Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Robust nonnegative matrix factorization with the beta-divergence and applications in imaging

Cédric Févotte, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT).

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Tuesday 22 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Robust nonnegative matrix factorization with the beta-divergence and applications in imaging

Cédric Févotte, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT).

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Tuesday 22 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Marika Rostvall 2) Lovisa Hellsten. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Lovisa Hellsten 2) Marika Rostvall. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Lovisa Hellsten 2) Marika Rostvall. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

In-Context Learning

Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 15:00-16:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Analysing electrophysiology data with osl-ephys

Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK .

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Foundation AI

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Cassidy.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sunday 13 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services;

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Friday 11 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Prevalence, Transitions and Access to Mental Health Services for Young People with Eating Disorders

Prof. Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Shape-shifting Elephants: Multi-modal Transport for Integrated Research Infrastructure

Nik Sultana, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Online (Teams link below).

Friday 04 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 02 April 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2) recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCHg-DAnEs

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 31 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Artefacts in MEG data

Dr Golan Karvat & Dr Olaf Hauk, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Mitigating the Risks of Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

Aleksey Charapko, University of New Hampshire.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (Teams link will appear before the talk).

Friday 28 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Unknown Maxwell

The Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 March 2025, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - March 2025

Dr Michail Mamalakis and Joshua Rothwell.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 11:45-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Nonparanormal Approach to Marginal Inference"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click on the link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xwbSLwLITemQeb8b-jk-Fg

Susanne Dandl, University of Zurich.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Principles of intensive human neuroimaging

Dr. Eline Kupers, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Multi-Agent System for Mathematical Discovery

Daattavya Aggarwal, Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Connects Us All? From Fibres to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Surgical data using LLMs

Hugo Georgenthum.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

CUED Control Group Seminars

Participation of Energy Storage in Electricity Markets: Strategic Withholding Behaviors and Equilibrium

Bolun Xu, Columbia University.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Friday 21 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces

Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces

Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Reproducible Brain Charts: Accelerating Studies of Brain Development with Open Science

Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania.

Online.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning

Prof. Paul Liang (MIT).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Stochastic Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, IIT Hyderabad.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges

Professor Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford .

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Which Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Colleges and Universities

Professor Frank Dobbin - Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:05-14:55

ARClub Talks

Sex differences in the placenta and autism

Dr Alex Tsompanidis, University of Cambridge .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Extreme weather attribution and the evidential grounds for restorative climate justice

Ahmad Elabbar, Adrian Research Fellow.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?

Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Money: a Treasury-centric view

Mario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1).

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Modelling microbiome-mediated epigenetic inheritance of disease risk

Hybrid

Bobby Ranjan.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses

Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The place to be? At the nexus of psychology and geography

Friedrich Goetz (University of British Columbia).

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

Monday 17 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Helsing: Simulating a System of Systems

Matei David.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

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

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Model-free and model-based methods for estimating neural timescales

Roxana Zeraati, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

: Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape

Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats

Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats

Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

East 1/West Hub

Edmund.George & Mei Lin Gan .

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain

Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Biological design with machine learning and limited data.

Diego Oyarzun, University of Edinburgh.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology

Note: unusual date compared to regular AI Seminars

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

Project management by and for RSEs

Sarah Jaffa - RSE, University of Manchester.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer’s Rejuvenation Trap: Turning Cells Young and Fierce

Shanlin Tong.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Discourse models with language models

Prof. Jessy Li.

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language meets Control Theory

Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Black Holes & spin-offs

Prof Katherine Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book of protecting Osiris among those of the Netherworld: An annotated version of the First Hour.

Chike Pilgrim, PhD Student, Department of Archaeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 10 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

MediaTek: Towards Efficient Prediction of Communication Channels Using AI

Sattar Vakili and Masoud Attarifar.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623

Alexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Connects Us All? From Fibres to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 10 March 2025, 12:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Florian Merkle, Drug Discovery, Action, and Repurposing in iPSC-derived Neurons

Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation

Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward

Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 07 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Foundation AI

On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning

hybrid : meet.google.com/bhz-scdk-unp

Alvaro Arroyo, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Grammar, reasoning, learning: Three short stories on comparative & rational analysis of language model capabilities

Dr. Andrew Lampinen (Deepmind).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Revolutionizing Connectomics using Generative, Federated and Holistic Learning

Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London.

Online.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Complexity of real and artificial networks

East 1/West Hub

Dr. Gueorgui Mihaylov (Haleon.com).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice?

Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Delivering Fusion Power: the challenges of control in a First of a Kind Power Plant

Adam Stephen (UKAEA), Kim Cave-Ayland (UKAEA), Morten Lennholm (UKIFS), Terry Thompson (UKIFS).

