"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Biological Systems as Communication Networks

Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6.

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

British Antarctic Survey

The euphausiid exception in the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ)

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

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

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Surface subgroups of graphs of free groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Henry Wilton (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Time series forecasting touching on evolutionary numerical optimization

Prof Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University.

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

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

ARClub Talks

The impact of personal relevance and person perception on social cognition

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The boundary of hyperbolic free-by-cyclic groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Yael Algom Kfir (University of Haifa).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generalized Bestvina-Brady groups and their applications

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Ian Leary (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

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

Characters in Comics: Some Medium-Specific Qualities

Dr Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Ion Channels as Targets for CNS Disease

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The evolution of L2-Betti numbers

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Conformal and projective compactifications in GR

Rod Gover (Auckland NZ).

MR11.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group actions on C*-algebras and obstruction theory

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Masaki Izumi (Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

LHCb: a general purpose detector in the forward region

Xabier Cid Vidal (Santiago).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Effective quasimorphisms on right-angled Artin groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Jing Tao (University of Oklahoma).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

Jessica Ericson, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Groups acting on trees: representation theory and operator algebras

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

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

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

Nicole Hellessey, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

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

BRC Seminar Series

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

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

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

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Universal L2-torsion for free-by-cyclic groups

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Dawid Kielak (Universität Bielefeld ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kaehler groups and CAT(0) cubic complexes

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Thomas Delzant (Université Louis Pasteur).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geodesic currents and counting problems

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Kasra Rafi (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Around a big mapping class group

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Juliette Bavard (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The uniform boundary condition and simplicial volumes

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Clara Löh (Universität Regensburg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bounded cohomology and combinatorial volume forms

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Roberto Frigerio (Università di Pisa).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey

The 2016 K-axis Voyage: A Salpa thompsoni goldmine

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

Paige Kelly, Australian Antarctic Division.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Compactifications of spaces of maximal representations and non archimedean geometry

NPCW05 - Group actions and cohomology in non-positive curvature

Marc Burger (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

..

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Are Animals Musical?

Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

How to read and write mechanical information in DNA molecules

prof. dr. Helmut Schiessel, University of Leiden.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Z’ physics at the LHC

Elena Accomando (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley meeting room 1.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Easter Term Poster Session

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Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The truth about finite group orbifolds

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Terry Gannon (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

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

Karina Hudson, University of New South Wales.

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

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

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Conformal nets, VOAs and their representations

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

..

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

What to expect from logarithmic conformal field theory

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Simon Wood (Cardiff University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Ching Hung Lam (Academia Sinica).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On questions around reconstruction program

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Feng Xu ().

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Affine centralizer algebras

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Foster Talks

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

Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Chaucer Club

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

Mark Johnson (UoC).

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

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Computer-assisted proofs for dynamical systems

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

MR 14, CMS.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bicommutant categories

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Andre Henriques (University of Oxford; Universiteit Utrecht).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The string group and vertex algebras

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Christian Voigt (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Stimulant treatment and the developing brain in ADHD

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Induced C*-hulls for *-algebras

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Ralf Meyer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Loop groups and noncommutative geometry

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Robin Hillier ().

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Conformal Field Theory, Operator algebras and symmetric Fuchsian equations

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Antony Wassermann (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

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

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

Sophie Masson.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Time and space in insect segmentation

Erik Clark (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Knots and links from the Thompson groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Line bundles over noncommutative spaces

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Giovanni Landi (Università degli Studi di Trieste ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Computational Neuroscience

motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networks

Vincent Fortuin (ETH).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigation

Stefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An application of T-duality to K-theory

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction times

Yul Kang (Columbia University).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kramer-Wannier and electro-magnetic duality in field theory

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Constantin Teleman (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany

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

Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Quantum Sine-Gordon model in perturbative AQFT

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Kasia Rejner (University of York).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Matthew Kerr (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab

Wesley Ketchum (FNAL and University of Bern) .

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Yang-Baxter representations of the infinite symmetric group

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Gandalf Lechner (Cardiff University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Excitable behaviors

Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Baxterising using conserved currents

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Paul Fendley (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Associative algebras and conformal field theories

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Hubert Saleur (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

David Fisher (Indiana University; Indiana University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Synergy on quon language

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Zhengwei Liu ().

