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CERF and CF Events

Aggregation and Convexity in the Provision of Dynamic Incentives

UserThomas Hemmer (Rice Business School).

HouseW2.01, CJBS.

ClockThursday 19 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

Science advice under uncertainty

UserAmy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

ClockFriday 13 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAsif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

CERF and CF Events

Tax Incentives and Venture Capital Risk-Taking

UserMurillo Campello (Cornell University) .

HouseW2.02, CJBS.

ClockThursday 05 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserMichael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 04 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

TheCultureLab

UserHelene Scott-Fordsmand (Clare Hall & HPS, Cambridge) and Anatolii Kozlov (Science & Technology Studies, UCL).

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

ClockFriday 30 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Quantifying Patenting by Women in the U.S., 1845-1924

UserRuveyda Gozen (London School of Economics), co-authored with Mike Andrews and Enrico Berkes.

HouseWilliam Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography and on Teams.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Title to be confirmed

UserSophie Joscelyne (University College London).

HouseLong Room, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 26 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Contractual soldiering and negotiated authority during the French Revolutionary Wars

Room changed. This event is now hybrid. Please see below for the Teams link.

UserRory Butcher (University of Leeds).

HouseBoardroom in the Cambridge History Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

CERF and CF Events

CERF Cavalcade

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseW2.01, CJBS.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2025, 14:30-16:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experimental Democracy

UserLeah Downey (St. John's College, University of Cambridge).

HouseLong Room, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 12 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Farmland as an Asset Class: Investors, Returns and Real Effects

UserPedro Gete (IE University).

HouseW2.01, CJBS.

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

Labour History Cluster

New Books in Labour History

UserMassimo Asta, Charmian Mansell, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Hillary Taylor, with Paul Cavill, Jonah Miller, Natalia Mora-Sitja.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

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

Financial History Seminar

Money: a Treasury-centric view

UserMario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

History and Economics Seminar

A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal

UserMelissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania) .

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

Group selection and Ronald Fisher

UserRobert Asher (Associate Professor and Curator, University Museum of Zoology).

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

ClockFriday 07 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery

Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine

UserKeith Wailoo (Princeton University).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Financial History Seminar

What does it mean to Democratize Finance?

UserDr Leah Rose Downey (University of Cambridge).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 03 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Railway closures in France, 1900-1940

UserAlexis Litvine (University of Cambridge), co-authored with Matteo Mazzamurro and Alban de Gmeline.

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2025, 13:15-14:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Post-Kantian Perfectionism

UserDouglas Moggach (University of Ottawa/University of Sydney).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 24 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

The evolution of sentience

UserNicholas Humphrey (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics).

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

ClockFriday 14 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage in the early modern period?

UserLiam Brunt (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) and Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science as communication

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Cryptocurrency ownership

UserManju Puri (Duke).

HouseW2.02, CJBS.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Quantitative History Seminar

New Perspectives on the Economic History of War

UserJari Eloranta, University of Helsinki.

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2025, 13:15-14:45

Financial History Seminar

A new history of the interwar Bank of England

UserDr Robert Yee (University of Oxford).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 03 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Strategic Disclosure with Fake and Real News

UserIlan Guttman (NYU Stern0.

HouseW2.01, CJBS.

ClockThursday 30 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

CERF and CF Events

Student Loan Forgiveness

UserConstantine Yannelis (University of Chicago).

HouseCastle Teaching Room, CJBS.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A domino theory of disease

UserHarriet Fagerberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Reading Hegel in the Twenty-First Century

UserKimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 25 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Labour History Cluster

Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective

UserMaria Agren, University of Uppsala.

HouseRoom 3, Faculty of History.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses

Anita McConnell Lecture

UserMichael Korey (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon of the Dresden State Art Collections).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Hidden in plain sight: Influential sets in linear regression

UserJesus Crespo Cuaresma (WU Vienna).

HouseCastle Teaching Room, CJBS.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Locke's Political Legacy

UserTim Stanton (University of York).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 11 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Urban Spatial Distribution of Housing Liquidity

UserFrancisco Amaral (University of Zurich).

HouseW2.02, CJBS.

ClockThursday 31 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'

UserPeter Ghosh (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 28 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Mary Hesse Lecture

In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming

First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science

UserNancy Cartwright (Durham University, and University of California, San Diego).

HouseOld Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

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

CERF and CF Events

Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future

UserJoanna Kusiak (King's College).

HouseW2.02.

ClockThursday 17 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Oikonomia of Conspiracy

UserDemetra Kasimis (University of Cambridge).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 14 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

2024 Corporate Finance Theory Symposium Day 2

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House TBD.

ClockSaturday 14 September 2024, 09:00-17:00

CERF and CF Events

2024 Corporate Finance Theory Symposium Day 1

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House TBD.

ClockFriday 13 September 2024, 12:00-17:00

History and Economics Seminar

A History of Non-Sustainable Integration: High-Speed Rail, Europeanisation, and the Failure of the "Nordic Triangle", 1985-2005

Joint meeting with the Modern European History Research seminar.

UserAndreas Mørkved Hellenes, Chalmers University of Technology/Clare Hall.

HouseThe Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2024, 17:15-18:15

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSuzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

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

CERF and CF Events

Financial Frictions and Pollution Abatement Over the Life Cycle of Firms

UserChi-Yang Tsou (University of Manchester).

HouseCJBS, Room W2.01.

ClockThursday 30 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The intoxicant economy in early modern England

UserPhil Withington, University of Sheffield.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science

UserNick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Regional Variation of GDP per Head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate

UserStephen Broadberry (Oxford University), co-authored with Hanhui Guan (Peking University).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2024, 13:15-14:45

CERF and CF Events

Cavalcade 2024

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseW2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2024, 14:30-16:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Income Inequality in Imperial Austria, 1911

UserMichael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2024, 13:15-14:45

History and Economics Seminar

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

Joint meeting with the Global Economic History seminar.

UserMarc-William Palen, University of Exeter.

HouseAudit Room (Old Lodge), King’s College.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2024, 17:15-18:15

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Quantitative History Seminar

The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

UserErik Bengtsson (Lund University), co-authored with Felix Kersting (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 13:15-14:45

African Economic History Seminar

‘Living Standards in Angola, 1760-1975’

UserHélder Carvalhal (University of Manchester).

HouseKing's College (the Audit Room).

ClockTuesday 12 March 2024, 17:15-18:45

Financial History Seminar

How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.

UserStephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Origins of Random Choice

UserSavitar Sundaresan (Imperial College London).

HouseCastle Teaching Room.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia

UserAmanda Gregg (Middlebury College), co-authored with Amy Dayton (Strider Technologies) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College).

HouseBoard Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 13:15-14:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The United States of Europe, 1848–1914

UserChristopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is AI generated art really art?

UserMilena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

African Economic History Seminar

‘Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What Can Names Tell Us?’

UserRebecca Simson (Oxford/London School of Economics).

HouseKing's College (the Audit Room).

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 17:15-18:45

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Nonparametric conditional factors for unbalanced panels

UserPaul Schneider (Swiss Finance Institute) .

HouseW4.03.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

History and Economics Seminar

'Patient Planet': An Environmental History of Globalization

UserJeremy Adelman (Princeton University / University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.

UserKofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge).

HouseOne Newnham Terrace, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

UserKatarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

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

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

UserAna Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

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

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

UserLovansh Katiyar (Cambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi).

HouseRoom 9, Faculty of History.

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

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

How to discipline financial markets: reputation is not enough

UserMaria Bigoni (University of Bologna) .

HouseW4.03.

ClockThursday 25 January 2024, 12:30-13:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions

UserRichard Bourke (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 22 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

UserMartin Daunton (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

UserDr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

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

ClockTuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development

UserMagnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies).

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History.

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

CERF and CF Events

CANCELLED The Dynamics of Stock Repurchases

UserGrzegorz Pawlina (Lancaster University).

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lifecycle of a constant: e

UserAlistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Where inattention pays

UserJingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

UserMarissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lineages as evolving processes

UserJohn Dupré (University of Exeter).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke and Slavery

UserMark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why we shouldn't democratise science

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

UserEdward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

UserMaria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

UserMichael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 09 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Proxy Voting and the Rise of ESG

UserEnrichetta Ravina (Chicago Fed).

HouseCJBS, Castle Teaching Room.

ClockThursday 15 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Border crossings - mapping UK discussions about partition at the 75th anniversary of 1947

Jointly with the World History Seminar

UserEleanor Newbigin (SOAS, University of London) .

HouseLong Room, Gonville and Caius College (central site off Trinity Street).

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 17:00-18:00

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPaul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

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

CERF and CF Events

The Behavioral Policy Uncertainty Channel and Fiscal Analysis: Theory and Evidence

UserHormoz Ramian (University of Glasgow).

HouseCJBS, room W201.

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Keynes Fund

Annual Keynes Lecture, Faculty of Economics

All welcome!

UserXavier Gabaix (Harvard University).

HouseLG19, Faculty of Law.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

CERF Cavalcade 2023

UserSpeakers listed on our website.

HouseCJBS, Room W2.01.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2023, 14:30-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

UserMichael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Taxes and Equity Risk and Return: The case of Tax-Loss Carry Forwards

UserRon Giammarino (University of British Columbia).

HouseCJBS, room W201.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

A web of entanglements: following East African cowries across land and oceans (18th-19th century)

Jointly with the African Economic History seminar

UserKarin Pallaver (University of Bologna).

HouseAudit Room (Old Lodge), King’s College.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 17:15-18:45

African Economic History Seminar

‘A Global Moment: The Circulation of East African Cowries across Land and Oceans (18th-19th Century)’

This is a joint meeting with the History and Economics Seminar

UserKarin Pallaver (University of Bologna) .

HouseKing's College (the Audit Room).

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 17:15-18:45

Financial History Seminar

The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8

UserProfessor Susan Howson, University of Toronto.

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

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

HouseZoom.

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

CERF and CF Events

The Rise of Anti-Activist Poison Pills

UserOfer Eldar (Duke University).

HouseCJBS, room W2.02 .

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 13:00-14:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

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

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

CANCELLED

UserLynn Berry (Open University).

HouseZoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

TBA

UserStefan Eich (Georgetown University).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Market Segmentation Through Information

UserMatt Elliot (Cambridge Economics) .

HouseHotel du Vin Cambridge, Lombard Room .

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

UserJan Becker (European University Institute).

HouseZoom.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy

Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.

UserDr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

ClockWednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

UserFrederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

HouseZoom.

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

CERF and CF Events

Research Unbundling and Market Liquidity: Evidence from MiFID II

UserRu Xie (University of Bath).

HouseCJBS, room W201.

ClockThursday 26 January 2023, 13:00-14:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance'

UserJamie Martin (Harvard), with comments by Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge), Madeline Woker (Cambridge), and Duncan Bell (Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Capital Flows and Growth in Institutional Investor Equity Ownership

UserAlon Brav (Duke University, CJBS Visitor) .

HouseCJBS, room W2.02 .

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

UserFelipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

CERF and CF Events

Why SPACs: An Apologia

https://jbs-cam.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcemtrDwtH9UnT-9Av7bia7f9CtCTYMFx

UserUsha Rodrigues (University of Georgia).

HouseZoom only.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

UserTom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

UserFabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

HouseZoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860

UserJane Humphries (London School of Economics).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Momentum and Short-Term Reversals: Theory and Evidence

UserAvanidhar (Subra) Subrahmanyam (UCLA Anderson School of Management.

HouseZoom only.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Necessity of Bubbles

UserWilliam H. Janeway (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Comparing factor models with conditioning information

UserSeok Young Hong (Lancaster University Management School) .

HouseCJBS, Fadi Boustany LT .

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

UserManabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Jessica Patterson’s (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'

UserJessica Patterson (Cambridge), with comments by Ian Stewart (QMUL), Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), and Shruti Kapila (Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Nova Workshop - Day 2

Registration is required

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseThe Møller Centre | Storey’s Way, | Cambridge |CB3 0DS.

ClockSaturday 24 September 2022, 09:00-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Nova Workshop - Day 1

Registration is required

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseThe Møller Centre | Storey’s Way, | Cambridge |CB3 0DS.

ClockFriday 23 September 2022, 12:00-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2022

Registration is required for this event.

UserPlease see the programme on our website.

HouseThe Møller Centre | Storey’s Way, | Cambridge |CB3 0DS.

ClockSaturday 17 September 2022, 09:00-17:30

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2022

Registration is required for this event.

UserSee the programme on our website.

HouseThe Møller Centre | Storey’s Way, | Cambridge |CB3 0DS.

ClockFriday 16 September 2022, 12:00-17:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Data and Welfare in Credit Markets

UserConstantine Yannelis (University of Chicago Booth School of Business).

HouseIn-person at JBS (room W201), and online (Zoom).

ClockThursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Temperature Shocks and Industry Earnings News

UserJawad M. Addoum (Cornell).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Illuminating Gender in the Early Modern Urban Space of Edo: A study on Edo Meisho Zue

UserDanielle van de Heuvel & Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

CERF and CF Events

Title to be confirmed

UserUsha Rodrigues (University of Georgia).

HouseCJBS, room TBC.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Corporate Supply of (Quasi) Safe Assets

UserLira Mota (Princeton).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

CERF and CF Events

CERF Cavalcade 2022

UserSee the programme on our website.

HouseCJBS room W405.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 14:30-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

UserNaftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

UserOsiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

HouseZoom.

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

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

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

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

UserCharlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2022, 17:00-18:15

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

UserNader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Do Short Sellers Care about ESG?

UserMehrshad Motahari (Bayes Business School, City University of London).

HouseIn-person at JBS (Castle Teaching Room) and online .

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

UserCatherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

UserHyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

African Economic History Seminar

From Mortgage Holders to Slum Landlords: Compensated Emancipation and the Building of Cape Town, 1830s-1840s

This talk was postponed from 15 February to 26 April

UserKate Ekama (Stellebosch University, South Africa).

HouseIn person only.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2022, 17:00-18:30

History and Economics Seminar

The patriarchy of diaspora: Race fantasy and gender blindness in Chen Da’s studies of the Nanyang Chinese in Southeast Asia

We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_leow.htm

UserRachel Leow (Cambridge) .

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

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

African Economic History Seminar

Gains and Gainers on Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and Slave-Based Commodities: Towards a Global Approach

UserFilipa Ribiero da Silva (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam).

HouseKing's College (the Audit Room).

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Ellen McArthur Lectures

Lecture 4: Adam Smith in Mesopotamia

UserRobert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (Corpus Christi College).

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 17:30-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Learning (to learn) from others

UserRichard Moore (University of Warwick).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Stability and Evolution in Investor Ideology

UserEnrichetta Ravina (Chicago Fed).

