Wolfson College Science Society talks

Finding the right path: How do multidomain proteins avoid misfolding, and how can women avoid the pitfalls in their scientific career paths?

Professor Jane Clarke, FRS, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Animal models of episodic memory

Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Numerical methods for high frequency wave scattering

Dr Sam Groth, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Life on Mars: Architecture for Extra-planetary habitation

Miriam Dall’Igna, Foster & Partners .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 3: High-Dimensional Polynomial Approximation

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum logic with trapped ions: precise, fast, networked

Prof. David Lucas, University of Oxford.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

General theory of the Kanzaki force field: static and dynamic models of dislocations and other extended defects

Dr Benat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Phase field modelling of crack propagation

Dr Emilio Martinez-Paneda, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE

Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling

Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in mice

Dr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

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

Friday 15 February 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cheetah conservation in Namibia

Chris Heron.

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

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting the gist: experience and expectation in the interpretation of novel compound nouns

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Melaine Bell (Anglia Ruskin University) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Imaging with atoms

Paul Dastoor, Department of Physics, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Low Energy? Think Positive!

Scott Melville (Cambridge).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan

Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).

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

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

Chaucer Club

Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing

Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2: Compressive Imaging

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-linear response of two dimensional crystals and layered materials

Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Contraction Analysis of Monotone Systems

Yu Kawano, University of Groningen.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Going green with black: On Biomass, Carbon and Clean Energy

Professor Magdalena Titirici (Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A political history of apolitical science

Audra J. Wolfe (Independent Scholar).

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Language learning and use as cognitive reserve?

Dr Thomas Bak, Reader, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Influencing axon regeneration after spinal cord injury

Mark A. Anderson - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles.

IPH large seminar room.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Online Meta-Learning

Massimiliano Pontil, University College London.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

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

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Butterfly Effect: what does it really signify?

NOTE UNUSUAL TIME

Professor Tim Palmer, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Polymer flow and polymer topology: linear chains, rings and knots flow differently

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Christos Likos (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 17:20-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Emergence of phytoplankton patchiness at small scales in mild turbulence

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Marco Mazza (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamics and Self-Organisation).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:40-17:20

Arts and Creativities Research Group

SILENCE - (Re-)Viewing the concept of silence across multiple perspectives by an interdisciplinary panel of researchers

Satinder Gill, Hilary Cremin, Elizabeth Maber, Toshi Tsuruhara, Pam Burnard, Helen Lees.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the passage from nonlinear to linearized viscoelasticity

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Martin Kruzik (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Czech Technical University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:00-16:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2: Complexity results for integration.

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Erich Novak (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logical Uncertainty

Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Applications of Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) for Alzheimer's Disease and Stem Cell research

Dr Colin Hockings, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

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

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

Craik Club

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Spatial experience: more than mere structure

Peter Epstein (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection

Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exact exchange-correlation kernels for optical spectra

Mike Entwistle, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:00-12:30

ARClub Talks

Understanding vulnerability and related outcomes in autism using genetics

Dr Varun Warrier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Language and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Ann Copestake.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Strings, high energy and curved spacetimes

Giuseppi D'Appollonio (DAMTP and Cagliari).

MR11.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

SBND -- a state of the art Liquid Argon TPC for Neutrino Physics

Nicola McConkey (University of Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1: Overview and Theory

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Spin-Vibronic Dynamics in Organic Electronics: From Simulations to Molecular Design using Dynamo-phores.

Dr Thomas Penfold, Newcastle University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Exploring How Eruption Source Parameters Affect Volcanic Radiative Forcing

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

Lauren Marshall, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Speciation, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers

Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London).

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Surprises in the Self-Assembly of Particles in Spherical Confinement

Prof. Alfons van Blaaderen (Debye Institute for Nanomaterials, Utrecht University).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

When algebra meets geometry

Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila

Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write good papers

Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1: Some old and new results on Information-Based Complexity

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Erich Novak (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 11 February 2019, 15:00-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures "Breakable and self-assembled materials: Synthesis and applications"

Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Research Tracks - Pierre Pinson and Yanning Goude

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

.

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:30-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

The formation of large impact craters

Gareth Collins, Imperial College London.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Wellcome’s role on global health and scientific policy challenge

Ed Whiting, Director of Policy and Chief of Staff.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Friday 08 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The power of superconductivity

Carla Palomares Garcia, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Zangwill Club

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

Fabrication, assembly and propulsion of artificial microswimmers and nanorobotic systems

Prof. Peer Fischer, Max Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Tailored Reinforced Concrete Infrastructure

Student Seminars: Mar Gimenez Fernandez, PhD Candidate, CUED. .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A two-layer cluster analysis framework for urban studies -- A case study of domestic gas consumption patterns in the Greater London Area

Student Seminars: Mingda Yuan, PhD Candidate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Strategies for Tailored Residential Energy Provision in Fast-Growing Cities

Student Seminars: Andre Neto Bradley, PhD Candidate, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

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

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Active Cell Mechanics

Tea and coffee & biscuits will be available after the seminar

Professor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer

Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

Leah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

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

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The Evolutionary Typology of Verbal Person-Number Indexes

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Ilja Seržant (University of Leipzig).

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Experiments with high explosives

Jiri Pachman, Institute of Energetic Materials, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

CTEQ-TEA: Precise analysis of hadron structure in the LHC era

Pavel Nadolsky (SMU).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Patient reported outcome measures are different

Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

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

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

Chaucer Club

Shattered lives: Understanding and treating post traumatic stress in children and adolescents

Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBU, U.of Cambridge).