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Governance and accountability in data-driven supply chains

Jennifer Cobbe - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Survival of the fittest… or the friendliest? Uncovering hidden dependencies in gut microbial communities

Naomi van den Berg.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data

NOTE unusual date

Urška Matjašec (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Robotics Seminar Series

Learning to Interact in Real-World Multiagent Systems

Markus Wulfmeier, DeepMind.

Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Generative modelling for de novo design of therapeutics

Dr Joe Watson - Co-founder, Xaira Therapeutics and Dr Emile Mathieu.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Encouraging sustainable food choices on food-delivery apps: which interventions work, when, and do consumers want them?

Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang - Exploration of Biological Diversity

Zhang, MIT.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Influence Functions

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Adrian Goldwaser, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

The Continual Learning (CL) Theory

Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Metaphysics as Communing with the Unknown: Crossing between Emmanuel Levinas and Karl Jaspers

Connor Hayes.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

What does it mean to Democratize Finance?

Dr Leah Rose Downey (University of Cambridge).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 03 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004

Isobel Newby (University of Leeds).

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

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Probabilistic Functional Modes: population-informed individual specific modelling of brain networks

Rezvan Farahibozorg, University of Oxford, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 2

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease

Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2025, 12:00-13:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 1

East 1/West Hub

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Vision: A Symphony of Physics and Intelligence

Lu Fang, Tsinghua University.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample

Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

The Rise of Self-Driving Labs: Automation of Scientific Workflows with Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Boris Bolliet - Cavendish Laboratory & Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge.

West 2, West Hub.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Super-resolution optical microscope for use in the life sciences

Rebecca McClelland.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

Incorporating Flexibility in Antibody-Antigen Interaction Prediction

Sara Joubbi.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Preserving What Was Lost: Endangered Languages of Yazd’s Religious Minorities Zoroastrians and Jews and Their Vernacular Heritage

Professor Saloumeh Gholami (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Digital Money and Decentralised Finance

Professor Frank Stajano and Dr Ferdinando Samaria - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling with diffusion models

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Can kernel machines be a viable alternative to deep neural networks?

Dr Parthe Pandit, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploring dietary behaviours, narratives and attitudes in Cambridge colleges

Sigurdur Martinsson, MSt in Sustainability Leadership, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

Monday 24 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Foundation AI

Beyond Interpolation: Extrapolative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks

Niccolò Grillo.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:45-19:15

Foundation AI

Network modelling and Graph Neural Networks for emergency healthcare management

Annamaria Defilippo, PhD Student - Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:00-18:30

Foundation AI

Harnessing Large Language Models for Medical Data Processing: Structured Information Extraction, Disease Classification, and RAG Integration 

Cristian Cosentino (Università della Calabria).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 17:30-20:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic

Justine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Playing with dice: two unusual use cases for experimental randomisation in fMRI

Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger, Milk it! The Cambridge Lactation Lab Vision

Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP

Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09..

Friday 21 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Compiling a Glossary of Insular Norman: Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands!

Co-hosted with the Cambridge Bibliophiles

Professor Mari Jones (University of Cambridge).

Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 20:45-22:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Compiling a Glossary of Insular Norman: Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands!

Co-hosted with the Cambridge Bibliophiles

Professor Mari Jones (University of Cambridge).

Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 20:45-22:00

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning -- Why Machine Learning Cannot Reach the Rigour of Logical Reasoning? recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x38GySbuGJg

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-17:45

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Algorithmic Information Dynamics

Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London.

Online.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

The thresholds of an excitable system

Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Fractal Geometry: War, Peace, Fourier Analysis and the mysterious coastline of Great Britain

Jose Ramon.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What’s not an Autoregressive LLM?

Prof. Lingpeng Kong, HKU.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning

Dr Ilan Price - Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Microtargeting Manipulation Machine

Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).

Online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDIzZDBmNDEtNTZlNC00MzFkLWEzNWEtODBmZmI5NWE0NzJh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2215d66985-4ebf-4bf2-a70f-da9a8a459e44%22%7d.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Zixing Song.

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

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back

Youjing Yu; Tim Lin.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Bloodshed, embodiment, politics, and theology

Professor Daniel Weiss, Faculty of Divinity, Fellow of Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice

Professor Stephen John.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Federal Reserve's 'rate war' and its aftermath: the political consequences of financial instability, 1966-72.