HouseOnline.

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

Ellen McArthur Lectures

Lecture 3: Domar and Habakkuk on the Euphrates

UserRobert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (Corpus Christi College).

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:30-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties’

Paper available for pre-reading

UserHelen Tilley, Northwestern University .

HouseZoom + TBC venue.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-18:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On the nonexistence of moralometers

UserEric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

African Economic History Seminar

The Angolan Coffee Frontier, 1820-1920

The presentation will be only 20 minutes, so discussion will be based largely on people having read the paper in advance. If you are coming to the seminar, please contact Gareth Austin (gma31@cam.ac.uk) for the paper.

UserJelmer Vos (University of Glasgow).

HouseKing's College (the Audit Room).

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

UserWayne Soon (Vassar College).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Ellen McArthur Lectures

Lecture 2: Malthus in the Levant

UserRobert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (Corpus Christi College).

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 17:30-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

UserAxel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Ellen McArthur Lectures

Lecture 1: What the Natufians did for us

UserRobert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (Corpus Christi College).

ClockWednesday 02 March 2022, 17:30-19:00

History and Economics Seminar

Contested Values: Economic Expertise in the Comparable Worth Controversy, USA, 1979-1989

We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm

UserCléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (CRASSH).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Epistemic bunkers

UserKatherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Board Diversity and Rare Disasters Risk Insurance

UserDunhong Jin (Hong Kong University Business School).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

UserDaniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

UserTracey Loughran (University of Essex).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands

The paper will be made available before the seminar

UserLauren Benton, Yale University .

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Strategic Default and Renegotiation: Evidence from Commercial Real Estate Loans

UserErkan Yönder (Concordia University).

HouseOnline.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

UserMinakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective

We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm

UserPedro Ramos Pinto (Cambridge) et al..

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

UserEleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Monitoring Secretive Startups

UserScott Guernsey (UTK).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

UserAyah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Keynes Fund

Keynes Lecture: 'Is this Time Different? Financial Follies across Centuries'

This event will be live-streamed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eNUP_eL0kN8

UserProfessor Helene Rey, London Business School.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

UserJaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

UserKate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Harnessing the Overconfidence of the Crowd: A Theory of SPACs

UserMartin Szydlowski (Carlson School of Management).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

UserDaniel Allemann, University of Lucerne .

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

ClockWednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

UserMarieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

The Judicial Counterrevolution to Reconstruction

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/bowie.html

UserNikolas Bowie (Harvard).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

UserMathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

UserRyan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Pi-CAPM: The Classical CAPM with Probability Weighting and Skewed Assets

UserSebastian Ebert (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

UserJacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

UserGuido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Thought of Charles Malik

UserChloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) .

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

UserGloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

UserMaree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

UserCharlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

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

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMaría M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseThe Theatre, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

UserSara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Aggregate Consequences of Forbearance Lending: Evidence from Japan

UserIsabelle Roland (University of Cambridge, Economics).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Histories of Capitalism: the View from Offshore

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/ogle.html

UserVanessa Ogle (UC Berkeley) .

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2021, 17:00-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

UserChris Otter (Ohio State University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

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

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

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States)

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/barreyre_lemercier.html

UserNicolas Barreyre (EHESS) and Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po) .

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 15 September 2021, 17:00-18:00

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2021 - Day 2

UserPlease see our website.

HouseOnline.

ClockSaturday 11 September 2021, 14:00-17:30

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2021 - Day 1

UserPlease see our website.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 10 September 2021, 14:00-17:30

History and Economics Seminar

The Significance of Small Things: Towards a History of Dam Building in the Twentieth Century

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/ghosh.html

UserArunabh Ghosh (Harvard University).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 14 July 2021, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Asset Transfer Measurement Rules

UserLucas Mahieux (Tilburg School of Economics and Management).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 17 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: Denaturalizations under the Vichy Regime, 1940-1944

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/zalc.html

UserClaire Zalc (IHMC/CNRS/EHESS).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 16 June 2021, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Group-Managed Real Options

UserLorenzo Garlappi (Sauder).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

UserElla Larsson (University of Westminster).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Women in the Financial Sector

UserMaria-Teresa Marchica at ABMS.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 20 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

UserMonique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"

UserMax Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India

UserNazmul Sultan (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland

UserFranziska Holt (University of York).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

UserHarun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution

UserDan Bogart (University of California, Irvine).

HouseONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Bryce and the concepts of constitution

UserPasquale Pasquino (CNRS) .

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Opium, Tea and Cotton: The Rise and Fall of the Sassoon Dynasty in South East Asia

UserProfessor Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

UserChristoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Climate Risk and the Pandemic

UserRob Engle (NYU Stern School of Business).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Futures

UserJenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

CERF and CF Events

The CERF Cavalcade

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2021, 14:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

World models and intuition in the 1970s

UserSarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

UserEllen Fridland (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Financial History Seminar

HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009

UserDr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

UserJeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

UserDavid Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Factor demand and factor returns

UserDr Cameron Peng Assistant Professor of Finance, LSE.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

UserAnna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

UserFernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

UserChris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

UserLena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

History and Economics Seminar

Ghost in a Shell. Scenarios and the world-making of Royal Dutch Shell

Register here for Zoom link: https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/jenny_andersson.htm

UserJenny Andersson (Sciences Po Paris / Uppsala).

House Via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

UserWilliam Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

UserLuc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

UserEdwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

UserChiara Ambrosio (University College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title: Injunction Risk, Technology Commercialization, and Profitability

UserPo-Hsuan (Paul) Hsu (University of Hong Kong).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

UserKourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

UserJack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

UserRachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

UserKaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

The Vagrancy of Economic Invisibility

Register here for Zoom link:https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/trivellato.html

UserFrancesca Trivellato (IAS, Princeton).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2021, 17:00-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

UserElizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983

UserDr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

UserSusan Shell (Boston College).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

UserAlexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

A Theory of Proxy Advice when Investors Have Social Goals

UserJohn Matsusaka, USC Gould.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

UserAdrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

UserMark Fisher (Georgetown University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

UserJosie Gill (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

History and Economics Seminar

Rocky Mountain High: Economic Privilege in Campaigns Against Multinational Mining in the 1970s

Register here for Zoom link: https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/megan_black.htm

UserMegan Black (MIT) .

House Via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

UserMackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation

UserProfessor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?

UserLars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Truth AND consequences

UserPolly Mitchell (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Investor Confidence and Portfolio Dynamics

UserRaman Uppal, EDHEC.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Strategy and Tactics in the Environmental Revolution

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/warde.html

UserPaul Warde (Pembroke College, Cambridge).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2021, 17:00-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

UserAmir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

UserSteven Klein (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 25 January 2021, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How does process tracing work?

UserChristopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

CERF and CF Events

CERF in the (virtual) City 2021

Usersee the website.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 18 January 2021, 14:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

UserAriane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

UserRana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Virtual Mini Conference on Dominant Currency Pricing: Implications for global business cycle and stabilization policy

Please register online.

UserMore details and how to register please click here..

HouseVirtual event.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 15:10-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650

UserLisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850

UserElla Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

UserSee description.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

UserKarsten Müller (Princeton University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu

UserEva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

UserMax Long (Faculty of History).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

UserKristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

UserHaixin Dang (University of Leeds).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

UserLeah DeVun (Rutgers University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality

UserDavid Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

UserLeonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Intermediary Financing without Commitment

UserYunzhi Hu (Kenan Flagler) .

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

UserVictoria Lee (Ohio University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

UserBrandon Terry (Harvard University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

UserMiles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

UserJim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from case studies

UserPetri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

UserKaren Harvey (University of Birmingham).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

UserGeneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

UserChristopher Preston.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Optimism in the Executive Team: Corporate Asset Transactions and Stock Performance

UserPiet Eichholtz (Maastricht University) .

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science and speculation

UserAdrian Currie (University of Exeter).

HouseTeams.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

UserAnna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

UserAdam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 19 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Comparative Ambiguity Aversion for Smooth Utility Functions

UserChiaki Hara (Kyoto University) .

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

UserMira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

UserCatarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Keynes Fund

Keynes Fund Research Day

UserProgramme online.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 30 September 2020, 13:00-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2020 - Day 2

Registration is required

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockSaturday 12 September 2020, 14:00-17:30

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2020 - Day 1

Registration is required

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 11 September 2020, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Large Orders in Small Markets: On Optimal Execution with Endogenous Liquidity Supply

UserAlbert J. Menkveld (VU University Amsterdam).

House TBC.

ClockThursday 11 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Multi-Asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims

UserGeorgy Chabakauri is an associate professor of Finance at the LSE.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

CERF and CF Events

CERF Cavalcade 20 May 2020

UserSee the programme on the CERF website.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2020, 14:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Financial Cycles with Heterogeneous Intermediaries

UserHelene Rey (London Business School).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserCarina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

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

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

African Economic History Seminar

CANCELLED! Capital and colonialism: The return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969

This seminar is college-based, so unaffected by the current industrial action.

UserKlas Rönnbäck (Gothenburg University).

HouseKing's College, Audit Room.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

By Virtue of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy

UserLisa Kattenberg (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge). Commentator: Richard Serjeantson.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

UserJames Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber

UserEdith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

African Economic History Seminar

The fiscal history of the British Cape Colony in comparative perspectives: Rethinking the South African exceptionalism, 1814-1910

This seminar is college-based, so unaffected by the current industrial action.

UserAbel Gwaindepi (Lund University).

HouseKing's College, Audit Room.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?

UserLars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). Commentator: Josh Smeltzer.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

UserLaura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

When Shareholders Disagree: Trading after Shareholder Meetings

UserErnst Maug (University of Mannheim, Business School).

HouseKH107, Keynes House, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

African Economic History Seminar

Marching with the Times: Numbers and Temporalities in 1960s Ghana

Please note that, for this meeting only, we start at 17:30

UserGerardo Serra (University of Manchester).

HouseKing's College, Audit Room.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

UserJonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

UserDr Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City, University of London .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 17:00-18:15

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Are star lawyers also better lawyers?

UserAlberto Manconi (Bocconi School of Management).

HouseUpper Hall, Peterhouse College, Cambridge CB2 1RD.

ClockThursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population

UserProfessor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

UserDr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, University of Kent .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

UserMarta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Financial History Seminar

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

UserProfessor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Bank Intermediation and Consumer Bankruptcy

UserAnne Villamil (Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the University of Iowa).

HouseUpper Hall, Peterhouse College, Cambridge CB2 1RD.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"

UserTejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 20 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'

UserAdam Woodhouse (University of Chicago). Commentator: Quentin Skinner.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 02 December 2019, 17:00-19:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

UserSusanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

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

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Neoliberal Turn

UserAngus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

UserAmy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Geography of Beliefs

UserJohan Walden (Haas School of Business University of California at Berkeley).

HouseKH107, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

The Religious Roots of Environmentalist Thought and Activism in Europe and America

UserMark Stoll (Texas Tech University / Rachel Carson Centre) .

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

UserWilliam Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations

Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics

UserProfessor Annabel Brett, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 17:00-18:15

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825

UserProf. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Simulating liquidity stress in the derivatives market

UserGerardo Ferrara, Ph.D., Economist | Market Behaviour & Activities Team | Capital Markets Division, Bank of England.

HouseCastle Teaching Room, 4th floor, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, CB2 1AG.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles

UserEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2019 Day 2

Registration is required for this event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseTBC.

ClockSaturday 14 September 2019, 09:00-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2019 Day 1

Registration is required for this event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseTBC.

ClockFriday 13 September 2019, 13:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA

UserRajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks

UserMatthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks

UserAmos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockFriday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Union Debt Management

UserRigas Oikonomou (Universite Catholique de Louvain).

HouseRoom W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 13 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office

UserDavid Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-14:30

CERF and CF Events

CERF in the City 2019

Registration is required for this event

Userplease see the programme.

HouseCCLA Investment Management Limited Senator House 85 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4ET .

ClockWednesday 05 June 2019, 12:30-17:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Business Groups and the Incorporation of Firm-specific Shocks into Stock Prices

UserMara Faccio (Purdue), A professor of finance and the Hanna Chair in Entrepreneurship at Purdue’s Krannert School.

HouseRoom W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 30 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

CERF and CF Events

CERF Cavalcade - 23 May 2019

Everyone is welcome and there is no need to register in advance.

UserSee the programme.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, Castle Teaching Room.

ClockThursday 23 May 2019, 14:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911

UserToke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands

UserOscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserRuth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS

UserJenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).

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

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Corporate Governance and the CAPM: Some Theory and Evidence

UserErnst-Ludwig von Thadden (University of Manheim), Professor of Economics and Finance..

HouseNorth 10 (lower ground), Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)

UserAndrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

UserJessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland

UserLiam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence

UserDr Mark Somos (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 17:15-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs

UserAbir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockMonday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

International Law's Objects: A Conversation

UserDr Jessie Hohmann (QMUL) and Dr Daniel Joyce (University of New South Wales).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 18:00-19:15

African Economic History Seminar

Gender and the Colonial Labour Market in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1980

At 18:30, the seminar will be followed by the launch of Dr Kufakurinani's book, 'Elasticity in Domesticity: White Women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890 to 1979', published by Brill (Leiden).

UserDr Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe).

HouseKing's College, Audit Room.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserMustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 11 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Competition, No-Arbitrage, and Systematic Risk

UserYuri Tserlukevich (Arizona State University) , W. P. Carey Finance, Associate Professor.

HouseCastle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

UserAnna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

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

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserEliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

African Economic History Seminar

Struggles over slavery, struggles over power: Africa 1926-1946

UserDr Benedetta Rossi (University of Birmingham).

HouseKing's College, Audit Room.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures

J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures 2019

UserProfessor Vasco Carvalho; Professor Brian Cheffins; Professor Raghavendra Rau; Dr Pedro Saffi and Dr Michael Tehranchi.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub), Bene't St.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Impact Investing

UserBrad M Barber (UC Davis) , Professor of Finance.

HouseRoom W4.05 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

International Relations & History Working Group

'Global History and the Place of the International'

UserAndrew Hurrell ( Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University).

House Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Online Meta-Learning

UserMassimiliano Pontil, University College London.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today

UserNikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin).

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Financial History Seminar

Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain

UserNicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Patenting in an Entrepreneurial Region during the Great Depression: The Case of Cleveland, Ohio

UserNaomi Lamoreaux Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and Professor of History, Yale University.

HouseCastle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

UserAgnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, the OAS and Responses to the Cuban Revolution: Towards a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Genealogy of Human Rights in the Americas

UserJuan Pablo Scarfi (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina; Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université Paris 3).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 17:15-18:30

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The medieval clothier

UserJohn Lee (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York).