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

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Image denoising: the man machine contest

Jean-Michel Morel (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay).

MR 14.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Minimal models for chaotic quantum dynamics in spatially extended many-body systems

Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Dementia Journal Club

AD-associated variants identified by whole exome sequencing

Alexander Mörseburg, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures 2019 "Luminescent complexes: assemblies, sensing, towards artificial virus"

Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Illness and Attitude: Characterizing Functional Disorders

Professor Richard Holton, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Exploring disease mechanisms in a novel group of neurological diseases caused by mutations in the RNA exosome

Juliane Muller, University of Cambridge (previously Newcastle University).

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Louisa Bellis (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Playing ping-pong with single electrons

Professor Chris Ford, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

Oliver Mayeux, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Professor Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finding the optimal nets for self-folding Kirigami

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Nuno Araujo (Universidade de Lisboa).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:20-18:40

Children's Literature

Giving Comics Back to Children

Professor Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hydrodynamic assembly of out of equilibrium colloids

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Juho Lintuvuori (Université de Bordeaux).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:40-17:20

Indo-European Seminar

Italic religious dedications: between local traditions and Graeco-Roman influences

Tea served from 4.15

Maria José Estaran University of Zaragoza.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nematic twist-bend:the heliconical phase of nonchiral liquid crystals

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Lech Longa (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:00-16:40

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Uncertainty-Driven Construction of Markov Models from Accelerated Molecular Dynamics

Dr Thomas D Swinburne, Aix-Marseille University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Light Management Layers Based on Optical Nanostructures: Advancing Ultra-Thin Photovoltaics

Rose Scowen, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Non-literal model interpretations

James Nguyen (UCL).

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective

Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Colour prediction of organic molecules in solution: pH indicators

Joseph Prentice.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 12:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nuclear fusion technology

Colin Walters.

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

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

How Churchill Waged War

Mr Allen Packwood, OBE, FRHistS (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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

Early Science and Medicine

Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine

Hannah Murphy (King's College London).

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Digital quantum geometries

Anna Pachol (QMUL).

MR11.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

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

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Illuminating Antimatter: the ALPHA antihydrogen experiment at CERN

Prof. Jeffrey Hangst (Aarhus University).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Through a glass darkly - interpreting animal behaviour with the aid of machines

Alex Jordan (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology).

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Cellular dissection of visual cortex reveals dedicated pathways for multisensory computations

Troy Margrie.

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory?

Rik Henson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Talk is postponed as of 01.02.2019

Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire

Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Turbulence in Forced Stratified Exchange Flows

Kat Smith, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Room Temperature Single-Molecule Magnets for Quantum Computing: Serendipity or Design?

David Izuogu, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Zangwill Club

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinear modelling for active noise control applications in vehicles

Matthew de Brett and Luis Andrade, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Reinforced concrete design in Arup: slender walls and strut-and-tie models

Ian Feltham and Andy Gardner, Arup.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits

Prof. Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich.

Small lecture theatre* please note change of time and location.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Metamorphic architected materials for dynamic application

Dr Stefan Szyniszewski, University of Surrey .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development

Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Computational Neuroscience

High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay

Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation

James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Integration-by-parts identities and multi-loop QCD amplitudes

Herschel Chawdhry (Cambridge) .

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery

Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery

Adam Zeman (University of Exeter).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

50 years on. Recollections of a former young theoretical physicist

Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

In Situ Self-Assembly of Conjugated Polymers

Prof. Tae-Lim Choi (Seoul Natinoal University) .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds

Taco Cohen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools

Freddy Foks (Faculty of History).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Sensors CDT seminars

A scalable platform for IoT & analytics by SAS or, how researchers & start-ups can avoid reinventing the wheel

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-scalable-platform-for-iot-analytics-by-sas-tickets-55401737087

SAS Analytics.

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Modelling human brain development and neural connectivity in cerebral organoids

Dr Madeline Lancaster, Principal Investigator, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Survivorship

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

Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar and Dr Helen Hatcher, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Energy, entropy and the physics of deep learning

Dr Alpha Lee, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 20:00-21:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.

Professor Naomi Lamoreaux - Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History - Yale University.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 17:30-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Collective coordinates, asymptotics and domain wall dynamics in ferromagnets

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Jonathan Robbins (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

1st Reading seminar: Harm Pinkster’s Oxford Latin Syntax

Tea served from 4.15

Speaker to be confirmed.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Queering the Art Classroom

Tabitha Millett, IoE, University College London.

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Latent Variable Models for Bayesian Inference with Stable Distributions and Processes

Marina Riabiz, King's College London.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 15:30-16:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomolecular Hydration Shells: Dynamics and Biochemical Function

Professor Damien Laage, ENS Paris.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Long-lived non-equilibrium magnetoresistance in spin-orbit coupled systems

James Dann, Cavendish Laboratory, the University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Maxwell Centre & how to get into knowledge exchange and collaborations with industry

Dr Aga Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Maxwell Centre.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

Agnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mindfulness training for mental health promotion

Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A data-derived approach to initialise densities in DFT

Andrew Fowler.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:00-12:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures

Veronika Sunko, University of St Andrews and MPI-CPfS Dresden.

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:15-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean modelling from the Ross to the Tasman Sea

Erik Behrens (NIWA).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: the Shape of Things to Come

Professor Sheila Rowan.

