Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

From differential equations to deep learning for image processing

Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Wind & Bridges: Aerodynamic Force Models

Dr Igor Kavrakov, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?

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

Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?

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

Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Biophysical Seminars

Functional amyloid in bacteria

Professor Daniel E. Otzen, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Foster Talks

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

Steve Harridge, King's College London.

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Intersection Theory and Feynman Integrals

Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Automorphism orbits of groups and the Monster

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Michael Giudici (University of Western Australia).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular chaperones in protein folding and quality control

Prof. Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl ( Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

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

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Sampling and Representation of Stiff ODEs in Large Dimension

Omar Knio, KAUST.

MR 14.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals

Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Networks of Nonsmooth Oscillators & Applications in Neuroscience

Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization β-Amyloid, Membranes and the Magic Angle

Prof. Robert G. Griffin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf website.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back Propagation

Uwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK.

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Variational Hodge conjecture and Hodge loci

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

Hossein Movasati (IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:15-12:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

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

Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Structure searching and longitudinal-transverse mode coupling in sulfur

Jack Whaley-Baldwin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

A Journey into Rap Studies: from London’s hip-hop scenes to grimey Englishness

Dr Richard Bramwell, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:45-19:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Holographic Uhlmann Holonomy and the Entanglement Wedge Symplectic Form

Josh Kirklin (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for lepton flavour violation in B decays with the LHCb experiment

Alison Tully (EPFL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Molecular strategies to increase robustness of organic semiconductor thin films for application in photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices

Kevin Sivula EPFL.

Raleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record

Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Irreducible restrictions of representations of symmetric and alternating groups

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Lucia Morotti (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Toroidal compactifications and incompressibility of exceptional congruence covers.

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

Patrick Brosnan (University of Maryland, College Park; University of Maryland, College Park).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 20 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Earth System Models

Dr. Cat Scott, University of Leeds.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

ym354's list

Organic Bioelectronic Interfaces Based on Crystalline PEDOT:PSS Films, Microfibers, and Fibrillar Hydrogel

Professor Myung-Han Yoon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) .

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

Rogier Kievit (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Turbulence driven by tides in planetary cores: wave turbulence vs. geostrophic turbulence

Thomas Le Reun, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Imagers Interest Group

Issues in Interpreting Cluster-Based Permutation Tests

Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt.

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Predictive models of bacterial response and the evolution of resistance to antibiotics

Bartek Waclaw, University of Edinburgh.

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 17 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Vibronic coherence in light harvesting systems

Professor Alexandra Olaya-Castro.

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

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Phase engineered two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for electrochemistry

Dr Manish Chhowalla Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA THIS WEEK

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Zeta - functions of arithmetic schemes - 3

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Matthias Flach (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 17 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algebraic Cycles and Hodge Theory III

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Anthony Scholl (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 17 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Foster Talks

Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding

Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia.

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Local anomalies in Z’ models

Joseph Tooby-Smith (Cavendish).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Mystery in Finite Groups of Even Order

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

George Glauberman (University of Chicago; University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds

Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs?

Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison).

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Risks of Climate Change: What is Plan B? Climate Repair

Professor Sir David King.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

On the Stability and the Uniform Propagation of Chaos Properties of Ensemble Kalman-Bucy Filters

Prof Pierre Del Moral, INRIA.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Study group on recent work of Golyshev-Zagier on the gamma conjecture in mirror symmetry and of Bloch-Vlasenko on motivic gamma functions. (copy)

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:45-15:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology and scale invariance in atomic Flatland

Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Dementia Journal Club

From gut to brain: An alpha-synuclein Parkinson’s model

Katrina Räty (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algebraic Cycles and Hodge Theory II

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Anthony Scholl (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:30-14:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment

chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian

Dr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Periods, cohomology of algebraic varieties and beyond - 3

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Francis Brown (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Special values of Motivic L-functions II - 2

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Matthias Flach (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

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

Dr Christine Parkinson, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Globalizing music education and the international music education community

Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany.

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

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Neurocomputational basis of social learning and decision-making

Dr. Patricia Lockwood, MRC Fellow, Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Small Things Make Big Differences

Athena SWAN Talk

Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Golden Road: Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanocrystals

BP Sustainability Lecture

Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional preferences of domain-general brain regions during executive function tasks

Moataz Assem (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Motivic Homotopy Theory III: Highlights and Applications

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Vesna Stojanoska (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Optical excitations in layered semiconductors - the case of BiI3

Ivona Bravić.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Periods, cohomology of algebraic varieties and beyond - 2

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Francis Brown (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Calabi-Yau Manifolds, Mirrors, and Motives - 3

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Charles Doran (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 09:00-10:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s

Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde).

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

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Special values of Motivic L-functions I - 1

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Matthias Flach (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Torp Jensen.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

K-theory and motivic cohomology - 3

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Charles Weibel (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Motivic Homotopy Theory II: Motivic Spectra

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Vesna Stojanoska (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 13:30-14:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Ode to the masalai: New Guinea as a crucible for evolution in plants and insects

Simon Segar (Harper Adams University).

