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THIS LIST IS SUPERCEDED BY ‘Neuroscience Seminars’. The Neuroscience Seminars listing is intended to combine all neuroscience-related seminars in Cambridge, including computational neuroscience and machine learning. If you are the manager of a list that ought to be included there, please contact Duncan Simpson or David MacKay (mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk) THIS LIST is included by ‘Neuroscience Seminars’ in order to get the 10 individual seminars added by DJCM . If you have a question about this list, please contact: David MacKay. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 5 upcoming talks and 1222 talks in the archive. The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memoryThe host for this talk is Deborah Talmi
Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults.The host for this talk is Trevor Robbins
Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation
Cortical interneurons in health and disease.The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley
Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings
Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep
Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohortsThe host for this talk is Varun Warrier
When Art meets PsychologyThe host for this talk is Nicky Clayton
What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of CognitionThe host for this talk is Clive Wilkins
Pathways forward from psychiatric geneticsThe host for this talk is Varun Warrier
Modern Bayesian Experimental Design
How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape LanguageThe host for this talk is Kanad Mandke
Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigationThe host for this talk is Deborah Talmi
The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism
Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticityThe host for this talk is Amy Milton
Representation and computation in visual working memory
Cortical gradients of functional integrationThe host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem
Title to be confirmedThe host for this talk is Paul Bays
Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scopeThe host for this talk is Paul Bays
Decoding the neural processing of speechThe host for this talk is Usha Goswami
A new approach to understanding eye design
Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"
Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent
Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinctionThe host for this talk is David Belin
Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts
Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry
The DNA revolution and psychology
What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versa
Choice under Computational ComplexityThe host for this talk is Lee De-Wit
Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attentionThe hosts for this talk are Tristan Bekinschtein and Andrés Canales-Johnson
Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations
The Neuroscience of Reading: Tracing words from the page through the brain
Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causalityThe host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinctionTHIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED OWING TO THE RAIL STRIKE
Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle
Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policyThe host for this talk is Lee De-Wit
Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet?
Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs
The measurement of difficult things: From psychophysics to psycho-oncology
Brain charts for the human lifespan.
Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances
Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport
Disruption of Information in Working MemoryThe host for this talk is Deborah Talmi
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction
Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement
Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing
Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation
Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder
Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypesThe host for this talk is Simon Baron-Cohen (sb205@cam.ac.uk)
Plastic brains for flexible decisions
What kind of network is the brain?
Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data
Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study
Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles
Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks
Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition
Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development
Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination
Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19
Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition
A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird.
Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields
Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior
Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments
Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research
The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations
What does magic tell us about free will?
Time perception as accumulation of salient events
Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies
Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour
Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking
Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect
Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections
Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience
Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership
Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge
Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors
Rethinking food reward
An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity
Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences?
Being an I: Cognitive and Neurobiological processes of “Self” models
The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism
- Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness
[NEW DATE:11th of December] Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control developmentPlease note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm
Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racismPlease note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm
Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuationPlease note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm
Understanding FallismPLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS ZANGWILL HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodentsPlease note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm
Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic MinoritiesPlease note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm
This talk happens earlier this week. in a shared event between Zangwill and SPSS.
How is Human Social Cognition Special?Please note, this talk is combined with the Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
The case for formal methodology in scientific reformPlease note, virtual tea at 4.15pm with talk starting at 4.30pm
Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities
Psychedelic Relationship EnhancementTopic: Zangwill Zoom Meeting _Brian Earp Time: Jun 5, 2020 04:00 PM London 4-430pm social with Brian pre-Zangwill 430 to 6pm Talk + discussion.
The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic representation and its disorders
Fragile Memories for Fleeting PerceptsWe will have a Tea and coffee informal gathering from 1pm to 1.30pm and the talk will start at 130.pm followed by questions and discussion at 230pm.
Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts
Title to be confirmedPLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)
Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play
Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry
Modern Outrage and the Perversion of PunishmentPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM
Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.
Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression
Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease
Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift
Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescencePLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA THIS WEEK
Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making
Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors
Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!
Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machinesPlease note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm
The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight
Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long wayPLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR - THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY
Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes
Anhedonia and Adolescent DepressionPLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activityPlease note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm
Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and Efficiency
Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time series
How we remember and how we forget
Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations
Title to be confirmedPLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL TALK THIS WEEK
Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space
The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseasesPlease note: This is a Pre-Zangwill Talk - see change of venue
Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles
Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA
Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep Learning
Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks
Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks
Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of Plaids
Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational Inference
Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local Competition
First steps in experimentally exploring human visual and auditory development in utero
Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and Divisiveness
Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural BedfellowsPLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM
Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT ProjectPLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA AT 4.00PM
Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence?
The neurobiology of perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connection
Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM
Binocular vision and the control of hand movements
Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees
Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinationsPLEASE NOTE, WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY. THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1.00PM. PLEASE ALSO NOTE, THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY
Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision MakingPLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM
Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms
NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs
Attention modifies the weights of competing stimulus sources during integrated visual decision making
Global model explainability via aggregation
Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care
The K-FAC method for neural network optimization
"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."
Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception
From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.
In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry
Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks
Animal models of episodic memory
Online Meta-Learning
Adaptation Produces Change-Salience
Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity
Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology
High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay
Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds
Title to be confirmedTHIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies
Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems
Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life
Visual categorization of simple stimuli
Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms
Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models
"Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"
Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms
Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know
Making sense of time in the Human mind
Social timing in autism spectrum disorders
Sleep for Systems Consolidation
Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences
Title to be confirmedPLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL CLUB TALK THIS WEEK
Cortical mechanisms underlying integration of local visual cues to form global representations
How Paranoia Affects Social Cognition and Behaviour
Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning Algorithms
Modelling cortical gain in autism (without neuroimaging)
Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answers
Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD)
Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models
Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models
Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond
Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations
Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis
Metacognition of internally-generated processes
Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect Features
Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity: a biologically inspired and implemented motion model
Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks
Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex
Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamicsThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology
A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGD
Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks
Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology
What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception?
Structure in tensor-variate data: a trivial byproduct of simpler phenomena?
How is visual perception biased
: Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties
Gaze and Locomotion in Natural Terrains
From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis.
Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speechThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology
Lipschitz Global Optimization
Using narratives to understand human conscious experience
A conversation on his life and work with Prof David SpiegelhalterPLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE AND CHANGE OF TIME: This is a shared event with the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, please sign up https://goo.gl/LPAAaF
Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening
Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and Expertise
Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priors
Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks
Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory
Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates.The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi
Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation.
Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control
Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent
Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain
Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual systemThe host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays
Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia
Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization
Information networks, truth and value.
The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memoryThe host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays
Touch: The sensory scaffold of development?
Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-making
An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory
How Power Affects Those Who Possess it: Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation
Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning
The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status
Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering
Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision
A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care
Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices
The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness
Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation
Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image Inpainting
Deep learning for autonomous driving
Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learningThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology
Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions
A simple neural network module for relational reasoning
Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks
Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks
Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex
On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks
Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system
The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour.
A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortexPLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN SPECIAL EXTRA TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 4.00PM
Do we control language or does language control us?
Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man.The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)
Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNs
"The koniocellular visual pathway"
Observations from the Edge of Beauty
Information Engineering Division seminar list Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic Programs
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks
Differentially Private Bayesian Learning
Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making
Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Control, inference and learning
Differential Privacy Tutorial
Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertisePLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF SPEAKER THIS WEEK
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets
“How does melanopsin help us to see?“
Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertisePLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks
Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making?
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization
Learning to learn: lessons from action video games
Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programs
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization
Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal CortexDUE TO ILLNESS, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs
Weaponized Lies: An American neuroscientist speaks on the post-truth era (and what we can do about it)PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE ON DOWNING SITE
Variational Bayes In Private Settings
Julia: Introduction and new developments
Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints.
"Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing"
‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB TALK
When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decodingThe host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)
Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated models
Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot Collaboration
Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perceptionThe host for this talk is Zoë Kourtzi (zk240@cam.ac.uk)
Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models
One day meeting on vision and neuroscienceIn the Craik Club tradition, the administrative arrangements for this meeting are minimal. There is no registration fee. However, so that we can cater appropriately (and also for security reasons), we do ask you to sign up at http://doodle.com/poll/hrd
Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development
Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain
Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity
A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddings
Rejection Sampling Variational Inference
Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series
Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?
The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition
A talk in two parts: (1) AI Neuroscience: How much do deep neural networks understand about the images they classify? (2) Robots that can adapt like animals.Note venue: James Dyson Building
Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets?
Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable Models
Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstration
Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations
See what you hear - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses -
Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors
Visual Attention Without Visual Awareness
The psychological and neural basis of the individual vulnerability to compulsive disorders: new insights from preclinical studies.
Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCA
Multiresolution Matrix Factorization
Dynamic Models for Health Data
Learning with Memory Embeddings
Data Driven Discrete Time Modeling of Continuous Time Nonlinear Systems: Problems, Challenges, Success Stories
Inference as Learning
Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured Data
Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series Methodology
Attention filters for features
Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian Inference
Wings inform: mechanosensing in insect flight control.The host for this talk is Paloma Gonzalez Bellido
A modular architecture for Unicode text compression
Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task LearningVia Skype
Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learningVia Skype
Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity
Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical Models
Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networksNote: via Skype!
Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal Mathematics
Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximations
Novel MCMC and SMC schemes for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models
Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in Julia
Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech Recognition
Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic Modeling
Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspective
Perception as a closed-loop convergence processThe host for this talk is Máté Lengyel. Note the unusual time and the unusual location
“Why are rods more sensitive than cones?”
Measuring rodent affect: Rethinking taste aversion and (some) models of psychiatric disorder."
MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical Models
An engineering approach to aversive learning.
The Invention of Consciousness
Sensory receptor diversity and colour vision range in butterflies and dipteraThe host for this talk is Paloma Gonzalez Bellido
Flight, flow and gaze control: Design principles of fly stabilization reflexes
Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control.
Natural statistics and human perception of shape and glossThe host for this talk is Dr Andrew Welchman
Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming System
Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural Assumptions
Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time seriesPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED
The geometry of uncertainty
The typical and atypical development of the social brain
New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain
How rational are we?
A more Automated Statistician
Colour perception in synaesthesia
A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions.
Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again)
Probing Visual System Organization after Injury with fMRI
Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomics
New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false.
Eye movements for sampling and calibrating visual informationThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology
General Reinforcement Learning
Grady Nia Project: Assessing and Treating Abused, Suicidal WomenPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30
Understanding the forgetful and apathetic brainPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30
Specular surfaces improve colour constancy
Modulating drug taking and drug seeking through TAAR1 activationPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30
Studying natural speech processing at the phonemic level using EEGPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30
Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising model
The prenatal sex steroid theory of autismPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30
Methods and mechanisms of motion dazzle
Phonological and Morphological Processes in Reading and Reading AcquisitionPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30
"Where"Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30
Creating Solidarity by Making Bodies Alike, but Creating Hierarchy in Physical DimensionsPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30
Meta-Bayesian Analysis
Efficient Inference and Learning with Intractable Posteriors? Yes, Please.
The Importance of Feeling Honest : A Candid Take on Moral MotivationPLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: This is a special Zangwill Club Seminar, being held jointly with the Moral Psychology Conference
Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studies
Harmonic Exponential Families and Group-Equivariant Convolution Networks
Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped Parameters
A-Star Sampling Review
Convex Factorization Machines
Belief and Truth in Hypothesised Behaviours
Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and Perception
Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality
The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphs
Visual perceptual learning: A new perspectiveThe host for this meeting is Professor Zoë Kourtzi
Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific Discovery
MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences(via Skype!)
Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization through reversible learning
Rich Component Analysis
A new MCMC hybrid scheme for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models
Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling RegressionSHORT TALK (20 minutes)
Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & Recommendation
Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learning
Random Function Classes for Machine Learning
Explaining Non-Linear Classifier Decisions with application to Deep Learning
Deep Gaussian processes and variational propagation of uncertainty
Deep Learning
Random Function Classes for Machine Learning
Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable Models
Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable Models
Structural Markov laws / Geometry and HMC
Mean Field Approaches to Two Sequential Decision Making Problems.This talk will be given via Skype
Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?