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 18:00-20:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Shakespeare, King James, and the Northern Yorkists

Dr Richard Stacey (University of Glasgow).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

Slavonic Studies

Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and Propaganda

Prof Eliot Borenstein (Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain

Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Twists, categorification, and hyperKähler manifolds

Ed Walton (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The precision siege of nature: theory, accelerators, and detectors

Andre David Tinoco Mendes (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hurwitz stable and self-interlacing orthogonal polynomials.

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Mikhail Tyaglov (Shanghai Jiao Tong University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Everything you need to know about Open Research but are afraid to ask!

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everything-you-need-to-know-about-open-research-but-are-afraid-to-ask-tickets-54873991586

Claire Sewell (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

High-throughput synchrotron X-ray imaging of extant and fossil insects

Thomas van de Kamp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Inspiring Women Talks

Mental Health of PhD Students

Dr. Katia Levecque, Ghent University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Cambridge Philosophical Society series

Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

Dr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brain dynamics during tactile discrimination behavior

Fritjof Helmchen, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich.

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational Models—who needs them?

Dennis Norris (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Structural Fire Resilience - How we’re getting it wrong, and why

Professor Luke Bisby, University of Edinburgh.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 28 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stein Discrepancy

Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies

Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

The influence of small-scale turbulence on mixed layer fronts

Matthew Crowe, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The rise of machine learning and its relevance for the natural sciences

Ryan-Rhys Griffiths, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamic performance of rock lighthouses and other vertical curiosities

Professor James Brownjohn, University of Exeter.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Transformational Infrastructure

Martin Knight BA(Hons) Dip Arch FRIBA FCIHT FIET FRSA, IABSE Fellow IStructE Companion.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 25 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loops

Roy Smith, ETH Zürich .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Microstructure for continuous and localised intrinsic curvature creation – “strong” micromechanics

Prof Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

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

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems

Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor).

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Numerical Multi-loop Computations: HJ and HH production at the LHC

Stephen Jones (CERN).

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Children's Literature

Fantasy and the Anthropocene

Prof Brian Attebery, University of Glasgow.

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques?

John Rothwell (UCL).

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

SUPERCHIRALITY AND BLOCH SURFACE WAVES

Prof. Paolo Biagioni, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (IT).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Fourier transform of a function of bounded variation: symmetry and asymmetry

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Elijah Liflyand (Bar-Ilan University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops

Prof. Bruno Uchoa, The University of Oklahoma.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Dementia Journal Club

Amyloid-β ‘seeds’ in old vials of growth hormone

Ryan Prestil, CIMR.

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

How to see, measure and capture the arts experience

Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University.

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour

Professor Rory O'Connor, Professor of Health Psychology, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow / Mental Health & Wellbeing Academic Centre, Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 24 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On

Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

Seminar Room, BP Institute.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

These talks are aimed at 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 24 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The evolution of Bell's thinking about the Bell theorem in quantum mechanics

Professor Harvey Brown, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 20:00-21:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

The Journey of Human Early Development: from Gametes to Embryos and the Germline Specification

Dr. Marta Shahbazi (PDN) & Dr. Naoko Irie (Gurdon).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Learning and memory: a novel insight

Dr Melanie Stefan.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Indo-European Seminar

Hieroglyphic Luwian masterclass

Tea served from 4.15

Willemijn Waal, Leiden.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion - can we/should we do 100% Renewables?

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

David Newbery (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:20-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Future Energy Systems Challenges - a Distribution Operator Perspective

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Iain Miller (Northern Power Networks).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:50-16:20

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Supramolecular Architectures for Artificial Photosynthesis

Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:45-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An Industry Perspective on Managing Flexibility

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Jonas Ströjby (Alpiq Blue Energy AG).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Isoperimetric inequalities on RN with respect to homogeneous weights

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Friedemann Brock (Swansea University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Renewable Energy Focus: Calculating the Carbon Content of Power Imports

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Alastair Davies (EDF Energy).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Force Fields and Potential Energy Surfaces

Professor Gábor Csányi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Industry Talk: The Electricity System Operator Perspective

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Cathy McClay (Electricity System Operator, National Grid).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-14:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Athena SWAN Presentation

Professor Marcella Bonchio and Dr Emma Chapman.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

"Molecular Beam Epitaxy in the Semiconductor Physics Group - and how to raise a sample request"

Dr Harvey Beere, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanatory directionality

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Emergent Failures and Cascades in Power Grids: A Large Deviations Approach

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Tommaso Nesti (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:50-12:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Integrated Offshore Wind Farm Design: Optimising Micrositing and Cable Layout Simultaneously

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Thomas Marge (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:45-12:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Blowing in the Wind

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Paulina Rowinska (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:40-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Continuous-time Modelling of Energy Networks

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Valentin Courgeau (Imperial College London; University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:35-12:40

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Time course of memory updating in running span

Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wind Park Valuation and Risk Management in Germany

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Michael Coulon (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-12:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

(R)evolution of Large Electrical Systems

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Patrick Panciatici (RTE).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:25-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Decarbonisation, Decentralisation and Digitisation of Energy through Hybrid Storage Systems

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Damian Giaouris (University of Newcastle upon Tyne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 11:50-12:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Modelling Flexibility for Future Networks

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

James Cruise (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 10:55-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Planning a 100% Renewable Electricity System

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

Andy Philpott (University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 10:20-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme - Mathematics of Energy Systems

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

John Moriarty (Queen Mary University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 10:00-10:10

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

When did Marx think that capitalism would fall?

