Talks.cam will close on 1 July 2026, further information is available on the UIS Help Site
 

University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Featured lists

Featured lists

Add to your list(s) Send you e-mail reminders Further detail
Subscribe using ical/vcal (Help)

Featured lists is a list of lists managed by the talks.cam editorial team, for inclusion on the front page of talks.cam.

If you’d like your list showcased here, then please read How do I get my list or talk included on the Featured Lists or Featured Talks listings?.

Please do not contact the list managers, thanks.

Tell a friend about this list:

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Talks.cam. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

481 upcoming talks and 38872 talks in the archive: show all (slow!).

Zangwill Club

Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language

UserProf Kate Watkins, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Behavioral research on climate change mitigation

UserKristian Steensen Nielsen; Copenhagen Business School.

House Online.

ClockFriday 07 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Active solids: percolation and pattern formation

UserProfessor Anton Souslov, Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 07 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Linearity criteria for automorphism groups of hyperbolic groups

OGG - Operators, Graphs, Groups

UserMark Pengitore (Polish Academy of Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 07 November 2025, 13:45-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial: Gradient Methods in RL and Their Convergence

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserDavid Siska (University of Edinburgh).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockFriday 07 November 2025, 10:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Consequences of Symmetry Fractionalization

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

User(Theodore) Daniel Brennan (University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 07 November 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Registration

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockFriday 07 November 2025, 09:30-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Final Questions & Close

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 15:50-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Project Bluebird: machine agents for air traffic control

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserRichard Everson (University of Exeter), Ben Carvell (The Alan Turing Institute).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 15:20-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reinforcement Learning and Cyber Security

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserChris Hicks (The Alan Turing Institute).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 15:05-15:20

Applied and Computational Analysis

IterativeCUR: One Small Sketch for Big Matrix Approximations

UserNathaniel Pritchard (University of Oxford).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Unlocking new materials for the hydrogen economy

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

HouseSeminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 14:55-15:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Development of an AI Data Engineer

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserSizhe Yuen (The Alan Turing Institute).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 14:40-14:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From Human Knowledge to Cooperative AI: Leveraging LLM-based Reasoning

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserYali Du (King's College London).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 14:25-14:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gambit: Bridging traditional equilibrium computation with deep reinforcement learning

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserRahul Savani (University of Liverpool), Theodore Turocy (University of East Anglia).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 14:10-14:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and overview of the Turing

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-14:10

Chaucer Club

A meeting of minds: Modulating mentalizing in autism

UserSarah White (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lunch

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserStefano V. Albrecht (DeepFlow).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 10:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From Frobenius-Schur indicators to Kuperberg invariants

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserYilong Wang (Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Registration

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 09:30-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Drinks Reception

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

All countable groups are full quasi-isometry groups

OGG - Operators, Graphs, Groups

UserJoseph MacManus (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial: Self-supervised learning, BYOL, and friends

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserMichal Valko (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe Research Centre).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 14:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exciton-phonon interaction in semiconductors: theory, coding and applications

UserDr Fulvio Paleari (CNR Istituto Nanoscienze, Modena).

HouseSeminar Room 3, RDC.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lunch

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Non-invertible symmetries in one-dimensional quantum lattice models

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserClement Delcamp (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML

UserSzilvia Ujvary, Arik Reuter, Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial: Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: From Foundations to New Frontiers

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

UserCsaba Szepesvári (University of Alberta).

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 10:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Registration

SCL - Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning

User.

HouseEnigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 09:30-10:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Energy in spacetimes with negative cosmological constant

UserVirinchi Rallabhandi (University of Edinburgh).

HouseCMS MR11.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dynamical quantum error correction and non-invertible symmetries

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserRajath Radhakrishnan (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

HV-MAPS Pixel Detectors for Particle Tracking and LiDAR: A Dual-Use Silicon R&D

UserTianqi Gao, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseRay Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

ClockTuesday 04 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A Highly Efficient Machine Learning-Based Ozone Parameterization for Climate Sensitivity Simulations

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjExMGZiMDktODQ1Ni00NzRkLWI5MmYtZjYyYjNhNGIyYmY3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserYiling Ma, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Invertible Field Theories and a Long Exact Sequence in Symmetry Breaking

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserCameron Krulewski (Dalhousie University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2025, 10:00-11:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science

UserProfessor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Final Remarks

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 16:50-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion with Speakers

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 15:50-16:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Anomaly Detection in the Real World: From Algorithm to Prototype to Product, Now and in the (Quantum?) Future

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

UserAlessandra Cagnazzo (Eyer).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 14:45-15:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Framework for Spin-Adapted Quantum Simulation of Fermions

