Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

Prof. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. .

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

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.

Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Acoustic Emission Data Analysis in Concrete Fatigue and Fracture: An Entropic Perspective

Nitin Burud, University of Surrey.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 15 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Examples of "control" in research and teaching at Physics

Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

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.

Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinearity in structural dynamics: when does it matter?

Dr Tore Butlin, University of Cambridge Engineering Department.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Conceptual structural design via graphic statics for the generation of materially-efficient, structurally expressive architectural forms.

Dr Marina Konstantatou.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 08 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design

Roger Reed, University of Oxford.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Learning to Predict and to Act - Exploring Structure in World Models and Latent Spaces

Ingmar Posner, Oxford University .

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic Systems

Panagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Tech .

Board Room, Baker Building, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Damping from fragmented materials

Dr Jem Rongong, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Strengthening of Existing Structures Using Novel High Performance Materials

Dr Andreas Lampropoulos.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 01 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior

Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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.

Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The acoustics of bouncing: drumsticks, impact hammers and church bells

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

On the Assessment and Design of Compressed Structures

Carlo Olivieri, Pegaso Università Telematica, Italy.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 23 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Scientific machine learning - opportunities and challenges from an industrial perspective

Dr Dirk Hartmann, Siemens.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Neuromorphic sensing and computing in today’s AI landscape

Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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.

James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Separate treatment of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in structural dynamics

Dr John Hickey, Trinity College Dublin.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 16 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart integral bridge design

Douglas Morley.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 16 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart integral bridge design

Douglas Morley.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 16 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-parallel based deep learning for the model order reduction of parametrized partial differential equations

Dr Nirav Vashant Shah, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Full field measurement technique enabling the discovery of new materials laws

Dr Zifan Wang, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Accommodating magnitude and rate-limits in model reference adaptive control systems

Matthew Turner, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

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.

Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution

Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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.

Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Railway Decarbonisation Technologies: Energy-efficient Train Operation and Renewable Traction Power Networks

Dr Zhongbei Tian, University of Birmingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The intersection of design, engineering and craft - what we learn by collaboration

David Knight, Cake Industries.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 02 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nanovoid Irradiation Hardening in Metals: A Mesoscale Perspective".

Dr Ashley Roach.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Role of Phase Transformation on Shock Compression Behavior of Iron

Dr Vatsa Gandhi, Ashby Fellow.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Energy-conserving equivariant GNN predictions of stiffness for lattice materials

Ivan Grega, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The world of modern technology and the natural world: how to negotiate the data driven world and nature itself

Neil Thomas, Atelier One.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 26 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamic rupture behavior and friction evolution revealed by laboratory experiments using ultra high-speed digital image correlation

Prof Vito Rubino École Centrale de Nantes, France.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design methodologies for performance improvement of smart structures

Dr Najib Kacem, femto-st Institute.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces

Professor Daniele Dini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

AI Engineering as Design Engineering: Creating User-Centric AI Systems

Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data informativity: a new perspective on data-driven analysis and control

Professor Kanat Camlibel, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen.

JDB Seminar room.

Friday 12 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sense, Think, Act: Decision and Control, from Biology to Technology

Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

LT6 Seminar Room.

Tuesday 09 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vehicle-bridge interaction in railways: forward and inverse applications

Dr Charikleia Stoura, ETH.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-driven ML-enhanced approaches to support accelerated materials design for extreme conditions

Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sound Control Synthesis with Logics and Data

Professor Alessandro Abate, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

New Innovative Idea on Bio Medical Research

Makoto Kaneko, Meijo University and Osaka University..

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

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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.

Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

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

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Control-based Continuation – A new paradigm for testing nonlinear systems

Dr Ludovic Renson, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Folding tape springs and “tapered” springs

Jamie Clarkson.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 24 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering

Prof Kumar Shanmugam, Professor of Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing, University of Glasgow.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial colonies

Aidan Brown, Edinburgh University.

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

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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.

Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Exploiting Structure for Scalable Design and Verification of Complex Systems

Professor Murat Arcak, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley.

Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Challenges in Bayesian inference and reliability with large numbers of uncertain parameters

Jan Koune, TU Delft.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The rational design of sociotechnical systems in healthcare

Tom Bashford,CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Passivity-based control of underactuated surgical robots

Enrico Franco, Imperial College.

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

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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.

Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systems

Prof Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Control, Estimation and Optimization in Multi-agent Systems

Professor Wei Ren, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside.

Department of Engineering, LT6, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact.

Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Modelling and analysis of electrical circuits with memristors for neuromorphic computing applications

Anne-Men Huijzer, University of Groningen.

Department of Engineering, LR5, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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.

Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Friday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Multi-criteria optimization of sustainable Timber-Concrete-Composite floor systems

Hossein Emami, Laval University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Theory of Stability Regions and its Practical Application in Online Stability Assessment of Large-Scale Power Grids

Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell University.

Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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.

Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Building stable tensegrities for engineering applications

Dr Ajay Harish, University of Manchester.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites

Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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.

Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active noise control: what's the best you can do?

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Don’t crush concrete, reuse it! Designing new structures with saw-cut reused concrete pieces.

Célia Küpfer, EPFL.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement, Assessment and Modelling of Heavy Goods Vehicle Energy Consumption

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Quantitative Microbiology With Smart Microscopy

Georgeos Hardo, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Mathematical driver model with a Gaussian Process internal model to represent learning behaviour

Harry Fieldhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Symmetry, Group Theory and Applications to Structural Mechanics

Professor Alphose Zingoni, University of Cape Town.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Welcome - introduction to the Group

Professor David Cebon.