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Subfactors with infinite representation theory

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theory RIG Informal Symposium

Fredrik Svensson, Laura Mitchell & Brian Ng.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: Classification of von Neumann algebras

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Stefaan Vaes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion about the Landauer principle (and bound)

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

Prof Michael Edgeworth McIntyre (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

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

Prof. Francois Dubin, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The relative Drinfeld commutant and alpha-induction

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Yasu Kawahigashi (University of Tokyo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On Picture Language

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Arthur Jaffe (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Phase transitions in the semicontinuous limit of a quantum spin chain

OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia.

Dr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vibration performance of London's Millennium footbridge

Professor David Newland and Dr James Talbot, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Stellar cooling bounds on new light particles: including plasma effects

Edward Hardy (ICTP Trieste).

B1.19, DAMTP.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Steve Denton.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications

Dr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology for pointed links

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Adam Levine (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission

Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

MR2, CMS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

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

Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morse Structures on Open Books

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Joan Licata (Australian National University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Prof. Jens Paaske, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University; Purdue University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

3D printed Porous Media - Disrupting the Packed Bed Paradigm

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pimsner legacy

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Emmanuel Germain (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Epigenomics: When high-throughput sequencing met epigenetics

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

AI and Healthcare Open Evening at Microsoft Research

Christopher Bishop.

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

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

Cavendish Physical Society

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

caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CCIMI Seminars

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

Erwan Faou (Inria).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating

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

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

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

Dr Christian Buckingham (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

ARClub Talks

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

Rhys Jenkins.

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

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disorder by Design

Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

Pfizer LT.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The LHCb Upgrade and Flavour Physics Prospects

Johannes Albrecht (Technical University of Dortmund).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Vibrational coherence spectroscopy applied to biomimetic molecular photoswitches

Dr. Jeremie Leonard, University of Strasbourg.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University; Purdue University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

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

Prof Leticia Aviles (University of British Columbia).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bivariant and Dynamical Versions of the Cuntz Semigroup

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Joachim Zacharias (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

James Delbourgo (Rutgers University).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Adhesion Strength Diversity in Brain Tumours

Dr Rasha Rezk, Engineering, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The role of sensory dynamics in driver sterring control

Chris Nash, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Drops: A tool to structure materials

Prof. Esther Amstad, EPFL. Soft Materials Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Sam Brockie, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Jet Production at High Energy Colliders

Jennifer Smillie (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University; Purdue University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upscaling Building Semantics to Address Urban Sustainability and Resilience Scenarios

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Many-body localization: How quantum dynamics wins against thermodynamics

Ulrich Schneider (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

MR 14, CMS.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Foster Talks

Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How to compute torus link homology

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Matthew Hogancamp (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

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

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

MR 14, CMS.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

On signatures of Majorana fermions

Dr Benjamin Béri (University of Birmingham) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Low-Rank Inducing Norms with Optimality Interpretations

Christian Grussler, University of Lund.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece

Dr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

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

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

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

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

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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

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

Book Launch: From Tongue To Text

Dr Debbie Pullinger.

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Reflection Positivity: Something Old and Something New

Arthur Jaffe (Harvard, visiting INI).

MR11.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

CANCELLED (Searches for exotic physics with photons in ATLAS)

Miguel Villaplana (University of Milan) .

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Moebius Geometry of Boundaries''

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Viktor Schroeder (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Are geodesic metric spaces determined by their Morse boundaries?

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Ruth Charney (Brandeis University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Buildings, surfaces and quaternions

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Alina Vdovina (Newcastle University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Dr. Milica Vasiljevic, Primary Care Unit.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Low vibration design for science facilities

Lynden Spencer-Allen, Ramboll UK Ltd.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Searches for light BSM higgs bosons and constraints on BSM models

Claire Shepherd (Rutherford Lab.).

B1.19, DAMTP.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

PETs, pseudogroup actions, and renormalisation

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dimensionality Reduction Techniques in Medical Data Analysis

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

Joan Lasenby (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Dynamics of carbon and hydrogen on Ru(001)

Peter Townsend, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Large Data Limits for Graphical Models

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

Matthew Thorpe (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Chaucer Club

Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy

Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Something about the Khovanov space

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Andrew Lobb (University of Durham).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

High Dimensional Changepoint Estimation via Sparse Projection

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

Tengyao Wang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Dr George Booth.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed schemes for stability and optimality in power networks

Andreas Kasis, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Maryland).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

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

Mauro Maggioni (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Your Browser Can Prove Your Lemmas

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

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Novel Uses of Shipping Data in Commodity Markets

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

Andrew Celsus (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nonparametric Estimation of Diffusions in the Low-Frequency Setting

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

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reconstruction Methods in Transmission Electron Tomography