Mechanisms of imitation: insights from typical and autistic cognition
Adjusting accordingly: prefrontal areas updating valuations for objects and actions
Probabilistic numerics: treating numerical computation as learning, or; it's Bayes all the way down
Impact of Diversity on Social Cohesion: Implications of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact
Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural NetworksShort talk
Adult age differences in social cognition
Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance: A collaboration between the Cambridge Machine Learning Group and Cambridge Capital Management
Imaging and Stimulating adaptive brain plasticity
Title to be confirmed
Perceptual Organization of Shape
Inference for infinite mixture models and Gaussian Process mixtures of experts using simple approximate MAP Inference
Evolutionary dynamics in a continuous public goods game
An introduction to the Mondrian Process
Premembering Perception
Population Inference for Functional Brain Connectivity
Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations
Neural representation of complex space
A* Sampling
Active Sensing and Brain oscillations
The Evolution of Culture
Orthologous networks in biological systems
Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual Judgments
How and why does an extra sex chromosome affect neurodevelopment?
Material matters: the brain knows the binocular statistics of gloss
Latent Branching Trees
Upstairs-Downstairs- The Gut Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and Behaviour
Experiments with Non-parametric Topic Models
The application of psychological theories to clinical practice
The Blended Paradigm: A Bayesian Approach to Handling Outliers and Misspecified Models
Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activityThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi
Speech Rhythm and Temporal Structure: A Temporal Sampling Perspective on Phonology and DyslexiaPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM
Machine Translation with LSTMsRoom changed to LR3B in Inglis building and time changed to 10:30
Oracle Variational Inference
‘I can get that song out of your head: Decoding perceptual representations with retinotopic and tonotopic maps.’
Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty to the public and policy-makersPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM
How independent of semantics are phonology and syntax? Evidence from Semantic DementiaPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM
Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometersshort talk
Genes and environment in adolescent attachment: a challenge to the received wisdom?PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM
Neural Systems for NavigationPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM
Fading and Filling-in
Conjoint Measurement for assessing the contributions of different stimulus dimensions within a signal detection framework.
Thinking flexibly and enhancing cognitionPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM
A Tutorial on Probabilistic Programming
Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective.
Dopamine Neuron Regulation and its Disruption in Schizophrenia and DepressionPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM
Evolution of vertebrate photoreception and retinoid cycle: Clues from the eye transcriptome of basal vertebrates
The Marshmallow Test: Understanding self-control and how to master itTHIS IS AN SPECIAL EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR. PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM
Thinking about thinking about thought: Neural mechanisms for understanding other mindsPLEASE NOTE: ALL ZANGWILL CLUB TALKS THIS TERM WILL START AT THE EARLIER TIME OF 3.00PM
Color Transformations Across the Life Span: Two Hypotheses about Modulation by Light
Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesisThe host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert
New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine Learning
A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture models
Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction
Unsupervised Many-to-many Object Matching
Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging community
On the Bethe approximation
Gaussian process regression on graphs
Implicit Representation Networks
Scalable Deep Gaussian Processes
A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception.
Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian Processes
Bayesian monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence?NOTE THE SPECIAL VENUE (Microsoft Research)
Perception, Plasticity and Prediction: how the brain learns from experience
Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt.Room changed to LR4
A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviour
Bayesian inference for integer-valued Lévy processes with Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck volatility modellingshort talk (30 mins) - NOTE TIME CHANGE
Machine Learning Seminar Series @ CUED Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential FamiliesThis talk has been canceled/deleted
Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families
The integration of sensory cues across development
Stable Poisson-Kingman species sampling priors generated by general ordered size biased generalized gamma mixing distributions
The Conscious Phenotype
Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffects
Title to be confirmedPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Probabilistic computing applications: BayesDB and stochastic digital circuits
Probabilistic computing for Bayesian inference
Machine Learning and Order Book Dynamics
Policy Evaluation with Temporal Differences
Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric Optimization
Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and Methodologies
Studies of the human brain during experimental and natural conditions using intracranial recordings and electrical brain stimulationPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THURSDAY 13TH MARCH INSTEAD OF THE USUAL FRIDAY" THIS IS A SPECIAL EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR"
Learning to Learn for Structured Sparsity
Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Neurocomputation of Value
Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organizationHost: Professor Zoë Kourtzi
Bayesian nonparametric dynamic-clustering and genetic imputation
Investigating cognitive mechanisms in major depressive disorder using novel translational animal models
Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights.Note: time is 12 noon (*not* 11am)
Bayesian canonical correlation analysis
Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype)Interview talks via Skype
Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideas
Limits to Goal-Directed Action Control - Implications for Psychopathologies
Particle filters and curse of dimensionalityNote: TALK via Skype!
Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint ModelingNote: TALK via Skype!
Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power Disaggregation
The role of the motor system in action perception
Probabilistic machine learning for knowledge extraction from videos and textNote venue: LR6
The role of "means selection" and "outcome selection" information in infants' goal attribution
Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric Bayesian credible sets
Crossmodal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism & synaesthesia, & their application to multisensory marketing
Functional architectonics of local masking in three dimensions
Fairness, trust & reciprocity: insights from decision neuroscience
Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms
Conditioned Nausea: Experimental Analysis and Practical Applications
Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic Programs
Sparse discriminative latent characteristics for predicting cancer drug sensitivity
Topographic processing of numerosity in the human brain
Hermann Lotze and Local Sign
The miswired brain – from altered neurodevelopment to psychopathology
Risk, uncertainty and feedback: How and what we learn from observing the outcome of our choices
What We Need to Know about Intelligence but Do Not'
Contrastive Learning Using Spectral Methods
Drug addiction: neural mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habits
The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light
Economical brain networks
Re-contextualizing the hippocampus
Plasticity, and its limits, in the adult visual system: Contrast adaptation from 4 minutes to 4 days
Benefits and limitations of hearing aids
Nonparametric Bayesian statistics with exchangeable random structures
Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationships
CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionCANCELLED
Clustering Based on Predictive Variances in Gaussian Process Regression Models
Non-Parametric Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision and Image Processing
Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency Situations
Annealing Between Distributions by Averaging Moments
Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality
Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies
Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies
The combinatorial structure of conditionally i.i.d. negative binomial processes directed by a beta process
Google's Approach to Building Relationships with Universities: Presentation and Talk by Dr David J Harper
"Bonsai trees in your head: the powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision-making".Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Heterogeneity in Cognitive AgingTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Matrix Concentration Inequalities via the Method of Exchangeable Pairs
Emotional disorders and mental imageryTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Deep Gaussian Processes
Approaches to statistical modeling of network data
The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's DiseaseTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Bayesian nonparametric methods for non-exchangeable data
Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State Segmentation
Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family
An application of HDP And IBP for stream-based action recognition and high dimensional data
Title to be confirmedTHIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Using Context and Insight for the Analysis of LittleData?