HouseWalters Room, Selwyn College.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

UserJack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseUniversity Museum of Zoology.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

UserMary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication

UserProfessor Pat Capps (University of Bristol Law School).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 17:15-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

UserMatt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography

UserDr Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation

CANCELLED

UserTal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).

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

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Crisis, contagion and containment policies in financial networks : A dynamic approach

UserProfessor Hubert Kempf (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan), CESifo Research Network Fellow..

HouseRoom W4.05 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

UserKatie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

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

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570

UserDr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Brick and tile making in Athens, Greece, during 20th century

UserMichalis Bardanis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 12 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Ellen McArthur Lectures

Credit time horizons as ethical boundaries

UserAvner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History (Oxford).

HouseFaculty of Law, LG19.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Competition and Voting Premium

UserOğuzhan Karakaş University Senior Lecturer in Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School, CERF Fellow..

HouseNorth 10 (lower ground), Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Ellen McArthur Lectures

Safeguarding the future: families, education, and contract

UserAvner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History (Oxford).

HouseFaculty of Law, LG19.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Ellen McArthur Lectures

Impatient and patient capital: housing and democracy

UserAvner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History (Oxford).

HouseFaculty of Law, LG19.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Ellen McArthur Lectures

Time horizons as market boundaries in private, public and social enterprise

UserAvner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History (Oxford).

HouseFaculty of Law, LG19.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan

UserDr Sarah Nouwen (University Senior Lecturer in International Law) & Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis (doctoral candidate, Lauterpacht Centre of International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 17:15-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanations for medical artificial intelligence

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Dynamic Bank Capital Regulation in Equilibrium

UserMarcella Lucchetta (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia).

HouseRoom W4.05 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Many Molyneux Questions

UserJonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).

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

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

UserSpike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

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

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900

UserProfessor Pat Thane (King’s College London).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2018 - Day 2

Registration is required

UserSee the website.

HouseTBC.

ClockSaturday 15 September 2018, 09:00-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2018 - Day 1

Registration is required

UserSee the website.

HouseTBC.

ClockFriday 14 September 2018, 13:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models

UserEmtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockMonday 16 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative History Seminar

160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions

Note change of date

UserCheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

History and Economics Seminar

The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought. 170 years on, the legacy and current thinking

UserGareth Stedman Jones, Centre for History and Economics/Queen Mary, and Karma Nabulsi, Oxford University.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 14 June 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Angels, Entrepreneurship, and Employment Dynamics: Evidence from Investor Accreditation Rules

UserLuke Stein, Assistant Professor, Finance, Arizona State University..

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 14 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Dark Side of Circuit Breakers

UserCambridge Finance Workshop - Hui Chen (MIT) .

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England

UserTawny Paul, University of Exeter, and Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 24 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

CERF and CF Events

CERF Cavalcade May 2018

UserSee the programme.

HouseW2.02 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2018, 14:30-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAndreas Malm (Lund University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Dynamic Liquidity-Based Security Design

UserProfessor Kathy Yuan, LSE.

HouseW2.01.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

UserAgnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

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

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

UserAna Stoica, Columbia University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Short-Sales Constraints and Aftermarket IPO Pricing

UserRichard G. Sloan, Professor, Emile R. Niemela Chair in Accounting and International Business Haas Accounting Group.

HouseRoom W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

UserAna Stoica, Columbia University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockSunday 15 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument

CANCELLED

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

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

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Keynes Fund

Keynes seminar: "Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation" - joint with Emmanuel Farhi

Please register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/yYlnDQqVgBozA1L32

UserJean Tirole (Nobel Laureate, Toulouse School of Economics).

HouseFaculty of Law, room LG17 (The David Williams Building, 10 West Road, Cambridge). .

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Keynes Fund

Keynes lecture: "Morality and the Market"

Please register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/oW2uAF8lR1sLBQUE3

UserJean Tirole (Nobel Laureate,Toulouse School of Economics).

HouseLady Mitchell Hall.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Digital Revolution and the State

UserWilliam H. Janeway is a Senior Advisor and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus and a Member of the Board of Managers of CERF..

HouseRoom W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

UserMariam Thalos (University of Utah).

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

History and Economics Seminar

How India Became Democratic: Comparative Perspectives (Panel discussion led by Gary Gerstle and Tim Harper)

Jointly with The American and World History Seminars

UserOrnit Shani, University of Haifa.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Lipschitz Global Optimization

UserProfessor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire

UserDr Jonathan Healey, University of Oxford.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

History and Economics Seminar

An intellectual history of the universal basic income

UserDaniel Zamora, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Elite women and the agricultural landscape

UserDr Briony McDonagh, University of Hull.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill on Universal History

UserCallum Barrell (New College of the Humanities).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America

Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar

UserIra Katznelson (Columbia) .

HouseQueens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

INFORMATIVE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

UserDr Héctor Calvo Pardo is Reader in Economics within Social Sciences at the University of Southampton..

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept

UserJaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country).

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

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

CFM Cambridge-INET talk: Trilemma in crisis: economics and politics in Qatar (15 December 2017)

Please register your interest here https://goo.gl/forms/X2zw6SQoVQjJVHyL2

UserKhalid Alkhater.

HouseMeade Room, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks

UserProfessor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

AI for Inclusive Finance

UserAlan Qi and Le Song.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 01 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"

UserDr Kate Miles (Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Gonville & Caius).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Expected Returns and Risk in the Stock Market

UserMichael Brennan is a professor of finance at the University of Manchester, having previously held this position at UCLA and London Business School..

HouseRoom W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization

UserDr Frank Hutter.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A bold hypothesis about pursuit

UserAdrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

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

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Do CEOs Affect Employees' Political Choices?

UserIlona Babenko, Arizona State University.

HouseRoom W2.01 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 12:45-13:45

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Firebreaks and Risk-Shifting in Financial Networks

UserMatthew Elliott, University Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge..

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited

UserDr Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge).

HouseWine Room King's College.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?

UserDr Ziv Bohrer (Bar-Ilan University; visitor, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Prof. Maurice Obstfeld:"The Global Economy: the IMF Outlook” (20 October 2017)

Please register online

UserProfessor Maurice Obstfeld (Chief Economics, IMF and Professor in Economics, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseThe Old Library, Darwin College, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 20 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans

UserJacob Stegenga (with Zoë Hitzig) (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Transfer Learning for NLP

UserSebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Misreporting and Feedback Effect

UserProfessor Hui Chen, University of Zurich.

HouseRoom W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Masterclass Alain Chaboud (11-12 October 2017)

Please register online

UserAlain Chaboud (Federal Reserve).

HouseThe Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Workshop on Microstructure (10 October 2017)

Please register online

UserAlain Chaboud (FRB), Ian Marsh (Cass Business School), Roel Oomen (Deutsche Bank), Lucas Pedace (Bank of England), Joseph Noss (Bank of England) and Ondrej Tobek (Cambridge).

HouseThe Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2017, 10:00-17:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since 1695

UserDr Anthony Hotson, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Hitler's biography

UserProf. Brendan Simms ( History of International Relations, Cambridge University).

HouseWine Room King's College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Trade & Brexit Mini-Conference (29 September 2017)

Registration is now closed, however if you wish to attend please email the Organisers

UserRobert W. Staiger (Dartmouth College), Mark Wu (Harvard), Justin Pierce (Federal Reserve Board).

HouseMeade Room, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 29 September 2017, 12:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for autonomous driving

UserTakayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) .

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Macro Risks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

UserGeert Bekaert, Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School, Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics..

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 15 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Lenin on the Train

UserCatherine Merridale (IHR).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States

For the paper in advance, please contact md718@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Jason Sharman (POLIS).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 15:30-16:45

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

“Learning Through Crowdfunding”

UserKatrin Tinn, Imperial College London.

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Sequential Credit Markets

UserUlf Axelson, Abraaj Group Professor in Finance and Private Equity London School of Economics and Political Science..

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserLissa Roberts (University of Twente).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

CERF and CF Events

CERF Cavalcade

UserSee the programme on our website.

HouseW2.02 Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 14:30-17:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Composition of Wealth: Between Kinship Entitlements and Market Access

UserMargaret Lanzinger (Vienna) and Janine Maegraith (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 9.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differentially Private Bayesian Learning

UserDr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

Money: the unauthorised biography

UserDr Felix Martin, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies .

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Control, inference and learning

UserProf. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differential Privacy Tutorial

UserAlex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge.

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Contagion in the CDS Market

UserH. Peyton Young, James Meade Professor of Economics, University of Oxford.

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Why did Britain have broad money supply targets?

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/djn33@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Duncan Needham, Centre for Financial History.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning

UserDylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley.

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 15:00-16:00

J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures

J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures

UserProfessor Giancarlo Corsetti, The University of Cambridge; Professor Sanjeev Goyal, The University of Cambridge; Professor Hamid Sabourian, The University of Cambridge.

HouseThe McGrath Centre, St Catherine’s College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 17:30-19:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization

UserGroup Discussion.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds

UserZhi Da, Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame..

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization

UserGroup Discussion.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

UserChristof Jeggle (University of Würzburg).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

History and Economics Seminar

Industrialization, labour conflict, and the role of state and trade unions in Vietnam

UserPietro Masina (University of Naples L'Orientale / Clare Hall) .

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

UserProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Dynamics of Investment, Payout and Debt

UserProfessor Bart Lambrecht, Cambridge Judge Business School.

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational Bayes In Private Settings

UserMijung Park, University of Amsterdam.

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 15:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Julia: Introduction and new developments

UserDr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing).

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models

UserProf David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 13 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with limited supervision

UserStefano Ermon, Stanford.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

CERF and CF Events

CERF in the City

Registration is required

UserPlease see the programme.

HouseCCLA Investment Management Limited Senator House, 85 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4ET.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 13:00-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Safe-Haven CDS Premiums

UserDavid Lando, Professor of Finance, Copenhagen Business School.

HouseCastle Teaching Room.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rejection Sampling Variational Inference

UserFrancisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Inequality and social mobility in medieval England

UserProfessor Chris Dyer, University of Leicester.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?

UserProf. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick).

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What makes econophysics distinctive?

UserJames Weatherall (University of California, Irvine).

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

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable Models

UserTomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstration

UserDushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England

UserLeah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Labouring in early modern London

UserDr Judy Stephenson, University of Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors

UserManon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 10:00-11:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection

UserProfessor John Turner, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867

UserProfessor Gareth Stedman Jones, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, London.

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

History and Economics Seminar

'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867

UserGareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge and Queen Mary, London) .

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCA

UserProfessor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

CERF and CF Events

Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2016

Registration is required

UserKeynote speaker: Anjan Thakor, John E. Simon Professor of Finance,Director of the PhD Program, and Director of the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research.

House Lecture Theatre 2 and 3, Judge Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/location.html).

ClockFriday 16 September 2016, 14:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multiresolution Matrix Factorization

UserProf Risi Kondor (U Chicago).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 13 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Dynamic Models for Health Data

UserProfessor Katherine A Heller (Duke University).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 12 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with Memory Embeddings

UserProfessor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 08 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference as Learning

UserGeorge Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 08 August 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task Learning

Via Skype

UserYu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

CERF and CF Events

Switching Risk Off: FX Correlations and Risk Premia

UserJason Cen is a Research Associate in Finance, MSc (LSE), PhD (City University).

HouseCastle Teaching Room, Level 4, Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 09 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximations

UserAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 02 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Risk Management—the Revealing Hand

UserAnette Mikes - HEC Lausanne.

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

The UK and the EU

Please register for this event on http://bit.ly/1VfnIpY.

UserDr Chris Bickerton (POLIS), Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti (Faculty of Economics), Dr Swati Dhingra (Economics, LSE), Lord John Eatwell (President of Queens' College), Prof. Eilis Ferran (Faculty of Law), Dr Duncan Needham (Faculty of History), Prof. David Runc.

HouseWinstanley theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-14:30

Rausing Lecture

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

CERF and CF Events

CERF Cavalcade

UserRaghu Rau (CJBS), Rasheed Saleuddin (History), Qiusha Peng (CJBS & CERF), Christopher Harris (Economics), Chryssi Giannitsarou (Economics), Bang Dang Nguyen (CJBS).

HouseW4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 14:30-17:00

Coffee with Scientists

How to study fire

UserJenni Sidey (Research Associate, Department of Engineering).

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

ClockFriday 13 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

UserHülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul) (with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

A Hausman Test for the Presence of Market Microstructure Noise in High Frequency Data

UserYacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics .

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity

UserMurray Shanahan (Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London).

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

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

A Killer In Search of a Trial: Criminal Lunacy in the British Empire

UserCatherine Evans (Joint Centre for History and Economics, Harvard / Magdalene College) .

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

How should scientists quantify academic value?

UserAlecia Carter (Research Fellow, Churchill College and Department of Zoology).

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

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

CERF and CF Events

Time and value: traps and fallacies of asset pricing

UserDean Buckner (Bank of England).

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Builders of the vision

UserDaniel Cardoso Llach (Carnegie Mellon University/Cambridge).

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

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Anglo-American productivity differentials once again

UserMark Thomas (University of Virginia).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 25 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science

UserSteve Oliver (Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry; Director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre).

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

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural Assumptions

UserJacob Steinhardt (Stanford University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Are Foreign Investors Locusts? The Long-Term Effects of Foreign Institutional Ownership

UserProfessor Pedro Matos, Associate Professor of Finance at Darden School of Business .

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W4.05.

ClockThursday 10 March 2016, 10:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

The geometry of uncertainty

UserFabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseEngineering Department, Boardroom on the 2nd floor (past canteen on the left).

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

History and Economics Seminar

From Antislavery to Colonialism

User Padraic Scanlan (London School of Economics) .

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930

UserProfessor B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, USA, and National Bureau of Economic Research).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Bank Resolution and the Structure of Global Banks

UserMartin Oehmke, Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, Castle Teaching Room.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 10:30-12:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History

UserLeslie Chang, Jacapo Satori, Ryan Ripamonti, Emiliano Travieso, and Aditya Basrur (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Financial History Seminar

The end of the Swiss economic model

UserProfessor Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy

UserDaniel Allemann, Stephanie Ternullo, Rosa Hodgkin, Connor Lempriere, and Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Coffee with Scientists

Did the earth sciences have a 20th-century revolution?

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A more Automated Statistician

UserDavid Janz, Oxford University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 11:30-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predisposition and Household Financial Behaviour

UserMichael Haliassos holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt and is Director of the newly launched CEPR Network on Household Finance, Fellow of CEPR and NETSPAR, and advisor to the ECB and ESMA..

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Ethical Capitalism? The Rise of British Humanitarianism after 1947

User Tehila Sasson (Institute of Historical Research, London) .

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

Are we tackling the causes of global warming effectively?

UserSir David King (Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change).

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

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900

UserTatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University).

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

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Are Serial Acquirers Born or Made

UserRaghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Cambridge Judge Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/location.html).

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The impact of machines

UserHenry K. Miller (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL).

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

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation

UserEmily Adlam (Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics).

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

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909)

UserDr Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon), Dr Kyoji Fukao (IER, Hitotsubashi University) and Dr Tokihiko Settsu (Musashi University).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam

This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

UserLiana Saif (University of Oxford).

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

ClockTuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Central Bank Collateral Frameworks

UserProfessor Kjell G. Nyborg, a native of Norway, currently holds the Chair in Corporate Finance at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich.

HouseRoom W4.05 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Nazi Atrocities, Soviet Justice, and International Law

UserFranziska Exeler (Centre for History and Economics/Clare Hall) .

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

General Reinforcement Learning

UserJan Leike (Australian National University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

Coffee with Scientists

Science education

UserEugene Kang (Pusan University) and Keith Taber (Education, Cambridge).

HouseBoard Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 04 December 2015, 14:30-16:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene

UserGareth Austin (Geneva/Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Informed Trading by Advisor Banks? A look at options holdings ahead of mergers

UserProfessor Michelle Lowry, TD Bank Professor of Finance at the LeBow School of Business, Drexel University .

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W2.01.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 10:30-12:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Changes in Corporate Effective Tax Rates Over the Past Twenty-Five Years

UserProfessor Michelle Hanlon, Howard W. Johnson Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, LT2.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 10:00-11:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Why Do Institutions Delay Reporting Their Shareholdings? Evidence from Form 13F

UserSusan Christoffersen is an Associate Professor of Finance, Rotman School of Management.

HouseRoom W2.02 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade

UserSarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

A Bound on Expected Stock Returns

UserProfessor Ohad Kadan, Professor of Finance and Chair of the Finance Area at Washington University's Olin Business School.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W2.01.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 10:30-12:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

British Demography, c.1850-c.2000. How and Why was Scotland Different?

Note this seminar will start at 5.30pm

UserMichael Anderson (Edinburgh).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Noisy Rational Bubbles

UserQiusha Peng Interests: Macroeconomics, Theory, Finance.

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising model

UserDr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Fear, Anger and Credit. On Bank Robberies and Loan Conditions

UserSteven Ongena, Professor in Banking at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Finance Institute, Research fellow of CEPR..

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W2.02.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 10:30-12:00

Early Science and Medicine

On the political use of physiognomy around 1500

This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

UserJoseph Ziegler (University of Haifa).

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

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Influencing Control : Jawboning in Risk Arbitrage

UserPrfoessor Tao Li, Assistant Professor in Finance, Warwick Business School.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, LT2.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 10:30-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Governing America: John Locke in the 1690s

UserProf Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Economic and Social History Seminars

Medieval English Peasants and Culture

UserPhillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

A 21st-century biologist looks at Sir Isaac Newton

UserMargaret Ann Goldstein (Baylor College of Medicine, and Clare Hall).

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

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Colloquia on the European Crises: Banks' Stress Tests in the US: Lessons for Europe

Please register on Cambridge-INET website

UserTil Schuermann, Partner at Oliver Wyman & Former Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

HouseLG17, Faculty of Law.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 11:00-12:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Portfolio Choice with Model Misspecification: A Foundation for Alpha and Beta Portfolios

UserUPPAL Raman, PhD Professor - Speciality: Finance, EDHEC Business School.

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Simulating scientific merit dynamics

UserShahar Avin (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

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

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

“Can Institutional Investors Improve Corporate Governance Through Collective Action?”

UserProfessor Alexander Dyck, Professor of Finance and Business Economics and ICPM Professor in Pension Management, University of Toronto.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W2.01.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 10:30-12:00

Coffee with Scientists

Making archaeological knowledge

UserAlison Wylie (University of Washington, and Durham University) and John Robb (Archaeology, Cambridge).

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

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

“International Liquidity Shocks, the Real Economy, and Social Unrest: China, 1931-1935”

UserAlberto Manconi, Assistant professor of Finance, Tilburg University, Netherlands.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W2.02.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2015, 10:30-12:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison

Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar

UserFloris Cohen (Utrecht University).

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

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Credit Rationing, Income Exaggeration, and Adverse Selection in the Mortgage Market

UserBrent W. Ambrose is the Smeal Professor of Real Estate, Director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies, and Director of the Smeal College Ph.D. Program at the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. .

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Meta-Bayesian Analysis

UserProf. Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Do managers tacitly collude to withhold industry-wide bad news?

UserCatherine Schrand, the John C. Hower Professor and Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W4.05.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 10:00-11:30

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Characteristic-Based Expected Returns and Corporate Events

UserProfessor Hendrik Bessembinder, A. Blaine Huntsman Chaired Presidential Professor, Department of Finance, University of UTAH.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, KH107.

ClockTuesday 06 October 2015, 12:30-02:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studies

UserFrancesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 25 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped Parameters

UserKoh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 15 September 2015, 10:30-11:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A-Star Sampling Review

UserChris Maddison (U Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 14 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convex Factorization Machines

UserMathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 14 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Belief and Truth in Hypothesised Behaviours

UserStefano V. Albrecht - School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 10 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Ad-hoc Seminar: Commodities as Collateral

UserKe Tang, Professor of Finance, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockTuesday 08 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality

UserPedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 07 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphs

UserDr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 15:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific Discovery

UserDr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 29 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences

(via Skype!)

UserAlex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 27 July 2015, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rich Component Analysis

UserJames Zou (Microsoft Research New England).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 17 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Regional Man-land Relationship in the Northern Chinese Frontier in History

Please note earlier start time of 12.10pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available at the start.

UserProfessor Deng Hui, Peking University .

HouseSeminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

ClockMonday 13 July 2015, 12:10-13:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Errors and questionable judgments in analysts’ DCF models

UserProfessor John Hand, H. Allen Andrew Distinguished Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, USA.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockMonday 13 July 2015, 10:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling Regression

SHORT TALK (20 minutes)

UserProf Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 03 July 2015, 12:30-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learning

UserAnna Choromanska (New York University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 01 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Random Function Classes for Machine Learning

UserProf Alexander Smola, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LT1.

ClockTuesday 30 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Learning

UserProfessor Geoffrey Hinton FRS (U. Toronto and Google).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0.

ClockThursday 25 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

History and Economics Seminar

The Scottish Question and the Break-up of Britain

UserColin Kidd (University of St Andrews) and David Runciman (POLIS, Cambridge) .

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Can Metropolitan Housing Risk Be Diversified? A Cautionary Tale from the Recent Boom and Bust

UserJohn Cotter is Professor in Finance and the Chair in Quantitative Finance at University College Dublin. .

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain

UserBrandon Jackson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

HOARD BEHAVIOR DURING COMMODITY BUBBLES

Userwith Professor Harrison Hong, John Scully Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, Castle Teaching Room.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2015, 10:30-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Incentive Mechanisms for User-Provided Networks

note unusual time and place

UserJianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 08 June 2015, 15:15-16:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?

UserDr Rich Caruana (Microsoft).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

HPS History Workshop

Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Information Networks: Evidence from Illegal Insider Trading Tips

UserKenneth Ahern - Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics.

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, room W4.05.

ClockFriday 22 May 2015, 10:30-12:00

Rausing Lecture

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata

UserJonnie Penn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934

UserProfessor Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Railways and population: spatial interactions

Note: this seminar will start at 12.30pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.15pm.

UserEduard Alvarez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) and Professor Jordi Marti Henneberg (University of Lleida, Spain).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015

UserDr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10..

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Mind the Gap: The Difference between US and European Loan Rates

UserAnthony Saunders – John M. Schiff Professorship in Finance - Stern.

House10 Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural Networks

Short talk

UserMark Rowland (Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 11:00-11:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion

UserDenis Gromb is Professor of Finance at INSEAD, where he teaches Corporate Finance.

HouseRoom W4.03 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy

UserSeb Falk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

History and Economics Seminar

The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Finding a Useful Past in Japan

UserJulia Adeney Thomas (University of Notre Dame/Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserProf. Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 17:00-18:45

Quantitative History Seminar

Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain

UserDr Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga) (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:15

Financial History Seminar

Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment

UserWilliam Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer.

HouseDarwin College (Old Library).

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 18:00-19:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

UserHelen Berry (Newcastle).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserTuan Anh Le (Oxford).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

Strategic and Natural Risk in Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study

UserJohn Morgan - Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business and Department of Economics UC Berkeley.

HouseJudge Business School, KH107.

ClockFriday 27 March 2015, 12:00-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909

UserPatrick Ellis (University of California, Berkeley).

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

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

UserProfessor Forrest Capie, Cass Business School, City University, London.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserAlexandra Digby/Neil Gandhi (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Precautionary Saving and Aggregate Demand

UserM. Edouard Challe is a CNRS researcher and associate professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique.

HouseRoom W4.06 Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Newtonian politics

UserJason Grier (York University, Canada).

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

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Population Inference for Functional Brain Connectivity

UserGenevera I. Allen (Rice University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

History and Economics Seminar

Black Networks after Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration

UserKaivan Munshi (University of Cambridge) with Kenneth Chay (Brown University).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Early Hobbes

UserProf. Alan Cromartie (University of Reading).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 17:00-18:45

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserEllen Nye/Tim Rudnicki/Cheng Yang (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations

UserDan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Psychometric validation as theory avoidance

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A* Sampling

UserChris Maddison (U Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature

UserClaire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Credit Ratings and Structured Finance

UserJoel Shapiro is Associate Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

House10 Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)

UserChristian List (London School of Economics and Political Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Is there a republican model of democracy?

UserProf. Andreas Niederberger (University of Duisberg-Essen).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics

UserJonathan Knowles (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

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

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Orthologous networks in biological systems

UserDr Christopher Penfold (Warwick).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)

UserSophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).

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

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Excessive Creation of Sequel Firms

UserPierre Mella-Barral, Professor - Speciality: Finance, EDHEC Business School.

House10 Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750

UserClare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

What Drives the Passage of Climate Change Legislation?

UserSam Fankhauser (London School of Economics) .

HouseJudge Business School, Keynes House 107.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 12:30-13:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Latent Branching Trees

UserDr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Experiments with Non-parametric Topic Models

UserProf. Wray Buntine (Monash University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 11:00-12:00

HPS History Workshop

Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain

UserProfessor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bureaucracy and Moral Agency: Practices of the Self at the Frontlines of Public Service

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserBernardo Zacka (Christ's College, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 17:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Translation with LSTMs

Room changed to LR3B in Inglis building and time changed to 10:30

UserIlya Sutskever (Google).

HouseEngineering Department, LR3B.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Empirical Microstructure Workshop

Registration required: http://goo.gl/zdkOj0

Userhttp://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/our-events/empirical-microstructure-conf.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 09:30-17:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

What was an organic economy?

UserProfessor Sir E.A. Wrigley (Cambridge).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Robust vs realistic: interpolating between model-specific and model-free settings for pricing and hedging

User Prof. Jan Obloj, Associate Professor of Mathematical Finance, Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at St John's College, Member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.

HouseJudge Business School - Room W4.03.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston

UserSteve Irish (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Public Talk: "Managing Global Finance as a System"

To register for this talk please email inet@econ.cam.ac.uk

UserAndy Haldane, Bank of England.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Oracle Variational Inference

UserJames McInerney (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dystopia: For Dummies

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserProfessor Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'

UserVictoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum, London).

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

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Please note change of date and time

UserEleanor Knox (King's College London).

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

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

The aftermath of the demographic transition in the developed world

UserProfessor David Reher (Complutense University, Madrid).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history

Please note change of date

UserTimothy Rees Jones (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine's Democratic Thought

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserDr Robert Lamb (University of Exeter).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy

UserEmma Pyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometers

short talk

UserProf. Naonori Ueda (Director Machine Learning and Data Science, NTT Labs).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 11:00-11:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

International currencies past, present and future: two views from economic history

UserProfessor Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Visual STS

UserPeter Galison (Harvard University).

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

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Trees, trade and textiles: tracing ecological dependency in British industry, c.1550-1750

Note change of venue: Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall

UserProfessor Paul Warde (East Anglia).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.

UserProfessor Robert Z. Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business..

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Raymond Aron and the Origins of the "End of Ideology"

UserDr Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Brownian motion pictures

UserCharlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris).

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

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Farewell to content

UserKim Sterelny (Australian National University).

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

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Concern for Oneself and for Others in Porphyry's Ethics of "On Abstinence"

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserDr Miira Tuominen (University of Helsinki).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Tutorial on Probabilistic Programming

UserProf. Frank Wood (Oxford).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 14:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Nietzsche's Perfect State

UserDr Hugo Drochon (University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 20 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Bank Lending

UserDr Daniel Paravisini , The London School of Economics.

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The realist stance

Note unusual day and time

UserAnjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame).

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

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Totalitarianism

UserProfessor Andrew Gamble (University of Sheffield).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 13:00-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Carrying Trade

Note change of start time: 12.30pm

UserCarolyn Dougherty (York).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Misspecified Recovery

UserJose A. Scheinkman, Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics at Columbia University.

HouseJudge Business School - Room W4.03.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

CERF and CF Events

Day 2 - 10th Cambridge - Princeton Workshop

Places are limited. Please contact admin@cerf.cam.ac.uk to register.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House Lecture Theatre 3, Judge Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/location.html).

ClockSaturday 27 September 2014, 09:00-18:00

CERF and CF Events

Day 1 - 10th Cambridge - Princeton Workshop

Places are limited. Please contact admin@cerf.cam.ac.uk to register.

UserFor details of speakers please see the full programme.

House W2.01, Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG.

ClockFriday 26 September 2014, 13:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine Learning

UserJasper Snoek (Harvard University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 25 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture models

UserMaria Lomeli-Garcia (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 24 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

CERF and CF Events

Day 2: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 19-20 September 2014

By invitation and prior reservation only. Please contact admin@cerf.cam.ac.uk

UserDetails of speakers are available on the CERF website.

House Lecture Theatre 3, Judge Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/location.html).

ClockSaturday 20 September 2014, 08:45-17:30

CERF and CF Events

Day 1: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 19-20 September 2014

By invitation and prior reservation only. Please contact admin@cerf.cam.ac.uk

UserDetails of speakers are available on the CERF website.

House Lecture Theatre 3, Judge Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/location.html).

ClockFriday 19 September 2014, 13:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction

UserManik Varma (Microsoft Research India).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 17 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging community

UserPhilipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 11 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

On the Bethe approximation

UserAdrian Weller (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockMonday 11 August 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian process regression on graphs

UserPeter Sollich (King's College London).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 16 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Implicit Representation Networks

UserDavid Barber (University College London).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 02 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable Deep Gaussian Processes

UserJames Hensman (University of Sheffield).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Nature, culture and philosophy

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Tim Lewens

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HousePeterhouse Lecture Theatre, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 20 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Theory Workshop: Alessandro Pavan

http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/our-events/theory-workshop-alessandro-pavan

UserAlessandro Pavan (Northwestern).

HouseMeade Room, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 17:00-16:15

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

UserDr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Representationalism and pragmatism

UserPiotr Szalek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland).

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

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Estimating multivariate GARCH and Stochastic Correlation models equation by equation (4 June)

Event webpage: http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/our-events/Jean-Michael-Zakoian-talk

UserProf. Jean-Michael Zakoian (Ensae and CREST) .

HouseMeade Room, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence?

NOTE THE SPECIAL VENUE (Microsoft Research)

UserProfessor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley).

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Masterclass with Wolfgang Härdle (28 - 29 May)

For more information, please visit event website: http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/our-events/master-class2

UserWolfgang Karl Haerdle (Humboldt, Berlin).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 09:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 26 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Empirical Micro Group Workshop: Risk,Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium (22 May)

http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/our-events/EMG-Mark-Rosenzweig

UserProf. Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University) .

HouseKeynes Room, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-16:00

HPS History Workshop

Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside

UserCaitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

A Biological Theory of Public Discounting by Prof. Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser University)

Event page: http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/our-events/Arthur-Robson-talk2

UserProf. Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser University) .

HouseKeynes Room, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Theory Workshop: Difficult Decisions in Transplantation: Risks, Results and Responsibility (20th May)

Event webpage: http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/our-events/Kourosh-Saeb-Parsy-talk

UserDr. Kourosh Saeb-Parsy (Cambridge University) .

HouseMeade Room, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt.

Room changed to LR4

UserJoaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook).

HouseEngineering Department - ***LR4***.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Rausing Lecture

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserGabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Biology and the Arguments of Utility

Biology and the Arguments of Utility by Prof. Arthur Robson

Event webpage: http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/our-events/Arthur-Robson-talk1

UserArthur Robson (Simon Fraser University) .

HouseMeade Room, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is empathy? A genealogical account

UserRiana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 16 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation

POSTPONED

UserAdrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families

UserBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Seminar Series @ CUED

Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families

This talk has been canceled/deleted

UserBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Policy Evaluation with Temporal Differences

UserChristoph Dann (Technische Universität Darmstadt).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 28 March 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric Optimization

UserSuvrit Sra (Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and CMU).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 11:30-12:30

Workshop in Microeconomics

Workshop in Microeconomics

http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/events/Workshop-Microeconomics

UserProfessor Sanjeev Goyal.

HouseChrist's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 09:00-05:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935

Comment: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, Cambridge)

UserMira Siegelberg (Harvard University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The prospects for Darwinian imperialism

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Financial History Seminar

The political economy of inflation in the 1970s

UserProfessor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections

UserRichard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights.

Note: time is 12 noon (*not* 11am)

UserProf. Nando de Freitas (Oxford).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian canonical correlation analysis

UserSeppo Virtanen (Aalto University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

The Marshall Society

Investment Strategies for the 21st Century

UserNick Cavalla, Nicola Horlick, Roger Gray, Matt King.

HouseThe Orchard Suite, Cambridge City Hotel, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 19:00-21:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype)

Interview talks via Skype

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 09:00-16:00

American History Seminars

Big Tent or Freak Show? The American Conservative Movement

UserMallory Factor, Senior Visiting Mellon Fellow.

HouseLatimer Room, Old Court, Clare College, .

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'If it be without contention': Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement

Comment: Richard Tuck (Harvard University)

UserTeresa Bejan (Columbia University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Particle filters and curse of dimensionality

Note: TALK via Skype!

UserPatrick Rebeschini (Princeton).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint Modeling

Note: TALK via Skype!

UserChangyou Chen (ANU).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 10:00-11:00

History and Economics Seminar

The debate on inequality from Rousseau to Marx

UserFrancisco Bethencourt, King's College London .

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis

UserCharles Read, Centre for Financial History and Christ's College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist

UserDavid Runciman (University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power Disaggregation

UserIsabel Valera (University Carlos III in Madrid).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

American History Seminars

Betwen the Farebox and the Ballot Box

UserJennifer Luff, Durham University.

HouseLatimer Room, Old Court, Clare College, .

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Philosophical History in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought

Comment: Robert Fine (University of Warwick)

UserWaseem Yaqoob (Pembroke College, Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is evidence?

UserMatt Penfold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

American History Seminars

The Sex Lives of Servant Women in the Early South

Note - This week's seminar is on a Thursday - not a Monday.

UserBetty Wood, University of Cambridge.

HouseLatimer Room, Old Court, Clare College, .

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Human nature: from theory to practice

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Financial History Seminar

Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis

UserPaul Kosmetatos, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment

UserWarren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania/Humboldt University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric Bayesian credible sets

UserBotond Szabo (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context

Comment: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, Cambridge)

UserCharles Devellennes (University of Kent).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The medicalisation of love

UserBrian Earp (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 15:00-16:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Propensities and pragmatism

UserMauricio Suarez (Complutense University of Madrid).

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

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The multiple inventions of transgenic mice

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914

UserProfessor Richard Roberts - Director, Centre for Contemporary British History at Kings College, London .

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

American History Seminars

The Civil Rights Revolution - Who Won? Who Lost?

UserGavin Wright, Stanford University.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic Programs

UserJan-Willem van de Meent (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

American History Seminars

American History Seminar

UserAndrew Preston, University of Cambridge.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics'

Comment: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)

UserTim Rogan (St Catharine's College, Cambridge) .

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

CANCELLED

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:15

American History Seminars

American History Seminar

UserBrian Delay, Berkeley.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule

UserChristopher Meckstroth (University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

American History Seminars

American History Seminar

UserDoug Rossinow, University of Oslo/Metropolitan State.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

The Poor and the Poorest fifty years on

UserProfessor Ian Gazeley (Sussex) .

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

The Marshall Society

The Economist Who Mistook His Model for a Market

UserProfessor Roy Rotheim, Skidmore College, New York.

HouseLittle Hall, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift

UserRaj Patel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

American History Seminars

American History Seminar

UserHeather Thompson, Temple University, Philadelphia.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Willi Hennig and philosophy

UserCharissa Varma (Darwin Correspondence Project).

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

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Economic and Social History Seminars

From Mercantilism to Macroeconomics

UserDr Craig Muldrew (Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

American History Seminars

American History Seminar

UserSylvia Frey, Tulane University, New Orleans.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 17:00-19:00

HPS History Workshop

Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975

Comment: Christopher Brooke (University of Bristol)

UserKatrina Forrester (St John's College, Cambridge) .

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

American History Seminars

American History Seminar

UserSebastian Page, University of Oxford.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What Makes Representation Democratic?

UserSofia Näsström (Uppsala University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

A Bigger and Faster Bitcoin: an Analysis of High-Rate Bitcoin Transaction Processing

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserAviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockFriday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Marshall Society

How to do macroeconomics in an age of uncertainty: Methodology & Theory (Lecture 1)

UserProfessor Jesper Jespersen, Department of Society and Globalisation, University of Roskilde, Denmark.

HouseLittle Hall, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 19:00-21:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Individual risk: does it exist?

UserPhil Dawid (Statistical Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

American History Seminars

American History Seminar

UserTim Minchin, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens

Comment: David Runciman (POLIS)

UserDaniela Cammack (Harvard Society of Fellows) .

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Economic and Social History Seminars

Assessing economic freedom in historical perspective: the experience of OECD countries

UserProfessor Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Carlos III University, Madrid) .

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

The Marshall Society

Michaelmas Debate: This House Believes Austerity Economics Has Failed

UserJonathan Portes, Sue Konzelmann, Steve Baker, Kevin Dowd.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Divinity School, St John's College.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 19:00-20:00

American History Seminars

American History Seminar

UserShane White, Sydney University.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What is Liberalism?

UserDuncan Bell (Christ's College).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Economic and Social History Graduate Workshop

Venereology at the Polyclinic, 1899-1914.

UserAnne Hanley (Faculty of History, Cambridge).

HouseHistory faculty, Room 5. .

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 12:45-02:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Coverture: The Medieval Perspective

UserDr Cordelia Beattie (Edinburgh).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationships

UserOliver Stegle (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction

CANCELLED

UserManik Varma (Microsoft Research India).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 27 September 2013, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency Situations

UserHannah Pauline Keiler (Columbia University and DIMACS).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 06 August 2013, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality

UserRichard Socher - Stanford University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 31 July 2013, 14:00-15:00

History and Economics Seminar

Open Access: A Forum

UserPeter Baldwin (UCLA), Anne Jarvis (University Librarian, Cambridge), Ira Katznelson (Columbia; President, Social Science Research Council), Rachel Leow (Center for History and Economics, Harvard), Peter Phillips (Chief Executive, CUP).

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockMonday 01 July 2013, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies

UserDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies

UserDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964

UserMr Stuart Barton, MBA, CFA (CFH and Corpus Christi).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 25 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Rationality in extraordinary science

CANCELLED

UserVashka dos Remedios (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720

UserMichelle Wallis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice

UserAnna de Bruyckere (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE

UserDr Ali Kabiri, University of Buckingham.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

Rausing Lecture

Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserCrosbie Smith (University of Kent).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Explanation in neuroscience

UserZina Ward (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824

UserMr Adrian Leonard (Trinity Hall and CFH).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

History and Economics Seminar

Poverty and Climate: A Conversation

UserDr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Director General, World Health Organization and Former Prime Minister of Norway; Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University and Trinity College, Cambridge; Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 14:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserProfessor Tim Guinnane, Department of Economics, Yale University.

HouseHB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the History of Political Thought

Comment: Richard Bourke (Queen Mary)

UserSam James (Jesus College, Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 06 May 2013, 17:00-18:45

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

State Constitutional Commitment to Health and Health Care and Population Health Outcomes: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserDr Hiroaki Muppy Matsuura, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.

HouseHB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 06 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Gaussian Processes

UserProf. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Approaches to statistical modeling of network data

UserMaxim Nazarov (Bocconi University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

A Global Census of Corporations in 1910

UserProfessor Leslie Hannah, LSE and Tokyo.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 17:00-19:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology

UserEtienne Benson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State Segmentation

UserWill Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 08 April 2013, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family

UserJames Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 25 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding

Postponed from 4 March

UserDavid Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

History and Economics Seminar

The Everyday Life of the Indian Constitution (1947-1964)

UserRohit De (Centre for History and Economics & Trinity Hall).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Varieties of tacit knowledge

UserTim Rogan (Faculty of History).

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

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Clerical policy and local population studies: christening fees in Georgian Westminster

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserProf. Jeremy Boulton, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Newcastle.

HouseSeminar Room, Main Building, Dept of Geography .

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 12:45-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges

UserMinwoo Seo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Venture Capital, Patents and Innovation

UserRoberta Dessi, Toulouse School of Economics (joint with Nina Yin). .

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Robust calibration of models in finance

UserProfessor Josef Teichmann (ETH University of Zurich).

HouseCMS, MR4.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'

Joint Session with the Modern British History Seminar

UserJose Harris (University of Oxford).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 17:00-18:45

Quantitative History Seminar

Women's work by marital status in England and Wales in 1881: Evidence from the Census Enumerator's Books

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserMr Xuesheng You, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 12:45-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Malthus and the Doctrine of Utility

Commentator: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)

UserNiall O'Flaherty (King's College, London).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Testing the Returns from Black-Box Hedge Fund

UserPeyton Young, University of Oxford.

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy

UserMr Adrian Williamson, Trinity Hall.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire

Commentator: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)

UserLauren Benton (New York University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of 'Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge,' 1860-1895

Commentator: John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge)

UserLeigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Selection and maximization

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Structural liquidity: Time coordination of economic activities and sectoral interdependence

UserIvano Cardinale (Emmanuel College), Roberto Scazzieri (University of Bologna and Gonville and Caius College).

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Charismatic Sword: Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Violence

UserMatthias Riedl (Central European University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 04 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

HPS History Workshop

Common sense and phrenology

UserSean Dyde (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and the Defence of Humane Learning

Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)

UserKaren Collis (University of Oxford).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:45

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Populating 19th century Siam: war/capture/resettlement versus the recruitment of free labour in a southeast Asian demographic system

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserDr Amornrat Bunnag, Academic Officer, Centre of Doctrine and Strategic Development, Army Training Command, Bangkok..

HouseSeminar Room, Main Building, Dept of Geography .

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 12:45-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin

UserPatricia Fara (Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Clare College, Cambridge).

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

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

More models, more problems?

UserRune Nyrup (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'

UserMaaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France).

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

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Objectivity in psychology – a Kantian perspective

UserKatharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

CF Weekly Workshop - by Ranadeva Jasasekera - 'A general theory of the firm'

UserRanadeva Jayasekera, a lecturer from Southampton (ex Cambridge PhD).

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy

Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)

UserRaffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Aesthetics in science

UserAngela Breitenbach (Philosophy, Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century

Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)

UserNick Hardy (University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The Peckham Experiment

UserBoris Jardine (Science Museum, London).

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

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes and Sexual Desire

UserNoel Malcolm (All Souls College, University of Oxford).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Philosophy Events

Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseLB3, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)

Comment: Harro Hopfl (Essex)

UserSophie Nicholls (University of Oxford).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

CF Weekly Workshop - by Xuan Tam - Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt

UserXuan Tam - CFAP, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

HouseSidgwick Hall, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Authority: Some Fables

UserRaymond Geuss (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulations

UserJes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang

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

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 16:45-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Science funding 2.0

UserShahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry

Commentator: Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge)

UserIan Hunter (University of Queensland).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

jti20's list

Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium 2012

John Locke and the Fable of Liberalism

UserDr Tim Stanton and others.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 10:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserMatthias Seeger, EPFL.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 September 2012, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories

UserManik Varma (Microsoft Research India).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient Sampling with Kernel Herding

UserYutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learning

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general framework

UserProf. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 08 August 2012, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing Costs

UserPedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 03 August 2012, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields

UserKonstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 27 July 2012, 11:00-12:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

(1) ‘New findings from the family reconstitution data.’ and (2) ‘Nothing but a poor man with money? The changing fertility decisions of the rich before the English demographic transition.’

Please note that this extended seminar will run from 12 till 3pm. There will be two papers with a break for sandwiches 1.15 to 1.45.

User’ Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark), Nina Boberg-Fazlic & Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen).

HouseHB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 25 June 2012, 12:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Simple Dynamics in Large Games

UserR. Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

HPS History Workshop

Conceptual change in history of science

UserIrene Goudarouli (University of Athens).

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

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The sciences of subjectivity

Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday

UserSteven Shapin (Harvard University).

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

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Emergence in complexity science

UserLena Zuchowski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Re-thinking the origins of the British public debt, 1643-1742

UserDr D'Maris Coffman, Newnham College and Centre for Financial History.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The power of persuasion in Plato

UserJill Frank (University of South Carolina).

HouseBeves Room, King’s College.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

Rausing Lecture

The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserThomas Schlich (McGill University).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserAlistair Sponsel (Harvard University).

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

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Finance and Accounting Subject Group

Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

UserProfessor Alexander Ljungqvist, Stern School of Business, New York University.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Judge Business School.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Inference Group

Communication over noisy channels (III)

Note unusual time

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 21 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Financial History Seminar

The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy

UserDr Bill Janeway, Cambridge Finance and Pembroke College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roman Liberty

UserMalcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge).

HouseBeves Room, King’s College.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Poor Relief and Community in Elizabethan Hadleigh

*Please note this seminar will start at the later time of 1 p.m.

UserProfessor Marjorie McIntosh (University of Colorado).

HouseHB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 13:00-14:30

Sir Richard Stone Annual Lecture

Sir Richard Stone Annual Lecture

UserSusan Athey (Harvard University & Microsoft Corporation).

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, CB2 1TA.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Colonial classification

UserKhadija Carroll La (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

The global biopolitics of female sterilization

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple Games

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserTatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimation

UserBarnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Communication over noisy channels (II)

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 07 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Computational Environment Design for Online Communities

UserProfessor David Parkes, Harvard University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

'Towards a new institutional analysis of London's insurance market'

UserAdrian Leonard is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History studying under Professor Martin Daunton and Dr D'Maris Coffman, supported by the Centre for Financial History at Newnham College and the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies..

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Preserving scientific heritage: collaborating with scientists

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Finance and Accounting Subject Group

A seminar with Professor Robert Shiller, Yale University, as he argues that Finance Can Be a Force for Good in These Tough Economic Times

The lecture will be followed by a bookstall, held by Heffers Bookshop, giving you the opportunity to purchase books by Robert Shiller.

UserProfessor Robert Shiller.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Judge Business School.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 17:00-18:30

Inference Group

Communication over noisy channels (I)

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Philosophical issues in research funding allocation

CANCELLED

UserHeather Douglas (University of Waterloo) and Donald Gillies (UCL).

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

ClockSaturday 28 April 2012, 13:00-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Financing and Re-financing of the War of the Spanish Succession, and then Re-Financing the South Sea Company

UserLarry Neal is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois..

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

Inference Group

Entropy and data compression (IV)

New: Previous lectures can be downloaded!

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 23 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Inference Group

Entropy and data compression (III)

New: Previous lectures can be downloaded!

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 16 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with Learning

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserKrishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 April 2012, 09:00-10:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Empirical evidence in privacy economics

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserSören Preibusch.

HouseLarge lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 April 2012, 10:35-11:20

Financial History Seminar

The economy of Spain in the eurozone before and after the crisis of 2008

UserProfessor Larry Neal, Cambridge Finance Visitor, NBER.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov Models

UserJonathan Huggins (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Impact of Jumps and Thin Trading on Realsied Hedge Ratios

UserLyudmyla Hvozdyk, CERF, Cambridge Judge Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression

UserDr Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

Inference Group

Entropy and data compression (II)

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no lectures during the Easter break (12 March - 9 April). Lectures will resume on 16 April.

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe

Please note change of speaker and title

UserJosé Ramón Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Inference Group

Entropy and data compression (I)

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

How Does A Firm’s Default Risk Affect Its Expected

UserKevin Aretz, Manchester Business School.

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

History of Medicine Seminars

A pre-peanut history of food allergy

UserMatthew Smith (University of Strathclyde).

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

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815

Held jointly with the Modern European History Seminar

UserRichard Whatmore (University of Sussex).

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

Inference Group

Introduction to information theory

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

Technological trajectories of hip replacement

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe

UserLeslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London and CRASSH, Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sismondi contra Rousseau

UserTom Hopkins (University of Helsinki).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 13 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

HPS History Workshop

How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics

UserAnna Becker (University of Basle).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 17:00-18:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The informational gene: semantic concepts in genetics as models

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

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

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England

UserDr Tony Moore, University of Reading, ICMA Centre.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy

UserRonald Beiner (University of Toronto and Clare Hall).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 17:00-18:45

Economic and Social History Seminars

English prices 1170-1750

UserProfessor Nick Mayhew (Oxford).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Retrocausality – what would it take?

Please note change of date

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and Optimisation

UserMichael Osborne ( Oxford University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Experiments with dynamic networks of virtual routers

This talk is a part of the SRG-SEMINAR series, and it is listed here as it may be of interest to this seminar's audience as well.

UserRichard G. Clegg (UCL).

HouseFW26, Computer Lab, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Regalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Naples

UserGirolamo Imbruglia (University of Naples, l'Orientale).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:00-18:45

HPS History Workshop

Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A social and cultural history of early modern keywords and concepts

UserMark Knights (University of Warwick) and Phil Withington (University of Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 17:00-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Singularist semirealism

UserBence Nanay (University of Antwerp and Peterhouse, Cambridge).

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

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Economic and Social History Seminars

The transformation of the urban epidemiological regime in north west Europe, 1700-1850

UserProfessor Jeremy Boulton (Newcastle) and Dr Romola Davenport (Cambridge).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate Models

UserDr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Women, freedom and equality: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell

UserSarah Hutton (University of Wales Aberystwyth and Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:00-18:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900

UserA. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Economic and Social History Seminars

A great leap forward: 1930s depression and US economic growth

UserProfessor Alexander Field (Santa Clara, California).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Not so naive Bayesian classification

UserProf. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Three Views of Democracy

UserDavid Runciman (University of Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Markets

UserDr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 07 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems

UserPhilipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applications

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 16 September 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Some Practical Reflections on Graphical Models

UserDr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Control of Stochastic Processing Networks

UserR. J. Williams (Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 July 2011, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature

UserKhalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 11 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graphical Models for Bandit Problems

UserKareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 04 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse

UserProfessor Will Goetzmann (International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management).

HouseLT2, Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 12:00-13:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Kant on psychology as 'physiology of the inner sense'

UserKatharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning

(rescheduled from May 24th)

UserProfessor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Censored Exploration in Dark Pools

UserProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

HPS History Workshop

History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Pierre-Olivier Méthot (University of Exeter).

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

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Financial innovation and the crisis

UserProfessor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 30 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

A framework for emergentism(s)

UserOlivier Sartenaer (Université Catholique de Louvain).

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

ClockWednesday 25 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning

RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 7th

UserProfessor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2011, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914

UserDr Eoin McLaughlin (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Authority waterfalls: an anti-realist model of research impact

UserShahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 11 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke in liberal memory

UserJeffrey Collins (Toronto /Clare Hall).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 17:00-18:45

Financial History Seminar

An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: Filippo Borromei & company of Bruges and London in the 1430s

http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/borromei/index.html

UserProfessor Jim Bolton, School of History, QMUL.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Inference Group

Mandarin Dasher

UserAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 11 April 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonlinear Dynamics of Learning

UserProf. Max Welling (UC Irvine).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

tbc

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2011, 16:45-17:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Exponential Conditional Volatility Models

UserProf Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2011, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Chamberlain, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian Economy

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserProfessor Mark Thomas, University of Virginia.

HouseRoom 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 12:45-14:00

Inference Group

CRH: a Central Reference Handling system

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 11:00-11:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigm

UserProf. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Financial History Seminar

'The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania?'

UserDr Helen Paul (Economics, University of Southampton).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab Priors

UserDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

East-West dialogues: World Economic History Congresses and the legacies of the Cold War

History and Economics Seminar

UserMaxine Berg, University of Warwick.

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000

UserProfessor Pablo Martín-Aceña, Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

What Death Can Tell: Are Executives Paid for Their Contributions to Firm Value?

UserDr Bang Dang Nguyen (CJBS & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 16:45-17:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya

UserRuth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies).

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

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

A computer-vision based facial gesture switch

UserEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Large scale institutional changes: Land demarcation within the British Empire

This seminar is being held in conjuction with the Centre for Quantitative Economic History

UserProfessor Gary Liebcap, University of Cambridge.

HouseMeade Room, Faculty of Economics.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

The Twentieth Century as the Age of Internationalism

History and Economics Seminar

UserGlenda Sluga, University of Sydney.

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differential Geometric MCMC Methods

UserProf. Mark Girolami (UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Republic and Mixed Government: Machiavelli and Aristotle

UserPasquale Pasquino (New York University / CNRS).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history

UserSimon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

History of Medicine Seminars

Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared

UserPeregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London).

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

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Mining viral datasets

UserDr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Mill on the French Revolution

UserAnna Plassart (Christ Church, Oxford).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 24 January 2011, 17:00-18:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED)

(note new date)

UserDr Florian Markowetz (CRUK) - lab visit.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Novi Quadrianto

UserNovi Quadrianto, Australian National University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 13 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925

UserDr Carsten Burhop, MPI for Research on Collective Goods.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 December 2010, 17:00-19:00

Inference Group

A New Machine Learning Library

Note unusual time

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 13 December 2010, 11:15-12:00

Financial History Seminar

The Belle Epoque of International Finance: French Capital Exports, 1880‐1914

UserDr Rui Pedro Esteves, Department of Economics, Oxford.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Medicine Discussion Group

Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine

Please note change of time and venue

UserWilliam MacLehose (UCL).

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

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 17:00-18:30

Inference Group

Introduction to Geometric Algebra II

UserPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 11:00-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Norman Conquest'

UserGeorge Garnett (St Hugh's College, Oxford).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain

UserNils Guettler (Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

Title to be confirmed

UserPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 11:45-12:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy Data

UserDr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Dr Hector Calvo Pardo (University of Southampton)

UserSubjective stock market expectations and portfolio choice.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Ex post: The investment performance of collectible stamps 1865-2008

UserProfessor Elroy Dimson, London Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape

UserHilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning Journal Club

Machine Leaning Journal Club

UserPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge), Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Crowdsourcing data modelling

UserAnthony Goldbloom (Kaggle).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Trading to stops

UserProf Chris Rogers (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The human automatism debate in the late 19th century

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

Out-of-band Language Modelling

UserAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

The rise and decline of European Parliaments 1288-1789

UserProfessor Jan Luiten van Zanden, (Utrecht).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

UserDr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

The growth and development of the British Economy 1270-1870

UserProfessor Steve Broadberry (Warwick) and Professor Bruce Campbell (Queens, Belfast).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Nature and the space of reasons

UserAlexis Papazoglou (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

What determines government spending multipliers?

UserProf Giancarlo Corsetti (Faculty of Economics).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Politeness and the ethical force of natural history

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Optimal hedging of variance derivatives

UserMr John Crosby (UBS and Glasgow University).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2010, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Organisms, autonomy and division of labour

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Re-thinking class identities in post-war Britain

UserProfessor Mike Savage, (Manchester).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650–1720

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration

UserCarl Fisher (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

Bayesian Psychometry

UserPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages

UserGjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research, Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 30 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Inference with Kernels

UserDr Arthur Gretton (UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 13 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Queues, Counters and Optimization

UserR. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Ticker: Case Study

UserEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 06 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Research adventures in Japan

Lab access may be impeded due to bank holiday

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 30 August 2010, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Statistical Language Modelling

UserCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 23 August 2010, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Title to be confirmed

UserLaurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 16 August 2010, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Topic Models -- and how to break them

UserPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 09 August 2010, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Some Uses of Hashing in Networking Problems

UserMichael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory..

ClockMonday 02 August 2010, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politics

general audience talk (non-technical) -- NOTE change of room to LR4!

UserProf Andrew Gelman (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department - LR4.

ClockThursday 29 July 2010, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Creating structured and flexible models: some open problems

UserProf Andrew Gelman (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 28 July 2010, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Introduction to Geometric Algebra

UserPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 19 July 2010, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Dasher on a Space-filling curve

UserAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 16 July 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian Processes

UserDr Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 12 July 2010, 11:30-12:30

Inference Group

Bayesian head pose estimation

UserCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 July 2010, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan

UserProfessor Shigeru Wakita, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 21 June 2010, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational Bayes

UserDr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 16 June 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological Problems

UserBarbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

The AEGIS project

Note unusual time

UserPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 14 June 2010, 09:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Using topic models to help cure cancer

UserProf Quaid Morris (Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 11 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Message Passing In Centralized Database

short talk

UserKonstantina Palla (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 11 June 2010, 11:00-11:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structured Prediction Cascades

UserDr. Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack Dimension

UserProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 09 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

Jewish Financiers in the City of London: Reality and Rhetoric, 1830 – 1914

UserProfessor Ranald Michie, Department of History, University of Durham.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 June 2010, 17:00-19:00

Inference Group

Robust Associative memory

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 31 May 2010, 11:00-12:00

Rausing Lecture

From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMyles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Financial History Seminar

'Reforming the Global Reserve System; Historical Perspectives'

This talk has been re-scheduled from the Michaelmas term, when it was delayed due to speaker illness.

UserProfessor Catherine Schenk, Economic and Social History, Glasgow.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 24 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires

UserProfessor Claudia Rei, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University.

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Asset price bubbles and econometrics

UserAnsgar Walther, Faculty of Economics.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockFriday 14 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On Equality

UserMalcolm Bull (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 03 May 2010, 17:00-18:45

Inference Group

Report from CHI 2010

UserDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 03 May 2010, 11:00-11:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

British Economic Growth, 1300-1850

UserSteve Broadberry, University of Warwick.

HouseRoom 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Geography.

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 12:45-14:00

Inference Group

Language Modelling with PPM

UserAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 22 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Slice sampling with latent Gaussian models

UserDr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

'Keynes, the Investor'

UserDr David Chambers, Judge Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 15 March 2010, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Making Sense of Data - A Research Agenda

UserProf Bob Williamson (ANU and Scientific Director of NICTA).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Recursive CRFs for Scalable Vision

short talk

UserDavid Duvenaud (UBC).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Coding

short talk

UserAzadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 11:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Inference in Networks of Queues

UserDr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Stochastic Outlier Selection

UserJeroen Janssens (Tilburg University / University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 16:00-16:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Identifying separated time scales in stochastic models of reaction networks

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

UserThomas Kurtz, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

HouseSeminar Room 2, CMS Gatehouse.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Mortality decline in eighteenth century London: new evidence from burials by cause, age and burial cost from the sextons' books of St Martin in the Fields

UserRomola Davenport (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure), Leonard Schwarz (University of Birmingham), Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle).

HouseSeminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 12:45-14:00

Inference Group

Neurally-inspired Computing

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Evaluating worth and status in early modern England

UserAlex Shepard, University of Glasgow.

HouseErasmus Room, Queens College.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Associative neural memories and oscillatory operation

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

UserPeter Whittle, Univerisity of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

HPS History Workshop

Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900

UserKathryn Ticehurst (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Martingale Framework for Trust

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

UserBruce Hajek, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Latent Force Models with Gaussian Processes

UserDr Neil Lawrence (University of Manchester).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Computer Simulation of the Financial Markets

UserMr Christopher Clack, Direct of Financial Computer at UCL.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The 'economic' metaphor in biology: a case study

UserNatasha Goldberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Simulation-based computation of the workload correlation function in a Levy-driven queue

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

UserMichel Mandjes, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Eurandom, Eindhoven.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge).

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

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

Dasher

UserPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 11:00-11:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Household movement and changes in residential structure

UserJacob Field, University of Cambridge.

HouseErasmus Room, Queens College.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories'

UserProfessor Sheilagh Ogilvie, Dr Markus Küpker and Dr Janine Maegraith.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Leverhulme Lecture

UserOsamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

HouseRoom LG19, Faculty of Law, West Road.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Incongruent counterparts, orientation, and higher geometry

UserNicholas Teh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The constructive idea: art and science in '30s London and Cambridge

UserBoris Jardine (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 13:00-14:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Leverhulme Lecture

UserOsamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

HouseRoom LG19, Faculty of Law, West Road.

ClockMonday 08 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Crisis of Global Citizenship

UserJames Tully (Victoria University, British Columbia).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 08 February 2010, 17:00-18:45

Economic and Social History Seminars

Leverhulme Lecture

UserOsamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

HouseRoom LG19, Faculty of Law, West Road.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Title to be confirmed

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

White maps of Africa – the making of blank spaces

UserNils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Collision of random walks

UserPerla Sousi, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge..

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Leverhulme Lecture

UserOsamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

HouseRoom LG19, Faculty of Law, West Road.

ClockMonday 01 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Title: Ergodicity of a stress release point process seismic model with aftershocks

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

UserProf. Seguei Foss, Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Heriot-Watt..

HouseSeminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 01 February 2010, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

NIPS 2009 highlights

UserPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge), Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 01 February 2010, 11:00-12:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Causation and exceptions

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

'Bankruptcy and Debtor's Rights in Early Modern England: Punishment to Rehabilitation'

UserProfessor Ann Carlos (U. of Colorado/University College Dublin).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Diffusion and cascading behavior in random networks

Joint with Probability Series and Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

UserMarc LeLarge, École Normale Supérieure, Paris..

HouseSeminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 15:00-16:00

Medieval Medicine Discussion Group

Reconstructing Old English anatomical vocabulary

UserConan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

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

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 14:30-16:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Mr. Woodcroft and the Value of English Patents, 1617-1841

UserAlessandro Nuvolari, Sant' School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.

HouseMain seminar Room, Geography Department Building.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s Québec

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Course (4F13)

4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent

UserZoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street).

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human Sensing

CANCELLED

UserDr Fernando de la Torre (CMU).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Anonymity via networks of mixes

UserVenkat Anantharam, EECS Department, University of California Berkeley..

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 18 January 2010, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Visuospatial Reasoning

Short Talk

UserStephanie Chan (MIT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 18 January 2010, 10:00-10:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Course (4F13)

4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent

UserZoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street).

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 10:00-11:00

Inference Group

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 11 January 2010, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game'

UserProfessor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotation

short talk

UserSean Moran (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 04 December 2009, 11:00-12:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The epistemology of memory

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Inference Group

NIPS poster

UserPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 11:40-12:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

The legacy of Joan Robinson

UserGeoff Harcourt, Jesus College, Cambridge.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Lyell's plots

UserAdelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).

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

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Feedback Trading and the Optimal Choice of Price Impact (provisional title)

Entrant for the CF Best Student Paper Award 2009-2010

UserJimmy Oh, PhD student, Faculty of Economics.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law Behaviour

UserYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

The Infinite Gaussian Mixture Model

UserPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 11:15-12:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is a thick concept?

UserNiklas Möller (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control'

UserMr Duncan Needham, Cambridge History Faculty and Trinity Hall.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

'Exploring the Medici-Gondi Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserMs Claudia Scala Schlessman, Original Manuscript Cataloguer, Henry Charles Lea Library.

House101 Coach House, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 12:00-14:00

Inference Group

研究の紹介

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title to be confirmed

Entrant for the CF Best Student Paper Award 2009-2010

UserPhilipp Andres, PhD student, Faculty of Economics.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

KL control theory and decision making under uncertainty

UserBert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Dynamics, Robustness and Multiscale Modularity of Complex Networks

UserRenaud Lambiotte, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London..

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Expectations of Inflation, Monetary Policy & the Term Structure of Interest Rates

PLEASE NOTE: This is a different venue to usual.

UserProf Michael Magill, University of Southern California.

HouseRoom B16, Faculty of Law.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

'Quicksilver Production and Consumption in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Premodern Commodity and Financial Markets in the Second Phase of Globalization.'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserProfessor Thomas Max Safley, History Department, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseSidgwick G-20, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Insensitivity results for the limit of a multi-class queueing network

UserNeil Walton, University of Cambridge, Statistical Laboratory..

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Inference Group

Optimizing Dasher for the iPhone

UserAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information theoretic model selection in clustering

UserJoachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Bits and particles: Spin-glass analogies and beyond

UserAdria Tauste, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering..

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Deference at a distance

UserJohn Cusbert (ANU/University of Oxford).

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

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Machine Learning Book Club

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom 710, Link Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Wage levels, gender and domestic service in England, 1650-1850

UserJacob Field (Cambridge Group for the History of Population).

HouseRoom 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Geography.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 12:45-14:00

Inference Group

Inclusive user modelling

UserPradipta Biswas (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

The American Welfare State and Social Contract in Hard Times

UserMichael Katz, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseBridgetower Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

The meaning of altruism in interwar London

UserNick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosopy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Financial History Seminar

'Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserProfessor Geoffrey Wood, Cass Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 17:30-19:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Karl Marx and the Production Organism

UserJohn Filling (St. John's College, Oxford).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Fungi in history

UserNick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

Learning Logical Relations

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Motor Skills Learning for Robotics

UserJan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

The Mondrian Process

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 02 October 2009, 11:15-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learning

UserAndrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

COGAIN'09 proceedings

UserAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 25 September 2009, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Capacity of Spiking Neural Networks

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 21 September 2009, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED

Cancelled

UserProf. Eric Xing (CMU).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 18 September 2009, 10:00-11:00

Inference Group

Thermal expansion of beta-eucryptite

UserPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 14 September 2009, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pricing, Competition, and Routing in Relay Networks

UserEdmund Yeh, Electrical Engineering, Yale University..

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 12 August 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

Physics Dimensions in Sage

UserMiriam Backens, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 28 July 2009, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Dashing this way and that

User Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2009, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

A quick way to learn a mixture of exponentially many linear models

Note unusual time

UserGeoffrey Hinton, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & University of Toronto.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 15 June 2009, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Short ICML Practice Talk

UserRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 12 June 2009, 11:00-12:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England'

UserJacqueline Rose (Newnham College, Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 08 June 2009, 17:00-18:45

Inference Group

Inference in Models with Latent Hierarchies

Note new time

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 08 June 2009, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Connectivity Properties of Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

UserDon Towsley, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 03 June 2009, 15:00-16:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger

UserSacha Golob (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world

Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPamela H. Smith (Columbia University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems

Solution of a Fluid Approximation and Tracking by a Queueing Model.

UserGideon Weiss, The University of Haifa..

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Using gradient descent for optimization and learning

UserNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 13:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Routing Games with Elastic Traffic

UserPeter Key, Microsoft Research Cambridge..

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What reasons needn't be

UserCiara Fairley (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Crowdsourcing and All-Pay Auctions

UserMilan Vojnovic, Microsoft research Cambridge..

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

Mad women and mad-doctors

UserAlexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

Psychoanalysis and war

CANCELLED

UserEli Zaretsky (New School for Social Research, NY, and Institut du Temps Présent, Paris).

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

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Robust Networks

UserSanjeev Goyal, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Useful Computation with Coincidence Detection

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

HPS History Workshop

Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press

UserGeoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Inference Group

Bayesian periodicity detection

UserTamara Broderick (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 22 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Literature review presentations - Tidal power, and Fuel cells

Note unusual time

UserGeoffrey Supran and Colm Seeley.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 22 April 2009, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Feature tracking with full posteriors

Note new date and time.

UserCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

Deducing Principles in Natural Perception

UserMike Lewicki - CMU, Berlin, and Case Western.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning from Measurements in Exponential Families

UserPercy Liang (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

An Incentive Mechanism to Decongest Road Traffic

UserBalaji Prabhakar, Stanford University, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science..

HouseMR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

Painless Parse Errors

UserKathryn Gray, Computer Laboratory.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Where do the laws of logic come from?

UserFlorian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Quasi-linear Sensor Management

UserMarco Huber (University of Karlsruhe).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 15:00-16:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Stochastic Models of Economic Equilibrium on Directed Graphs

UserProf. Michael Dempster, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and Statistical Laboratory.

HouseMR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

An Introduction to Transcriptomics

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserProf Brendan Frey (University of Toronto).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Channels

Joint With Probability Seminar Series.

UserMichael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University.

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Generalization in Learning

UserYevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

HPS History Workshop

God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour

UserMichael Barany (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Stochastic control as an inference problem

UserProf. Bert Kappen (University of Nijmegen).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'A falling star' – the sovereign self in Otto Weininger

Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane

UserLouis Sass (Rutgers University, New Jersey).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Defending shallow essentialism

UserNathan Wildman (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth

UserBecky Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

Joint Statistics Seminar

UserCornelia Wichelhaus, Heidelberg university, Germany..

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update

Please note change of venue

UserVarious speakers.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 14:00-17:30

Inference Group

More NIPS highlights

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Extending the Affinity Propagation Model

UserInmar Givoni (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Inference Group

NIPS Highlights

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2009, 16:30-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Probabilistic refinement of cellular pathway models.

UserFlorian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseMR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The Historiography of the Scientific Image

UserChitra Ramalingam (Harvard University).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging Software

UserLaura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Exploring the dynamics of network optimisation

UserNigel Walker, Ben Strulo, British Telecomm.

HouseMR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 14 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Mondrian Processes

UserYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, TBA.

ClockFriday 05 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Distributed Computation over Random Geometric Graphs: Some Asymptotic Results

UserD. Manjunath, Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT, Bombay.

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Status of human tissues

UserAlix Rogers (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Networks for Vision

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserProf Brendan Frey (University of Toronto).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-18:00

Psy Studies

Can psychometric/educational testing be multicultural? The case of Greenland

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL LENT TERM

UserChristian Ydesen (Centre for Educational Sociology, Edinburgh).

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

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Inference Group

Bayesian Inductive Programming

UserR J Henderson (Edinburgh).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

HPS History Workshop

Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

“On the Epidemic of Financial Crises” (tbc)

UserVanessa Smith, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary

UserEvelyn Welch (Queen Mary, University of London).

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

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Hardness Ratios

UserYue Wu.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 14:00-14:30

New Thinking In Economics

The Big Crunch and The Big Bang: How to get out of the global financial mess

Registration required at: bigcrunchbigbang.com

UserPhilip Arestis, John Llewellyn, Mike Kitson, Elias Karakitsos, Anatole Kaletsky, Michelle Baddeley, Hashem Pesaran, Leonardo Gambacorta, Andrew Ross, Luisa Corrado, Terry Barker, Saxon Brettell and William Keegan.

HouseBuckingham House, Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall).

ClockFriday 21 November 2008, 10:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Is the law of the jungle sustainable for the Internet?

UserAlexandre Proutiere, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseMR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Is the pessimistic induction valid?

UserSam Nicholson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Machine Learning Book Reading Club

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRutherford building, Seminar Room B.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

A Four-moment Portfolio Strategy for Emerging Equity Markets

UserWarapong Wongwachara, PhD student, Department of Economics.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?

UserAndrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

New Thinking In Economics

Rebooting the Global Financial System by Bankrupting the Bad Banks

UserTerry Barker and Ramona Meyricke, Department of Land Economy. Chair Mike Kitson, Judge Business School.

HouseOld Kitchens, Queens’ College.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 20:00-22:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankings

UserDr Marina Meila (University of Washington).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Methodology and the visual image

Please note the different time

UserGeoff Belknap (HPS).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

“Intermediation in Financial Networks” (tbc)

UserAna Babus, Centre for Financial Analysis.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Spiking Boltzmann Machines

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance

UserJoanna Burch Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Measurement in Accounts: Fair Value and the Credit Crunch

UserGeoffrey Whittington, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseWhipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optimal Gateway Selection in VoIP

UserRichard Weber, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Diverse Beliefs in a Simple Economy

UserAngus Brown, Phd student on DPMMS.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III)

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 11:00-13:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

The discovery of structural form

UserDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 27 October 2008, 11:11-12:15

Psy Studies

Psychoanalysis, psyche and spirit in the modern world

UserSudhir Kakar (INSEAD, Fontainebleau & Goa).

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

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Groundwork for a Humean theory of ideal laws

UserBilly Wheeler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's Coalescent

Note unusual time

UserDr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Herd Induced by Uninformed Traders in Efficient Financial Markets

UserGongyu Chen (PhD student, Department of Economics).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Context in human robot interaction

UserThomas Kollar (MIT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Orford Ness: landscape of war and science

UserSophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Consensus -- with Limited Memory and Signalling

UserMilan Vojnovic, Microsoft research Cambridge.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II)

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The evolution of wonder

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

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I)

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-18:00

Inference Group

Inferring the hazard rate in change point models

Note unusual day and time

User Robert Wilson, U. Penn.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Spoken Dialogue Management

UserSebastien Bratieres.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 29 September 2008, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian approach to language learning

UserDr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 26 September 2008, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning Bigrams from Unigrams

UserAndrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learning

UserJo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 15 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priors

UserDr Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Associative Memories

(This talk was postponed from 20 August)

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2008, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Artificial intelligence in combinatorial game design

UserCameron Browne, Queensland University of Technology.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 13 August 2008, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Semantic Texton Forests for Image Categorization and Segmentation.

UserJamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 23 July 2008, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Modeling with Bounded Partition Functions

UserRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 16 July 2008, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks

The Geometry of the Space of Shapes

Hosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research)

UserProf. David Mumford (Brown University).