JDB Teaching room, CUED.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys

Prof. Upadrasta Ramamurty, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Toward Better Bone Regeneration: Innovation in Metallic and Ceramic Scaffolds

Prof. Donghui Zhu,.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 29 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale design strategies for the progressive failure of architected materials and structures – Focus on interface cracking

Dr Federica Daghia, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Journey of Droplet through various spatio-temporal scales

Prof Saptarshi Basu.

LR3B, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 31 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The elastic stability and transitions between the unusual equilibrium states of a special hexagram ring

John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence

Prof. Wanlin Guo, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

LR3A, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials

Professor J.R. Greer, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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.

Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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.

Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain Energy

Prof Zdenek Bazant .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 16 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

WISE(Wearable Intelligent Sensors & Electronics) Research and Applications

Prof. Xueji Zhang, Shenzhen University.

LR6.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

AI for Sound

Prof. Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tea Time Talks - Poster Session

Group poster presentation.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Data-Driven Reduction of Non-Linearizable Dynamics for Solids, Fluids and Controls

Proffesor George Haller, ETH Zurich.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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.

Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

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

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The Transfer Matrix Method revisited: computations and applications to dynamics

Professor Atanas Popov, University of Nottingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Geometry and mechanics of liquid crystal elastomers

Dr John Biggins, University of Cambridge .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 02 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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.

Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CANCELLED - Nonlinear damping measurement in rotating fan and compressor disks

Dr Matt De Brett, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Tensegrity systems: a brief history

Geoff Morrow, StructureMode.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 26 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness

Prof Laura M. Machesky, department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale

Prof Dr Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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.

Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Blood pressure measurement: the mystery of inferring arterial pressure from outside of the body

Kate Bassil, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 19 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision

Prof William P. King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Student seminar - Effect of Prestress on the Bistability of Deployable Hinges, and Design of optimized reinforced concrete floor grillages

James Whitely and Tara Venkatadri, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Extraordinary Mechanics in Structures

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Monday 15 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Brightening clouds for regional cooling

Edmund Reardon, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problems

Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

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.

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Strategies for international electrification of heavy goods vehicles

Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Angus Low’s 3rd equation; serendipity in research

Professor Chris Burgoyne, University of Cambridge .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 05 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Coiled Muscle + Snapping Beams: From Nonlinear Mechanics to Miniature Robotic Design

Dr Sam Tawfick, University of Illinois .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservation

Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

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.

Burigede Liu.

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

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bogie Damage: Train or Track?

Dr Stuart Grassie, Railmeasurement Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Vector-based steering control in the insect brain

Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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.

Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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.

Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Advanced Tissue Biofabrication

Prof Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School.

Room LR6, Cambridge University Engineering Department, CB2 1PZ.

Friday 31 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of nature-inspired heterogeneous architected materials (HAMs)

Prof Bosco Yu, University of Victoria.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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.

Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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.

Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The taming of the tape spring: Practical methods for storing and deploying structural flexible tubes

Dr Andrew Viquerat, University of Surrey.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Seeing opportunity in failure: can common issues in metal Additive Manufacture help deliver innovative material solutions?

Prof. Iain Todd from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

CANCELLED - An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

Melanie Zeilinger.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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.

Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Automatic customization of transparency mode and audio equalization in ear buds

Dr Ole Nielsen, BOSE.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The Shear Paradox

Dr Michele W.T. Mak, University of Leeds .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Physics-enhancing machine learning strategies for friction force evaluation

Alice Cicrello, TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary Biology

Harrison Steel, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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.

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics by the sea with BBC Coast

Professor David Sharp, The Open University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The chase for fluid-structure interaction effects – An obsession or something important?

Dr Vegard Aune, NTNU, Norway.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks during cancer metastasis

Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning

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.

Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Human perception of transient longitudinal vehicle motion

Samer Abdelmoeti, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Elastic Mechanism – Exploring the Effects of Elastic Deformation on Kinematic Motion in Mechanisms, and Squashing a doughnut – analysis of tape ring flattening

Charles Gai & Jamie Clarkson, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 24 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strength prediction of polymer composite laminates under uncertainties using theory-guided machine learning

Prof Pedro Camanho, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Porto.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Learning and Control for Networked Autonomy

Konstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

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.

James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Soil-structure interactions during underground construction: measurement and monitoring

Dr Brian Sheil, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

Prof Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Microbial growth behavior and the control of protein synthesis in and out of steady state

Jonas Cremer, Stanford University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines

Prof Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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.

Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

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

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimization

Raphael Jungers, UC Louvain.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Complexity in Vibrations and Dynamics – Phenomena and Methods

Professor Norbert Hoffmann, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Geometric compatibility: from simple mathematics to complex materials, structures and mechanics

Dr Fen Fang, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Stress-unsupervised learning of material models using experimental data

Dr Akshay Joshi, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Multistable morphing structures

Professor Yang Li, Wuhan University .

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Feedback system analysis: back to the future

Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

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.

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Zero Carbon Cement

Dr Cyrille Dunant and Professor Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 03 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond

Prof Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Why is the clarinet like a violin?

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Using Architected Materials to Enable Novel Properties

Professor Yunlan Zhang, University of Texas .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Computationally derived correlations between segregation, microstructure variations and process-induced cracks in AM

Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University.

Meeting ID: 898 8054 7075 .

Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability

Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A spectrum of physics-informed machine learning approaches for problems in structural dynamics

Professor Lizzy Cross, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Design, Analysis and Applications of Well-behaved Non-linear Structures

Dr Mark Schenk, University of Bristol.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting

Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Smarter materials for simpler robotics

Andrew Conn.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Instabilities in kirigami structures

Dr Marcelo Dias, University of Edinburgh.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 09 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Background and uses of guided ultrasonics

Dr David Alleyne, CEO, Guided Ultrasonics Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networks

Sebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Active Rheology and Stiffening Control of cementitious materials

Professor Geert De Schutter, Ghent University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Probabilistic sensitivity using Fisher information and its symplectic eigenvalue decomposition

Dr Jiannan Yang, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A Swiss Structures seminar from FlexLab

Luna Lin, Fani Derveni, and Michael Gomez, EPFL Lausanne.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

What machine learning can do for (meta)materials-by-design

Dr Sid Kumar, Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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.