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

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algebraic Cycles and Hodge Theory I

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Anthony Scholl (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the Chebotarev invariant of a finite group

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Gareth Tracey (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Calabi-Yau Manifolds, Mirrors, and Motives - 2

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Charles Doran (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

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

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Periods, cohomology of algebraic varieties and beyond - 1

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Francis Brown (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

K-theory and motivic cohomology - 2

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Charles Weibel (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Motivic Homotopy Theory I: Motivic Spaces

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Vesna Stojanoska (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 January 2020, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Calabi-Yau Manifolds, Mirrors, and Motives - 1

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Charles Doran (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

K-theory and motivic cohomology - 1

KAHW01 - Introductory workshop

Charles Weibel (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Tzany Kokalova Wheldon (Birmingham).

MR11.

Sunday 12 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finite Singular Orbit Modules for Algebraic Groups

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Aluna Rizzoli (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 10 January 2020, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Conjugacy Classes and the Normal Complement Problem in Group Algebras

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Surinder Kaur (Indian Institute of Technology; Indian Institute of Technology; Indian Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 10 January 2020, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finite permutation groups: applications to transformation semigroups and synchronization

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Peter Cameron (University of St Andrews; Queen Mary University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 10 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Conjectures in local representation theory

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Charles Eaton (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 10 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algorithms for matrix groups II

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Eamonn O'Brien (University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 10 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Catalytic Conversion of Biomass and Platform Chemicals

Prof. Feng Wang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 10 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The subgroup structure of almost simple groups, II

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Martin Liebeck (Imperial College London; Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 10 January 2020, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Classifying 2-blocks with an elementary abelian defect group

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Cesare Giulio Ardito (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 17:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On self-Mullineux and self-conjugate partitions

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Ana Bernal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finite permutation groups: the landscape post-CFSG

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Peter Cameron (University of St Andrews; Queen Mary University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Basic algorithms in the representation theory of finite groups and algebras

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Klaus Lux (University of Arizona).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making

Chand Chandrasekaran (Boston University).

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

Thursday 09 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reduction Theorems for global-local Conjectures

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Britta Späth (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic anticancer therapy

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

Dr Gary Doherty (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algorithms for matrix groups I

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Eamonn O'Brien (University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The subgroup structure of almost simple groups, I

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Martin Liebeck (Imperial College London; Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Connections with other Areas of Mathematics

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Aner Shalev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 08 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Aschbacher's theorem

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 08 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Blocks of finite group algebras II

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Markus Linckelmann (City University, London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 08 January 2020, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Representations and Unipotent Classes

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Jay Taylor (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 07 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Low dimensional cohomology of finite groups

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Derek Holt (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 07 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computing with reductive groups

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Frank Lübeck (RWTH Aachen University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 07 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Blocks of finite group algebras I

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Markus Linckelmann (City University, London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 07 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finite reductive groups and their irreducible characters - 2

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Olivier Dudas (Université Denis Diderot).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 07 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to fusion systems-II

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Radha Kessar (University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 07 January 2020, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algebraic Groups and Finite Dimensional Algebras

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Stephen Donkin (University of York).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 06 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Groups with lots of p-local subgroups of characteristic p.

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Chris Parker (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 06 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The classification of finite simple groups via fusion systems

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Ellen Henke (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 06 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to fusion systems-I

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Radha Kessar (University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 06 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finite reductive groups and their irreducible characters - 1

GRAW01 - Introductory/instructional workshop

Olivier Dudas (Université Denis Diderot).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 06 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bubble dynamics and velocity selection in a Hele-Shaw cell

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Giovani Vasconcelos (Universidade Federal do Paraná).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 17 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

PM2.5/NOx modelling for health exposure research

Nathan Pavlovic.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The search for complex singularities in exponential asymptotics

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Philippe Trinh (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computational aspects of complex orthogonal polynomials

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Alfredo Deaño (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computing periodic conformal mappings

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Peter Baddoo (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computing Walsh's conformal map onto lemniscatic domains

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Olivier Sète (Technische Universität Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Remarks on numerical methods for conformal mapping of multiply connected domains and applications

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Tom DeLillo (Wichita State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The numerical solution of BVPs using the Unified Transform Method

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Bernard Deconinck (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 13:30-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computational approach to compact Riemann surfaces

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Christian Klein (Université de Bourgogne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Masterclass: Programming in Maple: an extended example using Bohemians

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Robert Corless (University of Western Ontario).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Masterclass: oscillatory Riemann-Hilbert problems

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London); Thomas Trogdon (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 13 December 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Szegö Kernel and Oblique Projections: Conformal Mapping of Non-smooth Regions

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Manfred Trummer (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 16:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Leptoquark Pair Production at Future Hadron Colliders

Unusual Location

Maeve Madigan (DAMTP).

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reduced order models for spectral domain inversion: embedding into the continuous problem and generation of internal data.*

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Shari Moskow (Drexel University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 16:00-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Fundamental Barriers in Optimisation, Statistics, and Signal Processing

Verner Vlacic (ETH).