Dr Arthur Rothier-Bautzer (Centre for Financial History and GlobalCapital).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 17 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Ancestral Sight

Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Roku: Beyond Generative AI: Achieving Complete Control in Synthesising Testing Data with Unreal Engine

Zukang Liao, Software Engineer and former intern at Roku.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century

Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

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

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Developing More Effective Pharmacological Treatments for Chronic Pain

David Hughes, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training

Jeremy Bernstein (MIT).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Ellis Unit

Machine Learning is Linear Algebra

Andrew Gordon Wilson - New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81897609356?pwd=HqbUQWnASjpBBZdaZo9r43M9Gj4N3Q.1.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs

Prof. Anne Lauscher, Hamburg.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Introduction to G-Research, ML engineers and Quant Research

East 1/West Hub

Charles Martinez & Yousuf Mohamed-Ahmed /G-RESEARCH .

East 1 room - West Hub.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

Tessa Dekker (UCL).

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

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Managing complexity of Weather and Climate Code with diversity of skills and workflows

Iva Kavcic - UK Met Office.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The microscopic barriers protecting your airway everyday

Leah Hurst, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hardware Datapath: For Machine Learning and Beyond

Professor George A. Constantinides - Professor of Digital Computation, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Computational Neuroscience

Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks.

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

ARClub Talks

Using global multicohort studies to determine how genetic and environmental factors influence brain development in infancy and early childhood.

Rebecca Knickmeyer, Michigan State University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

Prof Sonya Clegg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:45-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:00-15:45

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economic Cost of Depression: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

Fergus McCormack, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

Professor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 10 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment

Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland .

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 10 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Riverlane: Building an error corrected quantum computer, and the computer science challenges that come up along the way

Kenton Barnes - Staff Quantum Engineer, Riverlane.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 10 February 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks

Various speakers.

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

Monday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Revealing the Spatial Pattern of Brain Hemodynamic Sensitivity to Healthy Aging through Sparse Dynamic Causal Model

Dr Giorgia Baron, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 10 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Distilling ML Models into Formulae for Ricci-Flat Metrics

Viktor Mirjanic, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 10 February 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

The ATLAS Virtual Research Assistant

Heloise Stevance, University of Oxford.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 10 February 2025, 12:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension

John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs as supersloppers and other metaphors

Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Room SS03 .

Friday 07 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Behavioral machine learning

Dr. Keyon Vafa, Harvard Data Science Initiative.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour

Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Challenges and opportunities for biological network inference

Dr Kimberly Glass.

Online.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Time-varying Signal Estimation Using Dynamic Topological Graphs

Prof. Ercan E Kuruoglu, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Exploring SAS Viya and the Future of AI-Driven Innovation

Prathiba Krishna <Prathiba.Krishna@sas.com>.

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

John Duncan (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Feed-Forward Bullet-Time Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes from Monocular Videos

Hanxue Liang, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online) ID: 87457263100 Passcode: 708172.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Low-power embedded event-based vision processing for low-latency robotics

Jörg Conradt, KTH Stockholm, Sweden.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Have you heard... Outreach for Research Software Engineering

Peter Schmidt - Code for Thought.

West 2, West Hub.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic drivers of early lung cancer

Alice Chernaik (Medicine, University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Sontinuity: Judeo-Spanish Transmission and Cultural Sonicity

Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

ARClub Talks

It’s All in the Hands — Changing Developmental Trajectories of Young Children with ASD Using the Early Social Interaction (ESI) Model

Amy M. Wetherby, Florida State University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

EU AI Act: A firsthand perspective

Dr Gabriele Mazzini - Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab. Architect & lead author of the EU AI Act.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships

Daniel Toribio Florez (University of Kent).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nucleic-Acid based therapeutics: how to use mechanistic information to ensure "safe-by-design"

Prof Anne Willis.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Efficient Sequential Experimentation: Bridging Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GS1_Dn3SQXydSuW9p3oNnQ

Alberto Caron, The Alan Turing Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Chocolate and Bibles: How Victorian Collectors Spent their Evenings and Shaped Scholarship

Dr Harry Spillane, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University Library and Research Fellow, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

Cătălina Cangea, ex-Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals

Professor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

A new history of the interwar Bank of England

Dr Robert Yee (University of Oxford).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 03 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 03 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Lipid Nanoparticles that Enable the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Gene Therapies

Pieter Cullis, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Monday 03 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

MathWorks: Embedded AI: Deploying deep learning models for industrial applications

Antoni Woss, Ruth Faherty and Iason Chaimalas.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 03 February 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge

Benjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute).

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

Monday 03 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Rethinking Academic Recruitment: Exploring the Potential of Narrative CVs

Dr Noam Tal-Perry, Research Strategy Office & Bennett Institute for Public Policy, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

Maya Youssef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Human Pain Genetics

Geoff Woods, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models

James Thorne (KAIST).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Generative Ai.rplane

Thomas Gessey-Jones (physicsx.ai).

East 1, West Hub.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model

Nanyang Ye, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy

Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool).