Andy Lin, MLG.

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

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Concrete Canvas – from university project to global company

Peter Brewin, Conrete Canvas.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 18 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective

Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On motor intelligence for soft robots

Cosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

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.

Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

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

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Development and validation of a user-friendly hybrid prediction tool for railway induced vibration

Professor Geert Degrande, KU Leuven.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Snap through Dynamics and some strategies for morphing

Professor Dominic Vella, University of Oxford.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 11 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructure control in metal additive manufacturing: a LEGO analogy

Dr Matteo Seita, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and control

Christian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tyre wear modelling of multi-axle trucks

Chen Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Theory and the Creation of Structures; Using the concepts of Airy, Maxwell, Michell, Heyman, Calladine, Pellegrino, Guest and McRobie to create structures

Bill Baker, SOM & University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 04 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cut it out - residual stresses in dynamic cell sheets

Dr Stephanie Hoehn, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgery

Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Sunday 30 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Identifying performance limits for active noise reduction in nonlinear systems

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Understanding Tensegrity with an Energy Function

Professor Simon Guest.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 28 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Simulating the Tumor Microenvironment for Immune Cell Interactions via Deployable Extrusion

Corrado Mazzaglia, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Smart micro-textiles: from bioinspired sensing to bioelectronic interface

Andy Wang CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Multivariable Control in 40 Minutes

Prof. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Graphic Statics as a Legendre Transform

Professor Allan McRobie.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 21 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment

Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Wearable technologies

Tamar Makin, MRC CBU at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A linearised hybrid FE-SEA method for built-up structures with nonlinear joints under random loading

Henry Allen, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

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

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An Introduction to the DVRG

Prof Hugh Hunt, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Welcome to term and to new PhD students

Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids

Dr Ankit Srivastava, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University.

LR6.

Friday 09 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

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

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Architected Materials Beyond the Laboratory: harnessing self-architecture and exploring extreme conditions

Carlos M Portela, MIT.

LR5.

Friday 01 July 2022, 10:00-11:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Controlling imperfect robot swarms

Hector Garcia de Marina, Universidad de Granada.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Clamping Stresses in Reinforced Concrete

Evan Bentz, University of Toronto.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CVDC Truck Demo

Dr Francesco Amoruso, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upcycling Structural Design – new developments

Corentin Fivet, EPFL.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits

Yuzhen Qin, University of California, Riverside.

JBD seminar room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Poster Session

Speaker to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

BRE Structural Testing and Investigation

David Stewart, BRE Group.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Control of DC Microgrids with Flexible Structure

Mahdieh S. Sadabadi, Queen Mary University of London.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

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

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Lagrange and Hamilton for damped systems with an unexpected link to quantum mechanics

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Crack-based assessment and retrofit of concrete members

Boyan Mihaylov, University of Liege.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Fundamental Limits of Learning with Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Friday 27 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Size-dependence of switching and stable behavior in biochemical systems

Monika Jozsa, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Some model testing experience of a floating wind turbine platform in a wave tank

Dr Jiannan Yang, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Form and Structure

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Form and Structure

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood

Prof Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Materials Innovation University of Maryland.

Meeting ID: 849 1452 9444 .

Friday 20 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Analysis and design of bio-inspired indecision-breaking decision makers

Alessio Franci, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 2376 0684 Passcode: 986863).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bowed-string transients: a challenging nonlinear oscillation problem

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Computational Imaging and Sensing: Theory and Applications

Prof. Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

David Burt, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Intelligent Structures for Low Noise Environments

Dr Jordan Cheer, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Compact Folding of Flat Arrays Composed of Panels with Uniform Thickness

Zhong You, University of Oxford.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 06 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins

Prof Pilar Ariza, University of Sevilla.

LR5, Baker Building, CUED.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Weak Control for Human-in-the-loop Systems

Masaki Inoue, Keio University.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 892 4602 0075 Passcode: 913765).

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bests of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Understanding the dynamic soil-structure interaction between buildings and nearby underground railway tunnels

Mr Tisal Edirisinghe, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On Minimax Adaptive Control

Anders Rantzer, Lund University.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 832 4377 0774 Passcode: 684832).

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Passivity, Monotonicity, and Network Optimization: New Perspectives for Network Systems Analysis

Daniel Zelazo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 837 4007 0422 Passcode: 081031).

Thursday 21 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

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

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordination

Praneeth Namburi, MIT.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 825 7950 4541 Passcode: 123551).

Thursday 14 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Dr Ulas Cilingir, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ørsted

Dr Ulas Cilingir, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ørsted.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 13 April 2022, 19:00-20:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Cybergenetics: A control theory for living cells

Corentin Briat, ETH-Zürich.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 3342 6333 Passcode: 367773).

Thursday 31 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

Emiel Hoogeboom.

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

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Advanced Sliding Mode Control

Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 0420 7880 Passcode: 578888).

Thursday 24 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of AI Alignment

Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

New Frontiers in Sensing for Infrastructure Management

Sriram Narasimhan, UCLA.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 18 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

blblblb

Speaker to be confirmed.

CUED LR4.