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

UserNathan Fitzpatrick (Quantinuum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 14:10-14:45

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Metal nanoparticles, clusters, single atom or combination for sustainable catalysis

UserProfessor Paolo Fornasiero - Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, ICCOM-CNR and INSTM, Trieste.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dr Cubitt on How Phasecraft Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Many-Body Theory

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

UserToby Cubitt (Phasecraft).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 12:35-13:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Local Clustering Decoder: A Fast and Adaptive Hardware Decoder for the Surface Code

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

UserJoan Camps (Riverlane).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 12:00-12:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Distributed Quantum Error Correction Based on Hyperbolic Floquet Codes

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

UserAlex Moylett (Nu Quantum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 10:55-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On Quantum Extended Church-Turing Thesis

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

UserZhenghan Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 10:20-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

UserUlrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute), Frank Verstraete (University of Cambridge), Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway to Mathematics).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 10:00-10:20

Zangwill Club

Trust in “Moral” Machines

UserProf Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 31 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A strong-weak duality for the 1d long-range Ising model

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserEdoardo Lauria (Mines Paris Tech).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 31 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Parabolic defects in a topological twist of 4D super Yang Mills

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserJennifer Brown (University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 31 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Magnetic defects and new RG monotones

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserMatthew M Roberts (University of Iceland).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 31 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organised Discussion: What can mathematicians and physicists learn from each other about categories and defects?

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

User.

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organised Discussion: Non-invertible symmetries from the lattice to the continuum

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Infeasible Optimization on Manifolds: the Landing Approach

UserPierre-Antoine Absil (University of Louvain).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum transport in disordered Chern insulators

UserBenoit Doucot (LPTHE, CNRS and Sorbonne University).

HouseSeminar Room 3, RDC.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Non-invertible symmetry-enriched topological order in string-nets

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserLuisa Eck (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A 2D-CFT Factory: Critical Lattice Models Derived from generalised symmetries - POTTER ROOM - CMS

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserLing Yan Hung (Tsinghua University).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algebraic techniques in 3-cateories of (2+1)D topological defects

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserPeter Huston (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Imprints of de Sitter locality in conformal field theory

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserParijat Dey (S.N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Theory of g factors in semiconductors — some history, and new insights

UserDavid DiVincenzo (Forschungszentrum Jülich & JARA Institute for Quantum Information, Aachen).

HouseRay Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 16:15-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Social Activity (visit to the Wren Library)

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

title tbc

UserProf. Dr. Ryan Gilmour, University of Münster,.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Learning in Dynamical Systems

UserElad Hazan (Princeton University).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Holomorphic defects in N = 4 SYM at strong coupling

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserJames Ratcliffe (University of Southampton).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Language Models

UserJulianna Piskorz (University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Automorphism is All You Need: Transversal Non-Clifford Gates in 2+1D and Higher Symmetries from Automorphism

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserPo-Shen Hsin (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organised Discussion: Conformal defects and bootstrap

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organised Discussion: Topological quantum computation and error correction

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

User.

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 15:30-17:00

Surface Physics Seminar

Simulations in a Dynamic Basis

UserMatthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room - North, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Irreversibility in Quantum Field Theory with defects and boundaries

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserIgnacio Salazar Landea (Universidad Nacional de La Plata or UNLP).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Interpolating Abelian and Non-Abelian Codes for Non-Clifford Operations

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserSheng-Jie Huang (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Investigating the polarisation puzzle with B0(s) -> K*K* decays at LHCb

UserMatthew Monk, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseRay Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

3d Dijkgraaf-Witten TQFT with defects

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserCatherine Meusburger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies

UserProfessor Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Session

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 16:30-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Conscious visual perception, perceptual organization and how to restore it in blindness

UserPieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the Higher Categorical Structure of Topological Defects in Quantum Field Theories

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserLukas Muller (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Integrable 1/2 BPS Nahm pole defects in N = 4 SYM

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserCharlotte Kristjansen (Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Climate Repair, Now or Never?

UserShaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Holographic defect CFTs with Dirichlet end-of-the-world branes

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserTatsuma Nishioka (Osaka University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Non-invertible self-duality symmetries on a tensor product Hilbert space

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserNathanan Tantivasadakarn (Stony Brook University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's welcome

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserAdam Chalabi (Università degli Studi di Torino), Vincentas Mulevicius (University of Vienna), Rajath Radhakrishnan (University of Oxford), Philine van Vliet (CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 09:55-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

BIDW02 - Diving Deeper into Defects: On the Intersection of Field Theory, Quantum Matter, and Mathematics

UserMilla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 09:45-09:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regeneration at your fingertips

UserMekayla Storer (University of Cambridge).

HouseBiffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

ClockFriday 24 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Conformal and chiral anomalies: boundaries, invariants and physical manifestations

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserSergey Solodukhin (Université François-Rabelais Tours).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 24 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Mary Hesse Lecture

How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectivity

Second Annual Mary Hesse Lecture

UserHelen Longino (Stanford University).

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 15:30-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The Divided Mind

UserProf. Ed Bullmore.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Long-range Virasoro Minimal Models

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserConnor Behan (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Julian Sonner - EXTERNAL TALK - POTTER ROOM

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Entanglement asymmetry and the limits of symmetry breaking

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserStathis Vitouladitis (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hyperconvexity and quasiflats

OGG - Operators, Graphs, Groups

UserHarry Petyt (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Weak Parity Violation, Strong CP Problem, and Symmetric Mass Generation

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserJuven Wang (London Institute for Mathematical Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2025, 13:15-14:45

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Stochastic Interpolants

UserProfessor Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato and Fran Castro.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

ClockWednesday 22 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Standing gravitational waves

UserSebastian Szybka (Jagiellonian University, Krakow).

HouseCMS MR11.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The Origin and Polarization of Fast Radio Bursts

UserDr. Weiyang Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2025, 11:15-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Emerging importance of chemistry-climate coupling on weather to climate timescales

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2VhNTk0OWMtNDc4Mi00YzVjLTkzYTUtNGM3MjU4OTYzMTJl%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserProf Michaela I. Hegglin, Director at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany).

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Arithmetic (Topological) Quantum Field Theory

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserMinhyong Kim (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy

UserProfessor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Visual cortex gamma reflects stimulus experience and stimulus reward value

UserPascal Fries, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 16:15-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Multihazard in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century

UserMax Van Wyk de Vries, Department of Earth Sciences / Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Partial symmetries of braided categories and fusion of gapped boundaries in topological orders

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserDmitri Nikshych (University of New Hampshire).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

PhysLean: Digitalizing physics into Lean

UserJoseph Tooby-Smith (Reykjavik University).

HouseMR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

ClockFriday 17 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometric expansion of fluctuations and average shadows

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserClement Berthiere (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 17 October 2025, 10:30-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Disorder and Symmetries in Lindbladian models

UserArijeet Pal, UCL.

HouseSeminar Room 3, RDC.

ClockThursday 16 October 2025, 14:00-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Holomorphic generalisations of flavour branes

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserJames Ratcliffe (University of Southampton).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 16 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Hunting for Hidden Order

[Note the new venue]

UserNicola Spaldin (ETH Zurich).

HouseCluster Seminar Room, Ray Dolby Centre.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2025, 16:15-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hyperbolic and elliptic commensurations

OGG - Operators, Graphs, Groups

UserMahan Mj (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Reaction-Driven Formation of Novel Active Sites on Catalytic Surfaces

Linnett Lecture

UserProfessor Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Calibration of a Coupled Ice-Ocean Model of West Antarctica - Brad reed and Jan De Rydt

UserJan De Rydt (University of Northumbria), Brad Reed (University of Northumbria).

HouseBAS Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Surface defects and integrability

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserAdam Chalabi (Università degli Studi di Torino).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction

UserAvey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex).

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

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 17:00-18:30

Surface Physics Seminar

Summer project presentation

UserZixuan Chai, Joseph Morris, William Royce, and Ben Collishaw Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseB2.002, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Charmless B → VV decays: B0(s) → φφ

UserMary Slipper, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseRay Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher Berry Phases, Tensor Networks, and Boundary Conformal Field Theory

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserShinsei Ryu (Princeton University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Plasticity of the Parental Brain

UserJonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute London.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 13 October 2025, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How to get an interacting conformal line defect for free theories

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserDongsheng Ge (Osaka University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 13 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The singularity probability of a random symmetric matrix

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserJulian Sahasrabudhe (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computational aspects of cohomology of SL(n,Z)

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserDawid Kielak (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 10 October 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Strong convergence of unitary representations

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserMichael Magee (Durham University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 10 October 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Chiral algebras and supersymmetric defects in four spacetime dimensions

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserMadalena Lemos (Durham University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 10 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Property (T) for uniformly bounded representations

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserIgnacio Vergara (Universidad de Santiago de Chile).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 10 October 2025, 09:15-10:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Past and Future of Natural History

UserChief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Warped cones and the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserFederico Vigolo (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 15:30-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Electronic response to ion projectiles traversing matter from first principles

UserProf. Emilio Artacho (Cambridge & Nanogune).