All work and no play
Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxes
Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autism
Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes Processes
Experience-related changes in the adult auditory system
Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers
Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents
Structural Expectation Propagation (SEP): Bayesian structure learning for networks with latent variables
Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learning
Volition and AgencyTHIS TALK IS A JOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR TO BE HELD AT 15 CHAUCER ROAD CAMBRIDGE. PLEASE NOTE: THIS PARTICULAR LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF THE USUAL FRIDAY.
Disturbing vision: neural efficiency, haemodynamics and homeostasis
Individual differences in human perception
A molecular basis of innate and learned behavior
The combinatorial structure underlying a beta processes is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemes
ERP evidence of reduced perceptual filtering predicts superior visual search in individuals with high levels of autistic traits.
Learning of Milky Way Model Parameters Using Matrix-variate Data in a New Gaussian Process-based Method
Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisionsTHIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks
How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see?
The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in Memory
Identification of causal effects
Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulations
Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gambling
Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar Distributed, Real-Time Bayesian Learning in Online Services
Title to be confirmed
Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modelling
Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition.
Compressed Sensing Applications in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending
Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories
Efficient Sampling with Kernel Herding
Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learning
Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general framework
Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing Costs
Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields
Perception of motion blur during eye movement
Data Modelling With Neural Networks (II): Content-Addressable Memories And State-Of-The-Art Error-Correcting CodesLast Lecture!
Approximating Probability Distributions (IV): Variational Methods
Fast Gaussian process learning for regression, semi-supervised classification, and multiway analysis
Non-parametric Bayesian Learning of User Preferences: Elicitation, Sparsification and Beyond
Structured Prediction using Linear Programming Relaxations
Vision for reading
A new look at gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamics
Advanced Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference
The wonder of hue: the non-monotonic contribution of S-cones to blueness
A new look at human motor controlThe host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.
Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant Optimization
Approximating Probability Distributions (I)-(II): Monte Carlo Methods and Variational InferenceTwo lectures!
An Introduction to Statistical Inference, Data Modelling & Pattern RecogntionTwo Lectures!
Perceptual learning: Improving letter recognition and reading speed
Communication over noisy channels (III)Note unusual time
The Determination of Memory Course after Retrieval
Imprinted genes, brain and behaviour
Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimation
Communication over noisy channels (II)
Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive control
Past work and future interests: respectively, the scattering of Anyons and Monte Carlo methods
Non-parametric Bayesian Method and Maximum-A-Posteriori Inference in Statistical Machine Translation
"Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised.
Communication over noisy channels (I)
"Visual crowding: Basic mechanisms and abnormalities associated with schizophrenia "
Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Genetic and brain imaging findings
Entropy and data compression (IV)New: Previous lectures can be downloaded!
Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior
Entropy and data compression (III)New: Previous lectures can be downloaded!
Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov Models
Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory.
"Genetic correlates of visual biases"
Entropy and data compression (II)PLEASE NOTE: There will be no lectures during the Easter break (12 March - 9 April). Lectures will resume on 16 April.
Basic number representations and their neural basis
Entropy and data compression (I)
The Adolescent Brain
Probabilistic computing: computation as universal stochastic inference, not deterministic calculation
Introduction to information theory
The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidation
Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology MeetJOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR
Against Qualia
Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequences
Thinking aloud about mental voices
Colour Categories in Language and Thought
One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius
A musical gift for Horace Barlow on his ninetieth birthday
Scaling Machine Learning for the Internet
Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and Optimisation
Adult neuropsychological models cannot be generalised to neurodevelopmental disorders
Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State Systems
fMRI of color signals in human visual cortex
How do context and attention affect S-cone signals in human V1?
A Maximum Entropy Perspective on Spectral Dimensionality Reduction
When experimentation meets limits, but simple correlation is uninformative: modelling developmental influences and other complex phenomena
Causal models in evidential reasoning
Which psychophysical colour vision test to use for screening in 3-9 year olds?
Pervasive Eye Tracking - Opportunities and Challenges
Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate Models
Seeing in the dark: single-photon signals in the retina
Visual sensitivity explained
Dopaminergic modulation of episodic memory in young and older adults
Not so naive Bayesian classification
Bayesian Nonparametrics: Latent Feature and Prediction Models, and Efficient Inference
Memory Consolidation: Synaptic tagging and mental schemas
Machine Learning Markets
The Problem with ColourWe regret that the speaker has had cancel this talk for family reasons
Factored Shapes and Appearances for Parts-based Object Understanding AND Transformation Equivariant Boltzmann Machines
Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems
Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applications
Drawing in reverse perspective, ancient and modern
Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational Viewpoint
Some Practical Reflections on Graphical Models
Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature
Graphical Models for Bandit Problems
Bayesian regression and classification with multivariate sparsifying priors
An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning(rescheduled from May 24th)
Censored Exploration in Dark Pools
Decision-making computations within prefrontal cortex: so many interesting neuronal signals but how do we make sense of them?The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.
Visual cortical architecture and subjective perception
An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learningRESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 7th
The effects of early visual deprivation
Memory Deficits associated with selective hippocampal atrophy
Understanding and optimizing human motor learningThe host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.
Hierarchical hidden Markov models revisited
Emotions, Intuitions and Morality
Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and FutureJoint Zangwill/Bartlett Lecture. THIS LECTURE IS TAKING PLACE ON THURSDAY 5TH MAY INSTEAD OF FRIDAY 6TH MAY
Navigational guidance systems in the human brainThe host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept.