Friday 18 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Decarbonising the UK’s Heavy Goods Vehicles with an Electric Road System

Daniel Ainalis and Christopher de Saxe.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Challenging construction through computational and digital fabrication

Mariana Popescu, TU Delft.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 11 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically-instructive Scaffolds to Steer Tissue Regeneration: Merging Mechaniobiology with Biofabrication

Prof Lorenzo Moroni, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Complex Tissue Regeneration Department. Maastricht University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 11 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts

Bart Besselink, University of Groningen.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 842 0121 0459 Passcode: 338605).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The OAK | Prototype of a concrete shell as building floor for circular sustainable construction

Robin Oval, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 04 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Complexes and conservation: constructing numerical methods for physical systems

Prof Garth Wells, Hibbit Professor of Solid Mechanics, CUED.

CUED LR5.

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Learning-based control of soft robots

Thomas George-Thuruthel, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 839 0458 8067 Passcode: 572898).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

The FOCUS project: real-time monitoring to inform underground construction operations

Dr Brian Sheil, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Oxford.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 19:00-20:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Rail corrugation: a problem solved?

Stuart Grassie .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of Architected Materials Across Length and Time Scales

Prof Carlos M Portela, School of Engineering, MIT.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data-driven stabilization of nonlinear polynomial systems with noisy data

Meichen Guo, University of Groningen.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom: Meeting ID: 875 1060 6963, Passcode: 661347).

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Micp from micro to macro: towards bio-inspired geotechnics

Dr Alexandra Clarà Saracho, Affiliated Lecturer in Engineering, King's College, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Room 5, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Recent advances in Statistical Machine Learning for problems in Applied Mechanics

Dr Alice Cicirello .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Textile reinforcement: Research and application

Philipp Preinstorfer, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 18 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A phase-field model for ferroelectrics with general kinetics

Prof Laurent Guin, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 18 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Saddle-point dynamics, non-expansive semiflows, and necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence

Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge).

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Signature modes and formants: comparing stringed instrument

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Exploding, weeping and reversible phase transformations in ceramics

Prof Richard James, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 11 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Challenges from pipe installation to rehabilitation

Dr Haitao Lan - Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Passenger Discomfort during Longitudinal Vehicle Motion

Samer Abdelmoeti .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Data-driven Approaches for Structural Optimisation

Ahmet Oguzhan Yuksel, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Reconceptualising decarbonisation: Understanding UK industrial decarbonisation through the lens of megaprojects

Samual Stephenson, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Do we have enough energy resources for a net-zero 2050?

Jennifer Hawkin, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Designing vascular networks for tissue engineering

Andrew Guy.

CUED LR4.

Friday 04 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Biofabrication techniques for vascular graft and network

Dr Alex Justin .

CUED LR4.

Friday 04 February 2022, 14:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Decarbonising Road Freight

Prof David Cebon CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 28 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Epidemic mitigation through testing and optimal urban mobility

Muhammad Umar B Niazi, KTH.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Measurement, Assessment and Prediction of Energy Consumption of Heavy Goods Vehicles

Dr Xiaoxiang Na CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 21 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical metamaterials: Does toughness characterise fracture?

Dr Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea, Ashby Fellow, CUED.

CUED LR4.

Friday 21 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Structural Design for the World's New Tallest Building - DCH Tower

Xueyi Fu, National Master of Engineering Design and Geotechnique Investigation, China.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 21 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Safety

Neel Alex.

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

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

DYNAMICS AND VIBRATION TEATIME TALKS

Speaker to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Wednesday 05 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online-only.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Contraction and Convexity, Robustness and Regularisation

For the Zoom link to this talk, please e-mail tbb29@cam.ac.uk

Prof. Ian Manchester, University of Sydney.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 December 2021, 09:00-10:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Week 9

Speaker to be confirmed.

TBC - JDB Seminar room, CUED or Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 03 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Connectivity of Two-Dimensional Assemblies

Priyan Dias, University of Morutawa.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 03 December 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Shape-shifting assemblies in cutting and dividing cells

Dr Andela Šarić, UCL.

CUED LR6.

Friday 03 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Landslide pipe-soil interaction: new insights using fiber optic sensing and change detection photogrammetry

Geoff Eichhorn, Senior PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK.

Online via zoom.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 19:00-20:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Towards a Theory of Energy Conversion

Prof. Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

How to Conduct your own Predictive Simulations of Biomechanical Models

Sam Brockie .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Forward and inverse homogenization of cellular metamaterials

Prof Dennis Kochman, ETH Zürich.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Henk van Waarde, ETH Zurich.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic behaviour of anchored steel sheet pile retaining walls in sand

Alessandro Fusco, Senior PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 19:00-20:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Predicting Nonlinear Vibration Response Under Combined Harmonic and Random Excitation

Please note room change for this week.

John Hickey, CUED .

JDB Teaching room, CUED.

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Learning based multiscale modeling

Dr Burigede Liu, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Modeling human sensorimotor control for better control of surgical robots

Prof. Ilana Nisky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Stethoscope Acoustics

Max Nussbaumer, Acoustics Group.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Adaptive lightweight deployable structures as civil infrastructure

Ann Sychterz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 12 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Energy absorption of foams with non-linear variation in cross-sectional area under stationary impact BD

Dr Sri Datta Rapaka, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Active light-driven microfluidic components made of soft smart materials

Dr Klaudia Dradrach, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Optimal Secondary Frequency Control for Power Systems With Delay Independent Stability

Dr. Mengmou Li, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Mobilisable strength design for retaining walls and introduction of software PROWD

Dr Chuhan Deng, Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Model-Free Data-Driven Mechanics: A tutorial

Prof. Michael Ortiz, Caltech.