HouseSeminar Room 3, RDC.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Strong convergence of typical permutation representations of surface groups

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserRamon van Handel (Princeton University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discrete Linear groups containing SL(3,Z)

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserIndira Chatterji (Université Côte d'Azur, Nice).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dense and sparse unique infinite clusters in Kazhdan groups

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserKonstantin Recke (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Thermal entropy and entanglement transitions from modular objects

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserErik Tonni (SISSA).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher property T, Banach representations and Applications

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserUri Bader (University of Maryland, College Park).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal Dinner at Robinson College

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 19:30-22:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Non-reciprocal phase transitions

UserPeter Littlewood (The University of Chicago).

HouseLecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 16:15-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Public Lecture: Two cultures separated by a common language

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserPaul Fendley (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free Afternoon

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

User.

HouseNo Room Required.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 14:00-16:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Welcome and Showcase afternoon

UserTalks from our 4th year PhD students and posters presented by our 3rd year students.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 12:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fixed point properties in Banach spaces

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserCornelia Drutu Badea (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral gaps for random Schreier graphs

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserEwan Cassidy (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A tensor network perspective on categorical symmetries and their gauging

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserBram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper (Universiteit Gent).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Banach Fixed Point Properties of Universal Lattices and Steinberg Groups

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserIzhar Oppenheim (Ben-Gurion University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Early-career mentoring breakfast

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2025, 08:30-09:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some uniformly bounded representations of hyperbolic groups

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserJan Spakula (University of Southampton).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Recent progress on the cutoff phenomenon

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserJustin Salez (Université Paris-Dauphine).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

BPS black holes, Instanton Condensation, and Partial Deconfinement

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserJack Holden (Tsinghua University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Feedback Forensics: Measuring AI Personality By Comparing Observed Behaviour

If you are interested in attending the talk online, please email the organiser and ask for a Teams invite.

UserArduin Findeis, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseS3.04, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Critical exponents for Poincaré profiles and conformal dimension

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserJohn Mackay (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 11:45-12:45

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemistry–climate feedback of atmospheric methane in a methane-emission-flux-driven chemistry–climate model

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGNkNTEzOTQtNjllNy00ODNjLWFhM2UtZjQyNGFiYTFlZmVi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserDr Laura Stecher, University of Cambridge.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group embeddings and coarse differentiation

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserSeung-Yeon Ryoo (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Energy transport in 2D holographic conformal and non-conformal interfaces

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserGiuseppe Policastro (École Normale Supérieure).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kazhdan's property (T) for EL_n(R)

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserNarutaka Ozawa (Kyoto University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

New Examples of Strict Comparison in C*-Algebras

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserGregory Patchell (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 06 October 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On coarse fixed point properties

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserRomain Tessera (Université Paris Saclay).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 06 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algebraic spectral gaps and higher cohomology

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserPiotr Nowak (Polish Academy of Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 06 October 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uniform spectral gaps for group actions

OGGW03 - Spectral gaps

UserEmmanuel Breuillard (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 06 October 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Emergent fermions modify symmetries in 2+1d

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserMatthew Yu (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 06 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On categorical dynamical gauging

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserDevon Stockall (University of Southern Denmark).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 02 October 2025, 10:00-11:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History

Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)

UserDino Martins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Topological Quantum Field Theory: From Physics to Mathematics and back

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserIlka Brunner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Categorical Conserved Currents - continuation

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserPaul Fendley (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Uncovering developmental paths to neurodevelopmental conditions: Dynamics over time

UserEmily Jones, Professor, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

Househttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81286610099?pwd=HsKTIo1MzZ7eEOJUaVYrEBbCvSSW1g.1.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Infinitely presented simple groups separated by homological finiteness properties

OGG - Operators, Graphs, Groups

UserEduard Schesler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Categorical Conserved Currents

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserPaul Fendley (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Universal Bounds in interface conformal field theories

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserAndreas Karch (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 30 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Relating age, brain and cognition: As easy as ABC!

UserRik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK..

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 September 2025, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Fermion-Rotor Model

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserDavid Tong (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 29 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Summary

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 11:55-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tea and Coffee Break

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 11:25-11:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Feedback Forms

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 11:25-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Presentation 5

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 11:00-11:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Presentation 4

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 10:35-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tea and Coffee Break

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 10:15-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Non-invertible Symmetries of 2d Non-Linear Sigma Models

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserMax Velásquez Cotini Hutt (Imperial College London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Presentation 3

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 09:50-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Presentation 2

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 09:25-09:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Presentation 1

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 09:00-09:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Tea and Coffee

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockFriday 26 September 2025, 08:30-09:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Prepare Presentation

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 19:00-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pizza Dinner

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

CFT x 2

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

UserWerner Nahm (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 16:45-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scattering in Field Theory

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

UserLouise Dolan (University of North Carolina).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 16:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseDiscussion Room, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 16:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tea and Coffee Break

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Virasoro algebra: its roles and its strangeness

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

UserGraeme Segal (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Aspects of 'duality' - memories from a long collaboration.