Mandarin Dasher
Characterization of the Ewens-Pitman family of random partitions by a deletion property and a de Finetti-type theorem for exchangeable hierarchies
'The locus of the neural mechanism underlying the Craik Effect'This talk is being sponsored by St John's College: Kenneth Craik was a Fellow of St John's and described the 'Craik effect' in his Fellowship Dissertation
Rigid body motion in conformal geometric algebra
Nonlinear Dynamics of Learning
Soul Dust: the magic of consciousness
Exponential Conditional Volatility Models
CRH: a Central Reference Handling system
Thinking of things unseen: exploratory behaviour in chimpanzees and children
Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigm
Speech perception in older listeners: Contributions of changes in audition and cognition
Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab Priors
Probabilistic matrix factorization for reconstruction of missing data
That old feeling: Age-related changes in conversation
Title to be confirmed
Perceptual Learning and Face Recognition
Brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs
Do birds believe in magic
Conserved principles of movement generationThe host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept., m.lengyel@eng.cam.ac.uk
A computer-vision based facial gesture switch
The Neuroscience of moral judgement
Differential Geometric MCMC Methods
Hippocampal function: Re-considering configural memory
Mining viral datasets
The Bayesian brain, surprise and free-energy
'Arctic reindeer and their adaptation to extreme changes in environmental light'
Universal Bayesian Agents: Theory and Applications
Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED)(note new date)
Novi Quadrianto
A New Machine Learning LibraryNote unusual time
Introduction to Geometric Algebra II
Learning item trees for collaborative filtering with implicit feedback
Title to be confirmed
The Evolution of shopping listsTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy Data
Illusions in the real worldTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Crowdsourcing data modelling
Out-of-band Language Modelling
Natural GeometryTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
CANCELLEDCANCELLED
South Africa's Involvement With Square Kilometre Array Bid: Infrastructure and Electromagnetic Quietness
Neuroimaging of ADHD and related disordersTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Short talks: Mixed Cumulative Distribution Networks; Nonparametric Bayesian community discovery in social networks; Expectation Propagation for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models
The Multiscale Composite Dirichlet Process and its applications
Epigenetics, brain development and behaviourTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series STORM below the localisation limit
Putting Some Language Back Into Language Modelling
Human speech and language: Separable neurobiological substratesTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
How the brain makes decisionsTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Bayesian Psychometry
Science and government policy: current oxymoron future opportunity?Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Continuous Gesture Recognition and Visualization
Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages
Bayesian Inference with Kernels
Title to be confirmed
Ticker: Case Study
Research adventures in JapanLab access may be impeded due to bank holiday
On the Equivalence of Graph Cuts and Max-product Belief Propagation
Statistical Language Modelling
Title to be confirmed
Topic Models -- and how to break them
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank
Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Some Uses of Hashing in Networking Problems
Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politicsgeneral audience talk (non-technical) -- NOTE change of room to LR4!
Creating structured and flexible models: some open problems
Efficient Bayesian analysis of multiple changepoint models
Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian
Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus / Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic Models
Scalable Parallel Computing with CUDA
Introduction to Geometric Algebra
Dasher on a Space-filling curve
Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian Processes
Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design
Bayesian head pose estimation
Intelligently Aiding Human-Guided Correction of Speech Recognition
Differential Privacy and Probabilistic Inference
Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational Bayes
Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological Problems
The AEGIS projectNote unusual time
Using topic models to help cure cancer
Message Passing In Centralized Databaseshort talk
Structured Prediction Cascades
Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack Dimension
Robust Associative memory
Credit Assignment, State Representations, & Time Scales in Motor Learning
Conditional Counting: Approximate Multinomial Probit Regression
Brain-Based ValuesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Ticker: A text-entry interface with audio feedback for single-switch users
Making Decisions without ValuesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Coherent Inference on Optimal Play in Games
Brain imaging studies of memory for when events occurredTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Report from CHI 2010
How do we read other people's mind? Insights from neuropsychologyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Measuring consciousness: From behaviour to neurophysiologyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Speech Dasher: Fast Writing using Speech and Gaze
Language Modelling with PPM
Slice sampling with latent Gaussian models
Bayesian feature tracking and head pose estimation
Dynamic Network Tomography: Model, Algorithm, Theory, and Application
Making Sense of Data - A Research Agenda
Recursive CRFs for Scalable Visionshort talk
Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Codingshort talk
Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Title to be confirmedShort talk
Bayesian Inference in Networks of Queues
Stochastic Outlier Selection
Neurally-inspired Computing
Glutamate, GABA and the neurobiology of reward conditioningTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Latent Force Models with Gaussian Processes
Human cerebral cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, segregation of function and transmitter receptorsThis is the special joint Zangwill-Chaucer Club presentation for 09-10. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
“Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time”
Dasher
Deficits in processing sensory context in schizophreniaTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Mapping the parts of higher level cortexTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Automatic Selection of Recognition Errors by Respeaking the Intended Text
Paranoia: The 21st Century FearTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Mind Reading by Machine Learning: Optimal Experimental DesignShort talk
NIPS 2009 highlights
Single cell responses in the human medial temporal lobeTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
The cognitive basis of perspective-taking: Evidence from adults and implications for studies of infants and non-human animalsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar Accelerated Bayesian inference in cosmology
Machine Learning Course (4F13)4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent
CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human SensingCANCELLED
Visuospatial ReasoningShort Talk
Mis-wired: Studying the link between brain network development and functional deficitsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Machine Learning Course (4F13)4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent
Title to be confirmed
The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalryHost: Jenny Bosten, Department of Experimental Psychology
Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotationshort talk
Joint imputation and estimation of haplotype transition probabilities
NIPS poster
Face Recognition: Who's That Blonde?