MR 14.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Validated Numerics Techniques for Singular Integrals

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Irina Mitrea (Temple University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 15:00-15:30

Special Departmental Seminars

"Diffuse interface methods and conservative mesh-adaptation: how to combine their potential for highly accurate multiphysic simulations?"

Dr Barbara Re, Zurich University.

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

Thursday 12 December 2019, 14:50-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fracture mechanics with Steigmann-Ogden surface energy

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Anna Zemlyanova (Kansas State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymptotic modeling of composite materials with thin coatings by using complex variables

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Sonia Mogilevskaya (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 14:00-14:30

Dementia Journal Club

Cryo-EM structures of Aß amyloid fibrils

Veronica Kane Dickson (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 12 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vortical sources on the walls of rotating containers: a model for oceanic outflows

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Ted Johnson (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 13:30-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis

chair: Dr Nikolett Kabacs

Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Efficient algorithms for convolutions based on contour integral methods

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Maria Lopez-Fernandez (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza; Universidad de Málaga).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electronic State in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University.

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

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:15-12:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Moonshot Thinking to Unleash Innovation, Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha: MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

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

Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha.

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

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Masterclass: The Computer Algebra System Maple, in 2019

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Robert Corless (University of Western Ontario).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do other cells do?

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

Dr Jacqui Shields - MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Masterclass: Riemann–Hilbert problems

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London); Thomas Trogdon (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Equivariance and structure preservation in numerical methods; some cases and viewpoints

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Brynjulf Owren (Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 15:05-15:50

Optoelectronics Group

Solution-Processed Organic Semiconductors for Applications in Opto-electronic

University of California, Santa Barbara.

Raleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the construction of some symplectic P-stable additive Runge—Kutta methods

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Antonella Zanna (Universitetet i Bergen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 14:05-14:50

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Numerical Generatingfunctionology: Counting with Toeplitz Determinants, Hayman-Admissibility, and the Wiener-Hopf-Factorization

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Folkmar Bornemann (Technische Universität München).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Masterclass: conformal mapping

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Nick Trefethen (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Masterclass: singular integrals and orthogonal polynomials

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London); Thomas Trogdon (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Blowup for the supercritical cubic wave equation

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Birgit Schörkhubre (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fast and stable rational approximation of generalized hypergeometric functions

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Mikael Slevinsky (University of Manitoba).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximation Theory for a Rational Orthogonal Basis on the Real Line

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Marcus Webb (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Solving the Laplace and Helmholtz equation on domains with corners using rational functions and their analogs

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Abinand Gopal (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computing spectral measures of differential and integral operators

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Andrew Horning (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vandermonde with Arnoldi

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Yuji Nakatsukasa (University of Oxford; National Institute of Informatics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 13:30-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Motion of complex singularities and Hamiltonian integrability of surface dynamics

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Pavel Lushnikov (University of New Mexico; Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Masterclass: polynomial and rational approximation

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Nick Trefethen (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Universality in numerical analysis. Cyber algorithms

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; New York University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 09:30-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Integrable Systems in Multidimensions

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Maria Christina van der Weele (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 09:00-09:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Blood is thicker than water

Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

St John's College Lightfoot Room.

Monday 09 December 2019, 18:30-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A 60 Year International History of Antarctic Subglacial Lake Exploration

Send an email to the organizer if you're not from BAS but want to come in.

Martin Siegert, Imperial College.

British Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

Monday 09 December 2019, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Numerical methods for mixed boundary value problems in diffraction and homogenization theory

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Elena Luca (University of California, San Diego).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 December 2019, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Effective ways of solving some PDEs with complicated Boundary Conditions on Unbounded domains

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Anastasia Kisil (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 December 2019, 16:00-16:30

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Reliability function near the zero error capacity

Dr Marco Dalai, University of Brescia.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Monday 09 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Foundations of Infinite-Dimensional Spectral Computations

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Matthew Colbrook (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 December 2019, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Numerical steepest descent for singular and oscillatory integrals

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Andrew Gibbs (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 December 2019, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Numerical Aspects of Quadratic Padé Approximation

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Nick Hale (Stellenbosch University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 December 2019, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Chebyshev to Zolotarev, Faber to Ganelius, and EIM to AAA

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Alex Townsend (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 December 2019, 13:30-14:00

Imagers Interest Group

Resting-State fMRI Pre-processing and Denoising

Joff Jones and Rik Henson, MRC CBU; Vasilis Karlaftis, Department of Psychology.

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

Monday 09 December 2019, 12:30-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

PathFinder: a toolbox for oscillatory integrals by deforming into the complex plane

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Daan Huybrechs (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Sensors CDT seminars

Growing Biosensors from Cambridge

John Baker, Senior Vice President, Abcam Plc.

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

Monday 09 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Masterclass: contour integrals

CATW03 - Computational complex analysis

Nick Trefethen (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 December 2019, 10:00-11:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

Zangwill Club

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An android application for freight vehicle in-service monitoring

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and geometric integration

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Chus Sanz-Serna (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Universidad de Valladolid).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

Members' Event.

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Danielle Turton (Lancaster University).