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

UserEd Corrigan (University of York).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 14:00-14:45

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Many Guises of Reactive Metabolite Signalling

UserProf. Yimon Aye - Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 13:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lunch Break

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tea and Coffee Break

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dimensional Transmutation and Confinement in Various Models

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserIgor Klebanov (Princeton University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 10:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Tea and Coffee

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 25 September 2025, 08:30-09:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Grad Camp Dinner

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseChurchill College.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 19:00-21:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 16:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tea and Coffee Break

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rapid Reports at INI Theatre

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Tea and Coffee

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Haag Duality for 2D Quantum Spin Systems - Glass Room (Moore library)

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserYoshiko Ogata (Kyoto University).

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Tea and Coffee

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 08:30-09:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dinner (Buffet)

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseChurchill College.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 18:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 15:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tea and Coffee Break

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 15:00-15:30

AMOP list

A phase microscope for quantum gases

UserProf Christof Weitenberg, TU Dortmund.

HouseRay Dolby Centre, 2nd floor seminar room, PHY-RDC B2.002 .

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 13:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tea and Coffee Break

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Symmetric Defects and their Anomalies - Glass Room (Moore library)

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserChristian Copetti (University of Oxford).

HouseExternal.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Work

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Tea and Coffee

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 08:30-09:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Teams Announced

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 18:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Complete and Submit Project Choice Forms

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 17:25-17:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tracking Disease on Serial OCT Imaging

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

UserMichael Roberts (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 17:00-17:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modelling for Controlled Environment Agriculture

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

UserAnn Smith (University of Huddersfield).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 16:35-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Detecting Cancer from Blood Samples

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

UserSolon Karapanagiotis (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 15:40-16:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Stop and Search: Is It Fair and Useful? How Can Governments Prevent Harm?

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

UserJane Hutton (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 15:15-15:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimising Blood Clot Treatment Protocols

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

UserEdwina Yeo (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 14:50-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction by Chris Breward & Camp Rules

TGM151 - UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2025

UserChris Breward (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 14:30-14:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defects and WRT theory

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserPatrick Kinnear (Universität Hamburg).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rozansky-Witten models as extended defect TQFTs

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserDaniel Roggenkamp (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Closing remarks

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 16:40-16:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Every Patient Deserves Their Own Equation: Towards Digital Twins for Neuro-Oncology

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserKristin Swanson (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 15:40-16:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Mathematical Modelling Framework for a Virtual Solid Tumour: Foundation for an Oncological Digital Twin

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserMark Chaplain (University of St Andrews).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 14:50-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Simulating pathological vascular dynamics

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserKatie Bentley (The Francis Crick Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 14:30-14:50

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Inequalities Revisited

UserProf. Raymond W. Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Prostate: Small Organ, Big Problems—informing clinical decisions with computational models

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserHector Gomez (Purdue University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Multimodal data fusion for precision medicine & digital twins

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserOlivier Gevaert (Stanford University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 12:10-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Multiscale Modelling Framework for Studying Cancer Growth and Treatment Responses

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserGibin Powathil (Swansea University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 11:50-12:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Digital twins of the retina as a model for cancer

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserSimon Walker-Samuel (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 11:30-11:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Digital Twin Assisted Surgery: The Future of Kidney Cancer Surgery

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserJusticia Kyeremeh (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 10:55-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using clinically calibrated digital twins to generate personalized decision support for evolutionary therapy

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserMark Robertson-Tessi (Moffitt Cancer Center).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 10:45-10:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Adaptive therapy in advanced basal cell carcinoma driven by imaging and predictive mathematical

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserJill Gallaher (Moffitt Cancer Center).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 10:40-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From measurement to decision: a tissue-aware digital-twin platform for CAR T cell dosimetry

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserLuciana Luque (Cancer Research UK).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 10:30-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Backreaction, Quantum Chaos, and Emergent Geometry in SYK–JT Gravity Systems

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserChente Ma (Great Bay University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From PD-L1 to PSA: Virtual Clones and Cohorts in Action Across Cancer Types and Therapeutic Modalities

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserTrachette Jackson (University of Michigan).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 19 September 2025, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Context Drift and the Virtual Mouse: new approaches to better cancer treatments

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserRichard Gilbertson (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 16:10-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From Data to Decisions: Building the Digital Twin Framework for Personalised Kidney Cancer Surgery

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserJusticia Kyeremeh (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 15:50-16:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Oncological Digital Twins in Drug Discovery and Development: A Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Perspective