Meeting ID: 893 5973 8882.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 09:30-11:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Enhancing Reduced-order Models Using Insights from Nonlinear Modal Interactions

Dr Tom Hill, University of Bristol.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Quantifying and Controlling the Seismic Risk of Nonstructural Building Components

Dimitrios Konstantinidis, University of California, Berkeley.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 05 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioprinting with Microgel Materials

Professor Marcy Zenobi-Wong, Head of Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 05 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

Yixin Wang.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

A deterministic least squares approach for simultaneous input and state estimation

Greg Gakis, University of Cambridge.

LR 11, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

How to produce energy from geostructures

Dr Jean de Sauvage, Université Gustave Eiffel, France.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vulnerable Road-User Detection and Tracking

Yan Ke, Vehicles Group.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Disproportionate Collapse of Multi-storey Timber Structures

Milindu Jayasekara, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 29 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Development of a Reusable Thin-Shell Concrete Flooring System

Mishael Nuh, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 29 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Bayesian Optimisation for Structures: Challenges and Recommendations

Thomas Archbold, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 29 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Harnessing helpful heterogeneity in healing at the humeral head: The mechanics of the rotator cuff and its surgical repair

Prof. Guy M Genin, Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology Centre for Engineering MechanoBiology Washington University in St Louis.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 29 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active and Partially-Supervised Learning

Dr Nikolaos Dervilis, Sheffield University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Industrial ecology for infrastructure: Challenges and opportunities to change how we build the world

Shoshanna Saxe, University of Toronto.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 22 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Crack dynamics simulations in wood and other heterogeneous materials

Dr Jenny Carlsson, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 22 October 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators

Dr Morgan Barnes, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 22 October 2021, 14:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Planning Meeting + PI Presentations

CBL and Computer Lab PIs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Brake-actuated Axle Steering

Francesco Amoruso, Vehicles Group.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Improving the seismic performance of new and existing buildings through dynamic interaction with secondary structures

Alessandro Palmeri, Loughborough University.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 15 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Real Time Optical Probes of Phase Transitions in Nanoscale Materials

Dr Akshay Rao, Cavendish Laboratory, Physics, Cambridge.

CUED LR6.

Friday 15 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An introduction to the DVRG

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A tale of three towers

Chris Burgoyne, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 08 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Statistical Finite Element Method

Prof Mark A Girolami, Div D, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 08 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models

Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt.

https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09.

Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Closing The Gap Between Theory and Experiments in The Design of Biomolecular Feedback Circuits

Zoom meeting link to be released

Noah Olsman, Harvard University.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 05 August 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina Savin

Cristina Savin, New York University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85184505624?pwd=WnhWZWR1SjhxUXFDOWtPT2c2cG90Zz09.

Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal Pfister

Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84626937837?pwd=RC95RTdybkRlNHhOcThjclQzYUxkdz09.

Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Combining two mechanisms to produce neural firing rate homeostasis

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97625047934

Paul Miller, Brandeis University.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 01 July 2021, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Spiking Control Systems

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93178617889

Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 24 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

TTT Poster Session

Group - presentation of posters.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 18 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Graphical Nonlinear System Analysis

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96507147724

Tom Chaffey, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Stethoscope Acoustics - Cancelled (updated 11.6.21)

Mr Max Nussbaumer, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez

Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89542469691?pwd=bVJjdXJGd3BkaDk1SHk3a1dLZzlZUT09.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A reduced integration element for beam and column analyses

Evan Bentz, University of Toronto.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 11 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics, Additive Manufacture, and Characterisation of Lattice Biostructures

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Faezeh Shalchy, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 11 June 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A New Approach for 3D hydrogel printing; and a Study of Single-Cell Microfibre Interaction Dynamics

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Duo Zhang, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 11 June 2021, 14:00-14:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Mechanical response of unsaturated expansive soil

Dr. Khalid Abdalla, Lecturer East London University.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bistable microstructures under electrostatic loading

Dr Lior Medina, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class.

David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84495932262?pwd=MlFJL3Z3c1JmenFOY2xJQTNPSzdsQT09.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

On the fusion of data and models; the hybrid path to Diagnosis & Prognosis for Infrastructure

Eleni Chatzi - ETH Zurich.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Elastocapillary singularities in creasing & wetting

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Jacco Snoeijer.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Experimental unsaturated soil mechanics: Multi-physics and multi-scale outlooks

Prof. Enrique Romero, Director of Research, Head Geotechnical Laboratory, Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Statistical Finite Element Method

Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Railway vehicle-based monitoring of rail roughness to control noise and vibration

Tobias Carrigan Donfrancesco, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The dynamic response of soil-embedded piles near underground railway tunnels

Tisal Edirisinghe, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Seismic design of the next generation of rocking buildings with damage-control technologies

Christian Malaga-Chuquitaype, Imperial College London.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 28 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Linear and nonlinear inverse problems in imaging

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Leslie Greengar, New York University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 28 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Wave motion and beaming in 2D periodic structures

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Maximising the potential of the existing building stock

Danielle Densley Tingley, University of Sheffield, UK.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 21 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Electrochemo-poromechanical interactions: the case of ionic polymer metal composites

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Alessandro Leronni, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 21 May 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructurally-guided modeling of hard magnetorheological elastomers

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Dipayan Mukherjee, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 21 May 2021, 14:00-14:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Modelling large deformation problems in geotechnics (MPM)

Dr. Alba Yerro-Colom, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech .

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 19:00-20:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Blast response of laminated glass: an investigation of the post-fracture response with low temperature bending tests and gas gun impact tests

Socrates Angelides, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Edge-anchored micromachined disk resonator for gyroscopic application

Madan Parajuli, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Robotic Metamaterials: Additive Fabrication for Multi-materials and Multi-functionalities

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Rayne Zheng, UCLA.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers

Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84960287802?pwd=N1pTZGpKMjhhMTVVV1RNSS9Gc3Jqdz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Enabling Collective Synergies: From Design of Social Telepresence Interfaces to Analysis of Shared Mobility Systems

Dimitris Papanikolaou, University of North Carolina, USA.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 14 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Fuel optimal driving in traffic

Josh Subel, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 07 May 2021, 16:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Putting 3D Bioprinting to Tissue and Tissue Model Fabrication

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Y. Shrike Zhang, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 07 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Computational Design – Are we missing an opportunity?