English Faculty Building, TBC.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Custom-tailored Self-Assembled Nanotubes through Hierarchical Coupling of Cooperative Interactions

Professor David Gonzàlez- Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Scale invariance, hierarchy generation and inflation.

Graham Ross (Oxford).

Potter Room, B1.19.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps

Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante.

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards a model of a deformable aerofoil

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Mark Blyth (University of East Anglia).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Structure-preserving variational schemes for nonlinear partial differential equations with a Wasserstein gradient flow structure

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Bertram Düring (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 15:15-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stochastic Approach to Quantum Spin Dynamics

Dr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Phase field modelling of free boundary problems

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Bjorn Stinner (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:15-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sliding Modes for Estimation: theory and practice

Sarah Spurgeon, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR 12.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Numerical approximations of a tractable mathematical model for tissue growth

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Vanessa Styles (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:30-14:15

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Food for health - food for thought

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge..

West Forvie Building Seminar Room, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Decoding the mysteries of quantum physics

Professor Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 19:30-20:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic maps for navigating high-dimensional data spaces

Professor Alessandro Laio, SISSA Trieste.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Energy estimates: proving stability for evolving surface PDEs and geometric flows

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Balázs Kovács (Universität Tübingen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:05-14:50

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Lie Group Machine Learning and Natural Gradient from Information Geometry

Dr Frederic Barbaresco, THALES Land and Air Systems.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes

David Burt, Andrew Foong.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Biophysical Seminars

Artificial Cells and Cellular Bionics

Prof. Oscar Ces, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 10:30-11:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The Mobile Computing Platform after Smartphones - Prof Romit Roy Choudhury: MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

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

Prof Romit Roy Choudhury, UIUC.

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

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 10:00-11:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Early Science and Medicine

Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia

CANCELLED

Dror Weil (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion and Questions

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:15-16:45

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Di-Higgs at the LHC: A Window on our Universe and BSM New Matter

Mike Nelson (Stockholm University).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Souriau Symplectic Structures of Lie Group Machine Learning on Statistical Drone Doppler/Kinematic Signatures

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Frederic Barbaresco (Thales).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 15:50-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Structure Preserving and Structure Exploiting Methods in Simulation, Optimal Control and Motion Planning

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Sina Ober-Blöbaum (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 15:05-15:30

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Gradient-based Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Dr Michalis Titsias, DeepMind.

LR11, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometric Numerical Methods for Robot Simulation, Control and Optimisation

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Olivier Brüls (Université de Liège).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:35-15:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Digital Tomosynthesis with Flat Panel Sources

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Vadim Soloviev (Adaptix).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:10-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lost in Translation: Crack Problems in Different Languages

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Sonia Mogilevskaya (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematics can make my MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Faster and Prettier - but Should it?

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Mary McLean (CRUK Cambridge Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 12:45-13:10

ARClub Talks

Public perceptions of genetic research and autism

Deborah Oakley.

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry Preserving Regularisation Methods in Medical Image Reconstruction

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Simon Arridge (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Compatible Finite Element Methods for Numerical Weather Prediction

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Colin Cotter (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 11:50-12:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A budget for turbulent mixing and water mass transformation in a partially enclosed deep basin

Carl Spingys, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Assessing the Risk of Hypothetical Windstorms, Considering Extremes and Climate Change

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Jonathon Gascoigne (Willis Towers Watson).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 10:55-11:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Weather and Climate Forecasts: How Differential Geometry can help Maintain the Quiet Revolution

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Nigel Wood (Met Office).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 10:25-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

Elena Celledoni (Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 10:10-10:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW52 - Advances in Numerical Modelling

; Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 10:00-10:10

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale

Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 02 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data Science: From System Identification to (Deep) Learning and Big Data

Lennart Ljung, Linköping University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to give good talks

Tom Manly.

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

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: the life sciences on film and radio

CANCELLED

Max Long (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Zonal jet variability: insights from a framework of idealised models

Laura Cope, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.

Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London.

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Coffee with Scientists

Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication

CANCELLED

James Dolan (King's College).

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

Friday 29 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Oncotripsy: Selective ablation of cancer cells through tuned low-intensity pulsed ultrasound

Prof Michael Ortiz, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Cambridge Natural History Society

Members' enthusiasms

Rod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig.

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Ptychography

John Rodenburg, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Per aspera ad astra: Impact of high precision standard model predictions for new physics searches

unusual venue

Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham).

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the nature of mathematical joy

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Elizabeth Mansfield (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Biologically realistic mean-field models of neuronal populations

Alain Destexhe, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France..

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

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

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain

Anthony Wagner (Stanford University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity

CANCELLED

Bryan Roberts (LSE).

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

On Nucleic Acid Feedback Controllers

Nuno Paulino, University of Warwick.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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 28 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

Efficient and intuitive modelling of electromagnetic nanoresonators and complex metasurfaces

Kevin Vynck, LP2N, CNRS, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Univ. Bordeaux, 33400 Talence, France.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 09:15-10:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

Building with DNA: From understanding to redesign of molecular machines

Professor Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Prize Presentation

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:55-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Proving Inequalities with Deep Learning

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Alhussein Fawzi (Google DeepMind Technologies Limited).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:15-16:55

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Catalysis of Photochemical Reactions"

Professor Thorsten Bach, TU Munich.