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserAnna Sher (GSK).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 15:30-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Advances in building patient-specific agent-based models in cancer

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserPaul Macklin (Indiana University Bloomington).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 14:15-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Precision Oncology through Digital Twins: Mechanisms, Models, and Clinical Applications

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserJasmin Fisher (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 13:30-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Modelling drug resistance evolution

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserTrevor Graham (Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 12:10-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Oncological Digital Twins: An AI-first modelling perspective at the molecular scale

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserKevin Litchfield (Isomorphic Labs).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 11:50-12:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using inference and modelling to understand how cancers change over time

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserErik Sahai (The Francis Crick Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 11:30-11:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bridging the gap: What pre-clinical experiments can teach us about math model-guided treatment scheduling

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserMaximilian Strobl (Imperial College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 10:55-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A mathematical framework for detecting dynamic changes in the immune repertoire of longitudinal and spatial cancer samples

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserTahel Ronel (Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 10:45-10:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mapping and Modelling Pancreatic Cancer Tissue Architecture Using Spatial Omics and Agent-Based Simulation

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserJayathilake Pahala Gedara (CRUK Beaton Institute, University of Glasgow).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 10:40-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MuSpAn: A toolbox for Multiscale Spatial Analysis

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserJoshua Moore (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 10:30-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Path integrals and state sums for general defect TQFTs

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserKevin Walker (Microsoft (USA)).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Phase i trials in cancer: From board to bench to bedside and back again

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserAlexander Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Center).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's Welcome

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserSteven Niederer (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Directors Briefing

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

UserMilla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 09:15-09:20

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

LLM Social Simulation is a Promising Research Method

The talk is available online. Please get in touch to ask for a Teams invite.

UserTiancheng Hu (University of Cambridge).

HouseS3.04, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 17 September 2025, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An invariant for free-by-cyclic groups

OGG - Operators, Graphs, Groups

UserRadhika Gupta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 17 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Infinite towers of 2d symmetry algebras from Carrollian limit of 3d CFT

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserAna-Maria Raclariu (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 17 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Orthogonality catastrophe in perturbed CFTs

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserAnatoly Konechny (Heriot-Watt University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 16 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From continuum to the lattice in conformal field theory

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserIngo Runkel (Universität Hamburg).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 16 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A mathematical theory of the gapped/gapless boundaries of 2+1D topological orders

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserLiang Kong (International Quantum Academy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 15 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Symmetric orbifold CFTs and their topological defect lines

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserMichael Gutperle (University of California, Los Angeles).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 15 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Boundaries, SPTs, and topological order in lattice models - Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserCarolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lunch and Finish

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 12:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wrap-Up

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 12:20-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Zhang's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserSal Pace (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Round Table Discussion: Soft Matter Physics and Biological Function

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 11:35-12:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Lootens' Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserBram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper (Universiteit Gent).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Active Gel Theory in Practice: Decoding Dynamics of Actomyosin Systems

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserYuting Irene Li (Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria)).

HouseExternal.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 10:35-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Specificity and Tolerance of the Immune T Cell Repertoire

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserMehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseExternal.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 09:55-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heterogeneity in Ion Binding for Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance: Exquisitely Designed or Just Good Enough for The Job in Hand?

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserDavid J Scott (University of Nottingham).

HouseExternal.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 09:15-09:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topological defects and entanglement - Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserLaurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 12 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Workshop Dinner (Churchill College)

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 19:30-20:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Carquevillei's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserLorenz Weber (Universität Wien).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 16:45-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Exhibition and Networking

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 16:15-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Physics of Fixational Eye Movements

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserFabian Coupette (University of Leeds).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 16:10-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectrally-shaped Disorder as Metamaterials

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserMathias Casiulis (New York University).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 16:05-16:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Komargodski's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserSiwei Zhong (Stony Brook University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Static Heterogeneity in Complex Fluids and the Global Effective Fluctuation-dissipation Relation

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserChiara Pezzotti (Università di Roma La Sapienza).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 16:00-16:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Critical Aging and Relaxation Dynamics in Long-range Systems

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserValerio Pagni (ETH Zürich).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:55-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Strong Anomalous Diffusion for Free-ranging Birds

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserOhad Vilk (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:50-15:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometric Deep Learning of Disordered Network Rheology

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserJordan Shivers (University of Chicago).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:45-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Emergence of defect motility in pulsating active matter

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserLuca Casgrande (Université du Luxembourg).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:40-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using Machine Learning to Deduce Molecular Weight Distribution from Rheology

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserRobert Elliott (University of Leeds).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:35-15:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

