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Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Hard numbers—physicochemical models of a mitotic signalling organelle​

UserKevin A. Janes, Ph.D.​ Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia​.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil

UserThomas Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 01 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Valid F-screening in linear regression

UserDaniela Witten (University of Washington).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 28 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Object Pathos: Writing for Resonance in the English Classroom

UserBen Rudd, PhD student, Faculty of Education, Darwin College.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture

UserLiz White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 24 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

UserXin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

UserXin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

On the sample complexity of multi-objective learning

UserFanny Yang (ETH Zurich).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 21 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserXiaoteng Jiang (Postdoc, MRC Tox, Cambridge, UK), Michele Chirichella (Senior Scientist, Astrazeneca, Cambridge, UK).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 20 November 2025, 16:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Lazy-rich learning

UserDr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

ClockTuesday 18 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

Computational Neuroscience

Lazy-rich learning

UserDr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

ClockTuesday 18 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Lecture: Biopharmaceutical Development - The Journey from Molecule to Medicine

UserProfessor Nicholas Darton, Associate Director of Biopharmaceutical Development at AstraZeneca, Honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham.

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

ClockMonday 17 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Who was Henslow?

UserKate Hooper (Independent Researcher).

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

ClockMonday 17 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Deuterium metabolic imaging at 7 Tesla

UserMasha Novoselova, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural basis of decision making

UserGuillaume Hennequin ( University of Cambridge); Robert Crossen.

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

ClockTuesday 11 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Putting the “S” into mechanics

UserProfessor Keith Seffen. Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 November 2025, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

The manifold hypothesis in science & AI

UserPatrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 07 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Bumblebees and honeybees in shared landscapes

UserNynke Blömer, Department of Zoology.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML

UserSzilvia Ujvary, Arik Reuter, Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science

UserProfessor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum.

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

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks

UserIsmael Castillo (Sorbonne Université).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 31 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Unseen Architects of Cancer's Destruction: Fibroblasts and Cachexia

UserDebasmita Mukherjee, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Language Models

UserJulianna Piskorz (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies

UserProfessor Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Universal Copulas

UserGery Geenens (University of New South Wales).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 24 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserHonmiao Hu (Postdoc, MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK), Larry Melidis (Postdoc, CRUK, Cambridge, UK).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 16:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Golgi Bodies in Drosophila Somatosensory Neurons

UserShubham Kumar, MRC Molecular Biology.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Stochastic Interpolants

UserProfessor Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato and Fran Castro.

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

ClockWednesday 22 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy

UserProfessor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology.

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

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

On uncertainty quantification for nonparametric multivariate Hawkes processes

UserJudith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Looking for hidden messages in our DNA

UserIoannis Sarropoulos, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Being a Person in the Age of Slop and Super-Tools

UserProfessor Alan Blackwell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, Fellow, Darwin College.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

Geometric extremal graphical models

UserJennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Examining the promises of chemical plastic recycling

UserAlex R Epstein (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cells, Tissues & Organs: assembling the Human Cell Atlas

UserProfessor Sarah Teichmann - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 29 September 2025, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Multi-modal modeling in precision medicine: from data imputation to synthetic data​

UserDr. Olivier Gevaert​ -​ Associate Professor, Depts of Medicine & Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University​ ​.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 15 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMR14.

ClockWednesday 06 August 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserDr. Daniela Palacios (PI, National Research Council, Rome, IT), Dr. Arash Latifkar (Postdoc, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA), TBA.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 17 July 2025, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserTsveta Kamenova (PhD student, Miska Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK) Dr. Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 19 June 2025, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The structure of curvature in neural networks

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

UserAlberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research UK).

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

ClockWednesday 18 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

UserProfessor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

ClockMonday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

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

UserVarun Jain (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

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

UserVarun Jain (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Rausing Lecture

But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAsif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserDr. Paul Donlin-Asp (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK), Dr. Aikaterini Gatsiou (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 22 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hydrogen airplanes and why they need Heat Exchangers

UserKilian Bartsch, Department of Engineering.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models

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

UserMiri Zilka, Neel Alex, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 21 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

UserProfessor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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

ClockMonday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

UserPeter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Autonomous Robots That Operate in Human Environments

UserFethiye Irmak Dogan (University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology).

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ethnography after Genocide: Working with Ezidi Women in Iraq

UserDr. Richard Latham Lechowick, Research Associate & Teaching Fellow, Global History Lab (CRASSH) .

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

UserStanislav Minsker (University of Southern California).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 02 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

UserTim Austin (Warwick).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

UserDr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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

ClockMonday 28 April 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

UserOliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Computational Neuroscience

In-Context Learning

UserYashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar.

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserDr. Adam Cawte (University of Oxford, UK), Dr. Isaia Barbieri (University of Turin, IT).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 10 April 2025, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserDmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

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

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

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

UserAyush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserDr. Alessandro Bonetti (Director of Neuroscience, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Kevin Weeks (PI, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA).

HouseJean Thomas Lecture Theatre - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

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

UserJuyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

UserProfessor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

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

UserRina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

UserProfessor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

UserProfessor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Influence Functions

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

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

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

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

Scott Lectures

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

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

UserProfessor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

UserDr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling with diffusion models

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

UserShreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploring dietary behaviours, narratives and attitudes in Cambridge colleges

UserSigurdur Martinsson, MSt in Sustainability Leadership, Darwin College.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

UserSandi Toksvig OBE.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserDr. Sonia Garcia-Ruiz (Postdoc, UK Dementia Research Institute, Dept. Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Vanessa Loiacono (PI, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam Brandenburg, GE).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design

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

UserZixing Song.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Bloodshed, embodiment, politics, and theology

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

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The microscopic barriers protecting your airway everyday

UserLeah Hurst, University of Cambridge.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

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

UserMingtian Zhang, University College London.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economic Cost of Depression: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

UserFergus McCormack, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

UserDr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

UserMathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic drivers of early lung cancer

UserAlice Chernaik (Medicine, University of Cambridge).

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserMiri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

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

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

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

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

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

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

UserWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

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

UserWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

UserDr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

UserProfessor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserDr. Anton Petrov (Director, Riboscope Ltd, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Oguzhan Begik (Senior Postdoc, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 23 January 2025, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserDr. Iddo Magen (Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL), Dr. Krasikova Alla (Department of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, RU).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 19 December 2024, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

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

UserAndy Lin.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

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

UserAndy Lin.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

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

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

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

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

UserKelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Signals from the beginning of the universe

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

UserLukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserDr. Markus Hoepfler (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK), Dr. Murat Sunbul (Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, GE).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 21 November 2024, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Future of Coding

UserDavid Vella Zarb, Computer Science.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

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

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

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

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

UserGiacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

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

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

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

UserTatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

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

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

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

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

UserPietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 06 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The changing values of feathers and their wearers: Transformation of the British society’s relationship with birds at the turn of the 20th century

UserDr Jakub Kronenberg, Associate Professor at the Social Ecological Systems Analysis Lab, University of Lodz and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wondering What Our Blood Holds

UserLaura Magnani, Haematology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

UserBenedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockFriday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dopamine signalling in the octopus visual system

UserAnna Jansson, Cambridge -- Translational Neuroscience.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pre-Christian Typologies in Greece and Rome

UserDr Peter Martin, Mary and Moses Finley Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

UserProfessor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium.

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

ClockMonday 21 October 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 21 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserDr. Emilia Arguello (Postdoc, Borodavka Lab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Andres Ramos (PI, Ramos Lab, University College London, London, UK)).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

ClockThursday 17 October 2024, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploration, Empire, and a Revolution in the Natural History of the Pacific, 1769-1840

UserDr Edwin Rose, AHRC Early Career Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advanced Research Fellow, Darwin College. .

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries

UserProfessor Lisa Hall FRSC CBE, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

**Seminar cancelled**

UserDr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 30 September 2024, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

UserStefan Wager (Stanford University).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - July session ON ZOOM

UserDr. John LaCava (University Medical Center, Groningen, NL), Dr. Alzbeta Chabronova (Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool, UK).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 18 July 2024, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Task Alignment

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

UserVihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 26 June 2024, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basis

UserRalf Haefner, Department for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.

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

ClockMonday 24 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - June session IN PERSON

UserDr. Damiano Mangoni (Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, IT), Dr. Susanne Bornelov (Senior Research Associate, CRUCK, University of Cambridge, UK).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

ClockThursday 20 June 2024, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

UserTim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss

UserProfessor Karen P. Steel PhD, FMedSci, FRS, Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London.

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

ClockMonday 10 June 2024, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

UserPurnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

UserSubhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 31 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSuzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 30 May 2024, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis

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

UserTim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 29 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning

UserDr Alice Cicirello, Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Group, Department of Engineering.

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

ClockMonday 27 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Computational Neuroscience

Circuit for memory-based action selection

UserMarta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockFriday 24 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - May session IN PERSON

UserDr. Joanna Krupka (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) and Dr. Jeremy Sanford (UC Santa Cruz, USA).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA Collaborative Seminar Series special event

UserDr. Ana Tufegdžić Vidaković (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge), Dr. Kostas Tzelepis (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University of Cambridge) .

HouseOnline (ZOOM) - registration required https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eaqHg_fsRg2TKgTXLT2Akw.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

UserAlexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps

UserJames Whittington, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University & Oxford University.

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

ClockWednesday 08 May 2024, 12:15-13:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The neuro-ethics of brain-computer interface tool use

UserDvija Mehta, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

UserSara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

UserRob Morris (IMPA Rio).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 02 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NNs

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

UserAdrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 01 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

UserProfessor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

UserMichael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

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

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

UserBruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

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

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

UserBruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - April session ON ZOOM

UserJasper Verwilt, Ghent University, Ghent (BE) and Dr. Jon Price, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK).

HouseOnline (Zoom), https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84799950172?pwd=ZUZjK3JnSmhucm9oZEZjbnZLSmZlUT09.

ClockThursday 18 April 2024, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

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

UserDmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - March session IN PERSON

UserDr. Bastian Fromm, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø (NW) and Dr. Miguel Vasconcelos Almeida, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)..

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

ClockThursday 28 March 2024, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

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

UserYanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

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

UserJihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

UserAfonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

UserIncoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

ClockTuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

UserJonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

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

ClockTuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

UserProfessor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd..

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

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

UserAnna Calissano (Imperial College).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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

UserMatt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

UserGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell size - A new hallmark of aging?

UserJette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 26 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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

UserJames Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

UserGiovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserChangmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK).

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

ClockWednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserAndrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

CCIMI Seminars

Homotopy methods for convex optimization

UserAndreas Klingler (Innsbruck).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR11, CMS.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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

UserTor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Making Space for the Future: Imagining the Smart Nation in Singapore

UserAmelia Hassoun, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

UserProfessor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre.

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

ClockMonday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

UserMarco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

UserSofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

UserPerrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

UserSir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

UserZhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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

UserDr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Green Transition: New Frontiers of Extractivism

Note different time and room

UserChristine Schwöbel-Patel, CRASSH/Warwick Law School.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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

UserGreg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

UserMarkus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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

UserDr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

UserProfessor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets.

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

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

UserMarissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

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

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

UserArthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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

UserSpencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

UserFernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

HouseCRUK CI.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

UserCiara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

UserSourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

UserStijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

A new look at eye design

UserSimon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

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

ClockTuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

UserSinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away

UserChangmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK.

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

ClockMonday 02 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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

UserHanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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

UserStratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Canceled

UserSofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

UserKatie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

UserKatie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

UserProfessor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London.

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

ClockMonday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

UserJohn Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

HouseMR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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

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

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

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

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

UserRuth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

HouseMR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 02 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPaul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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

UserTor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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

UserUsman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Statistics

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

UserLaura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

CANCELLED! Asking your mother: race, gender and positionality in remote oral history interviews

Postponed to 13th June 2023

UserSaffron East (Adrian Research Fellow, Black and Asian British and Irish history).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

UserProf. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

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

ClockMonday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserMiri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

UserAad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

UserAad van der Vaart (Delft).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserBurigede Liu.

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

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

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

UserHelmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserAlejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis.

HouseIn Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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

UserAdrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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

UserAlexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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

UserRoss Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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

UserPingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserMarine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud).

HouseIn Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Finding Target-Disease-Drug evidences from Literature and supporting curators. Please note: the details of this talk have changed

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserMatthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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

UserMicah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

UserHongyu Zhao (Yale University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can enzymes help address the climate crisis?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSam Cobb.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserKatherine Lawler, Research Associate Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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

UserIsaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

UserProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

UserMona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserPhilippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Creative Intelligence in Generative Models and Why Consciousness Matters

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDvija Mehta.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Seeing the Unseen

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserJordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

UserLynn Berry (Open University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

UserRobin Evans (University of Oxford).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in parasites and cancer cells with long-read sequencing and AI

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserDr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

UserSebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tools utilised by bacteria to interact with humans

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserVivian Monzon.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologies

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserNick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserJixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

UserProfessor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK..

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

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

UserJan Becker (European University Institute).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

UserJoshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Does computational biology explain Fibonacci numbers in plants?

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

UserJonathan Swinton.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

UserFrederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

UserIeva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Unlocking the power of cell therapy to reverse disease

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSandra Petrus-Reurer.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserBen Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can we use network analysis to predict violence?

UserDr Paolo Campana, Associate Professor in Criminology and Complex Networks, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

UserAlastair Young (Imperial College, London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Rapid decarbonisation of the NHS

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJames Smith.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserDr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics

UserDan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine.

HouseCRUK CI.

ClockMonday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Science Student Research Series

UserWolfson College's PhD students.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 02 December 2022, 17:45-19:15

CCIMI Seminars

Deep reinforced active learning

UserEmma Slade - GSK.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, MR4.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

UserNuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

User Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

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

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

UserKamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

UserJohn Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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

UserAndy Lin, MLG.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Informing more sustainable development of the oil palm industry

UserDr Michael Pashkevich, Insect Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, St Edmund’s College.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 17:45-19:15

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

UserAnnika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

UserKrishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

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

UserVihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

UserElisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

UserJelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The awakening of the genome –modelling embryonic genome activation programs in vitro

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJasmin Taubenschmid-Stowers.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserElizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserElizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserSamuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian.

HouseIn Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

UserFabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

UserNiels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

New approaches for understanding macroscale brain network development

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSofia Orellana.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserMichele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserPaula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

UserElizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

UserLiza Levina (Michigan).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dementia and ageing brains: what can population studies tell us?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserCarol Brayne.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Buffering genetic variation in populations

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserRitwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJake Stroud and David Liu.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons

UserDaniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 .

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Wolfson Science Society Student Research Series

UserWolfson College, PhD students. See abstract for details..

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 21 October 2022, 17:45-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The molecular mechanism of DNA crosslink repair

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserPablo Alcon.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

A semantics knowledge commons for climate change

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserPeter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

UserProf. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

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

ClockMonday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Supernovae: Superheroes of the universe

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserOr Graur.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

An introduction to counts-of-counts data

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

UserSimon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Statistics

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

UserVictor Chernozhukov (MIT).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanisms

Please contact Ciara for further details

UserJulio Saez-Rodriguez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU).

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 11 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

A system-wide quantitative map of RNA subcellular re-localization in response to UPR activation

UserTom Smith, Research Fellow, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

ClockThursday 30 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

UserDmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

CCIMI Seminars

The implicit boundary integral method

UserRichard Tsai (UT Austin).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, MR5.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJakub Onysk and Yul Kang.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Can biodiversity make children happy?

UserKate Howlett, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 10 June 2022, 17:45-19:00

CCIMI Seminars

Inverse consistency and global convergence of ResNets

UserFrancois-Xavier Vialard (Université Gustave Eiffel).

HouseVirtual.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserKris Jensen and Wayne Soo.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

UserProfessor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

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

ClockMonday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Parental care: an evolutionary case of “use it or lose it”

UserEllie Bladon, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 27 May 2022, 17:45-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Protecting privacy on the Internet: background, research, and practice

UserDaniel Hugenroth, Department of Science and Technology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Collapse of Complex Societies

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserSabin Roman (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Unlocking lncRNA functions using an arrayed CRISPRi screening platform with cellular and molecular phenotyping

UserFien Gysens, PhD student, OncoRNA lab, Ghent University, Belgium.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Hacking the germline : how paralogs bend the rules of gene expression

UserPeter Andersen, Group Leader, Aarhus University, Denmark.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Revolution and religion in Myanmar

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserDr Michael Edwards (Centre of South Asian Studies).

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

UserOsiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Using sleight of hand to investigate human action perception in diverse species and taxa

UserElias Garcia-Pelegrin, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 13 May 2022, 17:45-19:00

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

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

UserJennifer Hawkin, Department of Engineering.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wild journeys for wild microbiomes - Conservation through the gut

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserGal Zanir, Conservation Leadership.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Unique Humanity: We Journey; We Sing; We Make & Trade

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserGlen Milstein, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, Faculty of Divinity.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Transposons and evolutionary novelties of a symbiotic genome

UserAlexandra Dallaire, Future Leader Fellow, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew; Gurdon Institute; Darwin Tree of Life UK.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cells

UserKlaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA Collaborative Seminar Series special event

UserKathryn Lilley; Alex Borodovka.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2022, 15:00-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDavid Liu and Edward Young.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing

UserCaroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 28 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Robust tuning of epigenetic memory by resource competition

UserOmer Karin, Postdoc, Simons lab, Gurdon Institute.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

LINE1 biology and its interactome dynamics after drug treatment

UserSamira Hozeifi, Postdoc, LaCava lab, ERIBA, Netherlands.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 09:00-17:15

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

UserRob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Visualising mRNA in a developing tissue

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDr Tamsin Samuels, Department of Genetics.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

UserEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Young People and Work in the Global South

UserDame Barbara Stocking, former president of Murray Edwards college.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing .

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

UserProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

UserLaure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Problem of the Earth's Figure and the Logic of Measurement in Modern Geoscience

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMiguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Model free Deep Hedging

UserJosef Teichmann (ETH Zurich).

HouseVirtual (Zoom details under abstract).

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

UserTalay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserFlavia Mancini and Finn Ashley.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

George Howard Darwin and the ‘Public’ Understanding of Nature

UserDr Edwin Rose. Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

UserProfessor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

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

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

UserProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wnt signalling in the gill arches of the little skate during development

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

UserJenaid Rees, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserElizabeth Murchison.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Speaking and Being

UserKübra Gümüşay, Mercator Senior Fellow, CRASSH, LCFI.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-kevin-brindle-tickets-260329090317

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Accelerating drug discovery with the power of microscopy & AI

UserAnne E Carpenter, PhD, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute .

Househttps://zoom.us/j/94056313546?pwd=N1dYVFR1b0FwNmk0eGlxeDd1OVY1QT09 .

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

UserDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

UserPurvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Probing Li:ion batteries with fibre-optic Raman spectroscopy to support transport electrification

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMegan Groom, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-richard-henderson-tickets-260346963777

UserProfessor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mining for meaning in electronic health records; deep semantic normalisation for precision medicine and discovery.

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserPaul Schofield.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

UserJiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

UserMr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can we use electrical energy to reduce carbon emissions? An investigation into the electrochemical approaches for carbon capture

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserNiamh Hartley, Department of Chemistry.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Seeing the unseen: informatic approaches to find, characterise and drug conserved regions of nucleic acid in RNA viruses

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserJordan Skittrall (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rethinking rotation in the Peripatetic Mechanica

UserArthur Harris, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-duncan-mcfarlane-tickets-250023506037

UserProfessor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

UserDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

From quantum tunneling in a topology-changing fermionic bath to topological quantum superpositions

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJan Behrends, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Drug Discovery in the era of large-scale genetics and genomics data

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserPhilippe Sanseau (Glaxo SmithKline).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

UserShreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJake Stroud and Michal Wojcik.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2022, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

UserMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Assessing Implications of the Deployment of Sustainable Flight in the UK

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

UserMike Lau, University of Princeton.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Machine learning with biomedical ontologies: applications in precision health

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserRobert Hoehndorf.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

UserGergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Bio in the 21st Century

UserSir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Genomic and digital pathology approaches to elucidate cancer dormancy

Hybrid seminar, please join at: https://zoom.us/j/97592722368?pwd=eXg4bHN3SEJKMm5hRXpCZUtncnVBdz09

UserMaria Secrier, UCL Genetics Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

UserMinakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

UserProfessor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Trends, Determinants, and Effects of ESG-linked Pay around the World

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserProfessor Lin Peng, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

UserDr Jim Denholm, Postdoctoral visitor Dept. Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserKris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

UserDr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab.

HouseLocation: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Advances in Stroke Medicine: Blood Vessels, Brains, and Beyond

Hybrid event: Register for webinar access details, see below

UserDr Nicholas Evans (Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Chanc.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

UserProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserDr Elizabeth Soilleux, MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCPath, PGDipMedEd University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 19 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline-only.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDaniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 07 December 2021, 15:00-16:30

CCIMI Seminars

Deep Denoising for Scientific Discovery

UserCarlos Fernandez-Granda (NYU).

HouseVirtual (Zoom details under abstract).

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

UserStratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Early detection of cancer: learning from the oesophagus, or how long is a piece of string?

UserProfessor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Interim Director at the MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

War, COVID-19 and the national debt

Last talk of term

UserDean and Senior Tutor, Darwin College; Director, Centre for Financial History.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Statistics

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

UserHeather Battey (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cells

UserSimon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Past ice sheet evolution: West Antarctica during warm climate intervals

This week the talk will be starting at 1pm. Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserLara Perez, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

An Introduction to Machine Learning in AstraZeneca

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserDomingo Salazar (AstraZeneca).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserGeorgia Turner and Falvia Mancini.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Trauma Apps and the Making of the 'Smart' Refugee.

UserMaha Abdelrahman, Professor of Development Studies and Middle East Politics.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967

UserProfessor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

UserMarieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserMichele Vendruscolo (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

UserSebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences

UserDr. Kenji Takeda, Director of Academic Health and AI Partnerships, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 15 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The impact of climate-induced habitat loss on coral reef fishes in the Red Sea

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMadeleine Emms, Department of Zoology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Elucidating inter-species interactions in microbial communities using metabolic models

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserKiran R. Patil (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserYashar Ahmadian and Gido van de Ven.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-giulia-viggiani-infrastructure-geotechnics-tickets-188169037657

UserProfessor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

We Are All Interconnected

Hybrid event: register for zoom details

UserGordon Klein, MD MPH (University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston).

HouseGatsby Room, Chanc.

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

When Turing meets Waddington: Theory of mechanochemical patterning in biphasic biological tissues

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDr Adrien Hallou, Gurdon Institute & Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777

UserProfessor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

A multidimensional perspective on immune-mediated diseases: using genetic feature engineering to study shared risk factors in a reduced dimension space

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserGuillermo Reales (Dept. of Medicine, University of Cambridge).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

MARS via LASSO

UserAditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

Househttps://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hunting for new particles with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider

This talk will be virtual but we will project the talk in the Richard King room, so, as usual, grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserBen Hodkinson, Experimental High Energy Physics.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

UserMaree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Buffering genetic variation in populations

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserDr. Ritwick Sawarkar (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

User Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserYul Kang and Wayne Soo.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-v-hill-lecture-professor-wolfram-schultz-tickets-181588946427

UserProfessor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

UserCharlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

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

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMaría M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseThe Theatre, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Three-point bounds for sphere packing

UserDavid de Laat (Delft).

HouseVirtual (Zoom details under abstract).

ClockWednesday 20 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Oncology at AstraZeneca

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserBen Sidders (AstraZeneca).

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How complex can this be? Let me introduce you to the Haft Paykar, a narrative poem composed in Persian by the giant poet Nizami of Ganja (12th C. AD)

UserCristine van Ruymbeke, Soudavar Professor of Persian Literature and Culture Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Tutor and College Praelector of Darwin College.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Productivity Puzzle

UserProfessor Diane Coyle, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2021, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

TBC

UserLester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

HouseZoom.

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

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Alchemy of Vacuum

UserProf Thomas Ebbesen, University of Strasbourg.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Functional redundancy of Drosophila melanogaster SoxB proteins in central nervous system development

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. First come first served up to 30 people capacity. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserBarbara Joo, Department of Genetics.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Understanding DNA Replication with Nanopore Sequencing, Deep Learning, and Mathematical Modelling

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

UserDr. Michael A. Boemo (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) .

HouseCMS, Meeting Room 15.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserGuillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/larmor-lecture-professor-chris-budd-tickets-177983973857

UserProfessor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Ultrafast Dynamics with X-ray Eyes

UserProfessor Stephen Leone, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evolution and development of vertebral regionalization in fishes

We are back hosting the science seminar series in person, so do come and join us for the first talk of the term. Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserKatharine Criswell, Research Associate, Department of Zoology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Artificial intelligence for prediction of genetic alterations directly from histology images

Please email tania.smith@cruk.cam.ac.uk to request the Zoom registration link

UserProf Jakob Kather is a physician/scientist and assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) with additional affiliations at the NCT Heidelberg (Germany) and the University of Leeds (UK). .

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 04 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserMarine Schimel and David Liu.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2021, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap

UserSpeakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR website for joining information..

ClockTuesday 06 July 2021, 18:00-19:15

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserKris Jensen and Georgia Turner.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 29 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserYashar Ahmadian and Wayne Soo.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Adaptations of Antarctic Marine Animals and Changing Environments

Register for webinar access details, see below

UserProfessor Lloyd Peck (Science Leader of Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation Team, British Antarctic Survey & Fellow of Wolfson College).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 11 June 2021, 18:00-19:00

Computational Neuroscience

Capacity and errors in classification of object manifolds

UserUri Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockThursday 03 June 2021, 10:00-11:15

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserMate Lengyel and Jasmine Stone.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Dynamic relationships between social connections and information transmission

Register for meeting access details, see below

UserDr Ipek Kulahci (University of Notre Dame).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

UserElla Larsson (University of Westminster).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Ageing in Harmony: Music’s Impact on Health & Well-being in Older Adults

Register for meeting access details, see below

UserBill Ahessy (Heath Service Executive, Ireland).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 21 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland

UserFranziska Holt (University of York).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The keys to the past: a mixed-methods approach to reconstructing the 1812 eruption of La Soufrière St. Vincent

Register for meeting access details, see below

UserDr Jazmin Scarlett (Independent Researcher).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 14 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI Annual Symposium 2021

UserProgramme and registration: https://bit.ly/ccbisymp21.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2021, 09:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Human Religion: Concern and Clarity in One Darwin Sentence

UserGlen Milstein, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology The City College of New York .

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 11 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.

UserProfessor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

UserChristoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Diseases without Borders: what can we do to combat the next pandemic

Register for meeting access details, see below

UserProfessor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Wolfson College).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserZahara Girones and Ivan Tomic.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Stories from Tree Rings

UserDr Claudia Hartl (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 30 April 2021, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices

UserProf Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 19 April 2021, 19:30-21:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserYul Kang and Jonathan So.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 06 April 2021, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 24 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJake Stroud and Marine Schimel.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 23 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Empire in Mesopotamia… Felled by Dust?