Professor Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Optimal collective coordinate in low-energy nuclear reactions

Kai Wen (Surrey).

MR11.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Daniel Acosta-Kane (CBL).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Fan Vaults

Professor Jacques Heyman.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3A.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Reading charcoal: Using HEP detectors to decipher papirii

Jens Dopke (RAL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Pleiotropy, chance and predictability in the genetic paths of evolution

Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institute Jacques Monod).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling coupled ice-ocean interactions in the Amundsen Sea

Jan De Rydt (Northumbria University).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Probing the neural processes that underlie biased perceptual decisions by humans and monkeys

Kristine Krug, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

AMOP list

Nanosatellites for Quantum Science and Profit

Dr Daniel Oi, University of Strathclyde.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 21 January 2019, 15:30-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

University Museum of Zoology.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Coupled ice-ocean interactions for the Amundsen Sea glaciers, Antarctica

Jan De Rydt - Northumbria University.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Volcanic Crystal Clocks and CO2: Transforming our Prospects for Predicting Huge Eruptions

Dr John Maclennan, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life

Prof. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

Engineering Bioinspired Molecular Networks and Synthetic Cells

Prof. Tom De Greef, TU Eindhoven.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An 'Ashby map' for selecting musical strings

Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED Emeritus.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Slavonic Studies

Tolstoy, Gender, and the Family

Ani Kokobobo (University of Kansas) and Anna Berman (McGill University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-18:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Enriched simulations in computational mechanics

John Trevelyan, University of Durham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 18 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Playing with perovskites - tuning physics through chemical control

Dr. Helen Walker. Merlin Instrument Scientist, STFC · Rutherford Appleton Laboratory .

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 18 January 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Microstructure for continuous and localised intrinsic curvature creation

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Mark Warner (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Polar order in liquids

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Alenka Mertelj (Jozef Stefan Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-11:45

Computational Neuroscience

Local and global synaptic credit assignment

Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol).

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

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A maximal function for families of Hilbert transforms along homogeneous curves

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Andreas Seeger (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Interfaces with singularities: understanding phase transitions in nematic liquid crystals

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Dmitry Golovaty (University of Akron).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 18 January 2019, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Remarks on polycrystalline microstructure

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

John Ball (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 18 January 2019, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Realistic prediction of molecular organizations in thin organic films

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Claudio Zannoni (Università di Bologna).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:15-17:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Neural progenitors and neural tube defects.

Andy Copp, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Factorisation and Subtraction beyond NLO

Lorenzo Magnea (Torino).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

The Cambridge NeuralNET”: Investigating origins of brain and mental health

David Rowitch (Dept of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pressure-driven active nematics systems: possible optimisation and design methods

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Nigel Mottram (University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 15:15-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Explorative 3D imaging

Joost Batenburg (CWI, Amsterdam).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Manipulating droplets on lubricant impregnated surfaces

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar (Northumbria University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:30-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Phonon assisted luminescence in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Dr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Stochastic modeling and control of power grids under uncertainty

Alessandro Zocca, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

Visual categorization of simple stimuli

Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University.

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

Mary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The origins of empathy and the impact of early disturbances: Evolutionary insights from our great ape relatives

Dr Zanna Clay, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Durham.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 17 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Symmetry and multiple existence of critical points in 2D Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor theory

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Luc Nguyen (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:45-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms

Hoda Heidari.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Symmetry in materials science models under the divergence constraint

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Radu Ignat (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Analysis of Novel Domain Wall Types in Ferromagnetic Nanostructures

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Cyrill Muratov (New Jersey Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 09:45-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic Anticancer Therapy

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

Dr Bristi Basu, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morphing and shape control: some lessons from the motility of unicellular organisms

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Antonio DeSimone (SISSA).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 09:00-09:45

Cambridge Usability Group

Design for 21st century organisations, services and products

Ben Holliday.

Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 0GF.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 19:00-21:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Disrupting Time and Place: Artists’ perceptions of creative practice with children in nature

Dr Elsa Lee, Nicola Walshe and Ruth Sapsed.

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical and Chemical Aspects of Surface Chirality

Professor Stephen Jenkins, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Analysis of snow and aerosols deposition variability over High Mountain Asia and other major high mountain ranges

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

Hoi Ga “Veronica” Chan, Princeton University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

What Can Fair ML Learn from Economic Theories of Distributive Justice?

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

Hoda Heidari, ETH Zurich .

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Anterior cingulate cortex signals the need to control intrusive thoughts during motivated forgetting

Maite Crespo-Garcia (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Measuring g(r) by test-particle insertion

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Dirk Aarts (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Knitogami

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Randall Kamien (University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 11:00-11:45

ARClub Talks

Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditions

Rachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University.