Paul Sheperd, University of Bath, UK.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 07 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Human driving, vehicle dynamics and machine learning

Dr David Cole, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep Learning

Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

PANDA: a tool for lowering carbon in structural design

Dr Cyrille Dunant (University of Cambridge).

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 30 April 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Inflight printing of micro/nano fibres: from harvesting acoustic energy to detecting cell movement

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Andy Wenyu Wang, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 30 April 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Finite element modelling of hot compression testing of titanium alloys

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Patryk Jedrasiak, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 30 April 2021, 14:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

Andrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes

Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81961210430?pwd=cUZGbzU4NzJickd5THlsYzJ4cmlndz09.

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Gordon Wilson.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 16 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distribution and regulation of ion channels in neurons: Quantitative studies of global protein transport and homeostatic synaptic scaling

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99231423419

Adriano Bellotti, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 08 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof

Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Generalized Nash equilibrium seeking under partial information

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96326600203

Sergio Grammatico, TU Delft.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Securing the (mud)line – considerations in design of offshore foundation

Prof. Richard Whitehouse, Chief Technical Director in Sediment Dynamics, HR Wallingford, UK.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks

Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Structural Engineering: Not Just Bluebeam and Excel

Paul Paquet, Arup.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 19 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Dynamic soil-structure interaction in buildings with oil dampers.

Jad Boksmati, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Processes I have Known

Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An introduction to active noise reduction

Dr Ole Nielsen, Bose.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 12 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Concrete creep and micromechanics: challenges and ongoing investigations at EDF

Julian Sanahuja, EDF.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 12 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

The role of space in evolution: insights from microbial and viral expansions

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99083035008

Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Mechanics of Bioinspired Artificial Intelligence

Prof Markus J. Buehler, McAfee Professor of Engineering, MIT.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Representation Learning

Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Machine Learning in Structural Dynamics

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Prof Keith Worden, Sheffield University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Structural loads from high explosive blast: what we know and what we don't know.

Andy Tyas, University of Sheffield.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 05 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic soil-pile-structure interaction in soft clays and layered soils

Dr Thejesh Kumar Garala, Research Associate at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Learning based multi-scale modeling

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Prof Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Cement and CO2, the reality

Karen Scrivener, EPFL.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 26 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Information transfer from biological to analog microcircuits

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97349674751

Prof. Alain Nogaret, University of Bath.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

The impact of TBM EPB tunnelling on ground surface and existing buildings.

Professor Anna Lewandowska, Warsaw University of Technology.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Inference in Stochastic Processes

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Model-Free Data-Driven Science: Cutting out the Middleman

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Prof Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology .

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The world’s first metal 3D printed bridge – testing, simulation and verification

Leroy Gardner, Imperial College London.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 19 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Stabilization of Discrete-Time Switched Affine Systems and their Applications in Power Electronics

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98109940596

Dr. Lucas Egidio, Université Catholique de Louvain.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fairness in AI

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tristability, simulations mode actuation, and limit point behaviour in initially curved coupled micro beams

Dr Lior Medina, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 12 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital Fabrication of Concrete Structures at ETH Zurich

Walter Kaufmann, ETH Zurich.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 12 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioengineered ECM-Based Constructs as a tool for Composite Tissue Fabrication

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Idan Redenski, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 12 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Can we estimate the actual stiffness and mass of soil contributing to vibrations of monopiles for offshore wind turbines?

Dr Luke J Prendergast, University of Nottingham, UK.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Bayes as Surrogate Regression

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Introducing the Centre for Climate Repair

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 05 February 2021, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A Practitioners approach to carbon

Tim Mander, Integral Engineering.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 05 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The impact of glioblastoma heterogeneity on preclinical studies and treatment response

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Rasha Rezk (University of Cambridge).

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 05 February 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Symmetry in Crystal Structure Prediction

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

James Darby, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 05 February 2021, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Stability of Optimisation-based Control: Brief Review and New Results

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93349961156

Wen-Hua Chen, Loughborough University.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Remembering Professor David Newland

We would like to dedicate this week to remember David, and share past stories and experiences we had with him.

Group .

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 29 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modelling the creep deformation of engineering alloys for energy applications at different scales

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Prof Alan Cocks, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 29 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Innovative design criteria for piled foundations of wind turbines

Professor Luca De Sanctis, University of Naples ‘Parthenope’, Italy.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 19:00-20:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Development of a sensitivity toolbox for design in the presence of uncertainties: introduction and demonstration

Dr Jiannan Yang and Dr Luis Andrade, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 22 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Leading Multiphysics Modeling for AM and Emerging Design Approaches for Impacts

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Prof Claus Pedersen, R&D SIMULIA - Dassault Systèmes.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 22 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data-driven control à la Finsler and Yakubovich

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92943573797

Henk van Waarde, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits

Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-reinforcement learning

Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Multi-functional applications of graphene related materials in cementitious composites

Ioanna Papanikolaou, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge..