Studying the relation between neural oscillations and human behaviour with MagnetoencephalographyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidanceHost: Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department
Fate determination of retinal neurons: Lineage relationships and the inhibitory master switch Ptf1a
Probabilistic feature tracking with non-probabilistic techniques
Evaluating the costs and benefits of future rewards: neuropsychological and neurochemical investigations in frontal and dopaminergic circuitsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law Behaviour
Gaussian Processes for Active Data Selection, Faults, Changepoints and Sensor Selection
Colour vision across the life span: perception and brain imaging
研究の紹介
Why speaking louder might not make you understood - supra-threshold deficits in hearing impairmentTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
KL control theory and decision making under uncertainty
Risks, Emotions & DecisionsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Optimizing Dasher for the iPhone
Neurobiological basis of music and dance skillsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Association mapping and prediction of complex structured phenotypes
Information theoretic model selection in clustering
A facial gesture switch using hidden Markov models
The neurodynamics of cognitive integrationTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Inclusive user modelling
Wobbles, warbles and fish - the physiology of dyslexiaTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Russian Blues: Effects of Language Categories on Colour Discrimination
Learning Logical Relations
Licking & liking in rodentsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Motor Skills Learning for Robotics
Recognition and Correction of Voice Web Search Queries
Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learning
Of Uncertain Value -- Bayesian Quadratic Reinforcement Learning
Capacity of Spiking Neural Networks
CANCELLEDCancelled
Thermal expansion of beta-eucryptite
Convex Variational Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Generalized Linear Models
Text entry performance of state of the art unconstrained handwriting recognition: a longitudinal user study
Combining Collaborative Filtering with Meta Data for Scalable RecommendationsNote unusual time
Computable Probability Theory
Physics Dimensions in Sage
Dashing this way and that
Mapping facial gestures to control cursors and switches
A quick way to learn a mixture of exponentially many linear modelsNote unusual time
Short ICML Practice Talk
Inference in Models with Latent HierarchiesNote new time
Using gradient descent for optimization and learning
How we come to experience that we own our bodyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Bird vision and egg mimicry by cuckoos
Who Lost the Cog in Cognitive Science?—Mentalism in an Era of Anti-CognitivismTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Inferring building properties from temperature datavenue to be confirmed
The dark side of impulsivity: neural and psychological mechanisms of pre-disposition to stimulant addictionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Living optical elements in the vertebrate retina
Useful Computation with Coincidence Detection
Are imitation and the 'mirror system' products of associative learning?NOTE NEW VENUE FOR REFRESHMENTS - Tea & cakes available in 1st floor PartII Common Room
Bayesian periodicity detection
Literature review presentations - Tidal power, and Fuel cellsNote unusual time
Feature tracking with full posteriorsNote new date and time.
Deducing Principles in Natural Perception
What reflected light tells the eye about the content of the world
Learning from Measurements in Exponential Families
Statistically optimal inference and learning: from behavior to neural representations
Geothermal power in Australia
Cloud Ships for global warming reduction
Painless Parse Errors
Shrinkage regression for multivariate inference with missing data, with an application to portfolio balancing
How does early brain organization promote language acquisition in humans?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Quasi-linear Sensor Management
The neural code and knowledge representation: a bridge too far?
Adaptive coding mechanisms in children with autism: lessons from developmentTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
An Introduction to TranscriptomicsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Dasher in Mandarin Chinese with Phonetic Pin Yinnote unusual time and venue
Optimization and Incentives Seminar A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization ChannelsJoint With Probability Seminar Series.
Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their Applications
From perception to conception: object processing in the ventral streamTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Generalization in Learning
Stochastic control as an inference problem
Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causalityThis is a special joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the MRC-CBU Chaucer Club. Tea and cakes will be available in the 2nd floor Seminar Room in the Dept. of Experimental Psychology from 4pm.
Subjective measures of unconscious knowledgeTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
More NIPS highlights
Problem gambling, near-misses, and the brain reward systemNOTE - THIS IS A REPLACEMENT TALK TO THAT ADVERTISED (RAHMAN). Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm.
Extending the Affinity Propagation Model
NIPS Highlights
Parakeet: A Continuous Speech Recognition System for Mobile Touch-Screen Devices
What the "Renewal Effect" is, is not, and the status of current explanationsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
The Block Diagonal Infinite Hidden Markov Model
Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging Software
Perception, action and uncertainty
Why genetic association studies have been so unsuccessful in psychiatryTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
HMMs for Protein Sequencing from Mass Spectrometry Data
What do the Colour-Blind see? -- And if it's more than we thought, how do they do it?
The Perception of Colour Seen in Context
Optimizing Similarity Functions in Various Pattern Recognition ProblemsNote unusual time
Visual Search: Applications and Computational Modelling
Eye-Tracking in Virtual Reality
Estimating the Pen Trajectories of Handwritten Static Scripts using Hidden Markov Models
Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives.
The cortico-cerebellar system: Anatomy, evolution and functionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Deep Networks for VisionMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Going with the flow: Visually guided flight and navigation in honeybees
Bayesian Inductive Programming
Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Rational ThoughtTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
What is smart thing like number doing in the dumb parietal cortex?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Thermochemistry and Nuclear power - Clean responsive electricity
Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankings
Rules, associations and inhibitory control: fMRI, patient and oculomotor studies of the frontal lobeTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
The unbearable sameness of being: Categorical cognition, autobiographical recollection and emotional disorderTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Low-cost large-scale renewable energy
Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III)
Impulsive antisocial sensation seeking in healthy subjects: Effects on cognitive processesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Recent developments in the chemical senses: a tutorial for visual and auditory scientists
Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Forensic Genomics:Kin Privacy, Driftnets and Other Open Questions
Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's CoalescentNote unusual time
Context in human robot interaction
Comparative cognitive development in chimpanzeesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II)
The spatial foundations of the conceptual systemThis is a joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the Bartlett Club. Tea and cakes will be served in the Seminar Room from 4pm.
Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I)
Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor Processes
Inferring the hazard rate in change point modelsNote unusual day and time
Spoken Dialogue Management
A Bayesian approach to language learning
Learning Bigrams from Unigrams
Nonparametric Bayesian Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Hierarchical, Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language Model
Clustering by linear programming, convex optimization and belief propagationNote unusual time
Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learning
Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priors
Matrix Factorization and Relational Learning
Associative Memories(This talk was postponed from 20 August)
Artificial intelligence in combinatorial game design
From Automated Currency Validation to Protein Fold Recognition: Probabilistic Multi-class Multi-kernel Learning
Semantic Texton Forests for Image Categorization and Segmentation.
"The Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye"
Modeling with Bounded Partition Functions
Double Feature: Optimal Precoding for MIMO and Divergence Estimation for Continuous Distributions
A Computational Theory of Visual Attention to Time, Space, and Features
Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Dynamical Systems
The influence of expectation on deciding where to look next
Message-passing inference on graphical models
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks The Geometry of the Space of ShapesHosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research)
Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging
Bayesian analysis of complex biological systems
Grandmother cells in the human brain?
Bayesian Models for Dependency Parsing Using Pitman-Yor Priors
Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processes
Assessing high-dimensional latent variable models
Identification of dynamical subpopulations, optimal experiment design and more
Gaussian Process Density Sampler
H-Infinity Clustering
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
Brain and Decisions: Unitary or Dual Systems?This is a joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the Bartlett Club. Tea and cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm.