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defects of Liquid Crystals

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Pingwen Zhang (Peking University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Designing colloidal structures: fast and slow dynamics

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Margarida Telo da Gama (Universidade de Lisboa).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reverse Engineering of Design Principles using Biased Dynamics

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Mike Cates (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Microstructures in martensites: Scaling regimes and optimal domain shapes

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Barbara Zwicknagl (Technische Universität Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 16:15-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Designing novel functional materials made of active colloids: the role played by interactions

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Chantal Valeriani (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 15:15-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Jets for the LHC and beyond

Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Genova).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Microstructures in SMA: Rigidity, Non-Rigidity and Simulations

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Angkana Ruland (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Leipzig).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 14:30-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and its role on fatigue in shape memory materials

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

High-throughput search for new phase transformation materials with low hysteresis

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Ole Martin Lovvik (University of Oslo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A moving mask hypothesis to select physically relevant microstructures

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Francesco Della Porta (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Leipzig).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Materials from Mathematics

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defect loops in 3D active nematics

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Daniel Beller (University of California, Merced).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 14 January 2019, 16:15-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Construction of two dimensional convex shapes from their excluded volumes

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Jamie Taylor (BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 14 January 2019, 15:15-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of effective bulk potentials for nematic liquid crystals via homogenisation

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Giacomo Canevari (BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 14 January 2019, 14:30-15:15

Imagers Interest Group

Deep Learning in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience – A Brief Introduction

Tim Kietzmann, MRC CBU.

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

Monday 14 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Surveying Energy Landscapes: From Protein Folding to Bistable Liquid Crystal Device and Cylindrical Buckling

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Halim Kusumaatmaja (University of Durham).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 14 January 2019, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymptotics of Landau-de Gennes theory

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Jonathan Robbins (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 14 January 2019, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Attractive and Repulse Interactions in Dense Nematics

DNMW01 - Optimal design of complex materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 14 January 2019, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wrap-up discussion session

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

John Moriarty (Queen Mary University of London); Ana Busic (INRIA); Steven Low (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)); Louis Wehenkel (Université de Liège); Pierre Pinson (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 11 January 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bandit algorithms for power consumption control

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 11 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

High-dimensional data analytics using low-dimensional models in power systems

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Meng Wang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 11 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal dispatch of heterogeneous batteries to maximise security of supply

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Simon Tindemans (Delft University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 11 January 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A mean-field game model for management of distributed storages for the power system

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Clemence Alasseur (EDF, France).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 11 January 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Core-Selecting Mechanisms in Electricity Markets

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Orcun Karaca (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Irrational Agents and the Power Grid

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Sean Meyn (University of Florida).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Greedy algorithms in reduced modeling

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Peter Binev (University of South Carolina).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Central- versus Self-Dispatch in Electricity Markets

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Pär Holmberg (None / Other).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 14:30-15:30

Dementia Journal Club

Cofactor-assisted seeding of tau fibrils

Alexander Epstein, LMB.

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

Thursday 10 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A new distributed algorithm for nonconvex network flow problems with convergence guarantees

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Andy Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Gene therapy for glaucoma

Keith Martin, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Feedback-based online algorithms for time-varying optimization: theory and applications in power systems

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Emiliano Dall'anese (University of Colorado).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Time-Varying Optimization: Algorithms and Applications in Power Systems

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Andrea Simonetto (IBM Research).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 10:00-11:00

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 10 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Real-time feedback optimization on the power flow manifold

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Florian Doerfler (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 09:00-10:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Tracking performance of time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPF

Steven Low, Caltech.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Transmission capacity allocation in zonal electricity markets

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Anthony Papavasiliou (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The present: CryoSat-2 (and other altimeters) for enhanced ocean observation in the polar oceans. The future: SKIM (Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring satellite mission), a candidate satellite mission exploring global ocean currents and waves.

Michel Tsamados (UCL).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards seemless operation: a new look at interface scheduling and market operation

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Lang Tong (Cornell University; Chalmers University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Electricity Demand Response Contracting

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Rene Aid (Université Paris-Dauphine).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Real-time operation of micro-grids

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 08 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On modeling dispatchable loads in grid operation: the good, the bad and the ugly

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Anna Scaglione (Arizona State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 08 January 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Electricity demand forecasting and bidding via data-driven inverse optimization

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Juan Miguel Morales González (Universidad de Málaga).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 08 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computational Methods for Nonlinear Power Operational Problems: Convex Reformulations and Near-Linear Time Algorithms

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Javad Lavaei (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 08 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Automated parameter inference and data modelling with deep learning

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Gilles Louppe (Université de Liège).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 08 January 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Market design for flexible distribution networks

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Ben Godfrey (None / Other).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 08 January 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Electricity market reform to enhance the energy market pricing mechanism: observations from PJM

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Hung-po Chao (PJM).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 07 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

(R)evolution of large electrical systems: Needs and Challenges

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Patrick Panciatici (RTE).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 07 January 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Creating user value through mathematics – the challenge of hidden states

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Andrew Haslett (Energy Technologies Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 07 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Unified Framework for Stochastic Optimization in Energy

MESW01 - Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Warren Powell (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 07 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The integrated approach to the diagnosis of haematological malignancies

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

Dr Mike Scott, Department of Haematology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 03 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

High pressure Fermiology studies of YBCO

Audrey Grockowiak, NHMFL Tallahassee.

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

Friday 21 December 2018, 11:15-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Here Happily Have we assembled

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Anna Marie Bohmann (Vanderbilt University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 December 2018, 16:15-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pushing around, trying to stay normal and positive

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Nathalie Wahl (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 December 2018, 16:00-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vanishing or non-vanishing of kappa_2

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Sam Nariman (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 December 2018, 15:45-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gröbner bases

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Robert Bruner (Wayne State University; Universitetet i Oslo).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 December 2018, 15:30-15:45

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955–1964)

Ksenia Tatarchenko (University of Geneva).

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

Thursday 20 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

Professor Kirsten Zeitler, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universitat Leipzig..

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

Professor Kirstin Zeitler.