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

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cooperative Mechanisms Against Climate Change

Carl Edward Rasmussen.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

ProSpecPy: Streamlining FTIR Spectroscopy Data Processing

Anshul Tambay - University of Washington and Elizabeth Phillips - Grantham Institute, Imperial College London.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Between the Lines: Contextual Understanding and Bias in LLMs

Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield.

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Green Algorithms, Green DiSC and GREENER principles: making computational science more environmentally sustainable

Dr Loïc Lannelongue - Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

CANCELLED: How do we protect the democratic information environment in an AI-powered world? Tackling online harms with computational social science and AI

Helen Margetts (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - January 2025

Greta Markert and Dr Karen Sayal.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:45-13:00

ARClub Talks

Reflecting upon the double empathy problem: new directions and practical implications.

Damian Milton, University of Kent.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys

Prof Brian Cantor.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Assigning responsibility for the ‘right to die’: moral and legal ambiguity in the regulation of assisted dying

Janna Bryson, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology.

1 Newnham Terrace seminar room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

SynFlowNet: Design of Synthesisable Molecules with GFlowNets

Miruna Cretu (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 January 2025, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle

Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 27 January 2025, 16:15-18:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Demikernel Datapath Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems

Irene Zhang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Detectability and cortical depth dependence of stimulus-driven high-frequency BOLD oscillations in the human primary somatosensory and motor cortex

Dr Shota Hodono, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

The Marmoset Monkey as a Model Species for Spatial Navigation and Vestibular Function

Dr. Jean Laurens, The Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience..

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:15-17:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating the role of sugar metabolism in controlling fate specification during gastrulation

Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Analysing Memorisation in Classification and Translation through Localisation and Cartography

Verna Dankers (University of Edinburgh) .

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 24 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Robotics Seminar Series

The Motion and Teaming Lab's Work On Multi-Robot Algorithms for Communication Challenging Scenarios

Michael Otte- Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park.

Department of Computer Science and technology, FW11.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

OSDB: Turning the Tables on Kernel Data

George V. Neville-Neil, Elephance, Yale, Cambridge.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Linear Transformers for Efficient Sequence Modeling

Prof Yoon Kim, MIT.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The Genetics of Person-specific fMRI Networks

Dr Aaron Alexander-Bloch.

Online.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to fight financial crime with AI

Dr Stuart Burrell & Dr Maeve Madigan / Featurespace.

East 1, West Hub.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive influences on speech perception in noisy environments

Emma Holmes (UCL).

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

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What Connects Us All? From Fibers to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 I

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Foundation Models in Robotics

Liyou Zhou (Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Title TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Data-driven models of neural and behavioural learning

N Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free online seminar using Zoom Webinar. Register using this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AbR8yEMdQKGtBfxJbbEeNQ

Ida Scheel, University of Oslo.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Multi-Head Explainer: A General Framework to Improve Explainability in CNNs and Transformers

record: https://youtu.be/iuT_tkVEgA4

Bohang Sun(Bob) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 17 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive-Motor Borderlands

Sam McDougle (Yale University).

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

Thursday 16 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

The Double Hit Hypothesis and Hyperandrogenism: Unraveling Social Cognition Impairments in Daughters of Women with PCOS

Juan Pablo Del Rio, Universidad de los Andes at Santiago.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 15 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Evaluating dynamical systems hypotheses for pattern generation in motor cortex

Lea Duncker, Columbia.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Modelling C. elegans pharynx

Dana Sherman, Weizmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 11:00-11:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution

18:30 (Mince pies and mulled wine) for 19:00 lecture

Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany .

McCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub), Bene't Street.

Monday 16 December 2024, 18:30-20:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 12 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?)

Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Self-harm in secondary schools; Prevalence, School Level Influences, and Interventions

Rasanat Fatima Nawaz, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Zangwill Club

Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question

Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex

Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation

Ziyu Yao, George Mason University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Computation-aware set-based analysis and control

Nikos Athanasopoulos, Queen’s University Belfast.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Building Fast and Maintainable Software for Multi-Scale Evo-Devo Simulations

Pjotr van der Jagt and Steven Oud - The Sainsbury Laboratory and Dept. of Genetics.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-18:00

ARClub Talks

Cognitive aging in (older) autistic adults

Prof. Hilde M. Geurts, University of Amsterdam.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andy Lin.

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

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andy Lin.

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

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

With a Little Help from My Friends: New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry

Prof Patrick Unwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Personalized Decision-Making for Infectious Disease Control: Causal Inference and Complex Dependence"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuCpqT8oGtciL4QahuHDVi2_-NRp9enh

Ivana Malenica, Harvard University.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks

Brent Doiron, University of Chicago.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

A case study of AI education in high schools in the Tema district of Ghana

Salomey Addo, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

Professor Neil Hyatt is Chief Scientific Adviser to Nuclear Waste Services, Aegis Professor of Deep Time at The University of Bristol.