The importance of cortical and subcortical visual pathways for attention and eye movements
Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthographyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Modeling Behaviour in Economic Games using Game-Theoretic POMDPs
Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive Robotics
Joint action: Bodies and Minds Acting TogetherTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
An Introduction to Statistical Learning TheoryMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Noise in the central nervous system
Spatial vision in the periphery
A role for hippocampal LTP in memory: it’s not all associative!Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Attentional bias and craving in substance useTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Some models for biologyNote unusual time
On Sparsity and Overcompleteness in Image Models
Treed Gaussian Processes for Regression and ClassificationNote new date and time.
Four decades of spatial frequency channels: a scale-space view of spatial visionThis meeting marks the fortieth anniversary of the classic paper by Campbell and Robson (1968). The scientific meeting will be followed by a wine reception.
Beam Sampling for Infinite Hidden Markov Models
On sparsity and overcompleteness in image modelsPostponed until April!
Learning quantum physics
(clashing event: Sustainable Energy and Arithmetic)Computer Lab seminar clashes with normal group meeting
Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energy
Discriminative Methods with Structure
Processes involved in remembering future intentions: Automatic or controlled?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
A Bayesian approach to network modularity: inferring the structure and scale of modular networks
Cancellation in Auditory Scene AnalysisTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Inductive Logic ProgrammingMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
How nervous systems are designed to be energy efficient
Modelling motion from 1888 to 2008: How far have we come?
Spatial memory: from neurons to learning and behaviourTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Statistical Machine TranslationMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Model selection and model order adaptation for clustering
Tracking, Memory, and Dynamic Icons
Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear Model
Biomedical Image Search
The role of phasic dopamine signalling in the determination of agency and the discovery of novel actionsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Information RetrievalMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers
Learned predictiveness and cue processing in human learningTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Stable distribution and data sketching
Functional MRI studies of memory and ageingTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored Lights
Reinforcement LearningMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture (Note unusual day)
How antipsychotic medications work - from receptors to responseTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections
Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease Mapping
Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why?NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR LECTURE. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm. This is a joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the MRC CBU Chaucer Club
Graphical ModelsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
NIPS presentations
Normalizing colour vision
Grounding knowledge in the brain’s modal systemsThis is a special joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the MRC-CBU Chaucer Club. Please note recent venue change to MRC-CBU
The machinery of colour vision
Composing: Linear and Non-Linear ThinkingNote unusual time
The development of a motor network in Drosophila, the role of precocious neural activity in the emergence of coordination
Gene Regulatory Network Inference: A Kernel-Based Learning Approach
Adjusting network dynamics to cognitive demands: dopaminergic control of cortical activity regimesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Error Correcting CodesMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Clinical data based optimal STI strategies for HIV: a reinforcement learning approach
Life beyond the Physics department
Developing cognitive approaches to the assessment of animal emotionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language ParsingMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Branch and Bound reconstruction of Balanced Minimum Evolution optimal trees
Familiarity and recall in rats: memory for objects and eventsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
An overview of covariance operators in Hilbert space, and their applications
Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process Models
Androgen and gender developmentTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Prequential StatisticsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
The last thing that we should talk about
Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implanteesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Spectral ClusteringMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Bliss-Dasher -- Efficient semantic writing with any muscle
Stress, Happiness and Health: the Cortisol ConnectionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Group Theory and Machine LearningMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational Learning
The psychopharmacology of social and non-social risky choice, and gambling behaviourTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Improving the Power of eQTL Studies by accounting for non-genetic Factors
Mental programs and the frontal lobeTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Optimal Spreading Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems; Using CSK as a Case Study
Shape writing: a fast and fluid writing system designed for mobile devices
Graph Kernels for Data Mining
Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component Analysis
Covariate Shift Adaptation: Supervised Learning When Training and Test Inputs Have Different Distributions
Five energy plans for Britain
What is a Fab Lab?
Minimal Perfect Hashing: hash tables with no collisions15 min talk
Uncomfortable images and spatial periodicity in nature, in art, and in text
Decoding consciousness
Language Modelling Discussion
The effect of color and motion changes on attentional capture
Open Vocabulary Confusion Networks for Speech Recognition
How do we perceive motion direction?
An Error-Correcting Keyboard
Probabilities, Complexities and Game Semantics
Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted
Illusory multisensory interactions in synaesthesia
Timing, memory and choiceTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Learning and Stability in Random Sigma-Pi Networks
Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in strategy implementation and episodic memoryTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
The ageing eye - Lifestyle vs Genes
Shape writing: fluid text entry on mobile devices
The role of action in directing attentionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Bayesian nonparametric latent feature models
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System
Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortexTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
On the task-dependency and flexibility of bimanual coordination
Context Tree Weighting
Visual discrimination of interacting human agents
Variational free energy and the brain
Colour Vision Meeting
Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Analysis of Channel Coding for Redundant Sources
Learning Patterns in the Game of GoNote unusual time
Inductive Logic Programming and Kernel methods
Inference in Bayesian Networks using Dynamic DiscretisationNote unusual time
Logistic regression with a Laplacian prior on the singular values: convex duality and application to EEG classification.Note unusual time and location
Monte Carlo Approaches to Game Playing
Date and Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted
Bayesian RankingAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classificationNote different room and time
Gaussian Process Product Models
Intuition and affect in decision-makingTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Metropolis-Coupled MCMC for Nested Sampling
Neural systems for attention and perceptual decisionsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet ProcessesAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Some interesting data: Cryptic DNA sequence periodicities are ubiquitous, organism specific and distinguish introns from exons.
Reanalyzing ungrammatical sentences: Evidence from eye movements, speeded grammaticality judgments, and MEGTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
The concatenation of factors of change in perception
An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian MethodsRoom changed this week!
Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted
Is theory of mind necessary for teachingTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
NIPS presentations
Biophysics of wiring the brain
Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortexCANCELLED DUE TO ILL HEALTH
Reward processing in the addicted brain: Sex, drugs and genesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Robot Localisation and MappingAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Modeling Natural Sounds with Gaussian Modulation Cascade Processes
Getting to grips with the problem of serial order in memoryTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Modeling text with Dirichlet compound multinomial distributions
New family forms: Implications for parenting and child developmentThis is a joint Zangwill-Bartlett Club talk. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Learning from positive and unlabeled data
HMMs for controlling dynamical systems
A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bound
Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect
Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted
Robust Gaussian Process Regression and Applications
Motion Perception - from visual arts to neural processing
Transcription regulation: from parts list to genomic network.