DeepCormack: Fermi Surface Tomography Using Model-based Data-driven Algorithms

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserGeorg Francis Barlaup Lovric (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:30-15:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Microscopic Dynamical Entropy: Second Law from Hamiltonian Dynamics

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserMingnan Ding (Shanghai Jiao Tong University).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:25-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Entropy Induced Organization and Dynamics of Topologically Modified Ring-polymers

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserShreerang Pande (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:20-15:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Geometrically Exact Spectral Method for Elastohydrodynamics of Cosserat Rods

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserMingjia Yan (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:15-15:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A General Framework for Designing Evolutionary Experiments to Select Specific Phage Phenotypes Using Neural Networks, Statistical Simulations, and Symbolic Regression

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserHassan Alam (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:10-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Understanding Polar Solvents through the Lens of Stochastic Density Functional Theory

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserSleeba Varghere (Sorbonne Université).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:05-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dynamic Polymer Thin Film Rheology

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserEllie Porath (Université PSL).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 15:00-15:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Boundaries, SPTs, and topological order in lattice models - Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserCarolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Emulsions, at the Crossroads of Fundamental Science and Applied Research

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserJean Baudry (ESPCI ParisTech).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 13:35-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Theory of Phase Behaviour and Fluctuations in Polydisperse Systems: From Carbon-fiber Composites to High-performance Membranes

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserPhillip Rauscher (Syensqo).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 11:35-12:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to topological quantum field theory (with defects) - Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserNils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Messy, Self-organized Networks as Metamaterials

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserEmanuela Del Gado (Georgetown University).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 10:35-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

More is Less in Unpercolated Active Solids

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserAnton Souslov (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 09:55-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Combinatorial Metamaterials: From Spin Ice to Novel Mechanical Functionalities

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserYair Shokef (Tel Aviv University).

HouseExternal.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 09:15-09:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defects in Quantum Field Theory - Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserZohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal Dinner at Christ's College

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 19:30-21:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generative AI and Diffusion Models: a Statistical Physics Analysis

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserGiulio Biroli (CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris).

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 16:50-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Deep Learning Probability Flows and Entropy Production Rates in Active Matter

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserEric Vanden-Eijnden (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences).

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 16:10-16:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Learning Protocols Via Statistical Physics and Control Theory

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserFrancesca Mignacco (Princeton University).

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 15:30-16:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using Data-driven Methods to Understand and Control Active Materials

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserMichael Hagan (Brandeis University).

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 14:30-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rheoinformatics: A Data-driven Platform for Unifying Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Rheology

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserSafa Jamali (Northeastern University).

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 13:50-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Data-driven and Physics-aware Microstructural Modeling of Flowing Complex Fluids

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserMichael Graham (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 13:10-13:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome & Introduction

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

UserMike Cates (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 13:00-13:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Zhang's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserSal Pace (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Looten's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserBram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper (Universiteit Gent).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Boundaries, SPTs, and topological order in lattice models - Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserCarolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gong Show

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2025, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Carqueville's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserLorenz Weber (Universität Wien).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2025, 16:45-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Komargodski's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserSiwei Zhong (Stony Brook University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2025, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defects in Quantum Field Theory - Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserZohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topological defects and entanglement - Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserLaurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break / Group Photo

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to topological quantum field theory (with defects) - Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserNils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome Reception

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 08 September 2025, 17:30-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gong Show

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 08 September 2025, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockMonday 08 September 2025, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defects in Quantum Field Theory - Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserZohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 08 September 2025, 14:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to topological quantum field theory (with defects) - Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserNils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 08 September 2025, 11:30-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User.

HouseFoyer.

ClockMonday 08 September 2025, 11:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topological defects and entanglement - Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserLaurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 08 September 2025, 09:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Directors Briefing

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

UserUlrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 08 September 2025, 09:25-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topological median structures on R^n

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserMladen Bestvina (University of Utah).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 05 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A 2D CFT Factory at Boundary of TFT

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserKaixin Ji (Fudan University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 05 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Ergodic theory in groups with a contracting element

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserRémi Coulon (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 05 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

K(pi,1)-conjecture for 3-dimensional Artin groups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserJingyin Huang (Ohio State University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 05 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An unusual BPS equation

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserCostas Bachas (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique ENS).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 05 September 2025, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rigidity and flexibility of mappings between Carnot groups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserBruce Kleiner (New York University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 04 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Classifying group actions on hyperbolic spaces

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserDenis Osin (Vanderbilt University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 04 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A new alternative for amenable groups in terms of actions on finite-dimensional CAT(0)-spaces

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserAnders Karlsson (Université de Genève).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 04 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry of hyperconvex surface subgroups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserMaria Beatrice Pozzetti (Università di Bologna).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 04 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Entanglement Bootstrap: Principles and Prospects