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 17 December 2020, 16:00-16:45

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of NeurIPS

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The role of twist in shell structures

Barney Salsby, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Practical Implementation of Bayesian Inverse problems in the context of Civil Engineering

Arnaud Vadeboncoeur, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Probabilistic assessment of low frequency floors due to human locomotion

Angus Peters, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Identification and model reduction of complex network systems

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93541687585

Dr. Xiaodong Cheng, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Processes

Andrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Indirect reconstruction of IC engine cylinder pressure

Professor Julian Dunne, University of Sussex.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 27 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Towards a theory of inelastic stability

Jurgen Becque, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 27 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Micromechanics of near-ideal polymer networks

Dr Laurence.Brassart, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

Friday 27 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hydraulic fracturing of artificially generated soft sandstones

Charalampos Konstantinou, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

CUED Control Group Seminars

A canonical brain computation: from mechanism to purpose

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99373703786

Dr. Yashar Ahmadian, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large-scale sequential experimentation

Wessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Energy harvesting from railway slab-tracks

Dr Mohammed Hussein, Qatar University.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 20 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Rapid 3D Bioprinting for Precision Tissue Engineering

Prof Shaochen Chen, Chair of NanoEngineering Department, University of California.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email yc512@cam.ac.uk.

Friday 20 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The Effect of Shear Crack Geometry on Aggregate Interlock Action in Reinforced Concrete

Hasini Weeransinghe, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 20 November 2020, 15:20-15:40

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Cross-Laminated Timber Deep Beams

Danielle Van Gilst, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 20 November 2020, 15:00-15:20

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Performance of drains in earthquake-induced liquefaction mitigation under new and existing buildings

Samy Garcia-Torres, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge..

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

CUED Control Group Seminars

A Digital Twin for Controlling Industrial Processes

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98082715567

Dr. Amritam Das, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Ballistic and blast response of structural materials: lessons from architecting materials

https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Prof Vikram Deshpande, CUED.

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

Robert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A Python package for dynamics and vibration measurements and analysis

Dr Tore Butlin, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Wind dynamics of tall timber buildings

Bridget Fryer, Structures Research Group, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

From Timber Engineering (via Reliability) to Structural Sensing

Thomas Reynolds, University of Edinburgh.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 13 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Wrinkling and Creasing in Soft Solids: A Global Bifurcation and Symmetry-Breaking Approach to Surface Instabilities

Dr Shrinidhi Pandurangi, CUED.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

Friday 13 November 2020, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Failure of a pre-cracked epoxy sandwich layer in shear

Dr Sina Askarinejad, CUED.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

Friday 13 November 2020, 14:00-14:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Biomimetic vascular self-healing systems for cementitious materials

Zijing Li, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

CUED Control Group Seminars

Electronics on the Brain

Prof. George Malliaras, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:05-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Passenger discomfort during longitudinal vehicle motion

Samer Abdelmoeti, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 06 November 2020, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Computing for Creativity and Performance in Structural Design

Caitlin Mueller, MIT.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation

Prof Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

Friday 06 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic behaviour of structures with basements in liquefiable soil

Dr Fiona Hughes, Graduate Geotechnical Engineer at Arup.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

CUED Control Group Seminars

Self-Healing Codes

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92275948382

Dr. Michael Rule, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best Papers from ICML 2020

Reading group participants.

https://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An ambient vibration-based bridge scour monitoring system

Kasun Kariyawasam, Structures Research Group, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 30 October 2020, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Bayesian optimisation of nonlinear and imperfect structures

Tianyi Liu (University of Cambridge).

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 30 October 2020, 15:40-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Tailored Concrete for Durability

Jess Forsdyke, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 30 October 2020, 15:00-15:20

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Analytical homogenization estimates for the transient and steady-state response of elasto-viscoplastic polycrystals

Shuvrangsu Das, CUED.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

Friday 30 October 2020, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

On the Multiscale Mechanics of Plasticity and Damage in Magnesium

Padmeya Indurkar,CUED.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

Friday 30 October 2020, 14:00-14:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The Sustainability of Standardisation – how to mass manufacture residential buildings?

Reka Mandoki, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 15:20-15:40

CUED Control Group Seminars

Understanding and engineering biological networks using timelapse microfluidic microscopy

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93507110597

Somenath Bakshi, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A system integration route towards resonant MEMS sensing

Malar Chellasivalingam, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 23 October 2020, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Sustainability as a Structural Engineer - Past, Present, Future

Natasha Watson, Buro Happold.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 23 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New 1D models for localisation in slender structures

Claire Lestringant, Structural Engineering, Cambridge.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

Friday 23 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Self-healing cut-off wall materials

Benyi Cao, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:00-16:45

CUED Control Group Seminars

An Optimal Control Approach to Covid-19

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97430090424

Prof. Jan Maciejowski, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Source-receiver interaction: train-induced loading of piled foundations

Tisal Edirisinghe, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 16 October 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Railyway vibration: from track to nearby buildings

Dr David Connolly, Associate Professor, University of Leeds.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 16 October 2020, 16:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Efficient Constitutive Model for Crash Analysis of Mineral-filled Polymers

Dr Andrea Codolini, CUED.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk or hh463@cam.ac.uk or jsb56@cam.ac.uk.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:30-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Earthquakes in a laboratory by squeezing a 3 m rock

Gregory C. McLaskey, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Cornell University.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Taming Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Dr LukaCmok, CUED.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk or hh463@cam.ac.uk or jsb56@cam.ac.uk.

Friday 16 October 2020, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An introduction to the DVRG

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 09 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Design and Control of Structures that Adapt to Loads through Large Shape Changes

Genaro Senatore, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 09 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanobiology of Cells and Extracellular Matrices

Prof Carlijn Bouten, Eindhoven University of Technology.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk or hh463@cam.ac.uk or jsb56@cam.ac.uk.

Friday 09 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

EML webinar Liquid crystal elastomers

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMWBNGZ1gP5eSjmynSFvWA/live

Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharaya's.

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Tile Vaults as Integrated Formwork for Concrete Shells

Dr. David Lopez Lopez, UPC, Spain.