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

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spaces and cochains -- yet another approach

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Birgit Richter (Universität Hamburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 December 2018, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Positive scalar curvature metrics on manifolds with fibred singularities

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Boris Botvinnik (University of Oregon; University of Oregon; University of Oregon).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models

Martin Tegner.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 18 December 2018, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elliptic stochastic quantisation

SRQ - Scaling limits, rough paths, quantum field theory

Massimiliano Gubinelli (Universität Bonn).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 17 December 2018, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Two dimensional Ising model with columnar disorder and continuum limit of random matrix products

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Gianbattista Giacomin (Université Denis Diderot).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Deterministic homogenization with Levy process limits

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Ian Melbourne (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Using Drosophila models to decipher rare and common neurological disorders

Zhai, Grace R. University of Miami.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Friday 14 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some generalization of Pitman’s transform and invariant measures for discrete integrable systems

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Makiko Sasada (University of Tokyo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Potential theory for nonreversible dynamics and corrections to the hydrodynamical limit

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Claudio Landim (IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generalized hydrodynamics and the classical Toda chain

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Herbert Spohn (Technische Universität München).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 14 December 2018, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Homological stability for moduli spaces of disconnected submanifolds

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Martin Palmer-Anghel (University of Bonn).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 16:15-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Whitehead products in v_n-periodic homotopy groups

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Gijs Heuts (Universiteit Utrecht).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 16:00-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wandering down the path to path homology

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Daniela Egas Santander (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 15:45-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The line isn’t contractible

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Clark Barwick (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 15:30-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

SPDE limits of six-vertex model

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Hao Shen (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control across scales by positive and negative feedback

Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

DJC Holiday Networking Event

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Thursday 13 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Remarks on 2D inverse cascade turbulence

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Franco Flandoli (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the genetic basis of growth, reproduction and behaviour

Dr Felix Day, Career Development Fellow, MRC Epidemiology Unit.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 December 2018, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

The coding and non-coding transcriptome of the human fetal striatum from a single-cell perspective

Vittoria Bocchi - University of Milan.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On mass-critical stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equation

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Weijun Xu (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hydrodynamic limit for a disordered harmonic chain

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Cedric Bernardin (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis; NICE).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

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 13 December 2018, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Space-time localisation for the dynamic $\Phi^4_3$ model

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Hendrik Weber (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 09:00-10:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The biogeochemical fingerprint of melting ice

**If external to BAS, please notify organiser in advance**

Kate Hendry, University of Bristol.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The KPZ fixed point - 2

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scaling limit and universal finite size corrections in 2D interacting Ising models

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Alessandro Giuliani (Università degli Studi Roma Tre).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Seeking fixed points

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Hugh Osborn (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wonderful Fulton-MacPherson operads

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Paolo Salvatore (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sine-Gordon model revisited (again)

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Remi Rhodes (Aix-Marseille University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dendroidal spaces and mapping spaces between little cubes operads.

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Ieke Moerdijk (Universiteit Utrecht; University of Sheffield).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Crossing Probabilities of Multiple Ising Interfaces

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Eveliina Peltola (Université de Genève).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

Craik Club

"Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"

Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil.

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

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Alarm calls and interspecific eavesdropping

Robert Magrath (Australian National University).

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

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Bridging the gap in innovation and tech transfer in developing countries: Camnexus - a personal journey from Biotech to IoT

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/preview?eid=53091689673/

Dr Jessica Ocampos, CEO of Camnexus.

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

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Freezing Transition in Decaying Burgers Turbulence and Random Matrix Dualities

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Yan Fyodorov (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Whole-Tissue 3D Imaging to Decipher the Neuro-Immune Interplay in Physiology and Disease

Jing Yang, Peking University.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

ihg21's list

Making the brain's own brake ---Molecular mechanisms of inhibitory synapse development---

Wei Lu; NIH (USA).

Klug Seminar Room, Level 2 2A180, MRC LMB.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Large devations for the KPZ equation

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Pierre Le Doussal (CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The KPZ fixed point - 1

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dynamic ASEP

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Ivan Corwin (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 10 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Quantum field theory and SPDEs under the light of near-criticality and noise sensitivity

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Christophe Garban (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 10 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 December 2018, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

New regularity results and long time behavior of pathwise (stochastic) Hamilton-Jacobi equations

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Panagiotis Souganidis (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 10 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bogoliubov Excitations of dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates

SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Benjamin Schlein (Universität Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 10 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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SRQW03 - Scaling limits & SPDEs: recent developments and future directions

Martin Hairer (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 10 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Learning from Luther: 95 theses about technology

Professor John Naughton, CRASSH, Cambridge..

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 07 December 2018, 17:45-19:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Relative kappa-classes

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Diarmuid Crowley (University of Melbourne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some prospects with the splicing operad

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Ryan Budney (University of Victoria).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topological and dynamical obstructions to extending group actions.

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Sam Nariman (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An abstract framework for a non-perturbative renormalisation

SRQ - Scaling limits, rough paths, quantum field theory

Roman Kotecky (University of Warwick; Charles University, Prague).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 December 2018, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The complex cobordism 2-category and its central extensions

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Andre Henriques (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

Anastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

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

Thursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed talk - Extended evaluation maps from knots to the embedding tower

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Danica Kosanović (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 16:30-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Cavity expansion in locked sand

Stephan Van Eeden, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 16:00-16:45

Foster Talks

Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis.

Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk - The Sullivan-conjecture in complex dimension 4

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Csaba Nagy (University of Melbourne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 16:00-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Ergodic Stochastic Differential Equations and Sampling: A numerical analysis perspective

Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

MR 14.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk - The low dimensional homology of Coxeter groups

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Rachael Boyd (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed talk - Mapping class groups of highly connected manifolds

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Manuel Krannich (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 14:30-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Robustness and model reduction of dominant systems

Alberto Padoan, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can we optimise the selection of an antidepressant for a specific patient?

Professor Andrea Cipriani, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford; Associate Director, Research and Development Department, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 December 2018, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Configuration spaces and Lie algebras away from characteristic zero

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Ben Knudsen (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

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 06 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Cobordism categories, elliptic operators and positive scalar curvature

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Johannes Ebert (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

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 06 December 2018, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rational homotopy theory of automorphisms of manifolds

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Alexander Berglund (Stockholm University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 09:00-10:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Creative Impact: children and young people using the arts to make measurable social and environmental impact themselves

Ben Sandbrook, Director of World Pencil.

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

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Stochastic quantization of Yang Mills

SRQ - Scaling limits, rough paths, quantum field theory

Ajay Chandra (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 15:00-16:30

ARClub Talks

Sensory Reactivity in Autism Spectrum Conditions

Dr Teresa Tavassoli, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading.

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

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Quantum fluctuations in a two-component dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate

Mr. Shanglong Ning, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The homotopy type of algebraic cobordism categories

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Fabian Hebestreit (University of Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher Hochschild homology as a functor

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Christine Vespa (University of Strasbourg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Periodic points and topological restriction homology

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Cary Malkiewich (Binghamton University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Homotopy invariance in string topology

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Nathalie Wahl (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Constraining the representation of the atmospheric hydrological cycle in General Circulation Models using water isotopes and what would be needed to directly compare ice core water isotope records with model simulations

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

Hans Christian, University of Bergen.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Embeddings, operads, graph-complexes

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Victor Turchin (Kansas State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

The ExoMars mission: exploring the martian atmosphere and the search for life

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

James Holmes, The Open University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Cellular techniques in homological stability 2: mapping class groups

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Alexander Kupers (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Configuration spaces of points and real Goodwillie-Weiss calculus

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Thomas Willwacher (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the stable Cannon Conjecture

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Wolfgang Lueck (Universität Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 09:00-10:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

New arylation strategies in synthesis’

Professor Michael Greaney, University of Manchester.

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

Monday 03 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Children's Literature

Literacies, Literature and Learning: reading classrooms differently

Professor Karin Murris, University of Cape Town.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS1.

Monday 03 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Relative Tangle Hypothesis

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Christopher Schommer-Pries (University of Notre Dame).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The h-cobordism category and A-theory

HHHW04 - Manifolds

George Raptis (Universität Regensburg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Direct measurements of urban pollutant emissions

Eiko Nemitz, CEH.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 December 2018, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Cellular techniques in homological stability 1: general theory

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Alexander Kupers (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Understanding sensorimotor circuits implementing zebrafish behavior

James Fitzgerald, HHMI Janelia Research Campus.

Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Monday 03 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Isomorphism theorems, random walks, and spin systems.

SRQ - Scaling limits, rough paths, quantum field theory

Tyler Helmuth (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 December 2018, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

H_{4g-6}(M_g)

HHHW04 - Manifolds

Soren Galatius (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 December 2018, 10:00-11:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

From blood to genomic variants: deciphering the genome of patients with rare disorders

Dr Karyn Megy Department of Haematology, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 30 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

High-Energy Limit of Mass-Suppressed Amplitudes in Gauge Theories

Alexander Penin (University of Alberta).

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

Friday 30 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

SCC formwork pressure - myths and facts

Michal Drewniok, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3A.

Friday 30 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Topology, symmetry, and anomalies: investigating domain wall physics in quantum Hall nematic states

Associate Professor, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford .

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 30 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

More about the slice filtration and slice spectral sequence

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Doug Ravenel (University of Rochester).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 30 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea Ice-Ocean Feedbacks in the Antarctic Shelf Seas

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

Rebecca Frew, University of Reading.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Friday 30 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Large time behavior of infinite dimensional systems under the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation

SRQ - Scaling limits, rough paths, quantum field theory

Sandra Cerrai (University of Maryland, College Park; University of Maryland, College Park).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 30 November 2018, 11:00-12:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

Dr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher monoidal monomorphisms

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Christian Schlichtkrull (Universitetet i Bergen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:15-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spaces of merging submanifold

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Federico Cantero Morán (Universitat de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Homological stability for Artin monoids

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Rachael Boyd (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:45-16:00

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control

Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On a Greenlees spectral sequence

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Christian Ausoni (University Paris 13).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-15:45

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

On optimal sampling in off-the-grid sparse regularisation.

Dr Clarice Poon, DAMTP & Peterhouse.

LR12, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Low-regularity Fourier integrators for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Katharina Schratz (KIT).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum many-body scars

Dr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed price-based control of flexible electrical loads

Antonio De Paola, University of Bath.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hybrid molecular materials for water splitting applications

Antoni Llobet, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Autophagy and neural stem cell therapy; a new tool for dementia

Michele Frison, MRC-MBU.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Cambridge Research on Mindfulness Training for Mental Health Promotion

Dr Julieta Galante, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Graded levels of Schwann cell c-Jun in vivo determines effects on development, remyelination and tumorigenesis

Shaline Fazal, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

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 29 November 2018, 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 29 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Harnessing the quantum world — can lab experiments become practical technologies?