Register for meeting access details, see below

UserDr Stacy Carolin (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 19 March 2021, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mass spectrometry: From ribosomes to receptors

UserProfessor Dame Carol Robinson DBE FRS FMedSci.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

What Does Serotonin Do?

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Jonathan Kanen (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 18:20-19:10

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Of Maggots and Memory

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Miranda Robbins (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 17:55-18:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Reconfiguring Farmer Producer Supply Systems Through Digital Platforms

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Naoum Tsolakis (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 17:30-17:55

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Moving Atoms for Energy-Efficient Data Storage

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Markus Hellenbrand (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 17:05-17:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Quantum Materials - The Quantum Dance of Electrons in Solids

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserProfessor Malte Grosche (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 16:15-17:05

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

How Do Doctors Make Decisions?

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Robert Dudas (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 15:05-15:55

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Watching Paint Dry

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserMs Clare Rees-Zimmerman (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 14:40-15:05

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Generation COVID: A Longitudinal Insight into the Impact of the Pandemic

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Ezra Aydin & Dr Kevin Glasgow (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 14:15-14:40

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Dualities in Physics: A Philosopher’s View

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Jeremy Butterfield (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 13:25-14:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Neutrophil-Mediated Effects at the Blood Brain Barrier Following Chronic Stress

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Stacey Kigar (Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 11:30-12:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Atypical Neurogenesis in Autism

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Deep Adhya (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 11:05-11:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Kirigami Engineering—Nanoscale Structures Exhibiting a Range of Controllable 3D Configurations

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr Lior Medina (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 10:40-11:05

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Tales from the Deep Earth

Annual TCSS Symposium 2021

UserDr John Rudge, (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockSunday 14 March 2021, 09:50-10:40

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The art of conversation

UserProfessor Antje S. Meyer.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Challenges in Building a Career in Discoveries and Their Translation; Journey to the Unknown

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UserProfessor Hala Zreiqat (University of Syndey).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis

UserProfessor Charles Swanton FRCP FMedSci FAACR FRS.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJascha Achterberg and Kris Jensen.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

UserChris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

UserProfessor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Molecular Nanostructures with Unusual Electronic and Optical Properties

UserProfessor Harry L. Anderson ( Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 March 2021, 18:15-19:45

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

UserValerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserProfessor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7XLjb1S08.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Househttps://youtu.be/keEFh3za-Eo.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseYoutube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

UserEdwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Back to the Future: Ice Cores and Climate Science

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UserDr Helene Hoffmann (Wolfson College, Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

UserMs Rose George, Journalist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Seminar Cancelled

UserRina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

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

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

CRISPR Cas Genome Editors - from Bacteria to Biotech

UserProf Martin Jínek (Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 18:15-19:45

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Inference in Stochastic Processes

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDavid Liu and Jeroen Olieslagers.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Books, Botany and the Understanding of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Cambridge

UserDr. Edwin Rose, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Driving Insurance Innovation: Data Science and Research at Aviva

UserSimon Warsop, FIA, Life Analytics Director | Partner, Aviva Quantum Data Science and Research at Aviva.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

UserKaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Designing Emotionally Intelligent Social Robots for Applications Involving Children

Register for meeting access details, see below

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

UserProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Regulation of gene expression and genome organisation

UserProf. Julie Ahringer (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge).

HousePlease get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

ClockWednesday 17 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fairness in AI

UserElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

UserAlexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

PechaKucha - SciSoc Edition!

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockSaturday 13 February 2021, 19:00-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

UserProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Unexpected Side of Entropy

UserProf. Daan Frenkel ( University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 February 2021, 18:15-19:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hunt for Exoplanets

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Visualizing Spatial Single-Cell Data with Vitessce

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 5th February to receive a ZOOM registration link

UserProf Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School .

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 15:00-16:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

UserProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Epigenetic Inheritance: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

UserProf Anne Ferguson-Smith.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 18:15-19:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

UserDr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Challenges in Designing New Batteries and Supercapacitators for a Low Carbon Economy

UserProfessor Clare P Grey - University of Cambridge ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 18:15-19:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYou tube link to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 00:00-00:01

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ripples from the dark side of the universe

UserProfessor Sir James Hough OBE FRS FRSE FInstP (Hon), University of Glasgow.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

UserDr Claire Roddie, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-reinforcement learning

UserKris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black Death

UserProfessor John Robb, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 11 January 2021, 19:30-21:00

Computational Neuroscience

A theory for Hebbian Learning in recurrent E-I networks

UserSamuel Eckmann (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

HouseOnline on Zoom (recorded).

ClockFriday 18 December 2020, 09:00-10:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserCalvin Kao and Marine Schimel.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 15 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deep learning in medical imaging - successes, pitfalls and challenges

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 11th December to receive a ZOOM registration link

UserProf Lena Maier-Hein from DKFZ in Heidelberg .

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 14 December 2020, 15:00-16:15

Computational Neuroscience

The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computing

UserMatthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Causes and Consequences of Gut Microbiome Variation in Wild Birds

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UserDr Gabrielle Davidson (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge; Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 04 December 2020, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Quantum Chromodynamics: Quarks and Hadrons

UserDr Matthew Wingate (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 18:15-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Processes

UserAndrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future

Last talk of term

UserMr David A. Homfray CEng CPhys FInstP FRAS FBIS, Former Head of Engineering Realisation Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy .

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserGido van de Jen.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel

Please note this panel is on a Monday.

UserProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Professor Sander van der Linden.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st century

UserProfessor Paul Sharpe, King's College London, Head of the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, Dickinson Professor of Craniofacial Biology..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Developing New Genomics Technologies to Map DNA Epigenetic Modifications in Human, Parasites and Cancer

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UserDr Sergio Martinez Cuesta (Research Associate, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Spider Webs and Silks

UserProf Fritz Vollrath (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Targeting viral RNA for degradation : the ZAP antiviral system

UserChad Swanson, Group Leader, King's College, London.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Deciphering the RNA interactome of SARS-CoV-2

UserOmer Ziv, Postdoc Eric Miska Lab, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large-scale sequential experimentation

UserWessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can genomics improve health in Africa? Experience from sickle cell disease in Tanzania

UserProfessor Julie Makani Associate Professor, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

UserMax Long (Faculty of History).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

From bed to bench side: bringing machine learning to day-to-day clinical practice

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UserDr Zohreh Shams (JRF, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 20 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

UserRobert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

On the interactions between our industrial system and the natural system

UserProfessor Steve Evans, Director of Research, Centre for Industrial Sustainability, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJasmine Stone (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

UserLeonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Martian Deserts on Earth

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UserAnika Mehlis (Universität Bielefeld).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 13 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Coordination through Selection, Synchrony, and Sex

UserDr James Herbert-Read (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 18:15-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Can machines understand the scientific literature?

UserDr. Peter Murray-Rust (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HousePlease get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

ClockWednesday 11 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Cell Atlas: Mapping the human body one cell at a time

UserDr Sarah Teichmann FRS FMedSci, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

UserMiles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Computational analysis of cancer genomes

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 6th November to receive a ZOOM registration link

UserProf Nuria Lopez-Bigas from Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona .

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 10:00-11:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Science of Compassion in Healthcare

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UserDr Sophie Ames (Clinical Psychologist).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Shear Thickening in Dense Suspensions

UserProf Michael Cates (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 18:15-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best Papers from ICML 2020

UserReading group participants.

Househttps://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

DNA: Inspiring building blocks that made me a learner in perpetuity

UserDr Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

UserChristopher Preston.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.

UserProfessor Munjed Al Muderis, MB ChB FRACS FAOrthA; Orthopedic Surgeon, School Of Medicine, University Of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney; School of Medicine Macquarie University.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 09:00-10:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Seeing What Everybody Sees but Thinking What No One has Thought

UserProfessor Rana Dajani (Hashemite University).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 30 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Signalling and Selection in the Horned Dinosaurs

UserDr David Hone (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA uridyl transferases TUT4/7-mediated control on tumour fitness

UserRagini Medhi, Eric Miska Lab, Gurdon Inst., Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Control of global translation by endogenous RNA G-quadruplex structures

UserDhaval Varshney, Shankar Balasubramanian's lab, CRUK Inst., Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

New Materials for a New Age

Note that this talk is on a Wednesday

UserProfessor Nicola Spaldin FRS, Chair, Materials Theory, ETH Zurich.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source

In collaboration with CUSPE and CUSISS

UserMr Simon Spooner, ATKINS Infrastructure. Principal Scientist, UK Water Management. Technical Director, China Infrastructure. Honorary Professor, Nottingham University UK and Ningbo, China..

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

A Brief Introduction to Quasiparticles in Frustrated Magnets

UserProf Claudio Castelnovo (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 18:15-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is sleep good for you?

UserProfessor William Wisden FMedSci, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserYul Kang and Wayne Soo.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genetics Through the Lens of Mutational Signatures and the Two-Hit Hypothesis.

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 16th October to receive a ZOOM registration link

UserDr Paz Polak from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 19 October 2020, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Cognitive switches and functional reprogramming of sensory cortex

UserAbhishek Banerjee, Newcastle University.

HouseOnline on google meets.

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Quantum Black Holes, Emergent Gravity, and the Dark Universe

UserProf Erik Verlinde (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 18:15-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ice cores and interglacials

UserProfessor Eric Wolff FRS, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Electronics on the brain

UserProfessor George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

UserCatarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

UserJonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserKris Jensen and David Liu.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 06 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

UserProfessor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley .

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Characterizing and forecasting tumour evolution

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 25 September to receive a ZOOM registration link

UserDr Robert Noble from City, University of London.

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 28 September 2020, 10:30-11:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Understanding regulatory systems and mechanisms of genetic interactions: from yeast to pediatric cancer

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

UserDr Patrick Kemmeren from Princess Maxima Center in Utrecht, Netherlands .

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 20 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserYashar Ahmadian.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 30 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

UserAustin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

ClockWednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

CCIMI Seminars

A nonparametric problem for stochastic PDEs

UserRandolf Altmeyer.

HouseVirtual Zoom meeting.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

UserGergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand

UserProfessor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand..

HouseLocation: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 12th June to receive a ZOOM registration link

UserProfessor Susan Holmes from Stanford University .

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 15 June 2020, 10:00-11:15

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Sustainability, welfare and political change

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UserProfessor Donald M.Broom (Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockFriday 12 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Why can't I get rid of this belief?

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UserDr Anabela Pinto.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.

UserProfessor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus..

HouseLocation: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

ClockWednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserMate Lengyel (Engineering Department).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

“Focus on the Individual; The importance of chromosome-specific biology in generating aneuploidy patterns in cancer”

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

UserDr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London .

HouseZOOM (live).

ClockMonday 01 June 2020, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Working in research through the COVID-19 crisis

Register for webinar access details, see below

UserProfessor Gordon Dougan (Department of Medicine, Univeristy of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 29 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

UserProfessor Phil Baran, Scripps Research.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Talks & Events

How to Breed Better Politicians

Register for webinar access details, see below

UserDr Joel Peck (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockFriday 15 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Classification

UserXin Tong, University of Southern California.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

ClockFriday 08 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR 2020

User (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJake Stroud (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

UserDr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute in London.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockMonday 04 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Planning

UserWill Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

Househttps://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

UserTim Vogels (University of Oxford).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

UserTim Vogels (University of Oxford).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Talk will be postponed

UserDr Anabela Pinto.

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 24 April 2020, 17:45-19:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserYul Kang (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 21 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Strategic Classification

UserJiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Sets

User (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

ClockWednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserKris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

HouseOnline on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 07 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

UserProfessor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockMonday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Infectious diseases in Africa

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

UserProfessor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 20 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

Meeting has been cancelled

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

ClockFriday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge RNA Club

[Cancelled] P body phase transitions govern RNA regulation during early Drosophila development

User[Cancelled] Sankaranarayanan Meenakshi-Sundaram, Tim Weil Lab, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge RNA Club

[Cancelled] Replenishing the ends : Structural Mechanism of Human Telomerase

User[Cancelled] Kelly Nguen, Group leader, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEM

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and Wolfson Explores ✱BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

UserProfessor Jane Clarke (FRS, President of Wolfson College).

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

World Models

UserDr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

HouseHangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

ClockWednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Frontiers for Life in Antarctica

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festivaand and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

UserProfessor Lloyd Peck.

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

UserProfessor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Federated Learning

UserSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

UserProfessor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

UserProfessor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

UserDr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The exoplanet revolution

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserProf Didier Queloz (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 17:20-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Neutrophil transformation in cancer

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserDr Hafsa Munir (MRC Cancer Unit).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 17:00-17:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

A non-perturbative method for gravitational potential calculations within heterogeneous and aspherical planets

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserMr Matthew Maitra (Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 16:40-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The beauty of flavour at the Large Hadron Collider

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserProf Valerie Gibson (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 16:00-16:40

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Fluid dynamics of marine ice sheets

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserProf Grae Worster (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 14:20-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Explaining variations in responses to cannabis: molecular findings of CB1-5HT2A heteromers in humans

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserDr Liliana Galindo (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 13:40-14:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

3D displays in immersive technologies

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserDr Ozgur Yontem (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 13:40-14:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Invasion of red blood cells by malaria

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserDr Guilherme Nettesheim (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 12:20-13:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The C theory of time

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserDr Matt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 12:00-12:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Origins of genetics on the early Earth

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserDr Samuel Roberts (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 11:40-12:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Cheating Schrödinger

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserMr Adam Přáda (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 11:00-11:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Studying human tissues with single-cell RNA-sequencing within the Human Cell Atlas consortium

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserDr Elo Madissoon (European Bioinformatics Institute).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 10:40-11:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

UserDr Bingqing Cheng (Trinity College, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 08 March 2020, 10:00-10:40

Wolfson College Science Society

The only ways is upstream — The NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urge need for systems change

all are welcome! This event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society and the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows.

UserProf Martin White, MD FFPH.

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

UserDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Network change point detection

UserYi Yu, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence

UserProf Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

UserGiulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

UserProfessor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Electronics on the Brain

UserGeorge Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Statistics

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

UserKate Tilling, University of Bristol.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Renormalisation Group

UserProf David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserSir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp

UserProfessor Sir Michael Edwards OBE.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

UserJavier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

UserProfessor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

UserLaura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

UserProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses

UserVanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

From Mars to the Multiverse

Astronomer Royal

UserProf Lord Martin Rees.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge RNA Club

A bioinformatic strategy for allele-specific RNA expression for distant tomato crosses

UserSebastian Muller - Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The living dead: cellular functions of pseudoenzymes

UserIain Hay, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

The Cycle of Statistical Research

UserQingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

UserElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

UserProfessor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

"Why are so many hearing aids sitting in a drawer?"

UserProf Brian Moore, PFBSA, FMedSci, FRS, Dr. h.c..

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

UserDr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

UserSergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

UserJonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Development of petal nanoscale ridges that scatter light and influence animal behaviour

Director of Cambridge Botanic Garden

UserProf Beverley Glover (University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Brain organoids to study development and function

UserDr Laura Pellegrini, Division of Cell Biology, MRC-LMB.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

UserAdria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

UserDr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Stepping up climate change mitigation

UserDr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

UserChengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

How electron cryomicroscopy is revolutionising structural biology

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

UserProf Richard Henderson (MRC LMB).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

UserElizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

UserProfessor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

UserDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

UserMiguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

UserProfessor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

UserYoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Can meaningful hope spring from revealing the depth of our climate failure?

UserProf Kevin Anderson (University of Manchester, Uppsala University).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge RNA Club

How cells manage ribosome collisions

UserSzymon Juszkiewicz.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

UserMira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

UserTamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Using Evidence to Impact Public Policy

First talk of the term

UserProfessor Dame Sally Davies.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Global Methane, Project MOYA, and the UK’s Net Zero target

UserProf. Euan Nisbet, Professor of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

UserProfessor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Structural studies of ribosome-associated quality and quantity control

UserVish Chandrasekaran (Ramakrishnan lab, MRC-LMB).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 19 December 2019, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The theory-led hunt for extreme materials

UserProfessor Chris Pickard (University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

UserAnna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Collaborative Analytics and Education in Data Science

UserMartin Spott (HTW Berlin).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes

UserDavid Burt, Andrew Foong.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Mendeleev's Gift to Everyone (including you and me)

UserSir Martyn Poliakoff (University of Nottingham).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockSaturday 30 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

One

UserDr Andrew Szydlo.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other irreversible MCMC methods

UserAlain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

UserHong Ge and John Bronskill.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Statistics

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

UserGabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Condensation propensity of TDP-43 specifies the bound and regulated RNAs

UserMartina Hallegger - UCL and The Francis Crick Institute.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Identifying and characterising RNA viruses in publicly available high throughput sequencing data

UserKaty Brown - Andrew Firth lab, Dept. Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK .

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

UserLucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

UserProfessor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

UserHenryk Michalewski.

HouseCMS, MR14.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Attention

UserElre Oldewage, George Hron.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

UserDr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

UserProfessor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College - The Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

UserVeronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Looking ahead in the world of science

1973 Nobel Prize in Physics

UserProf Brian Josephson (Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Colloquium - The Statistical Finite Element Method

UserProfessor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

UserJames Allingham, Omer Sella.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Equality for Women = Prosperity for All

UserDr Augusto Lopez-Claros, the World Bank Group.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

UserProfessor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

UserProfessor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

UserProfessor Patrick Rabbitt.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

UserQiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyperparameter Optimisation

UserRoss Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

UserProfessor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

UserProfessor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

UserHenry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Not even wrong

UserDr Robert Brady (Cambridge Computer Laboratory).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How to Build a Neuron: establishing spatial identity in a structurally complex cell

UserMichael Fernandopulle - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Wataching Molecules in Action

UserProfessor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Christ's College.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

UserJohn Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

UserProfessor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pacific Shoguns: Japan’s Attempt to Open the Pacific, 1600-1625

UserDr Joshua Batts, Research Associate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

UserProfessor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

UserSong Liu — University of Bristol.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Re-entry vehicles for future space missions

UserDr Paul Bruce (Imperial College London).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The effects of wind on trees and forests

UserToby Jackson - Cambridge Conservation Initiative .

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Social Impact of Automatic Hate Speech Detection

UserDr. Stefanie Ullmann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Humanities and Social Change.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the World

UserDr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

UserPeter Orbanz — University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Origins of Life Systems Chemistry

First talk of the term

UserProf John Sutherland (MRC LMB).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Krill swarms: the carbon export highway - S*£% matters!

UserAnna Belcher - British Antarctic Survey.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

UserProfessor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

UserElchanan Mossel (MIT).

HouseMR12.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

UserDr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

UserProfessor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

UserSam Livingstone — University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Perovskite nanocrystals: tuneable future for display industry

UserKaiwen Zhang, PhD student in Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

UserJon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

HouseMR12.

ClockMonday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Chromatin and Cell Cycle in Cell Fate Decision

UserDr. Clara Novo (Babraham) & Dr. Rodrigo Grandy (SCI).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 19 June 2019, 18:30-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The early origins of the Mortality Revolution: a perspective from evolutionary biology

UserDr Romola Davenport, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 14 June 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society

An evolutionary perspective on why health inequalities exist.

UserProf Rebecca Sear ( London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine).

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

UserLukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

UserMouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

This is a joint ACA–CCIMI seminar

UserIlse Ipsen (NCSU).

HouseMR 14.

ClockMonday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

UserRoger Koenker, University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

UserYiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed - CCIMI Colloquium

UserProfessor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 00:00-00:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Something ate my fossil: from anecdote to testing hypotheses

UserDr Elizabeth Harper, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

UserMasoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Diffusion bridge simulation in geometric statistics

UserFrank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

HouseCMS, MR14.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On distributed Bayesian computation

UserHarry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserRuth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Persistent pneumococcal colonisation: Dynamics, genomic diversity and evolution

UserDr Chrispin Chaguza (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Particle MCMC

UserWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

UserDr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

UserJulie Josse, École Polytechnique.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Trustworthy AI

UserDr Adrian Weller (Machine Learning Group, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Making sense of the world of scents

UserDr. Kelsey J.R.P. Byers (Zoology) & Dr. Erika Pinheiro de Castro (Zoology).

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable stochastic optimization and large-scale data

UserMichael W. Mahoney (ICSI and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

UserProfessor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 03 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Nuisance parameters

UserHeather Battey, Imperial College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Paving an enlightened path to anyons and quantum computation

UserDr Shovan Dutta (Physics Department, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Decolonising African politics: Where is there evidence of change?

UserStephanie Diepeveen, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Deciphering the structure-function relationships of lncRNAs

UserJohn Mattick, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 18 April 2019, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Integrating protein, RNA and RBP localisation maps

UserTom Smith, PhD (Kathryn Lilley's group).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 18 April 2019, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

A 3D cell model for developmental biology: Using gastruloids to study early developmental events

UserDr. Peter Baillie-Johnson (SCI), Dr Naomi Moris (Genetics) and Dr David Turner (Genetics).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2019, 18:30-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling as Optimization

UserEric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A systems biology approach to identify perturbed processes driving cancer

UserProfessor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockMonday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseLecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockFriday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

UserElon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseLecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Transforming cancer care

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2019, 18:45-20:10

Wolfson College Science Society

Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.

UserProfessor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Science Seminars

Learning from rivers about long-term controls on Earth’s climate

UserDr Jotis Baronas (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Variational Inference

UserAndrew Foong (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

CCIMI Seminars

A variational approach to nonlinear and interacting diffusions

UserProfessor Pierre Del Moral.

HouseCMS, MR11.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Science of Musical Meaning

UserProfessor Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute).

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

UserProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Explicit stabilised Runge-Kutta methods and their application to Bayesian inverse problems

UserKostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

UserAnna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

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

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in Colombia

UserProfessor Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

UserChenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Reprogramming Genetic Code

UserProf. Jason Chin ( MRC LBM and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning

UserChaochao Lu (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

UserA V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

UserDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution

UserDavy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evolution, development and function of flower patterns

UserMs Alice Fairnie (Sainsbury Laboratory, Botanic Garden Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

From Stars to Life

UserDr. Paul B Rimmer (Cavendish, LMB) and Dr Claudia Bonfio (LMB).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-20:00

CCIMI Seminars

Advances in machine learning for molecules

UserJosé Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Department of Engineering (University of Cambridge).

HouseCMS, MR14.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Learning Engines for Healthcare: Using Machine Learning to Transform Clinical Practice and Discovery

UserProf Mihaela van der Schaar from Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockMonday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

UserProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation

UserBotond Szabó, University of Leiden.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Climate Change: A Defining Challenge for the 21st Century

POSTPONED & VENUE CHANGE

UserDame Julia Slingo (Met Office).

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logical Uncertainty

UserAdrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Wolfson College Science Society

The power of superconductivity

UserCarla Palomares Garcia, Wolfson College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

UserMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves

UserGerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Maths versus AI

UserDr Nira Chamberlain.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hearing and seeing things that are not there: Quantifying brain structure related to hallucinations

UserColleen Rollins (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

UserProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Planet Nine: To Be or Not To Be

UserMr Antranik A. Sefilian.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.

UserProfessor Naomi Lamoreaux - Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History - Yale University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 17:30-19:00

CCIMI Seminars

Pure Mathematics in Crisis

UserProfessor Kevin Buzzard.

HouseCMS, MR3.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Replacing pathologists with next generation diagnostics: use of artificial intelligence to analyse image and DNA sequencing data

UserDr Elizabeth Sollieux (Dept of Pathology), Dr Matt Thorpe (DAMTP) and Oliver Crook (MRC Biostatistics Unit/DAMTP).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stein Discrepancy

UserSebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

UserProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

UserAlexandros Beskos, University College London .

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Harnessing evolution for making new medicines

2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

UserProf Sir Gregory Winter.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Gorilla Society: investigating cooperation, territoriality and social support in our evolutionary cousins

UserRobin E Morrison (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

How like begets like: lessons from RNA silencing in C.elegans

UserAntony Jose, Group Leader, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2019, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Queuosine-modified tRNAs confer nutritional control of protein translation

UserFrancesca Tuorto Frank Lyko Lab, Heidelberg, Germany .

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2019, 18:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

UserJack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseUniversity Museum of Zoology.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

UserChristophe Andrieu, University of Bristol.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Oil palm: what’s true and what’s to do?

UserAmelia Hood (Zoology Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materialising Revolution in the City

UserDena Qaddumi, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 15 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Learning from Luther: 95 theses about technology

UserProfessor John Naughton, CRASSH, Cambridge..

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 07 December 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society

From blood to genomic variants: deciphering the genome of patients with rare disorders

UserDr Karyn Megy Department of Haematology, Wolfson College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

UserDr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Unification and Progress in Modern Theoretical Physics

Former Lucasian Professor

UserProf. Michael Green ( DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

UserEric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Epigenetic modifications

UserDr Magdalena J Koziol, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles

UserStephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Life and death in an old enzyme: the ATP synthase

1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

UserProfessor John Walker (University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical modelling of rapid evolutionary processes

UserDr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural gradient in deep neural networks

UserAlberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economics of Right-Wing Populism

UserValentina Ausserladscheider, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

UserProfessor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Future developments in healthcare – does cancer lead the way?

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

HouseWolfson College - The Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

UserPierre Alquier, ENSAE.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Exoplanets, on the Hunt for Universal Life

UserDidier Queloz (University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mechanism of transformation of neural stem cells by fusion onco-proteins.

UserRobert Kupp (CRUK Cambridge Institute / Oncology).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Graph Neural Networks

UserMatej Balog (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genome Evolution and Immune Escape

You must email Anna.Toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk prior to the talk if you are not based in CRUK CI and you wish to attend.

UserDr Nicholas McGranahan from Francis Crick Institute in London.

HouseRoom 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockMonday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Unraveling the hidden microbial world of the river Cam.

UserLara Urban, European Bioinformatics Institute.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Phase transitions on community detectability for various types of stochastic block models

UserLaurent Massoulié, INRIA.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Cryo-EM heats up

UserDr Doryen Bubeck, Imperial College, London.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, St John's College Divinity School.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

UserDr Katherine Lawler (MRC Institute of Metabolic Science).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Defending Against Adversarial Attacks

UserRoss Clarke (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

This lecture has been cancelled

UserProfessor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

In-Network Computing: Your network just got a lot smarter

UserDr Noa Zilberman, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 02 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

UserYuting Wei, Stanford University.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Estimation of Low-Rank Matrices via Approximate Message Passing

UserDr Ramji Venkataramanan.

HouseCMS, MR15.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

UserDr Julian Gough (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

UserProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

UserJeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Trinity Life in Science and Politics

Co-hosted with Trinity Politics Society

UserJulian Huppert (University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge RNA Club

SmRNA cap methylation and its role in transcription

UserDhaval Varshney, Department of Chemistry.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Perovskite Solar Cells: Printing the future of photovoltaics

UserStuart Macpherson (StranksLab, Optoelectronics group, Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

UserProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

UserDr Laurent Gatto (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

UserDr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Anti-cancer drugs for transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

UserMaximilian Stammnitz, Transmissible Cancer Group, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 19 October 2018, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

UserJohannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Speech rhythm: a metaphor?

UserFrancis Nolan (Department of Linguistics).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

The role of early-career researchers in changing the culture of scholarly communication

UserDr. Avasthi (Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center at the University of Kansas), Dr Brown and Dr. Palfy (preLights) .

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

The fight against malaria using proteasomes

UserDr Paula da Fonseca, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Counting Crime the Cambridge Way

UserProfessor Larry Sherman, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

Uniform rates of Glivenko-Cantelli convergence and their use in Bayesian inference

UserEmanuele Dolera, Università degli Studi di Pavia.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 12 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Compound Interest: Communicating chemistry using infographics

First talk of term

UserAndy Brunning, Compound Interest.

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications

UserTony Cai, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseMR13.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nano-photonics for better detection of toxic molecules in air

UserDr Tanya Hutter (Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

When Statistics Meets Computing

UserProfessor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How did Dmitrii Mendeleev make his predictions?

UserKaroliina Pulkkinen, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story

UserProfessor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

UserSpike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

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

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Designing Ultra Low Power Sensor Interfaces for the Internet of Things

UserDr Arokia Nathan (Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Gone fishing. Machine-learning guided discovery from public data.

UserProfessor Casey Greene from the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania .

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockFriday 21 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Your personal list

Simulation for Intelligent Systems

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

UserVladlen Koltun, Intel.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockThursday 30 August 2018, 13:00-14:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Using Human Studies in Health Research

UserUlla Sovio and Sarah Jackson.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2018, 18:30-20:00

Statistics

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage

UserJoel Tropp (Caltech).

HouseMR12.

ClockMonday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Research in Contemporary Problems

"Rare elements, untraceable toxins": Where is today's Russian foreign policy?

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserDemetrius Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePavillion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 June 2018, 17:30-20:00

Statistics

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

UserVictor Panaretos (EPFL).

HouseMR11.

ClockThursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Journey to the Clinic

UserThomas Moreau and Daniel Ortmann .

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2018, 18:30-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Relativity, Quantum Theory and Cryptography

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

UserSabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Race and gender in the scientific institution: Basic history and analysis.

UserCarmen Palacios, Quantum Information and Nanoscale Metrology Group.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 25 May 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge RNA Club

How evolution of mt-rRNA drives transformation of mitoribosomes

UserAlexey Amunts, Stockholm University.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 24 May 2018, 18:00-20:00

University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI)

The Last Animals - screening and discussion around illegal ivory trade

UserDirector - Kate Brooks with Professor Bhaskar Vira and Professor Sam Wasser.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre (New Museum Site).

ClockWednesday 23 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Capitalism, Debt and Inequality

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History and Darwin College).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

UserPraneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

HouseMR14.

ClockMonday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

UserKolyan Ray (King's College London).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAndreas Malm (Lund University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From Goethe to Macaques: What auctions can teach us about decision making

UserMr Robert Hickman, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, Univesity of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

UserClaudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Echo mapping the gravitational potential well of black holes

UserDr William Alston, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Spectral rigidity of the round Earth

UserJoonas Ilmavirta, University of Jyväskylä.

HouseMR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Reconciling Bayesian Regularization And Total Variation Regularization - CCIMI colloquium

Free event, but registration required: https://ccimi-colloquium-andrew-stuart.eventbrite.co.uk

UserAndrew Stuart, Caltech.

HouseMR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

CCIMI Seminars

Landauer's Principle in Repeated Interaction Systems

Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

UserYan Pautrat, Paris-Sud University.

HouseMR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 15:30-16:30

CCIMI Seminars

Undecidability in Quantum Physics: Hilbert’s Second and Sixth Problems Meet

Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

UserDavid Pérez García, Complutense University of Madrid.

HouseMR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Quantum conditional mutual information

Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

UserOmar Fawzi, ENS de Lyon.

HouseMR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

CCIMI Seminars

Multipartite SLOCC and LOCC transformations

Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

UserBarbara Kraus, University of Innsbruck.

HouseMR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

UserRahul Pandharipande (ETH).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Design of novel hybrid foam materials for impact applications

UserMr. Adam Boyce, Centre for Micromechanics, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The genetics of depression

UserDr Na Cai, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Orbit recovery from invariants

UserJonathan Weed (MIT).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Engineering mitochondrial DNA in the mouse germline using designer nuclease technology

UserMs Beverly McCann, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 13:10-14:00

Innovation Forum

Machine Learning in Healthcare

UserAntonio Criminisi (Microsoft Research), Peyman Gifani (AI VIVO).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockMonday 23 April 2018, 18:00-21:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

******* CANCELLED ********* The Convergence of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Supercomputing

Joint talk with Cantab Capital Institute for Mathematics of Information

UserDr. Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow/MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center Founder.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockFriday 20 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Deciphering new aspects of G-quadruplex mediated post-transcriptional control

UserBarbara Herdy, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 19 April 2018, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Modelling Complex Behaviours in Rodents

UserJulija Krupic (PDN) & Bianca Jupp (Psychology).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 11 April 2018, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Spatially resolved transcriptomics to probe 3D RNA organization

UserJorg Morf (Babraham Institute).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 29 March 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory

Note: This is a special out-of-term session. Note unusual time (Monday instead of Thursday)

UserProf. Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz).

HouseEnglish Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

ClockMonday 26 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA.

ClockFriday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:15

Innovation Forum

Innovative Energy Models for a Sustainable Future

UserProf Sir Richard Friend (Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge), Richard De Caux (Head of Refining Analysis, Group Economics, BP), Dr. David Reiner (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2018, 18:00-21:00

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 3

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-16:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 2

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 15:00-15:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 1

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 14:00-14:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tuberculosis, Cancer & Gout: Archaeolgical evidence of disease from Medieval Cambridge

UserDr Jenna Dittmar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 3

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-16:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 2

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 15:00-15:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 1

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 14:00-14:45

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

UserDr Sarah Chan, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Variable metric methods

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 16:00-16:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Unconstrained smooth minimization

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 15:00-15:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Introduction to convex optimization and iterative methods

UserVolkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 14:00-14:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

UserProfessor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

UserProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing

UserMatej Balog (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Electoral intrigue, ethnic politics and the vibrancy of the Kenyan public sphere

UserDr Stephanie Diepeveen, Department of Politics and International Studies.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

UserDr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Keynes Fund

Keynes seminar: "Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation" - joint with Emmanuel Farhi

Please register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/yYlnDQqVgBozA1L32

UserJean Tirole (Nobel Laureate, Toulouse School of Economics).

HouseFaculty of Law, room LG17 (The David Williams Building, 10 West Road, Cambridge). .

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Keynes Fund

Keynes lecture: "Morality and the Market"

Please register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/oW2uAF8lR1sLBQUE3

UserJean Tirole (Nobel Laureate,Toulouse School of Economics).

HouseLady Mitchell Hall.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory, Codes, and Compression

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Antibiotic resistance: The search for novel Lipoteichoic acid Synthase inhibitors

UserMr Rohan Eapen, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish

UserDr Madeline Lancaster, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Combining tools and technologies to identify post-transcriptional modifications in RNA

UserProf. Patrick Limbach, University of Cincinnati.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2018, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship

UserProfessor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

UserMs Kavita Puri, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem

UserAzadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Dr Michael Hastings: Circadian Rhythms

UserDr Michael Hastings; University of Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Does inflammation contribute to Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer?

UserDr Jessica Hitchcock, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Magnetic Resonance on Two Scales for Research into Cell Cycle and Stroke

UserDr. Samuel Furse (Dept of Biochemistry) Dr. Zhongzhao Teng (Dept of Radiology).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 18:30-20:00

CCIMI Seminars

Theory for local optima of nonconvex high-dimensional M-estimators

UserPo-Ling Loh, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

HouseMR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

UserProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Automated modelling of industrial plants

UserEva Agapaki, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

UserMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Dame Ottoline Leyser: Plant Development

UserOttoline Leyser; University of Cambridge.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 08 February 2018, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Studying life one cell at a time: single-cell RNA sequencing technology and its applications

UserElo Madissoon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

UserProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

UserProfessor Russell Foster, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Generative Models

UserJonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 13:30-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Bregman distances in frequentist inverse problems

UserTapio Helin, University of Helsinki.

HouseMR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive

UserProfessor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

UserProfessor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes

UserJudith Rousseau (Oxford).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cryo-EM shows mechanism of 3' splice site selection

UserMax Wilkinson, MRC-LMB.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 18:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Minimum Description Length

UserCarl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's Not All About The Science

UserDr Anna Barnes, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

UserMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Water Sensitive Urban Design for Cities of the Future

UserDr Leon Kapetas, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:10-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks by Quantitative Phosphoproteomics

UserProf. Jesper V. Olsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockTuesday 16 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2017 Highlights

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 14 December 2017, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Rfam 13.0: The genome-centric sequence database

UserIoanna Kalvari, EMBL-EBI.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 07 December 2017, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Translation, Partnership and Impact (lunchtime seminar)

UserDr. Paula Frampton (CATS) & Dr. Vibhuti Patel (Bioscience Impact Team).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2017, 12:30-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Enhancers as regulatory hubs in mammalian embryogenesis and human congenital disease

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

UserDr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, CMMC - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 04 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Organic Electronics & Science in Industry

UserProf Jeremy Burroughes (Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Alzheimer’s Disease: The story so far

UserKatarina Pisani (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Bayesian Probabilistic Numerical Methods

UserChris Oates - Newcastle Universtity.

HouseMR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring the Evolutionary History of Cancers: Statistical Methods and Applications

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Thank you.

UserDr Andrew Roth, Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford .

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 27 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Hunting Monsters

UserDr Darren Naish.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

The Translational Response to Amino Acid Starvation in S. Pombe

UserCaia Duncan, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 18:00-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Towards Greener Photochemistry

UserProfessor Sir Martyn Poliakoff (Nottingham).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to Learn

UserSiddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Distributed Ledger technology: beyond the block chain hype

UserKC Sivaramakrishnan (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

UserDr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

UserProfessor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Learning from MOM's principles

UserGuillaume Lecué (ENSAE).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

A map in the mind

UserDr Julija Krupic.

HouseLightfoot Room - St John's College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Multimodal driver displays, autonomous car handovers, and inclusiveness

UserDr. Ioannis Politis (Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Biomaterials for tissue engineering

UserSasha Berdichevski (Dept of Engineering) and Dan Bax (Dept of Material Science).

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 18:30-20:00

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Student Video Contest

UserCCIMI students.

HouseMR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Diamond for quantum technologies

UserBenjamin Pingault.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting

UserPatrick Rebeschini (Oxford).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Magdalene Festival of Change

Extinction: a natural change?

UserProf Mari Jones (Cambridge University), Prof Amira Bennison, Dr Andrew Bladon.

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Interpretability in Machine Learning

UserAdrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Molecular Origin of Capacity Fade in Sodium Ion Batteries

UserDr. Lauren Marbella (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Newton's Finger

Location changed (to CMS) | Time 7.45 pm

UserDr Conor McBride - University of Strathclyde.

HouseMR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2017, 19:45-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine

UserProfessor Richard Durbin FRS, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

CERN & Particle Physics

UserDaniela Bortoletto (Oxford).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How is continuous experience transformed into discrete memories?

UserDr. Aya Ben-Akov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Randomised dimensionality reduction for persistent homology

UserMartin Lotz - University of Manchester.

HouseMR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Of elephants and men

UserCaitlin Black and Derek Murphy.

HouseCastlereagh room - St John's College.

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mutational heterogeneity in promoter regions in melanoma

All external guests should arrive to the room at least 5 minutes before the start of the talk.

UserA/Prof. Dr Erik Larsson Lekholm, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden .

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

UserProfessor Didier Queloz ( Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data

UserPierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Saiful Islam (Bath): Green Energy Materials in 3D

UserProfessor Saiful Islam (University of Bath).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 18:00-19:30

Magdalene Festival of Change

Changing Views on Climate Change

UserDr. Sander van der Linden (University of Cambridge), Prof Jaideep Prabhu (University of Cambridge), Prof Eric Wolff (University of Cambridge).

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse RL

UserRobert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

From the olfactory cocktail party to markerless tracking

User Alexander Mathis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 10:00-11:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Data-driven approaches to drug target identification

UserDr Alex Gutteridge Director,Computational Biology TSci Computational Biology(UK) GSK.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

UserProfessor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research

Please note that this event will be recorded. Guests should arrive to the Lecture Theatre at leat 5-10 minutes prior the talk, swich off their phones and minimise disruption and noise level to the minimum. Use of wi-fi is not allowed during the talk.

UserDr Timothy Errington.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockMonday 23 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infer.NET

UserJohn F. Bronskill.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

DNA-repairing proteins: View of a structural biologist

UserDr Domi Baretic (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

How to Share Research Data + Tour of CERN with Higgs Boson Physicist

UserJenny Grant Rankin and Stephen Goldfarb.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

piRNA-mediated regulation of transposon alternative splicing in soma and germline

UserFelipe Karam Teixeira, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Graphene for ultrafast lasers

UserGiancarlo Soavi (Cambridge Graphene Centre).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

UserProfessor Julian Gough, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

WikiFactMine: Scientific Knowledge for Everyone

UserDr. Peter Murray-Rust (Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Developing ways to image single proteins in living cells

UserSrinjan Basu (Dept of Biochemistry) and Aleks Ponjavic (Dept of Chemistry).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2017, 18:30-20:00

Statistics

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

UserSébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond).

HouseMR12.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

UserProf. Tomas Marques Bonet.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 25 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

MicroRNAs and other regulatory RNAs

UserDavid Bartel, Whitehead Institute, MIT.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockTuesday 12 September 2017, 18:00-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Coding and non-coding cancer mutations

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

UserProf. Dr Núria López-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 14 August 2017, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

UserBenita Turner-Bridge, PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 22 June 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

UserXiaofei Yang, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 22 June 2017, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Comparative genomics to understand the roots of antibiotic resistance in bacteria: find ways to address it

UserProf. Stephen D. Bentley: Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Dr. Florent Lassalle: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Dr. Marco Galardini: EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 21 June 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

UserDr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. .

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 19 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Are Animals Musical?

UserJohns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Analysts' Knowledge Exchange

Physical Perspectives on Modern Computation

UserSamuel Power (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Seemingly Unrelated Regression models for mixed-type data with an application to "fine-mapping" in genetics

Joint CMIH-CCIMI seminar. Note unusual time.

UserLeonardo Bottolo (MRC Biostatistics Unit & ATI fellow).

HouseMR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia.

UserDr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 09 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

UserLaura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Epigenomics: When high-throughput sequencing met epigenetics

UserMelanie Eckersley-Maslin and Christel Krueger (Babraham Institute).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

UserLord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 05 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Adhesion Strength Diversity in Brain Tumours

UserDr Rasha Rezk, Engineering, Wolfson College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 02 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Applied and Computational Analysis

Stabilizing unstable flows by coarse mesh observables and actuators - a pavement to data assimilation

UserEdriss Titi (Weizmann Institite & Texas A&M University).

HouseMR 14, CMS.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

Exceptional orthogonal polynomials

Note late change of room!

UserDavid Gomez-Ullate (ICMAT and Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

HouseMR11 CMS.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Do we need to be concerned about the rise of e-cigarettes?

UserDr. Milica Vasiljevic, Primary Care Unit.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 26 May 2017, 17:45-19:10

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI special lecture: Mathematics Enters the Picture

BOOKING REQUIRED - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mathematics-enters-the-picture-tickets-34031599430

UserMassimo Fornasier (TUM - Technische Universität München).

HouseMR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 26 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Learning and Sparse Control of Multiagent Systems

UserMassimo Fornasier (TUM - Technische Universität München).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 26 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

UserLia Chappell, Sanger Institute.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 25 May 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

UserAnanthanarayanan Kumar, MRC-LMB.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 25 May 2017, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

The birth of a memory in wakefulness and sleep

UserDr. Aya Ben-Yakov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) and Dr. Anat Arzi (Dept. of Psychology).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical Bioinformatics at Scale

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

UserProf. Alexander Schliep.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 22 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The metalsmith of the future

UserDr. Evripides Loukaides, Lecturer, University of Bath.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 17:45-19:10

CCIMI Seminars

Energy methods for the geodesic X-ray transform

UserMikko Salo (University of Jyväskylä).

HouseMR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 18 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

A macroscopic limit for an ecology model.

UserGaël Raoul (Ecole polytechnique).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

UserDr Paz Polak.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 15 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserLissa Roberts (University of Twente).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Next Generation Gravimetric Biosensing Using FBARs

UserDr. Mario De Miguel Ramos and Dr. Ewelina Wajs, Department of Engineering.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

UserDr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation

UserAndreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen.

HouseThe Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

UserAlexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

ClockFriday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

UserProfessor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Common genetic variation drives molecular heterogeneity in human iPSCs

UserHelena Kilpinen, Sanger Institute.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Sheep models in neuroscience research: Opportunities and challenges

UserDr Nicholas Perentos and Dr Franziska Knolle - Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 26 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Building a bigger brain: genetic bases for the evolution of the human neocortex

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

UserProf. Gregory A. Wray.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 24 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Capitalism on the Edge

Capitalism on the Edge - What can women do to change how Capitalism works?

UserSue Garrard, Dame Pauline Green, Natasha Landell-Mills.

HouseMurray Edwards College.

ClockThursday 06 April 2017, 17:15-19:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Transcriptional response to environment in plants: how to deal with variability and redundancy

UserDr. Sandra Cortijo and Dr. Daphne Ezer (Sainsbury Laboratory).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 05 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Image Analysis Seminars

Local Convergence of the Heavy-ball Method and iPiano for Non-convex Optimization

Joint CIA-CCIMI seminar

UserPeter Ochs (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg).

HouseMR 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 05 April 2017, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional variation in the human genome: lessons from the transcriptome

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

UserProf. Tuuli Lappalainen.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockMonday 03 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

MMP public and schools' events

'Maths vs Disease'

UserDr Julia Gog.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockSaturday 25 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Post-transcriptional mechanisms that time development

UserHelge Grosshans, FMI, Basel, Switzerland..

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 23 March 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Major glial changes in the human aging brain: from RNA to cells

UserLilach Soreq, Crick Institute / UCL, London.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 23 March 2017, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Single Cell Nucleic Acid Techniques

UserDr. Stephen Clark and Dr Wendi Bacon.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 22 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Towards General Artificial Intelligence

UserDr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 20 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

UserJiri Hron; Adam Scibior.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

STORM: Stochastic Trust Region Framework with Random Models

UserKatya Scheinberg, Lehigh University.

HouseMR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Modelling commodity prices using novel data sources

Industrial Seminar

UserChris Longworth, Cantab.

HouseMR14.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

UserProfessor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors?

All external to CRUK CI people need to be booked at least 24 hours prior the talk. Please contact Kamila by email if you would like to come.

UserDr Laurent Duret.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors?

All external to CRUK CI people need to be booked at least 24 hours prior the talk. Please contact Kamila by email if you would like to come.

UserDr Laurent Duret.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Control, inference and learning

UserProf. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differential Privacy

UserJohn Bradshaw; Alex Matthews.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Neutrinos in Seven Questions

UserLorena Escudero, HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Time, space and disorder in the expanding protein universe

UserChris Taylor (CRUK) & David Minde (Cambridge Centre for Proteomics).

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

CCIMI Seminars

Practical Bayesian modelling: Populism, polls, and petitions.

UserTom Gillam (Cantab Capital Partners).

HouseMR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Below zero - negative interest rates as a challenge for the financial sector

Industrial Seminar

UserHelge Grütjen, D-Fine Ltd.

HouseMR14.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

UserProf. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

UserProfessor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine .

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

An industrial researcher’s learning experience

Industrial Seminar

UserEvren Yarman, Schlumberger.

HouseMR14.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia. (POSTPONED)

UserDr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

UserProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Organoids - making organs in a dish

UserMeri Huch (Gurdon Institute) & Iva Kelava (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

CCIMI Seminars

Advancing Medicine through Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

UserMihaela van der Schaar, University of Oxford and Alan Turing Institute.

HouseMR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Sperm Mediated Transgenerational Inheritance

UserCorrado Spadafora (Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

UserProf. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 20 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Bacterial control of their viral parasites through altruistic suicide

UserProf George Salmond, Biochemistry, Wolfson College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Cancer Research

UserProf Richard Gilbertson.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerics

UserAlessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization

UserGroup Discussion.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One

UserDr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Can mobile phones help people quit smoking?

UserDr. Felix Naughton, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, University of East Anglia.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

UserRoz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

CCIMI Seminars

Applications of numerical algebraic geometry

UserHeather Harrington Oxford.

HouseMR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 15:00-16:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Modelling the human brain: Psychometric and neurodevelopmental perspectives

UserDr Roger Kievit (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) & Dr Lizanne Schweren (Department of Psychiatry).

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Decision-making and artificial general intelligence using deep neural networks

Industrial Seminar

UserAudrunas Gruslys, Google Deep Mind.

HouseMR14.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization

UserGroup Discussion.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Black Holes at Work

Userprof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Optofluidic Tools to Study Antibiotic Resistance

UserDr. Jehangir Cama, Physics Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Ribosome profiling and virus infection

UserDr Andrew Firth Division of Virology ( University of Cambridge, UK).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The blind watch-breaker: evolution at regulatory sites in cancer

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

UserProf. Colin Semple.

HouseCRUK CI Room 215A/B.

ClockMonday 30 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

UserProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mapping a viral interactome

UserLuis Nobre, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Flow Cytometry: from immunodiagnostics to chemical biology

UserLorinda Turner (Dept. of Medicine) and Maria Matos (Dept. of Chemistry).

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 18:30-20:00

CCIMI Seminars

Estimation in the Ising blockmodel

UserQuentin Berthet.

HouseMR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Nanomedicine

UserSir Mark Welland and Ruth Cameron.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

UserProf. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 23 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Politics and Biology

UserDr Julian Huppert.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 19:00-20:00

Capitalism on the Edge

From Speculative to Sustainable Finance: Can Markets do Good?

UserProfessor Emilios Avgouleas, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMurray Edwards College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 17:15-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Turing Test for Smart Materials

UserDr Stoyan Smoukov, Energy Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 13:10-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modeling cancer evolution from genomic data

Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

UserBeerenwinkel, Niko, Prof. Dr..

HouseCRUK CI Room 215A/B.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 16:15-17:15

CCIMI Seminars

A new perspective from Information Theory on genetic sequences

UserOmri Tal, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.

HouseMR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation

UserProf. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 09 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The origin of altruism: Philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives

UserDr Dieter Lukas, Dr Antonio Rodrigues, Dr Peter Woodford.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 09 December 2016, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge RNA Club

The evolution of arthropod small RNA pathways

UserSamuel Lewis, Department of Genetics.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 08 December 2016, 18:00-20:00

Slavonic Studies

Polish Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and Today

UserAdam Balcer, Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska, George Gömöri, Dariusz Karlowicz, Marek Kornat, Jan Kubik, Ewa Ochman, Brian Porter-Szűcs, Aleks Szczerbiak.

HouseWilliam Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 December 2016, 10:00-17:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Developing tools to map the brain at synaptic resolution

UserMarta Costa (Dept. Genetics) and Philipp Schlegel (Dept. Zoology / L.M.B).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 07 December 2016, 18:30-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The art of computing with parallel universes: Quantum computing explained

UserDr Fernando Gonzalez-Zarba -Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory..

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 17:45-19:10

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

UserDr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00

Capitalism on the Edge

Capitalism and Inequality: Brexit versus really taking back control

UserProfessor Danny Dorling (Oxford) and Professor Kate Pickett (York).

HouseMurray Edwards College.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

CCIMI Seminars

Quantum Dots and Dislocations: Dynamics of Materials Defects

UserIrene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseMR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetry in Statistical Models

UserMark Rowland; Maria Lomeli.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 13:30-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

UserProfessor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The role of materials science in sustainable development

UserDr Rob Wallach (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

UserProf. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Murray Edwards College

Closing the Political Ambition Gap

UserSusannah Wellford, Running Start, and Belinda Phipps, Chair of the Fawcett Society.

HouseKaetsu Centre, Murray Edwards College.

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

CCIMI Seminars

Phaseless super-resolution using masks

UserJames Saunderson, Monash University.

HouseMR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Computational Interfacial Chemistry: What do we do ?

UserDr Chao Zhang -Department of Chemistry.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Optimization

UserPawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

An overview of molecular imaging: from macroscopic to microscopic level

UserBangwen Xie (Cancer Research Uk C.I.) and Jerome Boulanger (MRC L.M.B).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Microbiology

UserProf Kim Hardie and Dr Tom Ellis.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Present Chemistry

UserProf. Jonathan Goodman (Department of Chemistry).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

UserProfessor Christopher Yau.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 21 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space

UserProfessor Lord Robert Mair, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Targeted polyA tail removal by the Ccr4-Not complex

UserJames Stowell, MRC-LMB.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

NGS techniques for challenging RNA sample types

UserHazel Pinheiro, Exiqon.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 18:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

deep generative models

UserDave Janz; James Requeima.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Transposable elements and epigenome evolution

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

UserProf. Ting Wang.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Sustainability of Energy and Material Demand: Reducing the Demand for Steel

Meetings begin at 5.45pm with drinks; the talk follows at 6.00pm

UserDr. Andre Cabrera Serrenho, The Use Less Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Translating research: commercialisation of ideas and products from University laboratories by life scientists

UserDr Rachel Atfield (Cambridge Enterprise) Dr Paulina Chilarska (Cambridge Biolabs) Dr Jelena Aleksic (Geneadviser) Dr Tim Guiliams (Healx).

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 17:30-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Opossums, Catastrophes, and Homeostasis

UserProfessor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Where is my Nano-bot?

UserProf Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

UserProfessor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Skipping between Portals: neutron analysis of membrane protein biogenesis

UserDr Nathan R. Zaccai -Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 04 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

UserAlexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Solar Energies

UserSee event homepage for list of speakers.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 09:30-17:30

Capitalism on the Edge

Can Capitalism be Ethical?

UserDr Rowan Williams ( Master of Magdalene College).

HouseMurray Edwards College.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Black holes and revelations

UserDr Christopher Berry, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Co-author of recent gravitational waves paper.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Neurobiology

UserProf Ole Paulsen.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Life Before Fertilisation

UserDr Timothy Weil (Department of Zoology).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge Image Analysis Seminars

Optical Flow on Evolving Sphere-Like Surfaces

This is a joint CIA-CCIMI seminar

UserLukas Lang (University of Vienna).