Sensorimotor and perceptual representations engaged when performing and observing object manipulation tasks
The origins of adult magical beliefsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Advanced MCMC MethodsAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Bayesian estimation of neuronal connectivity from MEA recordings
The brain as a statistical machineThe Activity of Living Matter
Do familiarity and recollection have different neural bases? Normal, lesion, fMRI, and neophrenology studiesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Physical principles of sensory transductionThe Activity of Living Matter
Watching brain circuitry in action: two-photon imaging of neural activity
Can Polymer Physics Help Cellular Biomedicine?The Structure of Living Matter
Expectation PropagationAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Vector Gaussian Processes
Cambridge Philosophical Society Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system
Is the code in ferret V1 a 'sparse code'?
Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representationsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
CausalityAdvanced Tutorial Lecture Series on Machine Learning
Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Regulation of spindle orientation and neural stem cell fate in the Drosophila optic lobe
Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need glia
Do Scanning Electron Microscopes have a point-spread function?
Mood, memory & clinical depressionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Migration and fusion of perceptual content – premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Gaussian Processes for Machine LearningAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Dynamic imaging of blood flow in the conjunctival and episcleral microcirculations of the human eye: a new chapter in diagnostic imaging?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Evolution of the Middle Ear
The Hungry Eye: energy, information and retinal function
What makes real-world scenes special? Evidence from fMRITea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Compact self-wired cultured neural networks
Teaching Statistics - A Bag of Tricks
Leaf Selection for Maximising Diversity in a Tree
Sex differences in intelligence?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Postsynaptic phosphorylation networks
Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Defining the neural stem cell state
Intelligence and ageing: contributions from the Scottish Mental Survey follow-up studiesThis is a joint Zangwill-Chaucer Club talk. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Mixture Models and the EM AlgorithmAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture
Optimised Digital Fountain Codes for Medium Blocklengths
Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Hereditary spastic paraplegia, BMP signaling, and axonal degeneration in Drosophila
Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Ubx controls Notch/ Numb dependent cell fate decisions in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila
An interesting preprint
MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions
How to veto anonymously under surveillance?
Naive OCR?
Dark adaptation of human retinal rod bipolar cells
Getting it Right the Second Time: Recognition of Spoken Corrections
Cognitive Cars
sparse GP classificationPOSTPONED
neural phase codes
Graphical Combinator Programming
The Manufacture of Bioethanol - A brief Introduction
Divergence measures and latent variable models
Implicit learning in Music
On the Analysis of Ellipsoid Approximation of Nested Sampling
Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic
Gaussian Process models for solving ODEs
Absolute Pitch: Genetics & Perception
Ligand detection and discrimination by spatial relocalisation: the complexities of T cell activation
Information-Theoretic Security in Wireless Networks: From Theory to Practice
Music Access for the Disabled
Blissymbolics - The Emergence of a Written Language
In search of the brain's wiring
A Bayesian Unfolding Method Applied to the PAMELA Experiment
Blissymbolics
Finite element modelling of growing microtubules
Capacity of phase-based attractor networks with pairwise couplings
Perception of pitch by normally hearing and hearing-impaired people
Joint LDPC Decoding and Timing Recovery Using Code Constraint Feedback
Title to be confirmed
Learning and recall of visuomotor transformations
How to Parameterize a Positive-definite Matrix
To be confirmed
The Capacity of the Deletion Channel
Sleeping Beauty and the Armchair CosmologistNote unusual time
The 'Rich Club' phenomenon in large networksNote unusual day
Bayesian approximation for physical inverse problems
Hierarchical Passage Retrieval
The Swendsen-Wang algorithm (tutorial), and the "Baby and Toy" algorithm
On the Neural Machinery for Face Processing
Bayesian Online Changepoint Detection
Graph Transformation Method for Calculating Waiting Times in Markov Chains
Epitomic representation of natural signals
Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes
Colour responses in the human LGN and visual cortex measured with fMRI
Aggregation of Particles in Stochastic Flows
Student Project Presentations: "Colour Memorisation", "One button communication" and "Optimising digital fountain codes"
Student Project Presentations: "Redundancy in Turing machines"; "A two button implementation of Dasher" and "Relationships between energy and information in fly retina"
Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model
Speech Recognition During Dictation Corrections
Do frogs smell under water? The role of Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in amphibia olfactory receptor neurons
Topic Modeling: Beyond Bag-of-Words
Uncertainty Logic
Experimental Annotation of the Human Genome
Virtual-move Parallel Tempering
The Trefethen Effect
Latency-optimal fault-tolerant replication
Dynamical Networks for Agent Systems
Bees' colour vision: lessons from understanding visual capabilities and cognition possible with the mini brain.
Recognition and prediction of biological motion
Lexicographic text analysis using non-negative factorisation techniques
Eye Tracking with Consumer Hardware
Moving Colours
Cheap and cheerful inference machines for tracking
Efficient Quantum Computation with linear optics
Locked-in syndrome
Monte Carlo is Bayesian
Dasher for the blind, and some visual illusions
A Cross-Entropy Based Method to Analyse Iterative Decoding
Bayesian Pattern Ranking for Move Prediction in the Game of Go
Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Simulation and Optimization
Language relationships, phonology, and Greek
Efficient communication with buttons: an update on Button Dasher
Progress with #Dasher, a Continuous Gesture IDE
Why do fruitflies like bananas?
An introduction to Brain-Computer Interfaces
To be confirmed
What we face in facing up to complexity in the genetics of complex disease
LOCUS: Learning Object Classes with Unsupervised Segmentation
Efficient computer interfaces using continuous gestures, language models, and speech; Probabilistic methods for interpreting electronic ink
A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets
Epitomes And Epitexts
Monte Carlo experiments in computer Go
Language Modelling In Dasher: A Tutorial
Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Models for Time Series Data
Japanese Language Model
A Tale of T9
Information and Intelligence
Neighbourhood Components Analysis
Nested Sampling for Motif Discovery
Joint Gaussian Process-Density Mixtures
Computer Othello
Variational Gibbs Sampling
Astronomical Image Recognition
Bloom Filters and Tries (a comparison)
The predictive power of contractive neural-network spaces
Communicating with buttons: current progress in one- and two-button Dasher
Bayesian Learning for Visual Inference
Approximating The Hierarchical Dirichelet Distribution
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Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva.
Friday 15 March 2024, 16:30-18:00