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THIS LIST IS SUPERCEDED BY ‘Neuroscience Seminars’. The Neuroscience Seminars listing is intended to combine all neuroscience-related seminars in Cambridge, including computational neuroscience and machine learning. If you are the manager of a list that ought to be included there, please contact Duncan Simpson or David MacKay (mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk) THIS LIST is included by ‘Neuroscience Seminars’ in order to get the 10 individual seminars added by DJCM . If you have a question about this list, please contact: David MacKay. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 5 upcoming talks and 1222 talks in the archive: show all (slow!). 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 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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