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

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Learning a Sampling Pattern for MRI

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

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approaches to Sampling and Inference for Bayesian Nonparametrics

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

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Photoacoustic Tomography with Total Variation Regularisation

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

Erlend Riis (Cambridge Centre for Analysis).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Quantum Entropies Through Convex Optimisation

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

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sparse Principal Component Analysis via Random Projections

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

Milana Gataric (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Elevator Pitches

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

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks

Martin Arjovsky.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Surface Approximations and Geometric Energies

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

Simon Masnou (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using Novel Data Sources to Model Commodity Markets

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

Chris Longworth (Cantab Capital Partners).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction, Update from CCIMI

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

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

The birth of a memory in wakefulness and sleep

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

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

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

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

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The pentagram map and discrete integrable systems

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

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

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

BRC Seminar Series

"Polymerase Chain Reaction: Methods, Principles and Application"

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

Herchel Smith Building Lecture Theatre.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

Helen Mallet, University of East Anglia.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcism

Boyd Brogan (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: LIGO and Beyond

Professor Kip Thorne.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Integrable systems associated to submanifolds in Grassmanians

Boris Kruglikov (Tromso, visiting DAMTP).

MR11.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Dark Matter Searches at CMS

Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College London).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

Dr. Till Biskup, University of Freiburg.

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

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

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nilpotent Lie groups: Fourier inversion and prime ideals

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

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

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uniformly recurrent subgroups and rigidity of non-free minimal actions

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Nicolas Matte Bon (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Affine actions, cohomology and hyperbolicity

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Erik Guentner (University of Hawaii).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Slavonic Studies

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

Maria Mayerchyk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge.

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

AMOP list

Quantum metrology with Bose Einstein condensates

Markus Oberthaler (Universitat Heidelberg).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone in the Earth system

Fernando Iglesias Suarez, Lancaster University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

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

Gael Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The metalsmith of the future

Dr. Evripides Loukaides, Lecturer, University of Bath.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Zangwill Club

Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The extreme values of random frequency response functions

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamic comfort of road cyclist

Dr Julien Lepine, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Fractal based observables to probe jet substructure of quarks and gluons

Joseph Davighi, DAMTP, Cambridge.

B1.19, DAMTP.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Thurston's Shapes of Polyhedra

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Combinatorial Tangle Floer homology

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

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

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Enhanced structural evolution in the dynamic plasticity of fcc metals

Lewis Lea, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific habits circa 1900

Henry Cowles (Yale University).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Categories of curved complexes for marked surfaces

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Claudius Zibrowius (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic Moment Fragmentation in Spin Ice and Artificial Spin Ice

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

L^2-Betti numbers of universal quantum groups

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

David Kyed (University of Southern Denmark ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

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

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

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

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration Languages

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

Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration Languages

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

Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

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

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

Dr Valerie Peters, Université Laval, Quebec.

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

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

Scott Lectures

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

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Role of Morphology in Organic Thermoelectric Materials

Professor Michael Chabinyc.

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

Thomas Barningham , UEA, School of Environmental Sciences.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 307.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Iterated barycentric subdivision and steerable semigroups of SL_n(R)

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

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

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley).

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation

Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

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

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

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

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Captured and Alive: War satire, time and space

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

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The geometry of the space of BPS vortex-antivortex pairs

Martin Speight (Leeds).

MR11.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Brian Trippe (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

PRaVDA project for Proton Computed Tomography

Dr. Tony Price (University of Birmingham).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Subfactors related to certain symmetric spaces

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Hans Wenzl (University of California, San Diego).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Sperm Donation and Motherhood: British and French perspectives

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

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rieffel deformation, tempered distributions and the Gabor wavefront set

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Dorothea Bahns (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Commensurating actions of groups of birational transformations

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

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

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The action dimensions of some discrete groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

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

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris.

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

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

AMOP list

Spin-wave quantum memories for single photon storage and generation

Hugues de Riedmatten (ICFO).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Cooling Nano-electronic Devices to Ultra-Low Temperatures

Dr Lev Levitin, Royal Holloway University of London.

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tropospheric ozone: Short-lived climate forcer

Dr Richard Derwent, rdscientific.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Performance Verification and Optimal Synthesis of Embedded Optimization-Based Controllers

Colin Jones, EPFL, Switzerland.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Christina Skott (Faculty of History).

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Dr David Cole, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Observation of phononic frequency combs in micromechanical resonator

Adarsh Ganesan, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

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

German Sborlini (IFIC, Valencia).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Equilibrium: fact or fiction?

