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THIS LIST IS SUPERCEDED BY ‘Neuroscience Seminars’.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. 8 upcoming talks and 1237 talks in the archive. Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studiesThe host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 December 2024, 16:30-18:00 From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human ImaginationThe host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein Professor Peter Ulric Tse, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 29 November 2024, 16:30-18:00 Deconstruction of the social brainThe host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 22 November 2024, 16:30-18:00 Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditionsThe host for this talk is Varun Warrier Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 November 2024, 16:30-18:00 The Atomic HumanThe host for this talk is Nicky Clayton Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 November 2024, 16:30-18:00 Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic InsightsThe host for this talk is Larysa Zasiekina Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 October 2024, 16:30-18:00 Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics.The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 18 October 2024, 16:30-18:00 Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical RememberingThe host for this talk is Deborah Talmi Dr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 11 October 2024, 16:30-18:00 Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysisHugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysisHugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysisHugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 The Cognitive Biology of LanguageThe host for this talk is Jeff Dalley Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 May 2024, 16:30-18:00 Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disordersProfessor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 May 2024, 16:30-18:00 Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth CohortsDr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 03 May 2024, 16:30-18:00 Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers"Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:30 The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memoryThe host for this talk is Deborah Talmi Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 15 March 2024, 16:30-18:00 Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults.The host for this talk is Trevor Robbins Dr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 March 2024, 16:30-18:00 Psychological Inoculation Against MisinformationSander van der Linden, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:30 Cortical interneurons in health and disease.The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 23 February 2024, 16:30-18:00 Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial SettingsDavid Burt, MIT. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleepDezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohortsThe host for this talk is Varun Warrier Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 09 February 2024, 16:30-18:00 When Art meets PsychologyThe host for this talk is Nicky Clayton Prof. Clive Wilkins. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 02 February 2024, 16:30-18:00 What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of CognitionThe host for this talk is Clive Wilkins Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:30 Pathways forward from psychiatric geneticsThe host for this talk is Varun Warrier Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 December 2023, 11:00-12:30 Modern Bayesian Experimental DesignDr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00 How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape LanguageThe host for this talk is Kanad Mandke Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 November 2023, 16:30-18:00 Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigationThe host for this talk is Deborah Talmi Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 November 2023, 12:00-13:30 The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of AutismProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:30 Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticityThe host for this talk is Amy Milton Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 03 November 2023, 12:00-13:30 Representation and computation in visual working memoryProfessor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:30 Cortical gradients of functional integrationThe host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem Dr Daniel Margulies . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 20 October 2023, 16:30-18:00 Title to be confirmedThe host for this talk is Paul Bays Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amstersdam). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00 Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scopeThe host for this talk is Paul Bays Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00 Decoding the neural processing of speechThe host for this talk is Usha Goswami Professor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 October 2023, 16:30-18:00 A new approach to understanding eye designProfessor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 02 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"Jay McClelland, Stanford University . Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00 Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descentJeremy Bernstein, MIT. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00 Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinctionThe host for this talk is David Belin Dr David Dupret (Oxford University). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 19 May 2023, 16:30-18:00 Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal conceptsProfessor Josep Call, University of St Andrews. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 12 May 2023, 16:30-18:00 Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from IsoperimetrySam Power, University of Bristol. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00 The DNA revolution and psychologyProfessor Robert Plomin (King's College, London). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 05 May 2023, 16:30-18:00 What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versaProfessor Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, New York. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 28 April 2023, 16:30-18:00 Choice under Computational ComplexityThe host for this talk is Lee De-Wit Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 March 2023, 16:30-18:00 Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attentionThe hosts for this talk are Tristan Bekinschtein and Andrés Canales-Johnson Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 March 2023, 16:30-18:00 Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisationsProfessor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 03 March 2023, 16:30-18:00 The Neuroscience of Reading: Tracing words from the page through the brainDr Geoffrey M. Boynton (University of Washington). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 February 2023, 16:30-18:00 Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causalityThe host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 February 2023, 12:00-13:30 Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinctionTHIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED OWING TO THE RAIL STRIKE Dr David Dupret (Oxford University). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 03 February 2023, 16:30-18:00 Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam DebacleRoger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00 Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policyThe host for this talk is Lee De-Wit Peter John (King's College London). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 27 January 2023, 16:30-18:00 Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet?Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 20 January 2023, 16:30-18:00 Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEsDavid Duvenaud (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00 The measurement of difficult things: From psychophysics to psycho-oncologyProfessor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00 Brain charts for the human lifespan.Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00 Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared InvariancesVedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland . Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845. Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30 Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transportFelipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00 Disruption of Information in Working MemoryThe host for this talk is Deborah Talmi Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 18 November 2022, 16:30-18:00 Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent InteractionStefano Albrecht, Edinburgh. Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 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 engagementLachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations. Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering. Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processingDr Ione Fine (University of Washington). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 11 November 2022, 16:30-18:00 Quality and Location: a view from somatosensationProfessor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 04 November 2022, 16:30-18:00 Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive DisorderDr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 28 October 2022, 16:30-18:00 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) Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 21 October 2022, 16:30-18:00 Plastic brains for flexible decisionsZoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 14 October 2022, 16:30-18:00 What kind of network is the brain?John Mollon (University of Cambridge). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 07 October 2022, 16:30-18:00 Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic DataAntti Honkela, University of Helsinki. Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00 Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling studyFabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00 Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal EnsemblesEisuke Koya (University of Sussex). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 13 May 2022, 16:30-18:00 Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning TasksAnastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley. Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30 Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognitionProfessor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 May 2022, 16:30-18:00 Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child developmentProfessor Pasco Fearon. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 29 April 2022, 16:30-18:00 Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordinationUniversity of Cambridge. Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00 Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) . Friday 18 March 2022, 16:30-18:00 Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognitionProfessor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL). Friday 11 March 2022, 16:15-18:00 A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird.Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania). Friday 04 March 2022, 16:30-18:00 Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fieldsJohn P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University). Friday 18 February 2022, 16:30-18:00 Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of BehaviorProfessor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus). Friday 04 February 2022, 16:30-18:00 Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World EnvironmentsMelissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt). Friday 28 January 2022, 16:30-18:00 Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its researchIrene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova). Friday 21 January 2022, 16:30-18:00 The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectationsPeter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology). Friday 03 December 2021, 14:45-16:15 What does magic tell us about free will?Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London). Friday 26 November 2021, 16:15-17:30 Time perception as accumulation of salient eventsWarrick Roseboom (University of Sussex). Friday 19 November 2021, 16:15-18:00 Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policiesLucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) . Friday 12 November 2021, 16:15-17:30 Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviourDominik Bach (University College London). Friday 05 November 2021, 16:15-18:00 Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and likingRichard Holton (University of Cambridge). Friday 22 October 2021, 16:15-18:00 Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime SuspectDavid Bannerman (University of Oxford). Friday 15 October 2021, 16:15-18:00 Modulation Of Attention By Ascending ProjectionsDr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Friday 04 June 2021, 16:30-18:00 Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscienceKarim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal. Friday 28 May 2021, 16:15-18:00 Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body DisownershipProfessor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Friday 21 May 2021, 16:30-18:00 Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of KnowledgeMarie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin. Friday 14 May 2021, 16:30-18:00 Brain Dynamics and Flexible BehaviorsLucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D, University of Miami. Friday 07 May 2021, 16:30-18:00 Rethinking food rewardDr Dana Small Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center. Friday 12 March 2021, 16:30-18:00 An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticityEmily BJ Coffey, PhD . Friday 26 February 2021, 16:30-18:00 Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences?Dr. ValdasNoreika, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary University of London. Friday 19 February 2021, 16:30-18:00 Being an I: Cognitive and Neurobiological processes of “Self” modelsDr. Roy Salomon. Friday 12 February 2021, 16:30-18:00 The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autismProfessor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK. Friday 29 January 2021, 16:30-18:00 - Towards a Translational Neuroscience of ConsciousnessProf Hakwan Lau. Friday 15 January 2021, 16:30-18:00 [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 Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London . Friday 11 December 2020, 16:30-18:00 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 Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy. Friday 04 December 2020, 16:30-18:00 Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuationPlease note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm Professor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland. Friday 27 November 2020, 16:30-18:00 Understanding FallismPLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS ZANGWILL HAS BEEN CANCELLED Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town. Friday 13 November 2020, 16:30-18:00 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 Professor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. Friday 06 November 2020, 16:30-18:00 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 Professor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA.. Friday 30 October 2020, 16:30-18:00 This talk happens earlier this week. in a shared event between Zangwill and SPSS. .. .. Friday 23 October 2020, 16:30-18:00 How is Human Social Cognition Special?Please note, this talk is combined with the Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS) Professor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London. Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:30 The case for formal methodology in scientific reformPlease note, virtual tea at 4.15pm with talk starting at 4.30pm Dr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho.. Friday 16 October 2020, 16:30-18:00 Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and OpportunitiesAndrey Malinin, Yandex Research. Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link). Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00 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. Brian D. Earp, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.. Friday 05 June 2020, 16:30-18:00 The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic representation and its disordersProfessor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Friday 29 May 2020, 16:30-18:00 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. Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting). Friday 22 May 2020, 13:30-14:30 Fragile Memories for Fleeting PerceptsProfessor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting). Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:30-15:00 Title to be confirmedPLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00 Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00 Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Playwellman@umich.edu. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:00-12:00 Social Physiology for Precision PsychiatryDr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00 Modern Outrage and the Perversion of PunishmentPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00 Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00 Anhedonia and Adolescent DepressionDr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00 Affect & Decision-Making in Health and DiseaseProfessor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00 Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution ShiftZack Lipton, CMU. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00 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 Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 January 2020, 12:00-13:00 Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-MakingChand Chandrasekaran (Boston University). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 09 January 2020, 13:00-14:00 Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factorsGaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00 Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!! Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00 Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machinesPlease note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30 The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlightProfessor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00 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 Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00 Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processesWilliam Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00 Anhedonia and Adolescent DepressionPLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00 Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activityPlease note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30 Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and EfficiencyHaitham Ammar, Huawei. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:00-11:00 Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time seriesVincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 28 October 2019, 11:00-12:00 How we remember and how we forgetAidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00 Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language ExplanationsOana Camburu, University of Oxford. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedPLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL TALK THIS WEEK Speaker to be confirmed. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 18 October 2019, 00:00-00:00 Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional spaceProfessor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 11 October 2019, 16:30-18:00 The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseasesPlease note: This is a Pre-Zangwill Talk - see change of venue Professor Mauro Maccarrone, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome, Italy. Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Department of Psychology. Friday 04 October 2019, 16:30-18:00 Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian PrinciplesEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCARajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00 Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep LearningWesley Maddox (New York University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 23 August 2019, 11:00-12:00 Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial AttacksMatthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00 Efficiency and Transferability of Neural NetworksAmos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00 Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of PlaidsProfessor George Sperling (Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Monday 01 July 2019, 13:00-14:00 Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational InferenceTrevor Campbell, University of British Columbia. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 26 June 2019, 11:00-12:00 Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local CompetitionKonstantinos P. Panousis. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00 First steps in experimentally exploring human visual and auditory development in uteroProfessor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00 Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and DivisivenessReza Babaei. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 11 June 2019, 15:00-15:30 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 Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30 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 Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:30 Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence?Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 17 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 The neurobiology of perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connectionMichael Shadlen MD, PhD, Columbia University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 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 Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:30 Binocular vision and the control of hand movementsDr Simon Watt, Bangor University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable GuaranteesUmut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 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 Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 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 Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:30 Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanismsDr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00 NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular GraphsAbir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00 Attention modifies the weights of competing stimulus sources during integrated visual decision makingProfessor Jason Mattingley. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-13:00 Global model explainability via aggregationUmang Bhatt, CMU. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-16:45 Robust machine learning for causal inference in health careDavid Sontag, MIT. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00 The K-FAC method for neural network optimizationJames Martens, Google Deep Mind. Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 "Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perceptionHeleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30 From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30 In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometryVéronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Generative models for few-shot prediction tasksMarta Garnelo (Google DeepMind). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15 Animal models of episodic memoryProfessor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30 Online Meta-LearningMassimiliano Pontil, University College London. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00 Adaptation Produces Change-SalienceProfessor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticityProfessor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 February 2019, 16:30-17:30 Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biologyProfessor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 February 2019, 16:30-17:30 High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replayDr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford. Friday 01 February 2019, 12:30-13:30 Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on ManifoldsTaco Cohen. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:30-14:30 Title to be confirmedTHIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 January 2019, 16:30-17:30 Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studiesProfessor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning SystemsTom Everitt (DeepMind). Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor). Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00 Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over lifeProf. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 18 January 2019, 16:30-17:30 Visual categorization of simple stimuliProfessor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 Fairness for Sequential Decision Making AlgorithmsHoda Heidari. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-12:00 Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data modelsMartin Tegner. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 18 December 2018, 10:30-11:00 "Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00 Optimising the design of text using simple algorithmsProfessor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to knowDr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:30 Making sense of time in the Human mindProfessor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 16 November 2018, 16:30-17:30 Social timing in autism spectrum disordersDr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 09 November 2018, 16:30-17:30 Sleep for Systems ConsolidationDr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor, The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 02 November 2018, 16:30-17:30 Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequencesProfessor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 26 October 2018, 16:30-17:30 Title to be confirmedPLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL CLUB TALK THIS WEEK Speaker to be confirmed. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 19 October 2018, 16:30-17:30 Cortical mechanisms underlying integration of local visual cues to form global representationsDr Wei Wang. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 How Paranoia Affects Social Cognition and BehaviourProf Nichola Raihani Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 12 October 2018, 16:30-17:30 Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning AlgorithmsMihaela van der Schaar . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 11 October 2018, 11:00-12:00 Modelling cortical gain in autism (without neuroimaging)Dr Rebecca Lawson, Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Affiliated Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 05 October 2018, 16:30-17:30 Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answersBeen Kim, Google Brain. Engineering Department, Board Room on the 2nd Floor. Monday 10 September 2018, 11:00-12:00 Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD)Biwei Huang, CMU. Friday 24 August 2018, 11:00-12:00 Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex ModelsEmtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 16 July 2018, 11:00-12:00 Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable ModelsGeorge Tucker, Google Brain. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00 Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyondThomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 21 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup FairnessProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Selectivity and dynamics of human face representationsProfessor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 June 2018, 16:30-17:30 Development of a chemical retinal prosthesisJohn B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 Metacognition of internally-generated processesDr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 May 2018, 16:30-17:30 Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect FeaturesJulius von Kugelgen. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 23 May 2018, 11:30-12:00 Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptomsDr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 18 May 2018, 16:30-17:30 Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of ThinkingProfessor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 11 May 2018, 16:30-17:30 You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity: a biologically inspired and implemented motion modelDr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social NetworksAna Stoica, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00 Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortexDr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science, Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 04 May 2018, 16:30-17:30 Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamicsThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology Mehrdad Jazayeri. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00 A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGDDr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11. Tuesday 17 April 2018, 11:00-12:00 Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social NetworksAna Stoica, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Sunday 15 April 2018, 11:00-12:00 Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biologyProf Asifa Majid, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 16 March 2018, 16:30-17:30 What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception?Prof Leon Deouell, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30 Structure in tensor-variate data: a trivial byproduct of simpler phenomena?John P. Cunningham. Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:00-12:00 How is visual perception biasedDr Floris de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 02 March 2018, 16:30-17:30 : Visual Perception of Materials and their PropertiesProf. Roland W. Fleming, PhD Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology, Justus-Leibig University Giessen . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 23 February 2018, 16:30-17:30 Gaze and Locomotion in Natural TerrainsProfessor M. Hayhoe, University of Texas. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis.Prof Elia Formisano Maastricht-Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 16 February 2018, 16:30-17:30 Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speechThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology Milena Bonte, University of Maastricht. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 16 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Lipschitz Global OptimizationProfessor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria. Friday 16 February 2018, 11:00-12:00 Using narratives to understand human conscious experienceDr Lorina Naci, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 09 February 2018, 16:30-17:30 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 Prof Baruch Fishhoff, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University . Lecture Theatre 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Friday 02 February 2018, 17:00-18:00 Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listeningDr Antje Heinrich, Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 26 January 2018, 16:30-17:30 Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and ExpertiseDr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 19 January 2018, 16:30-17:30 Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priorsManfred Opper, TU Berlin. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 13 December 2017, 13:30-14:30 Bayesian Generative Adversarial NetworksProfessor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University. Wednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00 Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memoryDr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 December 2017, 16:30-17:30 Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates.The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi Dr Janine Mendola (McGill). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation.Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto). Monday 27 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive controlProfessor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 November 2017, 16:30-17:30 Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient DescentYutian Chen, DeepMind. Friday 24 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human BrainDr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual systemThe host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophreniaProfessor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 November 2017, 16:30-17:30 Towards true end-to-end learning & optimizationDr Frank Hutter. Friday 17 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Information networks, truth and value.Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 November 2017, 16:30-17:30 The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memoryThe host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 Touch: The sensory scaffold of development?Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 03 November 2017, 16:30-17:30 Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-makingJoshua Kroll. Wednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 An Interference Model of Visual Working MemoryProfessor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 27 October 2017, 16:30-17:30 How Power Affects Those Who Possess it: Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach MotivationDr Ana Guinote, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 20 October 2017, 16:30-17:30 Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learningProf. Aapo Hyvarinen. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00 The Social Neuroendocrinology of StatusDr Pranjal Mehta, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 13 October 2017, 16:30-17:30 Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of rememberingDr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 October 2017, 16:30-17:30 Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming visionDr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge. Monday 02 October 2017, 13:00-14:00 A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health careDr Cheng Zhang. Tuesday 26 September 2017, 15:00-16:00 Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit MatricesProfessor Ryan Adams, Princeton. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual FairnessDr Matt Kusner. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 12 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximationHironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image InpaintingMariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Deep learning for autonomous drivingTakayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learningThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology Dr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside. Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, second floor, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge. Monday 04 September 2017, 13:00-14:00 Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence FunctionsPang Wei Koh, Stanford University. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 20 July 2017, 14:00-15:00 A simple neural network module for relational reasoningDavid Barrett, DeepMind. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 06 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 Future technology: machine learning using memristors networksFrancesco Caravelli (LANL). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 Future technology: machine learning using memristors networksFrancesco Caravelli (LANL). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortexDr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 26 June 2017, 13:00-14:00 On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial NetworksMartin Arjovsky. Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:00-12:00 Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal systemDr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 19 May 2017, 16:30-18:00 The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour.Professor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 12 May 2017, 16:30-18:00 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 Professor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Do we control language or does language control us?Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales.. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-18:00 Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man.The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk) Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinctionProfessor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 28 April 2017, 16:30-18:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation LearningGroup Discussion. Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-15:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNsGroup Discussion. Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 "The koniocellular visual pathway"Dr Samuel Solomon, Reader in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 Observations from the Edge of BeautyMr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 March 2017, 16:30-18:00 Information Engineering Division seminar list Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic ProgramsTom Rainforth, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 15 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural NetworksGroup Discussion. Tuesday 14 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Differentially Private Bayesian LearningDr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 14 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Optimality and irrationality in human decision-makingProfessor Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 March 2017, 16:30-18:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Control, inference and learningProf. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Differential Privacy TutorialAlex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertisePLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF SPEAKER THIS WEEK Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, City, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 03 March 2017, 16:30-18:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNetsGroup Discussion. Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 “How does melanopsin help us to see?“Dr Annette Allen, Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertisePLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 February 2017, 16:30-18:00 Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement LearningDylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 23 February 2017, 15:00-16:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional NetworksGroup Discussion. Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making?Professor Mathias Pessiglione, Motivation, Brain & Behavior lab Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 February 2017, 16:30-18:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - OptimizationGroup Discussion. Tuesday 14 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Learning to learn: lessons from action video gamesProfessor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 February 2017, 16:30-18:00 Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programsValentin Dalibart. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 10 February 2017, 11:00-12:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - RegularizationGroup Discussion. Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal CortexDUE TO ILLNESS, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 03 February 2017, 16:30-18:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNsGroup Discussion. Tuesday 31 January 2017, 13:30-15:00 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 Daniel J, Levitin PhD, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and University of California at Berkeley. Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Friday 27 January 2017, 16:30-18:00 Variational Bayes In Private SettingsMijung Park, University of Amsterdam. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 25 January 2017, 15:00-16:00 Julia: Introduction and new developmentsDr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 24 January 2017, 11:00-12:00 Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints.Professor Fiona Newell, School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 20 January 2017, 16:30-18:00 "Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing"Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge. Thursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-14:00 ‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB TALK Dr Rosalind Ridley. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 16 December 2016, 16:30-18:00 When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decodingThe host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk) Alan Stocker (University of Pennsylvania). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 16 December 2016, 13:00-14:00 Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated modelsDaniel Roy (University of Toronto). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 15 December 2016, 11:00-12:00 Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot CollaborationElena Corina Grigore (Yale University). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 14 December 2016, 15:00-16:00 Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perceptionThe host for this talk is Zoë Kourtzi (zk240@cam.ac.uk) Dr Lynne Kiorpes (NYU). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 14 December 2016, 13:00-14:00 Variational autoencoders with latent graphical modelsProf David Duvenaud (University of Toronto). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 13 December 2016, 11:00-12:00 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 One day meeting on vision and neuroscience. Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience: Physiology Main Lecture Theatre. Monday 12 December 2016, 10:30-17:30 Cross-sensory integration and calibration during developmentProfessor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 09 December 2016, 16:30-18:00 Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brainProf. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 02 December 2016, 16:30-18:00 Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivityProfessor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 November 2016, 16:30-18:00 A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddingsKrzysztof Choromanski, Google NY. Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Rejection Sampling Variational InferenceFrancisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge). Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11:30-12:30 Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time seriesProf. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 18 November 2016, 16:30-18:00 Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?Prof. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognitionAxel Cleeremans, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 11 November 2016, 16:30-18:00 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 Prof. Jeff Clune (U Wyoming). Dyson Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Monday 07 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets?Professor Gregor Thut, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 04 November 2016, 16:30-18:00 Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable ModelsTomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstrationDushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute. Wednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigationsPhilippe Peigneux, PhD, Chair Clinical Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ULB Francqui Research Professor 2013-2016 Head of UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Centre de Rec. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 28 October 2016, 16:30-18:00 See what you hear - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses -Professor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 21 October 2016, 16:30-18:00 Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensorsManon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University. Thursday 20 October 2016, 10:00-11:00 Visual Attention Without Visual AwarenessProfessor Robert Kentridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 14 October 2016, 16:30-18:00 The psychological and neural basis of the individual vulnerability to compulsive disorders: new insights from preclinical studies.Dr David Belin. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 07 October 2016, 16:30-18:00 Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCAProfessor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS). Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00 Multiresolution Matrix FactorizationProf Risi Kondor (U Chicago). Tuesday 13 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Dynamic Models for Health DataProfessor Katherine A Heller (Duke University). Monday 12 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Learning with Memory EmbeddingsProfessor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Data Driven Discrete Time Modeling of Continuous Time Nonlinear Systems: Problems, Challenges, Success StoriesJohan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Inference as LearningGeorge Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh). Monday 08 August 2016, 11:00-12:00 Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured DataProf Le Song (Georgia Tech). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 25 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series MethodologyProfessor Mike West (Statistical Science, Duke University). James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Thursday 21 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Attention filters for featuresProfessor George Sperling, University of California at Irvine. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 18 July 2016, 13:00-14:00 Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian InferenceProf. David Blei (Columbia University). James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Tuesday 12 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Wings inform: mechanosensing in insect flight control.The host for this talk is Paloma Gonzalez Bellido Tom Daniel (U. Washington, USA). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 06 July 2016, 13:00-14:00 A modular architecture for Unicode text compressionAdam Gleave (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 15:00-15:15 Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task LearningVia Skype Yu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 11:00-12:00 Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learningVia Skype Sixin Zhang (NYU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 10:00-11:00 Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning ActivityIsabel Valera . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 09 June 2016, 11:00-12:00 Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical ModelsStephen Pasteris (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 10:30-11:30 Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networksNote: via Skype! Teppo Niinimäki (Helsinki). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 09:30-10:30 Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal MathematicsJosef Urban. William Gates Building - FW26. Friday 03 June 2016, 14:00-15:00 Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximationsAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 11:30-12:30 Novel MCMC and SMC schemes for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture modelsMaria Lomeli (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 10:30-11:30 Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in JuliaHong Ge (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 09:30-10:30 Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech RecognitionGabriel Synnaeve. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic ModelingRobert Peharz (TU Graz). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00 Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspectivePaul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience; Wellcome Trust Sernior Research Fellow in Clinical Science Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation T. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 20 May 2016, 16:30-18:00 Perception as a closed-loop convergence processThe host for this talk is Máté Lengyel. Note the unusual time and the unusual location Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute). Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00 “Why are rods more sensitive than cones?”Professor Gordon Fain (UCLA and PDN). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 Measuring rodent affect: Rethinking taste aversion and (some) models of psychiatric disorder."Dominic M. Dwyer – Cardiff University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 13 May 2016, 16:30-18:00 MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical ModelsKui Tang, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 13 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 An engineering approach to aversive learning.Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 May 2016, 16:30-18:00 The Invention of ConsciousnessProfessor Nick Humphrey, Darwin College, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 29 April 2016, 16:30-18:00 Sensory receptor diversity and colour vision range in butterflies and dipteraThe host for this talk is Paloma Gonzalez Bellido Dr Mike Perry, NYU. Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, second floor, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge. Friday 29 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 Flight, flow and gaze control: Design principles of fly stabilization reflexesProfessor Holger G. Krapp, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College, London. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control.Professor Tim Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 22 April 2016, 16:30-18:00 Natural statistics and human perception of shape and glossThe host for this talk is Dr Andrew Welchman Wendy J. Adams, Southampton University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming SystemJan-Willem van de Meent (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 05 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural AssumptionsJacob Steinhardt (Stanford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time seriesPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director University of Glasgow. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 11 March 2016, 16:30-18:00 The geometry of uncertaintyFabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University. Engineering Department, Boardroom on the 2nd floor (past canteen on the left). Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 The typical and atypical development of the social brainMark H Johnson, MRC Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London.. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 04 March 2016, 16:30-18:00 New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brainProfessor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 26 February 2016, 16:30-18:00 How rational are we?Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 19 February 2016, 16:30-18:00 A more Automated StatisticianDavid Janz, Oxford University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 19 February 2016, 11:30-12:00 Colour perception in synaesthesiaProfessor Katsuaki Sakata, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions.Professor Melissa Bateson, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution/ Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 12 February 2016, 16:30-18:00 Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again)Professor Derek Jones, Director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 05 February 2016, 16:30-18:00 Probing Visual System Organization after Injury with fMRIDr Stelios Smirnakis, Baylor College of Medicine. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge. Monday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomicsProfessor Morten L. Kringelbach Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 29 January 2016, 16:30-18:00 New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false.Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 15 January 2016, 16:30-18:00 Eye movements for sampling and calibrating visual informationThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-14:00 General Reinforcement LearningJan Leike (Australian National University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 Grady Nia Project: Assessing and Treating Abused, Suicidal WomenPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30 Dr Nadine Kaslow, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University USA . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 04 December 2015, 16:30-18:00 Understanding the forgetful and apathetic brainPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30 Professor Masud Husain, Department of Experimental Psychology & Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 27 November 2015, 16:30-18:00 Specular surfaces improve colour constancyDr. Robert Lee (Lincoln). Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge. Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Modulating drug taking and drug seeking through TAAR1 activationPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30 Dr Juan J Canales, Reader in Behavioural Neurosciences Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 20 November 2015, 16:30-18:00 Studying natural speech processing at the phonemic level using EEGPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30 Dr Edmund Lalor, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 13 November 2015, 16:30-18:00 Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising modelDr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 The prenatal sex steroid theory of autismPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30 Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre(ARC) Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 November 2015, 16:30-18:00 Methods and mechanisms of motion dazzleAnna Hughes, PDN Cambridge. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 04 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Phonological and Morphological Processes in Reading and Reading AcquisitionPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30 Professor Kathy Rastle, Head of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 30 October 2015, 16:30-18:00 "Where"Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30 Professor Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes, France. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 23 October 2015, 16:30-18:00 Creating Solidarity by Making Bodies Alike, but Creating Hierarchy in Physical DimensionsPlease note: This talk is starting at 16.30 Professor Alan Fiske, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 16 October 2015, 16:30-18:00 Meta-Bayesian AnalysisProf. Daniel Roy (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 October 2015, 11:00-12:00 Efficient Inference and Learning with Intractable Posteriors? Yes, Please.Diederik P. Kingma (University of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 11:00-12:00 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 Professor Benoit Monin, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stamford University, USA. Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room SG1/2. Friday 09 October 2015, 16:30-18:00 Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studiesFrancesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 25 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Harmonic Exponential Families and Group-Equivariant Convolution NetworksTaco Cohen (University of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped ParametersKoh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 15 September 2015, 10:30-11:30 A-Star Sampling ReviewChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 14 September 2015, 12:00-13:00 Convex Factorization MachinesMathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 14 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Belief and Truth in Hypothesised BehavioursStefano V. Albrecht - School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 10 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and PerceptionJason Yosinski (Cornell). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Information-Theoretic Bounded RationalityPedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 07 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphsDr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 27 August 2015, 15:00-15:30 Visual perceptual learning: A new perspectiveThe host for this meeting is Professor Zoë Kourtzi Professor Cong Yu, Peking University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 21 August 2015, 13:00-14:00 Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific DiscoveryDr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 29 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences(via Skype!) Alex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 27 July 2015, 15:00-16:00 Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization through reversible learningDr David Duvenaud (Harvard). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 20 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Rich Component AnalysisJames Zou (Microsoft Research New England). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 17 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 A new MCMC hybrid scheme for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture modelsMaria Lomeli-Garcia, UCL. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 16 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling RegressionSHORT TALK (20 minutes) Prof Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 03 July 2015, 12:30-13:00 Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & RecommendationManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learningAnna Choromanska (New York University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 01 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Random Function Classes for Machine LearningProf Alexander Smola, Carnegie Mellon University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Tuesday 30 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Explaining Non-Linear Classifier Decisions with application to Deep LearningProf Klaus-Robert Müller (TU Berlin). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 29 June 2015, 15:00-16:00 Deep Gaussian processes and variational propagation of uncertaintyAndreas Damianou - Sheffield University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 29 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Deep LearningProfessor Geoffrey Hinton FRS (U. Toronto and Google). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0. Thursday 25 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Random Function Classes for Machine LearningProf. Alex Smola (CMU). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable ModelsZhenwen Dai. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 18 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable ModelsZhenwen Dai. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 16 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Structural Markov laws / Geometry and HMCDr Simon Byrne. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 09 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Mean Field Approaches to Two Sequential Decision Making Problems.This talk will be given via Skype Ramki Gummadi. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438 - Skype. Monday 08 June 2015, 17:00-18:00 Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?Dr Rich Caruana (Microsoft). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 02 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Mechanisms of imitation: insights from typical and autistic cognitionDr Antonia Hamilton, Reader in Social Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 22 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Adjusting accordingly: prefrontal areas updating valuations for objects and actionsDr Betsy Murray, Chief, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 15 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Probabilistic numerics: treating numerical computation as learning, or; it's Bayes all the way downMichael Osborne (Oxford University). Engineering Department, LR5 (Baker Building, Trumpington Street). Tuesday 12 May 2015, 11:00-12:00 Impact of Diversity on Social Cohesion: Implications of Positive and Negative Intergroup ContactProfessor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural NetworksShort talk Mark Rowland (Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 May 2015, 11:00-11:30 Adult age differences in social cognitionProfessor Louise Phillips, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance: A collaboration between the Cambridge Machine Learning Group and Cambridge Capital ManagementCreighton Heaukulani, Matt Hoffman, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Andrew Baxter, . Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Imaging and Stimulating adaptive brain plasticityProfessor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 April 2015, 15:00-16:30 Title to be confirmedTuan Anh Le (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Perceptual Organization of ShapeDr James Elder, York University, Toronto. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 17 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Inference for infinite mixture models and Gaussian Process mixtures of experts using simple approximate MAP InferenceAlexis Boukouvalas (Aston University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 15 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Evolutionary dynamics in a continuous public goods gameMatthias Bauer . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 19 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 An introduction to the Mondrian ProcessMatej Balog (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 12 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Premembering PerceptionProfessor Kia Nobre, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 March 2015, 15:00-16:30 Population Inference for Functional Brain ConnectivityGenevera I. Allen (Rice University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversationsDan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 02 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Neural representation of complex spaceProfessor Kate Jeffery,Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-16:30 A* SamplingChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 24 February 2015, 11:00-12:00 Active Sensing and Brain oscillationsProfessor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 20 February 2015, 15:00-16:30 The Evolution of CultureProfessor Kevin N. Laland, School of Biology, University of St Andrews. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:30 Orthologous networks in biological systemsDr Christopher Penfold (Warwick). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-12:00 Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual JudgmentsDr Simone Schnall, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:30 How and why does an extra sex chromosome affect neurodevelopment?Professor Dorothy V. M. Bishop. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 30 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 Material matters: the brain knows the binocular statistics of glossDr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 Latent Branching TreesDr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 29 January 2015, 12:00-13:00 Upstairs-Downstairs- The Gut Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and BehaviourProfessor John F. Cryan, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 23 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 Experiments with Non-parametric Topic ModelsProf. Wray Buntine (Monash University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 23 January 2015, 11:00-12:00 The application of psychological theories to clinical practiceProfessor Barbara Wilson, OBE, Founder, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropyschological Rehabilitation and Honorary Consultant Psychologist. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 16 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 The Blended Paradigm: A Bayesian Approach to Handling Outliers and Misspecified ModelsProf. Steven MacEachern (Ohio State University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 15 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activityThe host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi Professor Jochen Braun, University of Magdeburg. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 13:00-14:00 Speech Rhythm and Temporal Structure: A Temporal Sampling Perspective on Phonology and DyslexiaPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM Professor Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 28 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Machine Translation with LSTMsRoom changed to LR3B in Inglis building and time changed to 10:30 Ilya Sutskever (Google). Friday 28 November 2014, 10:30-11:30 Oracle Variational InferenceJames McInerney (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-12:00 ‘I can get that song out of your head: Decoding perceptual representations with retinotopic and tonotopic maps.’Geoffrey M. Boynton, Jessica Thomas, and Ione Fine, University of Washington. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 25 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty to the public and policy-makersPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 21 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 How independent of semantics are phonology and syntax? Evidence from Semantic DementiaPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM Dr Karalyn Patterson, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and MRC-CBU, Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 14 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometersshort talk Prof. Naonori Ueda (Director Machine Learning and Data Science, NTT Labs). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 14 November 2014, 11:00-11:30 Genes and environment in adolescent attachment: a challenge to the received wisdom?PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM Professor Pasco Fearon, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 07 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Neural Systems for NavigationPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM Dr. Hugo Spiers, Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 31 October 2014, 15:00-16:30 Fading and Filling-inProfessor Lothar Spillmann, Freiburg. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Conjoint Measurement for assessing the contributions of different stimulus dimensions within a signal detection framework.Dr Kenneth Knoblauch, Inserm, Bron. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge. Monday 27 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Thinking flexibly and enhancing cognitionPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM Professor Verity Brown, FRSE, Provost of St Leonard¹s College, University of St Andrews. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 October 2014, 15:00-16:30 A Tutorial on Probabilistic ProgrammingProf. Frank Wood (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:00-17:00 Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective.Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and UCL London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Tuesday 21 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 Dopamine Neuron Regulation and its Disruption in Schizophrenia and DepressionPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM Anthony A. Grace, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 October 2014, 15:00-16:30 Evolution of vertebrate photoreception and retinoid cycle: Clues from the eye transcriptome of basal vertebratesProfessor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University, Canberra. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 14 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 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 Professor Walter Mischel, Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology, Columbia University, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Monday 13 October 2014, 15:00-16:30 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 Professor Rebecca Saxe, Associate professor of cognitive neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 October 2014, 15:00-16:30 Color Transformations Across the Life Span: Two Hypotheses about Modulation by LightProfessor John S. Werner, University of California, Davis. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 01 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesisThe host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert Wei Ji Ma (New York University). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 30 September 2014, 13:00-14:00 New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine LearningJasper Snoek (Harvard University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 25 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture modelsMaria Lomeli-Garcia (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 24 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 17 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised Many-to-many Object MatchingDr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 12 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging communityPhilipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 11 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 On the Bethe approximationAdrian Weller (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 11 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Gaussian process regression on graphsPeter Sollich (King's College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 16 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Implicit Representation NetworksDavid Barber (University College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 02 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Scalable Deep Gaussian ProcessesJames Hensman (University of Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception.Prof Albert van den Berg (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) . Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site. Thursday 12 June 2014, 13:00-14:00 Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian ProcessesRoman Garnett, University of Bonn. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 10 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyProfessor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 03 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence?NOTE THE SPECIAL VENUE (Microsoft Research) Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Perception, Plasticity and Prediction: how the brain learns from experienceProfessor Zoë Kourtzi, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site. Tuesday 27 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt.Room changed to LR4 Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook). Engineering Department - ***LR4***. Tuesday 20 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviourDr Luke Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 16 May 2014, 16:30-18:00 Bayesian inference for integer-valued Lévy processes with Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck volatility modellingshort talk (30 mins) - NOTE TIME CHANGE Andrea Cremaschi (Kent). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 16 May 2014, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Seminar Series @ CUED Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential FamiliesThis talk has been canceled/deleted Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential FamiliesBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:30 The integration of sensory cues across developmentProfessor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 09 May 2014, 16:30-18:00 Stable Poisson-Kingman species sampling priors generated by general ordered size biased generalized gamma mixing distributionsProf. Lancelot James (HKUST). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 May 2014, 11:00-12:30 The Conscious PhenotypeProfessor Geraint Rees, Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 02 May 2014, 16:30-18:00 Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffectsKatherine Storrs (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Department, UCL). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedPLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED To be confirmed. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 April 2014, 16:30-18:00 Probabilistic computing applications: BayesDB and stochastic digital circuitsVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 04 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic computing for Bayesian inferenceVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 13:30-14:30 Machine Learning and Order Book DynamicsTristan Fletcher . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Policy Evaluation with Temporal DifferencesChristoph Dann (Technische Universität Darmstadt). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 28 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric OptimizationSuvrit Sra (Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 17 March 2014, 11:30-12:30 Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and MethodologiesYee Whye Teh, University of Oxford. MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Friday 14 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 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" Professor Josef Parvizi, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Thursday 13 March 2014, 16:30-18:00 Learning to Learn for Structured SparsityNino Shervashidze (INRIA). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 11 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Neurocomputation of ValueDr Benedetto de Martino, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 07 March 2014, 16:30-18:00 Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organizationHost: Professor Zoë Kourtzi Dr Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 Bayesian nonparametric dynamic-clustering and genetic imputationLloyd Elliott (Gatsby Unit, UCL / Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 04 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Investigating cognitive mechanisms in major depressive disorder using novel translational animal modelsDr Emma Robinson, University of Bristol. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 28 February 2014, 16:30-18:00 Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights.Note: time is 12 noon (*not* 11am) Prof. Nando de Freitas (Oxford). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 28 February 2014, 12:00-13:00 Bayesian canonical correlation analysisSeppo Virtanen (Aalto University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 28 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype)Interview talks via Skype Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 25 February 2014, 09:00-16:00 Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideasYura Perov (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 24 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Limits to Goal-Directed Action Control - Implications for PsychopathologiesDr Sanne de Wit, Assistant Professor Dept. of Clinical Psychology University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 21 February 2014, 16:30-18:00 Particle filters and curse of dimensionalityNote: TALK via Skype! Patrick Rebeschini (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint ModelingNote: TALK via Skype! Changyou Chen (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 20 February 2014, 10:00-11:00 Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power DisaggregationIsabel Valera (University Carlos III in Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 17 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 The role of the motor system in action perceptionDr James Kilner, Senior Lecturer in Human Motor Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 14 February 2014, 16:30-18:00 Probabilistic machine learning for knowledge extraction from videos and textNote venue: LR6 Kevin Murphy (Google). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Wednesday 12 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 The role of "means selection" and "outcome selection" information in infants' goal attributionDr Szilvia Biro, Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, NL and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 07 February 2014, 16:30-18:00 Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric Bayesian credible setsBotond Szabo (Eindhoven University of Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 03 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Crossmodal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism & synaesthesia, & their application to multisensory marketingProfessor Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford & Head of Sensory Marketing, JWT Ad Agency . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 31 January 2014, 16:30-18:00 Functional architectonics of local masking in three dimensionsProfessor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 28 January 2014, 13:00-14:00 Fairness, trust & reciprocity: insights from decision neuroscienceProfessor Alan Sanfey, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 24 January 2014, 16:30-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic Data Structures and AlgorithmsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 January 2014, 15:00-16:30 Conditioned Nausea: Experimental Analysis and Practical ApplicationsProfessor Geoffrey Hall, University of York, University of New South Wales, and University of Plymouth.. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 January 2014, 16:30-18:00 Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic ProgramsJan-Willem van de Meent (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 15 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Sparse discriminative latent characteristics for predicting cancer drug sensitivityDavid Knowles (Stanford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 10 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Topographic processing of numerosity in the human brainDr. B. M. Harvey, University of Utrecht. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 11 December 2013, 13:00-14:00 Hermann Lotze and Local SignProfessor Michael Morgan, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at City University (Optometry) London and a Max-Planck Senior Fellow at the Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 29 November 2013, 16:30-18:00 The miswired brain – from altered neurodevelopment to psychopathologyDr Kevin J. Mitchell, Institutes of Genetics and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 22 November 2013, 16:30-18:00 Risk, uncertainty and feedback: How and what we learn from observing the outcome of our choicesDr Tim Rakow, Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Essex. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 15 November 2013, 16:30-18:00 What We Need to Know about Intelligence but Do Not'Dr Wendy Johnson, Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh.. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 November 2013, 16:30-18:00 Contrastive Learning Using Spectral MethodsJames Zou (Harvard). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 November 2013, 13:30-14:30 Drug addiction: neural mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habitsProfessor Barry Everitt, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 November 2013, 16:30-18:00 The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of lightDr Juliette McGregor, University of Bristol. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 01 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 Economical brain networksProfessor Ed Bullmore, Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Dept Psychiatry, University of Cambridge GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Cambridge Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 October 2013, 16:30-18:00 Re-contextualizing the hippocampusDr Charan Ranganath,Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 18 October 2013, 16:30-18:00 Plasticity, and its limits, in the adult visual system: Contrast adaptation from 4 minutes to 4 daysStephen Engel, University of Minnesota. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Benefits and limitations of hearing aidsProfessor Brian Moore, Professor of Auditory Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 11 October 2013, 16:30-18:00 Nonparametric Bayesian statistics with exchangeable random structuresDaniel Roy. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 11 October 2013, 12:00-15:00 Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationshipsOliver Stegle (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 10 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionCANCELLED Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Clustering Based on Predictive Variances in Gaussian Process Regression ModelsDr Hyun-Chul Kim . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 13 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Non-Parametric Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision and Image ProcessingJeremy Jancsary (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency SituationsHannah Pauline Keiler (Columbia University and DIMACS). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 06 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Annealing Between Distributions by Averaging MomentsChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 02 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic CompositionalityRichard Socher - Stanford University. Wednesday 31 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studiesDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studiesDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 The combinatorial structure of conditionally i.i.d. negative binomial processes directed by a beta processCreighton Heaukulani (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-13:30 Google's Approach to Building Relationships with Universities: Presentation and Talk by Dr David J HarperDr David J Harper . LR12, Baker Building, Department of Engineering (Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ). Wednesday 22 May 2013, 10:20-11:20 "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 Dr Jon Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 17 May 2013, 16:30-18:00 Heterogeneity in Cognitive AgingTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Ulman Lindenberger, Director for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 10 May 2013, 16:30-18:00 Matrix Concentration Inequalities via the Method of Exchangeable PairsProfessor Michael I Jordan (UC Berkeley). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 1. Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Emotional disorders and mental imageryTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Emily A. Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 03 May 2013, 16:30-18:00 Deep Gaussian ProcessesProf. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 01 May 2013, 15:00-16:00 Approaches to statistical modeling of network dataMaxim Nazarov (Bocconi University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's DiseaseTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Lisa Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 26 April 2013, 16:30-18:00 Bayesian nonparametric methods for non-exchangeable dataNick Foti (Dartmouth College). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 15 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State SegmentationWill Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 08 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential FamilyJames Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 25 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 An application of HDP And IBP for stream-based action recognition and high dimensional dataAva Bargi : University of Technology, Sydney. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 11 March 2013, 11:30-12:00 Title to be confirmedTHIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED Professor Mark Johnson, Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 March 2013, 16:30-18:00 Using Context and Insight for the Analysis of LittleData?Philipp Moritz (U Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 08 March 2013, 11:00-11:30 All work and no playProf. Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren, PhD Dept. of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 March 2013, 16:30-18:00 Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxesTamara Broderick (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 27 February 2013, 11:30-12:30 Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autismProfessor Sue Leekam, Chair of Autism, School of Psychology, Cardiff University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 22 February 2013, 16:30-18:00 Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes ProcessesCharles Blundell (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 22 February 2013, 11:00-12:00 Experience-related changes in the adult auditory systemProfessor Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 15 February 2013, 16:30-18:00 Don't Believe Everything You Read in the PapersProfessor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 08 February 2013, 16:30-18:00 Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and ParentsProfessor Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology), School of Psychology, University of Sussex. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 01 February 2013, 16:30-18:00 Structural Expectation Propagation (SEP): Bayesian structure learning for networks with latent variablesNevena Lazic (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:00-12:00 Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learningProfessor Tom Beckers, Associate Professor, Department of Learning & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 25 January 2013, 16:30-18:00 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. Professor Patrick Haggard, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge. Thursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30 Disturbing vision: neural efficiency, haemodynamics and homeostasisProfessor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 14 January 2013, 13:00-14:00 Individual differences in human perceptionDr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 07 January 2013, 13:00-14:00 A molecular basis of innate and learned behaviorProfessor Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 23 November 2012, 16:30-18:00 The combinatorial structure underlying a beta processes is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemesDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 20 November 2012, 13:00-14:30 ERP evidence of reduced perceptual filtering predicts superior visual search in individuals with high levels of autistic traits.Dr Elizabeth Milne, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 16 November 2012, 16:30-18:00 Learning of Milky Way Model Parameters Using Matrix-variate Data in a New Gaussian Process-based MethodDr Dalia Chakrabarty (University of Warwick). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 November 2012, 11:30-12:30 Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisionsTHIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 09 November 2012, 16:30-18:00 Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networksDr Andrew Welchman, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader in Sensory Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 02 November 2012, 16:30-18:00 How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see?Denis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in MemoryProfessor John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 26 October 2012, 16:30-18:00 Identification of causal effectsNevena Lazic. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-16:00 Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulationsJes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 22 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gamblingDr Frederick Verbruggen, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, University of Exeter. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 19 October 2012, 16:30-18:00 Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar Distributed, Real-Time Bayesian Learning in Online ServicesRalf Herbrich (Facebook). LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding. Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Title to be confirmedProfessor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:00 Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modellingDr Sam Gilbert, Royal Society Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 12 October 2012, 16:30-18:00 Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition.Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 05 October 2012, 16:30-18:00 Compressed Sensing Applications in Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingChristine Law (Oxford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 26 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 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 Matthias Seeger, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 September 2012, 15:00-16:00 Multi-Label Learning with Millions of CategoriesManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 24 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Efficient Sampling with Kernel HerdingYutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 12 September 2012, 16:00-17:00 Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learningSimon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 24 August 2012, 11:00-12:00 Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general frameworkProf. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 08 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing CostsPedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 03 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random FieldsKonstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Perception of motion blur during eye movementProfessor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 25 July 2012, 13:00-14:00 Data Modelling With Neural Networks (II): Content-Addressable Memories And State-Of-The-Art Error-Correcting CodesLast Lecture! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 16 July 2012, 14:30-16:30 Approximating Probability Distributions (IV): Variational MethodsDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 09 July 2012, 14:30-16:30 Fast Gaussian process learning for regression, semi-supervised classification, and multiway analysisProf Alan Qi (Purdue U). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Learning of User Preferences: Elicitation, Sparsification and BeyondEdwin Bonilla (NICTA/ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Structured Prediction using Linear Programming RelaxationsDavid Sontag (NYU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Vision for readingProfessor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 A new look at gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamicsProfessor Bill Newsome, Stanford. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 26 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Advanced Monte Carlo Methods and Variational InferenceDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 25 June 2012, 14:30-17:00 The wonder of hue: the non-monotonic contribution of S-cones to bluenessSungmi Oh, Joshibi University, Japan. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 21 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 A new look at human motor controlThe host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept. Dr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin. Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant OptimizationIgor Mordatch (University of Washington). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Approximating Probability Distributions (I)-(II): Monte Carlo Methods and Variational InferenceTwo lectures! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 11 June 2012, 14:30-17:00 An Introduction to Statistical Inference, Data Modelling & Pattern RecogntionTwo Lectures! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 28 May 2012, 14:30-17:00 Perceptual learning: Improving letter recognition and reading speedDr Susana Chung, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Communication over noisy channels (III)Note unusual time David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 21 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 The Determination of Memory Course after RetrievalDr Kerrie Thomas, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 18 May 2012, 16:30-18:00 Imprinted genes, brain and behaviourProfessor Lawrence Wilkinson, Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 11 May 2012, 16:30-18:00 Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimationBarnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 08 May 2012, 11:00-12:00 Communication over noisy channels (II)David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 07 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive controlDr Tom Verguts, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 04 May 2012, 16:30-18:00 Past work and future interests: respectively, the scattering of Anyons and Monte Carlo methodsAlexander Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 04 May 2012, 11:15-12:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Method and Maximum-A-Posteriori Inference in Statistical Machine TranslationTsuyoshi Okita (Dublin City University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 11:15-12:15 "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. Eero Simoncelli, New York University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Communication over noisy channels (I)David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 30 April 2012, 14:30-15:30 "Visual crowding: Basic mechanisms and abnormalities associated with schizophrenia "Professor Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, London. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 30 April 2012, 13:00-14:00 Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Genetic and brain imaging findingsDr Essi Viding, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 27 April 2012, 16:30-18:00 Entropy and data compression (IV)New: Previous lectures can be downloaded! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 23 April 2012, 14:30-15:30 Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own BehaviorProfessor Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 20 April 2012, 16:30-18:00 Entropy and data compression (III)New: Previous lectures can be downloaded! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 16 April 2012, 14:30-15:30 Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov ModelsJonathan Huggins (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 March 2012, 11:00-11:45 Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory.Professor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 09 March 2012, 16:30-18:00 "Genetic correlates of visual biases"Patrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 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. David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 05 March 2012, 14:30-15:30 Basic number representations and their neural basisDr Wim Fias, Ghent University, Belgium. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 02 March 2012, 16:30-18:00 Entropy and data compression (I)David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 27 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 The Adolescent BrainProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 24 February 2012, 16:30-18:00 Probabilistic computing: computation as universal stochastic inference, not deterministic calculationVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 February 2012, 12:30-13:30 Introduction to information theoryDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidationDr Jonathan Lee, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 17 February 2012, 16:30-18:00 Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology MeetJOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR Professor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 10 February 2012, 16:30-18:00 Against QualiaProfessor Tim Crane, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 03 February 2012, 16:30-18:00 Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequencesDr Kate Cain, Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 27 January 2012, 16:30-18:00 Thinking aloud about mental voicesDr Charles Fernyhough, Department of Psychology, Durham University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 20 January 2012, 16:30-18:00 Colour Categories in Language and ThoughtDr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00 One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. CavoniusG. Jordan, J. D. Mollon, M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg.. Cavonius Centre, Stephen Hawking Building, Harvey Court, West Road. Wednesday 11 January 2012, 10:00-18:00 A musical gift for Horace Barlow on his ninetieth birthdaySpeaker to be confirmed. McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet Street (behind The Eagle pub, www.scisoc.com for directions). Friday 09 December 2011, 17:00-18:00 Scaling Machine Learning for the InternetProf. Alexander Smola (Yahoo!). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Wednesday 07 December 2011, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and OptimisationMichael Osborne ( Oxford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 28 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Adult neuropsychological models cannot be generalised to neurodevelopmental disordersProfessor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 25 November 2011, 16:30-18:00 Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State SystemsVinayak Rao (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 23 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 fMRI of color signals in human visual cortexProfessor Alex Wade, Department of Psychology, University of York. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 18 November 2011, 16:30-18:00 How do context and attention affect S-cone signals in human V1?Professor Alex Wade, University of York. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 A Maximum Entropy Perspective on Spectral Dimensionality ReductionProf Neil Lawrence (Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 When experimentation meets limits, but simple correlation is uninformative: modelling developmental influences and other complex phenomenaProfessor Mark Haggard, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 11 November 2011, 16:30-18:00 Causal models in evidential reasoningDr David Lagnado, Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Department, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 04 November 2011, 16:30-18:00 Which psychophysical colour vision test to use for screening in 3-9 year olds?Dr Manca Tekavčič Pompe. Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Monday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Pervasive Eye Tracking - Opportunities and ChallengesDr Andreas Bulling, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 28 October 2011, 16:30-18:00 Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate ModelsDr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 26 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Seeing in the dark: single-photon signals in the retinaProfessor John Robson, Gonville and Caius College. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 25 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Visual sensitivity explainedProfessor Denis Pelli, Professor of Neural Science, New York University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 21 October 2011, 16:30-18:00 Dopaminergic modulation of episodic memory in young and older adultsProfessor Emrah Düzel, Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Magdeburg, Germany. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 14 October 2011, 16:30-18:00 Not so naive Bayesian classificationProf. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian Nonparametrics: Latent Feature and Prediction Models, and Efficient InferencePiyush Rai (University of Utah). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 11 October 2011, 11:30-12:30 Memory Consolidation: Synaptic tagging and mental schemasProfessor Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 07 October 2011, 16:30-18:00 Machine Learning MarketsDr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 07 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 The Problem with ColourWe regret that the speaker has had cancel this talk for family reasons Dr. Simon J. Cropper, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 05 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Factored Shapes and Appearances for Parts-based Object Understanding AND Transformation Equivariant Boltzmann MachinesChris Williams, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 27 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian SystemsPhilipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 19 September 2011, 15:00-16:00 Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applicationsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 16 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Drawing in reverse perspective, ancient and modernProfessor Ian Howard, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 12 September 2011, 13:00-14:00 Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational ViewpointProf. Matthias Seeger (EPFL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 July 2011, 11:30-12:30 Some Practical Reflections on Graphical ModelsDr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific LiteratureKhalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 11 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Graphical Models for Bandit ProblemsKareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 04 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian regression and classification with multivariate sparsifying priorsProf. Tom Heskes (Radboud University Nijmegen). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning(rescheduled from May 24th) Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Censored Exploration in Dark PoolsProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 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. Dr. Steve Kennerley, UCL, Institute of Neurology. Second-floor seminar room, Department of Experimental Psychology. Tuesday 31 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Visual cortical architecture and subjective perceptionDr. Sam Schwarzkopf, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neural Imaging. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 27 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learningRESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 7th Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 24 May 2011, 11:00-12:00 The effects of early visual deprivationDr Ione Fine, University of Washington. Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Monday 23 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Memory Deficits associated with selective hippocampal atrophyProfessor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, UCL Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Child Health. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 20 May 2011, 16:30-18:00 Understanding and optimizing human motor learningThe host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept. Dr. Amy Bastian, John Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute. Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Thursday 19 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Hierarchical hidden Markov models revisitedEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 May 2011, 11:00-12:00 Emotions, Intuitions and MoralityDr Simone Schnall, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 13 May 2011, 16:30-18:00 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 Professor Morris Moscovitch, Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging, University of Toronto. Lecture Theatre of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.. Thursday 05 May 2011, 15:30-16:30 Navigational guidance systems in the human brainThe host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept. Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Mandarin DasherAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 11 April 2011, 11:00-12:00 Characterization of the Ewens-Pitman family of random partitions by a deletion property and a de Finetti-type theorem for exchangeable hierarchiesChris Haulk (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 11 April 2011, 11:00-12:00 '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 Professor Steve Shevell. Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College. Friday 25 March 2011, 17:00-18:00 Rigid body motion in conformal geometric algebraPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Nonlinear Dynamics of LearningProf. Max Welling (UC Irvine). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Soul Dust: the magic of consciousnessDr Nicholas Humphrey. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 18 March 2011, 16:30-18:00 Exponential Conditional Volatility ModelsProf Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 CRH: a Central Reference Handling systemChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 14 March 2011, 11:00-11:30 Thinking of things unseen: exploratory behaviour in chimpanzees and childrenDr Amanda Seed, University of St Andrews. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 11 March 2011, 16:30-18:00 Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigmProf. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 March 2011, 12:00-13:00 Speech perception in older listeners: Contributions of changes in audition and cognitionDr Christian Fullgrabe, University of Nottingham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 04 March 2011, 16:30-18:00 Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab PriorsDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 March 2011, 11:30-12:30 Probabilistic matrix factorization for reconstruction of missing dataDr Alexander Ilin (Aalto University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 March 2011, 10:30-11:30 That old feeling: Age-related changes in conversationProfessor Trevor Harley, University of Dundee. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 25 February 2011, 16:30-18:00 Title to be confirmedYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 25 February 2011, 11:00-12:00 Perceptual Learning and Face RecognitionProfessor Ian McLaren, University of Exeter. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 18 February 2011, 16:30-18:00 Brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputsDr Hannah Smithson, University of Durham. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 18 February 2011, 13:00-14:00 Do birds believe in magicDr Nathan Emery, Queen Mary, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 11 February 2011, 16:30-18:00 Conserved principles of movement generationThe host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept., m.lengyel@eng.cam.ac.uk Mark Churchland, Stanford University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 11 February 2011, 13:00-14:00 A computer-vision based facial gesture switchEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 07 February 2011, 11:00-12:00 The Neuroscience of moral judgementProfessor Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 04 February 2011, 16:30-18:00 Differential Geometric MCMC MethodsProf. Mark Girolami (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 01 February 2011, 11:00-12:00 Hippocampal function: Re-considering configural memoryDr Mark Good, University of Cardiff. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 28 January 2011, 16:30-18:00 Mining viral datasetsDr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 The Bayesian brain, surprise and free-energyProfessor Karl Friston, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 21 January 2011, 16:30-18:00 'Arctic reindeer and their adaptation to extreme changes in environmental light'Professor Glen Jeffery, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 18 January 2011, 13:00-14:00 Universal Bayesian Agents: Theory and ApplicationsProf. Marcus Hutter (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 18 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED)(note new date) Dr Florian Markowetz (CRUK) - lab visit. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 17 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Novi QuadriantoNovi Quadrianto, Australian National University. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 A New Machine Learning LibraryNote unusual time Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 13 December 2010, 11:15-12:00 Introduction to Geometric Algebra IIPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 Learning item trees for collaborative filtering with implicit feedbackDr Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 29 November 2010, 11:45-12:45 The Evolution of shopping listsTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 26 November 2010, 16:30-18:00 Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy DataDr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 26 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Illusions in the real worldTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Peter Thompson, Department of Psychology, University of York. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 19 November 2010, 16:30-18:00 Crowdsourcing data modellingAnthony Goldbloom (Kaggle). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Out-of-band Language ModellingAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 15 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Natural GeometryTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 12 November 2010, 16:30-18:00 CANCELLEDCANCELLED Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 South Africa's Involvement With Square Kilometre Array Bid: Infrastructure and Electromagnetic QuietnessProf. Howard Reader, University of Stellenbosch. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Neuroimaging of ADHD and related disordersTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Katya Rubia, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 05 November 2010, 16:30-18:00 Short talks: Mixed Cumulative Distribution Networks; Nonparametric Bayesian community discovery in social networks; Expectation Propagation for Dirichlet Process Mixture ModelsCharles Blundell, Lloyd Elliot and Vinayak Rao, Gatsby Unit, UCL. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 05 November 2010, 13:30-15:00 The Multiscale Composite Dirichlet Process and its applicationsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 01 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Epigenetics, brain development and behaviourTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 29 October 2010, 16:30-18:00 Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series STORM below the localisation limitSusan Cox, Kings College London. Seminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM). Wednesday 27 October 2010, 11:30-12:30 Putting Some Language Back Into Language ModellingCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 25 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 Human speech and language: Separable neurobiological substratesTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 22 October 2010, 16:30-18:00 How the brain makes decisionsTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 15 October 2010, 16:30-18:00 Bayesian PsychometryPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 11 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 Science and government policy: current oxymoron future opportunity?Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor David Nutt, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 08 October 2010, 16:30-18:00 Continuous Gesture Recognition and VisualizationLeif Denby (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 04 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web PagesGjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research, Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian Inference with KernelsDr Arthur Gretton (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 13 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Ticker: Case StudyEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Research adventures in JapanLab access may be impeded due to bank holiday Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 30 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 On the Equivalence of Graph Cuts and Max-product Belief PropagationDanny Tarlow (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Statistical Language ModellingCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 23 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedLaurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Topic Models -- and how to break themPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 09 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes BankProf Michael Mitzenmacher - Computer Science, Harvard. Tuesday 03 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Some Uses of Hashing in Networking ProblemsMichael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Monday 02 August 2010, 14:15-15:15 Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politicsgeneral audience talk (non-technical) -- NOTE change of room to LR4! Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University). Thursday 29 July 2010, 16:30-17:30 Creating structured and flexible models: some open problemsProf Andrew Gelman (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Efficient Bayesian analysis of multiple changepoint modelsProf Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 26 July 2010, 15:00-16:00 Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated BayesianSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus / Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic ModelsDr. Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Scalable Parallel Computing with CUDAJames Balfour (NVIDIA). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 20 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Introduction to Geometric AlgebraPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 19 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Dasher on a Space-filling curveAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 16 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesDr Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 12 July 2010, 11:30-12:30 Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental DesignAndreas Krause (Caltech). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian head pose estimationCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Intelligently Aiding Human-Guided Correction of Speech RecognitionKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 28 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Differential Privacy and Probabilistic InferenceOliver Williams (Microsoft Research). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational BayesDr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological ProblemsBarbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 The AEGIS projectNote unusual time Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 14 June 2010, 09:00-12:00 Using topic models to help cure cancerProf Quaid Morris (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 11 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Message Passing In Centralized Databaseshort talk Konstantina Palla (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 11 June 2010, 11:00-11:30 Structured Prediction CascadesDr. Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30 Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack DimensionProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 09 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Robust Associative memoryPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 31 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Credit Assignment, State Representations, & Time Scales in Motor LearningProf. Maurice Smith, Harvard University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 26 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 Conditional Counting: Approximate Multinomial Probit RegressionPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 24 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Brain-Based ValuesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Patricia Churchland, Philosophy Department, University of California San Diego, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 21 May 2010, 16:30-18:00 Ticker: A text-entry interface with audio feedback for single-switch usersEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Making Decisions without ValuesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 14 May 2010, 16:30-18:00 Coherent Inference on Optimal Play in GamesPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 10 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Brain imaging studies of memory for when events occurredTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Ed Wilding, School of Psychology, Cardiff University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 07 May 2010, 16:30-18:00 Report from CHI 2010Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 03 May 2010, 11:00-11:30 How do we read other people's mind? Insights from neuropsychologyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Dana Samson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 30 April 2010, 16:30-18:00 Measuring consciousness: From behaviour to neurophysiologyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Anil Seth, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 23 April 2010, 16:30-18:00 Speech Dasher: Fast Writing using Speech and GazeKeith Vertanen, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 29 March 2010, 11:00-11:20 Language Modelling with PPMAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Slice sampling with latent Gaussian modelsDr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian feature tracking and head pose estimationCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 15 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Dynamic Network Tomography: Model, Algorithm, Theory, and ApplicationProf. Eric Xing (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Making Sense of Data - A Research AgendaProf Bob Williamson (ANU and Scientific Director of NICTA). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Thursday 11 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Recursive CRFs for Scalable Visionshort talk David Duvenaud (UBC). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:00 Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Codingshort talk Azadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 11:30-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Title to be confirmedShort talk Alex Davies (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 11:00-11:30 Bayesian Inference in Networks of QueuesDr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 09 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Stochastic Outlier SelectionJeroen Janssens (Tilburg University / University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 08 March 2010, 16:00-16:30 Neurally-inspired ComputingPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Glutamate, GABA and the neurobiology of reward conditioningTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor David Stephens, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 05 March 2010, 16:30-18:00 Latent Force Models with Gaussian ProcessesDr Neil Lawrence (University of Manchester). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 01 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 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 Professor Karl Zilles, Director of the Institute for Neuroscience & Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany. Dept of Physiology Main lecture theatre. Friday 26 February 2010, 16:30-18:00 “Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time”Tatiana Selchenkova, I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 24 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 DasherPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 February 2010, 11:00-11:30 Deficits in processing sensory context in schizophreniaTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 19 February 2010, 16:30-18:00 Mapping the parts of higher level cortexTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Marty Sereno, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 12 February 2010, 16:30-18:00 Automatic Selection of Recognition Errors by Respeaking the Intended TextKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 February 2010, 11:00-12:00 Paranoia: The 21st Century FearTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Daniel Freeman, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 05 February 2010, 16:30-18:00 Mind Reading by Machine Learning: Optimal Experimental DesignShort talk Neil Houlsby (CUED). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 02 February 2010, 11:00-11:30 NIPS 2009 highlightsPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge), Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 01 February 2010, 11:00-12:00 Single cell responses in the human medial temporal lobeTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 29 January 2010, 16:30-18:00 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 Dr Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 22 January 2010, 16:30-18:00 HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar Accelerated Bayesian inference in cosmologyDr. Mike Hobson (Cambridge). Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Course (4F13)4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street). Wednesday 20 January 2010, 10:00-11:00 CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human SensingCANCELLED Dr Fernando de la Torre (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Visuospatial ReasoningShort Talk Stephanie Chan (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 18 January 2010, 10:00-10:30 Mis-wired: Studying the link between brain network development and functional deficitsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Marcus Kaiser, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 15 January 2010, 16:30-18:00 Machine Learning Course (4F13)4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street). Thursday 14 January 2010, 10:00-11:00 Title to be confirmedDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 11 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalryHost: Jenny Bosten, Department of Experimental Psychology Dr. Daniel H. Baker, Aston University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 04 December 2009, 13:00-14:00 Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotationshort talk Sean Moran (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 December 2009, 11:00-12:00 Joint imputation and estimation of haplotype transition probabilitiesWolfgang Lehrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Wednesday 02 December 2009, 11:00-12:00 NIPS posterPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 30 November 2009, 11:40-12:00 Face Recognition: Who's That Blonde?Ulrich Paquet (Imense). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 30 November 2009, 11:00-11:40 Studying the relation between neural oscillations and human behaviour with MagnetoencephalographyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Joachim Gross, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 27 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidanceHost: Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department Professor Zhaoping Li, Computer Science, UCL. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 27 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Fate determination of retinal neurons: Lineage relationships and the inhibitory master switch Ptf1aDr. Patricia Jusuf. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Probabilistic feature tracking with non-probabilistic techniquesCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 23 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 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 Dr Mark Walton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 20 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law BehaviourYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Gaussian Processes for Active Data Selection, Faults, Changepoints and Sensor SelectionProf. Stephen Roberts (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Colour vision across the life span: perception and brain imagingDr. Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 研究の紹介Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Why speaking louder might not make you understood - supra-threshold deficits in hearing impairmentTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Kathryn Hopkins, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 13 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 KL control theory and decision making under uncertaintyBert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 10 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Risks, Emotions & DecisionsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Peter Ayton, Department of Psychology, City University London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 06 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 Optimizing Dasher for the iPhoneAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 02 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Neurobiological basis of music and dance skillsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Lawerence Parsons, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 30 October 2009, 16:30-18:00 Association mapping and prediction of complex structured phenotypesOliver Stegle (Max Planck Institutes, Tübingen). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Information theoretic model selection in clusteringJoachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 A facial gesture switch using hidden Markov modelsEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 The neurodynamics of cognitive integrationTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Murray Shanahan, Department of Computing, Imperial College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 23 October 2009, 16:30-18:00 Inclusive user modellingPradipta Biswas (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 19 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Wobbles, warbles and fish - the physiology of dyslexiaTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor John Stein, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 16 October 2009, 16:30-18:00 Russian Blues: Effects of Language Categories on Colour DiscriminationProfessor Galina Paramei, Hope University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 16 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Learning Logical RelationsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 12 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Licking & liking in rodentsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Dominic Dwyer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 09 October 2009, 16:30-18:00 Motor Skills Learning for RoboticsJan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Recognition and Correction of Voice Web Search QueriesKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learningAndrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 29 September 2009, 14:00-15:00 Of Uncertain Value -- Bayesian Quadratic Reinforcement LearningPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 29 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Capacity of Spiking Neural NetworksPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 CANCELLEDCancelled Prof. Eric Xing (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 18 September 2009, 10:00-11:00 Thermal expansion of beta-eucryptitePatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 14 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Convex Variational Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Generalized Linear ModelsHannes Nickisch. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Text entry performance of state of the art unconstrained handwriting recognition: a longitudinal user studyLeif Denby (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 24 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Combining Collaborative Filtering with Meta Data for Scalable RecommendationsNote unusual time David Stern (Microsoft). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 11 August 2009, 15:00-16:00 Computable Probability TheoryDaniel Roy (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 28 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Physics Dimensions in SageMiriam Backens, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 28 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Dashing this way and thatAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 08 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Mapping facial gestures to control cursors and switchesEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 July 2009, 10:30-11:30 A quick way to learn a mixture of exponentially many linear modelsNote unusual time Geoffrey Hinton, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & University of Toronto. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 15 June 2009, 15:00-16:00 Short ICML Practice TalkRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 12 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Inference in Models with Latent HierarchiesNote new time Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Using gradient descent for optimization and learningNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 26 May 2009, 13:00-15:00 How we come to experience that we own our bodyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Henrik Ehrsson, Department of Neuroscience & Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 15 May 2009, 16:30-18:00 Bird vision and egg mimicry by cuckoosDr. Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology, Cambridge. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 Who Lost the Cog in Cognitive Science?—Mentalism in an Era of Anti-CognitivismTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Josef Perner, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 08 May 2009, 16:30-18:00 Inferring building properties from temperature datavenue to be confirmed Dan Ryder-Cook. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 The dark side of impulsivity: neural and psychological mechanisms of pre-disposition to stimulant addictionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Jeff Dalley, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 01 May 2009, 16:30-18:00 Living optical elements in the vertebrate retinaDr. Jochen Guck (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge). Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 30 April 2009, 13:00-14:00 Useful Computation with Coincidence DetectionPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 Are imitation and the 'mirror system' products of associative learning?NOTE NEW VENUE FOR REFRESHMENTS - Tea & cakes available in 1st floor PartII Common Room Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 24 April 2009, 16:30-18:00 Bayesian periodicity detectionTamara Broderick (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 Literature review presentations - Tidal power, and Fuel cellsNote unusual time Geoffrey Supran and Colm Seeley. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 Feature tracking with full posteriorsNote new date and time. Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 April 2009, 16:00-17:00 Deducing Principles in Natural PerceptionMike Lewicki - CMU, Berlin, and Case Western. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 What reflected light tells the eye about the content of the worldProf. David H. Foster, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 30 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 Learning from Measurements in Exponential FamiliesPercy Liang (University of California, Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 Statistically optimal inference and learning: from behavior to neural representationsProfessor József Fiser, Brandeis University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 17 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 Geothermal power in AustraliaCatriona Knox. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 12 March 2009, 11:30-12:00 Cloud Ships for global warming reductionFred Farrell. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 12 March 2009, 11:00-11:30 Painless Parse ErrorsKathryn Gray, Computer Laboratory. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 Shrinkage regression for multivariate inference with missing data, with an application to portfolio balancingRobert B. Gramacy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 15:00-16:00 How does early brain organization promote language acquisition in humans?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 06 March 2009, 16:30-18:00 Quasi-linear Sensor ManagementMarco Huber (University of Karlsruhe). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 06 March 2009, 15:00-16:00 The neural code and knowledge representation: a bridge too far?Dr Peter Foldiak, St Andrews University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 06 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 Adaptive coding mechanisms in children with autism: lessons from developmentTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Liz Pellicano, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 27 February 2009, 16:30-18:00 An Introduction to TranscriptomicsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-18:00 Dasher in Mandarin Chinese with Phonetic Pin Yinnote unusual time and venue Will Zou. Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 Optimization and Incentives Seminar A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization ChannelsJoint With Probability Seminar Series. Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University. MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their ApplicationsMichael Mitzenmacher (Harvard). Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Monday 23 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 From perception to conception: object processing in the ventral streamTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Lorraine K Tyler, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 20 February 2009, 16:30-18:00 Generalization in LearningYevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 20 February 2009, 11:00-12:00 Stochastic control as an inference problemProf. Bert Kappen (University of Nijmegen). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Tuesday 17 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 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. Professor Stanislas Dehaene, Director of INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France. *note change of venue* Physiology Lecture Theatre 1. Friday 13 February 2009, 16:30-18:00 Subjective measures of unconscious knowledgeTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Zoltan Dienes, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 06 February 2009, 16:30-18:00 More NIPS highlightsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 04 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 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. Dr Luke Clark, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 30 January 2009, 16:30-18:00 Extending the Affinity Propagation ModelInmar Givoni (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 30 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 NIPS HighlightsPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:30-17:00 Parakeet: A Continuous Speech Recognition System for Mobile Touch-Screen DevicesKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:00-16:30 What the "Renewal Effect" is, is not, and the status of current explanationsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor James Byron Nelson, University of the Basque Country, Spain. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 23 January 2009, 16:30-18:00 The Block Diagonal Infinite Hidden Markov ModelTom Stepleton (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging SoftwareLaura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 19 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 Perception, action and uncertaintyProf. Laurence Maloney, Department of Psychology, NYU. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 19 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 Why genetic association studies have been so unsuccessful in psychiatryTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 16 January 2009, 16:30-18:00 HMMs for Protein Sequencing from Mass Spectrometry DataDr Bernd Fischer (EBI). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 13 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 What do the Colour-Blind see? -- And if it's more than we thought, how do they do it?Dr Justin Broackes, Department of Philosophy, Brown University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Monday 12 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 The Perception of Colour Seen in ContextDr Steve Shevell, University of Chicago. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 06 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 Optimizing Similarity Functions in Various Pattern Recognition ProblemsNote unusual time Sang Wan Lee, KAIST Korea. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 09 December 2008, 10:00-11:00 Visual Search: Applications and Computational ModellingXiao-Peng Hu, Imperial College. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 December 2008, 14:00-15:00 Eye-Tracking in Virtual RealityAlessio Murgia , Reading. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 December 2008, 10:30-11:30 Estimating the Pen Trajectories of Handwritten Static Scripts using Hidden Markov ModelsEmli-Mari Nel, Vicon. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 05 December 2008, 11:00-12:00 Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives.Dr Saul Griffith, Makani Power. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 December 2008, 16:15-17:15 The cortico-cerebellar system: Anatomy, evolution and functionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Narender Ramnani, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 28 November 2008, 16:30-18:00 Deep Networks for VisionMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-18:00 Going with the flow: Visually guided flight and navigation in honeybeesProfessor Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Queensland Brain Institute. Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Thursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Bayesian Inductive ProgrammingR J Henderson (Edinburgh). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Rational ThoughtTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Vinod Goel, Department of Psychology, University of Hull. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 21 November 2008, 16:30-18:00 What is smart thing like number doing in the dumb parietal cortex?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, University College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 14 November 2008, 16:30-18:00 Thermochemistry and Nuclear power - Clean responsive electricityJonathan Lee, Trinity College. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankingsDr Marina Meila (University of Washington). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Rules, associations and inhibitory control: fMRI, patient and oculomotor studies of the frontal lobeTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Tim Hodgson, School of Psychology, University of Exeter. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 07 November 2008, 16:30-18:00 The unbearable sameness of being: Categorical cognition, autobiographical recollection and emotional disorderTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Tim Dalgleish, Co-Director of the Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 31 October 2008, 16:30-18:00 Low-cost large-scale renewable energyDenis Bonnelle. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 28 October 2008, 11:00-13:00 Impulsive antisocial sensation seeking in healthy subjects: Effects on cognitive processesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Alan Pickering, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 24 October 2008, 16:30-18:00 Recent developments in the chemical senses: a tutorial for visual and auditory scientistsProfessor Barry Keverne, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Dept of Zoology, Cambridge. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Forensic Genomics:Kin Privacy, Driftnets and Other Open QuestionsFrank Stajano, Lucia Bianchi, Pietro Liò and Douwe Korff. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:15-15:15 Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's CoalescentNote unusual time Dr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 Context in human robot interactionThomas Kollar (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:00 Comparative cognitive development in chimpanzeesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 17 October 2008, 16:30-18:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-18:00 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. Professor Jean Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 10 October 2008, 16:30-18:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-18:00 Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor ProcessesDr Erik Sudderth (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 08 October 2008, 13:30-14:30 Inferring the hazard rate in change point modelsNote unusual day and time Robert Wilson, U. Penn. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 07 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Spoken Dialogue ManagementSebastien Bratieres. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 29 September 2008, 11:00-12:00 A Bayesian approach to language learningDr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 26 September 2008, 15:00-16:00 Learning Bigrams from UnigramsAndrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Nonparametric Bayesian Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Hierarchical, Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language ModelDr Frank Wood (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 17 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Clustering by linear programming, convex optimization and belief propagationNote unusual time Brendan Frey, University of Toronto. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 16 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learningJo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 15 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priorsDr Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Matrix Factorization and Relational LearningAjit Paul Singh (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 09 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Associative Memories(This talk was postponed from 20 August) Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 27 August 2008, 14:00-15:00 Artificial intelligence in combinatorial game designCameron Browne, Queensland University of Technology. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 13 August 2008, 14:00-15:00 From Automated Currency Validation to Protein Fold Recognition: Probabilistic Multi-class Multi-kernel LearningTheodoros Damoulas (CS, University of Glasgow). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 30 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Semantic Texton Forests for Image Categorization and Segmentation.Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 23 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 "The Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye"Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 July 2008, 13:00-14:00 Modeling with Bounded Partition FunctionsRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 16 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Double Feature: Optimal Precoding for MIMO and Divergence Estimation for Continuous DistributionsDr Fernando Perez-Cruz (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 A Computational Theory of Visual Attention to Time, Space, and FeaturesGeorge Sperling, University of California, Irvine. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 16 July 2008, 13:00-14:00 Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Dynamical SystemsEmily Fox (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 The influence of expectation on deciding where to look nextDr. Andrew Anderson, University of Melbourne. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 15 July 2008, 13:00-14:00 Message-passing inference on graphical modelsSimon Byrne (Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 July 2008, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks The Geometry of the Space of ShapesHosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research) Prof. David Mumford (Brown University). Queen's Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College, CB2 3AP http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/conferences/maps/. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 16:30-17:30 Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imagingScott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Thursday 26 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 Bayesian analysis of complex biological systemsDr Edo Airoldi (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 June 2008, 15:00-16:00 Grandmother cells in the human brain?Professor Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Wednesday 25 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 Bayesian Models for Dependency Parsing Using Pitman-Yor PriorsHanna Wallach (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 17 June 2008, 11:15-12:15 Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processesDr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 16 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Assessing high-dimensional latent variable modelsDr Iain Murray (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Identification of dynamical subpopulations, optimal experiment design and moreAlberto Giovanni Busetto, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 30 May 2008, 11:00-12:00 Gaussian Process Density SamplerRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00 H-Infinity ClusteringProf. Sam Roweis (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Sustainable Energy - without the hot airDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Tuesday 27 May 2008, 14:00-16:00 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. Professor Aldo Rustichini, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 23 May 2008, 16:30-18:00 The importance of cortical and subcortical visual pathways for attention and eye movementsDr. Petroc Sumner, Cardiff University. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthographyTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Kathy Rastle, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 16 May 2008, 16:30-18:00 Modeling Behaviour in Economic Games using Game-Theoretic POMDPsDebajyoti Ray (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 14 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive RoboticsDr Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 13 May 2008, 11:30-12:30 Joint action: Bodies and Minds Acting TogetherTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Joint presentation of Professor Guenther Knoblich and Dr Natalie Sebanz, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 09 May 2008, 16:30-18:00 An Introduction to Statistical Learning TheoryMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-18:00 Noise in the central nervous systemAldo Faisal. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Spatial vision in the peripheryProfessor Roger Anderson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 06 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 A role for hippocampal LTP in memory: it’s not all associative!Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr David Bannerman, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 02 May 2008, 16:30-18:00 Attentional bias and craving in substance useTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Matthew Field, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 25 April 2008, 16:30-18:00 Some models for biologyNote unusual time Leopold Parts. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 25 April 2008, 15:00-16:00 On Sparsity and Overcompleteness in Image ModelsPietro Berkes (and Richard Turner). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 23 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 Treed Gaussian Processes for Regression and ClassificationNote new date and time. Tamara Broderick (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 April 2008, 11:15-12:15 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. Professor Mark Georgeson. Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College. Wednesday 16 April 2008, 17:00-18:00 Beam Sampling for Infinite Hidden Markov ModelsJurgen Van Gael. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 02 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 On sparsity and overcompleteness in image modelsPostponed until April! Richard E. Turner (Gatsby Unit, UCL), Pietro Berkes. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 19 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 Learning quantum physicsDr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 17 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 (clashing event: Sustainable Energy and Arithmetic)Computer Lab seminar clashes with normal group meeting David MacKay. Computer Laboratory, West Cambridge Site. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 14:15-15:00 Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energyDr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00 Discriminative Methods with StructureSimon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 11 March 2008, 11:30-12:30 Processes involved in remembering future intentions: Automatic or controlled?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Lia Kvavilashvili, School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 07 March 2008, 16:30-18:00 A Bayesian approach to network modularity: inferring the structure and scale of modular networksJake Hofman (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 March 2008, 11:00-12:00 Cancellation in Auditory Scene AnalysisTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Alain de Cheveigne, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Université Paris Descartes & Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 29 February 2008, 16:30-18:00 Inductive Logic ProgrammingMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London). LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 How nervous systems are designed to be energy efficientSimon Laughlin (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Modelling motion from 1888 to 2008: How far have we come?Dr. Peter Thompson, University of York. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 26 February 2008, 13:00-14:00 Spatial memory: from neurons to learning and behaviourTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Neil Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 22 February 2008, 16:30-18:00 Statistical Machine TranslationMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Bill Byrne, Machine Intelligence Laboratory. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 Model selection and model order adaptation for clusteringPeter Orbanz (ETH Zurich). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Tracking, Memory, and Dynamic IconsDr. Srimant P. Tripathy, Department of Optometry, University of Bradford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Thursday 21 February 2008, 13:00-14:00 Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear ModelMatthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Biomedical Image SearchAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 18 February 2008, 11:30-12:30 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 Professor Peter Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 15 February 2008, 16:30-18:00 Information RetrievalMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observersDr Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 13 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Learned predictiveness and cue processing in human learningTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Mike Le Pelley, School of Psychology, Cardiff University. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 08 February 2008, 16:30-18:00 Stable distribution and data sketchingIoana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Functional MRI studies of memory and ageingTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Alexa Morcom, Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 01 February 2008, 16:30-18:00 Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored LightsGabriel J. Brostow (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 30 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Reinforcement LearningMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture (Note unusual day) Peter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 29 January 2008, 16:00-18:00 How antipsychotic medications work - from receptors to responseTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Shitij Kapur, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 25 January 2008, 16:30-18:00 Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document CollectionsDavid Blei, Computer Science, Princeton University. Wednesday 23 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease MappingJarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 22 January 2008, 11:00-12:00 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 Professor Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford. Physiology Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Friday 18 January 2008, 16:30-18:00 Graphical ModelsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Christopher M. Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-18:00 NIPS presentationsPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 16 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Normalizing colour visionMichael A. Webster, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Thursday 10 January 2008, 13:00-14:00 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 Professor Lawrence W Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emory University, USA. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Friday 07 December 2007, 16:30-18:00 The machinery of colour visionProfessor P. Lennie. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Friday 07 December 2007, 13:00-14:00 Composing: Linear and Non-Linear ThinkingNote unusual time Richard Burns (Cambridge Poet). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 07 December 2007, 11:00-12:30 The development of a motor network in Drosophila, the role of precocious neural activity in the emergence of coordinationMichael Bate (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Gene Regulatory Network Inference: A Kernel-Based Learning ApproachSandy Klemm, University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 26 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 Adjusting network dynamics to cognitive demands: dopaminergic control of cortical activity regimesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Daniel Durstewicz, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 23 November 2007, 16:30-18:00 Error Correcting CodesMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 Clinical data based optimal STI strategies for HIV: a reinforcement learning approachDr Guy-Bart Stan (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Life beyond the Physics departmentEd Ratzer (GCHQ). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 16 November 2007, 17:15-18:00 Developing cognitive approaches to the assessment of animal emotionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Mike Mendl, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 16 November 2007, 16:30-18:00 Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language ParsingMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 Branch and Bound reconstruction of Balanced Minimum Evolution optimal treesFabio Pardi. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 14 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Familiarity and recall in rats: memory for objects and eventsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Madeline Eacott, Department of Psychology, University of Durham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 09 November 2007, 16:30-18:00 An overview of covariance operators in Hilbert space, and their applicationsArthur Gretton. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process ModelsMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 11:30-12:30 Androgen and gender developmentTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Melissa Hines, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 02 November 2007, 16:30-18:00 Prequential StatisticsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Philip Dawid, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 The last thing that we should talk aboutDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 31 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implanteesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Colette McKay, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 26 October 2007, 16:30-18:00 Spectral ClusteringMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Arik Azran, Machine Learning Group. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-18:00 Bliss-Dasher -- Efficient semantic writing with any muscleDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 24 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Stress, Happiness and Health: the Cortisol ConnectionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Angela Clow, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 19 October 2007, 16:30-18:00 Group Theory and Machine LearningMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Imre Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-18:00 Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational LearningRicardo Silva (Statistical Laboratory). LR6, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 17 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 The psychopharmacology of social and non-social risky choice, and gambling behaviourTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Robert Rogers, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 12 October 2007, 16:30-18:00 Improving the Power of eQTL Studies by accounting for non-genetic FactorsOliver Stegle, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 10 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Mental programs and the frontal lobeTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 05 October 2007, 16:30-18:00 Optimal Spreading Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems; Using CSK as a Case StudyTheodore Papamarkou, University of Warwick. LR5, Engineering, Department of.. Wednesday 03 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Shape writing: a fast and fluid writing system designed for mobile devicesPer Ola Kristensson. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 26 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Graph Kernels for Data MiningKarsten Borgwardt, Machine Learning Group @ CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 19 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component AnalysisHao Shen, National ICT Australia and Australian National University, Canberra. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Friday 14 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Covariate Shift Adaptation: Supervised Learning When Training and Test Inputs Have Different DistributionsMasashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technlogy). LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 13 September 2007, 13:00-14:30 Five energy plans for BritainDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 12 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 What is a Fab Lab?Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 August 2007, 14:00-15:00 Minimal Perfect Hashing: hash tables with no collisions15 min talk Piotr Zielinski and others. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 25 July 2007, 14:00-14:15 Uncomfortable images and spatial periodicity in nature, in art, and in textArnold Wilkins, University of Essex. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 03 July 2007, 13:00-14:00 Decoding consciousnessGeraint Rees, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 26 June 2007, 13:00-14:00 Language Modelling DiscussionPhil Cowans. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 13 June 2007, 14:00-15:00 The effect of color and motion changes on attentional captureAdrian von Mühlenen, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Thursday 07 June 2007, 13:00-14:00 Open Vocabulary Confusion Networks for Speech RecognitionKeith Vertanen. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 06 June 2007, 14:00-15:00 How do we perceive motion direction?Linda Bowns, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 05 June 2007, 13:00-14:00 An Error-Correcting KeyboardCarl Scheffler, Inference Group, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 30 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Probabilities, Complexities and Game SemanticsChristian Steinruecken. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 28 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted Speaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Illusory multisensory interactions in synaesthesiaGary Bargary, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Dublin. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 22 May 2007, 13:00-14:00 Timing, memory and choiceTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor John Staddon, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 18 May 2007, 16:30-18:00 Learning and Stability in Random Sigma-Pi NetworksPhilip Sterne. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 16 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in strategy implementation and episodic memoryTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Mark Baxter, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 11 May 2007, 16:30-18:00 The ageing eye - Lifestyle vs GenesRuth Hogg, University of Melbourne. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Thursday 10 May 2007, 13:00-14:00 Shape writing: fluid text entry on mobile devicesPer Ola Kristensson. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 09 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 The role of action in directing attentionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Glyn Humphreys, Behavioural Brain Sciences Group, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 04 May 2007, 16:30-18:00 Bayesian nonparametric latent feature modelsZoubin Ghahramani. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 02 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous SystemProfessor Robin Franklin. Neurosciences Laboratory (Department of Veterinary medicine) and the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 30 April 2007, 19:30-21:00 Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortexTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 27 April 2007, 16:30-18:00 On the task-dependency and flexibility of bimanual coordinationJörn Diedrichsen, University of Wales, Bangor. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Friday 27 April 2007, 13:00-14:00 Context Tree WeightingMartijn van Veen and Philip Cowans. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 25 April 2007, 14:00-15:00 Visual discrimination of interacting human agentsPeter Neri, City University, London. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 24 April 2007, 13:00-14:00 Variational free energy and the brainKarl Friston, UCL. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Thursday 12 April 2007, 13:00-14:00 Colour Vision MeetingSpeakers include: R. A. Weale, D. van Norren, J. Bowmaker, H. Cooper, G. Jordan, H. Smithson, J. Barbur and D. Tolhurst. Wednesday 04 April 2007, 11:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Analysis of Channel Coding for Redundant SourcesJoseph Boutros, ENST Paris. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 03 April 2007, 13:00-14:00 Learning Patterns in the Game of GoNote unusual time Emil Nijhuis, University of Amsterdam. Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 30 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Inductive Logic Programming and Kernel methodsDavid Kirchheimer, Bristol University. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Inference in Bayesian Networks using Dynamic DiscretisationNote unusual time Martin Neil, Agena Ltd & David Marquez, Queen Mary, University of London. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Logistic regression with a Laplacian prior on the singular values: convex duality and application to EEG classification.Note unusual time and location Ryota Tomioka (冨岡亮太), University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST IDA. Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 23 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Monte Carlo Approaches to Game PlayingDavid Stern, Strategic Inference Task Force, Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 21 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Date and Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted Stephen Scott, Queen's University, Canada. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Monday 19 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Bayesian RankingAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ralf Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 March 2007, 16:00-18:00 Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classificationNote different room and time Ryota Tomioka (University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST). LT1 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Gaussian Process Product ModelsRyan Adams. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Intuition and affect in decision-makingTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Marius Usher, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 09 March 2007, 16:30-18:00 Metropolis-Coupled MCMC for Nested SamplingRatthachat (Jung). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Neural systems for attention and perceptual decisionsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Maurizio Corbetta, Department of Neurology, Washington University in St Louis, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 02 March 2007, 16:30-18:00 Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet ProcessesAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-18:00 Some interesting data: Cryptic DNA sequence periodicities are ubiquitous, organism specific and distinguish introns from exons.Giselle Walker. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 February 2007, 14:00-15:00 Reanalyzing ungrammatical sentences: Evidence from eye movements, speeded grammaticality judgments, and MEGTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Fernanda Ferreira, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 23 February 2007, 16:30-18:00 The concatenation of factors of change in perceptionDonald MacLeod, UCSD. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Friday 23 February 2007, 13:00-14:00 An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian MethodsRoom changed this week! Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-18:00 Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted Giselle Walker. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 21 February 2007, 14:00-15:00 Is theory of mind necessary for teachingTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Douglas Frye, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 16 February 2007, 16:30-18:00 NIPS presentationsRyan Adams. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 14 February 2007, 14:00-15:00 Biophysics of wiring the brainAldo Faisal, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 13 February 2007, 13:00-14:00 Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortexCANCELLED DUE TO ILL HEALTH Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 09 February 2007, 16:30-18:00 Reward processing in the addicted brain: Sex, drugs and genesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Dr Jane Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 02 February 2007, 16:30-18:00 Robot Localisation and MappingAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Paul M Newman, Oxford University. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 February 2007, 16:00-18:00 Modeling Natural Sounds with Gaussian Modulation Cascade ProcessesRich Turner, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 31 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 Getting to grips with the problem of serial order in memoryTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Graham Hitch, University of York. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 26 January 2007, 16:30-18:00 Modeling text with Dirichlet compound multinomial distributionsCharles Elkan, UCSD. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 24 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 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 Professor Susan Golombok, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 19 January 2007, 16:30-18:00 Learning from positive and unlabeled dataJurgen Van Gael. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 17 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 HMMs for controlling dynamical systemsMarcus Frean. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 10 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the boundMichael Shadlen, Physiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Friday 15 December 2006, 13:00-14:00 Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglectJon Driver, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College. Thursday 14 December 2006, 17:00-18:00 Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted Luis Diaz-Santana, Dept of Optometry and Visual Science, City University. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 13 December 2006, 14:45-15:15 Robust Gaussian Process Regression and ApplicationsOliver Stegle. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 13 December 2006, 14:00-15:00 Motion Perception - from visual arts to neural processingJohannes M. Zanker, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 12 December 2006, 13:00-14:00 Transcription regulation: from parts list to genomic network.Nicholas Luscombe. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 December 2006, 14:00-15:00 Sensorimotor and perceptual representations engaged when performing and observing object manipulation tasksRandy Flanagan, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Friday 01 December 2006, 13:00-14:00 The origins of adult magical beliefsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Bruce Hood, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of. Friday 24 November 2006, 16:30-18:00 Advanced MCMC MethodsAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Iain Murray, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Bayesian estimation of neuronal connectivity from MEA recordingsFabio Rigat. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 22 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 The brain as a statistical machineThe Activity of Living Matter Professor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, Cambridge). Friday 17 November 2006, 16:45-17:15 Do familiarity and recollection have different neural bases? Normal, lesion, fMRI, and neophrenology studiesTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Andrew Mayes, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of. Friday 17 November 2006, 16:30-18:00 Physical principles of sensory transductionThe Activity of Living Matter Dr Tom Duke, Department of Physics, Cambridge. Friday 17 November 2006, 16:15-16:45 Watching brain circuitry in action: two-photon imaging of neural activitySimon R. Schultz, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Friday 17 November 2006, 13:00-14:00 Can Polymer Physics Help Cellular Biomedicine?The Structure of Living Matter Professor Josef Käs (Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig). Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:15-16:45 Expectation PropagationAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Tom Minka, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Vector Gaussian ProcessesRyan Adams, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous systemDr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 13 November 2006, 20:30-21:30 Is the code in ferret V1 a 'sparse code'?David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Monday 13 November 2006, 13:00-14:00 Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representationsTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Department of Psychology, Barcelona University, Spain. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of. Friday 10 November 2006, 16:30-18:00 CausalityAdvanced Tutorial Lecture Series on Machine Learning Dr Ricardo Silva, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Regulation of spindle orientation and neural stem cell fate in the Drosophila optic lobeBoris Egger, Brand lab, Gurdon Institute. Wednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:00 Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need gliaMatthieu Vermeren, PDN. Wednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:00 Do Scanning Electron Microscopes have a point-spread function?Philipp Hennig. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 Mood, memory & clinical depressionTea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of. Friday 03 November 2006, 16:30-18:00 Migration and fusion of perceptual content – premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Anthony Marcel, University of Cambridge and University of Hertfordshire. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of. Friday 27 October 2006, 16:30-18:00 Gaussian Processes for Machine LearningAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ed Snelson, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-18:00 Dynamic imaging of blood flow in the conjunctival and episcleral microcirculations of the human eye: a new chapter in diagnostic imaging?Dr. Paul Meyer, Ophthalmology Department, Addenbrookes Hospital. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 26 October 2006, 14:45-15:15 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Evolution of the Middle EarDr Matthew Mason, Department of Physiology. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 24 October 2006, 20:00-21:00 The Hungry Eye: energy, information and retinal functionSimon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 24 October 2006, 13:00-14:00 What makes real-world scenes special? Evidence from fMRITea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor John Henderson, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of. Friday 20 October 2006, 16:30-18:00 Compact self-wired cultured neural networksDr Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering; Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University. IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 20 October 2006, 14:15-15:15 Teaching Statistics - A Bag of TricksDavid MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 October 2006, 14:00-15:00 Leaf Selection for Maximising Diversity in a TreeFabio Pardi. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 16 October 2006, 14:00-15:00 Sex differences in intelligence?Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Nick Mackintosh, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of. Friday 13 October 2006, 16:30-18:00 Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Postsynaptic phosphorylation networksMarcelo Coba, Grant lab, Sanger Institute. Wednesday 11 October 2006, 16:15-17:00 Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Defining the neural stem cell stateSteven Pollard, Smith lab, Institute for Stem Cell Biology. Wednesday 11 October 2006, 16:15-17:00 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 Professor Ian Deary, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh. Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of. Friday 06 October 2006, 16:30-18:00 Mixture Models and the EM AlgorithmAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-18:00 Optimised Digital Fountain Codes for Medium BlocklengthsOliver Madge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 September 2006, 14:00-15:00 Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Hereditary spastic paraplegia, BMP signaling, and axonal degeneration in DrosophilaXinnan Wang, O'Kane lab, Department of Genetics. Wednesday 13 September 2006, 16:15-17:00 Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Series Ubx controls Notch/ Numb dependent cell fate decisions in the embryonic CNS of DrosophilaTorsten Bossing, Brand lab, Gurdon Institut. Wednesday 13 September 2006, 16:15-17:00 An interesting preprintDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 13 September 2006, 14:00-15:00 MCMC for doubly-intractable distributionsIain Murray, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 September 2006, 14:00-15:00 How to veto anonymously under surveillance?Piotr Zielinski, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 Naive OCR?Seb Wills, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 Dark adaptation of human retinal rod bipolar cellsTrevor Lamb, Division of Neuroscience JCSMR, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Australian National University, Canberra. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Wednesday 16 August 2006, 13:00-14:00 Getting it Right the Second Time: Recognition of Spoken CorrectionsKeith Vertanen, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 Cognitive CarsK. Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Motor Company. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 August 2006, 11:00-12:00 sparse GP classificationPOSTPONED Andrew Naish. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 neural phase codesBob Wilson. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 Graphical Combinator ProgrammingChristian Steinruecken. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 July 2006, 16:00-17:00 The Manufacture of Bioethanol - A brief IntroductionSamir Bhatt. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 Divergence measures and latent variable modelsUlrich Paquet. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 Implicit learning in MusicMartin Rohrmeier, Centre for Music and Science. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 18 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 On the Analysis of Ellipsoid Approximation of Nested SamplingRatthachat Chatpatanasiri. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the ArcticBruno Laeng, Department of Psychology, University of Tromso. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Friday 07 July 2006, 13:00-14:00 Gaussian Process models for solving ODEsOliver Stegle, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 Absolute Pitch: Genetics & PerceptionJane Gitschier, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Monday 03 July 2006, 13:00-14:00 Ligand detection and discrimination by spatial relocalisation: the complexities of T cell activationNigel Burroughs (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick). Part 2 Seminar Room (First Floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Wednesday 28 June 2006, 17:00-18:00 Information-Theoretic Security in Wireless Networks: From Theory to PracticeMiguel Rodrigues, Digital Technology Group, Cambridge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 Music Access for the DisabledJon Hall, Engineering Department. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 June 2006, 11:00-12:00 Blissymbolics - The Emergence of a Written LanguageAnnalu Waller, Dundee. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 27 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 In search of the brain's wiringPhilipp Hennig, Heidelberg. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 A Bayesian Unfolding Method Applied to the PAMELA ExperimentGermano Percossi. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 20 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 BlissymbolicsAnnalu Waller, University of Dundee. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 15 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 Finite element modelling of growing microtubulesMichael Verhoek, KCL. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 Capacity of phase-based attractor networks with pairwise couplingsDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 31 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 Perception of pitch by normally hearing and hearing-impaired peopleBrian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 30 May 2006, 13:00-14:00 Joint LDPC Decoding and Timing Recovery Using Code Constraint FeedbackChristopher Jones. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 26 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedDavid Stern, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 24 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 Learning and recall of visuomotor transformationsJohn Krakauer, Columbia University. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Wednesday 24 May 2006, 13:00-14:00 How to Parameterize a Positive-definite MatrixDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 May 2006, 15:00-16:00 To be confirmedDavid Stern, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 The Capacity of the Deletion ChannelDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 Sleeping Beauty and the Armchair CosmologistNote unusual time David MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 April 2006, 14:30-15:30 The 'Rich Club' phenomenon in large networksNote unusual day Anthony Leung, Hong Kong. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 21 April 2006, 15:00-16:00 Bayesian approximation for physical inverse problemsDebasish Roy. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 April 2006, 16:30-17:00 Hierarchical Passage RetrievalPhil Cowans, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 April 2006, 15:00-16:00 The Swendsen-Wang algorithm (tutorial), and the "Baby and Toy" algorithmDavid MacKay. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 13 April 2006, 15:00-16:00 On the Neural Machinery for Face ProcessingWinrich Freiwald, Centers for Advanced Imaging & Cognitive Sciences, Bremen University; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 04 April 2006, 13:00-14:00 Bayesian Online Changepoint DetectionRyan Adams, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 March 2006, 15:00-16:00 Graph Transformation Method for Calculating Waiting Times in Markov ChainsSemen Trygubenko, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 28 March 2006, 14:00-15:00 Epitomic representation of natural signalsAnitha Kannan, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 22 March 2006, 15:00-16:00 Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codesAlexandre Pouget, University of Rochester. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 21 March 2006, 13:00-14:00 Colour responses in the human LGN and visual cortex measured with fMRIKathy Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Thursday 16 March 2006, 13:00-14:00 Aggregation of Particles in Stochastic FlowsPer Sillr?n, Chalmers University, Sweden. Astrophysics New Small Meeting Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 13 March 2006, 15:00-16:00 Student Project Presentations: "Colour Memorisation", "One button communication" and "Optimising digital fountain codes"J.E. Main, Naath (Helen) Cousins, and Olly Madge. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 10 March 2006, 11:00-12:30 Student Project Presentations: "Redundancy in Turing machines"; "A two button implementation of Dasher" and "Relationships between energy and information in fly retina"R.J. Henderson, Tim Ward, and Mike Baker. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 07 March 2006, 14:00-15:30 Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable ModelDr Neil Lawrence, Computer Science, University of Sheffield. LR10, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 07 March 2006, 12:30-13:30 Speech Recognition During Dictation CorrectionsKeith Vertanen, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 01 March 2006, 15:00-16:00 Do frogs smell under water? The role of Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in amphibia olfactory receptor neuronsSalome Antolin, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Thursday 23 February 2006, 13:00-14:00 Topic Modeling: Beyond Bag-of-WordsHanna Wallach, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 22 February 2006, 15:00-16:00 Uncertainty LogicChristian Steinruecken. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 16 February 2006, 15:15-16:15 Experimental Annotation of the Human GenomePaul Bertone, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 February 2006, 15:00-16:00 Virtual-move Parallel TemperingIvan Coluzza, University of Cambridge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 February 2006, 15:00-16:00 The Trefethen EffectDavid J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 07 February 2006, 13:00-14:00 Latency-optimal fault-tolerant replicationPiotr Zielinski, Inference Group. Committee Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 01 February 2006, 15:00-16:00 Dynamical Networks for Agent SystemsPedro Ortega, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 January 2006, 15:00-16:00 Bees' colour vision: lessons from understanding visual capabilities and cognition possible with the mini brain.Adrian Dyer. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Tuesday 24 January 2006, 13:00-14:00 Recognition and prediction of biological motionRobert Wilson, University of Pennsylvania. To Be Determined, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 20 January 2006, 15:00-16:00 Lexicographic text analysis using non-negative factorisation techniquesSinead Williamson. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 19 January 2006, 15:00-16:00 Eye Tracking with Consumer HardwareDan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 January 2006, 15:00-16:00 Moving ColoursAnnette Werner, Centre for Vision, University of Tbingen. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Wednesday 11 January 2006, 13:00-14:00 Cheap and cheerful inference machines for trackingOllie Williams, CUED. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 28 November 2005, 14:30-15:30 Efficient Quantum Computation with linear opticsOliver Stegle, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2005, 15:00-16:00 Locked-in syndromeMick Donegan, ACE Centre Oxford. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 18 November 2005, 14:00-15:00 Monte Carlo is BayesianJohn Skilling, ex-DAMTP. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 November 2005, 15:00-16:00 Dasher for the blind, and some visual illusionsDavid MacKay, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 November 2005, 15:00-16:00 A Cross-Entropy Based Method to Analyse Iterative DecodingQinglin Luo. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2005, 15:00-16:00 Bayesian Pattern Ranking for Move Prediction in the Game of GoDavid Stern, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 October 2005, 15:00-16:00 Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Simulation and OptimizationChunlin JI, Engineering Department. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 17 August 2005, 15:00-16:00 Language relationships, phonology, and GreekTudor Dimofte, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 17 August 2005, 12:30-13:30 Efficient communication with buttons: an update on Button DasherIngrid Jendrzejewski, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 16 August 2005, 12:00-13:00 Progress with #Dasher, a Continuous Gesture IDELuke Church. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 August 2005, 15:00-16:00 Why do fruitflies like bananas?Gregory Jefferis, Department of Zoology. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 22 July 2005, 15:00-16:00 An introduction to Brain-Computer InterfacesSeb Wills, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 July 2005, 15:00-16:00 To be confirmedDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Sunday 03 July 2005, 15:00-16:00 What we face in facing up to complexity in the genetics of complex diseaseKen Weiss, Pennsylvania State University. Ryle Seminar Room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 LOCUS: Learning Object Classes with Unsupervised SegmentationJohn Winn, Microsoft Research. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 22 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 Efficient computer interfaces using continuous gestures, language models, and speech; Probabilistic methods for interpreting electronic inkKeith Vertanen and Phil Cowans, Cavendish Laboratory. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 21 June 2005, 16:30-17:30 A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief NetsGeoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 Epitomes And EpitextsPhil Cowans, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 14 June 2005, 14:00-15:00 Monte Carlo experiments in computer GoLukasz Lew, Vrije University, Amsterdam. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 10 June 2005, 15:30-16:30 Language Modelling In Dasher: A TutorialPhil Cowans. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 10 June 2005, 11:00-12:00 Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Models for Time Series DataMatthew Beal, SUNY at Buffalo. Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 09 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 Japanese Language ModelTakashi Kaburagi. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 09 June 2005, 09:30-10:30 A Tale of T9Cliff Kushler. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 June 2005, 16:30-17:30 Information and IntelligenceAlex Selby. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 Neighbourhood Components AnalysisSam Roweis, University of Toronto. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 07 June 2005, 16:00-17:00 Nested Sampling for Motif DiscoveryThomas Down, Sanger Institute. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 17 May 2005, 14:00-15:00 Joint Gaussian Process-Density MixturesOle Winther, DTU / Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 May 2005, 14:00-15:00 Computer OthelloSanjoy Mahajan. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 03 May 2005, 14:00-15:00 Variational Gibbs SamplingUlrich Paquet. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 27 April 2005, 15:00-16:00 Astronomical Image RecognitionDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 April 2005, 15:00-16:00 Bloom Filters and Tries (a comparison)David MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 11 April 2005, 16:00-17:00 The predictive power of contractive neural-network spacesAshley Mills. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 05 April 2005, 16:30-17:30 Communicating with buttons: current progress in one- and two-button DasherIngrid Jendrzejewski. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 March 2005, 15:00-16:00 Bayesian Learning for Visual InferenceOllie Williams. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 March 2005, 15:00-16:00 Approximating The Hierarchical Dirichelet DistributionPhil Cowans. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 March 2005, 15:00-16:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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