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

Monday 02 December 2024, 19:30-21:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Ethicronics: From West Cambridge to Market Square: An upgrade for software answering hardware (security) challenges?

Dr Franck Courbon - CEO Ethicronics.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 02 December 2024, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection

Fiona Roberts (Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales).

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

Monday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Unbiased preclinical phenotyping for neuroprotective compounds

Edward Harding, Clinical Biochemistry.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 02 December 2024, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Calabi-Yau metrics through Grassmannian learning and Donaldson's algorithm

Oisin Kim, CST.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 02 December 2024, 12:00-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Cognitive Neuroscience Methods Day

Multiple.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 December 2024, 09:00-17:00

Foundation AI

Constrained Neural Flows

https://meet.google.com/cwu-sumr-qzq

Chandan Gupta.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 29 November 2024, 17:00-17:45

Zangwill Club

From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor Peter Ulric Tse, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Dr Javier Aguilera Lizarraga, Dr Anwit Pandit.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 29 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta 

Norah Fogarty - King's College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization

Benjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 29 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

ML@CL Ad-hoc Seminar Series

Large language models and human cognition

Charles Elkan (Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego).

Computer Lab, FW11.

Friday 29 November 2024, 10:00-11:30

Foster Talks

The Environment and the Developing Brain: A Complex and Continuing Conversation

Stephen G. Matthews, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Depts Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Flow-based Encrypted Traffic Analysis

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_ZDhlNGE0YTAtMDY5Mi00NGZhLTljOGEtM2ZiNGEyY2Y4Nzc2@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22,%22Oid%22:%22c74ff4ca-98fe-4b28-9889-e119acc12f30%22%7D

Daniel Poliakov, Brno University of Technology.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today

Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews) .

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

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Maxwell Centre

Dr Loubna Bouarfa (Okra.ai).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations

Robert Katzschmann, ETH Zurich.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Moving mesh methods in Firedrake

Joe Wallwork - ICCS & RCS, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Infiltrator and Indicator? Understanding the Intricacies of the Cuckoo Bumblebee Lifecycle

Sofia Dartnell, Zoology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Power analysis

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation

Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

LLMs and Low-Resource Languages

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The first AGI will be Federated

Professor Nic Lane - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Quantifying the persuasive impact of ad-targeting using an archive of real campaigns’ ad experiments

Ben Tappin (London School of Economics).

Online.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Negative imaginary systems theory: An introduction

Alexander Lanzon, University of Manchester.

LR3B, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Order, Disorder, Flexibility, Function

Prof Andrew Goodwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Foundation AI

Expanding the borders of Multimodal Graph Learning with Sheaf Neural Networks

Mar Gonzàlez i Català.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 17:20-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

State space models (as alternatives to Transformers)

Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

“To Illuminate this Proverbial Dark Continent”: Lighting Infrastructure and the South African Night, 1860-1976

Zachary Fleishman, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Controlling Behavioral Diversity in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Signals from the beginning of the universe

Professor Jo Dunkley OBE, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Act III: Fantastic Beasts and How to Fly Them

George Prosser.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 25 November 2024, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire

Jens Amborg (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 25 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back

Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Deconstruction of the social brain

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Redirecting innate immune mechanisms against aggregated proteins

Dr William McEwan, University of Cambridge UK Dementia Research Institute.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 22 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 22 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis

Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Scansion-based Lyric Generation

Yiwen Chen (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 22 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models

Heng Ji, UIUC.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present

Avital Hahamy (University College London) .

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

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

AI Meets Theoretical Physics

Maxwell Centre

Dr Sven-Ludwig Krippendorf (Physics/DAMTP).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Predicting antibiotic resistance evolution

Fernanda Pinheiro, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy..

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Socially assistive robots: we can do better (online talk)

Prof Shelly Levy-Tzedek (Ben Gurion University).

ONLINE and FW11 Seminar Room (William Gates Building) .

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

GitHub Essentials for Researchers

Juan Pablo Flores - GitHub Education.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Future of Coding

David Vella Zarb, Computer Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 21 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Sensing human activities: from the lab to the home of the elderly

Professor Claudio Bettini - Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

ARClub Talks

Social reward response as a lens to examine autism in and outside the lab

Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms

Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?

Dr Alexander Borodavka.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "IV-learner: learning conditional average treatment effects using instrumental variables"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0od-CorDouHdEyadWd2HkaL_HUObpPwuoJ

Karla Diaz Ordaz, University College London .