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserBowen Shi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 04 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Next Steps

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 15:50-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Delivery of 2-minute pitches - one per group

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 15:00-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pitch Development - facilitated groups

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

UserBen Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 13:45-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Advanced Techniques - Stories, Jokes and Magic

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

UserBen Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Virtual retractions in graphs of groups and applications

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserAshot Minasyan (University of Southampton).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uniform exponential growth of discrete subgroups on Hadamard manifolds

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserKoji Fujiwara (Kyoto University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Basic Principles: Audiences & Speaking and Presenting

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

UserBen Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 10:10-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Energy Transport across Conformal Interfaces via Holography

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserShira Chapman (Ben-Gurion University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Irreducible discrete subgroups of G × G and ergodicity on the boundary

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserSubhadip Dey (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Day 2

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

UserBen Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

HouseExternal.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 15:55-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fit systolic groups, exactly

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserDamian Osajda (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Share your front page

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 15:15-15:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Algorithms for Zariski dense subgroups and their applications

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserAlla Detinko (University of Huddersfield).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Get writing & Go to press!

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

UserRachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 13:30-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Riemann surfaces, complex projective structures, and Bers' simultaneous uniformization

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserShinpei Baba (Osaka University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Get started! & Writing about anything for anyone

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

UserRachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Who are you talking to? & What do you want to say?

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

UserRachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 10:20-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Drilling hyperbolic groups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserAlessandro Sisto (Heriot-Watt University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introductions

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

UserRachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

HouseExternal.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User.

HouseExternal.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Landau-Ginzburg Paradigm of Topological Orders and a CFT Factory

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserYu Zhao (Fudan University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserNir Lazarovich (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 02 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The geometry of Hitchin grafting representations

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserUrsula Hamenstaedt (University of Bonn).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 01 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finiteness properties via complex geometry: Kapovich's work and its lineage

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserPierre Py (Université Grenoble Alpes).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 01 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Automorphisms of virtually special groups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserElia Fioravanti (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 01 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The geometry of the conjugacy problem

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserMartin Bridson (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 01 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organisers welcome

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 01 September 2025, 10:05-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

UserMilla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 01 September 2025, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Analytic bootstrap for holographic surface defects

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

UserLorenzo Bianchi (University of Torino).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 01 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uncertainty quantification in Gaussian Graphical Models

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserDéborah Sulem (Università della Svizzera italiana).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 28 August 2025, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Experimental Design in the Age of GenAI  

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserHenry Moss (Lancaster University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 28 August 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scalable sequential design for Bayesian inverse problems via conditional transport

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserKarina Koval (Universität Heidelberg).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 28 August 2025, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Estimating and Calibrating Uncertainty in LLMs

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserDesi Ivanova (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 28 August 2025, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On L2 posterior contraction rates in Bayesian nonparametric regression models

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserPaul Rosa (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 28 August 2025, 11:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Proper Scoring Rules - Estimation and Forecast Evaluation

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserKartik Waghmare (ETH Zürich).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 28 August 2025, 11:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Keynote Speaker - Statistical Breakthroughs and Novel Perspectives in Deep Learning Theory

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserSophie Langer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 28 August 2025, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

EDI Event and Networking Reception

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scoring Gaussian process predictions for sequential design of experiments

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserLea Friedli (Technical University of Munich).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Calibration properties of conformal predictive systems

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserSam Allen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Recent Developments in Surrogate Modeling for Stochastic Simulators: Comprehensive Overview and Insights

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserXujia Zhu (CentraleSupélec).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Frequentist guarantees of Bayesian Inference with Missing data

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserStefan Franssen (CNRS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Solving Roughly Forced Nonlinear PDEs via Misspecified Kernel Methods and Neural Networks

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserMatthieu Darcy (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 11:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Physics informed Gaussian process priors

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserIain Henderson (ISAE-Supaéro).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 11:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Surface groups among cubulated group

OGG - Operators, Graphs, Groups

UserHenry Wilton (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Keynote: Judging uncertainty from black-box classifiers

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

UserGaël Varoquaux (INRIA).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2025, 09:30-10:30

Zangwill Club

Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans.

UserRina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockTuesday 26 August 2025, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Clustering Dynamics in Mean-Field Models of Transformers

RCL - Representing, calibrating & leveraging prediction uncertainty from statistics to machine learning

UserAndrea Agazzi (Universität Bern).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 26 August 2025, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

(Non)-existence of stray field stabilized magnetic skyrmions

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

UserTheresa Simon (Universität Münster).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 22 August 2025, 11:45-12:30

Please see above for contact details for this list.

 

© 2006-2025 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity