Computational Neuroscience

In-Context Learning

Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar.

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

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

Online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

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

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Unknown Maxwell

The Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 March 2025, 09:00-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

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Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

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Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Extreme weather attribution and the evidential grounds for restorative climate justice

Ahmad Elabbar, Adrian Research Fellow.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?

Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

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

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

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

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer’s Rejuvenation Trap: Turning Cells Young and Fierce

Shanlin Tong.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Black Holes & spin-offs

Prof Katherine Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book of protecting Osiris among those of the Netherworld: An annotated version of the First Hour.

Chike Pilgrim, PhD Student, Department of Archaeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Survival of the fittest… or the friendliest? Uncovering hidden dependencies in gut microbial communities

Naomi van den Berg.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Scott Lectures

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

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Influence Functions

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

The Continual Learning (CL) Theory

Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita.

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

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Metaphysics as Communing with the Unknown: Crossing between Emmanuel Levinas and Karl Jaspers

Connor Hayes.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

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

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004

Isobel Newby (University of Leeds).

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

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Super-resolution optical microscope for use in the life sciences

Rebecca McClelland.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling with diffusion models

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Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploring dietary behaviours, narratives and attitudes in Cambridge colleges

Sigurdur Martinsson, MSt in Sustainability Leadership, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

Monday 24 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. 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).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Fractal Geometry: War, Peace, Fourier Analysis and the mysterious coastline of Great Britain

Jose Ramon.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

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.

Zixing Song.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back

Youjing Yu; Tim Lin.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Bloodshed, embodiment, politics, and theology

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

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice

Professor Stephen John.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century

Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

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

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The microscopic barriers protecting your airway everyday

Leah Hurst, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks.

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

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Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

Prof Sonya Clegg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:45-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:00-15:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economic Cost of Depression: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

Fergus McCormack, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks

Various speakers.

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

Monday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic drivers of early lung cancer

Alice Chernaik (Medicine, University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nucleic-Acid based therapeutics: how to use mechanistic information to ensure "safe-by-design"

Prof Anne Willis.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

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

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

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge

Benjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute).

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

Monday 03 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

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

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

Maya Youssef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cooperative Mechanisms Against Climate Change

Carl Edward Rasmussen.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

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.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 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.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys

Prof Brian Cantor.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Assigning responsibility for the ‘right to die’: moral and legal ambiguity in the regulation of assisted dying

Janna Bryson, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology.

1 Newnham Terrace seminar room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 January 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

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

Online (Zoom).

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

What Connects Us All? From Fibers to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Foundation Models in Robotics

Liyou Zhou (Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Data-driven models of neural and behavioural learning

N Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure.

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

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Evaluating dynamical systems hypotheses for pattern generation in motor cortex

Lea Duncker, Columbia.

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

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Modelling C. elegans pharynx

Dana Sherman, Weizmann.

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

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 11:00-11:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

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

Online (Zoom).

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?)

Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

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.

Andy Lin.

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

Wednesday 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.

Andy Lin.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

With a Little Help from My Friends: New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry

Prof Patrick Unwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks

Brent Doiron, University of Chicago.

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

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

A case study of AI education in high schools in the Tema district of Ghana

Salomey Addo, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection

Fiona Roberts (Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales).

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

Monday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Infiltrator and Indicator? Understanding the Intricacies of the Cuckoo Bumblebee Lifecycle

Sofia Dartnell, Zoology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Order, Disorder, Flexibility, Function

Prof Andrew Goodwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

State space models (as alternatives to Transformers)

Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen.

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

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

“To Illuminate this Proverbial Dark Continent”: Lighting Infrastructure and the South African Night, 1860-1976

Zachary Fleishman, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Signals from the beginning of the universe

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire

Jens Amborg (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 25 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back

Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

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

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Future of Coding

David Vella Zarb, Computer Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms

Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford).

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?

Dr Alexander Borodavka.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The ancient Egyptian personification of the Milky Way as the sky-goddess Nut: an astronomical and cross-cultural analysis

Dr Or Graur.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it

William McMahon (Department of Earth Sciences).

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

Monday 18 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tiny animals, mighty impacts: modelling polar species on the move

Jen Freer, British Antarctic Survey.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Are we making progress in unlearning? 

Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind).

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

Dr George Malliaras.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of neural representations

Carl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge.

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

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

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

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

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 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?

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813–1850

Grace Exley (University of Leeds and Oxford Natural History Museum).

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

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

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

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

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 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.

Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The rise of life on land: new insights from exceptionally preserved fossils

Dr Sandy Hetherington.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

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

Dr 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.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Next Gen asset tracking using battery-free Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE, PervasID Ltd., St. Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

Sam Livingstone (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wondering What Our Blood Holds

Laura Magnani, Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle

Prof Tina Potter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuits

Daniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel.

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

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Data Flows & Menstruation: How Users of Period Trackers Navigate the Datafication & Commodification of their Menstrual Cycles

Dr Stefanie Felsberger, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows

Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt

Anna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck Institute).

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

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dopamine signalling in the octopus visual system

Anna Jansson, Cambridge -- Translational Neuroscience.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for human TB and its treatment from the tiny transparent zebrafish larva

Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pre-Christian Typologies in Greece and Rome

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

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 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.

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

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

Statistics

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

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

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Scaling Up Mental Health Support: Automated annotation for Recovery Stories using AI

Shrankhla Pandey (University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

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

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

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our archaeal origins

Dr Buzz Baum.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England

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

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

Monday 14 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populations

Ken Harris, University College London.

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

Friday 11 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Producing carbon nanotubes and hydrogen from natural gas: can fossil fuels assist the energy transition?

Jack Peden, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions

Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

**Seminar cancelled**

Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - July session ON ZOOM

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

Online (Zoom).

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Digital Cancer Twins: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Applications

Professor Jasmin Fisher, UCL Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 July 2024, 12:30-13:30

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.

Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basis

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

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - June session IN PERSON

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

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Darwin Gas Heating: smart sensor trial review and future prospects

Kilian Bartsch, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Learning Bayesian inference models of cortical visual processing

Rodrigo Echeveste, sinc(i), Santa Fe, Argentina.

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

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss

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

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

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

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 14:00-16:00

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thursday 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.

Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning

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

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

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

Statistics

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Circuit for memory-based action selection

Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - May session IN PERSON

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

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA Collaborative Seminar Series special event

Dr. 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) .

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Wind farms and power companies: from test sites to fossil fuels divestment, 1990-2019

Mercedes Galindez.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Integrated Spin model with global inhibition for decision making

Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science.

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

Monday 20 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Reconstructing humanity’s ghosts: genetic evidence for interbreeding among archaic humans

Trevor Cousins.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can International Law Stop Genocide? Investigating Whether States Have a Responsibility to Protect

Kiran Basra.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Creating brain organoids to uncover what makes us human.

Dr. Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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

Monday 13 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise

Aisha Alowais Alshamsi (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 13 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The sense of smell: from an overlooked research field to new approaches

Chloe Guillaume.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps

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

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The neuro-ethics of brain-computer interface tool use

Dvija Mehta, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)

Sheena McKeever (Department of History of Art).

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

Monday 06 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

Rob Morris (IMPA Rio).

MR2, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Overcoming challenges to sustainable heat using physics-informed machine learning

Javier Sandoval.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Youjing Yu.

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

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 14:00-16:00

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

Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rethinking Development from the Ethics of Care

Blanche Tardif-De-Moidrey.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Programmed evolution: Using asexual gene drives to sculpt tumor populations and combat genetic diversity

Justin Pritchard, Penn State College of Engineering.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Entangled Lives - Exploring plant biology through the fungal lens.

Alan Wanke.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 13:10-14:00

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.

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

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

Wednesday 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.

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

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

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

Statistics

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - April session ON ZOOM

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

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

Thursday 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.

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - March session IN PERSON

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

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 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

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 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.

Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition

Seán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol.

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

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide Inhibitors

Scott Lovell, University of Bath.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:30-13:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

Prof Sheena Radford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

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.

Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

A Second Charter: Imagining a Renewed United Nations

Augusto Lopez-Claros, Global Governance Forum.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 18:30-19:30

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

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

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

Tuesday 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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum

Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Reconstructing humanity’s ghosts: genetic evidence for interbreeding among archaic humans

Trevor Cousins.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 18:30-19:20

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolution

Dr Weini Huang.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Rejection of Magic in Early Greek and Chinese Medicine

Arthur Harris, History and Philosophy of Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 04 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Are we bearing the fruits of the personalized 'omics revolution?

Yasemin Cole.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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

Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Farming of Bones: Ethics in Bioarchaeology - a conversation with Myesha Jemison around the study and treatment of indigenous human remains

Chike Pilgrim, Archeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

Dr Maria Christophorou.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838

Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell size - A new hallmark of aging?

Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mechanical force guided cell migration in early embryonic development

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

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

Dr Michael Boemo.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 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.

James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Denying religious exemptions to secure LGBTQ+ equality

Sam Cole, Philosophy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices

Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd..

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

Sir Gregory Winter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s

Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Harnessing quantum mechanics to predict the properties of materials

Benjamin Shi.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue Scales

Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

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

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

Wednesday 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.

Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Crime and Punishment: Rethinking Right Wing Authoritarianism

Malia Marks, Criminology .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

Dr Danielle Shore .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancers

Prof. Elizabeth Murchison.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Lake Malawi Cichlids – A Model System for Speciation Research

Moritz Blumer.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Homotopy methods for convex optimization

Andreas Klingler (Innsbruck).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 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.

Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

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

Amelia Hassoun, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant

Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 05 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing

Dr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

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

Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dancing in the sunlight: Light-responsive materials for drug delivery to energy storage

Bea Jones.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Farming of Bones: Ethics in Bioarcheology - conversations with indigenous communities and other stakeholders with respect to Holocene Era human remains in Trinidad and Tobago

Canceled

Chike Pilgrim, Archeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin

Prof Paul Barrett.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

Alex Aylward (University of Oxford).

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

Monday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

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

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

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Measuring chaos: ongoing chromosomal instability in cancer through the lens of single-cell DNA sequencing

Michael Schneider.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Results from the world’s largest trial of the 4-Day Week: imagining the future of work

Jon White, Sociology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.

Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research .

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

Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

Andreas Schaefer.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 22 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Enhancing dimensionality of in-vitro GPCR drug discovery

Ned Wills.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

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.

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

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

AI & Arbitration: A Compatible Marriage?

Canceled

Maroof Rafique, Law.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.

Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience.

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

Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia

Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

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

Monday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics

Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Revealing the tales of post-Viking migration between UK and Denmark through 1 million personal genomes

Xiaolei Zhang.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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

Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Green Transition: New Frontiers of Extractivism

Note different time and room

Christine Schwöbel-Patel, CRASSH/Warwick Law School.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

Dr Brendan Swain.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard.

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

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

Prof Ian Fleming.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)

Erica Fischer (King's College London).

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

Monday 20 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Road to Future Roads: Carbon Data Ontology

Jinying Xu.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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

Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Surprising Uses of Dating Apps in Times of Emergency: Lessons Learned from the Covid Sex Lives Project

Note different time

Rachel Katz, Digital Media Sociology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry

Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

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

Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Novel protein-based vaccine technologies to tackle global health threats

Gabrielle Admans.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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

Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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

Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

Dr Tamar Makin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century

Rachel Feldberg (University of York).

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

Monday 06 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Predicting outcomes for patients with dementia requiring psychiatric inpatient care

Oriane Marguet.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

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

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

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

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

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

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Visions of Vengeance: Tracking the Father through New Hollywood Cinema

Harrison Whitaker, Film & Screen Department.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

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

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

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The priest, the philosopher, the scientist, and the new age of medicine

Benjamin Doolittle.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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

Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Edward Young.

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

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Enlightenment, Empire and Thomas Pennant's Practices of Natural History

Edwin Rose, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

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

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. .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

Prof David Rubinsztein.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

CRUK CI.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England

Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 23 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Artifical photosynthesis: fuels and pharmaceuticals from using solar power

Tessel Bouwens.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems

Stefanie Ullmann (she/her), CRASSH.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab

Dr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

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

Monday 16 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina

Silvia M. Marchiori (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

A Tale of Vertebrae: A time travel to the origin of South American snake diversity

Andres Alfonso-Rojas.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

A new look at eye design

Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Hierarchical Models for Knowledge Transfer in Industrial Fleets

Maharshi Dhada, Industrial Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

Prof Adam Nelson.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Gilded Stories: Unearthing the Significance of Indus Ornamentation

Aritri Samadder.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away

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

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

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

Statistics

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases

Pau Castel, NYU School of Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Tuesday 04 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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

Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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

Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard.

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

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

Statistics

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

Canceled

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 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.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

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

Saffron East (Adrian Research Fellow).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

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

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

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

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 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.

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and David Lui.

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

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Chiles in Mexico: History, Flavour, and Belonging

Daniela Sclavo (History of Science, Ethnography).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 13:10-14:00

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 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

Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thursday 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.

Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Will Greedy, University of Bristol.

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

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

‘Giving it back - restitution, repatriation and the deconstruction of the world museum’

Libby Howie.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix

Professor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 29 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Lynn Berry (Open University).

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

Monday 29 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Recreating the Basics of Life by Bottom-Up Construction of a Cell

Leanne Milburn.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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

Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Breaking Rules: Motivation and Morality in Intimate Partner Violence

Sarah Carlo (Criminology).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2.

On Zoom Only

Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94647233365?pwd=SGlubDdCL2ZSTWJvNHNjV0NiWHM5dz09.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I

Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University).

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

Monday 22 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

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

Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The rise of a new syndemic: Characterising the interactions between dementia, infections and socio-economics

Angelique Mavrodaris.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium

multiple.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 09:45-17:15

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

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

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment

Valentine Delrue (Ghent University & Ca' Foscari University).

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

Monday 15 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tissue-specific tuning of the protein production machinery

Katy Grobicki.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Trade-Sustainable Development Nexus

Julien Miéral (Law).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 13:15-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72

Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 08 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

Aad van der Vaart (Delft).

MR2, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Porous material

Ratul Das.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Burigede Liu.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space

Ian Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company.

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

Monday 01 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Weathering the Storm: Aeroelasticity of Civil Structures

Igor Kavrakov.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 13:10-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis.

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

Tuesday 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.

Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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

Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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.

Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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

Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

Jason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 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

Matthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 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.

Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rare books and Anglo-Irish collecting in nineteenth century Cambridge

Nora Moroney, Bibiography.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 13:15-14:00

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

Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

Prof. Melinda Duer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain

Max Long (History, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 13 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 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.

Sam Cobb.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 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

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

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 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.

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Dust, Animacies and Distributions: VR, AR and Digital Arts Pedagogies for Complex Times

Dr Annouchka Bayley (SFHEA).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal

Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 06 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Story the Soil tells

Chike Pilgrim.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 13:10-14:00

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

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

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 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.

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

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Measuring the impact of climate change on within-country income inequality

Emile Petraviciute (Development Studies).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 13:15-14:00

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

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

Prof. Alison Smith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

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

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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.

Dvija Mehta.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 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

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

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 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.

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Luke Johnston, Wayne Soo.

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

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Revisiting early Jewish-Christian relations

Daniel H. Weiss (Jewish Studies).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?

Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery

Thomas Lanyon-Hogg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

CANCELLED

Lynn Berry (Open University).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Are net-zero proposals feasible?

Jennifer Hawkin.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

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

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

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 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.

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Puria Radmard and David Liu.

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

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Meta-monuments: storytelling, collaboration and the proxy-wars of public art

Alexander Augustus (Artist).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 13:15-14:00

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

Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals

Prof. Steve Brusatte.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine

Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University.

CRUK CI.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century

Taylor E. Dysart (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

Monday 13 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 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)

Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 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.

Vivian Monzon.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 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

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

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 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.

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learning

Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Border Town: Tharros and the Roman Frontier in Sardinia

Patrick Hayes, Classics.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit

Dr. Josephine Bryant.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

Jan Becker (European University Institute).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Popper meets machine learning - How falsificationism can guide the design of AI solutions

Patrik Reizinger.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

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

Jonathan Swinton.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Zooming in on Micro-Methods: Archaeometry and the Interpretation of Ancient Ceramics

Christopher Kotkin (Archeological Science).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

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

Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Space: The Final Front-queer

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Lady Margaret Lectures

Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age?

Professor Mark Girolami FREng GRSE.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Monday 30 January 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Frederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 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.

Sandra Petrus-Reurer.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 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

Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can we use network analysis to predict violence?

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

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?

Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London.

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

Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer

Anna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

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

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 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.

James Smith.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 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

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

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics

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

CRUK CI.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated

Cynthia Rudin, Duke University.

Zoom.

Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Edward Young, Zahara Girones.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Science Student Research Series

Wolfson College's PhD students.

Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

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

CCIMI Seminars

Deep reinforced active learning

Emma Slade - GSK.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR4.

Wednesday 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

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

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour

Juan Alvaro Gallego.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Why is the international tax system problematic for low-income countries?

Kui Li (Law Faculty).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

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

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750

Lucy Havard (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 28 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

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

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

School-based health promotion: what went wrong and where to next?

Mairead Ryan.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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

Andy Lin, MLG.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel.

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

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Automating the Archive: From Card Catalogues to Computer Bots

Dr Siddharth Soni (Cambridge Digital Humanities).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable seafood for human health

Dr David Willer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany

Madeline White (University of Oxford).

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

Monday 21 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Informing more sustainable development of the oil palm industry

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

Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

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

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

On the (actual) origin of species through the lens of hybridization.

Hilde Schneeman.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:10-14:00