HouseMR 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What shapes the human immune system?

UserDr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 31 October 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Internships Event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Sparse recovery by l0 penalty

This is a joint ACA-CCIMI seminar

UserBangti Jin (UCL).

HouseMR 14, CMS.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Digging deeper: What living athletes can tell us about behaviour in prehistory

UserDr Alison Macintosh, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Inner and outer wellbeing: A double perspective on the processing of thoughts and environment

UserDr Keri Wong and Dr Laurie Palmer (Dept. of Psychology).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - The Black dog: why don't we care?

UserProfessor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health at the LSHTM.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Ultra-strong, light-weight conducting cables from carbon nanotubes

UserDr James Elliott (Macromolecular Materials Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ivo Andric and the Dynamic Aspects of the Balkan Cultural Identity

UserProf Dr Kornelije Kvas, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

UserProf. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Structure of the catalytic spliceosome

UserWojciech Galej, MRC-LMB.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

A transmissible RNA pathway in honey bees

UserEyal Maori, Gurdon Institute.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

HIV-1 vectors: How can you convert a pathogen to a therapeutic vehicle?

UserEirini Vamva, PhD Candidate in the Department of Medicine .

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 13:10-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution, genomics and mode of action of long noncoding RNAs in mammalian cells

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek from CRUK CI.

UserDr. Igor Ulitsky.

HouseCRUK CI Room 215A/B.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Eleventh William Pitt Seminar: A Higher Purpose: the role of universities in C21st Britain

To register, or for further information, please contact corporate@pem.cam.ac.uk

UserSee abstract for speakers.

HousePeterhouse Theatre, dinner in Hall in Pembroke.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 15:00-22:00

Darwin College Research Talks

Stop. Think. Click: Cyber Security & Social Engineering within the University

UserKieren Niĉolas Lovell - IM Implementation Manager University of Cambridge - Information Services.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Chris Lowe, University of Essex.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

UserProfessor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

LECTURE AND HACKATHON: SPEAKER BALAJI SRINIVASAN, 21.co | HOW BITCOIN ENABLES A MACHINE-PAYABLE WEB

Places are limited, please register and RSVP to n.robinson@jbs.cam.ac.uk

UserBalaji Srinivasan, CEO 21.co.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockMonday 03 October 2016, 18:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Non-coding genome function in pancreatic islets and diabetes

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek.

UserProfessor Jorge Ferrer.

HouseCRUK CI Room 009/009A.

ClockMonday 19 September 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Internal models and the neural control of prey interception

UserAnthony Leonardo, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus / HHMI.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 19 August 2016, 11:00-12:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Zebrafish as a model to understand development and disease

UserAna Lopez Ramirez and Helena Khaliullina (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 20 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Using Brain Imaging to Evaluate Nutritional Intervention Strategies in Resource Poor Settings

UserDr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (University of London) and Dr Sophie E. Moore (MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 06 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Parallel reverse genetic screening in mutant human cells using transcriptomics.

UserBianca Gapp, Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford / invited by Lexogen.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 23 June 2016, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

CRISPR/Cas9 – the good, the bad and the ugly!

UserDr Aisling Redmond (CRUK CI), Dr Florian Merkle (Stem Cell Institute) & Dr Alasdair Russell (CRUK CI).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 22 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Sex chromosomes in development and disease

UserJames Turner (The Francis Crick Institute).

HouseCRUK CI Room 215A.

ClockMonday 13 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Musilanguage in the Cradle

UserDr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Chaining and convexity

UserRamon van Handel (Princeton).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Cancer: Finding New Targets and Novel Therapies

UserDr Molly Taylor (Astra Zeneca), Dr Chiranjeevi Sandi (Astra Zeneca) & Dr James Lynch (Astra Zeneca) .

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Landing on a Comet

UserProfessor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 June 2016, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Corporate Psychopaths at Work and in Society

UserProfessor Clive Boddy, Middlesex University London.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

ClockFriday 03 June 2016, 17:45-19:10

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)

UserRowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 02 June 2016, 14:30-16:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Organismal design and causation in social evolution

UserDr António Rodrigues, Department of Zoology.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 27 May 2016, 18:30-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

How Prediction Errors and Schemas Shape our Memories.

UserDr Andrea Greve, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

ClockFriday 27 May 2016, 17:45-18:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Resource Sharing, Organization, and Databases

UserChris Wilkinson and Tibor Auer.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 18:30-20:00

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures

Please register your interest at: reprosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserAlison Bashford, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of Jesus College.

HouseBentley Room, The Pitt Building.

ClockMonday 23 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

Dimers Day in Cambridge

UserBoutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli.

HouseMR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 23 May 2016, 10:45-17:45

Wolfson College Science Society

The Psychophysiology of the Vasovagal (Fainting) Response: Mechanisms and Interventions

UserDr Philippe T. Gilchrist, Wolfson College, Department of Psychology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 17:45-18:30

Mordell Lectures

Why Mathematical Proof?

UserDana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) .

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

The Blackett Society

The Science of Sexual Orientation

Open to all, free of charge

UserDr. Gerulf Rieger, University of Essex.

HouseThe Parlour | Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.

UserMelissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Perception as a closed-loop convergence process

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel. Note the unusual time and the unusual location

UserEhud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. For directions see http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge RNA Club

New SHAPEs of retroviral RNAs

UserDr Julia Kenyon, Department of Medicine (University of Cambridge).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

SMall RNAs control transposons during demethylation in mouse ES cells.

UserRebecca Berrens (University of Cambridge), Babraham Institute.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 18:00-20:00

Rausing Lecture

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Probing the Polar Oceans

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 16 May 2016, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Gene-drug interaction screens in cancer

UserSebastian Nijman (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Oxford).

HouseCRUK CI Room 215A/B.

ClockMonday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Invention of Consciousness

UserProfessor Nicholas Humphrey, LSE, New College of the Humanities, Darwin College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 13 May 2016, 17:45-19:10

Capitalism on the Edge

Capitalism on the Edge - Capitalism on Stage

UserZoe Svendsen and Paul Mason.

HouseMurray Edwards College.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 17:15-19:00

ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

The Emerging Crimmigration Control System

UserProfessor Ben Bowling, King's College London.

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG18, Sidgwick Site.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

An 18,000-year old Crime Scene Investigation

UserDr Ana Marin-Arroyo, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Complex Analysis — Simplified!

UserProfessor Andy Raich, University of Arkansas.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Science Seminars

Emerging solar cell technologies: a microscopist's view

UserGiorgio Divitini, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The technocratic empiricism of the Obama administration

UserJack Wright, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Checking out NHS Health Checks

UserProfessor Simon Griffin, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge RNA Club

‘Cell types in the mouse brain as revealed by single-cell RNA-seq.’

UserAmit Zeisel, Molecular Neurobiology, MBB, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden..

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 18:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Expectation Propagation

UserYingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Open Data and Reproducibility

UserDr. Marta Teperek and Dr. Kirstie Whitaker.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 18:30-20:00

Capitalism on the Edge

Capitalism and human welfare in the hi-tech/hi-touch world

UserLord Adair Turner, Senior Fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking.

HouseMurray Edwards College.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 17:15-19:00

Technology and Democracy Events

"Social media and political turbulence"

UserProfessor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGo

UserShixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Synaptic origins of working memory capacity

User Misha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel .

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockWednesday 20 April 2016, 10:00-11:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Mind the Gap: Nanotechnology for Molecular Sensing and Nanomedicine

UserDr Jennifer Hare (AstraZeneca) and Dr Seti Kasera (Dept. Of Chemistry).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 13 April 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 3 - Hot topics in transcriptomics

UserIrene Papatheodorous and Catalina Vallejos, with Angela Goncalves (WTSI), Davis McCarthy (EBI).

HouseDAMPT MR2.

ClockMonday 11 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 2: 3D genomics

UserTim Stevens, with Robert Beagrie (MDC Berllin), Paula Freire Pritchitt (Babraham Intstitute).

HouseDAMPT MR2.

ClockMonday 11 April 2016, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 1 - Buggy science: improving bioinformatics software quality

UserJohn Davey (Zoology) and Gord Brown (CRUK) with Jennifer Liddle (WTSI) and Irina Colgiu (WTSI).

HouseDAMPT MR2.

ClockMonday 11 April 2016, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: Reproducibility Workshop follow up

UserGord Brown (CRUK) and Ines de Santiago (CRUK).

HouseDAMPT MR2.

ClockMonday 11 April 2016, 09:30-10:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Methods and Compressed Sensing

UserNilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Slavonic Studies

Places of Amnesia: The Inside and the Outside. Can the Human Body be a Place of Amnesia?

Free admission

UserDr Paul Connerton (University of Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 06 April 2016, 09:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Places of Amnesia: Unintentional Revelations. Rescuing the Past, Obliquely.

Free admission

UserProfessor Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA/University of Pisa).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 05 April 2016, 09:00-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry

Event is now fully booked

UserAlissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Modified RNA and grammer education for the naive immune system

UserVincent Kelly (Trinity College Dublin).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 24 March 2016, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Role of long noncoding RNAs in hematopoiesis

UserJoaquina Delas, CRUK-CI.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 24 March 2016, 18:00-20:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Approximate Message Passing Algorithms

UserDr Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 22 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

MMP public and schools' events

Hands-On Maths Fair

UserCambridge Science Festival.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockSaturday 19 March 2016, 11:30-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

UserOrganisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 09:00-17:45

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Geneses. How frequently does life emerge?

UserMarkus Ralser and Amaury Triaud.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

UserProfessor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Ultracold Quantum Gases

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserDr Nir Navon.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 06 March 2016, 17:20-18:10

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Gas Cylinder Vibration Characterisation

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserNick Kateris & Tejal Shanbhag.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 06 March 2016, 17:00-17:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Extremely Low Frequency meteor detection

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserVasilije Perovic.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 06 March 2016, 16:40-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Polyester-based synthetic information oligomers

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserFilip Szczypinski.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 06 March 2016, 11:45-12:05

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Mixing the Ocean

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserAlex Chamolly.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 06 March 2016, 11:25-11:45

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Newton's Inheritance: Natural Science in Seventeenth-Century Trinity

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserDr Richard Serjeantson.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 06 March 2016, 10:15-11:05

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

UserDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic programming

UserHong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 14:30-16:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Sequencing Ebola virus in an insect filled tent; how real-time next generation sequencing aided the epidemic response.

UserProfessor Ian Goodfellow (Division of Virology, Department of Pathology) and Dr Matt Cotten (Sanger Centre).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 18:30-20:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Democracy and its Discontents

UserProfessor John Shattuck, Central European University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How languages signal highlights using mismatches as methodology

UserDr Jenneke van der Wal, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story

UserDr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

UserProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures

Investment Arbitration and EU Law

There is no charge to attend but please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mackenzie-stuart-lecture-2016-tickets-19184723023

UserAdvocate General Juliane Kokott, Court of Justice of the EU.

HouseFaculty of Law.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 17:30-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Beyond the Nuclear Family: An Evolutionary Perspective on Family and Fertility

UserDr Rebecca Sear, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:10

Cambridge RNA Club

Selective control of genome maintenance pathways by RNA processing factors

UserVihandha Wickramasinghe (MRC, Cancer Unit).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 18:00-20:00

Capitalism on the Edge

CAPITALISM ON THE EDGE - Inequality

UserRosamund Urwin (London Evening Standard) and Ben Phillips (ActionAid).

HouseMurray Edwards College.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 17:15-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning by learning rich generative models

UserThang Bui (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease

UserProfessor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein Folding Homeostasis

UserProfessor David Ron, MD, FMedSci, FRS | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 19:30-20:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Analysing the transcriptome of cells: computational challenges and applications of single cell RNA-sequencing

UserDr Catalina Vallejos (MRC Biostatistics Unit & EMBL-EBI) & Dr Antonio Scialdone (EMBL-EBI).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications

UserDr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

UserDr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPs

NOTE Topic Change

UserYarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Smelling molecules with optical nano-noses

UserDr Tanya Hutter, Department of Chemistry .

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Comparative genomics of RNA viruses

UserDr Andrew Firth, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge..

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

A core brain system in human intelligence

UserProf John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Cold War origins of the Euro

UserDr Duncan Needham, Faculty of History.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence

UserProfessor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

UserSir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

“Do I look fat in these genes?”

UserDr Ines Barroso, Sanger Institute.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Science Volunteering in Africa

UserDr Jelena Aleksic and Dr Nicola Yates.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc Talk: Sir David Spiegelhalter

UserDavid Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseLT1, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Wolfson College Science Society

The beauty and science of nebulae

UserProfessor Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

UserProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

What’s in a flame? — the modern theory of combustion

UserGirish Nivarti (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 13:10-14:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Cancer by the Numbers

UserProfessor Simon Tavaré.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs

UserProfessor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History

UserProfessor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep learning for time series

UserChristof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Designing metal forming machines

UserDr Evros Loukaides (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Ensuring data are Understood

UserDr Jenny Grant Rankin ((Illuminate Education) and Dr Margie L. Johnson (Metropolitan Nashville Public School).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Athene Donald - "Physics of the Everyday"

UserProfessor Dame Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseLT1, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Optimizing endurance performance is an intellectual exercise

UserDr Christof Schwiening, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

UserBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic discrete integration

UserAdrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'

This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity.

UserProf Robert Putnam (Harvard University) .

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Technology Development

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil

UserDr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

UserHelen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge RNA Club

CrPV-IRES: the dynamic tale of a molecular pirate

UserIsrael S. Fernandez, MRC-LMB.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Reverse Thinking: First Image Analysis then Immunostaining Protocol

UserDr Hélène Gautier (PDN) and Dr Leila Muresan (CAIC).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 18:30-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery

UserDr Andeas Bender, Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge University. .

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Conservation of orang-utans and tigers in Malaysia – interventions and progress of work from the field.

UserDr Melvin Gumal, Director of the Malaysian Wildlife Conservation Society, and Darwin alumnus..

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

UserProfessor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Tales from the crypt: How science harvests death for humanity's benefit

UserProfessor Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 27 November 2015, 18:00-19:15

The Blackett Society

Intellectual Property: Not a Banana. IP for Scientists and Engineers

Open to all, free of charge.

UserMatthias Goetz, Associate with White & Case LLP.

HouseMeeting Room 3 | Cripps Court | Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 27 November 2015, 17:15-18:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic optimization and adaptive learning rates

UserYingzhen Li (University of Cambridge); Mark Rowland.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Relating mind and brain: can brain activity predict perceptual experience?

UserDr Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Human embryos: a visual history

UserDr Nick Hopwood, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 18:00-19:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way

Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.

UserProf Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logic, Theorem Proving, and Probabilistic Programming

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Biophysical Seminars

Microtechnologies for biomolecular complex analysis and cryo-microscopy

All welcome

UserDr Thomas Burg, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Measured with Ceremonies

UserTim Milner, Darwin Deputy Praelector and University Ceremonial Officer..

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language

Registration is required for this event

UserProf. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Connections between kernels, GPs, and NNs

UserMatthias Bauer (University of Cambridge); Paul Rubenstein.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar

Psychiatry – Medicine’s Secret Weapon

UserProfessor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.

HouseSeminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture

Death Penalty, Drones and Torture

UserClive Stafford Smith - Founder and Director of Reprieve & distinguished human rights lawyer.

HouseDavid Li Kwok Po Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Law.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising model

UserDr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

UserProfessor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Thoughts on the current crisis in the NHS and how to resolve it: getting from lose/lose to win/win.

UserJan Filochowski, Clinical and Professional Adviser at CQC; NIHR; Commonwealth Fund and IHI.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

ClockFriday 06 November 2015, 18:15-19:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Spatio-temporal organization of replication: On genome evolution and large-scale chromatin folding

UserBenjamin Audit, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Maths and the Arts

The Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams.

UserProfessor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Future Energy Needs and Engineering Reality

UserProfessor Michael Kelly ( Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Colloquia on the European Crises: Banks' Stress Tests in the US: Lessons for Europe

Please register on Cambridge-INET website

UserTil Schuermann, Partner at Oliver Wyman & Former Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

HouseLG17, Faculty of Law.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 11:00-12:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization and its applications

UserDr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

jjn1's list

Postcapitalism

UserPaul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News.

HouseRoom GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Professor Jeremy Baumberg: Where is my nanobot?

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Quantum Mechanics

UserProf. Mike Payne.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 18:15-19:15

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Unravelling the Innovation Mystery

UserAnirban Lahiri, Xaar Ltd.

HouseWolfson College, room TBC.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 18:15-19:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

LP relaxations for MAP inference

UserAdrian Weller (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Bioinformatics to support cancer therapeutics

UserDr Dennis Wang and Dr. Manasa Ramakrishna, AstraZeneca. .

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

A hundred years of visualizing molecules

UserProf. Sir Venki Ramakrishnan.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2015, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration

Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"

UserProfessor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

When to care for and when to kill another female's offspring

UserDr Dieter Lukas, Department of Zoology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 18:00-19:15

Statistics

Nonstandard complete class theorems

UserDaniel Roy (University of Toronto).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Being Different: what difference does diversity make?

To register please contact corporate@pem.cam.ac.uk

UserVarious speakers.

HousePeterhouse Theatre, dinner in Hall in Pembroke.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 15:00-22:00

jjn1's list

The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems Judgement

UserJohn Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH.

HouseRoom B16, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

MiRNA-containing gene regulatory networks in development

UserLuisa Cochella, IMP, Vienna, AUT.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

SIRVs – External Spike-in Transcript Variant Controls for RNA-Seq

UserLukas Paul, Lexogen, Vienna, AUT.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 18:00-20:00

Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic Scale

Refreshments will be served between 3pm and 4pm in the lecture theatre foyer following the lecture

UserDr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Vision-Based Over-Height Vehicle Detection

UserBella Nguyen (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

UserDr Laurent Gatto ( Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Mechanism and Regulation of miRNA-mediated Repression in Mammalian Cells including Retinal Photoreceptors

UserWitold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 03 September 2015, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Novel insights into substrate recognition and targeting of mRNA to nonsense-mediated decay

UserKristian E. Baker, Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, USA.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 03 September 2015, 18:00-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

CANCELED

UserOlivier Gevaert (Stanford University).

HouseCRUK CI Room 215A.

ClockMonday 24 August 2015, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

CANCELED

UserSean Grimmond (Glasgow).

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 27 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)

UserFlorian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Remote control of cell signalling using chemogenetics

UserJohan Alsio & Bianca Jupp (Department of Psychology).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 01 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation by Olivia Macleod on her research

UserProf. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Codon usage determines mRNA levels in Trypanosoma brucei.

UserJanaina Nascimento - Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 18:00-20:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Exome Sequencing Methods

UserJames Hadfield & Oscar Rueda (Cancer Research UK).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Saga of the Miles M-52 Britain’s Wartime Supersonic Project

Please note this lecture is different to that previously advertised. It will be preceeded by a short presentation by Vaibhav Bhardwaj on his research "Algae-bacteria symbiosis: Using molecular biology to improve algae cultivation for biofuels"

UserRod Kirkby, Retired Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 08 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins

The Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”

UserDr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem

UserDaniel Spielman (Yale).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics

UserSylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 22 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Rausing Lecture

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Convolutional Neural Networks

UserChristof Angermueller, Alex Kendall.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

UserIllés Farkas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Darwin's children

UserCharissa Varma, Darwin Correspondence Project.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Metabolic cooperation in a synthetic yeast community

UserKate Campbell (University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials

UserDr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable MCMC

UserHong Ge, Jes Frellsen.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Statistics

Robust Matrix Completion

UserOlga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

How much does it cost to save nature?

UserCarolina Hazin (BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK).

HouseThe Panton Arms Pub.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

UserProf. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference

UserMateo Rojas-Carulla, Amar Shah.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge RNA Club

How do miRNAs work?

UserMartin Bushell - MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Small RNAs mediate trans-generational epigenetic inheritance in C. elegans

UserAlexandra Sapetschnig (Gurdon Institute).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 18:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Process Models for Time Series

UserRoger Frigola, Carl Edward Rasmussen.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Big Dream Documentary Screening and Q&A Panel

UserSara-Jane Dunn, Katja Hofmann, Jasmin Fisher & Sadia Ahmed from Microsoft Research.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockThursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Rare Disease Network

CRDN Launch Event: Parent Entrepreneurship

UserDr Nick Sireau, Ms Kay Parkinson, Dr Will Evans and Dr Cesare Spadoni.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School, LT1.

ClockThursday 02 April 2015, 17:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Informational Geometry

UserNilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 02 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Post-transcriptional RNA processing in the remnant chloroplast of the malaria parasite Plasmodium

UserEllen Nisbet - Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 26 March 2015, 18:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Gaussian Processes

UserRichard Turner, Alex Navarro, Thang Bui.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

NB Change of date and venue

UserAndrew Phillips (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation

UserQuentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Evolution on the Wing

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserProf.Brakefield.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 17:00-17:45

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Poking Brains: the Mechanics of Neural Development

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserAmelia Joy Thompson.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 16:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Quantum Measurement Problem

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserEmily Adlam.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 16:00-16:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Raspberry Pi Imaging

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserDan Safka.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 15:00-15:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Finding Shared Causal Variants Between Diseases

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserMary Fortune.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 14:00-14:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Exoplanets and the Nature of Other Worlds

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserProf. Didier Queloz.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 13:15-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Not-So-Universal Genetic Code

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserAlexey Morgunov.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 11:45-12:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Tunnelling and Imaginary Time:Instantons

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserCarl Turner.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 11:15-11:45

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Teaching Computers to Read

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserGuy Emerson.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 10:45-11:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Trinity College Science Society Symposium 2015

UserProf. Brakefield, Prof. Didier Queloz, Dr Arthur Norman and others.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 10:00-17:45

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

A Computing Project that has been running for 50 years

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserDr Arthur Norman.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 08 March 2015, 10:00-10:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

UserDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperones

UserProf. Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 19:00-20:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Peptides as drugs and tools to study biological systems

UserEmma Cahill (Dept Psychology) & Albert Isidro-Llobet (GSK).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 18:30-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Dopamine - beyond reward?

UserThomas Fitzgerald, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 12:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge RNA Club

"HSV-1 causes widespread host-specific disruption of transcription termination"

UserAndzrej Rutkowski, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

“The Nuclear Matrix Protein Matrin3 Regulates Splicing and Forms Overlapping Networks with PTB”

UserMiguel Coelho - Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Towards bi-treated glass

UserMarco Zaccaria.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase

UserProfessor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

UserProfessor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature

UserClaire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Trinity Mathematical Society

Trinity Mathematical Society Symposium 2015

The Symposium is Open to All

UserDr. Nathalie Vriend, Dr. Jonathan Nelson, Prof. Ross Anderson, Dr. Robert Brady and others.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 22 February 2015, 10:00-17:45

Wolfson College Science Society

Life after death: social evolution in a grave

UserProf Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

UserMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Making Smarter Artificial Muscles

UserStoyan Smoukov (University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Some of my Accidents

UserProf. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College

Iraq after ISIS

UserRenad Mansour.

HouseN7, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

UserProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Some ideas in nonparametric estimation

UserPiotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Assessing the energy, water and land nexus in China

UserYing Qin, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Protein Misfolding and Cancer: the Tumour Suppressor p53

UserProf. Alan Fersht (Department of Chemistry).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)

UserSophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).

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

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

UserProfessor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Why do black holes shine?

UserProf. Christopher Reynolds, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, USA.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genomics of transcription factor redundancy

UserProfessor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Physics of the Everyday

UserProf. Dame Athene Donald (Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Another take on frac(king): the triumph of the frock coat and the lounge suit

UserTim Milner, Darwin Deputy Praelector and University Ceremonial Officer.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One

UserProf. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

UserProfessor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Chemical and proteomic analysis of spliceosomes and multi protein complexes

UserAngus Lamond, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Annotation and identification of potentially functional lncRNAs

UserWilfried Haerty, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 18:00-20:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture - Laws of Programming with Concurrency

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserSir Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Transfer Learning

UserYingzhen Li; Eddy Pei-Hao Su.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

DNA Sequencing and Other Applications of Engineered Protein Nanopores

NB Location and time have changed

UserProf. Hagan Bayley FRS, Department of Chemistry, Oxford.

HouseGordon Cameron Lecture Theatre, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts.

UserReinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research), Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich).

HouseMR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-18:10

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Lessons in Biology from Human Disease

UserProf. Veronica Van Heyningen (UCL).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

International Legal Constraints on Energy Transitions

CUEN Evening Seminars are open to everyone, free of charge, without any registration.

UserProfessor Jorge E. Vinuales, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy.

HouseRoom B3, Criminology Department, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced HMC

UserNilesh Tripuraneni; Adam Scibior.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

HPV vaccines – are they doing their job?

UserProf. Margaret Stanley OBE, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 19:00-20:30

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

Unleashing the power of genomics in the clinic

A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public.

UserFrancesc Coll, Jelena Aleksic, Sergio Martínez Cuesta.

HouseThe Panton Arms Pub.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 19:00-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

There is no medicine except in the light of models

UserDr Pietro Lio, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation in Practise

UserProf. Andy Hopper, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

UserProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)

4G3 course -- repeats every Wed at 12noon, and Fri at 11am during Lent

UserMate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6 (Trumpington Street).

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

UserAdrian Weller; Mateo Rojas Carulla.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Apptimistic research: Studying well-being and behaviour change using sensor data from mobile phone apps

UserGillian Sandstrom (Dept. Psychology), Neal Lathia (Dept. Computer Science), Felix Naughton (Dept. Public Health and Primary Care) .

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 10 December 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Investigating the consequences of age-linked gene expression changes

UserStephen Frenk, Babraham Institute.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Colin Russell (Department of Veterinary Medicine).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 19:00-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Simulation Approaches to Biomolecular Recognition and Assembly

UserDr Peter J Bond, Bioinformatics Institute (BII) A*STAR, Singapore..

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cells

UserProf Austin Smith, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 20:00-21:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Dipping an Academic Toe in the Commercial World

UserProf. Alan Mycroft (Computer Laboratory).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 18:15-19:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Sino-Russian Gas and Oil Cooperation : The Reality and Its Impacts towards Regional and Global Trading

UserProfessor Keun Wook Paik, associate fellow of the energy, environment, resource department at Chatham House and senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

HouseRoom B3, Criminology Department, Sidgwick Site.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 17:00-00:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJohannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.).

HouseEngineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

How bees find the right flowers

UserDr Gregory Sutton.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

Statistics

Dynamic functional principal components

UserSiegfried Hörmann, Université libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

PAC Bayes

UserAlex Matthews; Nikola Mrksic.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigative Interviewing of Children

UserDr Beth Ahern, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Information Event

UserProf. Steve Russell (University of Cambridge), Dr. Tim Weil (University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Creating transparent intact animal organs for high-resolution 3D deep-tissue imaging

UserKeith Siew (Centre for Clinical Investigation), Filipe Lourenco (Cancer Research UK).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Public Talk: "Managing Global Finance as a System"

To register for this talk please email inet@econ.cam.ac.uk

UserAndy Haldane, Bank of England.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Collaborative research: funding available for collaborative research out of Science and Technology Funding Council areas.