Professor Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Building with DNA: From DNA Crystals to Designer Proteins and Enzymes

Dr Ryan Brady (Cavendish) and Dr Alexander Ohmann (Cavendish) .

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Quasi-invariant Gaussian Measures for the 3D Nonlinear Wave Equation

SRQ - Scaling limits, rough paths, quantum field theory

Trishen Gunaratnam (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generation of random dynamical systems for SPDE with nonlinear noise.

SRQ - Scaling limits, rough paths, quantum field theory

Benjamin Gess (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Leipzig).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using the Force with Quantum Monte Carlo

Professor Claudia Filippi, University of Twente.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Optimal design of catalytic reactors and structured catalysts

Professor Prof Hanssjörg Freund, CRT Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

Matt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Craik Club

Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms

Professor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

CANCELLED Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

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

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Northern Antarctic Peninsula: a marine climate hotspot of rapid changes on ecosystems and ocean dynamics

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

Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Kerr, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande .

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Atypical neurogenesis and E/I precursor imbalance in autism iPSCs

Dr Dwaipayan Adhya, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scientist, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College, London .

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

Axel Behrens.

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Anglosphere Tradition in British Politics

Professor Michael Kenny (Professor of Public Policy, POLIS, and inaugural director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge).

Dining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Early Science and Medicine

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Children's Literature

FEAST: Consuming Children - A roundtable discussion on food in children's literature

FEAST journal contributors.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Questions, Discussion and Wrap-up

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 16:40-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finding a Rough Path through Disruptive Innovation in Mental Health

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Kate Saunders (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 16:15-16:40

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marcelo Mattar (CBL).

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Classification and Monitoring of Dynamic Trading Strategies

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Rama Cont (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 15:50-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Orthogonal group and adjoints

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

David Ayala (Montana State University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 15:30-16:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

3-body B decays

Keri Vos (Siegen University).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Large Scale and Unconstrained Online Handwritten Chinese Character/Text Recognition Based on Deep Learning and Path Signature

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Lianwen Jin (South China University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:50-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Analysis of Multimodal Streamed Data in Workplaces for Better Health and Safety Decision-Making - Opportunities and Challenges

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Steve Naylor (Health & Safety Executive).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:25-14:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Predicting an Adversarys Courses of Action from Sparse Observations

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Paul King (BAE Systems).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-14:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Constructing extended AKSZ topological field theories in derived symplectic geometry

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Claudia Scheimbauer (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Quantum gas microscopy of the doped Fermi-Hubbard model

Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching, Germany.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution on the wing

Owen McMillan, STRI.

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Action Recognition from Landmark Data

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Weixin Yang (South China University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 12:50-13:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Recognising Arabic Handwriting

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Daniel Wilson-Nunn (The Alan Turing Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 12:30-12:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Experiments in Predicting Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Paul Moore (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 12:10-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using Signatures to Predict Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Progression

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Imanol Perez (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:50-12:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gesture Recognition Using the Signature Features

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Xin Zhang (South China University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:05-11:35

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Idris 2: Type Driven Development of Idris

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

Edwin Brady, St Andrews University .

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Learning to Approximate Controlled Systems

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Hao Ni (University College London; The Alan Turing Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 10:35-11:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rough Paths - Streamed Data

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

Terry Lyons (University of Oxford; The Alan Turing Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 10:05-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW41 - Understanding Multi-Modal Data for Social and Human Behaviour

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 10:00-10:05

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Epigenetic modifications

Dr Magdalena J Koziol, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus".

Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London.

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

Rogier Kievit (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

AMOP list

Recent results in 87Rb box trap

Dr Jinyi Zhang , University of Cambridge .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Linear-and-quadratic reservoir engineering of non-Gaussian states in cavity optomechanics

Dr Matteo Brunelli , University of Cambridge .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical Ionisation Mass Spectrometry: ground and airborne measurements

Dr Thomas Bannan University of Manchester.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The slice filtration and slice spectral sequence

HHH - Homotopy harnessing higher structures

Doug Ravenel (University of Rochester).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle

Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen).

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Turbulent leakage in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Laura Cimoli, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Large-N asymptotics of energy-minimizing measures on N-point configurations

SRQ - Scaling limits, rough paths, quantum field theory

Mircea Petrache (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 November 2018, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Academic Internships event!

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Saturday 24 November 2018, 13:00-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

From nuclear transfer to prospects for cell replacement therapy: The origins and future of pluripotency and cellular reprogramming

Professor Sir John Gurdon, The Gurdon Institute.

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 23 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Zangwill Club

Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know

Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Pyomechanics: Biomechanical modelling and optimising human movements

Sam Brockie, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Hunting light dark sectors at colliders and fixed target experiments

Luc Darmé (NCBJ, Warsaw).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An experimental exploration of the properties of random frequency response functions

Arnau Clot, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Revision control with git

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Chaperone networks coping with protein aggregates and amyloids

Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH).

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

Friday 23 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Deformation of Creased Thin Sheets

Dr Martin Walker, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 23 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Multiscale physics-based strategies to address parameter uncertainty in crystal plasticity

Dr Gustavo M Castelluccio, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Open Data Sharing - A Practical Guide

To register to attend: https://goo.gl/CDwS3H

Leonie Mueck, PLOS.

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

Friday 23 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55