Zoom (email gh465@cam.ac.uk for link).

Wednesday 23 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Tile Vaults as Integrated Formwork for Concrete Shells

Dr. David Lopez Lopez, UPC, Spain.

Zoom (email gh465@cam.ac.uk for link).

Wednesday 23 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Concrete Shear Strengthening with Embedded FRP bars: Recent Advances and Required Research

This talk is also part of the Division D seminar series

Dr. Samir Dirar, University of Birmingham.

Zoom (email gh465@cam.ac.uk for link).

Wednesday 09 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The need and state-of-the-art tools for rapid advances in global vibration serviceability research

Prof. Alex Pavic, University of Exeter.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Wednesday 26 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Automation for the circular economy in the built environment

Catherine De Wolf, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Monday 27 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Long-term basement heave in over-consolidated clay, or how to design an underground station using a time machine

The seminar will be delivered online via Google Meet platform. To join, please click on the link below on Thursday, 23rd July 2020 at 4:00 pm BST

Deryck Chan, CUED.

Delivered online via Google Meet.

Thursday 23 July 2020, 16:00-16:45

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Structural Engineering and Sustainable Heritage: beyond conservation of historic buildings

Alejandra Albuerne, University College of London.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Tuesday 21 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Wind Effects on Structures: Fundamentals to Emerging Frontiers

Ahsan Kareem, NatHaz Modeling Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 19 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D Printing and Biofabrication of Functional Material and Dynamic Systems

Dr Yan Yan Shery Huang, CUED.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81286483911?pwd=NXlMZmpoVytsZE9GcDBqck8zWmJiUT09.

Friday 12 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Transmission and reflection at the boundary of a random two-component composite

register for this seminar : https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GgUwoeBdSEuFoapyPpDe0A

Professor John R. Willis, University of Cambridge.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Nonlinear resonance and excitability in interconnected systems

Ilario Cirillo, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of Robotic Matter

https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Professor Chiara Daraio,Caltech.

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

Monday 08 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tea Time Talk Poster Session

The poster session will be on-line from 3.30pm. Please email div-c@eng to request the password for joining.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online (Zoom) - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81551153300?pwd=T3pWUjN6WjREcjVmeFk1VUJaRVR2QT09 Meeting ID: 815 5115 3300.

Friday 05 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

System Identification of Neuronal Behaviors

Thiago Burghi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanical side of artificial intelligence

Dr Rob Wood, Harvard.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459 Meeting ID: 814 9226 3459.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics of the banjo

On-line tea from 3.30pm with talk starting at 4.00pm. Please email div-c@eng to request the password for joining.

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

Online (Zoom) - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81551153300?pwd=T3pWUjN6WjREcjVmeFk1VUJaRVR2QT09 Meeting ID: 815 5115 3300.

Friday 29 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Offshore Wind Farm Construction

Gillian Smith.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 29 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On feedback control of switches and oscillators based on dominance theory

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department..

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New Horizons in Microarchitectured Materials

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Prof Norman Fleck, Cambridge University.

Zoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

"Live" from the Trinity College Clock

On-line tea from 3.30pm with talk starting at 4.00pm

Dr Hugh Hunt, CUED.

Online (Zoom) - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81551153300?pwd=T3pWUjN6WjREcjVmeFk1VUJaRVR2QT09 Meeting ID: 815 5115 3300.

Friday 22 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Shaping Shells with Spontaneous Curvature

Dr Douglas P. Holmes, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459 Meeting ID: 814 9226 3459.

Friday 22 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

New models for highly deformable structures

Claire Lestringant (University of Cambridge).

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 22 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

Postponed due to COVID-19

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Geometric Thinking in Engineering and Applied Sciences

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department..

Thursday 21 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Soft-bodied Magnetic Small-scale Mobile Robots.

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Zoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Decarbonising long-haul road freight: hydrogen or electricity?

On-line tea from 3.30pm with talk starting at 4.00pm

Professor David Cebon, CUED.

Online (Zoom) - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81551153300?pwd=T3pWUjN6WjREcjVmeFk1VUJaRVR2QT09 Meeting ID: 815 5115 3300.

Friday 15 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Insight into the fire spalling behaviour of concrete and challenges of its experimental assessment.

Marcus Maier (University of Cambridge).

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 15 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Tradeoffs in biological optimisation

Dhruva Raman, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multistable structures - from energy trapping to morphing.

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Prof Katia Bertoldi, Harvard.

Zoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Injectable therapeutic vascularized micro-tissues engineered using sacrificial hydrogels

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459

Dr Ninna Rossen (BRIC-University of Copenhagen).

Online.

Friday 08 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Title to be confirmed

Postponed due to COVID-19

Prof Mustafa Khammash.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Hierarchical Robust Performance Analysis of Uncertain Large Scale Systems

Khaled Laib, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Extreme mechanics of soft materials for merging human-machine intelligence

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684

Prof Xuanhe Zhao, MIT.

Online.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR 2020

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Self-excited motions of volatile drops on swellable sheets

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459

Dr Aditi Chakrabarti, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

Online.

Friday 01 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Post tensioning for structural innovation: an overlooked perspective

Leonardo Todisco, Technical University of Madrid.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 01 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Simulation-assisted discovery of membrane targeting nanomedicine

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684

Prof Huajian Gao, Nanyang Technological University.

Online.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Planning

Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Zoom seminar - Virtual laboratory for reinforced concrete: Lattice modelling

Peter Grassl, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Enabling Ideas in the Mechanics of Bio-Integrated Electronic Systems – From COVID-19 Patients to Engineered Mini-Brains

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684

Prof John A Rogers at Northwestern University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop.

https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30