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The ancient Egyptian personification of the Milky Way as the sky-goddess Nut: an astronomical and cross-cultural analysis

Dr Or Graur.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Bias Mitigation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

Dr. Claire Barlow, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Towards understanding adaptive intelligence

Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 18 November 2024, 16:15-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Instadeep: Diverse applications of AI in industry

Instadeep team members.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 18 November 2024, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it

William McMahon (Department of Earth Sciences).

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

Monday 18 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

How to version control your scientific code using Git and GitHub

Máté Aller (CBU).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Delaying and Measuring ageing

Dr Ivana Bjedov, University College London Cancer Institute.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 15 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Ellis Unit

Generative models as efficient surrogates for molecular dynamics simulations

Simon Olsson - Chalmers University of Technology.

​ https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82615098116?pwd=cBUqlkyJqfNWqbn5DkBlVmDpmcjV0d.1.

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Programmable Kernel Abstractions Wanted for Fun (and Profit)!

Theophilus A. Benson, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

FW26.

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach

Clare Buckley - University of Manchester.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 15 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models.

Janet B. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford.

SS03 and Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 15 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Compiling Distributed System Models with PGo, and Beyond

Finn Hackett, Systopia lab and Software Practices Lab, University of British Columbia.

Zoom, https://christs-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99963336965?pwd=vW8ItPcOU2pRe6heGIHyk1CNanIfVr.1.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust

Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol).

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

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to find a co-founder and start a company after university?

Small Lecture Theatre

Dominik Diak (Entrepeneur First).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

From Holonic Systems to Human-Integrated Systems

Karel Kruger, University of Cambridge.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tiny animals, mighty impacts: modelling polar species on the move

Jen Freer, British Antarctic Survey.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 14 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Computing for Climate Science and Programming for the Planet

Dr Dominic Orchard - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Co-director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS).

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions

Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Are we making progress in unlearning? 

Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

Dr George Malliaras.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Special Joint SAS+MedAI Seminar Series

See info below..

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Principles of sexually dimorphic experience dependent plasticity

Sonu Peedikayil-Kurien, Oren-Suissa Lab, Weizmann Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of neural representations

Carl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Studying Research Culture at Cambridge: The Action Research on Research Culture Project (ARRC)

Dr Lara Abel, Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Action Research on Research Culture project (ARRC), Research Fellow at Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?

Professor Ewan St John Smith, Professor of Nociception, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Pharmacology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Ab Initio: IoT: High Volume Data Processing from catflaps to consoles

Ben Roche.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813–1850

Grace Exley (University of Leeds and Oxford Natural History Museum).

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

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Vector Quantization in Deep Neural Networks for Speech and Image Processing

Mohammad Vali, Aalto University, Finland.

Online only: Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89623597387?pwd=PalnRtu2be5cw3aGReM6EyvfcMrcly.1.

Monday 11 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Harnessing the principles of cellular resilience for therapeutics

Dr Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

10 Slides on Human Feedback

Max Bartolo (Cohere).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 08 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness

Daniel Khashabi, Johns Hopkins University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development

Kathy Niakan, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity

Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University).

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

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill Rating

Dr Sam Power, University of Bristol.

LR11, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What?

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory

Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Adaptive closed loop control: from reflexes to planning

Bernd Porr, University of Glasgow.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Supporting Digital Humanities Students

Jonathan Blaney - Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Climate is on Thin Ice: Can We Thicken It?

Jacob Pantling, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 07 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Lean Learning: Applying Lean and Agile Techniques to Software Engineering Education

Dr Robert Chatley - Director, Software Engineering Practice and Director, DoC EdTech Lab, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The rise of life on land: new insights from exceptionally preserved fossils

Dr Sandy Hetherington.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-6gpjkvHNaHjyzJDmLJi7vIrRb-STIQ

Peter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The changing values of feathers and their wearers: Transformation of the British society’s relationship with birds at the turn of the 20th century

Dr Jakub Kronenberg, Associate Professor at the Social Ecological Systems Analysis Lab, University of Lodz and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Paying Attention to Efficiency: LLM Deployment on Mobile and Edge Devices

Stefanos Laskaridis, Brave Software.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Next Gen asset tracking using battery-free Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE, PervasID Ltd., St. Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Zangwill Club

The Atomic Human

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Computational Microbiology of the E. coli cell envelope

Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

Sam Livingstone (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Edinburgh).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 01 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Natasha Jaques, University of Washington.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Recurrent circuits involving motoneurons in the spinal cord

Prof Marco Beato - UCL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions

Tim Denison (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

PolymathicAI: Scaling up a Generalist AI Model for Science

East 2/ West Hub

Dr Miles Cranmer (DAMTP/Physics/IoA).

East 2/ West Hub.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Iterative Learning Control --- Past, Present, and Future

Eric Rogers, University of Southampton.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Talk Cancelled: Less is more

Anita Faul.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wondering What Our Blood Holds

Laura Magnani, Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 31 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Lippmann Photography: The Art and Science of Multispectral Imagery

Professor Martin Vetterli (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Cellular and circuit mechanisms of cortical function in humans and rats

Dr Sam Booker, University of Edinburgh.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

ML@CL Ad-hoc Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Mike Croucher, MathWorks.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle

Prof Tina Potter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuits

Daniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Data Flows & Menstruation: How Users of Period Trackers Navigate the Datafication & Commodification of their Menstrual Cycles

Dr Stefanie Felsberger, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Raj Jena and Yizhou Wan.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows

Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Different dynamics of learning in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices

Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 28 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

GSA Capital: Navigating Quantitative Investment: Technology and research in GSA and the challenges of staying competitive in today's markets

Mihai Enache.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt

Anna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck Institute).

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

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights

The host for this talk is Larysa Zasiekina

Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Language Modelling with Phonemes

Zebulon Youra Goriely (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 25 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

LLM Generalization in Social Context

Diyi Yang, Stanford University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Modelling orchestration

Andrew Jeffery, Systems Research Group, Computer Laboratory.

FW11.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition

Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).

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

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Learning-based Material Appearance Acquisition and Modeling for Predictive Rendering

Behnaz Kavoosighafi, Linköpings universitet, Sweeden.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Maths meets Radiology: developing data science methods for cancer research

Lorena Escudero, Joshua Kaggie, Ander Biguri.

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

An AI tool for Dementia.

Simon Clifford - RCS, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dopamine signalling in the octopus visual system

Anna Jansson, Cambridge -- Translational Neuroscience.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 24 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2024: Supercharging the Human Mind With AI

Professor Yvonne Rogers - Professor of Interaction Design, Director of UCL Interaction Centre, Deputy Head of the Computer Science Department UCL.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

What does psychology have to do with climate change? Challenges, evidence, and opportunities

Jacob Rode (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

How Autistic minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists

Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for human TB and its treatment from the tiny transparent zebrafish larva

Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-ysqDgqG9W5MbRoGxq5re7R9XadbBBd

Ida Scheel, University of Oslo.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pre-Christian Typologies in Greece and Rome

Dr Peter Martin, Mary and Moses Finley Fellow, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Professor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium.

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

Monday 21 October 2024, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours

Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS), University of Edinburgh .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 21 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Modelling contrast matching across luminance levels [practice talk]

Maliha Ashraf, Univ. of Cambridge.

SS28 (Common Room).

Monday 21 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Jane Street: One Log to Rule Them All - How to Keep State Straight in Distributed System

Matt Else.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 21 October 2024, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

Monday 21 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

ML@CL Ad-hoc Seminar Series

Towards a scientific understanding of science: the quantitative study of scientific activity

Accelerate lunchtime seminar registration form : https://forms.office.com/e/M9SrEBiMjf

Hongyu Zhou, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:30-13:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Determining the direction of communication between the hippocampus and neocortex with layer-specific fMRI.

Oliver Warrington (UCL) .

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Towards a scientific understanding of science: the quantitative study of scientific activity

event registration form : https://forms.office.com/e/M9SrEBiMjf

Hongyu Zhou, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:30-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

SummaryMixing: A Linear-Time Attention Alternative

Shucong Zhang, Samsung AI Center.

Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87165608116?pwd=llCLiWvBAfOR7RtealbVtVbjXruh3O.1.

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

ML@CL Ad-hoc Seminar Series

Revealing the Unseen: AI's Role in Novel Target Discovery for High Unmet Needs Areas Through Multi-Omics Integration

Accelerate lunchtime seminar registration form : https://forms.office.com/e/M9SrEBiMjf

Namshik Han, Head of Computational Research & AI, Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge .

Computer Lab, FW11.

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:00-12:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Revealing the Unseen: AI's Role in Novel Target Discovery for High Unmet Needs Areas Through Multi-Omics Integration

event registration form : https://forms.office.com/e/M9SrEBiMjf

Namshik Han, Head of Computational Research & AI, Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge .

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Not too big and not too small – Bicycle peptides for precision targeted therapies

Dr Liuhong Chen, Bicycle Therapeutics.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells

Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Truth conditions at scale, and beyond

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 18 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Building synapses in the hippocampus

Prof Laura Andreae, King's College.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events

Adrian Horner (U. of York) .