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A random walk around soluble group theory

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Peter Kropholler (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

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

Prof Dave Rugg, Senior Fellow, Rolls Royce.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How to quickly generate a nice hyperbolic element

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Emmanuel Breuillard (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

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

CEB Career Talks

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

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

Malcolm Wilkinson. Kirkstall CEO.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Laminations and external angles for similarity pairs

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Danny Calegari (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

Drosophila Aggression: Agonistic interaction as a strategic action

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

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Old results and new questions on the rapid decay property

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Indira Chatterji (Université de Nice).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis

Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

David Fisher (Indiana University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

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

Njemile Faustin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Mark Stokes (Oxford).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The diameter of the symmetric group: ideas and tools

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces

Professor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Verification of Control Laws Using Formal Methods

Kestutis Siaulys, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

British Antarctic Survey

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

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

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

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

Ruth Wainman (University of Kent).

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What’s New in Lewy Body Disease?

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximating simple locally compact groups by their dense subgroups

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Phillip Wesolek (Binghamton University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Large scale geometry in large transformation groups

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Kathryn Mann (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Unitary representations of reflection groups and their deformations.

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Next Generation Gravimetric Biosensing Using FBARs

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Slavonic Studies

Two Souls of Revolution, The Seventh Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening

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

Mikhai Tymoshenko and Kyrylo Horishnyi.

Pitt Building, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

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

Tea and biscuits from 16.45

Jakob Wiedner, University of Oslo.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Microfluidics, biomimetic channels, networks and self assembly

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

“Topology in materials science”

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?

Catherine Kendig (Michigan State University).

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

Molecular biomarkers for seabird age estimation

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

Ricardo De Paoli-Iseppi, Australian Antarctic Division.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Convex cocompactness in real projective geometry

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observations of turbulent dissipation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

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

Yvonne Firing, NOC, Southampton.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

Winton Discussions

The Status of Mini-Grids: Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion?

Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, UC Berkeley.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Homology torsion growth of higher rank lattices

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Nikolay Nikolov (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vectorial metric compactification of symmetric spaces and affine buildings

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Anne Parreau (Université de Grenoble).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 09:00-10:00

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

Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

Philip Nel, Kansas State University.

Boulind Room 6/7, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Post-Modern Narratives and Pre-Modern Devotion: the Icon of the Three-Handed Mother of God among the Slavs, Dr Elena Boeck

Dr Elena N. Boeck, Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.

Domus Room, Clare College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Negative curvature and rigidity for von Neumann algebras

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Stefaan Vaes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Tests of lepton universality in B decays

Patrick Owen (University of Zurich).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Revealing the charge carrier dynamics in metal halide perovskites using time-resolved microwave conductivity

Professor Tom Savenije, Delft University of Technology.

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

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Arithmetic of Dehn surgery points

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Alan Reid (University of Texas at Austin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Dirac Lecture

Antimatter: Dirac's incredible prediction and its consequences

All are welcome to attend.

Professor Helen Quinn (Harvard).

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

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Representation theory of Drinfeld doubles (Part 4)

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Yuki Arano (Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Ping Pong on CAT(0) cube complexes

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Aditi Kar (University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Local testability in group theory II

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Oren Becker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Local testability in group theory I

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation

Andreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen.

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Characterizing a vertex-transitive graph by a large ball

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Mikael de la Salle (ENS - Lyon; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture

Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Richard Tillyer, Merck.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On finitarily approximable groups

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Andreas Thom (Technische Universität Dresden; Technische Universität Dresden).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Prebiotic Chemistry on Other Worlds

Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towers of regular self-covers and linear endomorphisms of tori

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Wouter Van Limbeek (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:30-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly

Mark Wormald (Pembroke College).

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Degenerations of maximal representations, non-Archimedean upper half space and laminations

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Alessandra Iozzi (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey

Krill feeding in fjords of the West Antarctic Peninsula (and a few penguins & seals)

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

Alison Cleary, Norwegian Polar Institute.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Monday 08 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximations of infinite groups

NPCW04 - Approximation, deformation, quasification

Goulnara Arzhantseva (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

Do we control language or does language control us?

Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Controlling the Climate: can we refreeze the Arctic?

Dr Hugh Hunt, CUED.

LR4, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Microfabricated acoustic sensors for biosensing

Nikki Weckman, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic lattices and simple locally compact groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 05 May 2017, 15:45-17:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance

Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Impact of a high SUSY scale in the MSSM and beyond

Florian Staub (CERN).

