Savoie ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Capturing Complexity in Improvisation Research: The Influence of Precondition

Dr Leila Heil, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Monotonicity formulas in linear and nonlinear potential theory

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Virginia Agostiniani (Università degli Studi di Verona).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors

Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Zero-sum optimal switching games motivated by energy applications

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Said Hamadene (Université du Maine).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Ab Initio Thermodynamics with the help of Machine Learning

Bingqing Cheng, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bio-inspired Photonics: from nature to applications

Dr Silvia Vignolini ( Department of Chemistry).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks

Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment

Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Meeting PIERRE BOURDIEU with EDITH ESCH

Dr Edith Esch.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS5.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Multiple Rank-1 Lattices as Sampling Schemes for Approximation

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Lutz Kaemmerer (Technische Universität Chemnitz).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Recent Results on Rational Approximation and Interpolation with Completely and Multiply Monotone Radial Basis Functions

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Martin Buhmann (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dimension-dependence error estimates for sampling recovery on Smolyak grids

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Dũng Dinh (Vietnam National University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Recovery of functions of many variables via compressive sensing

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Holger Rauhut (RWTH Aachen University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 09:00-09:35

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are we on the Road to Collapse?

Dr Luke Kemp.

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropology

Dr Matei Candea (Department of Social Anthropology and King's College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Early Science and Medicine

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Celebrating Difference- A Whole School Approach to LGBT+ Inclusion

Shaun Dellenty.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:10-16:45

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrmions and rho mesons, a successful relationship for light nuclei

Carlos Naya (INFN, Lecce).

MR11.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Local restriction theorem and maximal Bochner-Riesz operator for the Dunkl transforms

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Wenrui Ye (The University of International Business and Economics - Beijing).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 15:30-16:05

Cavendish HEP Seminars

New frontiers in LHC discovery strategies

Jesse Liu (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Characterizations of Besov spaces in terms of K-functionals

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Oscar Dominguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:20-14:55

British Antarctic Survey

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

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

Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Cambridge).

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Sensors CDT seminars

How to build a deep-tech start-up

To register to attend: https://bit.ly/2IaIgBu

Pierre Arsene, Mursla.

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Polynomial approximation via compressed sensing of high-dimensional functions on lower sets

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Clayton Webster (University of Tennessee; Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:40-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do females fight?

Eleanor Bath (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Directional Framelets with Low Redundancy and Directional Quasi-tight Framelets

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Bin Han (University of Alberta; University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Embedding and continuity envelopes of Besov-type spaces

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Wen Yuan (Beijing Normal University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Ball Average Characterizations of Function Spaces

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Dachun Yang (Beijing Normal University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Haar System and Smoothness Spaces built on Morrey Spaces

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Winfried Sickel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 09:00-09:35

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Does seeing help you to hear better?

Professor Jennifer Bizley, UCL.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Monday 18 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Faculty of Education Seminars

Structures of Governance in English Secondary Schooling and their Antecedents: The Cambridgeshire Village College Meets the Academy Trust

Dr Gordon Johnson and Dr Gillian Sutherland.

DMB GS1, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dicussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:10-16:45

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Construction of high-dimensional point sets with small dispersion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Mario Ullrich (Johannes Kepler Universität).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 15:30-16:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Order statistics and Mallat--Zeitouni problem

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 14:20-14:55

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic

Dr Jian Kai Zhang, Lecturer, Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximation of Ridge Functions and Sparse Additive Models

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Jan Vybiral (Charles University, Prague).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:40-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century

Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Unleashing your inner maker

Prof. Daniela Rus, MIT.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Monday 18 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On some lower bounds for Kolmogorov widths

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Yuri Malykhin (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences ; Moscow State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Random sections of ellipsoids and the power of random information

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Aicke Hinrichs (Johannes Kepler Universität).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

On the interaction of turbulence, waves and mean flows in geophysical fluids

Louis Couston (BAS).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Monday 18 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exponential tractability of weighted tensor product problems

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Henryk Wozniakowski (Columbia University; University of Warsaw).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Finding the right path: How do multidomain proteins avoid misfolding, and how can women avoid the pitfalls in their scientific career paths?