STFC collaborative R&D funding

Free parking on Clerk Maxwell Road (2 minutes from the Cavendish). Parking closer very limited, please email organiser if needed.

UserDr Vlad Skarda, STFC External Innovations.

HouseTCM - Seminar Room (room 530), Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory..

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-13:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rescuing homeless tsunami victims by law

UserJulius Weitzdörfer (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'

UserVictoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum, London).

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

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

LSTM and Recurrent Neural Networks

UserShixiang Gu; Andrey Malinin.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

What can we understand from the structure of a protein?

UserDr Paul Elliott, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Centre.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Exploring and Exploiting the RNA World in Plants and Animals

UserProf. David Baulcombe (Plant Sciences).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture Series - Technological Innovation in Healthcare

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserProfessor The Lord Darzi of Denham PC KBE FRS FMedSci HonFREng.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book as Instrument, 1570–1720

UserDr Boris Jardine (Munby Fellow at the University Library).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligence

UserProf. Nicky Clayton FRS, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge and Clive Wilkins.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy

UserEmma Pyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Automatic Differentiation with Theano

UserYarin Gal; Christof Angermueller.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic code expansion in vivo: making proteins with novel properties

UserDr Ambra Bianco, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Super-resolution imaging: Getting and understanding microscopy images with more details

UserLeila Muresan, Martin Lenz (Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Breast cancer- tackling 10 diseases

UserProf. Carlos Caldas (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The politics of belonging in Europe

UserDr Jeff Miley (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

Ranking from pairwise comparisons using Seriation

UserAlexandre d'Aspremont, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 07 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Energy storage: Understanding supercapacitors for improving them

UserDr Céline Merlet, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Event

UserSally Todd, Careers Service and student speakers.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Generating the Fuel of Life

UserSir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 20:00-21:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Computing for the Future of the Planet

UserProf. Andy Hopper (Computer Laboratory).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes.

UserProf. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Targeted Sequencing Reveals The Genome’s Fine Details

UserTimothy Mercer, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 18:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Embedding for Distributions

UserMark van der Wilk; Felipe Tobar.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Scientific instruments before science

UserDr Alexi Baker, CRASSH & History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Why Trust Public Experiments?

UserProf. Simon Schaffer (HPS).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The social impacts of using drones for wildlife conservation

UserDr Chris Sandbrook (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Adaptive posterior contraction

UserJohannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

National Cancer Registration Service (Eastern Office) Monthly Seminars

What Might a Lung Cancer Screening Programme in the UK Look Like?

This talk is open to all but please contact the organiser if you have not been to one of these talks before

UserStephen Duffy, Professor of Cancer Screening at Queen Mary College.

HouseNational Cancer Registration Service, Unit E, Magog Court, Hinton Way, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Population genetic models of evolution

UserDr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building Brains

UserProf Steve Furber, University of Manchester.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 20:00-21:15

C.U. Cryptographic Currency Society

Bitcoin: the good, the bad, and the ugly!

UserDr Nicolas T. Courtois, UCL Department of Computer Science.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 18:30-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Physics in the Nervous System

UserDr Kristian Franze (Neuroscience).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 18:15-19:15

Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College

Lethal Safety? Fukushima, Fear and the Nuclear Puzzle

UserMalcolm Grimston, Hon. Senior Research Fellow at Imperial Centre for Energy Policy and Technology.

HouseN7, Pembroke College.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 17:30-18:30

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

Academia & Industry: accelerating the impact of research

UserSir Thomas Blundell, Dr Manuel Pérez Alonso, Hanadi Jabado, Dr Isabel González, Roberto Sánchez Sánchez.

HousePavilion room. Hughes Hall College.

ClockSaturday 18 October 2014, 10:45-14:00

Statistics

Flexible multiple testing using closed testing and Simes

UserJelle Goeman, Radboud University Medical Center.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Living Long and Living Well: Changing Prospects for Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease and Late Life Dementias, 2014

UserProf. Eric Larson, Group Health Research Institute, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

C.U. Cryptographic Currency Society

Blockchain Technology

UserVitalik Buterin & Stephan Tual, ethereum.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 20:15-21:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Literary Criticism and the New Left (1956-62)

UserAlexander Hutton (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

UserProfessor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 13:00-14:15

Peter Whittle Lecture

Peter Whittle Colloquium

UserYuval Peres (MSR Redmond) , Bálint Tóth (TU Budapest/U Bristol) , Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich) .

HouseMR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 03 October 2014, 16:00-19:00

Cambridge University Global Health Society

Privatisation of the NHS

UserProfessor Allyson Pollock; Professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary University, London.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 03 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 3 - Single Cell Sequencing

UserLed by Simon Andrews (Babraham Institute), Boris Adryan (CSBC), Misha Kapushesky (Genestack).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

ClockMonday 29 September 2014, 13:30-14:15

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 2 - Long Read / New Technologies

UserLed by Rory Stark (CRUK Cambridge Institute), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockMonday 29 September 2014, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 1 - Local Computational Resources and Issues

UserLed by Misha Kapushesky (Genestack), Aylwyn Scally (Genetics), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

ClockMonday 29 September 2014, 09:30-10:30

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Ultrasonic Actuation in Microfluidics for Particle Handling, Sorting and Droplet Formation

Everyone is welcome

UserDr. Adrian Neild, Laboratory for Micro Systems, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Australia.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 26 September 2014, 14:00-15:00

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

A Pint of Knowledge: Stem cells, from the lab to the clinic

A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public.

UserAna Amaral, María Barreira, Sandra Blanco, Usua Laresgoiti and Emma Martínez (University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Panton Arms Pub.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2014, 19:00-21:00

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Bionanoscience for Innovative Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART)

Everyone is welcome

UserProf. Luke P. Lee, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, UC Berkeley.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 08 July 2014, 14:30-15:30

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Mass Fabrication of Micro/Nano Dual-scale Structures and its Applications in Energy Harvesting

Everyone is welcome

UserProf. Haixia (Alice) Zhang, Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University, China.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 04 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space

UserProfessor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

UserDr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Noise in audio and electronics

UserDr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

I spy with my MRI....

UserDr Mick Mantle, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 18:15-19:15

Philosophy Events

Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Acting and Thinking Together

UserProf. Michael Bratman, Stanford University.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unsupervised Representation Learning

UserAmar Shah (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:30

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

Pint of Knowledge: Realistic illumination in movies and videogames

A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public.

UserAlex Mendez Feliu.

HouseThe Panton Arms Pub.

ClockWednesday 11 June 2014, 19:00-21:00

Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society seminar series

"Cool War to Cold: Perspectives of the Ukraine Crisis for Russia and the West"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserDemetrius A. Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePeter Richards Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 June 2014, 17:30-19:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future? - CUEN Annual Energy Conference

Please register: www.cuen.org.uk (coffee breaks, lunch and wine reception included)

User14 speakers from academia, policy and industry.

HouseJesus College Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 June 2014, 08:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Regulation of microRNA expression during virus infection.

UserSébastien Pfeffer IBMC, Strasbourg, France.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Should We Engineer The Climate? The SPICE Project

The listed speaker is not available; Dr Hunt has very kindly agreed to deliver this lecture in his place

UserDr Hugh Hunt, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

UserMichelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy

Fifth Hewish Lecture

UserProfessor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 26 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Spatially unbalanced growth in the British Economy

UserProfessor Peter Tyler, Professor in urban and regional economics in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX.

ClockFriday 23 May 2014, 13:15-14:15

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

The Architecture of Recovery

UserIan Davis, Visiting Professor in Disaster Risk Management in Copenhagen, Kyoto, Lund and Oxford Brookes Universities.

HouseLECTURE ROOM 1, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:15-14:15

Rausing Lecture

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserGabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical model criticism

UserJames Lloyd (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Science of Dishwashing

UserAkin Ali, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Chembridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:00-18:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Shell and Natural Gas

This event kicks-off our Annual Conference on Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future? Sign-up for conference and poster session via our website: http://www.cuen.org.uk/

UserEmile de Jong, General Manager Expertise and Deployment, Shell.

HouseJudge Business School.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:00-19:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Thinking for Programmers: Rising Above the Code

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserLeslie Lamport, Microsoft Research.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Twilight of the Scientific Age

UserDr Martín López Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands).

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

Slavonic Film and Media Studies

FIlmmaker Marlen Khutsiev in Conversation: Not Yet Evening...

UserMarlen Khutsiev (Guild of Russian Film Directors, Moscow).

HouseWinstanley Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 17:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Transport into the cell: How many ways to get in?

UserVassilis Bitsikas, MCR Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

What has become of the ‘eco-city’?

UserDr Robert Cowley, Visiting Lecturer, International Eco-Cities Initiative, University of Westminster.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Neuroprediction and the law

UserRaj Patel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

It is hard to be strongly faithful

UserCaroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Functional Programming

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Statistics

Limit theorems for nearly unstable Hawkes processes

UserMathieu Rosenbaum, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

"The end of the message: Insights into mRNA deadenylation"

UserLori Passmore (University of Cambridge).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Directional, amplification-free RNA-seq in for AT-rich malaria parasites

UserLia Chappell (University of Cambridge).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP

UserRt Hon Vince Cable, MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Network Language Modelling

UserChunyang Wu (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 15:00-16:30

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

A Pint of Knowledge: The Chemistry of Peptides: "small proteins" fighting "big diseases"

A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public.

UserDr. Albert Isidro Llobet.

HouseThe Panton Arms Pub.

ClockWednesday 09 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Loopy belief propagation

UserAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 15:00-16:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED!

UserLuke Webster.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Book Evening

In association with the Cambridge Science Festival

UserProfs. Spiegelhalter, Ahmed and Longair.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Captured Thoughts: The Collaborations of an Artist and a Scientist

UserProf Nicky Clayton & Clive Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?

Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.

UserDr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00

Statistics

Statistical modelling of networks in disease biology

UserSach Mukherjee, MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Wolfson College Science Society

TBC - personal genomics

UserPaul Flicek, EMBL - EBI.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 18:15-19:15

Workshop in Microeconomics

Workshop in Microeconomics

http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/events/Workshop-Microeconomics

UserProfessor Sanjeev Goyal.

HouseChrist's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 09:00-05:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

G-quadruplex: the DNA quadruple helix

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS (CRUK and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Quantum Games with Spins Alight

UserDr Mete Atatüre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Beyond the Higgs boson - the search for new physics at the LHC

UserProfessor Andy Parker (University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 17:45-19:30

Public talk: Duncan Watts

Public talk: Duncan Watts - The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything That Seems Obvious Isn't

If you may wish to attend please register on website as follows http://sites.google.com/site/camineteventregister/events/duncanwatts

UserDuncan Watts, Microsoft Research.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College,Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society

May the force (of gravity) be with you: general relativity, black holes and beyond

UserPau Figueras, Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Theorical Physics.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

UserDr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge RNA Club

'Towards the RNA structure of everything'

UserKevin Weeks ( University of North Carolina).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

'Small RNA biogenesis in the germline of C. elegans'

UserEva-Maria Weick (Gurdon Institute).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tibial rigidity through prolonged culture change: Adaptation across ~6150 years of agriculture in Central Europe

UserAlison Macintosh, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 13:10-14:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

The Nation's Hidden Art College Revealed

UserAndrew Ellis, Director of the Public Catalogue Foundation.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 17:30-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Development and Repair of Neurons

UserProf Roger Keynes, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseSeminar Room, Institute of Criminology.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wings

UserProfessor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Energetic constraints on the evolution of life

UserDr Nick Lane (Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Applied computational chemistry in organic synthesis

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserDr. Mikhail Kabeshov.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 02 March 2014, 17:50-18:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Quantum Chemical Games of Life

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 02 March 2014, 16:30-17:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Knot Theory and DNA

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserTom Gillespie.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 02 March 2014, 15:30-16:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Galaxies Without Dark Matter

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserIndranil Banik.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 02 March 2014, 15:00-15:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Fundamental Limits on Invertebrate Vision

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserKris Parag.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 02 March 2014, 14:30-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Frontiers of Geothermobarometry

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserKerrie Taylor-Jones.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 02 March 2014, 14:00-14:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Modulating Mutagenesis in Cancer

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserKarim Ahmed.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 02 March 2014, 11:50-12:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Nuclear Trafficking and Maxwell's Daemon

Part of the TCSS Symposium

UserDr. Murray Stewart, LMB.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockSunday 02 March 2014, 10:30-11:20

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

UserProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

The peculiarities of the naked mole-rat – what can we learn from them?

NOTE THAT EVENT IS ON THURSDAY

UserDr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Sex and the Brain (in fruit flies)

UserDr Gregory Jefferis (MRC LMB, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurons Feel the Force

UserDr Kristian Franze, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running

A V HILL LECTURE

UserProfessor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Symposium

UserMany speakers, DPMMS, DAMTP, Dept of Engineering, Computer Lab, Oxford Mathematical Institute, Biostatistics Unit.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 23 February 2014, 10:00-17:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

UserProfessor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Spiking irregularity in cortical inhibitory interneurons

UserPhilipe Mendonca, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci (CRUK and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The sweet smell of E. coli division

UserDr David Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

“Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry”

18:15 for 19:00 start

UserJoanna Kerr and India Weidle.

HouseHarker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 18:15-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Baroness Worthington

UserBaroness Worthington (House of Lords).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 17:45-19:30

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

A research platform for Acoustic Wave Sensors

UserProf. Antonio Arnau Vives, Polytechnic University of Valencia and Advanced Wave Sensors .

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

In search of personal meaning in a file of 3.3 billion DNA letters

UserDr. Manuel Corpas, The Genome Aanalysis Center, Norwich.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

UserProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Prestige Lecture - Pushing back the boundaries of computer science

All are welcome: Tea is served from 6pm

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research.

HouseThe Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Biophysical insights into protein aggregation

UserDr Tuomas Knowles (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The True Function of Education'

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserPhilip Allott, Emeritus Professor of International Public Law, Fellow of Trinity College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Playing ping-pong with single electrons

UserChris Ford (University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 17:45-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action

UserDr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Soul Food

Soul Food: "A Sense of Time"

UserEric Harshfield (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockSaturday 08 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

UserProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Stein's method, information theory and Bayesian statistics

UserChristophe Ley, Université libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge RNA Club

"Structure-function analysis of non-coding human Y RNA"

UserTorsten Krude (University of Cambridge).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

"Replicating RNA with RNA"

UserPhilipp Holliger (MRC-LMB).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 18:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo

UserThang Bui (University of Cambridge), Jes Frellsen.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cassandra's Climate

UserMichael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Socio-ecology and Conservation of Asian Apes

UserDr David Chivers (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

Education Technology

Reinventing Education

NOTE 1: Offsite parking only - at Clerk Maxwell Road. Note 2: There may be opportunities to meet the speaker before noon, but after questions from the audience (till 15:30) the speaker needs to catch a plane to the US.

UserAnant Agarwal, President, edX, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, 19 JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 14:00-15:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Losing sleep over the spread of Alzheimer's disease

UserDamian Crowther (University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 17:45-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Can Research Prevent Crime?

UserProfessor Lawrence Sherman, Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Nanotechnology in healthcare: turning science fiction into science fact

UserDr Luis Garcia-Gancedo (Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

UserMikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

**EVENT POSTPONED** Cambridge's Future: Green Jobs, Green Growth

UserDr Julian Huppert, Member of Parliament for Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 20:00-21:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Tracking proteins inside cells

UserDr Laurent Gatto (University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 17:45-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Is Carbon Storage safe? Insights from the >400,000 year old Green River natural analogue , Utah

UserAlexandra Maskell, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

A Pint of Knowledge: Cell division: Better to make it than break it

A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public..

UserDr. Isabel Peset Martin.

HouseThe Panton Arms Pub.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

UserProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Title to be confirmed

UserJulian Conrad, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 18:15-19:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Graphene: When a Crystal Goes Flexible

UserDr Felice Torrisi, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 13:10-14:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Troubled by Culture: Global Reflections in a World of Change

UserProfessor Aida Hernandez, Dr Susan Bayly and Professor Sarah Radcliffe.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance

UserProfessor John Gruzelier, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Soul Food

Soul Food: "The Sacred Balance"

UserEric Harshfield (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Old Court, Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockSaturday 18 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Sharp bounds for compressive learning

UserAta Kaban, University of Birmingham.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)

4G3 course -- repeats every Wed at 12am, and Fri at 11am during Lent

UserMate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street).

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory and Method of Types: Channels, Quantizers, and Divergences

UserAntonio Artés-Rodríguez (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 January 2014, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

The Saga of Alemtuzumab in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis

Free entry, open to the public and complimentary drink included

UserProfessor Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

UserOrganised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

HouseLecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 09 January 2014, 09:30-17:15

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

DETECTION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS USING PIEZORESISTIVE MICROCANTILEVER SENSORS WITH METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS

UserProfessor Peter J. Hesketh, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332.

HouseMRC Seminar Room M208, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 18 December 2013, 13:30-14:30

Soul Food

Soul Food: "Footprints in the Sand"

UserEric Harshfield (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College (Old Court on Trinity Lane, behind King's College chapel).

ClockSaturday 14 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

'Careers in Renewables' + 'Shale Gas in the UK: will it solve our energy issue?'

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Vince Pizzoni, Executive Search Consultant, Peng and Associates, London.

HouseGraduate Union Lounge, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 07 December 2013, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

How does cancer become an infectious disease?

UserDr Hannah Siddle (Dpt of Pathology, Cambridge University).

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 06 December 2013, 18:15-19:15

Statistics

High Dimensional Influence Measure

UserChenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Efficient Batch-microfabricated Hardware for Miniaturized Spacecraft

UserDr. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, Principal Research Scientist, Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 06 December 2013, 13:30-14:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Strength of Broken Glass

UserCaroline Butchart, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 December 2013, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

New Insights into Famous Tsunamis

UserJames Jackson, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 18:15-19:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

'Second coming: the rebirth of nuclear power in the UK' - CUEN Seminar Series

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr. Simon Taylor and Dr. Eugene Shwageraus, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom LT3, Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AG.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

CANCELLED

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA)

UserSara Wade (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Is it possible track and predict the Huntington's disease progression?

UserYe Yuan, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Fat fish are a forest product

UserDr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Much Ado About Nothing

UserPeter Atkins, Lincoln College, Oxford.

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2013, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Information storage in DNA

UserDr. Nick Goldman (EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Information Event

User[Careers Service and Former Summer Students and Interns].

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Studying the intracellular localisation of Y RNAs

UserEyemen Kheir, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cellular functions of intergenic lncRNAs

UserChris Ponting.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Are you your brain?

UserProfessor Steven Rose (The Open University).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Notes on Notes: The musicology of performance

The CSAR AGM will precede this lecture at 19:15

UserProfessor John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 19:15-21:00

Soul Food

Soul Food: "The Light Within"

UserEric Harshfield (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College (Old Court on Trinity Lane, behind King's College chapel).

ClockSaturday 16 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserVolunteer staff and students, Faculty of Mathematics.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockSaturday 16 November 2013, 10:00-12:30

Statistics

The use of survey weights in regression modelling

UserChris Skinner, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Optical Microsystems and Applications in Biosensing and Thermal Imaging

UserProf. Hakan Urey, Koç University, Electrical&Electronic Engineering Department, Optical Microsystems Laboratory (OML), Istanbul-Turkey.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral Learning

User Maxim Rabinovich, Aman Sinha.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cutting as Untying (Topo2: Resolving the Gordian Knot of the Cell since 3.8 billion B.C.)

UserMelissa Antoniou-Kourounioti, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

UserProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Headache of Hypoxia

UserProf Hugh Montgomery, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology .

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Willi Hennig and philosophy

UserCharissa Varma (Darwin Correspondence Project).

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

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

The Dark Matter Mystery and the Large Hadron Collider

UserProf. Ben Allanach (Theoretical Physics, Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 18:15-19:15

Computational Neuroscience

Neuronal processing of continuous sensory streams

UserRobert Gütig, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 11:15-12:15

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

Pint of knowledge. Documentary: MARAGATERIA: A COR(E)OGRAPHY

A Pint of Knowledge are informal research seminars in the pub, where members of Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK) explained their research interest to the general public. Celebrated every 2 months and opened to everybody.

UserPablo Alonso. Department of Archaeology.

HouseThe Panton Arms Pub.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 19:00-21:00

Fitzwilliam College Foundation Lectures

'Double standards: perspectives on life in public companies and public office'.

Ken Olisa has spent the last five years in what he calls "parallel universes" at the heart of two of our nation’s cherished institutions – the City and the House of Commons.

UserKen Olisa OBE.

HouseFitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Projections

UserDavid Lopez-Paz, David Duvenaud.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Functional Integrated Plastic Systems

UserAntony Sou, Optoelectronics Group, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is Chemistry Difficult?

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Information Event

User[Careers Service and current PhD and MPhil students].

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

How can mice using iPads help cure Alzheimer's disease?

UserProfessor Tim Bussey (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Abrasive Wear of Nano-structured Steel: Does Hardness Matter?

UserSubhankar Das bakshi, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge..

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Multiprotein assemblies, structural biology and drug discovery: Gaining selectivity through allostery

UserProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positive

The ‘Festival of Ideas’ Lecture

UserDr Gerard Lyons, Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserMr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Soul Food

Soul Food, October 2013: "Visions of Oneness"

Part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas

UserEric Harshfield (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College (Old Court on Trinity Lane, behind King's College chapel).

ClockSaturday 26 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Origin and Evolution of the Universe

UserProf. John Barrow (Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University) .

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 25 October 2013, 18:15-19:15

Statistics

Matching Quantiles Estimation

UserQiwei Yao, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian and Bandit Optimization

UserDr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How Biomolecular Simulations of Molecules Can Help Us Understand What Matters

UserFlorian Roessler, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Some challenges in modelling influenza

UserDr Julia Gog (CCBI and DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Super-resolution Microscopy

UserDr Eric Rees, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Applied and not-yet-applied

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

The evolution of the RNAi pathway and RNA viruses in Drosophila

UserF. Jiggins (University of Cambridge).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

The dynamics of Dengue virus transmission in nature

UserJoão Marques, UFMG, Brazil.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The World’s First Bulk-Type Fully High-Temperature Superconducting Machine

UserZhen Huang, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Teenagers: A Natural History

UserDr David Bainbridge (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

BioSoc Freshers' Squash

UserJoin BioSoc - light refreshments provided.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Mars to the Multiverse

UserLord Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

CUEN squash event

Refreshments will be provided

Userthe CUEN committee.

HouseThe Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 19:00-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

"42"

UserRobert Brady & Ross Anderson, University Computer Lab.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

The Geometry of Needlets Excursion Sets

UserDomenico Marinucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cool Conductors

This talk will include a great and memorable experimental demonstration of the discussed effect!

UserSven Friedemann, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Active Pedestrian Safety: from Research to Reality

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserDariu M. Gavrila, Daimler R&D (Ulm, Germany) and Univ. of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockThursday 03 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Materials Discovery

UserFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockMonday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

MSt in Sustainability Leadership

Chris Huhne - UK Government climate, energy and environmental policy

No need to reserve places, but please arrive by 16.50. Doors will close once the venue's capcity has been reached.

UserChris Huhne, former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

HouseEngineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockThursday 05 September 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

The story of what was hidden in our genes

UserProf Dr James Flynn (University of Otago, New Zealand).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockThursday 05 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

MMP public and schools' events

Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards

UserProfessor Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College, Atlanta.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockThursday 18 July 2013, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Forests: One tool for all your problems.

UserNovi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge); Neil Houlsby (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 July 2013, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’

Please note that this event will take place on Wednesday

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 June 2013, 19:30-20:30

MMP public and schools' events

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockWednesday 26 June 2013, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Loving Theory: two talks on film and television

UserAlison Fornell (Screen Media and Cultures MPhil student, University of Cambridge) and Amelie Hastie (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, Amherst College).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

UserStuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 June 2013, 19:00-21:00

Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society seminar series

"A Change of Seasons: Egypt, the ‘Arab Spring’ and the challenges ahead"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserDemetrius A. Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePavillion Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 June 2013, 17:15-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

UserYue Wu (University of Cambridge) and Andrew McHutchon (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 06 June 2013, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

UserMike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Rausing Lecture

Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserCrosbie Smith (University of Kent).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Canceled

UserEyemen Kheir .

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Statistics

Classification Using Censored Functional Data

UserAurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

‘Performance’ (presentations followed by a panel discussion)

UserClare Foster, Prof. Andrew Webber, Dr. Michael Hrebeniak (University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Statistics

On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data"

UserMichael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 15:45-16:45

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

UserProf Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00

Statistics

From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality

UserDavy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 03 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Work Meets Life project: How does Work get done?

talk 1-2pm special workshop 2-3pm

UserProf Robert A. Levin.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcanology Applied to Emergencies

UserProfessor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping tumor heterogeneity and developmental trajectories using 40 markers at single cell resolution:

Room change: 215 instead of lecture theatre (outside guests will need visitor ID)

UserDana Pe'er (Columbia University, NYC).

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Approximating Data

UserLaurie Davies, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 26 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Travel and Expeditions

Dave Cornthwaite: Say Yes More

UserDave Cornthwaite.

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 19:00-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sparsity: Beyond L1

UserAmar Shah (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 April 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric Statistics

UserBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 April 2013, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 02 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Sum Product Networks

UserJosé Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

MMP public and schools' events

Mathematics and Smallpox

Cambridge Science Festival free public talk

UserProfessor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockSaturday 23 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Behavioural Economics and Public Policy

UserProfessor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

UserRowan McAllister & Karolina Dziugaite.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Economics for a Finite Planet

UserProfessor Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

University Lectureship in Computational Neuroscience candidate talks

UserClaudia Clopath (Columbia), Yan Karklin (NYU), Jakob Macke (MPI Tuebingen), Kanaka Rajan (Princeton), Henning Sprekeler (Humboldt).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 14:30-17:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding

Postponed from 4 March

UserDavid Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

UserJames Lloyd (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks

EWB Panel Talks Series: Engineering in Emergencies and Challenging Environments

UserProfessor David Alexander, Mr Yu Jia, Dr Kate Crawford, Cambridge Development Initiative.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Can yeast and a Robot Scientist help us design therapies for diseases like cancers and malaria?

UserProf Steve Oliver, Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems

UserAndrew Stuart, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Overcoming peak water: moving to sustainability

UserDr Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, Oakland , California.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Why "shaken but not stirred"?

UserProfessor Richard Zare, Stanford University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Arrival, Settlement and Relationality: the Child in Film

UserProf. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, University of New South Wales.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

UserDr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fragmentation Coagulation

UserHong Ge (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Next generation sustainability at the University of British Columbia

UserProfessor John Robinson, Associate Provost, Sustainability, University of British Columbia.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

POSTPONED: Energy and Life

UserProf. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks

What is the most pressing problem facing the developing world today and what are the solutions?

MAP TO VENUE: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5kbaDSqD2fMRFJkQWI5QnV5SnM/edit?usp=sharing

UserMs Kat Harrison, Social Impact & Research Manager of Solar Aid; Mr Brian Sims, Independent Consultant; Mr Stephen Gerrard, PhD student .

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Symposium

UserMany speakers, DPMMS, DAMTP, Dept of Engineering, CCA, Computer Lab.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 24 February 2013, 10:00-17:45

Wolfson College Science Society

Nature v. nurture: dissecting the tumour ecosystem

UserProf Gillian Murphy, Department of Oncology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Cambridge Prestige Lecture - Raspberry Pi

Tea is served from 6pm

UserRobert Mullins, Computer Laboratory & Raspberry Pi Foundation.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 18:30-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Density Estimation

UserSara Wade ( Bocconi University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Machine learning approaches to predicting protein-ligand binding

UserDr. Pedro J. Ballester, MRC Methodology Research Fellow and EMBL-EBI.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

STELARC - MEAT, METAL & CODE: THE CADAVER, THE COMATOSE & THE CHIMERA

UserSTELARC, Performance Artist, Chair In Performance Art, School of Arts, Brunel University, London.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

UserProfessor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Nuclear reprogramming

UserSir John Gurdon, FRS [Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 19:00-20:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Nuclear reprogramming

Joint event with BioSoc. Note unusual time and venue!

UserJohn Gurdon.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

UserDr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth

UserMarc Hallin, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserLeszek Borysiewicz.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 18:15-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

RCC Planning

UserColorado Reed (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

The revolution of capitalism

UserPeter Bakker, Chief Executive of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our shared destinies within the planet’s boundaries

UserProf. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

What can we learn from sequencing thousands of human genomes?

UserRichard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 18:15-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Brains, Science, and Human Nature

Joint seminar with the Wolfson College Humanities Society

UserProf Simon Blackburn, Trinity College and UNC Chapel Hill.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 18:00-19:15

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserSina Tootoonian, CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

FLOW the documentary - screening

The event is FREE of charge.

UserDocumentary screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockSunday 03 February 2013, 20:00-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

When Bayesians Can't Handle the Truth

UserCosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of Biological Complexity

UserRaymond Goldstein [Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 19:00-20:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discrete Optimization

UserColorado Reed (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer

Please note that the event is on Wednesday and not the usual Tuesday!

UserHaley Frend, Department of Pathology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger

UserBaroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue.

HouseTBC.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Fusion Energy: When?

UserSteven Cowley.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2013, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

UserProfessor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Lewis Society

Renewable Energy

UserProf Chris Howe, Dr Richard McMahon.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub).

ClockSaturday 26 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Panel Debate: Does scientific autonomy harm society?

Free refreshments provided

UserProf Sir Richard Friend, Prof Simone Hochgreb, Prof Harry Collins, and Dr Robert Doubleday,.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Next to the Eagle Pub.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Publishing in Nature journals

UserDr Elisa de Rainieri, Nature Communications.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication

UserRosemary Bailey, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Molecular Programming

UserProfessor Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced Sampling

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge); Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 15:00-16:30

The Hewish Lectures

“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

UserProf Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Ultracold Atoms

UserMichael Koehl.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2013, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Recap

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 14:30-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)

4G3 course -- repeats Wednesdays at 12noon, Thursday at 2pm during Lent 2013

UserMate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution of post-translational networks

UserDr. Pedro Beltrao, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 16 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

UserSir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 January 2013, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse

UserDr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist.

HouseArts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street.

ClockSaturday 15 December 2012, 15:00-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Recap

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 06 December 2012, 14:30-16:00

Statistics

Minimax Lower Bounds

UserAdityanand Guntuboyina, UC Berkeley.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 30 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian and Gradient Reinforcement Learning

UserYanyue (University of Cambridge); Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge); .

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Centenary of the Discovery of Cosmic Rays — The End of the Beginning

UserProfessor Sir Arnold Wolfendale, 14th Astronomer Royal.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Kevin Brownlow: Adventures in Film History

UserKevin Brownlow, film historian and documentary-maker.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles

UserProfessor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Statistics

Stability

UserBin Yu, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

9 Billion Mouths to Feed: Should we turbocharge crops to feed the world?

Free refreshments provided

UserProf Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Ben'et Street, Next to the Eagle Pub.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Great Ink Crisis

UserProfessor Rick Mitchell, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 18:00-19:15

Statistics

Random Fraction of a Biased Sample: old models and a new one

UserGeurt Jongbloed, TU Delft, EURANDOM.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Studentships Event

UserFormer Summer Students & Careers Advisor.

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral Clustering

UserMr Roger Grosse (MIT); Alex Matthews.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

The RNAi therapeutics roller coaster

UserMr Dirk Haussecker (Author of the RNAi Therapeutics blog).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Computing on Encrypted Data

Note change of date

UserProfessor Nigel Smart (University of Bristol).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Digital Affordances: some implications for the Humanities

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

UserProfessor John Naughton (Vice-President and Director of the Press Fellowship, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato

UserMolly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud..

HouseSt. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Modern Neural Networks: the Hinton Camp

UserRichard Turner, Mark van der Wilk.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian Devils

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison (Junior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Merchants of Culture: the Making of Bestsellers

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

UserProfessor John B Thompson (Department of Sociology, Fellow of Jesus College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are We Alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

EDF R&D: creating value today and preparing for tomorrow

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr Filomena La Porta - Head of Smart Energy Supply, EDF Energy R&D UK Centre.

HouseLecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 17:15-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Issues in fuel supply and utilisation

UserDr John C. Jones, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality?

UserMatias Attwel - Director of Social and Mobile Media of Terra Latinoamérica; Nico Perez - Co-founder of Mixcloud; Professor Jon Crowcroft (host) - Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

HouseTrinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Distributional compositional models of semantics

UserStephen Clark (Computer Laboratory).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Using selfish genes to reduce malaria

UserProf. Charles Godfray (Hope Professor, Oxford and President, British Ecological Society).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Two-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema

UserProfessor Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge..

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 17:00-19:00

bbu20's list

Coding with Dendrites

UserPanayiota Poirazi.

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Curating Feeling: Victorian Sentimental Art

UserVicky Mills (University of Cambridge, English).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

UserProfessor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

A semiparametric model for heterogeneous panel data with fixed effects

UserOliver Linton, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 02 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Diagnostics

UserProf. Chris Lowe (Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, Cambridge).

HouseWinstanly Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Healthcare Biotechnology

UserProfessor Chris Lowe.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'Losing your world while falling asleep'

UserDr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviour

UserDr Mario de Bono (Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

UserProfessor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

90 days of night: A year in Antarctica at the French/Italian base Concordia Station

UserDr Eoin Macdonald-Nethercott, European Space Agency and Alumnus.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 26 October 2012, 18:00-19:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Watching Single Molecules

UserProfessor David Klenerman.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Beyond film. The many birthdays of the digital age: scanning, 3D and Klimt's 'Nuda Veritas' remixed

UserDr Frederick Baker, Cambridge University & Institute of Creative Media Technology, St Pölten.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

UserProfessor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Completely Random Measures in Bayesian Nonparametrics

UserDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge), Creighton Heaukulani.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-16:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Climate Change

UserBob Ward.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2012, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Could the ageing be infectious?

UserDr Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 18:00-19:15

Computational and Systems Biology

The Dog That Didn't Bark: How Computational Analysis of Complex Cell Signaling Data Can Find Surprising Critical Regulatory Nodes

Please contact Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez if you wish to attend this talk as he will need to inform security

UserDoug Lauffenberger (MIT).

HouseThe Crick Auditorium, Wellcome Trust Campus, Hinxton.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 12:00-01:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Model selection in a large compositional space

note: the first 45 mins will be planning and the talk will start at around 3:15pm

UserRoger Grosse (MIT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 14:30-16:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Quantum Photonics

UserProfessor Jeremy O’Brien.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

The First Turns of an Embodied Cinema: 'Duncan Grant’s Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound'

UserProfessor Chris Townsend, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

UserProfessor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Nonparametric regression for locally stationary time series

UserMichael Vogt, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Inaugural Symposium on Energy Efficiency

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, visit event website: http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/energyefficiency.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockMonday 01 October 2012, 09:00-18:30

Cambridge BioDesign

Need and Nature of a New Scientific Revolution

This free public event is running as part of the Cambridge BioDesign Symposium 2012 (www.cambridgebiodesign.org). Admission is free. Tickets will be available on the door. Reserve your place now via http://newscientificrevolution.eventbrite.com.

UserStephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseBristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

ClockWednesday 26 September 2012, 17:00-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

UserJason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC.

HouseCCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ.

ClockThursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

IQ Gains in the 21st Century

UserProf Dr James Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand.

HouseExperimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 July 2012, 15:00-16:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

NUCLEAR: CLEAR OR UNCLEAR? - CUEN Annual Conference 2012

Sustainability, policy and prospects

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, please visit the conference website: http://cuens.soc.srcf.net/conference12.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2012, 09:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Dependent normalized random measures

UserChangyou Chen (College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again?

UserColm O’Shea, Founder, Comac Capital and Jamie MacIntosh, Director of the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies, University College London.

HouseTBC.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-19:30

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

UserPaul Seidel (MIT).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

MMP public and schools' events

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Please note - pre-booking is not required for this lecture, but please arrive on time for the start of the talk.

UserDr James Grime - University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society seminar series

The Greek Crisis and the Elections of 2012: The end of chimaerae?

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserDemetrius A. Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePeter Richards Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Putting Machinima in (or out of) Cinema: A Roundtable on Films made in Virtual Worlds

UserDr Jenna Ng (University of Cambridge), Dr William Brown (University of Roehampton), Prof. Sarah Higley (University of Rochester, NY) and Prof. Lev Manovich (University of California - San Diego).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 11 June 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Literature, Cinema, Television - Almodóvar and Bresson: Launch Event for the Legenda 'Moving Image' Series

UserPaul Julian Smith (Distinguished Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, CUNY) and Laura McMahon (Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 17:00-19:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Diagnostiques Sans Frontières: Low-Cost, Rapid Diagnostics for Everyone

The talk will be nontechnical. Especially, those interested in global health and telecommunications are encouraged to join.

UserAli Yetisen.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On Data (In-)Dependent Hashing

UserNovi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

FUTURE of PHOTOVOLTAICS in BUILDINGS

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Hamish Watson - CEO, Polysolar Ltd - Cambridge.

HouseLecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 18:30-19:30

Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron

UserDr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Physics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

UserProfessor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Extracting meaning from text

UserProfessor Ann Copestake, Computer Laboratory.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 18:00-19:15

Statistics

Modelling Network Data

UserPatrick Wolfe, University College London.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserThomas Schlich (McGill University).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

What makes us happy?

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 18:30-21:00

Statistics

Statistical inference for compound regression

UserAlexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI.

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton

UserJan Löwe, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

Los científicos españoles ante la Guerra Civil, el proceso de depuración y el exilio

This talk will be in Spanish

UserFrancisco A. Gonzalez Redondo (Universidad Complutense, Madrid).

HouseSt. John´s College.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 19:15-20:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Presentations on Work in Progress in Screen Media

UserChris O'Rourke (University of Cambridge) and Henry K. Miller (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

UserIan Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

GASLAND the documentary - screening

The event is FREE of charge. Due to the limited number of spaces, please sign up at our webite: www.cuen.org.uk

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 20:00-22:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and Policy

UserProf Christopher Dobson FRS, and Mr Mark Gorman (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Introduction to Metabolomics

UserDr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences..

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

Statistics

Large-scale convex optimization for machine learning

UserFrancis Bach, INRIA, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Computational Environment Design for Online Communities

UserProfessor David Parkes, Harvard University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Craik Club

"Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised.

UserEero Simoncelli, New York University.

HouseKenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

UserProfessor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Teorema (Pasolini, 1968): A Roundtable on Film and Literature with Ali Smith, Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli

UserAli Smith, novelist; Prof. Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli (Department of Italian, University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 17:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat.

UserProf. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Weighted Finite-state Automata

UserRogier van Dalen, Engineering Dept, Cambridge University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

UserFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topic Modelling

UserDr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

"When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"

LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912

UserProfessor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Open Access Publishing for Books and Library Consortia

UserDr Frances Pinter, Bloomsbury Academic.

HouseMorison Room, University Library, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 17:30-18:45

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Structural Learning of Dynamic Bayesian Networks

UserMatt Henderson (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJohannes Hjorth, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 20 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Extended ensemble Monte Carlo

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter

UserBev Sedley, Trustee CCF.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

MMP public and schools' events

A Mathematical Look at the Olympics

UserProfessor John D Barrow (University of Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society

The Jet Engine: What Happens If....?

UserDr Ivor Day, Department of Engineering.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

CAREERS in ENERGY

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Vince Pizzoni - Executive Search Consultant, Preng and Associates, London.

HouseLecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

The Theory behind TheoryMine

UserProfessor Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh).

HouseMong Hall, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Putin, Russia and the West, with documentary makers Brian Lapping and Norma Percy

UserBrian Lapping and Norma Percy, documentary makers.

HouseTrinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

"Symmetry and sufficiency"

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

UserProfessor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Colouring the Noise

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe

Please note change of speaker and title

UserJosé Ramón Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Symposium

UserMany speakers, DPMMS, DAMTP, Dept. of Astronomy, Computer Labs.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 04 March 2012, 10:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Second-Order Comparison of Functional Data with Applications to DNA Geom

UserVictor Panaretos, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Advanced Recycling

UserMark Buckton, Cambridge City Council.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Zero Degrees of Empathy

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society

The Unexpected Side of Entropy

User Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS, Department of Chemistry.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

HOME the movie - screening

The event is free of charge. Due to the limited number of seats available, please sign up at www.cuen.org.uk

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 20:00-22:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Open your Mind

UserDr Hannah Critchlow, The Naked Scientists, University of Cambridge.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 19:30-20:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Decoding Genomes at High Speed

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 18:15-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Trading Protection: The Rationality behind Anti-dumping

UserJosué F. Mathieu (Centre for Rising Powers, POLIS).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Economics of Happiness

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockSunday 19 February 2012, 02:30-04:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

UserDr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Regulating the Internet

UserMr Simon Hampton, Director of European Public Policy at Google and Prof Derek McAuley, Professor of Digital Economy and Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Statistics

Goodness-of-fit tests for noisy directional data

UserThanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Université Paris Sud, Orsay.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Giving proteins addresses

UserKathryn Lilley, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 19:00-20:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Prestige Lecture - Bloodhound SSC

Tea is served from 6pm

UserRichard Noble OBE.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Canadian Club Events

High Commissioner for Canada to the UK, Mr Gordon Campbell, to speak on 'Canada in a Changing World'

This is the High Commissioner's first official visit to Cambridge. All are welcome to attend.

UserMr. Gordon Campbell, High Commissioner for Canada to the UK.

HouseCambridge Union Society.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Using consumers to protect labour standards

UserProf. William Brown (Master of Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The placenta: a remarkable but often neglected organ

User Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

UserDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Safe Learning: How to Modify Bayesian Inference when All Models are Wrong

UserPeter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

(Failing to) avoid success at all costs: the Haskell story

UserProfessor Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 18:00-19:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

UserIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, Unive).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

UserWicher Bergsma, London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

MMP public and schools' events

Maths in the City

General public, Age range 15+ Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential, please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserRachel Thomas, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

UserProfessor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Consciousness at stake: Perspectives from an anaesthetist

UserDr Ram Adapa, Division of Anaesthesia, School of Clinical Medicine.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection

UserChristian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine and IUF.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Meta-morphogenesis: Evolution of Mechanisms for Producing Minds

Due to unfortunate medical problems Prof. Sloman is unavailable to give this talk. A new speaker, Nobel laureate Prof. Brian Josephson will be giving a replacement talk, details can be found here: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/36113

UserProfessor Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 18:00-19:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information bottleneck

Please note the change in time. This RCC will take place at 15:00-16.30pm.

UserDr. Richard Turner, DJ Strouse.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Before the Silk Road: tracing the earliest East West contacts

UserMartin Jones ( George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science ).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Random forests

UserGérard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

UserDr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning

UserDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Peter Abaelard and the Development of Logic

UserProf. Christopher Martin, Auckland University, New Zealand (Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Philosophy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

UserProfessor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockFriday 13 January 2012, 09:00-17:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Screening of FUEL - the documentary

This event is FREE of charge. Due to limited spaces available, please SIGN UP at http://www.cuen.org.uk/

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseClubroom, Wolfson College (Barton Road).

ClockMonday 12 December 2011, 20:00-22:00

Arcadia Lectures

Revolutions (and Elephants) in the Library: the Third Arcadia Lecture

Please email Michelle Heydon (mh569@cam.ac.uk) if you plan to attend

UserProfessor Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queen's Road.

ClockFriday 09 December 2011, 17:30-18:50

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.

UserProf Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Unsupervised Machine Learning and Linguistics

Last talk of term

UserProfessor Alex Clark (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetics of obesity: How are genes shaping us

UserElena Bochukova, Institute of Metabolic Science.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How and when did the first Chinese crops arrive in Europe?

UserDr Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

The Meaning of Liberal Learning

UserRight Honourable Michael Gove, MP and Secretary of State for Education.

HouseLG18, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Path of Life from A to B: How Astronomy leads to Biology

In coordination with the Astrobiology workshop taking place at Darwin College, the keynote speech from this workshop will be open to all Darwin members. Note the talk will take place in the Old Library rather than the Entertaining Rm.

UserProf. Monica M. Grady, The Open University.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Carbon, Forests and the REDD Paradox

UserDr Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Some inconvenient economics of energy and climate policy

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr Michael Pollitt - Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses

UserProfessor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Passion, Energy and Matter: Godard's Gestures

UserDr. Libby Saxton, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

Statistics

The aggregation problems in learning theory

UserGuillaume Lecue, CNRS, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-vallee.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Event

UserSally Todd and previous interns.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:00-21:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Dark Energy: A lot of fuss about nothing

UserBob Nichol, Professor of Astrophysics, director of Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at University of Portsmouth.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Thorium Could Save the Planet

UserProfessor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Film critic Anthony Lane on Jean Renoir's 'Partie de campagne' and Maupassant

UserAnthony Lane, Film Critic and Staff Writer for the New Yorker.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

How nature might influence nurture

UserProfessor Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Cyber Warfare

UserProf Sir Mark Welland, FRS, Prof Paul Cornish, and David Smart.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 17:30-19:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Approximate Bayesian Computation for evolution in a test tube

UserProfessor Simon Tavare ( CCBI, CRI-CRUK, DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Challenges of Preparing Educators in Kenya

UserMoses Orwe-Onyango (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Distraction and Remediation in British Transmedia Campaigns of the Nineties and Noughties

UserDr Emily Caston, London College of Communication, University of the Arts.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

Computational and Systems Biology

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UserRichard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

The lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society

UserVivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Communication with a single button

UserDr Patrick Welche, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 28 October 2011, 18:00-19:15

Statistics

On adaptation of false discovery rate

UserEtienne Roquain, Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 28 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?

Organised by CU ChemSoc, SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserProf Brian J Ford (President of CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Event

UserPhD students and others.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 18:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Proper local scoring rules

UserProf. Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 14:00-15:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Chasing Wild Chimpanzees: Forty Years of African Field Study

UserWilliam McGrew, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at the Department of Biological Anthropology.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 18:15-19:30

Statistics

Statistical Multiscale Analysis: From Signal Detection to Nanoscale Photonic Imaging

UserAxel Munk, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg August University Goettingen and Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Indexicality, Sensuousness and Intimacy in Film

UserProf. Emma Wilson (Cambridge) and Francesca Hardy (Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

The Impact of Silent Films: Kevin Brownlow at the Arts Picturehouse

UserKevin Brownlow, film historian, filmmaker and television documentary-maker.

HouseThe Arts Picturehouse.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Talking to Terrorists

UserJonathan Powell, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Cambridge (Behind The Eagle pub).

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyper and structural Markov laws for graphical models

UserSimon Byrne (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 14:00-15:30

Social Anthropology

Smuts Commonwealth Lecture - Empire and the Historical Imagination in Colonial India

UserProfessor Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

aa596's list

The Regenerative Economy: a technical solution to meet world's population needs while preserving the environment.

Open to all - please send email if not from Darwin College

UserAleix Altimiras-Martin, Land Economy Dept, 4CMR.

HouseDarwin College, Entertaining Room.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900

UserA. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 15 October 2011, 19:00-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Rubik's Planet; Global Consequences of Nanoscale Phenomena

UserDr Dr Christopher Forman, Institute for Manufacturing.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 18:00-19:15

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Pembroke College William Pitt Seminar: the future of the World in four objects

Please contact Jane Moorman, jm596@cam.ac.uk, if you are interested in attending. Places are limited.

UserChair: Mark Damazer.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College, 4 pm (refreshments from 3.15 pm) followed by dinner in Pembroke College at 8 pm.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 16:00-21:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserDr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

Lady Margaret Lectures

Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: the role of genetics, ecology and behaviour

Arranged in conjunction with the Charles Darwin and Galapagos Islands Fund

UserProfessor Rosemary Grant FRS, Princeton University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'NHS rationing, NICE or nasty’ The value of statistics

UserDr Linda Sharples, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. Zhijun Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

This lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Literature and Film in the First Media Age

UserProf. David Trotter, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX..

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:00-19:00

Statistics

Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance

UserIngrid van Keilegom, Université catholique de Louvain.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 07 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Why Communicate?

UserDr Richard Harper, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2011, 17:45-19:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Gale Force: Offshore Wind Power - 2011 CUEN Annual Conference

UserElke Delnooz (Operation Support Manager, Shell/NordZee Wind); Stephanie McGregor (Director of Offshore Transmission, Ofgem); Richard McMahon (Electricity, Power and Energy Conversion Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) and others.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2011, 09:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Galaxies

UserDan Stark (Institute of Astronomy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 13:10-14:00

The Hewish Lectures

Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars

UserProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Learning about learning - a new approach to studying Huntington's Disease

UserProfessor Jenny Morton, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 19:30-20:30

Arcadia Project Seminars

Google, Crowds and Mobs

UserTom Simpson, Department of Philosophy, Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 18:00-19:15

Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society seminar series

Pandaemonium Continued: Will the Greek Financial Crisis Undermine the Euro?

A wine reception will follow the seminar

UserDemetrius A. Floudas,Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePavillion Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 17:45-19:45

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://blg.eng.cam.ac.uk/t/bin/view/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Nature of Empathy: Perspectives from Psychiatry

UserProf. Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 03 June 2011, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in the service of the developing world

This lecture is now fully booked.

UserProf. Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for International Development.

HouseJudge Business School - Lecture Theatre 3.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Bananas, bandits and biology on the high seas

UserDr Anna Snowdon, Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Connections between Gaussian Process Regression, Kalman filtering and RTS Smoothing

UserSimo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Nanotechnology: Science or Fiction?

UserDr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 20 May 2011, 18:00-19:15

Statistics

Hawkes process as models for some genomic data

UserPatricia Reynaud-Bouret (CNRS and Univ. Nice).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 20 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

UserPhilip Ball, prizewinning science writer.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Zero Degrees of Empathy

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Postponed

UserProf Sir Martin Evans.

HousePostponed.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 20:00-21:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit

UserTour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Expectation Propagation for POMDP Spoken Dialogue Models

UserBlaise Thomson, Dialogue Systems Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Efficiency, sufficiency, growth: which way to a low carbon society?

Talk open to All - Registration required: www.dar.cam.ac.uk/connections

UserDr Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2011, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Doing Mathematics online, and in the open

UserProfessor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Likelihood Inference and Bayesian MCMC

UserDon Pierce (Oregon State University).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

A Case for Astrobiology

UserMs. Katinka Apagyi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Director-General of the BBC

UserMark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

UserDr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

Craik Club

Navigational guidance systems in the human brain

The host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept.

UserHugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience.

HouseKenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Why We Resist The Truth

UserClive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra.

HouseMichaelhouse, St. Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Camb CB2 1SU.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 19:30-21:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Sir Richard Dearlove

UserSir Richard Dearlove.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Profiling of Horses

Please note this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserSusan Gurney, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology

UserRichard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Glenn Vinnicombe (Engineering Department), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory).

HouseWolfson Room (MR2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 14:00-19:00

YES! to Fairer Votes

Referendum Debate

UserVoting YES: Peter Facey, Director of Unlock Democracy. Voting NO: Richard Normington, Former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate..

HouseSt. Lukes United Reform Church, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockMonday 11 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Bird tango

UserProfessor Nicky Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseNewnham College.

ClockSunday 27 March 2011, 15:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

You are what you hear: music and the brain

UserDr Harry Witchel, University of Bristol.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockFriday 25 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancers

UserProfessor Mike Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Is evolution predictable?

UserProfessor Simon Conway Morris, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://blg.eng.cam.ac.uk/t/bin/view/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 22 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

High Temperature Superconductors

Venue back to normal

UserProfessor David A Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction Sector

UserProf. Jeremy Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Communities & Local Government and Global Research Director of Arup.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Exchangeability

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

UserProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Arcadia Project Seminars

Reinventing the Book

UserDr Max Whitby, CEO of Touch Press.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2011, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

UserProfessor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Have I got path for you...?

UserProf. Alun Williams, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy

UserProf. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Belief Networks for Phone Recongition

UserRory Waite and Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-16:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

UserProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

This Time it Will be Different

UserSir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mathematics of Complex Systems

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in Emergencies

Talk open to All - Registration required for reception

UserAndrew Miller, MP and Chair for the Science and Technology Select Committee.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

UserDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Peter Littlewood ( Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 18:15-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

UserProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Communicating risk and uncertainty

UserDavid Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Peanut Allergies

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Untangling Alzheimer's disease

UserMr Graham Fraser, Department of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-20:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency

UserMargareta Wahlstrom, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 18:30-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya

UserRuth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies).

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

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

UserGodfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 19:30-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Craik Club

Conserved principles of movement generation

The host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept., m.lengyel@eng.cam.ac.uk

UserMark Churchland, Stanford University.

HouseKenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Methods

UserYunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge), Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

mlg42's list

Uncertain Climate: Risk in the Media

lively discussion!

UserRoger Harrabin, BBC Chief environmental analyst.

House The Coleridge Room, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 17:30-18:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE

UserDr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Bayesian semiparametrics with Gaussian process priors

UserIsmael Castillo (CNRS and Paris 6).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks

UserProfessor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

2050 Pathways: Kicking the fossil fuel habit

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (it's free).

UserProf David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change / Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS

Co-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. A complimentary drinks reception will follow on after the lecture for all attendees.

UserProfessor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history

UserSimon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 13:00-14:15

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 29 January 2011, 10:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

UserJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 19:00-20:00

Market Square: Cambridge Business and Society Interdisciplinary Research Group

Mutualising the Market: Could the 'Big Society' transform business and finance?

Limited seats are available for dinner with the speaker. Please e-mail us if you’re interested.

UserDr. Adrian Pabst, Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent.

HouseCastle Teaching Room, 4th floor, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, CB2 1AG.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 17:15-18:45

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infinite multiple relational models for complex networks

UserMikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 14:00-15:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

UserProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Levels of Explanation in Behavioural Sciences

UserProfessor Alex Kacelnik, University of Oxford.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 18:15-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

"Is nuclear reprogramming a route to cell replacement therapy?"

UserProfessor Sir John Gurdon FRS, Department of Zoology/Wellcome Gurdon Institute.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

UserProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Completely Random Measures

UserSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserSpeakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 07 December 2010, 09:00-17:30

MMP public and schools' events

Number Play

Level Suggested: Primary - 9 - 11, general public. Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential. Please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserLiz Woodham - NRICH, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Submodularity for Machine Learning

UserEd Snelson and Rich Turner.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 14:00-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

ANTARCTICA DAY Inaugural Lecture

Note unusual time (7 PM)

UserPaul A. Berkman (University of Cambridge) & David W. H. Walton (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 19:00-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Cyborg Experiments

UserProf. Kevin Warwick, Chair of Cybernetics, University of Reading.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 18:15-19:30

Synthetic Biology

The 2010 Cambridge iGEM talk: E.glowi- Self-sufficient light output for biosensors and lighting

This talk will be of interest to Engineering, Physical and Natural Science undergraduate students

UserUniversity of Cambridge iGEM2010 team.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 18:00-20:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://blg.eng.cam.ac.uk/t/bin/view/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Contact Networks

UserDr Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain

UserNils Guettler (Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

"Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit?"

UserDr Giles Yeo, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in Parliament

The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 5:15pm

UserJulian Huppert, PhD, Member of Parliament for Cambridge..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 17:30-19:00

Statistics

Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations

User Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Highlight Session

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Design of iced airfoils

UserTiziano Ghisu.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Modelling the evolution and spread of immune escape in HIV infections

UserAngela McLean, FRS, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 16:15-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Preserving a Violent Past: Politics and the Transmission of the Saga of Icelanders

UserVicky Cribb (PhD Candidate in the Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape

UserHilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

London 2012 Olympic Games

UserDenis Oswald, Chairman of the IOC's London 2012 Olympic Commission.

HouseJudge Business School, LT2.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

The future of science in Parliament

This lecture is now full.

UserDr Evan Harris, former MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, and Dr Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Statistics

On adaptive nonparametric inference

UserRichard Nickl (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Poisson Processes

UserAndrew Wilson and Yue Wu.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Arcadia Project Seminars

Re-engineering the scholarly journal

UserMark Patterson, Director of Publishing, Public Library of Science (PLoS).

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room (OCR).

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Sustainable development of culturally significant urban areas

UserTatiana Vakhitova (Centre for Sustainable Development).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy in the UK

UserDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy & Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Title to be confirmed

UserDR. ANDREW HERBERT OBE, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge and Microsoft Distinguished Engineer.

HouseMicrosoft Research Building, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The human automatism debate in the late 19th century

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

MMP public and schools' events

Hands-on Cambridge Maths Circle workshop: Algorithms

UserProfessor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseCMS.

ClockSaturday 13 November 2010, 10:15-11:15

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty.

HouseCMS.

ClockSaturday 13 November 2010, 10:00-12:30

Statistics

Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Bandit Problems

UserSteffen Grunewalder (University College London).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Convex Optimisation

UserDave Knowles and David Duvenaud.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Don't Look Now: Representations of Violence in Media

UserAnthony Lane, Film Critic, The New Yorker magazine.

HouseBateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

DNA and Cancer

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit.

HouseBar Area, Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 19:30-20:30

Lionhead Studios

Lionhead Studios - Fable III Multiplayer game developer talk

UserJonathan Shaw, Lionhead Studios.

HouseRushmore Room, St Catharine's College.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 19:00-20:00

Statistics

Applications of Bernstein polynomials in Statistics

UserSonia Petrone (University Bocconi Milan).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

UserSonia Petrone (Università Bocconi).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Tanner Lectures

Tanner Lectures 2010: Respondents' Discussion

UserKate Barker, Gavin Wood, Marja Elsinga, Matthew Bullock.

HouseRobinson College Umney Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 09:30-13:00

Tanner Lectures

Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?

Tickets for this event can be picked up from the Porters' Lodge (32360)

UserProfessor Susan Smith FBA, Mistress of Girton College.

HouseRobinson College Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

The end of lawyers?

UserProfessor Richard Susskind.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room (OCR).

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 18:00-19:15

MedSIN talks

Its good to talk ........using stories to reach minorities

UserDr Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care.

HouseMong Hall, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Zoophagous geology: William Buckland and extra-visual scientific observation

UserDavid Allan Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

CANCELLED

UserDr Julian Hibberd.

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Modelling of Anaesthetics

This lecture will be preceded by the society's AGM

UserDr Pak-Lee Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Humanitas lectures

The Transformation of the Media Business

UserDr Mathias Döpfner (Chairman, CEO Axel Springer AG).

HouseLecture Theatre 3, Judge Business School.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Politeness and the ethical force of natural history

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Statistics

Sparsity pattern aggregation for convex stochastic optimization.

UserPhillipe Rigollet (Princeton University).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH lectures

Human Rights Pedagogy and the Politics of Humanitarianism

Free and open to all

UserThomas W. Laqueur (California Berkeley).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled: No RCC

Cancelled

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Computer games and mental health interventions

UserDr David Coyle (Computer Laboratory).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

"Causes and prevention of type 2 diabetes"

UserProfessor Nick Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 18:00-19:15

Statistics

Control variates for reversible MCMC samplers

UserPetros Dellaportas (Athens University).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Herding or a '3rd way to learn'

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien and Ferenc Huszar.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'Dementia and an ageing society'

Please note a change in day and venue.

UserProfessor Carol Brayne, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseBar Area, Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 19:30-20:30

MedSIN talks

Foreign Aid: Is it helping?

UserDr Robert Calderisi and Ajay Madiwale (The Red Cross).

HouseBoys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

"The Master Puppeteer: How the Brain Controls the Body"

UserProf Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 15 October 2010, 18:00-19:15

Zangwill Club

How the brain makes decisions

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced Scientific Programming in Python

UserCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Humanitas lectures

Print Journalism and the Digital Word

UserDr Mathias Döpfner (Chairman, CEO Axel Springer AG).

HouseRoom 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge..

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Note venue change

UserProfessor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

String Theory - A unifying principle in theoretical physics

Please note that this lecture is not at the usual spacetime coordinates.

UserProfessor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAPTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-19:00

Humanitas lectures

Freedom and the Internet

UserDr Mathias Döpfner (Chairman, CEO Axel Springer AG).

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration

UserCarl Fisher (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unsupervised Grammar Induction

UserJuan Pino (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserCristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Rm BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 05 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH lectures

Risk, Uncertainty and Regulation

UserLord Krebs (Oxford).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 3, Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politics

general audience talk (non-technical) -- NOTE change of room to LR4!

UserProf Andrew Gelman (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department - LR4.

ClockThursday 29 July 2010, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Synthetic Biology: Making Artificial Life?

UserDr Gos Micklem, Department of Genetics.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 July 2010, 19:30-20:30

Fitzwilliam Museum

Work in Progress: Nick Turvey

UserNick Turvey.

HouseThe Fitzwilliam Museum.

ClockSaturday 10 July 2010, 13:15-13:45

Biocomputing Workshops

Biocomputing workshop

Please register if you wish to attend.

UserThere are six speakers: see programme.

HouseDepartment of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 June 2010, 09:15-12:45

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Gambling and the brain

UserDr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 16 June 2010, 19:30-20:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

A new theory of the city

UserProfessor Bill Hillier, Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and Director of the Space Syntax Laboratory, University College London.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk.

ClockWednesday 09 June 2010, 13:15-14:15

The Hewish Lectures

Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity

User Professor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Introduction to adaptive estimation

UserOleg Lepski (Universite de Provence).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 04 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Death 2.0: What Becomes of Digital Assets after Death?"

All welcome, but please register your intent to attend to the organiser, mh569@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Lilian Edwards, Department of Law, University of Sheffield.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room (OCR).

ClockTuesday 01 June 2010, 18:00-19:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

NATO in the 21st Century

UserAdmiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) / Commander, US European Command.

HouseTBC.

ClockMonday 31 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

Rausing Lecture

From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMyles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Redirected to Rob Nowak, LR12

Redirected

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Statistics

Approximation by Log-Concave Distributions

User Lutz Dumbgen (University of Bern).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Happy Danes

Please note that this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Luisa Corrado, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH lectures

Elaine Scarry (Harvard, US): 'The Floor of the World'

UserProfessor Elaine Scarry (Harvard, US).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Research Office Linked Events

EPSRC Presentation - Why "Impact" Matters

UserDr Cora O'Reilly, EPSRC.

HouseLT2, Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Statistical Machine Translation

UserMatt Shannon and Sebastien Bratieres.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

No Talk This Week

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit?

UserDr Giles Yeo, Institute of Metabolic Science.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 19:30-20:30

Fitzwilliam Museum

Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum

UserNeil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum.

HouseThe Fitzwilliam Museum.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 18:00-20:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Michele Vendruscolo ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 15:30-16:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Arcadia Seminar: 18th May 2010. “Collect, Protect, Connect: From Digital Himalaya to the World Oral Literature Project”, Dr Mark Turin

All welcome, but please register your intent to attend to the organiser, mh569@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Mark Turn, Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room (OCR).

ClockTuesday 18 May 2010, 18:00-19:15

Scott Lectures

Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe

This lecture is for a general audience.

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserYunus Saatchi and Andrew Wilson.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nanocapillaries: Cheap and Safe Nanotech

UserLorenz Steinbock ( Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)

This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April)

UserProfessor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

UserProfessor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Holographic Technologies

UserDr T D Wilkinson, Reader in Photonic Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Sparse NonGaussian Component Analysis

UserVladimir Spokoiny (Weierstrass Institute).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 07 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Retrieval

Room changed

UserJurgen Van Gael and Ed Snelson.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockThursday 06 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory

UserProfessor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Cloning, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: The World After Dolly

UserProfessor Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HouseCambridge Union Society.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

FREE & OPEN TO ALL

UserClaire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Numerical Linear Algebra

Room changed

UserPeter Orbanz and John Cunningham (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Ape Research in Indonesia - Marrying Science with Conservation

UserDr Susan Cheyne, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 19:30-20:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Science - facts and frictions

UserDr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Brood Parasitism

UserDr Clair Spottiswoode, Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Automatic Visual Recognition in Natural, Medical, and 3D Imagery

UserJamie Shotton (Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 06 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Ultrasound elastography

UserDr Graham Treece (University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockTuesday 06 April 2010, 11:15-11:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

UserFrancesca D. Ciccarelli Professor of Cancer Genomics | King’s College London| The Francis Crick Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

ClockThursday 25 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Jumping to Delusions - how the brain takes dangerous shortcuts

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 March 2010, 19:30-20:30

EMBL-EBI Science and Society Programme

Who Owns Science: Promises and Pitfalls of the Public-Private Partnerships

UserJohn Sulston, Tim Hubbard, David Searls, Stuart Parkinson, Gabor Lamm.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatre 9.

ClockFriday 19 March 2010, 14:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Simon Schaffer, Department of History of Philosophy and Science.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 14 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Trinity Science Society

Trinity Science Symposium

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 14 March 2010, 12:30-00:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Recursive CRFs for Scalable Vision

short talk

UserDavid Duvenaud (UBC).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

short talk

UserOwen Lewis (U Colorado @ Boulder).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Coding

short talk

UserAzadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 11:30-12:00

Trinity Science Society

The Remarkable Accuracy of the Trinity College Clock

UserDr. Hugh Hunt, Dept. of Engineering.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 18:15-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Lessons from the Obama Campaign: Making the Obama Digital Model Work in Politics and Beyond

UserJoe Rospars, New Media Director for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign.

HouseCambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 18:30-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

UserProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled

Cancelled

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Electric & hybrid leisure aircraft

Last talk of term!!! Not to be missed!

UserPaul Robertson.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

Science policy research - can research influence policy? How? And does it make for better policy?

UserProfessor Ben Martin, former Director of Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU).

HouseBuckingham House, Murray Edwards College.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 17:30-18:40

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Ed Bullmore, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseMR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

A Pedagogy of Abundance - new teaching models for a digital age

UserMartin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University.

HouseOCR, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2010, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Building in the UK

UserDavid Adamson, Director of Smarter Construction in the Office of Government Commerce.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

UserProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

What's the right complexity measure for inferring causal relations?

UserDominik Janzing (Max Planck Institute Tuebingen).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled

Canceled

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Our Place in the Cosmos

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 19:30-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cities of the Future

UserPaul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc..

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

MMP public and schools' events

Global Warming and the Melting of the Arctic Ice

Admission to the lecture is free and no ticket required – for more information please contact Kerstin Enright, Millennium Mathematics Project, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (01223 766839) or email: mmptalks@hermes

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

CRASSH lectures

The Physiologist at the Opera: Claude Perrault and the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien Régime

UserProfessor Veit Erlmann (Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge).

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

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

UserProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

A Backward Particle Interpretation of Feynman-Kac Formulae

User Pierre Del Moral (INRIA Bordeaux).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

On combinatorial testing problems

UserGabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

CRASSH lectures

Translating Religion and Secularism in China

UserProfessor Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserPedro Ortega and Dan Braun.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof Kevin Warwick - Cyborg Experiments

UserProf Kevin Warick, Professor for Cybernetics at the University of Reading.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Imaging Cancer

Please note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Kevin Brindle, Cancer Research Institute/Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

CRASSH lectures

Blaxploitation: the Music

UserProfessor Richard Dyer (King's College London).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 14 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

UserProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Trinity Science Society

Demystifying City Law Firms

UserMr Andrew Stanger, Mayer Brown.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 18:15-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Semi supervised learning

UserSinead Williamson and Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

CRASSH lectures

The University in the Face of a Pharmacology of the Mind

UserBernard Stiegler (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 14:15-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

UserProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Compressed sensing in infinite dimensions

UserAnders Hansen (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational inference in graphical models: The view from the marginal polytope

UserDavid Knowles and Richard Turner (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Families Created Through Surrogacy: Is There Cause For Concern?

UserPolly Casey (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo

Please Note this lecture is not on a Monday

UserProfessor Austin Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

UserProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Thick-pen transformation for time series

UserPiotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Economics).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Pandemic! Where do new infections come from?

UserDr Chris Smith, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 19:30-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Roadmap to 2050

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

Trinity Science Society

"Do Animals make shopping lists?"

UserProf. Nicola Clayton.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 18:15-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

UserDr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

On the Distribution of the Adaptive LASSO Estimator

UserUlrike Schneider (University of Goettingen).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

CRASSH lectures

Balancing the Evidence: the Role of Judgement in Health Policy Decisions

UserSir Michael Rawlins (Chairman, National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

(Canceled) A Causal Calculus for Statistical Research

Canceled

UserPedro Ortega (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Black holes: weather and landscape

UserAlexander Blustin (University of Cambridge; IoA and Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational Lensing

UserDr Lindsay King, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 January 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

To within minutes of a black hole

First talk of term!

UserProf Andy Fabian.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Genetic testing: Truth or Dare?

UserDr Caroline Wright (PHG Foundation).

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 December 2009, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication

An interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested

UserSPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 09:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unbounded-depth hierarchical Pitman-Yor processes

UserRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 14:00-15:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Cyberknife

UserMark Brenner, MD, Chief of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife Center.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatre 9.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 18:00-19:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Scholarly Publishing 2.0 Squared

Please register your intent to attend to the organiser, mh569@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Doug Clow, Lecturer in Interactive Media Development at the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University (OU)..

HouseOCR, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Intercultural Relations in the late Middle Kingdom in Egypt (1820-1720 BC)

UserDr Bettina Bader, Research Fellow of McDonald Institute for archaeological research.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Robotic Surgery

UserProfessor David Neal, Professor of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Research UK.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors

Joint with Probability Series

UserAad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam).

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Peterhouse Theory Group

“Language and Silence in Religious and Continental Philosophy”.

UserProfessor Graham Ward (Manchester University).

HouseThe Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics

UserAad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Magnetism Under Pressure: Using Diamonds to Study Quantum Matter

UserLara Sibley, Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

The Problem of Reading Lists

Please register your intent to attend to the organiser, mh569@cam.ac.uk

UserHuw Jones, System Support Librarian at the University Library.

HouseOCR, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2009, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tracing human ancestry using DNA

UserDr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Münster, Germany.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues

UserCarmen Armero, University of Valencia.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Lyell's plots

UserAdelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).

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

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Gates Coffeehouse Webinar: Breaking into Politics

UserFour young Europeans and Americans engaged in politics; see website for more info.

HouseOnline webinar; see website to register..

ClockSaturday 21 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Empirical support for DNA match probabilities

UserJames Curran (Auckland).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can worms unlock the secrets of our mind? Automatic quantitative analysis of C.elegans behaviour

UserTadas Jucikas, William Schafer group, Cell Biology Division, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

What _is_ the Right to Housing?

UserDr. Jessie Hohmann, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Laser Photonics

Please note the return to our usual venue

UserDr Bill O'Neill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents

UserSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Balancing conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon: do win-win solutions really exist?

UserDr Toby Gardner, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Exploiting Bacteria to Battle Cancer

UserDr Guillermo de la Cueva Méndez (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre).

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 19:30-20:30

MMP public and schools' events

Through the Looking Glass ....again and again!

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. For tickets please e-mail Kerstin Enright at mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk or call 01223 766839, Age level: 11+, general public

UserDr Sara Santos, Royal Institution.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Trinity Science Society

"Burning Ice: Art, Science, and Climate Change"

UserQuentin Cooper (producer of the BBC's Material World programme).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Gates Internal Symposium: Social Science and the Scientific Method

UserVarious student speakers; see website for more information.

HouseLocation and time TBA.

ClockSunday 08 November 2009, 16:30-18:30

Statistics

Soap film smoothing

UserSimon Wood (Bath).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTURE

Free & open to all (suitable for families)

UserDr Hal Sosabowski, University of Brighton.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Filtering of Noisy Time-Series Data

UserHenrik Ohlsson, Marc Deisenroth, Hugo Vincent.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Dr. Michael Pollitt: Delivering the Low Carbon Electricity System

UserDr. Michael Pollitt, Electricity Policy Research Group, Judge Business School.

HouseDepartment of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 19:30-20:30

Peterhouse Theory Group

"Music, rhythm, and movement: Why we fill the silence?"

UserDr Jessica Grahn (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge).

HouseThe Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 17:30-19:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Thinking Like a Dandelion: Cory Doctorow on copyright, Creative Commons and creativity

Please email mh569@cam.ac.uk if you are planning to attend.

UserCory Doctorow.

HouseUmney Theatre, Robinson College.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2009, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

Please note our temporary venue

UserQuentin Cooper, Presenter of BBC's "Material World".

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sir David King - 21st Century Challanges

UserSir David King - Former chief scientific advisor to the UK government.

HouseUnion Society Building, 9a Bridge Street.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Statistics

Risk Hull Methods for Inverse Problems

UserLaurent Cavalier (Marseille).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Speed Reviewing

UserAll Participants.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

John Bell and the nature of Reality

UserDr Carlos Lobo, Department of Physics.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Cancer as a Darwinian Process

UserProfessor Ron Laskey FRS.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD or NoT?

UserPhD Students, Career Service, Board of Graduate Studies....

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 18:30-21:00

Statistics

Bayesian Methods in Cosmology

UserMike Hobson (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 23 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Marcus du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine

Free Event - The Freshers' Squash

UserMarcus du Sautoy - Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plagiarism in Science

Please note our temporary venue

UserProfessor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 19:30-21:00

MMP public and schools' events

What Are The Odds?

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. For tickets please e-mail Kerstin Enright at mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk or call 01223 766839, Level: age range 14 - 16, KS3-5

UserNadia Baker, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Choosing a good histogram

UserYannick Baraud (Univ. Nice).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 16 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Fourth William Pitt Seminar: "A Blueprint for survival"

Invite only - please contact organiser if you are interested in coming.

UserVarious speakers.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College. Dinner in Hall, Pembroke College..

ClockFriday 16 October 2009, 15:30-19:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Cryo Electron Microscopy: From Molecules to Systems

UserProfessor Wolfgang Baumeister, MPI of Biochemistry, Head of Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Martinsried/Germany.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning

UserAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

From the laboratory to the market: how the results of scientific research are transformed into products on the market

First talk of term - All welcome!

UserDr. Franz Wittwer, Strategic IP Manager, BIOTRONIK AG.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Shrinking Down Nutrition: Nanofoods

UserDr Dora Pereira, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 19:30-20:30

C.P. Snow Lectures

C P Snow's Two Cultures Revisited

C.P. Snow Lecture

UserProfessor Lisa Jardine, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseHamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Just listen they're scared: The application of hostage negotiation in everyday life.

UserRichard Mullender, Former member of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, Scotland Yard.

HouseLecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fungi in history

UserNick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 13:00-14:15

Statistics

Total variation and curves

UserArne Kovac (Univ. Bristol).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Structured prediction using energy-based models

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cradle to Cradle Design

UserBill McDonough William McDonough and Partners.

House Cambridge Unuiversity Engineerintg Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2009, 18:00-19:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

HUNTING THE ANTISOCIAL CANCER CELL

Free & open to all

UserProf. Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 October 2009, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Technical Writing II

UserRyan Turner (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Clinical Neuroscience and Mental Health Symposium

Music and the Mind

UserOrganised by Cambridge Neuroscience.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2009, 18:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila"

Note unusual time - Seminar will be held at 16:00pm

UserProf. Trudy Mackay - NC State Univeristy.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 September 2009, 16:00-17:30

Inference Group

Capacity of Spiking Neural Networks

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 21 September 2009, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

TALES FROM THE BREWHOUSE

Tickets £5 (over 18s only)

UserRichard Naisby, Milton Brewery, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 September 2009, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society

Darwin 2009 Lecture

UserProfessor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 09 July 2009, 17:30-18:30

MMP public and schools' events

THE SECRET WORLD OF CODES AND CODEBREAKING

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org

UserDr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 23 June 2009, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Message Passing

Note unusual time

UserJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 June 2009, 15:00-16:30

Faculty of Education Special Events

Inaugural Lecture: 'Leadership: its genealogy, configuration and trajectory'

Please contact Susannah Lacon: sml44@cam.ac.uk 01223 767626/12 if you would like to attend.

User Peter Gronn (University of Cambridge).

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2009, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Working with over-parameterized models

UserDavid Firth, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 12 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

PRIVATE EVENING TOUR OF THE CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - NOW FULLY BOOKED!

Limited numbers. Tickets: Adults £5. Under 16s £3.

UserBotanic Garden guides.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 18:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Slice Sampling

UserYue Wu (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: Drug Discovery in the 21st Century

Last talk of term!

UserMax Macaluso, Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Peterhouse Theory Group

“Interfaith relations, scriptural reasoning, and theories of deliberative democracy” (title to be confirmed).

Anyone is welcome to attend.

UserDr Jeff Bailey.Tutor in Public Theology, Westcott House and Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity..

HouseThe Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2009, 17:30-19:00

Statistics

Bayesian Inference of Transmission Fidelity Rates of DNA Methylation Patterns

UserAudrey Fu (University of Cambridge Systems Biology Center).

HouseMR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Microcephaly genes & the evolution of primate brain size

UserStephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of Gambling

Rescheduled from February

UserDr Luke Clarke (Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 01 June 2009, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Graphical Gaussian Models with Edge and Vertex Symmetries

UserSteffen Lauritzen University of Oxford.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 29 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world

Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPamela H. Smith (Columbia University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

"Global Education of Cervical Cancer"

UserSir Leszek Borysiewicz (Chief Executive Officer of the MRC).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2009, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Bringing new medicines to market" How the biopharmaceutical industry works

UserDr Melanie Lee DSc (Hon) FMedSci (Executive Vice President of Research and Development, UCB Belgium ).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Second Generation Wavelets and Astrophysics

User Gerard Kerkyacharian Paris 10 and LPMA.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 22 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Technical Writing

UserFinale Doshi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evo-devo and neo-Darwinism: hostility, synergy or indifference?

Special guest speaker - Professor Wallace Arthur, Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland

UserProfessor Wallace Arthur.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 13:00-13:45

MMP public and schools' events

Magic Squares

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org

UserDr Jenny Gage, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

mh569's list

Supporting Early Career Researchers and Building Research Communities in Education

Please register your intent to attend to the organiser.

UserPatrick Carmichael (University of Cambridge).

HouseRoger Needam Room, Chancellors Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2009, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

Mental programs and the frontal lobe

UserProf. John Duncan (Medical Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 4: Counting and comparing

Workshop covers peak calling, segmentation , enrichment, differential expression, normalisation, transcriptomics, ChIPseq.

UserDr Krys Kelly (Lead).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 15:15-16:15

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 3: Assembly / Structural variation

Workshop covers de novo assemblers, paired end data, integrating data from different technologies, structural variation.

UserAylwyn Scally (Lead).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 13:30-14:45

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 2: Alignment

Workshop covers: Speed, sensitivity, alignment formats, repeats, SNPs, indels.

UserMario Caccamo (Lead).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 1: Data Production

Workshop covers Primary pipeline processing: quality scores, multiplexing; Data management: metadata, data storage, data delivery.

UserRory Stark (Lead).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 09:15-10:15

Statistics

Particle Learning

UserNicholas Polson University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Divergence measures and message passing

UserDavid Knowles (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cuckoo-host arms races

Earlier start time! Talk starts at 1pm

UserDr Justin Welbergen, Department of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 12:45-13:45

Peterhouse Theory Group

"The war that never was: the mundane and the exceptional in contemporary Brazil".

Anyone is welcome to attend.

UserDr Marta Magalhães. Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge..

HouseThe Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2009, 17:30-19:00

Mordell Lectures

KAM and Rigidity

UserProfessor Anatole Katok (Penn State University).

HouseWolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Default priors and model parametrization

UserNancy Reid, University of Toronto.

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The IBM approach to speech separation

UserMikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Socrates versus Darwin

UserProfessor David Sedley FBA.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:15-18:15

Life Science Interface Seminars

A Journey in the World of Molecules

NOBEL LAUREATE Linacre Lecture

UserProfessor Jean-Marie Lehn, Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:00-18:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

William MCDonough (CANCELLED)

UserWilliam McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle".

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 00:00-00:00

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Examples

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Peterhouse Theory Group

"Shooting War: Ethics in Conflict Photography"

For those attending the talk, there is a special offer of a 15% discount on subscription to dispatches, including a back copy of the last issue, "Beyond Iraq", for which Yuri Kozyrev shot the main photo story. Anyone is welcome to attend.

UserGary Knight. VII Photo Agency.

HouseUpper Hall, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:30-19:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing country

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserPavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:15-18:30

Brain and Consciousness

Learning, Stress and Integrated Brain-functioning

Refreshments served from 17.30

UserDirector, Centre for Brain Consciousness and Cognition, Iowa, USA.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, CB2 1TA.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 18:30-20:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

A 21st Century View of National Security

UserSir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College and former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

HouseBoys Smith Room, Fisher Building at St. John's College.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 18:00-20:00

Faculty of Education Special Events

Inaugural Lecture: 'The Power of Language: Literacy, (mis)communication and oppression in literature for young readers'

Please contact Susannah Lacon: sml44@cam.ac.uk 01223 767626/12 if you would like to attend.

UserProfessor Maria Nikolajeva - Faculty of Education, Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium, Mary Allen Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 17:00-18:30

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Methodologies

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Annual Founders' Dinner with Simon Baron-Cohen

Tickets on sale now: visit http://groupspaces.com/SciSoc/e/11972?s=e223a8bf

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 18:00-22:00

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : An Overview

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The genetics of pigmentation in the Red-billed quelea

UserNeil Walsh (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 24 April 2009, 17:30-18:00

Statistics

Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe

UserCarlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 24 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ART MEETS SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LAPIS LAZULI & ULTRAMARINE

Free & open to all.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton-Kerr Institute, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hilbert space embedding of probability distributions

UserFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Superconducting Motor with Its Perspective

First talk of term!

UserRuilin Pei, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 13:00-13:45

Arcadia Project Seminars

Scholarly Networking

All welcome but RSVP to arcadia@lib.cam.ac.uk

UserDr Laura James (CARET).

HouseWolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 April 2009, 18:00-19:15

MMP public and schools' events

Magic Squares

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org

UserDr Jenny Gage, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 27 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The nature of life - a scientific debate

UserProfessor Lewis Wolpert and Dr Rupert Sheldrake.

HouseRoom 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockFriday 20 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Quantum

UserManjit Kumar.

HouseRoom 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockFriday 20 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Animals and ourselves

UserProfessor Aubrey Manning.

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockFriday 20 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Cafe Scientifique: can we read minds?

Age 12+ (www.neuromedia.eu)

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseThe Michaelhouse, Trinity Street.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 19:30-21:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back Yard

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserDr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Quantum anomalies and the origin of time

UserProfessor Shahn Majid.

HouseRoom 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Chemistry saves lives

UserDr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Entering the ecological age

Pre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk)

UserPeter Head, Director of Planning and Integrated Urbanism.

HouseEngineering Department.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Statistics are either dull or wrong:discuss

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Darwin's Islands: In Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos

Ages 12+, Pre book (tel 01223 364721 ext 66147, email: ro6-Outreach@open.ac.uk

UserDr David Robinson.

HouseThe Open University in the East of England, Hills Road.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Carbon neutral communities

Pre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk)

UserGerard Evenden, Senior Partner, Foster and Partners.

HouseEngineering Department.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

It is rocket science!

UserHelen Keen.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockMonday 16 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Sustainable energy - without the hot air

UserProfessor David Mackay.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 13 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Darwinspotting in 2009: Are there any real ones out there?

UserDr Peter C. Kjærgaard, Visiting Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Arcadia Lectures

Cultural Agoraphobia and the Future of the Library: the first Arcadia Lecture

UserProfessor James Boyle, Duke University.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Science Festival

How your mobile phone works

UserChris Cox.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

A taste of teaching: D&T and Sciences

This event is for adults only

UserElaine Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Science Education and Raza Shah, Subject Lecturer in Design and Technology Education.

HouseFacutly of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bregman Divergences and Machine Learning

UserShakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Making the most of our minds

UserSponsored by Science AAAS.

HouseJudge Business School.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Innovating to sustainability

UserProfessor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Marshall - one hundred years in Cambridge

UserTerry Holloway.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Darwin and Genetics: 1909 and 2009

UserProfessor Marsha Richmond, Dept of History, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Science Festival

Darwin in a global context

UserProfessor Jim Secord and Professor John Parker.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

THE POPULATION FACTOR- HOW DOES IT RELATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?

UserProfessor Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor, Community Health and Human Development, Berkeley, University of California.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Can science beat terrorism?

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Why do we like to eat?

UserDr Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrookes.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Machines that see

UserProfessor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

UserProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Usability Group

Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery (A Few Places Now Available!)

A few people have dropped out - we have about 17 seats available now!!

UserBen Shneiderman, Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland.

HouseMicrosoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 18:40-20:15

Statistics

Do New Roads Generate Traffic?

UserCharlene Rohr, RAND Europe.

HouseMR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Convex Concave Procedure

UserFrederik Eaton (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Intelligent Polymers.... just add water

UserJameel Zayed, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 13:00-13:45

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy

UserNigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport

UserDr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 15:30-16:30

Danby Society

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr. Carolin Crawford (University of Cambridge).

HouseDowning College, Regent Street, Cambridge, UK.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

RESPONDING TO CHANGES IN NATURE

UserChris Smith (Lord Smith of Finsbury), Chairman of the Environment Agency; former MP and Cabinet Minister; former President Cambridge Union Society.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

MMP public and schools' events

The Four Colour Theorem

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org

UserProfessor Imre Leader.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Where is it safe to go on holiday?" Antigenic Cartography; a mathematical method for mapping the spread of viruses

UserProfessor Derek Smith (Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Vaccine Development in the Year 2100

UserDr. James P. Nataro, University of Maryland..

HouseRiley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 18:00-19:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Lent Internal Symposium 2009

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/GatesInternalSeminar.mp3

UserJoshua R. Cook, Will Smiley, Oleksandr Poplavskyy, Joseph C. Bonneau, University of Cambridge.

HouseGates Common Room, Cambridge.

ClockSunday 01 March 2009, 16:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

UserProfessor Steve Jones, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models (Cont)

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How to teach a computer to recognize digits

UserNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Wildlife and Environment

Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

David MacKay is a wonderful speaker: lively, funny, wonderfully clear and easy to follow. Do not think that you cannot understand the problem, or that talks by professors of physics are not for you. Professors are not what they used to be!

UserDavid MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 19:30-21:45

MMP public and schools' events

The Mathematics of Evolutionary Biology

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

CAN WE ADAPT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN TIME?

UserProfessor Michael Kelly, Prince Philip Professor, Cambridge; Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government, London.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sex differences in cognition

UserSue Healy, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)

Strange bedfellows: Psychologists in missionary care

Tea and coffee from 4.00pm.

UserProf. Steve Allison (Abilene Christian University).

HouseStonehill Room, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, 14 Grange Road.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Mind reading by machine learning: an ideal observer based analysis of cognitive scientific experiments

UserFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Collegium Budapest).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 10:00-11:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

UserProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTS

Free & open to all

UserDr Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison-MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Research Centre, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Issues in the study of early life (full title TBA)

UserNick Butterfield (University of Cambridge).

HouseMarine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

CREATING NEW AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

UserProfessor Peter Guthrie, Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, Cambridge; Fellow, St Edmund’s College.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Cambridge and the Environment

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/ViceChancellorRichards.mp3

UserProfessor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

HouseHicks Room, University Centre.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Genetics and Cancer" The BRCA2 gene (discovered by Professor Stratton and his team), and its involvement in human breast and prostate cancer

UserProfessor Michael Stratton (Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Head of the Cancer Genome Project).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

CANCELLED !!! "Uncovering and Exploiting Chinks in Cancer's Armour" - CANCELLED !!!

UserProf Alan Ashworth (Institute of Cancer Research Director – London).

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 00:00-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

UserProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Discussion Group: Energy Policy and Security of Supply

UserNeta Luria (International Relations, Centre Of International Studies) and Thomas Triebs (Electricity Policy Research Group, Judge Business School).

HouseThe Bun Shop (downstairs), King Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 19:30-21:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Darwin in his time - and in ours

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:15-18:30

MMP public and schools' events

The Maths of Diamonds, Race Fixing, Art Theft, and Professor Moriarty

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org

UserProfessor John D. Barrow, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hybrid of Generative and Discriminative Models

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

On the use of magnetic nanoparticles in medicine

200th Anniversary of Darwin's Birth - join us for a celebration!!!!

UserNick Darton, Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Water, health and sustainable development

UserDr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

Arcadia Project Seminars

A Publisher's perspective on the Future of Academic Publishing in the Digital Era

All welcome

UserDr Frances Pinter: Publisher, Bloomsbury Academic.

HouseWolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 17:45-19:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

SMARTLIFE: GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE

UserDavid Arkell, Director, SmartLIFE and Head of Innovation & Partnerships, Cambridgeshire County Council.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?

UserDr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth

UserBecky Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

UserProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

UserCornelia Wichelhaus, Universität Heidelberg.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update

Please note change of venue

UserVarious speakers.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 14:00-17:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

INTEGRATING ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONS

UserProfessor Julian Hunt (Lord Hunt of Chesterton), Professor of Climate Modelling, University College, London.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Divergence measures and message passing - CANCELLED

Canceled

UserDavid Knowles (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

From building blocks to systems: where do we go next?

UserSarath Janga, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Whether a creation-based religion can be consistent with science and evolution

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/RabbiWeinreb.mp3

UserDr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the executive vice president of the Orthodox.

HouseUnion Debating Chamber at 9a Bridge Street.

ClockMonday 02 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Building bridges between genes, brains and language.

http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512

UserDr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Distributed Computing for Machine Learning

UserSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Schizophrenia: is it all in the mind?

UserDr James Kirkbride, Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

ADAPTATION IN POOR COUNTRIES

UserDr Flavio Comim, Senior Economist, United Nations Development Programme, Brazil and CSC/VHI, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

UserProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B?

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserDr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Conical cells and pollinator attraction - A bee's eye view of molecular evolution

All welcome to attend!

UserKatrina Alcorn, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Natural Ventilation and Low Energy Buildings

UserAndy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge..

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

RETHINKING PERSONAL MOBILITY: POLICY, TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS THINKING

UserDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy and Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"We know who you are, from the way you sound" Computer voice-recognition systems and what they can do

This lecture is joint with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserDr Kirsty McDougall (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabalistic Inference for solving (PO)MDPs

UserFinale Doshi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Sensing DNA with a Single Pore

First talk of term!

UserLorenz Steinbock, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NECESSITIES AND PRIORITIES

UserProfessor Martin Parry, Chair, IPCC's Task Group on Scenarios for Climate Impact Assessment.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

DNA: Not just a double helix

UserDr Julian Huppert, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 09:30-10:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetics of Cooperation and Competition in Chimpanzees

UserLinda Vigilant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics of Living Matter 3

registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you

Userregistration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes

UserDr David Ager (DSM, Raleigh-Durham, USA).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 15 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

Neurobiology of the Drosophila circadian clock

UserJustin Blau, Department of Biology, New York University.

HouseMRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

ClockMonday 15 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

REGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserSPEAKERS: Peter Andrews, Robin Lovell-Badge, James Byrne, Ian Chambers, Kevin Eggan, Martin Evans, Stephen Minger, Alison Murdoch and Kevin Shakesheff, CHAIRED BY: Chris Graham and Richard Gardiner, ORGANISERS: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon.

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

CRASSH events

Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo

UserMargaret Miles, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 11 December 2008, 17:45-18:45

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Christmas Quiz

Canceled

UserSpeakers to be confirmed.

HouseCCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 11 December 2008, 17:30-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Offline Conference

UserMachine Learning Across Cambridge.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 December 2008, 13:00-14:30

Science meets Faith

The inevitable evolution of humans

UserProf Simon Conway Morris, FRS, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

ClockMonday 08 December 2008, 19:15-21:00

CCLP

One Planet

UserDiane Menzies,ONZM, President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), New Zealand Environment Court Commissioner.

HouseUniversity of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Large Lecture Theatre, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 3EN.

ClockMonday 08 December 2008, 15:55-16:10

CCLP

The European Landscape Convention: From concepts to rights.

UserMaguelonne Dejeant-Pons, Head of the Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Planning Division, Council of Europe.

HouseUniversity of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Large Lecture Theatre, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 3EN.

ClockMonday 08 December 2008, 15:40-15:55

ARClub Talks

The Imprinted Brain Theory of Autism

UserDr. Christopher Badcock, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics.

HouseLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

ClockFriday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Sex ratios and rarity in birds: an unhappy balance?

UserPaul Donald, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Relational Learning

UserRicardo Silva (UCL Statistics).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

UserProf David J C Mackay (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 01 December 2008, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Projective Limits of Bayes Equations

UserPeter Orbanz (Dept. Engineering, Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 28 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEM

UserDavid Haslam, MB BS, National Obesity Forum.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Particles and the Universe

UserProf. Peter Kalmus, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Extreme Natural Hazards

UserHerbert Huppert FRS, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others

UserDr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Medieval Art Seminar Series

How Were Saints Translated? The Case for Westminster Abbey

UserPaul Binski (University of Cambridge, History of Art Department).

HouseThe History of Art Graduate Centre - 4a Trumpington Street.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:45

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Rank Data

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 14:00-15:30

Computational and Systems Biology

" The dynamics of parasite-mediated competition"

UserOlivier Restif, CIDC, The Veterinary School, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Alternative means of harnessing solar energy

UserBen Taylor, Polymer Fluids Group, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Paolo Bombelli, Centre for Research in Electrochemical Science and Technology (CREST).

HouseThe Maypole (upper floor), Portugal Place, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 19:30-21:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?

UserAndrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

Statistics

Sampling bias in logistic models

UserPeter McCullagh (University of Chicago).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 14 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

A Small Problem? The Bioethics of Nanotechnology

UserDr John Roberts, DEFRA; Professor Geoff Hunt, University of Surrey; Professor Antony Seaton, Edinburgh University; Dr Alexandra Porter, Imperial College London.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 19:30-21:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeakers to be confirmed.

HouseCCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 17:30-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models

UserMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 14:00-15:30

Baha'i Awareness Week

Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change

UserDr Silvia Karlsson.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Intimate Relations: Human Evolution and Climatic Change

Please note the change in venue and date! The talk is on Monday!

UserRobert Foley, Professor of Human Evolution, Leverhulme Centre, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Point Process Intensity Estimation with GP's

UserYunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tuned passive control of combustion instabilities

UserDan Zhao, Acoustics Lab, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 13:10-13:45

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Peptide Design in Nanoscience and Synthetic Biology

UserProf Dek Woolfson, University of Bristol.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?

UserProfessor Sir John Sulston FRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computing for the Future of the Planet

UserProf Andy Hopper CBE FRS, Head of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

MMP public and schools' events

Particle Hunting at CERN

Open to the general public - suggested age range 16+

UserDr Ben Allanach DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Something’s come up": The Discovery of New Drugs, (including Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra)

UserDr Simon Campbell CBE (Former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Former Pfizer Senior Vice-President for Discovery).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 03 November 2008, 19:30-21:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible?

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserTim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:15-18:30

Tanner Lectures

What's Left of Culture and Society?

For further information and free tickets, please call 01223 332368 email: tanner.admin@clarehall.cam.ac.uk

UserProf Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-19:00

Mordell Lectures

Geometric PDE

The lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College from 7 p.m.

UserProf Tobias Colding (MIT).

HouseWolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The role of Insigs in nutritional sensing and fat accumulation

UserRachel Hagen, IMS, Clinical Biochemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 13:10-13:45

Festival of Ideas

Millennia of Colour Making

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 18:00-18:45

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseWhipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

The Hewish Lectures

Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity

UserProfessor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Simultaneous Determination of Protein Structure and Dynamics

UserDr. Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 15:00-16:00

Festival of Ideas

What's the point of economics?

Pre book on 01223 766766

UserEvan Davis, BBC Today presenter.

HouseRoom 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockMonday 27 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Cambridge and the Meaning of Life

UserProf Alan Macfarlane, Dept of Social Anthropology.

HouseLT1, Judge Business School.

ClockFriday 24 October 2008, 17:00-17:30

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Will Feeding the World Kill the Planet?

UserCaroline Hurford, spokesperson for the World Food Programme; Dr Malcolm Hawkesford, Rothamsted Agricultural Research Centre; Dr Peter Craufurd, School of Agriculture Policy and Development, Reading University; Dr Howard Griffiths, Cambridge University.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 19:30-21:00

Festival of Ideas

China: The World's Only Super-Power in the Late First Millennium

UserProf David McMullen, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseRoom 8-9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Festival of Ideas

Into the Unknown: Medieval Travellers, Real and Imaginary

UserProf James Montgomery, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseRoom 8-9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

CAN WE BLAME OUR BRAINS? Neuroscience in the Courtroom

UserProfessor Raymond Tallis; Professor Nikolas Rose; Mr Amit Pundik; Dr Ian Treasaden.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub).

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 19:30-21:30

Public Understanding of Risk

How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science

Free Public Lecture. All Welcome!

UserBen Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

joint Statistics/Probability Seminar

UserEvarist Gine (University of Conneticut).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Orford Ness: landscape of war and science

UserSophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Statistics

The Gaussian Semiparametric Partial Linear Model Asymptotic Theory and a Useful Difference-Based Estimator and Tests

UserProfessor Larry Brown (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylavnia).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? Exploring the impact of extreme ageing

UserMr Kenneth Howse; Dr Aubrey de Grey; Dr Guy Brown; Dr Klaus Okkenhaug.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

UserProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture: "Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scale"

This lecture is jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre Department of Physics. University of Cambridge).

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Initiative For Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Inaugural Meeting

Tissue Engineering of the Musculoskeletal System

Register at www.cimte.orthopaedics.cam.ac.uk or turn up on the day

UserProf Ioannis Yannas, MIT.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 15:00-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The evolution of wonder

UserPaul White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Initiative For Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Inaugural Meeting

Biomolecules in Tissue Engineering

Register at www.cimte.orthopaedics.cam.ac.uk or turn up on the day

UserProf Richard Farndale, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 11:30-12:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Dynamics of Saturn's F Ring

UserCarl Murray, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4.00 pm).

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Condition Monitoring

UserRyan Turner (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 02 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative

UserProfessor Roger Pedersen, Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 16:30-17:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative

registration is required for this event

UserProfessor Athene Donald, Director, Centre for Physics of Medicine.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 16:00-16:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Materials for Medical Engineering

Medical Engineering

UserDr Ruth Cameron, Centre for Medical Materials, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 14:30-15:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Reconstructing the Bacterial Cell Factory

Synthetic Biology

UserDr David Summers, Department of Genetics.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 14:30-15:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system

Medical Engineering (registration is required for this event)

UserProfessor James Fawcett, Centre for Brain Repair.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 14:00-14:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Tools for Engineering Morphogenesis in Plants

Synthetic Biology

UserDr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 14:00-14:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Molecular assembly lines for drug biosynthesis

Synthetic Biology

UserProfessor Peter Leadley (Department of Biochemistry).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 13:30-14:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications

registration is required for this event

UserDr Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-11:45

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~lmate/cbl/cbldirections.html).

ClockTuesday 30 September 2008, 17:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Distinguished Seminars

Cryogenic Turbulence

Institute distinguished event

UserProfessor K Sreenivasan (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 29 September 2008, 17:00-18:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Energy Efficient Cities - An Integrated Approach to Achieving Low Carbon

UserProf. Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge) And Clare Shuttleworth (White Young Green).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 11:00-11:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Global Context of Energy Crisis

UserProf Robert Watson (DEFRA).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 09:30-10:15

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Development tools for mobile devices

UserAlexander Griekspoor (mekentosj.com), Alistair de B Clarkson (nCipher).

HouseCCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 18 September 2008, 17:30-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Levy Processes

UserKatherine Heller (CUED Machine Learning).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 September 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The War on Loops

UserFrederik Eaton (CUED).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 September 2008, 14:00-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"

UserProf. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 08 September 2008, 15:30-16:30

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Laser Surface Authentication: Using Nature's own fingerprint to detect fraud

UserProf. Russell Cowburn, Imperial College London, UK.

HouseCAPE building main atrium.

ClockFriday 25 July 2008, 16:00-17:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Field Programmable Gate Arrays

POSTPHONED TO LATER IN THE YEAR

UserSpeakers to be confirmed.

HouseCCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 17 July 2008, 17:30-19:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks

The Geometry of the Space of Shapes

Hosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research)

UserProf. David Mumford (Brown University).

HouseQueen's Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College, CB2 3AP http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/conferences/maps/.

ClockWednesday 09 July 2008, 16:30-17:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Clean Coal Technologies – towards a low carbon economy

UserChair: Dr Jeff Chapman, Chief Executive of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association.

HouseThe Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 24 June 2008, 09:00-18:00

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Towards an Open Source Disease Ontology

http://diseaseontology.sf.net/

UserProf. Warren Kibbe (Northwestern University) & Prof. Lynn Schriml (U. Maryland School of Medicine).

HouseWTCC, Hinxton.

ClockThursday 19 June 2008, 11:10-11:50

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

The OBO Foundry and PATO

UserProf. Michael Ashburner (University of Cambridge).

HouseWTCC, Hinxton.

ClockThursday 19 June 2008, 10:50-11:10

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Ontologies for Biologists – The Promise and the Reality

UserProf. Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge (and former joint head of EMBL-EBI).

HouseWTCC, Hinxton.

ClockThursday 19 June 2008, 10:30-10:50

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Wellcome and Background to Meeting

UserProf. Janet Thornton & Dr. Dominic Clark (EMBL-EBI).

HouseWTCC, Hinxton.

ClockThursday 19 June 2008, 10:15-10:30

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Registration and Tea/Coffee

UserThere is no Registration Fee but pre-registration is requested.

HouseWTCC, Hinxton.

ClockThursday 19 June 2008, 09:30-10:15

Darwin College Science Seminars

Manipulating single electrons in silicon quantum dots

UserMichael Tanner, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language as a Window Into Human Nature

OPEN TO ALL: guest sign-in at the door

UserProfessor Steven Pinker, Dept of Psychology Harvard.

HouseThe Cambridge Union.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2008, 17:00-18:30

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

THE ARMOURERS AND BRASIERS’ CAMBRIDGE FORUM

Usersee http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/forum/ for details.

HouseBabbage Podium, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2008, 13:30-18:30

Statistics

Estimation of the relative risk and risk difference

UserThomas Richardson (University of Washington).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism

Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm. Everyone is welcome.

UserProfessor Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/cms_misc/media/large_images/drawn_map.gif.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How to learn and use a language

UserProf Richard Hudson (Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Probing thin liquid films at the nanometer scale

UserDavid Barbero (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Genetics Seminar Series

"Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".

UserProfessor David Pellman, Havard Medical School..

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30

Getting in and out of mitosis

Getting in and out of mitosis

The Hutchison Grad Student Society are hosting their annual talk. The speaker is the Nobel Prize Laureate Prof Tim Hunt.For further details contact Amel Saadi (as741@cam.ac.uk).

UserSir Tim Hunt.

HouseSackler Lecture theatre, CIMR, Addenbrookes.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Distinguished Seminars

Maps and graphs on surfaces

Institute distinguished event

UserProfessor C Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic integration and Ito's lemma

UserFrederik Eaton (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

IP3 receptor clustering: when togetherness redefines individuality

UserTaufiq-ur-Rahman (University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Statistics

MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions

UserIain Murray (University of Toronto).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 23 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR

LIMITED SPACES SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 18:30-20:00

Rausing Lecture

Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power

Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJohn Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Chance is a Fine Thing

Inaugural Lecture as Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

UserDavid Spiegelhalter (Cambridge).

HouseMR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 19 May 2008, 17:30-18:30

St John's Women's Society Talks

Changing Our World: Women and difference

UserDame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand.

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Boeing 787 vs. Airbus 380

UserSungho Yoon, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"I was nowhere near there at the time Guv - honest"

UserProfessor Sir Bob Hepple, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, former Master of Clare College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Latent class models for the causal effect of a treatment

UserAntonio Forcina (University of Perugia).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 09 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microbial Bioenergy Production

Note unusual day: Thursday, not Tuesday

UserProfessor Alison Smith (Department of Plant Sciences).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre (Tennis Court Road - see http://tinyurl.com/rxaj7 ).

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 20:00-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

This talk is open to everyone. Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the talk.

UserRobyn Scott, Author of "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle".

HouseGates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 17:30-19:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

International environmental governance

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Back to The Future: Cell tracing assays to study developmental events in a vertebrate embryo

UserKaterina Bilitou, Department of Oncology, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics

UserProfessor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Interdisciplinarity in Science

UserPanel debate, chaired by Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4's weekly science programme, The Material World.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2008, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

www.Antibodies_Direct.com

UserDr Jonathan Milner, Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 19:30-21:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Is Peer Review a Process in Ruins?: The Politics Behind Getting Your Paper Published

UserDr. Stephen Simpson, Dr. Robert Shields, Prof. Michael Wakelam, Dr. Peter Lawrence.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, next to Eagle pub.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 19:30-21:30

Statistics

Efficient sparse recovery with no assumption on the dictionary

UserAlexander (Sasha) Tsybakov (CREST et Université Paris).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 25 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 17:15-18:30

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Wolfgang Huber from the EBI will be talking on the vsn method.

UserWolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus.

HouseLecture Room, Sanger Building, Biochemistry Department.

ClockMonday 07 April 2008, 14:15-13:15

Cambridge Science Festival

Quirkology: weird psychology

UserProfessor Richard Wiseman.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Happiness and heartbreak

UserDr Nick Baylis; Professor Martin Cowie.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Not Mammoth Steaks Again?!

UserProfessor Martin Jones, Archaeological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 17 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Extreme Science

UserDr Basil Singer.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 14:15-15:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The aviation heritage of East Anglia

UserTerry Holloway - Marshall's of Cambridge.

HouseArts School Room A, New Museums Site.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 14:00-14:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Learning from nature

UserDr Jonathan wood.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Science Festival

It’s about time

UserAndrew Pontzen.

HouseArts School Room A, New Museums Site.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge Science Festival

The science of Doctor Who

UserDr Paul Parsons.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge University Biological Society

The human genome as an RNA machine

UserProf John Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Smart drugs?

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Hidden in rock and frozen in time

UserDr Eric Wolff, BAS; Dr Aradhna Tripati, Dept of Earth Sciences.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Local and discrete scoring rules

UserMatt Parry (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourism

UserWill Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic; Duncan Law-Green, National Space Centre.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Some Novel Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

UserXiaozhi Wang, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Sustainable energy - without the hot air

UserProfessor David MacKay, Department of Physics.

HouseUniversity Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Regulating Global Capitalism

UserProfessor Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management and Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee, Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme (CBBP) at the Judge Business School.

HouseGates Scholars' Common Room, University Centre.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Acoustics and architecture

UserProfessor Deborah Howard, Department of History of Art.

HouseUniversity Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Preserve the old, but know the new

UserDr Ann Prentice, Medical Research Council.

HouseUniversity Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 18:00-19:00