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

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Tracking eye position and gaze direction in near-eye volumetric displays [practice talk]

Marek Wernikowski, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning

Greg Durrett, UT Austin.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

From parallel computing to parallel machine learning: Harness the power of parallelism for distributed optimization processes

Maxwell Cai (Intel Corporation).

East 2 room - West Hub.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Complex Robotic Systems: Modeling, Control, and Planning using Dual Quaternion Algebra

Bruno Vilhena Adorno, University of Manchester.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Open source research software project life cycles: understanding project maturity successes, and challenge events

Yo Yehudi - Open Life Sciences.

West Hub, East 1.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Scaling Up Mental Health Support: Automated annotation for Recovery Stories using AI

Shrankhla Pandey (University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 17 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Foster Talks

Hedonic and Homeostatic Mechanisms in Hunger Regulation: Insights into Hypothalamic Circuits

Bayram Yilmaz, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Bayesian latent multi-state modelling for longitudinal health trajectories"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcuutqTkoG9R7enI9iOHBr61dOjW5BTKl

Yu Luo, Kings College London.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploration, Empire, and a Revolution in the Natural History of the Pacific, 1769-1840

Dr Edwin Rose, AHRC Early Career Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advanced Research Fellow, Darwin College. .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our archaeal origins

Dr Buzz Baum.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries

Professor Lisa Hall FRSC CBE, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Networks in action: the crucial role of dynamics in networks neuroscience

Petra Vértes, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 14 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England

Tom Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 14 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populations

Ken Harris, University College London.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Friday 11 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Dr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fate versus free will; how does the environment shape early tumour survival?

Maria Alcolea - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students

Suchir Salhan (University of Cambridge), Matthieu Moulec (University of Cambridge), Paul Siewart (University of Cambridge).

SS03 and on Zoom, link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 11 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

Symmetry breaking decisions in stem cells from mouse bi-layered epithelia in development and regeneration.

Dr Silvia Fre - Institute Curie Paris.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control

Tim Rogers (Madison-Wisconsin/ MRC CBU) .

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

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

[CANCELLED] Color-Accurate Camera Capture with Multispectral Illumination and Multiple Exposures [practice talk]

Hongyun Gao, University of Cambridge.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The Transformer (OOD) House of Cards

Petar Veličković (Google Deepmind).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

In the age of the metaverse, metadata is even more important

Chris Wood - EPCC.

West Hub, East 1.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Producing carbon nanotubes and hydrogen from natural gas: can fossil fuels assist the energy transition?

Jack Peden, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 10 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Ten Years of Universal Dependencies

Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 I

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sleepless and Alone: The Impact of Sleep Loss on Human Social Behavior

Eti Ben Simon, The Center for Human Sleep Science, University of California Berkeley.

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

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions

Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

How Autistic Minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists

Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 02 October 2024, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

**Seminar cancelled**

Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 30 September 2024, 12:00-13:00

Foundation AI

Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data

Luke Braithwaite.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 27 September 2024, 17:00-18:00

RSE Seminars

Nonlinear Preconditioning for Implicit Solution of Discretized PDEs

Note change of venue

David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, CB3 0EZ.

Friday 27 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Enhancing Climate Prediction with Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning Models

Simone Monaco, Politecnico if Torino.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 26 September 2024, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Ellis Unit

Efficient protein flow models with optimal transport flow matching

Alexander Tong - Mila .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87584414342?pwd=0Jy43MhaGsPRZFt1MaENKRPApD1HmV.1.

Tuesday 24 September 2024, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Monday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

Predictability of midlatitude weather: Butterflies, error growth and AI models

Professor George Craig (LMU, Munich).

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

Friday 20 September 2024, 15:30-16:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Understanding color and gloss perception with deep neural networks

Takuma Morimoto, Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.

FW11 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 19 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Developing and evaluating interventions to support children with autism or other developmental disabilities in low-income contexts: insights from the SPARK project in Ethiopia and Kenya

Prof. Rosa Hoekstra, King's College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 18 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 11 September 2024, 16:30-18:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Different Target Prediction Algorithms for Automotive, HRI and VR Digital Twin

Prof. Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Wednesday 11 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Speaker to be confirmed.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 September 2024, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Autistic People's Access to Services in Europe

Dr Siti Nurnadhirah Binte Mohd Ikhsan, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 04 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Myelin plasticity is required for opioid reward

Dr. Belgin Yalçın (Michelle Monje group, Stanford University).

Part II Classroom, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 03 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Bayesian nonparametric spectral analysis of multivariate time series"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOmpqzMuHNHNuAnIvofAmb7HOCQIQwzW

Renate Meyer, University of Aukland.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data

Luke Braithwaite (University of Cambridge, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 23 August 2024, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 III

MR15 at the CMS.

MR15.

Wednesday 21 August 2024, 16:30-18:00