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

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MATLAB and NVIDIA Docker: A Complete AI Solution, Where You Need It, in an Instant

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Jos Martin (MathWorks).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:35-16:15

Sensors CDT seminars

The Evolution of PolyProx Therapeutics

Laura Itzhaki, PolyProx Therapeutics.

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:30-16:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Photoenzymatic Catalysis - Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions

Professor Todd Hyster, Princeton University.

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

Joseph Marks.

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards a Comprehensive Head and Neck Assessment for Stroke Prevention

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Julio Acosta-Cabronero (Tenoke Ltd).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:40-15:20

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Is an efficient intermolecular energy transfer from vibrations to electronic motion possible?

Professor Lorenz Cederbaum, Universitat Heidelberg.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Variance Risk Premium

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Silvia Stanescu (Cantab Capital Partners LLP).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-14:40

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Heat Transport in Lateral Spin Valve 

Dr. Georgios Stefanou, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

Hong Ge and John Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Halide perovskites for next-generation photovoltaics and lighting

Dr Sam Stranks (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Anisotropic Nonlinear PDE Models in Biology

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Lisa Maria Kreusser (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:40-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths

Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometric Numerical Integration for Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimisation

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Erlend Skaldehaug Riis (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:20-12:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Edge Preserving Besov Priors

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Hanne Kekkonen (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:00-12:20

Quantum Matter Seminar

The unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12

Dr Kathrin Götze, Department of Physics, University of Warwick.

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 11:15-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Seals from Space - Identifying Change in Antarctic Ecosystems via the Monitoring of Ice-seals and Sea Ice Habitats by Very High-resolution Satellite Imagery

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Premdeep Gill (British Antarctic Survey; World Wildlife Fund).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 11:00-11:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Riemann-Hilbert problems of the theory of automorphic functions and inverse problems of elasticity and cavitating flow for multiply connected domains

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Yuri Antipov (Louisiana State University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

ARClub Talks

Can the face predict the brain? The association between facial morphology and autism spectrum disorder

Dr Diana Tan, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia.

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

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

Biophysical Seminars

Autophagy and neurodegeneration

Professor David Rubinsztein ( CIMR).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Data Centric Technology: Hype, Hoax, Hope?

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge; The Alan Turing Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:20-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction - Update from Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge); Camilla Schelpe (Cantab Capital Partners LLP).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:00-10:20

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Monopoles and Number Theory

Harry Braden (Edinburgh).

MR11.

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the Solvability Complexity Index (SCI) hierarchy - Establishing the foundations of computational mathematics

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 15:05-16:05

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Corrosion Studies on Copper-Coated Carbon Steel Containers for Used Nuclear Fuel

Prof. James J. Noël (The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Properties of Particle Fluxes in Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS

Jie Feng (MIT).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Symmetry Preserving Interpolation

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Evelyne Hubert (INRIA Sophia Antipolis; INRIA Sophia Antipolis).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 14:05-14:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some old and new moving boundary problems for Hele-Shaw flow

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Scott McCue (Queensland University of Technology).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

Josh Firth (Oxford).

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

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modeling ocean eddies in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Mack, Stefanie L., British Antarctic Survey.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room Two.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond

David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell.

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

Monday 25 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

Dr. Nicolas Bellouin, University of Reading.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

CANCELLED

Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (Newton International Fellow, British Academy and University College London).

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

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

Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation?

Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation?

Novartis - Dr Adrian Clarke, Dr Chi Ming Cheung & Dr Aude Figuccia.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Exploring underutilised plants and fungi from Colombia to boost its bioeconomy

Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Robust code development with MATLAB

Dr Tim Johns, Mathworks.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

Amy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Friday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Photonic-chip-based soliton microcombs

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

Tobias Kippenberg: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

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

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Zangwill Club

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The short Arctic summer

Robert Burton.

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Second Language Education Group

Plurilingualism and Assessment (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume)

Dr. Nick Saville, Cambridge English Assessment.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Analytic two-loop multi-scale scattering amplitudes in QCD

Harald Ita (Freiburg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Imaging materials structure and bonding using coherent and incoherent electron imaging

Peter Nellist, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation

Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Symmetric Orthogonal Polynomials

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Peter Clarkson (University of Kent; University of Kent).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Symmetric Orthogonal Polynomials

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Peter Clarkson (University of Kent; University of Kent).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research

Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Deep learning as optimal control problems and Riemannian discrete gradient descent.

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Elena Celledoni (Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:05-15:45

Applied and Computational Analysis

From the d'Alembert paradox to the 1984 Kato criteria via the 1941 1/3 Kolmogorov law and the 1949 Onsager conjecture.

Claude Bardos, Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions.

MR 14.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport

Dr. Curt von Keyserlingk, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Learning and retaining tasks in redundant brain circuits

Timothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

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

Dementia Journal Club

Neuroinflammation and gut microbiota in AD progression

Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some thoughts about constrained sampling algorithms

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Benedict Leimkuhler (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:50-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on Homogeneous Manifolds for QCD and Statistics.