B1.19, DAMTP.

Friday 05 May 2017, 11:30-13:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

High strain rate deformation response of titanium for aerospace gas turbines

Steven Lainé, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.

Jennifer Lau (KCL).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The materials for trust-building in expertise

Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids

Ludovic Jaubert, University of Bordeaux.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Nuclear norm methods for frequency domain system identification

Roy Smith, ETH Zurich.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free entropy dimension and the orthogonal free quantum groups

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Roland Vergnioux (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Shifting formats, changing priorities in the modern Chinese materia medica genre: from Zhao Yuhuang's single items to drugs in acupuncture channels

Lena Springer (Needham Research Institute).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

De-identified electronic mental health records for research and recruitment

Dr Rudolf Cardinal, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Reality discrimination deficits in hallucinations

Dr Jane Garrison, Director of Studies, Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, Robinson College, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 May 2017, 12:30-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic lattices and simple locally compact groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 09:30-11:30

Slavonic Studies

NATO, Eastern Europe, and US Policy

Please register via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/michta

Andrew Michta (George C. Marshall Centre for International Security Studies).

William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

VO-OV alternations and information structure in North Sami

Tea and biscuits from 17.45

Kristine Bentzen, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 18:15-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

Professor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 14:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pappus's Theorem and the Modular Group

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 14:00-16:00

Craik Club

Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man.

The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham.

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning

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

Aapo Hyvarinen (University College London.

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Affine balance: algebraic spacetime functionalism as a guide to identifying spacetime

Tushar Menon (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process?

Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Privacy and Tabloid Journalism in the UK: A shifting landscape

Tanya Aplin (The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spacetime near an extreme horizon

James Lucietti (Edinburgh).

MR11.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The SHIP Experiment

Mitesh Patel (Imperial College London).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Representation theory of Drinfeld doubles (Part 3)

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Yuki Arano (Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Ritual, Community, and Conflict

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Southern Ocean in climate models

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

Erik Behrens National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uniformly recurrent subgroups and lattice embeddings

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Adrien Le Boudec (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finiteness conditions for classifying spaces for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups.

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway, University of London; Royal Holloway, University of London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Slavonic Studies

Celebrating (or Not) the Centenary of the Russian Revolution

Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Sydney).

The Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Monday 01 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals

Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University).

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

Monday 01 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Entropy Production Paradox: The Mysterious World Between Diffusion and Waves.

Professor Christopher Essex, University of Western Ontario.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Monday 01 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction

Professor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice QCD and Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents

Andreas S Kronfeld (Fermilab & IAS TU München).

B1.19, DAMTP.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Earthquake Induced Soil Liquefaction: Symptoms and Cures

Andrew Brennan, Senior Lecturer at Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (II) Plasmonics for sustainability: harvesting light energy for new solar applications

Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

Unknowns of energy concentrating phenomena

Prof Seth Putterman, UCLA .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

Duncan Catchpole, Cambridge Organic Food Co.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB111), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Friday 28 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Participatory Creativity in Education: unpacking and problematising the whole process

Dr. Carlos Lage Gómez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S4.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 17:00-18:30

Foster Talks

Removing tumours from within and around the brain

Dr Thomas Santarius.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Diffraction of noble gases from surfaces: A challenge for theoreticians

Cristina Díaz, Department of Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interaction

Antonia Hamilton (UCL).

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

Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The 2-linearity of the free group and the topology of the punctured disc

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Anthony Licata (Australian National University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:15-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Traces in non-semisimple categories

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Ingo Runkel (Universität Hamburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Microsoft & the Future of Education Technology & Learning

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

Ian Fordham, Microsoft.

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

Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic lattices and simple locally compact groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 09:30-11:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Sheep models in neuroscience research: Opportunities and challenges

Dr Nicholas Perentos and Dr Franziska Knolle - Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Promoting Pedagogic Change and Cultivating Imagination: Demonstrating how Mediated Learning Environments Support Student Engagement in the Music Classroom

Dr Adena Portowitz, Givat Washington Academic College, Israel.

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

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 17:00-18:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (I) Sustainable plasmonics: abundant materials for modular photocatalysis

Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Design and Evolution of New Biocatalysts for Organic Synthesis

Professor Nicholas Turner, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester.

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

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed ().

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

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 14:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximate groups: nilprogressions and the structure theorem.

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Emmanuel Breuillard (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 14:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry

Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham).

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

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Hypersensitivity to low intensity fearful faces in autism when fixation is constrained to the eyes

Dr Amandine Lassalle, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MGH / Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School.

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

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 10:30-11:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay at SNO+

Jack Dunger (QMUL).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 25 April 2017, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Representation theory of Drinfeld doubles (Part 2)

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Yuki Arano (Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 25 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Non-arithmetic lattices

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

John Parker (University of Durham).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On diagonal group actions, trees and continued fractions in positive characteristic

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Frédéric Paulin (Université Paris-Sud 11 ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 25 April 2017, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

TBA.

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

Monday 24 April 2017, 19:30-21:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Enzyme Catalysis, Inhibition & Resistance: A Design Perspective

Professor Bruce Tidor, MIT.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

AMOP list

Quantum emitters in 2D semiconductors

Artur Branny (Heriot-Watt).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

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

Slavonic Studies

Crimea: Centre of Gravity in the Black Sea

Register for tickets at www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org

Thomas Grant (TBC), Idil Izmirli, Hakan Kirimli, Eleanor Knott, Sait Ocakli, Sophie Pinkham, Vsevolod Samokhvalov, and Olga Zeveleva.

Pitt Building, Cambridge.

Friday 21 April 2017, 10:00-17:30

Special Departmental Seminars

Candidates Seminar for the Lectureship in Experimental Quantum Condensed Matter Physics

Please see abstract.

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

Friday 21 April 2017, 09:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bar Natan's deformation of Khovanov homology and involutive monopole Floer homology

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Francesco Lin (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 April 2017, 15:15-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Herz--Schur multipliers and approximation properties

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Andrew McKee (Queen's University Belfast).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bounding genera of singular surfaces

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Brian Bowditch (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Property (T) and approximate conjugacy of actions

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Andreas Aaserud (Cardiff University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 April 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wrap-up and Questions

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 16:50-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fidelity and Resolution in Undersampled Physical Imaging

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Bogdan Roman (Centre for Mathematical Imaging in Healthcare).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 16:15-16:50

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Design and use of chemical tools to modulate gene expression in cancer cells based on the targeting of DNA methyltransferase

Paola B. Arimondo, CNRS Pierre Fabre Laboratories, Toulouse France Overseas Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Human Connectome Project Multimodal Cortical Parcellation: New Avenues for Brain Research

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Emma Robinson (BioMedIA Group (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 15:40-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Leanne Poole (Liverpool Centre for Mathematics in Healthcare).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 15:35-15:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Drug Discovery: The Challenges and Opportunities for Molecular Imaging from Single Cells, Preclinical Models and Through to Intraoperatively

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Richard Goodwin (AstraZeneca, UK).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 14:40-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Segmentation of Organs at Risk for Radiotherapy Planning

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Jack Spencer (University of Liverpool); Djamal Boukerroui (Liverpool Centre for Mathematics in Healthcare).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 14:05-14:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Imaging and Data Integration With an Update from LCMH

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Ke Chen (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 14:00-14:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hilbert's 5th problem and the Gleason-Yamabe theorem

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Emmanuel Breuillard (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 14:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elevator Pitch Summary

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 12:55-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Light Sheet Microscopy in Cancer Research: Imaging the Dynamics of Physiologically Relevant 3D Models

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Gopi Shah (CRUK Cambridge Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 12:45-12:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Cardiac MRI and Myocardial Infarction: the role of Mathematical Modelling

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Kenneth Mangion (SofTMech - University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 12:35-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Calibration of the Heart Model: Dealing with Uncertainty

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Lauric Ferrat (EPSRC Centre for Predictive Modelling in Healthcare - University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 12:25-12:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Modelling Challenges in Segmentation of Lung Images in Presence of Missing Data

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Michael Roberts (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 12:20-12:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Development of Cancer Diagnostics using mid-Infrared Imaging including FEL-based SNOM

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Michele Siggel-King (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 12:15-12:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Localising Shapes in Neuroimaging Data

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Paul Expert (EPSRC Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare, Imperial College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 12:05-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Imaging plus X: Data-driven Models of Neurological Disease Progression

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Neil Oxtoby (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 11:10-11:45

British Antarctic Survey

Different uses for spatial overlap scores: testing gannet sexual segregation & predicting kittiwake foraging areas

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

Beth Clark, University of Exeter/RSPB.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Microstructure Imaging with Diffusion MRI

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Ivana Drobnjak (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 10:35-11:10

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 10:30-11:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Daniel Alexander (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 10:30-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Benjamini-Schramm convergence of arithmetic orbifolds.

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Mikolaj Fraczyk (Université Paris-Sud 11 ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction with update from CMIH

TGMW42 - Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge); Ke Chen (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 10:00-10:30

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Young-Han Kim, University of California.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 09:25-10:15

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Albert Guillen i Fabregas (Department of Engineering).

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 08:30-09:20

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

James Heald (CBL).

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

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Representation theory of Drinfeld doubles (Part 1)

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Yuki Arano (Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

On-chip quantum photonics using quantum dots

Peter Lodahl (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic lattices and simple locally compact groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

BPS states of M5-brane on T^3

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Amer Iqbal (Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences GC University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Colored knot invariants from Reshetikhin-Turaev approach

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Alexey Sleptsov (ITEP (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 April 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

BPS states, knots and quivers

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Piotr Sulkowski (Uniwersytet Warszawski; CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

RAAG subgroups of RAAGs

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Karen Vogtmann (University of Warwick; Cornell University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 13 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards a symplectic model of odd Khovanov homology

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Mohammed Abouzaid (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Median spaces and spaces with thin triangles.

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Indira Chatterji (Université de Nice).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Naked mole-rats

Longevity and anticancer mechanisms in the naked mole rat

Prof. Vera Gorbunova.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Making your work ODA-able: refocussing science for official development assistance

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

Lucy Bricheno, NOC, Liverpool.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic lattices and simple locally compact groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry

Dr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain .

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

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher genus knot contact homology and recursion for the colored HOMFLY polynomial

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala Universitet; Institut Mittag-Leffler).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Integrality in analytically continued Chern-Simons theory

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Pavel Putrov (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Special Departmental Seminars

Candidates Seminars for the Lectureship in Biological Physics

See above.

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

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 09:45-12:40

Special Departmental Seminars

Candidates Seminars for the Lectureship in Biological Physics

See above.

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

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 09:45-12:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On colored link homologies

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Paul Wedrich (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Arborescent knots, mutants - current status on their invariants

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Ramadevi Pichai (Indian Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cellulose-based helical micro/nano filaments and films

Prof. Maria Helena Figueiredo Godinho, Universidad Nova de Lisboa.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

I-factorial quantum torsors and Heisenberg algebras of quantized enveloping type

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Kenny De Commer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Knots, (extremal) A-polynomials, and BPS invariants

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Piotr Kucharski (University of Warsaw).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Khovanov-Rozansky homology and q,t Catalan numbers

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Matthew Hogancamp (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Verlinde formula for Higgs bundle moduli spaces

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Jørgen Andersen (Aarhus Universitet).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximate groups: Hrushovski's Lie model theorem

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Emmanuel Breuillard (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 10:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Unified invariants of homology 3-spheres

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Anna Beliakova (Universität Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mirror symmetry, integrable systems and the Gopakumar--Vafa correspondence for Clifford--Klein 3-manifolds

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Andrea Brini (Imperial College London; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 10 April 2017, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Surface operators and categorification of quantum groups

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Daniel Roggenkamp (Universität Mannheim ; Universität Mannheim ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

String Theory and Homological Invariants for 3-Manifolds

HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University; Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: Thomson's 5 point problem

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Richard Schwartz (Brown University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 07 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Travels of a botanist in search of mosses: Unst to Albania, then Cambridge

Mark Hill.

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

Thursday 06 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vortices and Vermas (and other applications of 3d gauge theory to geometric representation theory

HTL - Homology theories in low dimensional topology

Tudor Dimofte (University of California, Davis).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies

Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The oriented Thompson group, oriented links, and polynomial link invariants

OAS - Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications

Valeriano Aiello (Università degli Studi Roma Tre).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Closing Remarks

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 12:45-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and mental health

Dr Simon Kyle,Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentation: Challenge 5. Understanding Rainfall Patterns

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Adam Baylis (Environment Agency).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentation: Challenge 4. Making Decisions Using Uncertain Forecasts

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Adam Baylis (Environment Agency).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentation: Challenge 3. Estimating Flood Probability Using Historical Data

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Adam Baylis (Environment Agency).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topological finite generation of certain compact open subgroups of tree automorphisms.

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Shahar Mozes (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentation: Challenge 2. Modelling Sewer Networks

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

James Franklin (Sweco).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 10:15-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Poincaré profile of a graph or group

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

John Mackay (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentation: Challenge 1. A Risk-based Analysis of Small Scale, Distributed, "Nature-based" Flood Risk Management Measures Deployed on River Networks

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Barry Hankin (JBA Trust).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 09:45-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Opening Comments

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Onno Bokhove (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 09:30-09:45

Bioengineering Seminar Series

Accelerating Development in Biomedical Engineering

Speaker to be confirmed.

St Catharine's College.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 09:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Final Preparations (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 09:00-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Continuation of Group Discussion and Preparation of Presentations)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 19:30-21:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Transcriptional response to environment in plants: how to deal with variability and redundancy

Dr. Sandra Cortijo and Dr. Daphne Ezer (Sainsbury Laboratory).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage and Catalysis

Professor Randall Snurr, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University.

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

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 16:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic lattices and simple locally compact groups

NPC - Non-positive curvature group actions and cohomology

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 13:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 11:00-12:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View

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

Gabriel Brostow (University College London).

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

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View

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

Gabriel Brostow (University College London).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Continuation of Group Discussion)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 20:00-21:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentations on Progress

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 19:00-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 16:00-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Hannah Sheahan (CBL).

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

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

The effects of directional wind shear on orographic gravity-wave breaking

Maria V. Guarino, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

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

British Antarctic Survey

Variability of water isotopes in Antarctic snow and ice-core records

Thomas Laepple, Alfred-Wegener-Institut.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 13:30-15:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 13:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Discussions (Isaac Newton Institute & Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 April 2017, 15:30-18:30

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Sparse trees and long memory: Bayesian inference for discrete time series

Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business.

LR12, Baker Building, Department of Engineering (Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ).

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction: Challenges 4 & 5. Making Decisions Using Uncertain Forecasts and Understanding Rainfall Patterns

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Adam Baylis (Environment Agency).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 April 2017, 14:00-14:45

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Sustainability and health – what are the issues

Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Monday 03 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction: Challenge 3. Estimating Flood Probability Using Historical Data

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Adam Baylis (Environment Agency).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 April 2017, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction: Challenge 2. Modelling Sewer Networks

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

James Franklin (Sweco).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 April 2017, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction: Challenge 1. A Risk-based Analysis of Small Scale, Distributed, “Nature-based” Flood Risk Management Measures Deployed on River Networks

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Barry Hankin (JBA Trust).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 April 2017, 10:45-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

Onno Bokhove (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 April 2017, 10:15-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGMW41 - Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group

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

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 April 2017, 10:00-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Calabi-Yau volumes and Reflexive Polytopes

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Yang-Hui He (City University, London; University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 March 2017, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pre-sheaves of spaces and the Grothendieck construction in higher geometry

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Danny Stevenson (University of Adelaide).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 March 2017, 13:30-14:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Security and Privacy in Machine Learning

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

Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University.

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

Friday 31 March 2017, 13:15-14:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Security and Privacy in Machine Learning

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

Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University.

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

Friday 31 March 2017, 13:15-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Coefficients for commutative K-theory

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Simon Gritschacher (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Vertex Operator Algebras from Calabi-Yau Geometries

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Katrin Wendland (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 March 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Amihay Hanany (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Real bundle gerbes

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Michael Murray (University of Adelaide).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Homotopy theory with C*-categories

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Ulrich Bunke (Universität Regensburg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 13:30-14:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Functional, genetic and in vitro studies in schizophrenia

Dr János Réthelyi, School of Mental Health Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Equivariant higher twisted K-theory

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Ulrich Pennig (Cardiff University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher twisted K-theory a la Dadarlat and Pennig

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Andre Henriques (University of Oxford; Universiteit Utrecht).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 10:00-11:00

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

Insights into ligand recognition and desensitization from the x-ray structure of a nicotinic receptor

Ryan Hibbs, UT Southwestern.

MRC LMB: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 10:00-11:00

Special Departmental Seminars

Candidates Seminars for the Lectureship in High Energy Physics

see information in abstract.

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

Thursday 30 March 2017, 09:30-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Generalizing Convolutions for Deep Learning

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

Prof. Max Welling (University of Amsterdam).

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

Wednesday 29 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Local quivers and Morita theory for matrix factorizations

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Raf Bocklandt (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 29 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A classification of some 3-Calabi-Yau algebras

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Paul Smith (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 29 March 2017, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Polynomial functors and algebraic K-theory

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Akhil Mathew (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 29 March 2017, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher preprojective algebras and higher zigzag algebras

OASW02 - Subfactors, higher geometry, higher twists and almost Calabi-Yau algebras

Joseph Grant (University of East Anglia).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 March 2017, 16:00-17:00