Professor Jane Clarke, FRS, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Animal models of episodic memory

Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Numerical methods for high frequency wave scattering

Dr Sam Groth, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Life on Mars: Architecture for Extra-planetary habitation

Miriam Dall’Igna, Foster & Partners .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 15 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 3: High-Dimensional Polynomial Approximation

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 15 February 2019, 15:00-16:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum logic with trapped ions: precise, fast, networked

Prof. David Lucas, University of Oxford.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

General theory of the Kanzaki force field: static and dynamic models of dislocations and other extended defects

Dr Benat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Phase field modelling of crack propagation

Dr Emilio Martinez-Paneda, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE

Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling

Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in mice

Dr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

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

Friday 15 February 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cheetah conservation in Namibia

Chris Heron.

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting the gist: experience and expectation in the interpretation of novel compound nouns

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Melaine Bell (Anglia Ruskin University) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Imaging with atoms

Paul Dastoor, Department of Physics, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Low Energy? Think Positive!

Scott Melville (Cambridge).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan

Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing

Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2: Compressive Imaging

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-linear response of two dimensional crystals and layered materials

Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Contraction Analysis of Monotone Systems

Yu Kawano, University of Groningen.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Going green with black: On Biomass, Carbon and Clean Energy

Professor Magdalena Titirici (Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A political history of apolitical science

Audra J. Wolfe (Independent Scholar).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Language learning and use as cognitive reserve?

Dr Thomas Bak, Reader, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Influencing axon regeneration after spinal cord injury

Mark A. Anderson - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles.

IPH large seminar room.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Online Meta-Learning

Massimiliano Pontil, University College London.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

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

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Butterfly Effect: what does it really signify?

NOTE UNUSUAL TIME

Professor Tim Palmer, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 19:30-20:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Polymer flow and polymer topology: linear chains, rings and knots flow differently

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Christos Likos (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 17:20-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Emergence of phytoplankton patchiness at small scales in mild turbulence

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Marco Mazza (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamics and Self-Organisation).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:40-17:20

Arts and Creativities Research Group

SILENCE - (Re-)Viewing the concept of silence across multiple perspectives by an interdisciplinary panel of researchers

Satinder Gill, Hilary Cremin, Elizabeth Maber, Toshi Tsuruhara, Pam Burnard, Helen Lees.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS5.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the passage from nonlinear to linearized viscoelasticity

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Martin Kruzik (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Czech Technical University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:00-16:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2: Complexity results for integration.

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Erich Novak (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logical Uncertainty

Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Applications of Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) for Alzheimer's Disease and Stem Cell research

Dr Colin Hockings, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Spatial experience: more than mere structure

Peter Epstein (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection

Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exact exchange-correlation kernels for optical spectra

Mike Entwistle, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:00-12:30

ARClub Talks

Understanding vulnerability and related outcomes in autism using genetics

Dr Varun Warrier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Language and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Ann Copestake.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Strings, high energy and curved spacetimes

Giuseppi D'Appollonio (DAMTP and Cagliari).

MR11.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

SBND -- a state of the art Liquid Argon TPC for Neutrino Physics

Nicola McConkey (University of Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1: Overview and Theory

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 15:00-16:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Spin-Vibronic Dynamics in Organic Electronics: From Simulations to Molecular Design using Dynamo-phores.

Dr Thomas Penfold, Newcastle University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Exploring How Eruption Source Parameters Affect Volcanic Radiative Forcing

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

Lauren Marshall, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Speciation, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers

Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London).

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Surprises in the Self-Assembly of Particles in Spherical Confinement

Prof. Alfons van Blaaderen (Debye Institute for Nanomaterials, Utrecht University).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

When algebra meets geometry

Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila

Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write good papers

Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1: Some old and new results on Information-Based Complexity

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Erich Novak (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 11 February 2019, 15:00-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures "Breakable and self-assembled materials: Synthesis and applications"

Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Research Tracks - Pierre Pinson and Yanning Goude

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:30-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

The formation of large impact craters

Gareth Collins, Imperial College London.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Wellcome’s role on global health and scientific policy challenge

Ed Whiting, Director of Policy and Chief of Staff.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Friday 08 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The power of superconductivity

Carla Palomares Garcia, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

Fabrication, assembly and propulsion of artificial microswimmers and nanorobotic systems

Prof. Peer Fischer, Max Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00