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Alessandro Barp (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:05-13:45

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation

chair: Dr Hisham Ziauddeen

Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in the Neurocognitive Bases of Mood Disorders, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer- NB 9am start time

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

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Is equilibrium overrated? Processing of optical materials at finite time scales

Prof. Ursula J. Gibson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

Professor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cavendish Inspiring Womxn Talks

Physics over the Rainbow

Claire Malone (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Children’s Literature at the Crossroads of Genre, Nation and Empire: Alice, Pinocchio, and adventure stories

Laura Tosi is Full Professor of English Literature at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice. .

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Monte Carlo method to sample a Stratification

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Miranda Holmes-Cefron ().

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:40-16:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Step size control for Newton type MCMC samplers Jonathan Goodman

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Jonathan Goodman ().

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:05-15:35

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

System-bath quantum dynamics in chemical physics

Professor Peter Saalfrank, University of Potsdam.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Attention

Elre Oldewage, George Hron.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Tony Lelievre (ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:50-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

CANCELLED

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:05-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pluralism about actual causation

Enno Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory

Dr Athena Akrami (University College London).

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

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-principles Investigation of Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries (ASSBs)

Bora Karasulu, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Visualizing Landau Orbits, Quantum Hall Nematics, and Topological Edge Modes

Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University.

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:15-12:15

Biophysical Seminars

Emergence of life-like properties in coacervate droplets

Evan Spruijt, Radboud University, the Netherlands.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Content of Style - What makes Classical Greek Art 'Classical'?

Professor Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:45-19:15

Early Science and Medicine

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

Elaine Leong (University College London).

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Recent theory developments in simulations for heavy flavour processes at the LHC

Davide Napoletano .

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Black hole interiors and modular inclusions

Ro Jefferson (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm).

MR11.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking trade in underground symbioses

Toby Kiers (VU Amsterdam).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some problems in exponential asymptotics

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Jonathan Chapman (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 04:00-05:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

In search of the molecules of memory - ANNUAL LECTURE

Roger Nicoll, University of California San Francisco.

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Making bonds by breaking bonds: An unconventional approach to making molecules

Professor Jun Yamaguchi, Waseda University.

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Simplified models for long-lived particles and reinterpretation of LHC searches

Note unusual time and room of this seminar

Giovanna Cottin (FONDECYT Chile).

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 18 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Emotion and memory

Deborah Talmi.

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

What sets the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions?

Emma Boland, British Antarctic Survey.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Imagers Interest Group

Extracting Universal Representations of Cognition from fMRI mega-analyses

Bertrand Thirion, Neurospin, INRIA.

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

Professor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Zangwill Club

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A design analysis framework for base-isolated buildings against ground-borne vibration

Giuseppe Sanitate, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Research and development of new vibro-acoustic methods in the commerical software wave6

Dr David Hawes, DS Acoustics SIMULIA.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-16:30

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Scaling laws in blood platelets cytoskeleton

Francois Nedelec, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Understanding the chemistry of ageing and disease in the extracellular matrix

Prof Melinda J Duer, Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Unified Transform, Medical Imaging, Asymptotics of the Riemann Zeta Function: Part II

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Thanasis Fokas (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Unified Transform, Medical Imaging, Asymptotics of the Riemann Zeta Function: Part I

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Thanasis Fokas (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 15 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

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(no venue).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice investigation of charmed and bottom hadrons

Padmanath Madanagopalan (Regensburg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Random explorations of materials space

Chris Pickard, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling

Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: Extraordinary waves and math: from beaches to photonics

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Mark Ablowitz (University of Colorado; University of Colorado Boulder).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence

Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science and the approximation account of knowledge

Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

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

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Deep learning as optimal control problems: models and numerical methods

Elena Celledoni (NTNU, Norway).

MR 14.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles

Prof. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Neuromorphic control

Luka Ribar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI

Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English).

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Video games in psychiatry: "a vicarious experience with a dazing, almost anaesthetic, effect on the mind"?

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks

Omri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

You Can Achieve Anything - with a Laser

There will be hands-on activities involving Laser Beam equipment.

Dr Ray Davies, Photonics Academy of Wales @ Bangor.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Low-regularity time integrators

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Alexander Ostermann (Leopold-Franzens Universtät Innsbruck ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Of flies and men: synaptic and metabolic alterations in ALS.

Prof. Daniela Zarnescu, University of Arizona.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pathway to Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Discrete Dipoles

First Year PhD Report

Haydn Lloyd, University of Cambrisge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:40-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multireference Stochastic Coupled Cluster

First Year PhD Report

Maria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:15-14:35

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Chemobrionics

Professor Julyan Cartwright, University of Granada, Spain.

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

What it takes to catch a wave packet

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Caroline Lasser (Technische Universität München).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

James Allingham, Omer Sella.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The replication crisis and philosophy

Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

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

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

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Drug Delivery - Concept to Clinic

Dr Mark Jackman, Advanced Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, AstraZeneca.

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

ARClub Talks

The value of student projects in autism research: Findings from studies of disordered eating, gender identity, and career choice

Dr Gareth Richards, School of Psychology, Newcastle University.

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood

Lochlann Jain (Stanford University).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR - THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Optimal Transportation and Ricci curvature for Lorentzian manifolds

Stefan Suhr (Bohum).

MR11.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Not Yet Finding Third Generation Supersymmetry

Calum Macdonald (University of Sheffield).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some results in the long time analysis of Hamiltonian PDEs and their numerical approximations

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Erwan Faou (INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An Older Special Function meets a (Slightly) Newer One

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Robert Corless (University of Western Ontario).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders

Trine Bilde (Aarhus University).

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

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

Cavendish Inspiring Womxn Talks

Refining super-resolution microscopy: lessons learnt from imaging intracellular signalling nanodomains

Dr. Izzy Jayasinghe, UKRI Future Leader Fellow, University of Leeds.

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

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Speech Recognition: What’s Left?

This talk is organised in conjunction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for which Dr Michael Picheny is a Distinguished Industry Speaker

Dr Michael Picheny.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Random movement of mesoscale eddies in the global ocean

Send an email to the organizer if you're not from BAS but want to come in.

Xiaoming Zhai, University of East Anglia.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

Professor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP

Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Magnus, splitting and composition techniques for solving non-linear Schrödinger equations

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Sergio Blanes (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 11 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A Preliminary Simulation of Convections and Airflows Using An Unstructured Adaptive Mesh Finite-Element Model Fluidity-Atmosphere

Dr. Jinxi Li, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Random Batch Methods for Interacting Particle Systems and Consensus-based Global Non-convex Optimization in High-dimensional Machine Learning (copy)

GCS - Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations

Shi Jin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 11 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Viscoplastic Droplets

Maziyar Jalaal, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Imagers Interest Group

An Introduction to Linear Mixed Effects (LME) models

Delia Fuhrmann, Roni Tibon & Alex Quent, MRC CBU.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Biophysical Seminars

Mechanism in Collective Organizations of Living and Synthetic Cells

Professor Joachim P. Spatz, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research & Heidelberg University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Monday 11 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Harmonic Balance Method applied to vibration of aircraft engine in the presence of contact nonlinearities

Dr Loic Salles, Imperial College.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Principles of bacterial collective behaviour

Knut Drescher, MPI Terrestrial Microbiology.

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

What works in wildlife conservation? Assessing the evidence to save the planet

Alec Christie (Zoology).

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

Friday 08 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Supplementary Python

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Modelling physiological and pathological glia-neuron interactions in cerebral organoids

Dr Andras Lakatos, MRC Clinician Scientist, Neurologist, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

AMOP list

Building a dark matter wind chime

Jake Taylor, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland .

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

"CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features

Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

An astronomer in Antarctica

Jonathan Shanklin.

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

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Musical Thinking: A Multi-Dimensional Model and Taxonomy

Dr Daniel Johnson, University of North Carolina.

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Recent developments of Herwig7

unusual venue

Stefan Gieseke (Karlsruhe).

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

The amazing world of the GnRH neuron

Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Experiments ad theory for anomalous waves induced by abrupt depth changes

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Nick Moore (Florida State University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Chaucer Club

Frontotemporal dementia – challenges, opportunities, progress

James Rowe (U.of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13th–16th centuries)

Raffaele Danna (Faculty of History).

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

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Local regularity theory for Navier-Stokes equations and Liouville type theorems

Gregory Seregin, University of Oxford.

MR 14.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

CANCELLED - Feedback for neuronal system identification

Thiago Burghi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

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

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 07 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Force Awakens

Professor Ben Allanach, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

Ebany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Networking and Drinks Reception

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Networking and Drinks Reception

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion, Questions and Answers

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Tom Wilkinson (Department for International Development); Nigel Smart (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion, Questions and Answers

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Making DLT Happen

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Rob Learney (Digital Catapult).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:10-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Making DLT Happen

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Rob Learney (Digital Catapult).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:10-16:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fluorescent Nucleoside Analogues with New Properties for Biophysics

Byron W Purse San Diego State University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Convergence Stack: Creating a New Data Economy with DLT

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Lawrence Lundy (Outlier Ventures).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 15:50-16:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Convergence Stack: Creating a New Data Economy with DLT

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Lawrence Lundy (Outlier Ventures).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 15:50-16:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Experiences with DLT within the UK Government, and Perspectives on Future Potential

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Tom Wilkinson (Department for International Development).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 15:25-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Perspective on the Future of DLT from within the UK Government

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Tom Wilkinson (Department for International Development).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 15:25-15:50

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hierarchical equations of motion

First Year PhD Report

Adam Prada, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:40-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Legal Aspects of DLT and Cryptoassets

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

David Quest QC (3 Verulam Buildings).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:35-15:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Legal Aspects of DLT and Crytoassets

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

David Quest QC (3 Verulam Buildings).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:35-15:05

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rapid Route-Finding for Bifurcating Organic Reactions

First Year PhD Report

Sanha Lee, University of Cambride.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:15-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The VOLT Project: Voting on Ledger Technologies

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Steve Schneider (University of Surrey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:10-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Practical uses of DLT - a Central Bank Perspective

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Will Lovell (Bank of England).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:10-14:35

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Sahanika Ratnayake (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Blockchain by Human Centred Design

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Chris Speed (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:45-13:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Blockchain by Human Centred Design

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Chris Speed (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:45-13:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments

Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Academic Research Talk - Foundations of Distributed Ledgers: Principles for a Secure by Design Global IT Infrastructure

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Academic Research Talk - Foundations of Distributed Ledgers: Principles for a Secure by Design Global IT Infrastructure

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Academic Research Talk - DLT for Trusted Archives of Digital Public Records and other Computer Vision Applications

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

John Collomosse (University of Surrey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Academic Research Talk - DLT for Trusted Archives of Digital Public Records and other Computer Vision Applications

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

John Collomosse (University of Surrey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 11:45-12:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Approaches to modelling organic/inorganic interfaces, with an example of a Tetracene/Metal halide perovskite interface

Alan Bowman.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Business of Blockchain

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Rob Learney (Digital Catapult).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 10:55-11:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Business of Blockchain

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Rob Learney (Digital Catapult).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 10:55-11:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A National Approach to DLT - Dutch Blockchain Coalition

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Frans Van Ette (TNO).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 10:25-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A National Approach to DLT - Dutch Blockchain Coalition

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Frans Van Ette (TNO).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 10:25-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Academic Introduction - DLT Technology: The Hype and the Reality

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Nigel Smart (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 10:05-10:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Academic Introduction - DLT Technology: The Hype and the Reality

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

Nigel Smart (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 10:05-10:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

TGMW71 - The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 10:00-10:05

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title

Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

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

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Collaborative Poetics

Helen Johnson, University of Brighton.

Mary Allan Building, Auditorium, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH .

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

On twistor geometry and black hole perturbation theory

Bernardo Araneda (Queen Mary, London).

MR11.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The puzzle of dark matter: missing pieces at the LHC?

Katharina Behr (DESY).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational neuroscience journal club

Monika Jozsa.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking patterns and processes across scales: a case study with Andean hummingbirds

Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL).

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

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

Cavendish Inspiring Womxn Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Zeeya Merali.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural information processing during behavior and sleep

Mayank Mehta (UCLA).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Second Language Education Group

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development

Professor Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, Dr.Dieuwerke Rutgers, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Enantioselective Lewis Base Catalysis using Isothioureas

Professor Andrew Smith, University of St Andrews.

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Mechanisms of forgetting

Michael Anderson.

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

Monday 04 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Motion of vortices with buoyancy

Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

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

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Random vibration of cylindrical roller bearings with distributed faults

James McBride, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:30-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Diesel soot mass detection using coupled MEMS resonators

Malar Chellasivalingam, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Existence results in interfacial flows with kinetic undercooling regularization in a time-dependent gap Hele-Shaw cell

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Xie Xuming (Morgan State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Existence results in interfacial flows with kinetic undercooling regularization in a time-dependent gap Hele-Shaw cell

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Xie Xuming (Morgan State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

The evolutionary dynamics and fitness landscape of clones in our blood

Jamie Blundell, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

LaTeX for report-writing

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Cumulative damage to masonry structures due to repeated earthquakes and effectiveness of strengthening provisions

Professor Dina D’Ayala, University College London.

Seminar Room, Civil Engineering Building, JJ Thomson Avenue 7a..

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Analyses of dynamic fault propagation in discrete structures

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Gennady Mishuris (Aberystwyth University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Analyses of dynamic fault propagation in discrete structures

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Gennady Mishuris (Aberystwyth University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Motile cilia - understanding the origin of collective dynamics

Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Diffraction by wedges: higher order boundary conditions, integral transforms, vector Riemann-Hilbert problems, and Riemann surfaces

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Yuri Antipov (Louisiana State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Diffraction by wedges: higher order boundary conditions, integral transforms, vector Riemann-Hilbert problems, and Riemann surfaces

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Yuri Antipov (Louisiana State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:30-14:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Zangwill Club

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vortex dynamics on the surface of a torus

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Takashi Sakajo (Kyoto University; Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vortex dynamics on the surface of a torus

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Takashi Sakajo (Kyoto University; Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Cluster method in the theory of fibrous elastic composites

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Vladimir Mityushev (Akademia Pedagogiczna).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Cluster method in the theory of fibrous elastic composites

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Vladimir Mityushev (Akademia Pedagogiczna).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Blocks in the asymmetric simple exclusion process

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Craig Tracy (University of California, Davis; University of California, Davis).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Blocks in the asymmetric simple exclusion process

CATW02 - Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications

Craig Tracy (University of California, Davis; University of California, Davis).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 01 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

Abigail Stancliffe-Vaughan.

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

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

A voyage from bulk via thin film and nanoparticles to surface magnetism

Adrian Ionescu, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 16:00-17:00