HouseQueen's Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College, CB2 3AP http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/conferences/maps/.

ClockWednesday 09 July 2008, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Inside and Outside Liquidity.

UserJose Scheinkman, Princeton University.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 25 June 2008, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processes

UserDr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 16 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Cutting Cheese

UserCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 09 June 2008, 11:15-12:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The new riddle of causation

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms

UserSasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 04 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Inference Group

Gaussian Process Density Sampler

UserRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

H-Infinity Clustering

UserProf. Sam Roweis (Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

HPS History Workshop

The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power

Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJohn Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Constructive empiricism as an epistemological thesis

UserPaul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Object-Attribute Models

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 19 May 2008, 11:15-12:15

Psy Studies

Scottish psychotherapy: communion, community and communication

UserGavin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University).

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

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

An Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserProf. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

A social construction of health

UserElly Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s

Please note early start

UserBarbara Wurm (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna).

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

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 16:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Thomas Digges' astronomy

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Inference Group

Some models for biology

Note unusual time

UserLeopold Parts.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 25 April 2008, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Treed Gaussian Processes for Regression and Classification

Note new date and time.

UserTamara Broderick (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 21 April 2008, 11:15-12:15

Psy Studies

Revolution in mind: making the psychoanalytic field, 1870-1945

UserGeorge Makari (Weill Medical College of Cornell University).

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

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Inference Group

On sparsity and overcompleteness in image models

Postponed until April!

UserRichard E. Turner (Gatsby Unit, UCL), Pietro Berkes.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning quantum physics

UserDr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 17 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

On the Benefits of Confidence Visualization in Speech Recognition

UserKeith Vertanen and Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 March 2008, 11:15-11:30

Inference Group

(clashing event: Sustainable Energy and Arithmetic)

Computer Lab seminar clashes with normal group meeting

UserDavid MacKay.

HouseComputer Laboratory, West Cambridge Site.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 14:15-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Mind-dependence and realism about the mind

UserMark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energy

UserDr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Discriminative Methods with Structure

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Journal Club

Hierarchical Clustering

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 11:15-12:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inductive Logic Programming

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserStephen Muggleton (Imperial College London).

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Practical judgement: a Kantian perspective

UserSasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project

UserIris Montero Sobrevilla (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century

UserAndreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Statistical Machine Translation

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserBill Byrne, Machine Intelligence Laboratory.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear Model

UserMatthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

HPS History Workshop

Zhang Jingsheng and the ‘sexual field’ in 1920s China

UserLeon Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Distancing animals in medieval chronicles

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserBrigitte Resl (University of Liverpool).

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

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Biomedical Image Search

UserAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information Retrieval

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserStephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-18:00

Inference Group

Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers

UserDr Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Subjective probability and action guidance

UserMartin Peterson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Stable distribution and data sketching

UserIoana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored Lights

UserGabriel J. Brostow (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The primacy of secondary qualities

UserMike Collins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture (Note unusual day)

UserPeter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2008, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections

UserDavid Blei, Computer Science, Princeton University.

HouseEngineering Department - LR3.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease Mapping

UserJarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graphical Models

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserChristopher M. Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-18:00

Inference Group

NIPS presentations

UserPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 16 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Composing: Linear and Non-Linear Thinking

Note unusual time

UserRichard Burns (Cambridge Poet).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 07 December 2007, 11:00-12:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages

UserKathleen Walker-Meikle (University College London).

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

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Error Correcting Codes

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserDavid J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Differential equations arrising in network problems

UserN Vvedenskaya (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow).

HouseMR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language Parsing

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserTed Briscoe, Computer Laboratory.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-18:00

Psy Studies

The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori

UserKatherine Angel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Wireless Spectral Sharing Techniques and Issues

UserFletcher Wicker (The Aerospace Corporation / Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process Models

UserMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Journal Club

Loopy Belief Propagation

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 11:15-12:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Prequential Statistics

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserPhilip Dawid, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-18:00

Psy Studies

1919: psychology and psychoanalysis, Cambridge and London

UserJohn Forrester (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 31 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Inference Group

The last thing that we should talk about

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Finance Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserChristian Hafner, Institut de statistique Universit´e catholique de Louvain.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Journal Club

Basics of Belief Propagation

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 29 October 2007, 11:15-12:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Practical reasoning and inference

UserJonathan Dancy (University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin).

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

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Spectral Clustering

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserArik Azran, Machine Learning Group.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Group Theory and Machine Learning

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserImre Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational Learning

UserRicardo Silva (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseLR6, Engineering, Department of.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain

UserCarlos López Beltrán (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting)

Developing a general-purpose message-passing library

Registration is required for this one-day meeting

UserTom Minka.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockFriday 28 September 2007, 17:15-17:55

Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting)

Discussion + tea

UserZoubin Ghahramani, Engineering.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockFriday 28 September 2007, 15:20-16:30

Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting)

Sequencing hundreds of humans - how to collect the data efficiently and make sense of it

Registration is required for this one-day meeting

UserRichard Durbin. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockFriday 28 September 2007, 10:00-10:40

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graph Kernels for Data Mining

UserKarsten Borgwardt, Machine Learning Group @ CUED.

HouseLR5, Engineering, Department of.

ClockWednesday 19 September 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component Analysis

UserHao Shen, National ICT Australia and Australian National University, Canberra.

HouseLR5, Engineering, Department of.

ClockFriday 14 September 2007, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Five energy plans for Britain

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Combining Causal and Similarity-based reasoning

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 10 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

What is a Fab Lab?

UserCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 August 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Pre-Gatsby Workshop

UserPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 06 August 2007, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Knowledge Compilation

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 30 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

Title Language Model

UserPhil Cowans (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 16 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Supposing this and that

UserFlorian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 20 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Environments: a problem for the bio-statistical theory of health

UserElselijn Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Inference Group

An Error-Correcting Keyboard

UserCarl Scheffler, Inference Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Rausing Lecture

Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com

The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserTrevor Pinch (Cornell University).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'

UserNatalie Kaoukji (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 16 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Colour-experience: eco-dispositionalism and inverted earth

UserStefan Brenner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler

UserPatrick Boner (Kommission zur Herausgabe der Werke von Johannes Kepler, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

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

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Inference Group

Context Tree Weighting

UserMartijn van Veen and Philip Cowans.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2007, 14:00-15:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Provisional knowledge

UserPaul Teller (University of California at Davis).

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

ClockThursday 19 April 2007, 14:00-15:30

Inference Group

Learning Patterns in the Game of Go

Note unusual time

UserEmil Nijhuis, University of Amsterdam.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 30 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Inference in Bayesian Networks using Dynamic Discretisation

Note unusual time

UserMartin Neil, Agena Ltd & David Marquez, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 26 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Logistic regression with a Laplacian prior on the singular values: convex duality and application to EEG classification.

Note unusual time and location

UserRyota Tomioka (冨岡亮太), University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST IDA.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 23 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Monte Carlo Approaches to Game Playing

UserDavid Stern, Strategic Inference Task Force, Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Ranking

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserRalf Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classification

Note different room and time

UserRyota Tomioka (University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST).

HouseLT1 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge?

UserYoon Choi (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserDr Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-18:00

Psy Studies

How we became our brains: a historical perspective

UserFernando Vidal (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Practices, rules and motivation

UserCaroline Baumann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reference failure: why worry?

UserChristina McLeish (St Catharine's College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian Methods

Room changed this week!

UserProfessor Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR5, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-18:00

Inference Group

Title to be confirmed

This talk has been canceled/deleted

UserGiselle Walker.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

HPS History Workshop

'Les particularités la plus considerable': Fontenelle's éloges

UserLisa Mullins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860

UserMichael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

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

ClockTuesday 20 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The sceptical consequences of phenomenal realism

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Alchemy and natural history

UserJenny Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robot Localisation and Mapping

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserDr Paul M Newman, Oxford University.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 01 February 2007, 16:00-18:00

Psy Studies

The mismeasure of stickman: testing intelligence by drawings

UserBarbara Wittmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

Inference Group

Modeling Natural Sounds with Gaussian Modulation Cascade Processes

UserRich Turner, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The difference between cause and condition

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction

UserSophie Weeks (Homerton College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris

UserEmma Spary (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

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

ClockTuesday 23 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Geological deluge and snowball Earth

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

Title to be confirmed

This talk has been canceled/deleted

UserLuis Diaz-Santana, Dept of Optometry and Visual Science, City University.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 13 December 2006, 14:45-15:15

Psy Studies

Four erotic problems: elements of a history of arts of love

UserMichel Feher (École Normale Supérieure, Paris).

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

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Relative meaning

UserJoe Sandham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Advanced MCMC Methods

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserIain Murray, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Electrons in the family

UserJaume Navarro (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Expectation Propagation

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserDr Tom Minka, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-18:00

Inference Group

Vector Gaussian Processes

UserRyan Adams, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement

UserPaul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Causality

Advanced Tutorial Lecture Series on Machine Learning

UserDr Ricardo Silva, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work

UserJoab Rosenberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950

Note: This seminar will start at 12.30

UserJasper Heinzen (Darwin College).

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

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 12:30-13:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserEd Snelson, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-18:00

Inference Group

Teaching Statistics - A Bag of Tricks

UserDavid MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Not all computations are effective methods

UserMark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual

UserRoger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick).

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

ClockTuesday 17 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge

UserMelanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 11 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Mixture Models and the EM Algorithm

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-18:00

Inference Group

An interesting preprint

UserDavid MacKay.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 13 September 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions

UserIain Murray, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 06 September 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

How to veto anonymously under surveillance?

UserPiotr Zielinski, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 August 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Naive OCR?

UserSeb Wills, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 16 August 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Cognitive Cars

UserK. Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Motor Company.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 09 August 2006, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

sparse GP classification

POSTPONED

UserAndrew Naish.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 August 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

neural phase codes

UserBob Wilson.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 August 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Graphical Combinator Programming

UserChristian Steinruecken.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 26 July 2006, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

Implicit learning in Music

UserMartin Rohrmeier, Centre for Music and Science.

HouseHEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 18 July 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Gaussian Process models for solving ODEs

UserOliver Stegle, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 July 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Information-Theoretic Security in Wireless Networks: From Theory to Practice

UserMiguel Rodrigues, Digital Technology Group, Cambridge.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 June 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Music Access for the Disabled

UserJon Hall, Engineering Department.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

In search of the brain's wiring

UserPhilipp Hennig, Heidelberg.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 June 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Blissymbolics

UserAnnalu Waller, University of Dundee.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 15 June 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserWilliam Adams, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 05 June 2006, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

Title to be confirmed

UserDavid Stern, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens"

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserAnna Mrker, Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

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

ClockMonday 22 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserBenjamin Wardhaugh, University of Oxford.

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

ClockMonday 15 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

Inference Group

To be confirmed

UserDavid Stern, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Sleeping Beauty and the Armchair Cosmologist

Note unusual time

UserDavid MacKay.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 26 April 2006, 14:30-15:30

Inference Group

The 'Rich Club' phenomenon in large networks

Note unusual day

UserAnthony Leung, Hong Kong.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 April 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Hierarchical Passage Retrieval

UserPhil Cowans, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 19 April 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Bayesian Online Changepoint Detection

UserRyan Adams, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 March 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Graph Transformation Method for Calculating Waiting Times in Markov Chains

UserSemen Trygubenko, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 28 March 2006, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Epitomic representation of natural signals

UserAnitha Kannan, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 22 March 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Aggregation of Particles in Stochastic Flows

UserPer Sillr?n, Chalmers University, Sweden.

HouseAstrophysics New Small Meeting Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 13 March 2006, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model

UserDr Neil Lawrence, Computer Science, University of Sheffield.

HouseLR10, Engineering, Department of.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2006, 12:30-13:30

Inference Group

Speech Recognition During Dictation Corrections

UserKeith Vertanen, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Topic Modeling: Beyond Bag-of-Words

UserHanna Wallach, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Uncertainty Logic

UserChristian Steinruecken.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 16 February 2006, 15:15-16:15

Inference Group

Experimental Annotation of the Human Genome

UserPaul Bertone, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Virtual-move Parallel Tempering

UserIvan Coluzza, University of Cambridge.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Latency-optimal fault-tolerant replication

UserPiotr Zielinski, Inference Group.

HouseCommittee Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Dynamical Networks for Agent Systems

UserPedro Ortega, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Recognition and prediction of biological motion

UserRobert Wilson, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseTo Be Determined, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 January 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Eye Tracking with Consumer Hardware

UserDan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 January 2006, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Efficient Quantum Computation with linear optics

UserOliver Stegle, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Locked-in syndrome

UserMick Donegan, ACE Centre Oxford.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 November 2005, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Monte Carlo is Bayesian

UserJohn Skilling, ex-DAMTP.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Dasher for the blind, and some visual illusions

UserDavid MacKay, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Bayesian Pattern Ranking for Move Prediction in the Game of Go

UserDavid Stern, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Simulation and Optimization

UserChunlin JI, Engineering Department.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 17 August 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Language relationships, phonology, and Greek

UserTudor Dimofte, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 17 August 2005, 12:30-13:30

Inference Group

Efficient communication with buttons: an update on Button Dasher

UserIngrid Jendrzejewski, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 16 August 2005, 12:00-13:00

Inference Group

Why do fruitflies like bananas?

UserGregory Jefferis, Department of Zoology.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 July 2005, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Journal Club

multicanonical sampling

UserOle Winther, IMM, DTU and Inference Group.

HouseJasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 July 2005, 11:30-12:30

Inference Group

An introduction to Brain-Computer Interfaces

UserSeb Wills, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 06 July 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

To be confirmed

UserDavid MacKay.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockSunday 03 July 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets

UserGeoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Epitomes And Epitexts

UserPhil Cowans, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2005, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Monte Carlo experiments in computer Go

UserLukasz Lew, Vrije University, Amsterdam.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 June 2005, 15:30-16:30

Inference Group

Japanese Language Model

UserTakashi Kaburagi.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 09 June 2005, 09:30-10:30

Inference Group

A Tale of T9

UserCliff Kushler.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2005, 16:30-17:30

Inference Group

Neighbourhood Components Analysis

UserSam Roweis, University of Toronto.

HouseRoom 911, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2005, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

Nested Sampling for Motif Discovery

UserThomas Down, Sanger Institute.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2005, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Joint Gaussian Process-Density Mixtures

UserOle Winther, DTU / Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2005, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Computer Othello

UserSanjoy Mahajan.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2005, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Variational Gibbs Sampling

UserUlrich Paquet.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2005, 15:00-16:00

Inference Group

Astronomical Image Recognition

UserDavid MacKay.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2005, 15:00-16:00

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