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A personal list of talks. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Philipp Hennig. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 10 upcoming talks and 2954 talks in the archive. Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussing the Stanford AI ReportZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussing the Stanford AI ReportZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED AI ControlZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural likelihood-free inferenceZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30 Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognitionSeán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 19 March 2024, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient MethodZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30 Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor LearningIncoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00 Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor LearningJonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00 How the Cultural Revolution still shapes ChinaMs Tania Branigan. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cellsProfessor Nick Lane, University College London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Transformer Neural ProcessesZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 Title to be confirmedGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00 Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in ArtProfessor Frances Spalding. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial SettingsDavid Burt, MIT. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning Symmetries in Neural NetworksZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec . Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 The Exoplanet RevolutionProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubChangmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK). CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisisDr Iain McGilchrist. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian coresetsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 Are Revolutions Justified?Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 The Genetic RevolutionsProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30 On the Disappointment of RevolutionsProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in betweenZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Modern Bayesian Experimental DesignDr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative SystemsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A Poisson Process Model for Monte CarloZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous OptimizationZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather PredictionZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSamuel Eckmann. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSamuel Eckmann. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSamuel Eckmann. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning linear models in-context with transformersZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Spencer Frei, UC Davis. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRui Xia, Edward Young. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better samplingIsaac Reid, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30 A new look at eye designSimon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDepartment of Zoology, Cambridge. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Structured recognition for generative models with explaining awayChangmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Monday 02 October 2023, 13:30-14:30 Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"Jay McClelland, Stanford University . Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00 Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descentJeremy Bernstein, MIT. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept BottlenecksZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The LLM Tidal WaveZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Katie Collins, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The LLM Tidal WaveZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Katie Collins, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verificationZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRui Xia and David Lui. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte CarloZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubWill Greedy, University of Bristol. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Reward ModellingZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30 Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from IsoperimetrySam Power, University of Bristol. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the FieldZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantificationZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Burigede Liu. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Tangent KernelZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) . Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent LearningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral AnalysisZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Physics-informed machine learningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMarine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud). In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Causal Machine LearningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED User Manipulation in Recommender SystemsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at playProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Random Features for Kernel ApproximationZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 The Self-Imposed Isolation of North KoreaProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated LearningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 Are we alone in the Universe?Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Neural NetworksZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLuke Johnston, Wayne Soo. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-16:00 Isolation and Trapping using Optical TweezersProfessor Philip Jones, University College London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Offline Reinforcement LearningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPuria Radmard and David Liu. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-16:00 Antarctica:Isolated ContinentProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED {PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown ConstraintsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30 The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learningYasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:30-14:30 The Closeting of SecretsProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam DebacleRoger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00 The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in AustraliaDr Amy Nethery, Deakin University. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30 On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and PearlsProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEsDavid Duvenaud (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00 Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEsDavid Duvenaud (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEdward Young, Zahara Girones. CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviourJuan Alvaro Gallego. CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared InvariancesVedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland . Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845. Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information Geometry — Natural Gradient DescentZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Andy Lin, MLG. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRui Xia and Mate Lengyel. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00 Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transportFelipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00 Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent InteractionStefano Albrecht, Edinburgh. Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Predicting generalization of ML models.Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagementLachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations. Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering. Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A tutorial on diffusion modelsEmile, Sasha from CBL. Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSamuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The second generation of meta-learning methodsMassimiliano (Max) Patacchiola, University of Cambridge. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learningAustin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJake Stroud and David Liu. Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00 Random walks, self-reinforcement and neuronsDaniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 . Monday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of rewardMichael Cohen, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest TalkRoman Novak, Google Brain. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learningGreg Yang, Microsoft Research. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The role of meta-learning for few-shot classificationEleni Triantafillou, Google Brain. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic DataAntti Honkela, University of Helsinki. Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Benefits and Shortcomings of AssistanceDmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling studyFabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00 In Search for the Next Magic StoneProf Z X Shen, Stanford. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative PriorsSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural NetworksSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Rethinking evaluation for machine learning modelsAdrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and GeneralizationSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30 How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inferenceWen-Hao Zhang. Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning TasksAnastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley. Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.David Burt, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bests of ICLRSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30 The physics of how humans build models of the worldProf Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:30-17:30 To see a world in a grain of sandA wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Thursday 21 April 2022, 16:00-17:00 Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordinationUniversity of Cambridge. Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning with Quantum ComputersAmira Abbas and Maria Schuld. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30 Topological pumping in new territoryA wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture Prof Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Tuesday 19 April 2022, 17:00-18:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDavid Liu and Edward Young. Tuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Autoregressive Diffusion ModelsEmiel Hoogeboom. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Overview of AI AlignmentNeel Alex, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30 Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbcProf Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University. Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbcProf Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University. Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AIEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30 New Physics in Driven Quantum MaterialsMax Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY and Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Monday 14 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 The Political Economy of Conservation and Food SecurityProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Introduction to differential privacyTalay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubFlavia Mancini and Finn Ashley. Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00 Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the PastProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30 Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"This will be a hybrid lecture link to mtg https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv Prof Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. Pippard lecture theatre and https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv . Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 : "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"A wine reception will follow the lecture Prof Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Pippard lecture theatre and Zoom. Monday 28 February 2022, 16:00-17:00 Food and Cultural HistoryDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Retrieval Augmented NLPJiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30 Food as ExpressionMr Alex Rushmer, Chef. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Circuits and InterpretabilityLauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30 X-rays and Food SafetyDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Optimal Transport MetricsShreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJake Stroud and Michal Wojcik. Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:30-15:00 Food, Power and SocietyMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learned CompressionGergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30 Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Jensen and Marine Schimel. Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:30-15:00 Food and Climate ChangeProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Diffusion and Score-based Generative ModelsVincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED AI SafetyNeel Alex. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED [Cancelled] Best of NeuripsSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDaniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern. Tuesday 07 December 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Energy-Based ModelsStratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30 Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cellsSimon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGeorgia Turner and Falvia Mancini. Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep KernelsSebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)Speaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYashar Ahmadian and Gido van de Ven. Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Representation Learning: A Causal PerspectiveYixin Wang. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09. Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in MLRoss Clarke (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Implicit Regularization in Deep LearningJezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang and Wayne Soo. Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Planning Meeting + PI PresentationsCBL and Computer Lab PIs. Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen. Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMarine Schimel and David Liu. Tuesday 28 September 2021, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal ModelsMatej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt. https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09. Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina SavinCristina Savin, New York University. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85184505624?pwd=WnhWZWR1SjhxUXFDOWtPT2c2cG90Zz09. Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal PfisterJean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84626937837?pwd=RC95RTdybkRlNHhOcThjclQzYUxkdz09. Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Jensen and Georgia Turner. Tuesday 29 June 2021, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYashar Ahmadian and Wayne Soo. Tuesday 15 June 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-VelezFinale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89542469691?pwd=bVJjdXJGd3BkaDk1SHk3a1dLZzlZUT09. Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian ProcessesWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class.David Duvenaud, University of Toronto. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84495932262?pwd=MlFJL3Z3c1JmenFOY2xJQTNPSzdsQT09. Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00 Capacity and errors in classification of object manifoldsUri Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Thursday 03 June 2021, 10:00-11:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Statistical Finite Element MethodMark Girolami (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMate Lengyel and Jasmine Stone. Tuesday 01 June 2021, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li. Tuesday 18 May 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical DesignersShakir Mohamed, Deepmind. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84960287802?pwd=N1pTZGpKMjhhMTVVV1RNSS9Gc3Jqdz09. Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Best of ICLRSpeaker to be confirmed. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:00-12:30 Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteriaThis lecture is a Livestream Event Dr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubZahara Girones and Ivan Tomic. Tuesday 04 May 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep LearningMark van der Wilk, Imperial College London. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09. Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to PAC-BayesAndrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian ProcessesThéo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81961210430?pwd=cUZGbzU4NzJickd5THlsYzJ4cmlndz09. Tuesday 20 April 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep LearningAndrew Gordon Wilson. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09. Friday 16 April 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Online Learning and Online Convex OptimisationSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine LearningJames Allingham (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang and Jonathan So. Tuesday 06 April 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proofNicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream TasksYaniv Yacoby, Harvard University. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJake Stroud and Marine Schimel. Tuesday 23 March 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gaussian Processes I have KnownAnthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Causal Representation LearningChaochao Lu, University of Cambridge. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJascha Achterberg and Kris Jensen. Tuesday 09 March 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Long-Range TransformersValerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Inference in Stochastic ProcessesJavier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDavid Liu and Jeroen Olieslagers. Tuesday 23 February 2021, 15:00-16:30 Bloodlines of the BritishProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford. Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Fairness in AIElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30 Dracula, Vampires and the New WomanProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology. Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational Bayes as Surrogate RegressionWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:00-12:30 Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood FlowProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge. Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern EnglandDr Sara Read, Loughborough University. Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process BanditsSattar Vakili (MediaTek Research). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Meta-reinforcement learningKris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30 A theory for Hebbian Learning in recurrent E-I networksSamuel Eckmann (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Friday 18 December 2020, 09:00-10:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Best of NeurIPSSpeaker to be confirmed. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubCalvin Kao and Marine Schimel. Tuesday 15 December 2020, 15:00-16:30 The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computingMatthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural ProcessesAndrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Large-scale sequential experimentationWessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30 Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperatureProf Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory. Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre. Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Symmetries in Reinforcement LearningRobert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJasmine Stone (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 November 2020, 15:00-16:30 ’Seeing early cancer in a new light’Prof Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory. Wednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gradient-based Hyperparameter OptimisationRoss Clarke (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:05-12:30 Title to be confirmedDr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre. Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Best Papers from ICML 2020Reading group participants. https://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet. Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30 Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaosDr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP. Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00 Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to appliedJoin the talk here:- https://tinyurl.com/y2kfo6ra Dr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge. Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre. Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang and Wayne Soo. Tuesday 20 October 2020, 15:00-16:30 Cognitive switches and functional reprogramming of sensory cortexAbhishek Banerjee, Newcastle University. Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00 'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'Prof Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory. Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,. Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Jensen and David Liu. Tuesday 06 October 2020, 15:00-16:30 Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and OpportunitiesAndrey Malinin, Yandex Research. Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link). Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active LearningAustin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv. Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEsGergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba. Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMate Lengyel (Engineering Department). Tuesday 02 June 2020, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 19 May 2020, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Best of ICLR 2020(University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx. Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJake Stroud (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 May 2020, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Differentiable PlanningWill Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler. https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa. Wednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Why do neurons spike spontaneously?Tim Vogels (University of Oxford). Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30 Why do neurons spike spontaneously?Tim Vogels (University of Oxford). Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep LearningAndrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop. https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq. Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 April 2020, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Strategic ClassificationJiri Hron (University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh. Wednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning on Sets(University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg. Wednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Jensen and Marine Schimel. Tuesday 07 April 2020, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing FlowsVincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg. Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail). Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED World ModelsDr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge). Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail). Wednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Federated LearningSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubXizi Li (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00 Archaeological MysteriesDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist. Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30 Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Playwellman@umich.edu. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:00-12:00 Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction eventsProfessor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford. Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Distributed distributional codes for learning successor features in partially observable environmentsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eszter Vértes, Gatsby Unit, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Self-Supervised Representation LearningJavier Antoran (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMarine Schimel. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMarine Schimel. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00 The Enigmatic Premodern BookProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia. Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kernel Mean EmbeddingsElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30 The Enigma of EmotionDr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London. Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Tangent KernelAdria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubWayne Soo (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sankie: Using Data to Build Better Systems and ServicesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Microsoft Research-India. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:00-12:00 Alan Turing and the Enigma MachineDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer. Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera MechanismDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author. Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning MeetupMarc Brockschmidt (MSR Cambridge) and Vincent Dutordoir (Prowler). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-19:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSimon Schug (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSimon Schug (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution ShiftZack Lipton, CMU. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back PropagationUwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Torp Jensen. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Moonshot Thinking to Unleash Innovation, Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha: MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable Gaussian ProcessesDavid Burt, Andrew Foong. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Mobile Computing Platform after Smartphones - Prof Romit Roy Choudhury: MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof Romit Roy Choudhury, UIUC. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 December 2019, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAdriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the moveAll Welcome Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic ProgrammingHong Ge and John Bronskill. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30 Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the moveAll welcome Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photonic-chip-based soliton microcombs Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tobias Kippenberg: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2019, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural AttentionElre Oldewage, George Hron. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00 Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networksOmri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNsJames Allingham, Omer Sella. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30 Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processesWilliam Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hyperparameter OptimisationRoss Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30 Computational neuroscience journal clubMonika Jozsa. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00 Neural information processing during behavior and sleepMayank Mehta (UCLA). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 05 November 2019, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"John Bronskill, Marton Havasi. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30 Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and EfficiencyHaitham Ammar, Huawei. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:00-11:00 Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time seriesVincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 28 October 2019, 11:00-12:00 Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language ExplanationsOana Camburu, University of Oxford. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical ModelsVidhi Lalchand. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMichael Rule. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00 Dopamine as prediction error in active inferenceRafal Bogacz (Oxford). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:30-12:30 Neurotransmitter spillover modulates neuronal information transmissionMehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Wednesday 09 October 2019, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubCalvin Kao. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 08 October 2019, 16:00-17:00 Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian PrinciplesEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Advanced polarized light microscopy for mapping molecular orientation Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Prof Rudolf Oldenbourg, Marine Biological Laboratory, MA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 September 2019, 09:30-11:00 Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolutionDan Wetmore, PhD, Director of Clinical and Research partnerships, CTRL-labs. Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolutionPatrick Kaifosh, PhD, Chief Science Officer, CTRL-labs. Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCARajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Three case studies for coexisting mechanisms in protein-pattern forming systemsFridtjof Brauns, LMU Munich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 September 2019, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling User Experience in Games: Lessons LearnedPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gerogios Yannakakis, University of Malta. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep LearningWesley Maddox (New York University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 23 August 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Physical security and side channel attacks in Arm based SoCs Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Chowdary Yanamadala & Jeremy Dubeuf, ARM. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 09 August 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using reason and evidence to do the most goodEve McCormick - Effective Altruism Cambridge & Olly Crook - University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 31 July 2019, 14:00-15:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series How good is your classifier? Revisiting the role of evaluation metrics in machine learningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Sanmi Koyejo, University of Illinois . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 31 July 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Antennas for light and their applications in classical optics Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dr Rupert Oulton, Imperial College . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:00-17:30 Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial AttacksMatthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00 Efficiency and Transferability of Neural NetworksAmos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00 Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational InferenceTrevor Campbell, University of British Columbia. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 26 June 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PRECOG: PREdiction Conditioned On Goals in Visual Multi-Agent SettingsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rowan McAlister, University of California, Berkeley. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 June 2019, 13:30-14:30 Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local CompetitionKonstantinos P. Panousis. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photons in the cloud: communicating and storing dataPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof John H Marsh, University of Glasgow. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 June 2019, 16:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photonics for Computing: from Optical Interconnects to Neuromorphic ArchitecturesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 June 2019, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDhruva Raman (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 11 June 2019, 16:00-17:00 Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and DivisivenessReza Babaei. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 11 June 2019, 15:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubThomas Burger (Control Group). Tuesday 28 May 2019, 16:00-17:00 How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and decelerationEmilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine). Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence?Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 17 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Particle MCMCWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stochastic Differential EquationsDavid Burt. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:30 Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable GuaranteesUmut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Generalisation in neural networksMarton Havasi. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Overview of Normalizing FlowsRobert Pinsler. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. University of Waterloo. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. University of Waterloo. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 2Please note, this event will be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:30-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 1Please note, this event will be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2019, 10:30-12:00 NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular GraphsAbir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00 Global model explainability via aggregationUmang Bhatt, CMU. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-16:45 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sampling as OptimizationEric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15 Robust machine learning for causal inference in health careDavid Sontag, MIT. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubTa-Chu (Calvin) Kao -- CBL. Tuesday 19 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR Cambridge Cloud Talk Series; Structured light: seeing less to see more in optical microscopy Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Professor of Photonics, Mark Neil, Imperial College London . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What difference does one tonne make?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. David Carter, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 The K-FAC method for neural network optimizationJames Martens, Google Deep Mind. Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Implicit Variational InferenceAndrew Foong (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15 Open Issues in Build SystemsUlf Adams, Google. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 March 2019, 10:00-11:00 Perception of Visual SpaceProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study. Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and ApproachesSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-15:15 Computer VisionProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre. Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Neural Code Comprehension: A Learnable Representation of Code SemanticsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tal Ben-Nun, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement LearningChaochao Lu (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15 Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortexGergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics). Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:00-12:00 Viewing the UniverseDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Generative models for few-shot prediction tasksMarta Garnelo (Google DeepMind). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubFlavia Mancini (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 Appearance and Physical RealityProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in miceDr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge). Friday 15 February 2019, 10:00-11:00 Online Meta-LearningMassimiliano Pontil, University College London. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Logical UncertaintyAdrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15 Vision of Future TechnologyMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs. Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (CBL). Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 Evolution of the EyeProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University. Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replayDr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford. Friday 01 February 2019, 12:30-13:30 Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on ManifoldsTaco Cohen. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:30-14:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stein DiscrepancySebastian Ober (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30 Colour and VisionProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University. Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30 Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning SystemsTom Everitt (DeepMind). Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor). Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDaniel Acosta-Kane (CBL). Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00 Local and global synaptic credit assignmentDr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol). Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-12:00 Fairness for Sequential Decision Making AlgorithmsHoda Heidari. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-12:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series What Can Fair ML Learn from Economic Theories of Distributive Justice?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Hoda Heidari, ETH Zurich . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data modelsMartin Tegner. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 18 December 2018, 10:30-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Ordinary Differential EquationsEric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Idris 2: Type Driven Development of Idris Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Edwin Brady, St Andrews University . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:00-12:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus".Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London. The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Natural gradient in deep neural networksAlberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:30 A brain-machine interface for locomotion driven by subspace dynamicsKaren E. Schroeder, Columbia University. Cambridge University Engineering Dept., CBL Seminar Room (4th floor). Wednesday 21 November 2018, 11:00-12:00 Neural mechanisms of model-based planning in the ratKevin Miller, University College London. Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Graph Neural NetworksMatej Balog (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMichael Rule (Control Group). Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 13 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Defending Against Adversarial AttacksRoss Clarke (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic InferenceRobert Pinsler, Calvin Kao. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAdriana Perez-Rotondo (Control group). Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of EquilibriumProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum GasesProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical LatticesProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Flux: Elegant Machine Learning with Julia Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Mike Innes, Julia Computing, Inc.. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRodrigo Echeveste (CBL). Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning AlgorithmsMihaela van der Schaar . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 11 October 2018, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlberto Bernacchia (CBL). Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 02 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Reactivation in biological and artificial neural networksGido van de Ven, PhD; Baylor College of Medicine. Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 11 September 2018, 10:00-11:00 Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answersBeen Kim, Google Brain. Engineering Department, Board Room on the 2nd Floor. Monday 10 September 2018, 11:00-12:00 Simulation for Intelligent SystemsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Vladlen Koltun, Intel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 August 2018, 13:00-14:30 Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD)Biwei Huang, CMU. Friday 24 August 2018, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (CBL). Tuesday 17 July 2018, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 15:00-16:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Interpretability in Machine Learning: What it means, How we're getting there Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 13:00-14:00 Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex ModelsEmtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 16 July 2018, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Combating Student Mental Illness with Technology—from the Imagine Cup UK FinalsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Michaela Brady and Shu Ishida, Oxford University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 July 2018, 15:00-16:00 Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable ModelsGeorge Tucker, Google Brain. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00 The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologiesProfessor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room. Tuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30 Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyondThomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 21 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte-Carlo Estimator Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Jakob Foerster, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Herding Nulls – and other C# stories from the futurePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Mads Torgersen, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Hidden problems in the global wind industryDr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room. Friday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00 Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup FairnessProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Windows Insider ProgramPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 04 June 2018, 14:15-15:00 A physicist's spin on data scienceDeborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis. Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,. Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAdrianna Loback (Control Group). Tuesday 29 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect FeaturesJulius von Kugelgen. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 23 May 2018, 11:30-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAndrey Stoychev (Control Group). Tuesday 15 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social NetworksAna Stoica, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00 Information Efficacy of a Dynamic SynapseMehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich). Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-16:30 A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGDDr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11. Tuesday 17 April 2018, 11:00-12:00 Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social NetworksAna Stoica, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Sunday 15 April 2018, 11:00-12:00 Animal MigrationProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Networks and Natural Language ProcessingMatej Balog (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:30-15:00 Structure in tensor-variate data: a trivial byproduct of simpler phenomena?John P. Cunningham. Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information Theory, Codes, and CompressionChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:30-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRobert Taylor (Bays Lab). Tuesday 20 February 2018, 16:00-17:00 Disease MigrationProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley. Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Lipschitz Global OptimizationProfessor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria. Friday 16 February 2018, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Statistical Learning TheoryMaria Lomeli. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:30-15:00 Interfacing with the brain using organic electronicsGeorge Malliaras (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,). Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:00-12:00 Refugees and MigrationMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Art and MigrationProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham. Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Generative ModelsJonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Minimum Description LengthCarl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:30-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGreg Sotiropoulos (CBL). Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:00-17:00 Black and British MigrationMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster. Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Optimal algorithms for smooth and strongly convex distributed optimization in networks Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francis Bach, INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning for SoundsAkisato Kimura. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS 2017 HighlightsSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:30-15:00 Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priorsManfred Opper, TU Berlin. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 13 December 2017, 13:30-14:30 Bayesian Generative Adversarial NetworksProfessor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University. Wednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDhruva Raman (Control Group). Tuesday 12 December 2017, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andrew Wilson, Cornell University. Auditorium , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 December 2017, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hardware Efficient Machine LearningRobert Peharz; Marton Havasi. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 A physicists perspective on osteoarthritis: From hydration lubrication to gene regulationJacob Klein, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel . Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,. Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (CBL). Tuesday 28 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation.Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto). Monday 27 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient DescentYutian Chen, DeepMind. Friday 24 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning to LearnSiddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Towards true end-to-end learning & optimizationDr Frank Hutter. Friday 17 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED WGAN and Optimal TransportMark Rowland; Wenbo Gong. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Let’s speed up the Internet, fast! Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof. Ankit Singla - ETH Zürich. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 15 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMahdieh Sadabadi (CBL). Tuesday 14 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 How much to gain: Controlling space and time via gain modulation in cortical networksJake Stroud (Tim Vogels Lab. University of Oxford). Monday 13 November 2017, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking the Quantified Self to make personal data engaging and usefulPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Steve Whittaker, University of California Santa Cruz. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 13 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Interpretability in Machine LearningAdrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting RecognitionJuan Murillo Fuentes. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-makingJoshua Kroll. Wednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlberto Bernacchia (CBL). Tuesday 31 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 Somatosensory cortex is essential for adaptive motor control in miceMackenzie Mathis, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University. Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Thursday 26 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Cooperative Inverse RLRobert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:30-15:00 From the olfactory cocktail party to markerless trackingAlexander Mathis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. Thursday 26 October 2017, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Infer.NETJohn F. Bronskill. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:30-15:00 Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learningProf. Aapo Hyvarinen. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00 Spike timing in motor controlIlya Nemenman (Emory University). Tuesday 17 October 2017, 11:00-12:00 No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV TransitionProfessor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder. Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRodrigo Echeveste (CBL). Tuesday 03 October 2017, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Open Evening for Women in EngineeringChris Bishop. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 September 2017, 17:30-21:00 A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health careDr Cheng Zhang. Tuesday 26 September 2017, 15:00-16:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Probabilistic and Deep Models for 3D Reconstruction Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andreas Geiger, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 September 2017, 13:00-14:00 Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit MatricesProfessor Ryan Adams, Princeton. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual FairnessDr Matt Kusner. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 12 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Manifest Sharing with Session TypesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximationHironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image InpaintingMariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Deep learning for autonomous drivingTakayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Coin Betting for Backprop without Learning Rates and More Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francesco Orabona, Stony Brook University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 24 August 2017, 13:00-14:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer? Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 August 2017, 13:00-14:00 Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence FunctionsPang Wei Koh, Stanford University. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 20 July 2017, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubTimothy O'Leary (Control Group). Tuesday 11 July 2017, 16:00-17:00 A simple neural network module for relational reasoningDavid Barrett, DeepMind. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 06 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 Future technology: machine learning using memristors networksFrancesco Caravelli (LANL). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 Future technology: machine learning using memristors networksFrancesco Caravelli (LANL). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDhruva Raman (Control Group). Tuesday 27 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networksVincent Fortuin (ETH). Wednesday 14 June 2017, 11:30-12:15 Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigationStefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute). Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:45-11:30 Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction timesYul Kang (Columbia University). Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks AI and Healthcare Open Evening at Microsoft ResearchChristopher Bishop. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 07 June 2017, 17:30-19:30 "Dark Matter (at the LHC and other experiments)"caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial NetworksMartin Arjovsky. Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration LanguagesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 May 2017, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration LanguagesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 May 2017, 10:00-11:00 Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future ElectronicsProf Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED StoryProf Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Photo-induced superconductivity and other storiesProf Andrea Cavalleri, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Munich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 “Topology in materials science”Prof Claudia Felser, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 The Status of Mini-Grids: Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion?Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, UC Berkeley. Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room. Wednesday 10 May 2017, 11:00-12:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigationAndreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen. The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 08 May 2017, 16:30-18:00 Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciencesProfessor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Aapo Hyvarinen (University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft & the Future of Education Technology & Learning Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Ian Fordham, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation LearningGroup Discussion. Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gabriel Brostow (University College London). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 April 2017, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gabriel Brostow (University College London). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 April 2017, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security and Privacy in Machine LearningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 March 2017, 13:15-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security and Privacy in Machine LearningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 March 2017, 13:15-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generalizing Convolutions for Deep LearningPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof. Max Welling (University of Amsterdam). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 29 March 2017, 13:00-14:30 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNsGroup Discussion. Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Thinking of becoming an Entrepreneur: What questions will you be asked?Paul Mantle, Frontier IP Group. Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room. Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kernel Mean EmbeddingsJiri Hron; Adam Scibior. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Information Engineering Division seminar list Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic ProgramsTom Rainforth, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 15 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural NetworksGroup Discussion. Tuesday 14 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Differentially Private Bayesian LearningDr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 14 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Control, inference and learningProf. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Differential PrivacyJohn Bradshaw; Alex Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Differential Privacy TutorialAlex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSebastian Schneegans (Bays Lab). Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Disrupting Developer Productivity One Bot At A Time, Margaret-Anne (Peggy) Storey, University of Victoria / Microsoft TSEPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Margaret-Anne Storey - University of Victoria / Microsoft TSE. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNetsGroup Discussion. Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Extreme PoliticsProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent. Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement LearningDylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 23 February 2017, 15:00-16:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional NetworksGroup Discussion. Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (CBL). Tuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 Dynamic reorganization of neuronal activity patterns in parietal cortexLaura Driscoll (Harvard University). Monday 20 February 2017, 10:00-10:30 Extremes of the UniverseProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic NumericsAlessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - OptimizationGroup Discussion. Tuesday 14 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programsValentin Dalibart. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 10 February 2017, 11:00-12:00 Greening up the Cavendish and the University: the Maxwell Centre as a test caseOttavio Croze. Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room. Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlberto Bernacchia (CBL). Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - RegularizationGroup Discussion. Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Dealing with ExtremismProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge. Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNsGroup Discussion. Tuesday 31 January 2017, 13:30-15:00 Extreme Events and How to Live with ThemProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York. Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30 Variational Bayes In Private SettingsMijung Park, University of Amsterdam. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 25 January 2017, 15:00-16:00 Julia: Introduction and new developmentsDr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 24 January 2017, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS 2016 papers in 5minsMLG members. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:30-15:00 Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated modelsDaniel Roy (University of Toronto). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 15 December 2016, 11:00-12:00 Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot CollaborationElena Corina Grigore (Yale University). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 14 December 2016, 15:00-16:00 Variational autoencoders with latent graphical modelsProf David Duvenaud (University of Toronto). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 13 December 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Symmetry in Statistical ModelsMark Rowland; Maria Lomeli. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Well-founded functions, induction, and extreme predicates in an SMT-based verifierPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 December 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Well-founded functions, induction, and extreme predicates in an SMT-based verifierPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 December 2016, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian OptimizationPawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:30-15:00 A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddingsKrzysztof Choromanski, Google NY. Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering the Future: Engineering in Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft Research CambridgeChristopher Bishop. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 23 November 2016, 17:15-19:30 Visualizing Quantum MatterJ.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University; Brookhaven Nat. Lab and St Andrews University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 Rejection Sampling Variational InferenceFrancisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge). Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED deep generative modelsDave Janz; James Requeima. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-15:00 Neural representations of uncertainty: the right tool for the right jobCristina Savin (IST Austria). Thursday 17 November 2016, 12:15-13:15 Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?Prof. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Grid cells get back to the memory gameAlessandro Treves (SISSA). Monday 14 November 2016, 09:00-10:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sketching methodsJohn Bradshaw. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Flexible PaxosPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Heidi Howard, University of Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 November 2016, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGreg Sotiropoulos (CBL). Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 A talk in two parts: (1) AI Neuroscience: How much do deep neural networks understand about the images they classify? (2) Robots that can adapt like animals.Note venue: James Dyson Building Prof. Jeff Clune (U Wyoming). Dyson Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Monday 07 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement LearningAlexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:30-15:00 Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable ModelsTomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Unsupervised Cluster Matching for Relational DataPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tomoharu Iwata, NTT Communication Science Laboratories. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstrationDushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute. Wednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Developing PDE-compartment hybrid frameworks for modelling cell migrationPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Kit Yate, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Developing PDE-compartment hybrid frameworks for modelling cell migrationPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Kit Yate, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Searching for – and finding! gravitational wavesGabriela Gonzalez, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensorsManon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University. Thursday 20 October 2016, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRodrigo Echeveste (CBL). Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing In Schools: How Your Skills Can Change LivesPhilip Golden. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 France’s Nuclear Energy Transition: Turning Points in National Policy and InnovationDr. Kathleen Araújo, Stony Brook University. Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room. Thursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 The Odyssey of Galaxies throughout the Cosmic EpochsProfessor Roberto Maiolino, Director of the Kavli Centre for Cosmology, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCAProfessor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS). Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Queueing with Redundant Requests: A more realistic model Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Mor Harchol-Balter - CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Multiresolution Matrix FactorizationProf Risi Kondor (U Chicago). Tuesday 13 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Dynamic Models for Health DataProfessor Katherine A Heller (Duke University). Monday 12 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Learning with Memory EmbeddingsProfessor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Womenomics" and Gender-Inclusive Software: What the Software Industry Needs to Know Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Data Driven Discrete Time Modeling of Continuous Time Nonlinear Systems: Problems, Challenges, Success StoriesJohan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andrey Rybalchenko, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 25 August 2016, 10:30-11:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (CBL). Tuesday 23 August 2016, 16:00-17:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Internal models and the neural control of prey interceptionAnthony Leonardo, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus / HHMI. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 19 August 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing Privacy Tradeoffs in the Internet Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required David Naylor - CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 12 August 2016, 15:00-16:00 Inference as LearningGeorge Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh). Monday 08 August 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reflections on Code-Reuse Attacks and DefensesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 August 2016, 16:00-17:00 Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured DataProf Le Song (Georgia Tech). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 25 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verifying Constant-Time ImplementationsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francois Dupressoir. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 21 July 2016, 14:00-15:00 Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series MethodologyProfessor Mike West (Statistical Science, Duke University). James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Thursday 21 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to program verification with F*Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Santiago Zanella-Beguelin, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 14 July 2016, 10:30-11:15 Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian InferenceProf. David Blei (Columbia University). James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Tuesday 12 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Statically-checked Deterministic ParallelismPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Ryan Newton, Indiana University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 June 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Summer of Science Talks: An Introduction to Discrete Geometry, with application to the Principles of Concurrent Programming Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 June 2016, 10:30-11:45 A decision-theoretic framework for active cognitionAngela J. Yu, UCSD Cognitive Science. Friday 17 June 2016, 10:30-11:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJózsef Fiser (Central European University). Tuesday 14 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 A modular architecture for Unicode text compressionAdam Gleave (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 15:00-15:15 Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task LearningVia Skype Yu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 11:00-12:00 Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learningVia Skype Sixin Zhang (NYU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 10:00-11:00 Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning ActivityIsabel Valera . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 09 June 2016, 11:00-12:00 Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical ModelsStephen Pasteris (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 10:30-11:30 Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networksNote: via Skype! Teppo Niinimäki (Helsinki). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 09:30-10:30 Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal MathematicsJosef Urban. William Gates Building - FW26. Friday 03 June 2016, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:30-16:00 Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximationsAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 11:30-12:30 Novel MCMC and SMC schemes for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture modelsMaria Lomeli (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 10:30-11:30 Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in JuliaHong Ge (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 09:30-10:30 Perceptual decision-making: models of the decision-making process and formulation of uncertaintyDavid Zoltowski, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 31 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Towards a theory of layered neural circuit architecturesAlireza Alemi (École Normale Supérieure). Tuesday 31 May 2016, 11:30-12:30 Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech RecognitionGabriel Synnaeve. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning polynomials with Neural NetworksAldo Pacchiano (Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:30-16:00 Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic ModelingRobert Peharz (TU Graz). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00 Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Perception as a closed-loop convergence processThe host for this talk is Máté Lengyel. Note the unusual time and the unusual location Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute). Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Resource Allocation for Next Generation of Radio Access Networks: how effective are my schedulers?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. Bahar Partov Poor, Hamilton Institute Bell Laboratories. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 May 2016, 10:00-11:00 Energy CatalystMichael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK. Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room. Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here?Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical ModelsKui Tang, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 13 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series A role for circadian rhythms in maintaining neuronal propertiesTimothy O'Leary. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 10 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An introduction to Bayesian nonparametrics: some inference schemes for infinite mixture modelsMaria Lomeli. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Turbocharging Rack-Scale In-Memory Computing with Scale-Out NUMAPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Boris Grot - University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series From Sensation to Conception: Theoretical Perspectives on Multisensory Perception and Cross-Modal TransferProf Robert Jacobs (University of Rochester) . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 03 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Topics in Expectation PropagationYingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:30-16:00 Kinetic challenges in solar energy conversionProfessor James Durrant . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering the Future: an open evening for women in engineeringChristopher Bishop, Microsoft Research, Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research, Matthew Johnson, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Admitting more tenants with tail latency SLOsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Timothy Zhu, CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 25 April 2016, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PCC: Re-architecting Congestion Control for Consistent High PerformancePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 25 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economyGareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room. Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGoShixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:30-16:00 Synaptic origins of working memory capacityMisha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel . Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness ProblemPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Torsten Sattler, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness ProblemPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Torsten Sattler, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED inference failures in probabilistic programmingTom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 April 2016, 14:30-16:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Perspectives on Designing Optimal User InterfacesDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 12 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational Methods and Compressed SensingNilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 April 2016, 14:30-16:00 Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming SystemJan-Willem van de Meent (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 05 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Fast Fusion of Multi-band Images: A Powerful Tool for Super-resolutionQi Wei (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 March 2016, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Pony: Co-Designing a Type System and a RuntimePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Sylvan Clebsch, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks General-purpose representation learning from words to sentencesPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Felix Hill, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 March 2016, 09:30-10:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Approximate Message Passing AlgorithmsDr Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 22 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information-Theoretic Bounded RationalityPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Pedro Ortega, University of Pennsylvania. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 22 March 2016, 10:15-11:15 Brain State Control by Closed-Loop Environmental FeedbackTaro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute. Monday 21 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Nurturing a political economy for a sustainable future: technology, innovation, and scienceDavid Bent - Forum for the Future. Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room. Thursday 17 March 2016, 16:00-17:00 Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar systemProfessor Willy Benz, Director, Physics Institute, University of Bern. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 16:00-17:00 Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural AssumptionsJacob Steinhardt (Stanford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 The stabilized supralinear network: A simple "balanced network" mechanism explaining nonlinear cortical integrationKen Miller, Columbia University. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrineTom Dean, Google Research. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stamping Out Concurrency BugsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Baris Kasikci, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Parallel Inference and Learning with Deep Structured DistributionsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Alexander Schwing, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 March 2016, 10:15-11:15 Joint Machine Learning Seminars Day2: Information, Inference, and Energy: A Symposium to celebrate the work of Professor Sir David MacKay FRSSee event web page. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. Tuesday 15 March 2016, 09:00-17:00 Joint Machine Learning Seminars Day1: Information, Inference, and Energy: A Symposium to celebrate the work of Professor Sir David MacKay FRSSee event web page. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. Monday 14 March 2016, 09:00-17:00 The geometry of uncertaintyFabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University. Engineering Department, Boardroom on the 2nd floor (past canteen on the left). Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Into the Mountains: The Extraordinary True Story of Survival in the Andes and its AftermathPedro Algorta. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-18:00 The Game Theory of ConflictDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland. Friday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic programmingHong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:30-16:00 Games Animals PlayProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge. Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning by learning rich generative modelsThang Bui (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 25 February 2016, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Freeform interactions and disrupted displaysPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. David Sweeney, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 23 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 Games for the BrainProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge. Friday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 A more Automated StatisticianDavid Janz, Oxford University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 19 February 2016, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Regularized Optimal Transport and ApplicationsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Marco Cuturi, Kyoto University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 19 February 2016, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Natural gradient descent and variational inferenceMark van der Wilk; Alex Matthews . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:30-16:00 "Losing the New Great Game"Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer. Friday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPsNOTE Topic Change Yarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:30-16:00 Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamicsProf David Holcman (Ecole Normale Superieure). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What I Learned From Inventing Scala Macros?Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eugene Burmako, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What I Learned From Inventing Scala Macros?Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eguene Burmako, Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 Wittgenstein's GamesProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities. Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Random projection ensemble classificationTimothy Cannings. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:30-16:00 The Game of Crime and PunishmentMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 Living Laboratory for SustainabilityEmily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability. Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room. Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep learning for time seriesChristof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:30-16:00 "Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory"Professor Yuri Dokshitzer, LPTHE, Paris and PNPI, St Petersburg, Russia. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Opportunistic Storage Maintenance (SOSP’15)Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 January 2016, 14:30-15:30 Personal Principles and the Political GameBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords. Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stochastic discrete integrationAdrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks End-user programmers need first-class software engineering toolsFelienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 January 2016, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verasco, a formally verified C static analyzerPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Jacques Henri Jourdan, INRIA Paris. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 January 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Formalising and Analysing Transactional Consistency ModelsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Andrea Cerone. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 January 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Synthesising Gene Regulatory Networks from Single-Cell Gene Expression DataPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Steven Woodhouse, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 January 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Symbiotic design for machine intelligence systemsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Cecily Morrison, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 04 January 2016, 09:30-10:30 General Reinforcement LearningJan Leike (Australian National University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Decade of ThrillPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Brendan Walker, Middlesex University/University of Nottingham/Aerial. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 14 December 2015, 10:00-11:00 The contribution of millisecond spike timing of cortical neurons to sensory coding and perceptual decisionsStefano Panzeri, Italian Institute of Technology. Friday 11 December 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Model-Based Hand Tracking with Texture, Shading and Self-occlusionsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Martin De La Gorce, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 December 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Constructive Approach to Secure-Channel ProtocolsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Bjorn Tackmann, University of California San Diego. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Activity recognition in naturalistic environmentsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nils Yannick Hammerla, Newcastle University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stochastic optimization and adaptive learning ratesYingzhen Li (University of Cambridge); Mark Rowland. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian EyesYarin Gal, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Logic, Theorem Proving, and Probabilistic ProgrammingChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Boolean to Quantitative Methods in Formal VerificationPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Thomas Henzinger, IST Austria. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Connections between kernels, GPs, and NNsMatthias Bauer (University of Cambridge); Paul Rubenstein. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:30-16:00 Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems"Prof. Dr. Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising modelDr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDavid Zoltowski (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Detecting paraphrases using recursive autoencodersFeynman Liang. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 November 2015, 14:30-16:00 Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physicshttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian optimization and its applicationsDr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:30-16:00 Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyondhttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessmenthttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED LP relaxations for MAP inferenceAdrian Weller (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking Storage and Networking in Next Generation RacksSergey Legtchenko, Post-doc Researcher, Systems & Networking, Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 22 October 2015, 10:00-11:00 Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavitiesProfessor Jacqueline Bloch, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures LPN/CNRS Route de Nozay. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Meta-Bayesian AnalysisProf. Daniel Roy (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 October 2015, 11:00-12:00 More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical LatticesDr Ulrich Schneider, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Approximate nonlinear filtering with a neural networkJean-Pascal Pfister, ETH Zurich. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 12:00-13:00 Efficient Inference and Learning with Intractable Posteriors? Yes, Please.Diederik P. Kingma (University of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Dale’s principle and the neural processing of latent factorsAlberto Bernacchia, Jacobs University, Bremen. Monday 12 October 2015, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Talking with Reddit: Exploring limitations of recurrent neural network conversational systems.Alexander Gaunt - Trinity College, Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 08 October 2015, 10:00-11:00 Decoding of complex stimuli from large retinal populationsVicente Botella-Soler. Wednesday 07 October 2015, 10:15-11:00 Complementary approaches to Synaptic Plasticity: Objective Functions and BiophysicsRodrigo Echeveste, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt. Wednesday 07 October 2015, 09:30-10:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: What are the Prospects for Automatic Theorem Proving?Prof Sir Timothy Gowers. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 October 2015, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Neuroevolution of Reactive and Deliberative 3D AgentsAdam Stanton, Keele University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 30 September 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Title to be confirmedMaking sense of language: It's okay to countGabe Recchia, University of Cambridge. Indigo 05-27, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studiesFrancesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 25 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Line Searches for Stochastic Optimisation. Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Maren Mahsereci, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Tübingen). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 21 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The structures of induction and co-induction. Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Downen, University of Oregon.. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 17 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Human factors of software updatesThis 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 Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Harmonic Exponential Families and Group-Equivariant Convolution NetworksTaco Cohen (University of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped ParametersKoh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 15 September 2015, 10:30-11:30 A-Star Sampling ReviewChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 14 September 2015, 12:00-13:00 Convex Factorization MachinesMathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 14 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Program Logic for Concurrent Objects under Fair SchedulingThis 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 Hongjin Liang, USTC. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 September 2015, 14:30-15:30 Belief and Truth in Hypothesised BehavioursStefano V. Albrecht - School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 10 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and PerceptionJason Yosinski (Cornell). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Power of Negations in CryptographySiyao Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Power of Negations in CryptographySiyao Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer-aided Concurrent Programming using Concurrent Trace SetsRoopsha Samanta, IST Austria. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 September 2015, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Cross-fertilization Between Propositional Satisfiability and Data MiningThis 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 LAKHDAR SAÏS, CRIL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Information-Theoretic Bounded RationalityPedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 07 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Executable Relational Specifications of Polymorphic Type Systems using PrologThis 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 Ki Yung Ahn, Portland State University. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 September 2015, 10:00-11:00 The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphsDr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 27 August 2015, 15:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Protecting the forward edge: Is that light at the end of the tunnel?"Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Istvan Haller, Vrije Universiteit . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 August 2015, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Plug into the SupercloudThis 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 attendi Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 August 2015, 11:00-12:00 A normative account of episodic memory in online learning over open model spacesGergo Orban, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest. Monday 24 August 2015, 16:00-17:00 Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific DiscoveryDr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 29 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences(via Skype!) Alex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 27 July 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Giorgia Azzurra MarsonSpeaker to be confirmed. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 22 July 2015, 10:00-11:00 Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization through reversible learningDr David Duvenaud (Harvard). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 20 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Rich Component AnalysisJames Zou (Microsoft Research New England). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 17 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 A new MCMC hybrid scheme for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture modelsMaria Lomeli-Garcia, UCL. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 16 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solving Second-Order Constraints with Program SynthesisThis 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 Cristina David, Oxford University. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 14 July 2015, 11:00-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Capturing and simulating the interaction of light with the world around us.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 Wenzel Jakob, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 13 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person’s Experience of Turing’s Impacttalkscam@microsoft.com David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 10 July 2015, 14:00-15:00 Contextual modulation of gamma rhythms in inhibition stabilized cortical networksYashar Ahmadian, Columbia University. Wednesday 08 July 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bonsai: Reactive Tools for Data ScienceThis 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 Goncalo Lopes, The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @ UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 July 2015, 14:00-15:00 Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling RegressionSHORT TALK (20 minutes) Prof Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 03 July 2015, 12:30-13:00 Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & RecommendationManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learningAnna Choromanska (New York University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 01 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Random Function Classes for Machine LearningProf Alexander Smola, Carnegie Mellon University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Tuesday 30 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Explaining Non-Linear Classifier Decisions with application to Deep LearningProf Klaus-Robert Müller (TU Berlin). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 29 June 2015, 15:00-16:00 Deep Gaussian processes and variational propagation of uncertaintyAndreas Damianou - Sheffield University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 29 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rendering Eyes for Eye-TrackingThis 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 Erroll Wood, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 29 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generative Models for Shape and AppearanceThis 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 Neill Campbell, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Deep LearningProfessor Geoffrey Hinton FRS (U. Toronto and Google). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0. Thursday 25 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 A three-threshold learning rule approaches the maximal capacity of recurrent neural networksAlireza Alemi, Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:30-12:00 The statistical structure of noise in large neural populationsNeil Rabinowitz. Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-11:30 Random Function Classes for Machine LearningProf. Alex Smola (CMU). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Asynchronized Concurrency: The Secret to Scaling Concurrent Search Data StructuresThis 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 Vasileios Trigonakis, EPFL, Switzerland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 19 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable ModelsZhenwen Dai. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 18 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable ModelsZhenwen Dai. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 16 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks VISC: VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTINGThis 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 Vikram Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:00-17:00 Structural Markov laws / Geometry and HMCDr Simon Byrne. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 09 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Mean Field Approaches to Two Sequential Decision Making Problems.This talk will be given via Skype Ramki Gummadi. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438 - Skype. Monday 08 June 2015, 17:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Intelligible Machine Learning Models for HealthCareThis 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 Rich Caruana, MSR Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?Dr Rich Caruana (Microsoft). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 02 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 Rogue states: altered dimensionality of neural circuit activity in Fragile-X miceCian O'Donnell, Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute, La Jolla. Tuesday 26 May 2015, 11:00-12:00 Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devicesDr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science. Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Convolutional Neural NetworksChristof Angermueller, Alex Kendall. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: Toward Causal Machine LearningProf. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 15 May 2015, 16:45-17:45 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hessian-free Optimisation for Neural NetworksAdnan Haider, Andrey Malinin. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 Probabilistic numerics: treating numerical computation as learning, or; it's Bayes all the way downMichael Osborne (Oxford University). Engineering Department, LR5 (Baker Building, Trumpington Street). Tuesday 12 May 2015, 11:00-12:00 Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruningPeter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable MCMCHong Ge, Jes Frellsen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural NetworksShort talk Mark Rowland (Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 May 2015, 11:00-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Queues don’t matter when you can Jump them!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 Matthew P. Grosvenor, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance: A collaboration between the Cambridge Machine Learning Group and Cambridge Capital ManagementCreighton Heaukulani, Matt Hoffman, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Andrew Baxter, . Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Declarative query processing in imperative managed runtimesThis 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 Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 27 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "... and then just encode it to SAT."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 Martin Brain, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Causal InferenceMateo Rojas-Carulla, Amar Shah. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:00-16:30 Title to be confirmedTuan Anh Le (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Enabling Connected Cars through Named Data.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 Giovanni Pau, University Pierre at Marie Curie. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 17 April 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probability and Prejudice: Bridging the Gap Between Machine Learning and Programming LanguagesNeil Toronto, University of Maryland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 17 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Patents in theory and in practiceDr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley. Thursday 16 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gaussian Process Models for Time SeriesRoger Frigola, Carl Edward Rasmussen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 April 2015, 15:00-16:30 Inference for infinite mixture models and Gaussian Process mixtures of experts using simple approximate MAP InferenceAlexis Boukouvalas (Aston University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 15 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Formal verification approach to modelling biochemical systemsThis 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 Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 14 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Dream Documentary Screening and Q&A PanelSara-Jane Dunn, Katja Hofmann, Jasmin Fisher & Sadia Ahmed from Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Efficient Solver for string and regular expression constraintsThis 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 Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Informational GeometryNilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 April 2015, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Visual Programming Language for building Artificial Biochemistries in HaskellThis 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 Lance R. Williams, University of New Mexico. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Unveiling the Secrets of High-Performance DatacentersThis 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 Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Gaussian ProcessesRichard Turner, Alex Navarro, Thang Bui. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 March 2015, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Combinatorial Stochastic Processes in Bayesian NonparametricsCreighton Heaukulani. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 March 2015, 15:00-16:30 Evolutionary dynamics in a continuous public goods gameMatthias Bauer . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 19 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Pushing the Limits of Localization and Capacity in Today's Wi-Fi NetworksThis 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 Jie Xiong, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social Media Predictive Analytics: Methods and ApplicationsThis 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 Svitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Can you convince me why your software works?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 Anvesh Komuravelli, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 A remarkable set of contemplationsCraig Bennett - Friends of the Earth. Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 An introduction to the Mondrian ProcessMatej Balog (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 12 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Convex low-rank models: from matrices to tensorsThis 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 Ryota Tomioka, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Relational Machine Learning for Knowledge Graphs.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 Maximilian Nickel, MIT. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting the Mobile Nomadic User through Projected User InterfacesChridtian Winkler, Mobile HCI Lab, Ulm University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ensembles for Discovery of Compact Structures and Learning Back-propagation Forests.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 Madalina Fiterau, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Content Placement as a Key to Leveraging Geo-Distributed Infrastructureso 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 attendin Abhigyan Sharma, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Text To Programs: Automating Computer Tasks from Natural Language DescriptionsThis 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 Nate Kushman, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Technology DevelopmentDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners. Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic differentiation and machine learningThis 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 Gunes Baydin, Maynooth University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field SensingTobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field SensingThis 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 Tobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming and Proving with Fine-Grained Concurrent ResourcesThis 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 Ilya Sergey, IMDEA Software Institute. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 05 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 New directions in liquid crystalsProfessor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 Dopamine - beyond reward?Thomas Fitzgerald, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:00-12:30 Population Inference for Functional Brain ConnectivityGenevera I. Allen (Rice University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Design and Evaluation of Proxemic-Aware Environments to Support Epistemic ActivitiesThis 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 Roman Radle, University of Konstanz. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Workshop: Machine Learning in Cambridge 2015This 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 Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 09:00-18:00 Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversationsDan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 02 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Death, Identity, and the Social NetworkThis 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 Jed Brubaker, University of California. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Considering Tools for Artists, Creative Processes, and Design IdeationThis 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 Michael Golembewski, University of Nottingham. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 25 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlec Greaves-Tunnell (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 A* SamplingChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 24 February 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Beyond acceleration: time, narratives, and the design of multiple worldsThis 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 Larissa Pschetz, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable DesignMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture. Friday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Un-Computing: Shaking off the ‘Computer’ BaggageThis 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 Sarah Gallacher, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solving QBF by Counterexample-Guided Abstraction RefinementThis 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 Mikoláš Janota, INESC-ID, Lisbon. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunitiesProfessor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Protecting encrypted cookies from compression side-channel attacksThis 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 Douglas Stebila, Queensland University of Technology. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Context-aware programming languagesThis 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 Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Full-Stack Security Analysis of Web ApplicationsThis 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 Antoine Delignat-Lavaud. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Difficulty of Preventing Code Reuse AttacksThis 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 Felix Schuster, University of Bochum. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 Development of Climate ScienceProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office. Friday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling, Quantifying, and Limiting Adversary KnowledgeThis 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 Piotr Mardziel, University of Maryland, College Park. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Beyond the pit latrine - developing new tools for organic waste management in the global southJohn Mullet - SOWTech Ltd. Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variance Reduction Techniques and Stochastic Optimisation for Monte CarloMatt Hoffman; Yutian Chen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrent Algorithms for Emerging Hardware PlatformsThis 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 Irina Calciu, Brown University . Indigo Meeting room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 12 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 Orthologous networks in biological systemsDr Christopher Penfold (Warwick). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRyutaro Tanno (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materialsSpeaker to be confirmed. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Turing trap. How the universal computer is making the internet less secure.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 Will Harwood and Roger Gross, Silicon Safe Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Meta-Interpretive Learning and Program InductionThis 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 Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Manifold correspondence: a signal processing perspectiveThis 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 Michael Bronstein, USI Switzerland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predictable and Dependable Low-power Wireless NetworksThis 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 Marco Zimmerling, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering at Microsoft Research - Open EveningSpeaker to be confirmed. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Laws of Programming with ConcurrencyThis 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 Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture - Laws of Programming with ConcurrencyThis 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 Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Transfer LearningYingzhen Li; Eddy Pei-Hao Su. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Causal Inference and Domain AdaptationThis 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 Jonas Peters, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 Latent Branching TreesDr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 29 January 2015, 12:00-13:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge). Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cutting tail latency in cloud data stores via adaptive replica selectionThis 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 Marco Canini, Université catholique de Louvain. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 26 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Genome-wide transcriptional control of blood cell type identityThis 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 Felicia Ng, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 26 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Development of an AthleteDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist. Friday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30 Experiments with Non-parametric Topic ModelsProf. Wray Buntine (Monash University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 23 January 2015, 11:00-12:00 An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farmsDr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz. Thursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced HMCNilesh Tripuraneni; Adam Scibior. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 Reprogramming Animal DevelopmentProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge. Friday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30 Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)4G3 course -- repeats every Wed at 12noon, and Fri at 11am during Lent Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6 (Trumpington Street). Friday 16 January 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Democratizing Electronics: Tools, Examples, and Contexts for Supporting the Construction of Personally-Meaningful Interactive ArtifactsThis 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 David Mellis, MIT Media Lab. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active LearningAdrian Weller; Mateo Rojas Carulla. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamic PDP vs. Dynamic POR: Are they really different?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 Alptekin Kupcu, Koc University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bedrock: A Software Development Ecosystem Inside a Proof AssistantThis 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 Adam Chlipala, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 The Blended Paradigm: A Bayesian Approach to Handling Outliers and Misspecified ModelsProf. Steven MacEachern (Ohio State University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 15 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Checking microarchitectural implementations of weak memoryThis 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 Daniel Lustig, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 08 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Probabilistic Models (Wake/Sleep)Yan Wu; David Barrett. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 December 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning in an Exchange EnvironmentThis 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 R. Preston McAfee, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Platforms and Applications for "Big and Fast" Data AnalyticsThis 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 Yanlei Diao, UMass Amherst. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.). Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room. Tuesday 02 December 2014, 16:00-17:00 Machine Translation with LSTMsRoom changed to LR3B in Inglis building and time changed to 10:30 Ilya Sutskever (Google). Friday 28 November 2014, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED PAC BayesAlex Matthews; Nikola Mrksic. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Coping with the Intractability of Graphical ModelsThis 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 Justin Domke. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 November 2014, 10:00-11:00 Oracle Variational InferenceJames McInerney (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED LSTM and Recurrent Neural NetworksShixiang Gu; Andrey Malinin. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture Series - Technological Innovation in HealthcareThis 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 Professor The Lord Darzi of Denham PC KBE FRS FMedSci HonFREng. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room. Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometersshort talk Prof. Naonori Ueda (Director Machine Learning and Data Science, NTT Labs). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 14 November 2014, 11:00-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Automatic Differentiation with TheanoYarin Gal; Christof Angermueller. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Physical WebThis 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 Scott Jenson, Google. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Chaos and entropy production in spiking networksRainer Engelken. Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room. Monday 10 November 2014, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED State Space Abstraction for Reinforcement LearningRowan McAllister; Thang Bui. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Basing One-Way Functions on NP-HardnessThis 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 Christina Brzuska, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 November 2014, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 04 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Taming GPU threads with F# and Alea.GPUThis 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 Dr Daniel Egloff, QuantAlea AG. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kernel Embedding for DistributionsMark van der Wilk; Felipe Tobar. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 October 2014, 15:00-16:30 High magnetic fields as a tool for discoveryDr Suchitra Sebastian, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 A Tutorial on Probabilistic ProgrammingProf. Frank Wood (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about GADT Pattern Matching in HaskellThis 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 George Karachalias, Ghent University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 22 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective.Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and UCL London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Tuesday 21 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Robust Distance Queries on Massive NetworksThis 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 Milan Vojnovic. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 20 October 2014, 10:45-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Approximate Differentiable RendererThis 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 Matthew Loper; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 20 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 The Early History of the Cavendish LaboratoryMalcolm Longair, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Sensory processing in neocortical networks: randomness, specificity and learningSadra Sadeh, Imperial College, London, UK. Tuesday 14 October 2014, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ancient lives, new discoveries: eight mummies, eight lives, eight storiesThis 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 Dr Daniel Antoine, Curator of Physical Anthropology, British Museum. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Logic programming beyond PrologThis 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 Maarten van Emden, University of Victoria, Canada. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks RDFox — A Modern Materialisation-Based RDF SystemThis 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 Boris Motik, Oxford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Lottery AuctionsThis 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 Nicola Dimitri, Department of Political Economy & Statistics, University of Siena, Ital. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 07 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A link between lambda calculus and mapsThis 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 Noam Zeilberger, MSR-INRIA Joint Centre. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 07 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks First-person Hyperlapse VideosThis 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 Johannes Kopf, Microsoft Research . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?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 Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 03 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Discursis: A Computational Methodology for the Analysis of Communication DataThis 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 Dr Daniel Angus, The University of Queensland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 01 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Case for using Trend Filtering over SplinesThis 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 Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine LearningJasper Snoek (Harvard University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 25 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture modelsMaria Lomeli-Garcia (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 24 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 17 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 A Study of Certain Models of Synaptic Plasticity in the Cerebellum and NeocortexDavid Higgins (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris). Tuesday 16 September 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionThis 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 Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised Many-to-many Object MatchingDr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 12 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging communityPhilipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 11 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Micro-Policies: A Framework for Tag-Based Security MonitorsThis 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 Benjamin C. Pierce, University of Pennsylvania. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 September 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks End of Internship Talk: F# Type Providers: DBpedia and the Combinator FrameworkThis 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 Andrew Stevenson, PPT Intern. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 05 September 2014, 10:30-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hedging Against Uncertainty via Multiple Diverse PredictionsThis 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 Dhruv Batra, Virginia Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Beyond Mindless Labeling: *Really* Leveraging Humans to Build Intelligent MachinesThis 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 Devi Parikh, Virginia Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Compositional ModelsThis 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 Alan Yuille, UCLA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Representing microbial communities in Earth system modelsThis 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 Dr Steve Allison, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 September 2014, 15:00-16:00 Meeting the challenges of cancer through nanotechnology.Quentin Harmer. Monday 01 September 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Zero Latency Photonic SwitchingThis 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 Dr Philip Watss, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computational Video: Methods for Video Segmentation and Video Stabilization, and their Applications.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 Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Systems, Science and FreeBSDThis 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 George Neville-Neil, Neville-Neil Consulting. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 August 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Integral Image Method for Fisheye ImagesThis 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 Maria Mikhisor, Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 August 2014, 10:00-11:00 On the Bethe approximationAdrian Weller (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 11 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FsLab: Doing data science with F#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 Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Verified Compiler for Probability Density FunctionsThis 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 Tobias Nipkow, Institute of Informatics Technical Institute of Munich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 24 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Byte Night CambridgeThis 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 Michelle Lamprecht, MathWorks. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 21 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Gaussian process regression on graphsPeter Sollich (King's College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 16 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Image representation for synthesis and recognition using multilinear algebraThis 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 Demetri Terzopoulos, Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 11 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Brave New World of Next-Generation NoSQL Data StoresThis 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 Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Steps toward usable verificationThis 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 Francesco Logozzo, MSR Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Techniques for Auto-Active VerificationThis 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 Nadia Polikarpova, ETH Zurich. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FSCL: homogeneous programming and execution for heterogeneous platformsThis 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 Gabriele Cocco, Biobeats. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Give a Great Research TalkThis 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 Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 July 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Once and Future InternetJon Crowcroft, Computer Lab. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Implicit Representation NetworksDavid Barber (University College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 02 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Nervous system variability and robustness from cellular feedback controlTim O'Leary, Brandeis University. Tuesday 01 July 2014, 16:00-17:00 Scalable Deep Gaussian ProcessesJames Hensman (University of Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Write a Great Research PaperThis 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 Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Local Temporal ReasoningThis 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 Eric Koskinen, New York University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 27 June 2014, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Modular Integration of SAT/SMT Solvers to Coq through Proof WitnessesThis 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 Chantal Keller. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:00-11:00 Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different?Professor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science. Monday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Games, Learning and Markets WorkshopThis 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 Speaker to be confirmed. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 June 2014, 09:00-17:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.). Tuesday 17 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Geo-replicated storage with scalable deferred update replicationThis 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 Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 June 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tips and Tools for Scientific Research SuccessThis 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 Speaker to be Confirmed . Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 June 2014, 09:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Unsupervised Representation LearningAmar Shah (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:30 Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian ProcessesRoman Garnett, University of Bonn. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 10 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 03 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyProfessor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 03 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence?NOTE THE SPECIAL VENUE (Microsoft Research) Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Time-varying dynamic Bayesian network reconstruction with information sharingFrank Dondelinger . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:00-16:30 Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio AstronomyFifth Hewish Lecture Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order.Georg Bruun, Aarhus University. Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebra of Parameterised GraphsThis 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 Andrey Mokhov, Newcastle University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 23 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer Vision for Movie Making and InfographicsThis 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 Chris Bregler, NYU & ILM. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 23 May 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Collapsible Approach to Higher Order VerificationThis 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 Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced Gaussian Process approximation methodsDr. Richard Turner, Thang Bui. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:30 Adaptation, coding and Bayesian computations in single neurons and neural populationsAlessandro Ticchi, Imperial College London. Thursday 22 May 2014, 10:30-11:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt.Room changed to LR4 Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook). Engineering Department - ***LR4***. Tuesday 20 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian inference for integer-valued Lévy processes with Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck volatility modellingshort talk (30 mins) - NOTE TIME CHANGE Andrea Cremaschi (Kent). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 16 May 2014, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Statistical model criticismJames Lloyd (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:00-16:30 Higgs Vortices and Black Hole HairProfessor Ruth Gregory, Department of Physics, Durham University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Seminar Series @ CUED Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential FamiliesThis talk has been canceled/deleted Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential FamiliesBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Thinking for Programmers: Rising Above the CodeThis 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 Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 13 May 2014, 17:30-18:30 Current Issues in Energy PolicyDr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge). Monday 12 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.Professor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Art of Corporate StorytellingThis 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 Steve Clayton, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Stable Poisson-Kingman species sampling priors generated by general ordered size biased generalized gamma mixing distributionsProf. Lancelot James (HKUST). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 May 2014, 11:00-12:30 Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mid-level Likelihoods and Constraints for 3D Scene InterpretationThis 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 David Fouhey, The Robotics Institute. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 07 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 06 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiationProfessor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Functional ProgrammingChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 May 2014, 15:00-16:30 Molecular Motors and Switches at SurfacesProf Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Protecting Programs During Resource RetrievalThis 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 Trent Jaeger, Penn State University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 28 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Bernoulli Factory problem and some connections with Computable AnalysisDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The shadowy life of many webcamsThis 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 Robert Pless, Washington University in St. Louis. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 23 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Art of Corporate StorytellingThis 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 Steve Clayton, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 17 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networksThis 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 Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Crafting VisualizationsThis 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 Boris Müller, Fachhochschule Potsdam. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Network Language ModellingChunyang Wu (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 April 2014, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge). Tuesday 08 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sustainable IT and IT for SustainabilityThis 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 Zhenhua Liu, California Institute of Technology. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic computing applications: BayesDB and stochastic digital circuitsVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 04 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Loopy belief propagationAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 April 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bandits with Switching Costs: T^{2/3} RegretThis 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 Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 14:00-15:00 Probabilistic computing for Bayesian inferenceVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 13:30-14:30 Machine Learning and Order Book DynamicsTristan Fletcher . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application?Dr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge). Monday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Publish/Subscribe for Large-Scale Social Interaction: Design, Analysis and Resource ProvisioningThis 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 Vinay Setty, University of Oslo. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Policy Evaluation with Temporal DifferencesChristoph Dann (Technische Universität Darmstadt). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 28 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decision Making and Inference under Limited Information and Large DimensionalityThis 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 Stefano Ermon, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 28 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Parallel and Distributed SystemsThis 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 Pramod Bhatotia, MPI-SWS. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 28 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks IC3 Modulo Theories via Implicit Predicate AbstractionThis 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 Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rich semantic representations for detailed visual recognitionThis 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 Subhransu Maji, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Globally Optimizing Graph Partitioning Problems Using Message PassingThis 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 Elad Mezuman, Hebrew University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Characterizing and Improving Last-Mile Performance Using Home Networking InfrastructureThis 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 Srikanth Sundaresan, College of Computing, Georgia Tech. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 25 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic Differentiation - Part One: A Revisionist History and the State of the ArtThis 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 Barak A. Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Performance Optimizations for Compiler-based Error Detection MethodologiesThis 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 Konstantina Mitropoulou, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling Deep LearningThis 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 Misha Denil, University of Oxford. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 21 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using ConvNets, MALIS and crowd-sourcing to map the retinal connectomeThis 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 Srini Turaga, Gatsby Unit & Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 19 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data Driven Student Feedback For MOOCs: Global Scale Education for the 21st centuryThis 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 Jonathan Huang, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Part Detection and Species IdentificationThis 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 David Jacobs, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Electric buses - can they really compete on the front line?Professor John Miles. Monday 17 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric OptimizationSuvrit Sra (Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 17 March 2014, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Performance of Deferred-Acceptance Heuristic AuctionsThis 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 Paul Duetting, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 17 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and MethodologiesYee Whye Teh, University of Oxford. MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Friday 14 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Trouble-makers: Audio-video distortions as a relational resource in couples’ video callsThis 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 Sean Rintel, University of Queensland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 14 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mechanism design for Cloud Computing and CrowdsourcingThis 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 Angelina Vidali, Duke University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving the Full Potential of State Machine Replication: High Throughput, Low Latency, Constant AvailabilityThis 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 Julian Moraru, Carnegie Mellon University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Designing Controller Abstractions for Software-Defined NetworksThis 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 Joshua Reich, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 12 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Learning to Learn for Structured SparsityNino Shervashidze (INRIA). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 11 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking State-Machine Replication for Multicore ArchitecturesThis 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 Parisa Jalili Marandi, University of Lugano. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 10 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Bayesian nonparametric dynamic-clustering and genetic imputationLloyd Elliott (Gatsby Unit, UCL / Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 04 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Plagues & Economic CollapseProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University. Friday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights.Note: time is 12 noon (*not* 11am) Prof. Nando de Freitas (Oxford). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 28 February 2014, 12:00-13:00 Bayesian canonical correlation analysisSeppo Virtanen (Aalto University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 28 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computational foundations of Bayesian inference and probabilistic programmingThis 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 Daniel Roy, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRonald van den Berg, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 25 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype)Interview talks via Skype Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 25 February 2014, 09:00-16:00 Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideasYura Perov (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 24 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Particle filters and curse of dimensionalityNote: TALK via Skype! Patrick Rebeschini (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Online Allocation Mechanism with Pre-Commitment and its Application to Electric Vehicle ChargingThis 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 Valentin Robu, University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 20 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint ModelingNote: TALK via Skype! Changyou Chen (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 20 February 2014, 10:00-11:00 Improving cancer survival through molecular imagingDr Sarah Bohndiek, Biological & Soft Systems Sector, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideasThis 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 Yura Perov, Oxford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power DisaggregationIsabel Valera (University Carlos III in Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 17 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Plagues, Populations & SurvivalProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University. Friday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 Probabilistic machine learning for knowledge extraction from videos and textNote venue: LR6 Kevin Murphy (Google). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Wednesday 12 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.). Tuesday 11 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Topological Data Analysis: potential applications to computer visionThis 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 Vitaliy Kurlin, Durham University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 10 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 The Nature of PlaguesProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford. Friday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An introduction to Sequential Monte CarloThang Bui (University of Cambridge), Jes Frellsen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 February 2014, 15:00-16:30 Soft Matter in MotionDr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Declarative Static Program AnalysisThis 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 Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Athens. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric Bayesian credible setsBotond Szabo (Eindhoven University of Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 03 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FaRM: Fast Remote MemoryThis 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 Aleksandar Dragojevic, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 February 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The persistence of structure: Layers, time, and the estimation of optical flowThis 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 Michael J. Black , Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:00-15:00 Special CPS lecture : MAKING EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS BITE: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CAVENDISH LABORATORYDr. Isobel Falconer, Honorary Reader in the History of Mathematics, St Andrews University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 28 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 Business-oriented Solutions for Resource Recovery and Reuse at Scale in Developing CountriesLuca Di Mario. Monday 27 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 Plagues & HistoryProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic Data Structures and AlgorithmsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 January 2014, 15:00-16:30 Plagues & MedicineProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30 Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)4G3 course -- repeats every Wed at 12am, and Fri at 11am during Lent Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street). Friday 17 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information Theory and Method of Types: Channels, Quantizers, and DivergencesAntonio Artés-Rodríguez (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 January 2014, 15:00-16:30 Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic ProgramsJan-Willem van de Meent (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 15 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Sparse discriminative latent characteristics for predicting cancer drug sensitivityDavid Knowles (Stanford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 10 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Preconditioning of Laplacian Matrices for Computer GraphicsThis 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 Dilip Krishnan, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Combinatorial Prediction Market for the US ElectionsThis 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 Sebastien Lahaie, Microsoft Research, New York. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian Machine Learning for Controlling Autonomous SystemsThis 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 Marc Deisenroth, Imperial College. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 December 2013, 14:00-15:00 Open-ended inorganic nanotubes: band-gap and bands-engineering of a photo-catalystDr Gilberto Teobaldi. Monday 16 December 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Real time control with lots of humans in the loopThis 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 University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Typed functional probabilistic programming: ready for practical use?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 Tom Nielsen, OpenBrain. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 December 2013, 10:00-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about Eventual ConsistencyThis 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 Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Principles and Techniques of Automatic DifferentiationThis 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 Laurent Hascoët, INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hardware Neural Network AcceleratorsThis 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 Olivier Temam, Inria. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 05 December 2013, 14:00-15:00 Cosmic ReionizationDr Chris Carilli, NRAO. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 December 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming Approximate SystemsThis 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 Adrian Sampson, University of Washington. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 03 December 2013, 16:00-17:00 Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to GrowProf Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School. Monday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Image Classification Using a Background PriorThis 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 Daniel Keren, Department of Computer Science University of Haifa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic DifferentiationPart One: A Revisionist History and the State of the ArtThis 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 Barak A. Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 29 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA)Sara Wade (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 November 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Depot: from Byzantine fault tolerance to eventual consistency in a single systemThis 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 Allen Clement, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 November 2013, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Randomized tree ensembles: output kernels and variable importancesThis 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 Pierre Geurts, University of Liège. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language based web security: the operational semantics approachThis 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 Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language based web security: the operational semantics approachThis 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 Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRonald van den Berg, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 19 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebraic methods in computer vision and automatic generation of efficient algebraic solversThis 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 Zuzana Kukelova, Center for Machine Perception/Martin Bujnak, Capturing Reality s.r.o.. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Spectral LearningMaxim Rabinovich, Aman Sinha. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 November 2013, 15:00-16:30 Title to be confirmedProf Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 13 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Learning sensory and spatial representations from interacting excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticityHenning Sprekeler (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 12 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Multimodal Gaze-Supported InteractionSophie Stellmach, Technische Universität Dresden. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Discovering the Structure of Visual Categories from Weak AnnotationsThis 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 Subhransu Maji, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 08 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 Neuronal processing of continuous sensory streamsRobert Gütig, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany. Friday 08 November 2013, 11:15-12:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Random ProjectionsDavid Lopez-Paz, David Duvenaud. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 November 2013, 15:00-16:30 Contrastive Learning Using Spectral MethodsJames Zou (Harvard). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 November 2013, 13:30-14:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Herding: Driving Deterministic Dynamics To Learn And Sample Probabilistic ModelsYutian Chen (University of California at Irvine). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 October 2013, 15:00-16:30 "Exploring Flatland with Cold Atoms"Prof Jean Dalibard Laboratoire Kastler Brossel. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Assembly and function of motor circuits for automatic and goal oriented movementsDr. Marco Tripodi (MRC-LMB). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 29 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series A talk of two distinct parts: 1) a parametric empirical Bayesian approach to integration of fMRI, EEG and MEG data, 2) prediction error in episodic memory encodingRik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 28 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Memristors: The Future of Computer Memory and Neuromorphic Circuits?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 Panayiotis Georgiou, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 25 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Bigger and Faster Bitcoin: an Analysis of High-Rate Bitcoin Transaction ProcessingThis 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 Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian and Bandit OptimizationDr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:00-16:30 What the Rat's Whiskers Tell the Rat's BrainDr Rasmus Petersen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester. Tuesday 22 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 Topological Matter and Why You Should Be InterestedProf Steve Simon, Oxford Theoretical Physics. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Type Refinement in the AbstractThis 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 Noam Zeilberger, MSR-INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 October 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reflection methods for user-friendly submodular optimizationThis 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 Francis Bach, ENS Paris, France . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Framework for Automatically Enforcing Privacy PoliciesThis 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 Jean Yang, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Nonparametric Bayesian statistics with exchangeable random structuresDaniel Roy. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 11 October 2013, 12:00-15:00 Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationshipsOliver Stegle (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 10 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 08 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Anomaly Detection in the FieldThis 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 Christian Callegari, University of Pisa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 October 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Compositionality in Vision and LanguageThis 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 Siddharth Narayanaswamy, Purdue University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Five machine learning research topics at Oxford CSThis 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 Nando de Freitas, University of British Columbia. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 04 October 2013, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active Pedestrian Safety: from Research to RealityThis 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 Dariu M. Gavrila, Daimler R&D (Ulm, Germany) and Univ. of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing the Network with MerlinThis 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 Nate Foster, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Robust Models of Mouse Movement on Dynamic Web Search Results PagesThis 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 Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research New York. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 01 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials DiscoveryFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! StrategiesThis 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 Gerald Tesauro, IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 27 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionCANCELLED Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Inextensibility constraints for 3D reconstruction of deformable objectsSara Vicente, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Auctioning based Coordinated TV White Space Spectrum Sharing for Home NetworksThis 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 Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision CourseThis 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 Babak Falsafi, EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 September 2013, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Disciplined Approximate Computing: From Language to Hardware, and BeyondThis 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 Luis Ceze, University of Washington. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSina Tootoonian (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks QUIC Graphs: Relational Invariant Generation for ContainersThis 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 Arlen Cox, University of Colorado Boulder/ENS Paris. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 Clustering Based on Predictive Variances in Gaussian Process Regression ModelsDr Hyun-Chul Kim . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 13 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Is The Rise of Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing and Social Networks a Consequence of a Failed OS (Operating System) Design?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 Yvo Desmedt, University of Texas. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Want Effective Security Solutions? Let's Re-Think The Design ApproachThis 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 Angela Sasse, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Analysis of Cache Side ChannelsThis 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 Boris Koepf, IMDEA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Using sunlight-activated photo-catalysts to disinfect waterDr Vasant Kumar. Monday 09 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving Equivalences Between Prolog Semantics in CoqThis 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 Jael E Kriener, University of Kent. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Foundations of Neuromechanical Systems Biology: Combining engineering, biology, and mathematics to understand how we moveThis 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 Dr Andrew Spence, The Royal Veterinary College. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep Gaussian ProcessesThis 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 Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 September 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Censorship Circumvention: Staying Ahead in a Cat-and-Mouse GameThis 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 Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 August 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks 3D Reconstruction using Point-Based FusionThis 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 Damien Lefloch, Seigen University Germany. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 14:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Improving Time-of-Flight Range Data QualityThis 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 Andreas Kolb, Seigen University Germany. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 14:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Relationship Between Separation Logic and Implicit Dynamic FramesThis 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 Dr Alexander Summers, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Strategies for General RecognitionThis 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 Derek Hoiem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 20 August 2013, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fast and Guaranteed Learning of Overlapping Communities via Tensor MethodsAnima Anandkumar, University of California Irvine. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 19 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Datalog for Program Analysis: Beyond the Free LunchThis 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 Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 August 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars The cost of principlesThis 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 Abigail See , Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge ,UK. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 14 August 2013, 14:00-15:00 The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the EnvironmentDr Rosamunde Almond. Monday 12 August 2013, 16:00-17:00 Non-Parametric Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision and Image ProcessingJeremy Jancsary (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency SituationsHannah Pauline Keiler (Columbia University and DIMACS). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 06 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks KAT on a Wire: A Foundation for Network ProgrammingThis 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 David Walker, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 05 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Lifts of Convex Sets and Cone FactorizationsThis 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 Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington, Seattle. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 August 2013, 15:00-16:00 Annealing Between Distributions by Averaging MomentsChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 02 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Efficient Multi-dimensional Parametric Mincuts for Constrained MAP InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kyomin Jung, KAIST. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic CompositionalityRichard Socher - Stanford University. Wednesday 31 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SWAN: Software-driven wide area networkThis 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 Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Validating SAT RefutationsThis 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 Nathan Wetzler, UT Austin. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 July 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data Structures for Efficient Inference and Optimization in Expressive Continuous DomainsThis 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 Scott Sanner, NICTA and the Australian National University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 July 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bridging the Discrete and the Continuous in Reasoning about ProgramsThis 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 Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 25 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks “When is fair sharing optimal?”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 Yair Zick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automated Analysis of Probabilistic ProgramsThis 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 Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Noise estimation by PDE-constrained optimisationThis 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 Schönlieb Carola-Bibiane, Cambridge University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Very high speed networking in VMs and bare metalThis 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 Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 09 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Random Forests: One tool for all your problems.Novi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge); Neil Houlsby (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 July 2013, 15:00-16:30 Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studiesDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studiesDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Towards a general theory for pyrochlores: dimensional reduction, ground-state selection and new emergent electromagnetismLudovic Jaubert. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 21 June 2013, 15:00-16:30 Creating Impact from ResearchDr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise. Monday 17 June 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reaping the Benefits of Partial SDN Deployment in Enterprise NetworksThis 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 Marco Canini, T-Labs. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 07 June 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical SystemsYue Wu (University of Cambridge) and Andrew McHutchon (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 June 2013, 15:00-16:30 The combinatorial structure of conditionally i.i.d. negative binomial processes directed by a beta processCreighton Heaukulani (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-13:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks NetFPGA: The Flexible Open-Source Networking PlatformThis 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 Andrew Moore, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Friedrich, CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.. Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Adaptive Hamiltonian-based MCMC samplersShakir Mohamed . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:00-16:30 Google's Approach to Building Relationships with Universities: Presentation and Talk by Dr David J HarperDr David J Harper . LR12, Baker Building, Department of Engineering (Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ). Wednesday 22 May 2013, 10:20-11:20 Biological photovoltaic systemsProf Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry. Monday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics; aka PlasmonicsProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Nonparametrics in Real-World Applications: Statistical Machine Translation and Language Modelling on Big DatasetsYarin Gal (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:00-16:30 Dendritic computation in pyramidal neurons.Tiago Branco (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology). Thursday 16 May 2013, 10:00-11:00 Energy Efficient Electronics; Searching for the milli-Volt SwitchProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 14 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar CellsProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley,. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 13 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Matrix Concentration Inequalities via the Method of Exchangeable PairsProfessor Michael I Jordan (UC Berkeley). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 1. Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Exoplanet Science, the way forwardProfessor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR-Lecture: Generative Models of Images of ObjectsThis 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 Ali Eslami, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 03 May 2013, 10:00-11:00 The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of SixOn twitter @closefrank Professor Frank Close, Elementary Particles Research Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Deep Gaussian ProcessesProf. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 01 May 2013, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEmil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 30 April 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Building Better Questionnaires with Probabilistic ModellingThis 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 Ricardo Silva, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 Approaches to statistical modeling of network dataMaxim Nazarov (Bocconi University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: A Software Architecture for Quantum ComputingThis 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 attendin Dave Wecker, Microsoft Research, Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 10:00-11:30 Demixing scents: Sampling-based inference in olfaction.Agnieszka Grabska Barwinska, The Gatsby Unit, UCL. Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sparsity: Beyond L1Amar Shah (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 April 2013, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 16 April 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modular reasoning for modular concurrencyThis 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 Aaron Turon, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reconstruction and Applications of Collective Storylines from Web Photo CollectionsThis 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 Gunhee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Theory and Practice of Mix-NetsThis 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 Douglas Wikström, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 09:00-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cryptoforma: Computer-Aided Cryptographic proofs with EasyCryptThis 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 Gilles Barthe. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 April 2013, 13:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and Improving the Efficiency of Failure Resilience for Big Data FrameworksThis 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 Florin Dinu, Rice University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 April 2013, 11:15-12:15 Bayesian nonparametric methods for non-exchangeable dataNick Foti (Dartmouth College). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 15 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric StatisticsBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 April 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Bounded to Unbounded Proofs of CorrectnessThis 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 Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Data Analytics with All-or-Nothing Parallel JobsThis 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 Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Intelligent Location-Privacy Preserving MechanismsThis 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 Reza Shokri, EPFL . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and Improving Device Access ComplexityThis 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 Asim Kadav, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 09:45-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Ramifications of Sharing in Data StructuresThis 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 Jules Villard, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR-Lecture: Gaussian Processes for Pattern Discovery, Speaker: Andrew WilsonThis 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 Andrew Wilson, Cambridge Universtiy. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Verification for Web Scripting LanguagesThis 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 Ravi Chugh, UC San Diego. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 09 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State SegmentationWill Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 08 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Graph-Based Reasoning in Separation Logic for Fun and ProfitThis 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 Christoph Haase, LSV at ENS Cachan. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 05 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming The Parallelism ZooThis 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 Geoffrey Mainland (Microsoft Research). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 02 April 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Algebra-Oriented ProgrammingThis 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 Bruno Oliveira, National University of Singapore. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 02 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Sum Product NetworksJosé Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 March 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CRASH/SAFE: Clean-slate Co-design of a Secure Host ArchitectureThis 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 Catalin Hritcu, University of Pennsylvania . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Austerity in MCM - Land : Cutting the computational BudgetThis 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 Max Welling, University of Amsterdam. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hypervisor Scheduler Enhancement Using OS-Hardware InteractionsThis 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 Hwanju Kim, KAIST. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential FamilyThis 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 James Hensman, University of Sheffield. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving Termination of Heap-Manipulating Java ProgramsThis 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 Marc Brockschmidt, RWTH Aachen. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Syntactic Foundations for Machine LearningThis 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 Sooraj Bhat, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential FamilyJames Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 25 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Wireless Networking Using Smart RadiosThis 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 Aveek Dutta, University of Colorado. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Reinforcement LearningRowan McAllister & Karolina Dziugaite. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 March 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Trust and Mistrust on the InternetThis 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 Pranav Dandekar, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 21 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mechanism design: dealing with interdependencies among agents.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 Sofia Ceppi, Politecnico di Milano. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 20 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Privacy and Integrity of Remote Storage and ComputationThis 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 Olga Ohrimenko, Brown University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 20 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Semantics\sqcap Scalability\models\bot? Are Semantics and Scalability Incompatible?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 Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!Dr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM). Monday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00 University Lectureship in Computational Neuroscience candidate talksClaudia Clopath (Columbia), Yan Karklin (NYU), Jakob Macke (MPI Tuebingen), Kanaka Rajan (Princeton), Henning Sprekeler (Humboldt). Monday 18 March 2013, 14:30-17:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic ProgrammingJames Lloyd (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 March 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal Payments in Dominant-Strategy MechanismsThis 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 Victor Naraditskiy, University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 14 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric StatisticsNote the unusual time and location to allow attendance at the RSS Ordinary meeting Bharath Sriperumbudur, Statistical Laboratory. Wednesday 13 March 2013, 13:15-14:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Warped Mixture Models for Meaningful Clustering and Bayesian Manifold LearningThis 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 David Duvenaud, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 An application of HDP And IBP for stream-based action recognition and high dimensional dataAva Bargi : University of Technology, Sydney. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 11 March 2013, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving High Data Rates in Distributed MIMO SystemsThis 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 Horia Vlad Balan, USC. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Foresight in Ancient MesopotamiaProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley. Friday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 Using Context and Insight for the Analysis of LittleData?Philipp Moritz (U Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 08 March 2013, 11:00-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning in Speech RecognitionSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 March 2013, 15:00-16:30 Foresight and Self-ControlProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University. Friday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Fragmentation CoagulationHong Ge (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 February 2013, 15:00-16:30 Minimax lower bound using Assouad's methodArlene Kim (Statistical Laboratory). Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning About Client Side Web ProgramsThis 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 Gareth Smith, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxesTamara Broderick (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 27 February 2013, 11:30-12:30 Sustainability and ArchitectureProf Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture. Monday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes ProcessesCharles Blundell (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 22 February 2013, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Conditional Density EstimationSara Wade ( Bocconi University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 February 2013, 15:00-16:30 CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs BosonProfessor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, Imperial College, London & CERN. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJonathan O'Keeffe . Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars New probabilistic methods for inference of natural selection on regulatory sequences in the human genomeThis 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 Adam Siepel, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Daniel’s Adventures in Computer Vision LandThis 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 Daniel Freedman, Microsoft Research – Advanced Technology Labs Israel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Foresight in MusicProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 Adaptive algorithms for Stratified Sampling Monte CarloNote the earlier time and different room to allow attendance at the RSS Ordinary Meeting Alexandra Carpentier (Statistical Laboratory). Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modelling road networks in the AmazonThis 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 Sadia Ahmed, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Foresight in Scientific MethodProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge. Friday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED RCC PlanningColorado Reed (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 February 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automated Error Diagnosis Using Abductive InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Thomas Dillig, College of William and Mary, Virginia. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 07 February 2013, 10:00-11:00 Metamaterials and the Science of InvisibilityProfessor Sir John Pendry, FRS , Imperial College, London. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Detecting Sybils without GraphsThis 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 Ben Zhao, University of California. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How do we model global plant physiology? A case study of leaf phenologyThis 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 Silvia Caldararu, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSina Tootoonian, CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Land use / land cover change and malaria risk in the Amazon regionThis 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 Denis Valle, Levine Science Research Center (LSRC). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stratosphere: Massively parallel dataflow programmingThis 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 Kostas Tzoumas, Technical University of Berlin. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 01 February 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discrete OptimizationColorado Reed (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 January 2013, 15:00-16:30 Theory and applications of proper scoring rulesPhilip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory). Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:30-18:00 Structural Expectation Propagation (SEP): Bayesian structure learning for networks with latent variablesNevena Lazic (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced SamplingChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge); Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 January 2013, 15:00-16:30 “The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”Prof Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 Improving industrial energy efficiency through technology, process and behaviour innovation - policy applications of researchNiall Mackenzie, DECC. Monday 21 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 Foresight in Ancient CivilisationsProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge. Friday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS RecapSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:30-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)4G3 course -- repeats Wednesdays at 12noon, Thursday at 2pm during Lent 2013 Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamic Fair Division of Multiple ResourcesThis 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 Nisarg Shah, CMU. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 17 December 2012, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS RecapSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 December 2012, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars From motion capture of interacting hands to video based rendering.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 Luca Ballan, Institute of Visual Computing in ETH Zurich. Tuesday 04 December 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling wireless servicesThis 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 Wenjun Hu, Microsoft Research Asia. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 04 December 2012, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian and Gradient Reinforcement LearningYanyue (University of Cambridge); Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge); . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Handling Multitude of Nash Equilibria in Voting GamesThis 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 Omer Lev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Spectral Edge: Making the Invisible VisibleThis 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 Graham Finlayson, UEA. Tuesday 27 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automating Separation Logic ReasoningThis 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 attendin Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing and Autism: How a real-world challenge drives a computing research agendaThis 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 Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Spectral ClusteringMr Roger Grosse (MIT); Alex Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-16:00 Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology and particle physicsProfessor Mike Hobson, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 The combinatorial structure underlying a beta processes is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemesDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 20 November 2012, 13:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal kernel choice for kernel hypothesis testingThis 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 Arthur Gretton, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Next Wave of Telco´s InnovationThis 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 Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Modern Neural Networks: the Hinton CampRichard Turner, Mark van der Wilk. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-16:00 Learning of Milky Way Model Parameters Using Matrix-variate Data in a New Gaussian Process-based MethodDr Dalia Chakrabarty (University of Warwick). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 November 2012, 11:30-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 13 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?Dr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School. Monday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks TypeScript: JavaScript development at scaleThis 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 Mads Torgersen, Microsoft. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 12 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MIT Media Lab's Information Ecology GroupThis 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 Henry Holtzman, MIT Media Lab. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 09 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A computer-checked proof of the Odd Order theoremThis 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 Georges Gonthier, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Distributional compositional models of semanticsStephen Clark (Computer Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 November 2012, 13:30-15:00 “Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?”Professor Dave Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 Coding with DendritesPanayiota Poirazi. CBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering). Tuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 "Coherent Control of Electronic and Nuclear States in a Quantum Dot: A New Dimension for Modern Photonics"Professor Duncan Steel, The Robert J. Hiller Professor, The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Instantaneous Mapping of Excitonic Transport in Biomimetic Systems by Multi-dimensional Coherent SpectroscopyProf. Elad Harel, Department of Chemistry: Northwestern University (USA).. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:15-17:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memoryDr Mayank Mehta. UCLA.. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Identification of causal effectsNevena Lazic. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Towards ad hoc interactions with robotsThis 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 Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulationsJes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 22 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Completely Random Measures in Bayesian NonparametricsDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge), Creighton Heaukulani. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-16:00 Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar Distributed, Real-Time Bayesian Learning in Online ServicesRalf Herbrich (Facebook). LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding. Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEmil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars From the Information Extraction Pipeline to Global Models, and BackThis 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 Sebastian Riedel, UCL. Tuesday 16 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamically Enforcing Knowledge-based Security PoliciesThis 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 attendin Michael Hicks, University of Maryland. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 12 October 2012, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Model selection in a large compositional spacenote: the first 45 mins will be planning and the talk will start at around 3:15pm Roger Grosse (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:30-16:00 Two Centenaries - the Wilson Cloud Chamber and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays”Professor Malcolm Longair ( Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling: A Control Theoretic ApproachThis 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 Albert Banchs, University Carlos III. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 03 October 2012, 15:00-15:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Latent Tensor FactorisationThis 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 Taylan Cemgil, Bogazici University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 01 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A new metric on kernel matrices with applications to matrix meansThis 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 Suvrit Sra, Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen (Germany). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 27 September 2012, 10:00-10:45 Compressed Sensing Applications in Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingChristine Law (Oxford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 26 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthias Seeger, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 September 2012, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Synthesis of Verification ToolsThis 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 Andrey Rybalchenko, Technische Universität München. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Climate finance: barriers and opportunitiesDr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University. Monday 24 September 2012, 16:00-17:00 Multi-Label Learning with Millions of CategoriesManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 24 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fast and Reliable Online Learning to Rank for Information Retrievalo 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 attendin Katja Hofmann, University of Amsterdam. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 24 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scale-Out ProcessorsThis 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 Boris Grot, EPFL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 21 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Playing in the Grey Area of ProofsThis 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 Laura Kovács, Technical University of Vienna. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 19 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Efficient Sampling with Kernel HerdingYutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 12 September 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Craig InterpretationThis 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 Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 10 September 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Capture of dynamic scene using multiple cameras provides rich spatial-temporal information that can be used for solving challenging computer vision problems.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 Tali Basha, Tel-Aviv University. Friday 07 September 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Pose Estimation to Fine Grained Activity RecognitionThis 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 Micha Andriluka, Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 06 September 2012, 15:00-16:00 Perceiving is Believing: Bayesian inference in unexpected places.Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby, UCL. Wednesday 05 September 2012, 10:30-11:30 Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applicationsDr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory). Monday 03 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Tell Me Where You’ve Lived and What You Want -- I’ll Tell You What You Like and NeedThis 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 Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich. Thursday 30 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Latent Hough Transform for Object DetectionThis 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 Nima Razavi, ETH Zurich and Intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Wednesday 29 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learningSimon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 24 August 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Satisfiability: connecting logic and probabilityThis 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 ramdas aaditya, CMU and intern. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 22 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Context sensitive information: Which bits matter in data?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 Joachim Buhmann, ETH Zurich. Tuesday 21 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks HyperDex: A Consistent, Fault-tolerant, Searchable NoSQL StoreBernard Wong, University of Waterloo. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 20 August 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verifying Concurrent Programs with Relaxed Conflict DetectionThis 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 Serdar Tasiran, Koç University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 August 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrent Data Representation SynthesisThis 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 Mooly Sagiv, Tel-Aviv University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 14 August 2012, 10:30-12:00 Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general frameworkProf. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 08 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving High Data Rates in a Distributed MIMO SystemThis 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 Horia Vlad Balan, USC. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 07 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing CostsPedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 03 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Agent Failures in Totally Balanced Cooperative GamesThis 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 Nisarg Shah, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cube and Conquer: Guiding CDCL SAT Solvers by LookaheadsThis 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 Marijn Heule, U. of Texas, Austin. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 August 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars SmartDesign: Living with Geometric ComplexityThis 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 Niloy Mitra, University College London. Tuesday 31 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random FieldsKonstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Part A: Non-parametric image optimization & Part B: Crowdsourcing gaze data collectionThis 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 Dan Goldman, Adobe Inc. Tuesday 24 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 What scientists can do for sustainability that CEOs and Ministers can'tMatthew Brown. Monday 23 July 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Causality for Free! Parametricity Implies Causality for Functional Reactive ProgramsThis 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 Alan Jeffrey, Bell Labs. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 23 July 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories & Generalized Multiple Kernel Learning with a Million KernelsThis 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 Manik Varma, Microsoft Research, India. Thursday 19 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Data Modelling With Neural Networks (II): Content-Addressable Memories And State-Of-The-Art Error-Correcting CodesLast Lecture! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 16 July 2012, 14:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Prediction Strategies without LossThis 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 Rina Panigrahy, Senior Researcher, MSR-Silicon Valley Campus. Friday 13 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Approximating Probability Distributions (IV): Variational MethodsDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 09 July 2012, 14:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to present a poster at an international conferenceThis 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 Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 06 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Body Part Recognition: Making Kinect RobustThis 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 Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 July 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks F# TutorialThis 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 Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks .NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom DevicesThis 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 Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 16:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Research Connections and Cloud Computing for ScienceThis 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 Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to give a great research talkThis 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 Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Fast Gaussian process learning for regression, semi-supervised classification, and multiway analysisProf Alan Qi (Purdue U). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to write a great research paperThis 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 Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Learning of User Preferences: Elicitation, Sparsification and BeyondEdwin Bonilla (NICTA/ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Academic SearchThis 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 Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving that programs eventually do something goodThis 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 Byron Cook, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Human Computing and Crowdsourcing in SearchThis 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 Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Predictable Data Centers- Why Johnny can't use the cloud and what can we do about it?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 Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for medical Image AnalysisThis 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 Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Planetary prediction services for societyThis 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 Matthew Smith, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Realizing Touchless Interaction in the Operating TheatreThis 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 Helena Mentis, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Functional first programming in an information-rich worldThis 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 Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Structured Prediction using Linear Programming RelaxationsDavid Sontag (NYU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How reciprocity renders networks irrelevant for cooperation in social dilemmasThis 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 Anxo Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 16:30-17:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Aggregators and the News Industry: Charging for Access to ContentThis 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 James Rutt, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 15:00-15:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Treasure HuntThis 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 Markus Mobius, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Design and DefenceThis 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 Marcin Dziubinski, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 12:00-12:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Blotto On Facebook: The Effect of Social Relations On Strategic InteractionThis 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 Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 11:15-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Game theory for Security: Key Algorithmic Principles, Deployed Systems, Lessons LearnedThis 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 Milind Tambe, University of Southern California. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decentralized Auctions for Uniformly Semimodular BiddersThis 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 Mahyar Salek, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 09:15-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing air traffic disruptions through strategic prioritizationThis 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 Ian Kash, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 16:30-17:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scarce attention and the value of page rank in online searchThis 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 Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Harvesting the Wisdom of CrowdsThis 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 Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 14:15-14:50 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Communication networks in marketsThis 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 Edoardo Gallo, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 13:30-14:10 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 26 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 Advanced Monte Carlo Methods and Variational InferenceDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 25 June 2012, 14:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for medical Image AnalysisThis 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 Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 22 June 2012, 15:15-16:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Dependent normalized random measuresChangyou Chen (College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Optimal integration of top-down and bottom-up uncertainty in humans, monkeys, and neural networksAhmad Qamar (University of Chicago). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 20 June 2012, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED GP-BUCB for Spinal Cord Injury Therapy: Batch Active Learning with ApplicationsThomas Desautels (California Institute of Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 20 June 2012, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The RCUK Digital Economy Theme – A Catalyst for ChangeThis 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 Dr. John G. Baird, Lead for the RCUK Digital Economy Theme, EPSRC. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Programming and Probabilistic Databases for Large-scale Knowledge-base ConstructionThis 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 Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant OptimizationIgor Mordatch (University of Washington). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Debugging in SmartphonesThis 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 Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductorsAnton Akhmerov, University of Leiden. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 18 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Web Science: Politics, Demographics and MoreThis 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 Ingmar Weber. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Graphical communication of variability, risk and uncertaintyDavid Spiegelhalter (Cambridge). Wednesday 13 June 2012, 16:30-17:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 Approximating Probability Distributions (I)-(II): Monte Carlo Methods and Variational InferenceTwo lectures! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 11 June 2012, 14:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars The Inverted Multi-IndexThis 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 Victor Lempitsky, Yandex. Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED On Data (In-)Dependent HashingNovi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Modern advances in likelihood ratio inferenceMoulinath Banerjee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA). Wednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-17:30 An Introduction to Statistical Inference, Data Modelling & Pattern RecogntionTwo Lectures! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 28 May 2012, 14:30-17:00 Sustainable Manufacturing and the Myth of EfficiencyWinton Community. Monday 28 May 2012, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Poisson Processes: Applications in Machine LearningAmar Shah (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 22 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Spreading in Social NetworksThis 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 Flavio Chierichetti. Cambrigde Computer Lab, Lecture Theatre 1. Tuesday 22 May 2012, 13:30-14:30 Communication over noisy channels (III)Note unusual time David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 21 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A rough guide to the Aldous-Hoover representation theorem for exchangeable arraysDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedAndrew Gordon Wilson. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Dirichlet Process Mixture Models and Bayesian Nonparametric Density EstimationAndrew Gordon Wilson (). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 COSMIC RAYS, CLIMATE AND THE CERN CLOUD EXPERIMENTJasper Kirkby, CERN. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple GamesThis 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 Tatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDJ Strouse (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimationBarnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 08 May 2012, 11:00-12:00 Communication over noisy channels (II)David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 07 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 Past work and future interests: respectively, the scattering of Anyons and Monte Carlo methodsAlexander Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 04 May 2012, 11:15-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED "Structured sparsity and convex optimization"Francis Bach. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Visuomotor behavior in naturalistic tasks: from receptive fields to value functionsConstantin Rothkopf, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Thursday 03 May 2012, 11:30-12:30 The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle?Professor John Ellis, FRS, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kings College London & CERN. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple GamesThis 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 Tatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Method and Maximum-A-Posteriori Inference in Statistical Machine TranslationTsuyoshi Okita (Dublin City University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 11:15-12:15 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Optimal encoding and decoding in sensory populationsEero Simoncelli (New York University, HHMI). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Topic Models for Human Activity UnderstandingThis 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 Timothy Hospedales, Queen Mary University, London. Tuesday 01 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 "Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised. Eero Simoncelli, New York University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat.Prof. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University. Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 30 April 2012, 16:30-17:30 Communication over noisy channels (I)David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 30 April 2012, 14:30-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Financial Problems tractable to Machine Learning Methodsyue wu (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 April 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Discovery of Clinically Useful Information from Medical ImagesThis 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 Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 26 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A Predictive Study of Bayesian Nonparametric Regression ModelsSara Wade, Bocconi University. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Entropy and data compression (IV)New: Previous lectures can be downloaded! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 23 April 2012, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rekeyable Ideal Cipher from a Few Random OraclesElena Andreeva, K.U. Leuven. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 23 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verification and Synthesis by SciductionThis 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 Sanjit Seshia, University of California, Berkeley. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Weighted Finite-state AutomataRogier van Dalen, Engineering Dept, Cambridge University. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Confining the Ghost in the Machine: Using Types to Secure JavaScript SandboxingThis 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 Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 18 April 2012, 10:30-11:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEmil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure CloudThis 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 Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00-17:00 Entropy and data compression (III)New: Previous lectures can be downloaded! David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 16 April 2012, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer Assisted Interventions: Challenges in design, development, validation and deployment of novel techniquesThis 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 Nassir Navab, Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 13 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active LearningFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 April 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mathematical modelling on remotely-sensed dynamics of marine primary producersThis 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 Dr. Shovonlal Roy, University of Oxford. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generating Code by LearningThis 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 Yi Wei, ETH Zurich. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Representing: a Jointly Optimal ApproachThis 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 Xinhua Zhang, University of Alberta. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Building Flexible High-Performance Key-Value SystemsThis 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 Amar Phanishayee, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The science of guessingThis 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 Joseph Bonneau (Cambridge University). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Machine Learning with High Order and Combinatorial Structureso 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 attendin Danny Tarlow. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with LearningThis 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 Krishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 April 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From certified languages to their certified implementationsThis 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 Pierre-Yves Strub. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Empirical evidence in privacy economicsThis 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 Sören Preibusch. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:35-11:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Networks without Management ComplexityThis 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 Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Networks without Management ComplexityThis 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 Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Active Reading Activities With a Multi-Slate SystemThis 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 Nicholas Chen, University of Maryland. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 09:50-10:35 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mementos, Memento Mori, and More: Digital Assets across the Human LifespanThis 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 Michael Massimi, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 09:00-09:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Compositional Inter-Language Relational VerificationThis 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 Chung-Kil Hur, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 30 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Topic ModellingDr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Communication Complexity and When Dubious Data Structures can be DetectedThis 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 Ranganath Kondapally, Dartmouth College. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 29 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Non-Interactive Verifiable ComputationThis 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 Bryan Parno, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ethnography: Understanding natural interaction with our communication technologiesThis 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 Karine Lan Hing Ting, Telecom ParisTech. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 27 March 2012, 11:00-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Methods in decision theory for conservation researchThis 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 Will Probert, University of Queensland. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 27 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solutions for a sustainable and desirable futureThis 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 Ida Kubiszewski. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 March 2012, 10:45-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Searching, Scanning and Smelling - a portfolio presentationThis 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 David Sweeney, London College of Fashion. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 March 2012, 09:50-10:35 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Structural Learning of Dynamic Bayesian NetworksMatt Henderson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sampling based on local signal analysis: applications to photo-realistic imagery and beyondThis 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 Kartic Subr. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 22 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebraic Foundations to Effect-Dependent OptimisationsThis 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 Ohad Kammar, Edinburgh University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 22 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Your Abstractions are Worth^H^H^H^H^HPowerless!Non-Volatile Storage and Computation on Embedded Devices*(*Batteries Not Included)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 Kevin Fu, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 21 March 2012, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Hjorth, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A joint part- and pixel-wise approach to human pose estimationThis 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 Lubor Ladický, Oxford Brookes University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Approaches to Multiscale Modelling of Complex SystemsThis 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 Harold Fellerman, University of Southern Denmark. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machines Learning Human MindsThis 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 Michal Kosinski, Cambridge University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with LearningThis 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 Krishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Range Querying in Distributed GamesThis 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 Sergey Legtchenko, UPMC-LIP6 in Paris. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 19 March 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding variability and temporal trends in biosphere-atmosphere CO2 exchange through integrating models with dataThis 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 Dr. Trevor Keenan, Harvard University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 19 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smart gridThis 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 Alex Rogers, University of Southampton. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smart grido 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 attendin Alex Rogers, University of Southampton. Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Extended ensemble Monte CarloDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov ModelsJonathan Huggins (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 March 2012, 11:00-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Practical Randomization in Concurrent Data StructuresThis 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 Dan Alistarh, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 15 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Malleability in Modern CryptographyThis 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 Markulf Kohlweiss, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 14 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decision Theory in Conservation Biology, from Systematic Conservation Planning to Scenario-Based policy assessmentsThis 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 Piero Visconti, Global Mammal Assessment Program in Rome. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 13 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Short and long-term effects of climate, disturbance, and forest management on regional carbon storage and emissions under current and proposed policy plansThis 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 Tara W. Hudiburg, Oregon State University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 12 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 MetadynamicsProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED "Symmetry and sufficiency"Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 Ab-initio simulation of water and its ionsProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Colouring the NoiseProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Entropy and data compression (II)PLEASE NOTE: There will be no lectures during the Easter break (12 March - 9 April). Lectures will resume on 16 April. David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 05 March 2012, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Population Approach to System DesignMatthew Chalmers, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Population Approach to System DesignMatthew Chalmers, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Sequential Decision Making in Experimental Design and Sustainability via Adaptive SubmodularityThis 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 Andreas Krause, ETH Zurich. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Exploring Compression and the Aesthetics of CreativityThis 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 Mark Bedworth. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 27 February 2012, 15:00-16:00 Entropy and data compression (I)David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 27 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 Life and Death of a CellProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Probabilistic computing: computation as universal stochastic inference, not deterministic calculationVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 February 2012, 12:30-13:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Introduction to information theoryDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Evaluating User-Adaptive Systems: Lessons from Experiences with a Personalized Meeting Scheduling AssistantThis 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 Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut and SRI International. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 February 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Exploiting Variable Impedance for Robotics: Mimic or Optimize?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 Sethu Vijayakumar, Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Life in the Ancient WorldDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Graphene: Materials in the FlatlandSir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, Unive). Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 The Spark of LifeProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford. Friday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Covering problems arising in Gamma Knife radiosurgeryThis 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 Leo Liberti, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 03 February 2012, 10:00-11:00 Robust Statistics: An Overview and Some QuestionsSubhra Sankar Dhar, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security in untrusted storageThis 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 Christian Cachin, IBM Research - Zurich. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 30 January 2012, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information bottleneckPlease note the change in time. This RCC will take place at 15:00-16.30pm. Dr. Richard Turner, DJ Strouse. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 January 2012, 15:00-16:30 The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor MicrocavitiesProfessor M S Skolnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 January 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Undiscovered Continents of Human PotentialThis 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 Jaron Lanier, Microsoft. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 24 January 2012, 14:00-15:00 From Genomes to the Diversity of LifeProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge. Friday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Ensemble Methods in Machine LearningDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Abstractions for Dynamic and Parallel SoftwareThis 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 Umut Acar, Max Planck Institute. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 12 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Homomorphic Encryption from Ring Learning with ErrorsThis 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 Michael Naehrig, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks High-throughput, Multiscale modelling approaches for understanding bacterial signallingThis 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 Benjamin Hall, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi MixtureDr. Pietro Massignan, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 15 December 2011, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Naiad: Iterative and Incremental Data-Parallelism using Differential DataflowThis 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 Derek Murray, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 14 December 2011, 14:00-15:00 Scaling Machine Learning for the InternetProf. Alexander Smola (Yahoo!). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Wednesday 07 December 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Closing the gap between weakly and fully supervised methodsThis 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 Vittorio Ferrari, ETH Zurich. Thursday 01 December 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bound Analysis of Imperative Programs with the Size-change AbstractionThis 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 Florian Zuleger, TU Wien. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 December 2011, 14:00-15:00 Do biological cells care about physics?Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDJ Strouse (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 29 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and OptimisationMichael Osborne ( Oxford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 28 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Modeling a non-linear EPSPs integration site in dendrites and its impact on computational capacitiesRomain Cazé, Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris. Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrency Assertions – Providing the Right Semantics to ASSERT StatementsThis 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 Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 24 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Polymer Solar CellsProf Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State SystemsVinayak Rao (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 23 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Complementing User-Level Coarse-Grain Parallelism with Implicit Speculative ParallelismThis 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 Nikolas Ioannou - University of Edinburgh. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Computation Without Tears: Probabilistic Programming and Universal Stochastic InferenceVikash Mansinghka, MIT. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 21 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Beyond the Piece of Cardboard: Learning to Adjust PhotographsThis 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 Sylvain Paris, Research Scientist at Adobe. Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Real versus Realistically Rendered Ground Truth: Can we use Computer Graphics for Performance Evaluation?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 Daniel Kondermann, Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 A Maximum Entropy Perspective on Spectral Dimensionality ReductionProf Neil Lawrence (Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with dataThis 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 Emily Lines, PhD Student, Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Plant Sciences, Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 15 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Approximate Inference in Gaussian Process ModelsSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:00-15:30 Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies.Prof Roger Davies, The Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CMA-ES – a Stochastic Second-Order Method for Function-Value FreeNumerical OptimizationThis 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 Nikolaus Hansen, INRIA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and SchemaThis 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 Fabian Suchanek, INRIA. Friday 04 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Statistical problems in Astronomy and High Energy PhysicsBodhi Sen, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Marriage of Bisimulations and Kripke Logical RelationsThis 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 Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Probabilistic programs and the computability and complexity of Bayesian reasoningThis 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 Daniel Roy, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Retrieval based Program SynthesisT-yiwei Yi (Jason) Wei, ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteinsProf. Chin-Kun Hu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 31 October 2011, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-scale Retrieval with Ivory and MapReduceTamer Elsayed, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Centre (CMIC). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 31 October 2011, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Analysing biological information processing with mechanistic modular modelsThis 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 Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research Ltd.. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 31 October 2011, 09:00-10:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Proper local scoring rulesProf. Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:00-15:30 Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate ModelsDr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 26 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Poirot — a concurrency sleuthThis 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 Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hyper and structural Markov laws for graphical modelsSimon Byrne (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Natural Interactions & Computing for Global Development at MSR IndiaThis 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 Ed Cutrell, MSRA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells for Transport and Grid ApplicationsProfessor Clare Grey FRS, The Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Not so naive Bayesian classificationProf. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 11 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applicationso 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 attendin Christian Steinruecken. Tuesday 11 October 2011, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian Nonparametrics: Latent Feature and Prediction Models, and Efficient InferencePiyush Rai (University of Utah). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 11 October 2011, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning MarketsDr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 07 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Structured Prediction Models for High-level Computer Vision TasksThis 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 Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 September 2011, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDJ Strouse (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 27 September 2011, 16:00-17:00 Factored Shapes and Appearances for Parts-based Object Understanding AND Transformation Equivariant Boltzmann MachinesChris Williams, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 27 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Reconciling intuitive and Newtonian physicsAdam Sanborn (University of Warwick). Monday 26 September 2011, 16:00-17:00 Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian SystemsPhilipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 19 September 2011, 15:00-16:00 Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applicationsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 16 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalázs Ujfalussy, CBL. Tuesday 13 September 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Information-Greedy Global OptimisationThis 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 Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Tuesday 13 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abstractions in Satisfiability SolversThis 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 Vijay D'Silva, Oxford University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 09 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The IITM Model and its Application to the Analysis of Real-World Security ProtocolThis 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 Ralf Küsters, University of Trier. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 08 September 2011, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SpecNet: Spectrum Sensing Sans Fronti`eresThis 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 Vishnu, MSR India Navda. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 05 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Mechanism Design without Money via Stable MatchingThis 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 Ning Chen, Nanyang Technical University. Thursday 01 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Coupled dynamics of traits and populations in response to environmental change".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 Arpat Ozgul, University of Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 31 August 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Vector Commitments with Efficient Protocols for Privacy-preserving Smart Billing ApplicationsThis 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 Alfredo Rial Duran, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 26 August 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Functionals: Choices and Consequences For Medical Image SegmentationThis 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 Chris McIntosh, SFU. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Boogie (on the example of VCC)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 Michal Moskal, MSR Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 11 August 2011, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Statistical learning for structural neuroimaging dataThis 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 attendin Remi Cuingnet, ICM Paris. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 11 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Egalitarian Gradient Descent": A General Preconditioning Scheme for Deformable Image RegistrationThis 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 Darko Zikic, TU Munich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars SocialFusion: Fusing Mobile, Sensor, and Social Computing in the Cloud To Enable Next-Generation Context-Aware ApplicationsThis 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 Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder. Tuesday 02 August 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tunable Static Inference for Generic Universe TypesThis 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 Werner M Dietl, University of Washington. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 02 August 2011, 11:00-12:00 Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational ViewpointProf. Matthias Seeger (EPFL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 July 2011, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Perception by "Patterns" in the BrainThis 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 Mush Okun, Imperial College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 27 July 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stochastic signal encoding strategies in cellsThis 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 James Locke, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 21 July 2011, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Language for Type-Safe Web ProgrammingThis 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 Cervesato Iliano, Carnegie Mellon University — Qatar Campus. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probing the basis of neuronal branchingThis 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 Dr. Hermann Cuntz, Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Goethe-University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 15 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Some Practical Reflections on Graphical ModelsDr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Plant Organs Regeneration: Measuring and Modelling Self‐OrganizationThis 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 Giovanni Sena Ph.D., New York University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Principles of Humanoid Locomotion ControlThis 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 Aaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto. Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14:00-15:00 Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific LiteratureKhalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 11 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Gene Networks to Tissue Engineering: Computational Models of Pattern FormationThis 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 Dagmar Iber, Computational Biology ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Some recent developments in approximate inference: learning and controlDavid Barber, University College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 06 July 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Search is not only about the Web - An Overview on Printed Document Search and Patent SearchWalid Magdy, Dublin City University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 05 July 2011, 14:30-15:30 Graphical Models for Bandit ProblemsKareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 04 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling transaction processing through data-oriented execution- 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 attendin Ippokratis Pandis, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 July 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to present a poster at an international conferenceThis 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 Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 01 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rough guide to being an entrepreneurThis 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 Jack Lang, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks GadgeteerThis 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 • Nicolas Villar, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Blue skies to ground truth: Machine learning for Kinect human motion captureThis 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 Andrew Fitzgibbon, Microsoft. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer science as applied philosophyThis 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 Tony Hoare, MSR Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 29 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Making the most of your PhD; now and in your careerThis 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 Tennie Videler, Vitae. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 29 June 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to give a great research talkThis 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 Simon Peyton-Jones, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 28 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to write a great research paperThis 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 Simon Peyton-Jones, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 28 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall EffectProf F D M Haldane, Princeton University. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 27 June 2011, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to force unsupervised neural networks to discover the right representation of imagesGeoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 23 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian regression and classification with multivariate sparsifying priorsProf. Tom Heskes (Radboud University Nijmegen). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 Organization of neuronal population activity in auditory cortex.Kenneth D Harris, Imperial College London. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PEPSI: Privacy-Enhanced Participatory Sensing InfrastructureClaudio Soriente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Co-opetition in network tasksYoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 17:00-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Identifying Peer Effects through Randomized Trials in NetworksSinan Aral, New York University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 16:15-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network cognition and individual behaviourEdoardo Gallo,Oxford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 15:30-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious RiskDavid Easley, Cornell University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Competitive Contagion in NetworksMichael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 13:30-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social networks, institutions, and the process of globalizationFernando Vega-Redondo, European University Institute. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 11:45-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal Communication in TeamsAndreas Galeotti, University of Essex. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 09:45-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social Network, Personality, and PerformanceRonald Burt, University of Chicago. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 09:00-09:45 Building planets and the ingredients for life between the starsProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15 The topology of smecticsProf. Randy Kamien, Physics Department, University of Pennsylvania. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 14 June 2011, 14:15-15:15 Statistical image processing for electron microscopy on molecular machinesSjors Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Monday 13 June 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Coming to Grips with Complexity in Computer-Aided VerificationKenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient space-variant deconvolutionStefan Harmeling, Max-Planck Institute. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 June 2011, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 07 June 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing for Development: A New High Impact Research AreaLakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning(rescheduled from May 24th) Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Is my model too complex? Evaluating model formulation using model reductionProfessor Neil Crout, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 06 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Censored Exploration in Dark PoolsProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programmable Self-Assembled DNA-Based Autonomous Molecular DevicesJohn Reif, Duke University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian Clustering with the Dirichlet-Process PriorDr. Audrey Q Fu, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Wednesday 01 June 2011, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Connections between Gaussian Process Regression, Kalman filtering and RTS SmoothingSimo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 May 2011, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr.Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learningRESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 7th Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 24 May 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fences and Stability in Weak Memory ModelsJade Alglave, University of Oxford. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 20 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED On Over-fitting in Model Selection and Subsequent Selection Bias in Performance EvaluationDR. Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:30 Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimationFlorian Gach, Statistical Laboratory. Wednesday 18 May 2011, 16:30-17:30 Dynamics of soft interfaces, real and imaginedSabyasachi Bhattacharya Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IndiaSpeaker to be confirmed. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Make Ad Hoc Proof Automation Less Ad HocDerek Dreyer. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 17 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a comprehensive assessment of the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the climate systemSoenke Zaehle, Max Planck Institute. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 16 May 2011, 14:00-15:00 Hierarchical hidden Markov models revisitedEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 May 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Expectation Propagation for POMDP Spoken Dialogue ModelsBlaise Thomson, Dialogue Systems Group, University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 May 2011, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMate Lengyel (Engineering Department). Tuesday 10 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active visual category learningSudheendra Vijayanarasimhan. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 09 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 Flavour Physics at the Large Hadron ColliderProf. Valerie Gibson, High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Navigational guidance systems in the human brainThe host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept. Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bringing Intelligence at the Edges to Accommodate Diversity in the InternetFahad Dogar, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 May 2011, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algorithmic Market Design: Spectrum Sales and BitTorrent CommunitiesIan Kash, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2011, 13:45-14:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Turing and Darwin: Saving the environment by combining computation and human insightGareth Russell, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fuzzy thinking: single neuron variation in RNA state spaceJunhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 April 2011, 11:10-12:10 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Can We Defy Nature’s End?Lucas Joppa, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fifteen Years of Field Robotics in AustraliaProf Hugh Durrant-Whyte FRS. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 15 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Complexity of the Homotopy Method, Equilibrium Selection, and Lemke-Howson SolutionsRahul Savani, University of Liverpool. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and conserving biodiversity in a changing worldRobert Bagchi, Durham University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Politics, Preferences and Permutations: Probabilistic Reasoning with RankingsJonathan Huang. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Delay Reduction for Adaptive Scheduling in Wireless Networks and Aggregated Equilibrium for Resource Sharing GamesLoc Bui, Stanford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 13 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Formal Methods in Synthetic BiologyBoyan Yordanov, University of Boston. Tuesday 12 April 2011, 09:20-10:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Data Structures for Nonlinear Video ProcessingJiawen Chen, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Colonic Crypt Model with Realistic, Deformable GeometrySara-Jane Dunn, University of Oxford. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 11:15-12:15 Mandarin DasherAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 11 April 2011, 11:00-12:00 Characterization of the Ewens-Pitman family of random partitions by a deletion property and a de Finetti-type theorem for exchangeable hierarchiesChris Haulk (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 11 April 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling and Evaluating Information Retrieval ResultsEvangelos Kanoulas, University of Sheffield. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 10:40-11:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SSLShader: Cheap SSL Acceleration with Commodity ProcessorsKeon Jang, KAIST. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active visual category learningSudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, University of Texas at Austin. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Molecular evolution of stochastic switchingOrkun S. Soyer, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Molecular evolution of stochastic switchingOrkun S. Soyer, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Spatial Tactile Feedback Support for Mobile Touch-screen DevicesKoji Yatani, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 10:40-11:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks 3D Reconstruction meets GPGPU meets Image AnalysisChristopher Zach. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Training Random Forests with Ambiguously Labeled DataChristian Leistner. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 April 2011, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Representing and Querying Large-scale UncertaintyPrithviraj Sen. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Guessing Program Annotations with Probabilistic InferenceAditya Nori, Microsoft Researcher. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 06 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubArmin Lak (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 April 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tracking and Analysis of Animal MovementRobin Freeman, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 05 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming-Language Techniques for Secure CryptographySantiago Zanella Béguelin, IMDEA. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 April 2011, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimization under Uncertainty: Understanding the Correlation GapShipra Agrawal, Stanford. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks High-level Languages for Low-level SystemsGeoffrey Mainland, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 01 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Enforcing topological constraints in energy-based image segmentationChristoph Lampert, IST Austria. Thursday 31 March 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Research of the new Computer Vision and Mulitmodal Computing at MPI SarrbrueckenBernt Schiele, MPI Saarbrueck. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 30 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Executable Knowledge for Molecular Systems BiologyWalter Fontana, Harvard Medical School. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 30 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Longitudinal Evaluation of API Usability and Designing Support for Collaborative Search around the TabletopJens Gerken, University of Konstanz. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars On a first-order primal-dual algorithm with applications to convex problems in computer visionThomas Pock, Graz University of Technology. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning generative models of images by factoring appearance and shapeNicolas Heess. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 09:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks “Otherworld” - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel CrashesAlexandre Depoutovitch, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 28 March 2011, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Software Synthesis using Automated ReasoningRuzika Piskac, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 28 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Compressed sensing: Lecture 8Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Friday 25 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Generalized sampling and infinite-dimensional compressed sensingAnders Hansen (University of Cambridge). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 24 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Compressed sensing: Lecture 7Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 24 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 Compressed sensing: Lecture 6Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 24 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Minimisation of sparse higher-order energies for large-scale problems in imagingCarola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Wednesday 23 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Compressed sensing: Lecture 5Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Wednesday 23 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 Compressed sensing: Lecture 4Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Wednesday 23 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 The Dantzig selector for high dimensional statistical problemsVincent Rivoirard (Université Paris-Dauphine). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Tuesday 22 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 22 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Compressed sensing: Lecture 3Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Tuesday 22 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 Compressed sensing: Lecture 2Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for WLAN PositioningTeemu Roos, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Compressed Sensing in RFMike Davies (University of Edinburgh). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Monday 21 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Compressed sensing: Lecture 1Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University). Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Monday 21 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 Rigid body motion in conformal geometric algebraPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Nonlinear Dynamics of LearningProf. Max Welling (UC Irvine). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hidden Markets: Designing Efficient but Simple Electronic MarketsSven Sueken, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimization for Pixel Labeling Problems With Structured LayoutOlga Veksler, the University of Western Ontario. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 March 2011, 13:00-13:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Minimization with Label Costs and Applications in Multi-Model FittingBoykov Yuri, The University of Western Ontario. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED ExchangeabilityPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Parameter Search and Robustness Analysis from Temporal Logic Specifications in Biochemical Reaction NetworksAurélien Rizk. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 17 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about concurrent stochastic systemsRadu Mardare, Aalborg University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Exponential Conditional Volatility ModelsProf Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 CRH: a Central Reference Handling systemChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 14 March 2011, 11:00-11:30 The Science and Beauty of NebulaeDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Friday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30 Scott Lecture III - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Belief Networks for Phone RecongitionRory Waite and Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-16:00 Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigmProf. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 March 2011, 12:00-13:00 Scott Lecture II - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectivesProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield. Friday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30 Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab PriorsDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 March 2011, 11:30-12:30 Probabilistic matrix factorization for reconstruction of missing dataDr Alexander Ilin (Aalto University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 March 2011, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The effect of normalization -- a case study in speech synthesisMatt Shannon (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frugal Procurement Auction DesignMahyar Salek, University of Southern California. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 03 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Model criticism in complex Bayesian evidence synthesis for infectious disease modelsAnne Presanis, MRC Biostatistics Unit. Wednesday 02 March 2011, 16:30-17:30 Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre ArrayProf Paul Alexander, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectivesProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland. Friday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Title to be confirmedYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 25 February 2011, 11:00-12:00 Atom-dimer and dimer-dimer scattering in fermionic mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonanceJesper Levinsen, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Post-NIPS Highlight sessionMLG Members. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Logic and Probability: The Computational ConnectionAdnan Darwiche, UCLA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 February 2011, 10:00-11:00 Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholderProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University. Friday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Optimal weighted nearest neighbour classifiersDr Richard Samworth. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30 Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimationFlorian Gach, Statistical Laboratory. Wednesday 16 February 2011, 16:30-17:30 Molecular Soup* with a twist : from Displays to Lasers for Holography (*Self-Organised Uniaxial Photonics)Prof Harry Coles, Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics & Electronics, Dept of Engineering, Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Coordination in NetworksMengel Friederike, Maastricht University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 15 February 2011, 14:00-15:00 The Sound of BeautyDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford. Friday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Conserved principles of movement generationThe host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept., m.lengyel@eng.cam.ac.uk Mark Churchland, Stanford University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 11 February 2011, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kernel MethodsYunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge), Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 February 2011, 14:00-15:30 A computer-vision based facial gesture switchEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 07 February 2011, 11:00-12:00 Quantum BeautyProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Friday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning techniques in computer vision applicationsPeter Chan (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:00-15:30 Frameworks for causal inferenceRoland Ramsahai, Statistical Laboratory. Wednesday 02 February 2011, 16:30-17:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohn Patrick Cunningham (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 01 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 Differential Geometric MCMC MethodsProf. Mark Girolami (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 01 February 2011, 11:00-12:00 Beauty & The GrotesqueJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid). Friday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Infinite multiple relational models for complex networksMikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 January 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Making OpenCL simple with HaskellBen Gaster, AMD. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 13:00-14:00 Mining viral datasetsDr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Microsoft Research LecturesAlbert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cooperation, Power and ConspiraciesYoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 24 January 2011, 10:00-11:00 Beauty & TruthProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford. Friday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Completely Random MeasuresSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 January 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Experience and problems with compiling data parallel languagesPaul Cockshott, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 19 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEdward Turnham (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 18 January 2011, 16:00-17:00 Universal Bayesian Agents: Theory and ApplicationsProf. Marcus Hutter (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 18 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED)(note new date) Dr Florian Markowetz (CRUK) - lab visit. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 17 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Novi QuadriantoNovi Quadrianto, Australian National University. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Branching vs. Linear Time: Semantical PerspectiveMoshe Vardi, Rice University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 06 January 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computingDerek Murray, University of Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 14 December 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Improving the energy model of stereo matching algorithmsMichael Bleyer, TU Vienna. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 14 December 2010, 10:00-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Propagation of Rumour Through a Social NetworkVladimir Barash, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 13 December 2010, 14:30-15:15 A New Machine Learning LibraryNote unusual time Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 13 December 2010, 11:15-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Economics seminar / Diffusion and Cascading Behavior in Random NetworksMarc LeLarge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 10 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Automation of Protein NMRBabak Alipanahi. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 10 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How Hard is Competition for Rank?Paul Goldberg, University of Liverpool. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 December 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Software Lock Elision for x86 Machine CodeAmitabha Roy. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Introduction to Geometric Algebra IIPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Submodularity for Machine LearningEd Snelson and Rich Turner. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 December 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Non-Commutative Logic of Effects,Noam Zeilberger. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 30 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Handling temporal variation of unknown characteristics in streaming data analysis.Chris Anagnostopoulos, Cambridge University. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Learning item trees for collaborative filtering with implicit feedbackDr Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Lifted Message Passing: A Step Towards Gaining a 'Big Picture' View on AIKristian Kersting. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Title to be confirmedPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 29 November 2010, 11:45-12:45 Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy DataDr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 26 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS Highlight SessionSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 25 November 2010, 14:00-15:30 The 2010 CU Canon Foundation Lecture : Creative tensions between science and technologyProf Sir Richard Friend, The Cavendish Labortory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Realizability and Parametricity in Pure Type Systems: An applicationJean-Philippe Bernardy, University of Gothenburg. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 23 November 2010, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Polynomial Learning of Distribution FamiliesKaushik Sinha. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 23 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Machine Leaning Journal ClubPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge), Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Poisson ProcessesAndrew Wilson and Yue Wu. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 November 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verification of Imperative Programs Through Characteristic FormulaeArthur Charguéraud, INRIA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Crowdsourcing data modellingAnthony Goldbloom (Kaggle). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 How English Libel Law Threatens ScienceSimon Singh. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 17 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Out-of-band Language ModellingAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 15 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Domain wall in a chiral p-wave superconductor: Majorana fermions and their transport propertiesDr Benjamin Beri, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Convex OptimisationDave Knowles and David Duvenaud. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:30 CANCELLEDCANCELLED Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Charge transport in molecular semiconductors – Bloch electron or hopping transport ?Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian Inference with KernelsArthur Gretton, UCL. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Inference with KernelsUCL. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How can we model complex ecosystems with stochastic interactions between individuals at different spatial and temporal scales? Some case studiesTim Benton, University of Leeds. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modelling ecological systems under environmental change.Matthew Evans, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Three Small Steps ... to Reconceiving Machine LearningProf. Bob Williamson, Australian National University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 08 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 South Africa's Involvement With Square Kilometre Array Bid: Infrastructure and Electromagnetic QuietnessProf. Howard Reader, University of Stellenbosch. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using SAT Solvers for Cryptographic ProblemsMate Soos, Pierre and Marie Curie University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 05 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Short talks: Mixed Cumulative Distribution Networks; Nonparametric Bayesian community discovery in social networks; Expectation Propagation for Dirichlet Process Mixture ModelsCharles Blundell, Lloyd Elliot and Vinayak Rao, Gatsby Unit, UCL. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 05 November 2010, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Async in Visual Basic and C# - worth the Await!Mads Torgersen & Lucian Wischik. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 05 November 2010, 12:00-13:00 Layered Systems of Cold Polar MoleculesNikolaj Zinner, University of Aarhus. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 05 November 2010, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Statistical Significance Analysis of Motif DiscoveryPatrick Ng. Friday 05 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Bayesian StatisticsSonia Petrone (Università Bocconi). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A relationship-based approach to the verification of multi-object invariantsStephanie Balzer, ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Affective TechnologyRosalind Picard, MIT Media Laboratory. Tuesday 02 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 The Multiscale Composite Dirichlet Process and its applicationsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 01 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic models for time-series with different underlying dynamics regimes with application to robot imitation learningSilvia Chiappa. Monday 01 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 The Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavityKristian Baumann, ETH Zurich. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Cancelled: No RCCCancelled Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:00-15:30 The Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and SupersolidityProf. Tilman Esslinger, ETH, Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 27 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series STORM below the localisation limitSusan Cox, Kings College London. Seminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM). Wednesday 27 October 2010, 11:30-12:30 Putting Some Language Back Into Language ModellingCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 25 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Herding or a '3rd way to learn'Simon Lacoste-Julien and Ferenc Huszar. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:00-15:30 Parallel dendritic processing and hippocampal spatial representationsBalazs Ujfalussy, Dept. Biophysics, KFKI RIPNP, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 How the brain makes decisionsTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 15 October 2010, 16:30-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering Genetic CircuitsChris J. Myers, University of Utah. Friday 15 October 2010, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced Scientific Programming in PythonCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 October 2010, 14:00-15:30 Bayesian PsychometryPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 11 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Unsupervised Grammar InductionJuan Pino (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubCristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 Continuous Gesture Recognition and VisualizationLeif Denby (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 04 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web PagesGjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research, Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Food Webs, and how they got that wayStuart Pimm, Duke University (Nicholas School of the Environment). Friday 24 September 2010, 13:00-14:00 Optimality among optimals: decision making from neurobiological ‘noisy’ signals within the cortico-basal-ganglia systemJavier A. Caballero, Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield. Tuesday 21 September 2010, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian Inference with KernelsDr Arthur Gretton (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SSH: A Case Study of Cryptography in Theory and PracticeKenny Paterson, Royal Holloway University of London. Monday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Testing and fault localization in constraint programsLazaar Nadjib, IRISA. Wednesday 15 September 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Systematic Design of Enterprise NetworksSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 15 September 2010, 10:30-11:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Continuous control of brain computer interfaces based on a covert spatial attention paradigmAli Bahramisharif (Radboud University Nijmegen). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 14 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 13 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Noise and the two-thirds power lawElon Portuglay, MS Microsoft. Monday 13 September 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Golden-i, a head-mounted computerChris Parkinson, Kopin Corporation. Friday 10 September 2010, 15:00-16:00 Translational biomedical informatics research in a clinical neurosurgery environmentXiao Hu, University of California, Los Angeles. University Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences Seminar Room, Level 2, B Spur. Thursday 09 September 2010, 13:15-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Diderot: A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image AnalysisProfessor John Reppy, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Chicago. Monday 06 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Ticker: Case StudyEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Research adventures in JapanLab access may be impeded due to bank holiday Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 30 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 On the Equivalence of Graph Cuts and Max-product Belief PropagationDanny Tarlow (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Statistical Language ModellingCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 23 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frugality in set-system auctionsEdith Elkind, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Speaker to be confirmed. Thursday 19 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedLaurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Little Engine(s) that could: Scaling Online Social NetworksJosep M. Pujol. Monday 16 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Topic Models -- and how to break themPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 09 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Search methods based on Monte-Carlo simulationMartin Müller, University of Alberta. Thursday 05 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes BankProf Michael Mitzenmacher - Computer Science, Harvard. Tuesday 03 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Some Uses of Hashing in Networking ProblemsMichael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Monday 02 August 2010, 14:15-15:15 Marginal Fermi liquid behaviour and competing orders with topological characteristics in bilayer graphene.Rahul Nandkishore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 30 July 2010, 15:30-16:30 Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politicsgeneral audience talk (non-technical) -- NOTE change of room to LR4! Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University). Thursday 29 July 2010, 16:30-17:30 Creating structured and flexible models: some open problemsProf Andrew Gelman (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Efficient Bayesian analysis of multiple changepoint modelsProf Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 26 July 2010, 15:00-16:00 Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated BayesianSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrency and Communication: Lessons from the SHIM ProjectProf. Stephen Edwards, Columbia University. Friday 23 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus / Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic ModelsDr. Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Post-Silicon Validation: New Frontiers for Formal Verification ResearchAlan Hu, University of British Columbia. Wednesday 21 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Scalable Parallel Computing with CUDAJames Balfour (NVIDIA). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 20 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Introduction to Geometric AlgebraPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 19 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks GPU programming: bugs, pitfalls and the importance of correctness in biomedical and scientific applicationsProfessor Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University. Monday 19 July 2010, 10:00-11:00 Dasher on a Space-filling curveAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 16 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesSpeaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesSpeaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesDr Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 12 July 2010, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How can we use digital pens in a collaborative environment?Michael Haller - Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. Friday 09 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental DesignAndreas Krause (Caltech). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Local Action Traces and Abstract Concurrent Separation LogicSteve Brookes, CMU. Wednesday 07 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frameworks for segmentation, classification, and nonstationary image processing with applications to disease assessmentAlbert Montillo, University of Pennsylvania. Tuesday 06 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks International Workshop on Tractability; 5-6 July 2010Speaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 06 July 2010, 09:00-17:30 Bayesian head pose estimationCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Symbolic Techniques in Propositional Satisfiability SolvingMoshe Y Vardi, Rice University. Friday 02 July 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Computer science (Cancelled)Cancelled Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research). Friday 02 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Cloud computing for researchFabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Research). Friday 02 July 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School To infinity and beyond with nonparametric Bayesian methodsJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Thursday 01 July 2010, 17:25-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Acquiring syntactic and semantic transformations in question answeringMichael Kaisser (Microsoft). Thursday 01 July 2010, 17:05-17:25 Microsoft Research Summer School Tracking and localisation for speech and roboticsMaurice Fallon (MIT). Thursday 01 July 2010, 16:45-17:05 Microsoft Research Summer School Communications, Travel and Social Networks since 1840: A Study Using Agent-based ModelsLynne Hamill (University of Surrey). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:55-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Static contract checking for HaskellDana N. Xu (INRIA). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:35-15:55 Microsoft Research Summer School From program analysis research to industrial programming language developmentAndy Maule (Microsoft). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:15-15:35 Microsoft Research Summer School From driving to trafficking: the developing view of the user in computer systems designRichard Harper (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 3Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Thursday 01 July 2010, 12:30-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Simulation and data analysis with Windows AzureAustin Donnelly (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Fun with F#: Solving complex problems with simple codeAnton Schwaighofer (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School From data to knowledgeSydney Brenner (Salk Institute). Thursday 01 July 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Infer.NET and probabilistic programmingJohn Winn (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Ten things you don’t know about MicrosoftDerick Campbell (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Molecular programmingLuca Cardelli (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Simulating global carbon-climate feedbackDrew Purves (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 2Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Wednesday 30 June 2010, 12:30-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Presentation skillsKen Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 1Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Tuesday 29 June 2010, 12:30-13:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 29 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Intelligently Aiding Human-Guided Correction of Speech RecognitionKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 28 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Information, Networks and MarketsSanjeev Goyal (Economics), Peter Key (Microsoft Research) and Cambridge Networks Forum. Tuesday 22 June 2010, 09:00-17:30 Differential Privacy and Probabilistic InferenceOliver Williams (Microsoft Research). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy as Syntax - an attempt at a thermodynamical framework for combinatorial molecular networksVincent Danos, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Thursday 17 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational BayesDr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological ProblemsBarbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 The AEGIS projectNote unusual time Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 14 June 2010, 09:00-12:00 Using topic models to help cure cancerProf Quaid Morris (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 11 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Message Passing In Centralized Databaseshort talk Konstantina Palla (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 11 June 2010, 11:00-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Structured Learning and Structural SVMsS-X. Austin Zhang and Juan Pino. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 June 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Geometry of Synthesis: Semantics-directed hardware compilationDan Ghica, University of Birmingham School of Computer Science. Thursday 10 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Structured Prediction CascadesDr. Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30 Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack DimensionProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 09 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and SerendipityProfessor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Conditional Random Fields : Theory and ApplicationMatt Seigel (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 June 2010, 14:00-15:30 LIQUID CRYSTALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEMTom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 June 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Diffuse ProgrammingManuel Serrano - Inria Sophia-Antipolis. Wednesday 02 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Images as Sets of Locally Weighted FeaturesTeo de Campos, University of Surrey. Tuesday 01 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hermes: Clustering Users in Large-Scale E-mail ServicesChristos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Tuesday 01 June 2010, 11:30-12:00 Robust Associative memoryPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 31 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical performance models for complex, popular applicationsEno Thereska, Microsoft Research. Friday 28 May 2010, 13:00-13:00 Harnessing the Interactions of Ultrasound Waves and Acoustic Cavitation With Biological Tissue for Non-Invasive Therapy and Drug DeliveryDr Constantin Coussios, Biomedical Ultrasonics & Biotherapy Laboratory, University of Oxford. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 28 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Before pixelsStephen Robertson, Microsoft Research. Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Redirected to Rob Nowak, LR12Redirected Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A proof rule for multi-threaded programsAndrey Rybalchenko, Technische Universität München. Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 The Dynamics of Observing and Controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's DiseaseProf Steven Schiff, Director of the Penn State Centre for Neural Engineering. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Prof. Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin; MSR LecturesProf. Robert Nowak - University of Wisconsin. Tuesday 25 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Learning predictive models for visual motion extrapolationPaul Schrater (Depts Psychology & Computer Science, University of Minnesota). Monday 24 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 Conditional Counting: Approximate Multinomial Probit RegressionPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 24 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 From tuning curves to behaviourMandana Ahmadi (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL). Monday 24 May 2010, 10:30-11:30 Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang ObserverThis lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Topics in Statistical Machine TranslationMatt Shannon and Sebastien Bratieres. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 May 2010, 14:00-15:30 Online Expectation-MaximisationChris Anagnostopoulos, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:30-17:30 Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein TelescopeThis lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 18 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS; Microsoft Research LecturesDerek Dreyer, MPI-SWS. Tuesday 18 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the UniverseThis lecture is for a general audience. Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Ticker: A text-entry interface with audio feedback for single-switch usersEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Bayes-Nash implementation of combinatorial auctions: structure and efficiencyProf Bruce Hajek - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Monday 17 May 2010, 10:00-11:00 Critical parameters from generalised multifractal analysis at the Anderson transitionDr Alberto Rodriguez (Warwick). Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 13 May 2010, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedYunus Saatchi and Andrew Wilson. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 May 2010, 14:00-15:30 Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost SoundscapesMalcolm Longair and Braxton Boren. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost SoundscapesMalcolm Longair and Braxton Boren. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cellsThis talk is jointly organised with TCM Dr. Martin Falcke, Mathematical Cell Physiology, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin. Seminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM). Wednesday 12 May 2010, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abstract Interpretation for Liveness using Metric SpacesAziem Chawdhary - Queen Mary University of London. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Abstract Interpretation for Liveness using Metric SpacesAziem Chawshary, Queen Mary University of London. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 11:30-12:00 Coherent Inference on Optimal Play in GamesPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 10 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information RetrievalRoom changed Jurgen Van Gael and Ed Snelson. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 06 May 2010, 14:00-15:30 Mapping affective decisions in depression using reinforcement learning toolsQuentin Huys (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL). Wednesday 05 May 2010, 16:30-17:30 Recent Advances in Particle Based Simulation MethodsJ.D.Lawrence@statslab.cam.ac.uk. Wednesday 05 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubProfessor Daniel Wolpert ( Department of Engineering). Tuesday 04 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Report from CHI 2010Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 03 May 2010, 11:00-11:30 Talk CancelledCanceled Prof. Pawel Hawrylak, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 30 April 2010, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Visual Computing for Next-Generation Display and ImagingProf. Oliver Bimber - Institute of Computer Graphics, Johannes Kepler University Linz. Friday 30 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Numerical Linear AlgebraRoom changed Peter Orbanz and John Cunningham (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Verification of Concurrent Programs using Reduction and AbstractionTayfun Elmas - Koc University, Istanbul. Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Dirac's Dream - the Continuing Quest for the Magnetic MonopoleProfessor James Pinfold, University of Alberta. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The State of Secondary Level Computer Science Education in the USAChris Stephenson - Computer Science Teachers Association. Wednesday 28 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep Web Data: Analysis, Extraction, and ModellingProf. Pierre Senellart - Telecom Paris Tech. Monday 26 April 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On the stability of flow-aware CSMAProf. Thomas Bonald - Telecom Paris Tech. Monday 26 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Modelling and Verification of the PCI Express Transaction and Data-Link LayersPeter Boehm - University of Oxford. Friday 23 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bundle methods and its application in machine learningEric(Yongqiang) Wang and Rory Waite. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A comparison of some recent task-centric parallel programming modelsMats Brorsson - KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Swedish Insitute of Computer Science (SICS). Thursday 22 April 2010, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK). Tuesday 20 April 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Secrets of the Microsoft SQL Server Query OptimizerConor Cunningham - SQL Server Group, Microsoft. Monday 19 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Building Algorithms for FPGAsRene Mueller - ETHZ. Thursday 15 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning, Planning and Representing Knowledge from Primitive ExperienceDavid Silver - UCL. Tuesday 13 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Submodularity and Valued Constraint Satisfaction ProblemsStanislav Zivny - University of Oxford. Monday 12 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 06 April 2010, 16:00-17:00 Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron NematicsJoint TCM/QM seminar - note non-standard time. Prof. Erica Carlson, Purdue University. Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 06 April 2010, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Towards physical basis for Ambient Intelligence – a critical driver for the future of printed electronics and optoelectronics – ‘It’s not the materials, it’s the effects talking’Dr Raymond Oliver FREng, FIChemE, CEng - Senior Research Fellow, Royal College of Art. Thursday 01 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Opportunistic Spectrum Access with Multiple Users: Learning under CompetitionAnima Anandkumar - MIT. Wednesday 31 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sparse Model Recovery via Iterative AlgorithmsProf. Devavrat Shah - MIT. Tuesday 30 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Speech Dasher: Fast Writing using Speech and GazeKeith Vertanen, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 29 March 2010, 11:00-11:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proactive Resilience Revisited: Resisting Intrusions means more than Byzantine Fault TolerancePaulo Verissimo - University of Lisbon. Friday 26 March 2010, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Modelling and Verification of the PCI Express Transaction and Data-Link LayersPeter Boehm - University of Oxford. Tuesday 23 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Language Modelling with PPMAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Networks in Crisishttp://www.gold.ac.uk/design/ Speaker to be confirmed. Monday 22 March 2010, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sparsification for Gaussian Processes for RegressionMilica Gasic and Anton Ragni. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 March 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abandoning Prenex Clausal Normal Form in QBF SolvingMartina Seidl - Vienna University of Technology. Thursday 18 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Slice sampling with latent Gaussian modelsDr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Michael Weber, University of Twente; Microsoft Research LecturesMichael Weber - University of Twente. Monday 15 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian feature tracking and head pose estimationCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 15 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Datalog+/- : A Framework for Tractable Query Answering over OntologiesPr. Georg Gottlob - Oxford University. Monday 15 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedEric Xing. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 March 2010, 14:00-15:30 Dynamic Network Tomography: Model, Algorithm, Theory, and ApplicationProf. Eric Xing (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Making Sense of Data - A Research AgendaProf Bob Williamson (ANU and Scientific Director of NICTA). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Thursday 11 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 High-Temperature Superconductors: From Broken Symmetries to the Power GridProfessor Laura Greene, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:00 Recursive CRFs for Scalable Visionshort talk David Duvenaud (UBC). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Title to be confirmedshort talk Owen Lewis (U Colorado @ Boulder). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:00-12:30 Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Codingshort talk Azadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 11:30-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Title to be confirmedShort talk Alex Davies (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 11:00-11:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubNeil Housby (Cambridge University). Tuesday 09 March 2010, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian Inference in Networks of QueuesDr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 09 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Stochastic Outlier SelectionJeroen Janssens (Tilburg University / University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 08 March 2010, 16:00-16:30 Neurally-inspired ComputingPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Risk and (Human-induced) Climate ChangeProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia. Friday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CancelledCancelled Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30 Variational methods continuedDavid Knowles, Machine learning group, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 03 March 2010, 16:30-17:30 Latent Force Models with Gaussian ProcessesDr Neil Lawrence (University of Manchester). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 01 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Risk and Natural CatastrophesProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory. Friday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Influence of Thermal Order Parameter Fluctuations on the Spectral Function of 2D SuperconductorsProf. Alexei Tsvelik, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 26 February 2010, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CancelledCanceled Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRichard Turner (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room 2. Tuesday 23 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 DasherPatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 February 2010, 11:00-11:30 Risk, Security and TerrorismProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford. Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedPedro Ortega and Dan Braun. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30 An Introduction to Variational Methods for Approximate Inference in Graphical ModelsSilvia Chiappa. Wednesday 17 February 2010, 17:00-18:00 Title to be confirmedProfessor Mike Payne, FRS, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 17 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stationary Subspace AnalysisFrank Meinecke, TU Berlin. Tuesday 16 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Literacy and ICT: Social Constructions in the Lives of Low-literate Youth in Ethiopia & MalawiMarije Geldof, Royal Holloway, University of London. Monday 15 February 2010, 14:00-14:30 Risk and HumanitiesProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge. Friday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Semi supervised learningSinead Williamson and Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 February 2010, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEdward Turnham (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 09 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 Automatic Selection of Recognition Errors by Respeaking the Intended TextKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 February 2010, 11:00-12:00 Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidanceProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford. Friday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks You are not a gadgetJaron Lanier, Microsoft. Thursday 04 February 2010, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational inference in graphical models: The view from the marginal polytopeDavid Knowles and Richard Turner (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 February 2010, 14:00-15:30 'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines'Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 Mind Reading by Machine Learning: Optimal Experimental DesignShort talk Neil Houlsby (CUED). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 02 February 2010, 11:00-11:30 NIPS 2009 highlightsPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge), Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 01 February 2010, 11:00-12:00 Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertaintyProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin. Friday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks L_p-Spherically Symmetric and L_p-nested Distributions for Patches of Natural ImagesFabian Sinz, Max Planck Institute Tübingen. Friday 29 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Fractional Belief Propagation menaceFrederik Eaton. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 January 2010, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDaniel Braun (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 26 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Bayesian Model Comparison with Differential Equations: a Population MCMC Approach via the Thermodynamic IntegralBen Calderhead, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 26 January 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Efficient Bayesian Model Comparison with Differential Equations: a Population MCMC Approach via the Thermodynamic IntegralBen Calderhead, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 26 January 2010, 14:00-14:00 HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar Accelerated Bayesian inference in cosmologyDr. Mike Hobson (Cambridge). Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED (Canceled) A Causal Calculus for Statistical ResearchCanceled Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte CarloMark Girolami. Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Inferring Signaling Pathway Topologies from Multiple Perturbation Measurements of Specific Biochemical Species : A model-based approachMark Girolami, University of Glasgow. Thursday 21 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 New approaches to Bayesian asymptoticsHeather Battey, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:30-18:00 Synthetic structures and machines from DNAProf Andrew Turberfield of University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Course (4F13)4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street). Wednesday 20 January 2010, 10:00-11:00 CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human SensingCANCELLED Dr Fernando de la Torre (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Visuospatial ReasoningShort Talk Stephanie Chan (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 18 January 2010, 10:00-10:30 Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertaintyProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED RCC Planning MeetingAll. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 January 2010, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Course (4F13)4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street). Thursday 14 January 2010, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubHugo Vincent (University of Cambridge). Monday 11 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Title to be confirmedDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 11 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Quantum Optics Experiments with Multiple Qubits and Multiple Photons in Superconducting Electronic CircuitsJohannes Fink (ETH, Zurich). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 04 December 2009, 14:30-15:30 Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotationshort talk Sean Moran (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 December 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Unbounded-depth hierarchical Pitman-Yor processesRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 December 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Predicting biological functions at different spatial scales: From molecules to ecosystemsDr Peer Bork - European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Thursday 03 December 2009, 14:00-15:00 Joint imputation and estimation of haplotype transition probabilitiesWolfgang Lehrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Wednesday 02 December 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubIan Howard (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 01 December 2009, 16:00-17:00 NIPS posterPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 30 November 2009, 11:40-12:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Experimental and computational approaches to implicit learning of musical structureMartin Rohrmeier, University of Cambridge. Monday 30 November 2009, 11:30-12:00 Face Recognition: Who's That Blonde?Ulrich Paquet (Imense). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 30 November 2009, 11:00-11:40 Journal Club: Visualizing Data using t-SNEEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 27 November 2009, 11:15-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametricsAad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 November 2009, 14:00-15:30 An introduction to sequential Monte Carlo methodsIoana Cosma, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 25 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 Probabilistic feature tracking with non-probabilistic techniquesCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 23 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA (MUM 2009)please see website details. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cambridge. Sunday 22 November 2009, 09:00-18:00 Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law BehaviourYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 The Infinite Gaussian Mixture ModelPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 20 November 2009, 11:15-12:00 Gaussian Processes for Active Data Selection, Faults, Changepoints and Sensor SelectionProf. Stephen Roberts (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDavid Franklin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 研究の紹介Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with CoalescentsSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30 Compressed Sensing - Introduction and Future AspectsAnders Hansen, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 11 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 KL control theory and decision making under uncertaintyBert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 10 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving the Correctness of Abstract Concurrency Control and RecoveryEliot Moss - University of Massachusetts Amherst. Monday 09 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Oscillations, Phase-of-firing Coding and STDP: An Efficient Learning Scheme (Journal club)Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 09 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Nesting Transactions: Why and What Do We Need?Eliot Moss - University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Monday 09 November 2009, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning RCC - Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents, Teh, Daumé and Roy, NIPS 2007Sinead Williamson. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Sunday 08 November 2009, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Filtering of Noisy Time-Series DataHenrik Ohlsson, Marc Deisenroth, Hugo Vincent. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 November 2009, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 03 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience “Modeling synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales”.Wulfram Gerstner EPFL.. Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 02 November 2009, 16:30-17:30 Optimizing Dasher for the iPhoneAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 02 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates from attraction between spin vorticesProf. Lu Yu (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 30 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 Association mapping and prediction of complex structured phenotypesOliver Stegle (Max Planck Institutes, Tübingen). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Value Ordering Heuristics for Quantified Constraint SatisfactionDavid Stynes, University College Cork. Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-14:30 Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learningKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 30 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Speed ReviewingAll Participants. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture ModelsJurgen Van Gael, Engineering department, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 28 October 2009, 16:30-18:00 Information theoretic model selection in clusteringJoachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 A facial gesture switch using hidden Markov modelsEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental DataDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 23 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED High-dimensional variable selection via sure independence screeningRichard Samworth (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Statistical network analysis in computational genomicsFlorian Markowetz - Cancer Research UK. Wednesday 21 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 710, Link Building, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK). Tuesday 20 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 Inclusive user modellingPradipta Biswas (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 19 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Journal club: Measurement integration under inconsistency for robust trackingCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 16 October 2009, 11:15-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Ensemble Methods in Machine LearningAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 When can we quantify uncertainty?David Spiegelhalter, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:30-18:00 The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters!Professor J W Stirling, CBE, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. BSS Seminar Room, 252, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Learning Logical RelationsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 12 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Motor Skills Learning for RoboticsJan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Structured prediction using energy-based modelsSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJames Ingram (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 06 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 Recognition and Correction of Voice Web Search QueriesKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Kinetics and Bose-Einstein condensation of parametrically driven magnons at RT.Prof. Sergej Demokritov, Muenster University. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 02 October 2009, 14:15-15:15 The Mondrian ProcessChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 02 October 2009, 11:15-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Technical Writing IIRyan Turner (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Generalized, Efficient Array Decision proceduresNikolaj Bjorner - Microsoft Research. Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data redundancy and maintenance in peer-to-peer file backup systemsAlessandro Duminuco - Institut Eurécom. Thursday 01 October 2009, 11:30-12:00 Reduced cortical neuron models: Experiment and theoryMagnus Richardson, Warwick University. Tuesday 29 September 2009, 16:00-17:00 Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learningAndrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 29 September 2009, 14:00-15:00 Of Uncertain Value -- Bayesian Quadratic Reinforcement LearningPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 29 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 COGAIN'09 proceedingsAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 25 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 23 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK). Tuesday 22 September 2009, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Use phase signals to promote lifetime extension for desktop PCsStewart Hickey - University of Limerick. Tuesday 22 September 2009, 11:00-11:30 Capacity of Spiking Neural NetworksPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Speed dependent automatic zooming for browsing large documentsAlison Ming (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 18 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 CANCELLEDCancelled Prof. Eric Xing (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 18 September 2009, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 16 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Thermal expansion of beta-eucryptitePatrick Welche (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 14 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Single Image Haze Removal using Dark Channel PriorEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 11 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Simplifying the theory of the Invar effect in iron-nickel alloysChris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 28 August 2009, 15:30-16:30 Bursty and Hierarchical Structure in Streams.Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 28 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Convex Variational Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Generalized Linear ModelsHannes Nickisch. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 26 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Text entry performance of state of the art unconstrained handwriting recognition: a longitudinal user studyLeif Denby (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 24 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Correlation, Causation, Model Comparison and InterventionsPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 21 August 2009, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 19 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 12 August 2009, 13:00-14:00 Combining Collaborative Filtering with Meta Data for Scalable RecommendationsNote unusual time David Stern (Microsoft). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 11 August 2009, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 05 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computable Probability TheoryDaniel Roy (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 28 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Physics Dimensions in SageMiriam Backens, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 28 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 22 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Machine Learning Reveals the Genetic Code Controlling SplicingBrendan Frey - Microsoft Research. Tuesday 14 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards focusing research and innovations on local needs: If wireless technologies are to connect the wireless continentDr Idris A. Rai - Makerere University. Tuesday 14 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks From Verification to SynthesisMoshe Y. Vardi - Rice University. Thursday 09 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Dashing this way and thatAlan Lawrence (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 08 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 08 July 2009, 12:45-13:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning Deep ArchitecturesYoshua Bengio, University of Montreal. Tuesday 07 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cops, Crops and Mobile Phones: Machine Learning in AfricaJohn Quinn - Makerere University, Uganda. Monday 06 July 2009, 11:30-12:30 Mapping facial gestures to control cursors and switchesEmli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 July 2009, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Sustainable energy without the hot airDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Friday 03 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Giving a good presentationKen Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques). Friday 03 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Internships uncovered...New time Peter Key (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 16:15-16:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Introduction to intellectual propertyJohn Mulgrew (Microsoft). Thursday 02 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hessian-based Markov-Chain Monte Carlo AlgorithmsTom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 July 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Enabling intelligent management of the environmentDrew Purves (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Forza, Halo, Xbox Live: The magic of research in productsRalf Herbrich (Microsoft Research Ltd.). Thursday 02 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Systems and networking research at MSR CambridgeTim Harris (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School New hardware enabling new user experiencesJames Scott (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to manage your supervisorTennie Videler (Vitae). Thursday 02 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Scientific computing on .NETNew time and day Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 16:40-17:00 Microsoft Research Summer School WorldWide Telescope - A computational science innovationNew time Yan Xu (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 16:15-16:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Tools and services for data intensive researchRoger Barga (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School The executable pathway to biological networksJasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Principles and applications of refinement typesAndy Gordon (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 01 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Hitchhikers guide to machine learningChristopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School EU opportunities for young researchersCarlos Morais-Pires (European Commission, DG INFSO). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 17:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Challenges in refactoringNew time Mathieu Verbaere (University of Oxford). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 16:20-16:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Interactive mattingNew time Christoph Rhemann (Vienna University of Technology). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 16:00-16:20 Microsoft Research Summer School Generative face models for image understandingNew time Brian Amberg (University of Basel). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:40-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Scalable display architecturesNew time Alban Rrustemi (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:20-15:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Hybrids of generative and discriminative modelsJulia Lasserre (University of Cambridge/Max Planck Institute). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:00-15:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Network Measurement ScienceDon Towsley, UMass. Tuesday 30 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School New kinds of software for new kinds of scienceAlexander Brändle (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 09:30-10:30 Electronic Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the Iron PnictidesQimiao Si, Rice University, Texas. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 25 June 2009, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 24 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Refactoring with GenericsKathleen Dollard. Thursday 18 June 2009, 19:00-21:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Message PassingNote unusual time Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 June 2009, 15:00-16:30 What is the momentum of a photon propagating in a medium?Prof. Steve Barnett, University of Strathclyde. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 18 June 2009, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 17 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 16 June 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Analyzing the effect of noise on various models of Circadian Clock and Cell Cycle couplingAlessandro Romanel, CoSBi. Tuesday 16 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 A quick way to learn a mixture of exponentially many linear modelsNote unusual time Geoffrey Hinton, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & University of Toronto. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 15 June 2009, 15:00-16:00 Short ICML Practice TalkRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 12 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Heterogeneities in granular mediaProf. Anita Mehta, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Slice SamplingYue Wu (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Topological keystone species: network analysis in modern systems ecologyFerenc Jordán, CoSBi. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Workshop on Networks, Auctions and Pricing - 1 Dayhttp://naapworkshop.eventbrite.com/. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 09:00-17:30 Is the homunculus `aware' of sensory adaptation?Peggy Seriès (The University of Edinburgh). Tuesday 09 June 2009, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Towards disposable healthcare devices: a paradigm shiftProf. Chris Toumazou FRS, Imperial College. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 15:00-16:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents: A Formal Languages and a Game Theory ApproachMatteo Cavaliere, CoSBi. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Domain Knowledge Driven Program AnalysisDaniel Ratiu - TU Munich. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Semantic Image Segmentation and Web-Supervised Visual LearningFlorian Schroff, University of Oxford. Monday 08 June 2009, 11:30-12:00 Inference in Models with Latent HierarchiesNote new time Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Can the thermal conductivity of semiconductors be controlled by impurities?Stefan K. Estreicher, Physics Department, Texas Tech University. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 05 June 2009, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Robot Scientists and the automated scientific laboratoryAmanda Clare - Dept of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University. Friday 05 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 03 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 From microscopic to macroscopic descriptions of cell migration on growing domainsDr Ruth Baker, University of Oxford. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 17:10-18:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubArne Nagengast (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 02 June 2009, 17:00-18:00 Informed matter: The confluence of information processes and material scienceDr Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 16:20-17:10 Visual search and mining of large scale image collectionsProf. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 15:10-16:00 Progress on development of a microfluidic robot scientistProf. Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 14:00-15:10 Title to be confirmedNote time Prof. Gerald Mahan, Penn State University. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 29 May 2009, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 27 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 Using gradient descent for optimization and learningNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 26 May 2009, 13:00-15:00 Local density of states of electron-crystal phases in graphene in the quantum Hall regimeOleksandr Poplavskyy (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 22 May 2009, 16:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Technical WritingFinale Doshi (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 May 2009, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Study disease-causing genes based on protein-protein interaction networksPhuong Nguyen, CoSBi. Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEdward Turnham (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 19 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systemsSean Sedwards, CoSBi. Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 Optimal Bayesian Reinforcement Learning on TreesPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 18 May 2009, 15:00-16:00 Understanding liquids and glass transition on the basis of elastic interactionsNote changed time Dr Kostya Trachenko (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 Glasses, Jamming and Spin GlassesProf. Mike Moore FRS, University of Manchester.. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Divergence measures and message passingDavid Knowles (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:00-15:30 Electromagnetic surfaces from butterflies to battleshipsProfessor J Roy Sambles, School of Physics, University of Exeter. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 13 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 13 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Model Abstraction Methodology for Temporal Behavior Analysis of Multiscale Biological SystemsHiroyuki Kuwahara, CoSBi. Wednesday 13 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Chemotaxis. Do we understand it all?Orkun Soyer, CoSBi. Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedDr Bogdan Mihaila, Los Alamos National Laboratory. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 08 May 2009, 15:30-16:30 Inferring building properties from temperature datavenue to be confirmed Dan Ryder-Cook. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The IBM approach to speech separationMikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 06 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 Likelihood-based inference for complex data structuresNancy Reid (Toronto). Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 05 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDaniel Braun (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 Physics and Complexity : ExamplesProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Parsing Images the UCLA WayTom Stepleton (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 April 2009, 14:00-15:30 Physics and Complexity : MethodologiesProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 April 2009, 16:15-17:15 Useful Computation with Coincidence DetectionPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911 (Astrophysics, 1st floor Rutherford Building). Wednesday 29 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 Physics and Complexity : An OverviewProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 27 April 2009, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hilbert space embedding of probability distributionsFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 April 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks TBCBen Fry (http://benfry.com/). Thursday 23 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian periodicity detectionTamara Broderick (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 Literature review presentations - Tidal power, and Fuel cellsNote unusual time Geoffrey Supran and Colm Seeley. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Dynamics of cell cycle transitionsAttila Csikasz-Nagy, CoSBi. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRainer Engelken (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 April 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Exploiting non-Markovian Bio-Processes within BlenXDavide Prandi, CoSBi. Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 Feature tracking with full posteriorsNote new date and time. Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 April 2009, 16:00-17:00 Deducing Principles in Natural PerceptionMike Lewicki - CMU, Berlin, and Case Western. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 08 April 2009, 09:00-10:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series A parallel perspective of the dynamics of biological reactive systemsTommaso Mazza, CoSBi. Wednesday 01 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 01 April 2009, 09:00-10:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series KInfer and BetaWB: tools for supporting the modeling workflow of Biological SystemsAlida Palmisano, CoSBi. Tuesday 31 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Algorithms for Understanding Motor Cortical Processing and Neural Prosthetic SystemsJohn Cunningham (Stanford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 31 March 2009, 10:00-11:00 Coding with envelopes, receptive fields and plasticityAndré Longtin, University of Ottawa. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Learning from Measurements in Exponential FamiliesPercy Liang (University of California, Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series A Framework study of the NF-kB signalling pathwayAdaoha Ihekwaba, CoSBi. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPetra Vertes (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series On the deduction of chemical reaction rate constants from measurements of time series of concentrationPaola Lecca, CoSBi. Tuesday 24 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 18 March 2009, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPeter Latham, Gatsby, UCL. Tuesday 17 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bregman Divergences and Machine LearningShakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 March 2009, 14:00-15:30 Geothermal power in AustraliaCatriona Knox. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 12 March 2009, 11:30-12:00 Cloud Ships for global warming reductionFred Farrell. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 12 March 2009, 11:00-11:30 The EM algorithm and applicationsRobert Gramacy, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:30-17:30 Title to be confirmedSir Robin Jacob, Lord Justice of Appeal (Patents) 2003 -. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:15-17:15 Painless Parse ErrorsKathryn Gray, Computer Laboratory. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Evolutionary computation: optimization and inferenceMichele Forlin, CoSBi. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubProfessor Daniel Wolpert ( Department of Engineering). Tuesday 10 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Shrinkage regression for multivariate inference with missing data, with an application to portfolio balancingRobert B. Gramacy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 15:00-16:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Visual systems biology: design, understand, organizeLorenzo Dematté, CoSBi. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 The Boundaries of DarwinismProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter. Friday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30 Quasi-linear Sensor ManagementMarco Huber (University of Karlsruhe). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 06 March 2009, 15:00-16:00 Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery (A Few Places Now Available!)A few people have dropped out - we have about 17 seats available now!! Ben Shneiderman, Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 March 2009, 18:40-20:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Convex Concave ProcedureFrederik Eaton (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 March 2009, 14:00-15:30 The ATLAS Experiment Entering Operation: Overview, Motivation and Status of the ProjectProfessor Peter Jenni, CERN. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 March 2009, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 04 March 2009, 09:00-10:00 Is Human Evolution Over?Professor Steve Jones, University College London. Friday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 An Introduction to TranscriptomicsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models (Cont)Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Ferguson's 1973 paper on the Dirichlet processUniversity of Cambridge. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 16:30-17:30 Dasher in Mandarin Chinese with Phonetic Pin Yinnote unusual time and venue Will Zou. Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Optimization and Incentives Seminar A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization ChannelsJoint With Probability Seminar Series. Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University. MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Mind reading by machine learning: an ideal observer based analysis of cognitive scientific experimentsFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Collegium Budapest). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 10:00-11:00 Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their ApplicationsMichael Mitzenmacher (Harvard). Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Monday 23 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Evolution and Conservation of BiodiversityProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California. Friday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Generalization in LearningYevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 20 February 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Large Margin Training of Hidden Markov ModelsAnton Ragni. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Superfluidity and other quantum fluid effects of microcavity polaritonsJoint TCM/AMOP/NP seminar Dr Alberto Amo, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel. Thursday 19 February 2009, 11:00-12:00 Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon BeamsProfessor Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester And Director, Cockcroft Institute Daresbury, Cheshire, UK.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 February 2009, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Book ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 18 February 2009, 09:00-10:00 Stochastic control as an inference problemProf. Bert Kappen (University of Nijmegen). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Tuesday 17 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 Darwin and Human SocietyProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse. Friday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hybrid of Generative and Discriminative ModelsSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Learning based on Data CompressionSteven de Rooij, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 11 February 2009, 16:30-17:30 Hydrodynamic simulation of multicellular embryo invagination and its biological predictionsPhilippe-Alexandre Pouille, Institut Curie, Paris. Wednesday 11 February 2009, 11:30-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience Measuring and modelling the development of ordered nerve connectionsProf. David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh. Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 09 February 2009, 16:30-17:30 Darwin in the Literary WorldProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia. Friday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Divergence measures and message passing - CANCELLEDCanceled David Knowles (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 More NIPS highlightsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 04 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 04 February 2009, 09:00-10:00 Predicting and understanding the stability of G-QuadruplexesOliver Stegle. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 02 February 2009, 11:00-12:00 Extending the Affinity Propagation ModelInmar Givoni (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 30 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Distributed Computing for Machine LearningSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:00-15:30 The 1995 Benjamini and Hochberg paper on false discovery ratesRichard Samworth, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:30-17:30 NIPS HighlightsPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:30-17:00 Parakeet: A Continuous Speech Recognition System for Mobile Touch-Screen DevicesKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:00-16:30 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Mott Seminar Room (next to TCM SR), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 January 2009, 09:00-10:00 Connecting Afghanistan: Wireless internet with plywood and chicken wireCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 19:30-20:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubArjun Bharioke, Cambridge University. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:00 Darwin's Intellectual DevelopmentProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University. Friday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model based on Pitman-Yor ProcessesMatt Shannon (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 January 2009, 14:00-15:30 Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matterProfessor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 16:15-17:15 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series On Automatic Quantitative Verification of Biological SystemsTime changed Paolo Ballarini, CoSBi. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 The Block Diagonal Infinite Hidden Markov ModelTom Stepleton (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series BlenX, a language based approach for modelling biological systemsRoberto Larcher, CoSBi. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 09:00-10:00 Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging SoftwareLaura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 19 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 The Making of the FittestProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin. Friday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabalistic Inference for solving (PO)MDPsFinale Doshi (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 January 2009, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 14 January 2009, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubNikon Rasumov (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 13 January 2009, 17:00-18:00 HMMs for Protein Sequencing from Mass Spectrometry DataDr Bernd Fischer (EBI). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 13 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 Layered Kondo lattice model for novel quantum critical compound beta-YbAlB4Dr Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rutgers University. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 12 January 2009, 14:15-15:15 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Provisional: Christmas QuizCanceled Speakers to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 11 December 2008, 17:30-19:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS Offline ConferenceMachine Learning Across Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 December 2008, 13:00-14:30 Mobile Content-Sharing ApplicationsDaniele Quercia, University College London. Wednesday 10 December 2008, 11:00-11:30 Optimizing Similarity Functions in Various Pattern Recognition ProblemsNote unusual time Sang Wan Lee, KAIST Korea. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 09 December 2008, 10:00-11:00 Visual Search: Applications and Computational ModellingXiao-Peng Hu, Imperial College. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 December 2008, 14:00-15:00 Eye-Tracking in Virtual RealityAlessio Murgia , Reading. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 December 2008, 10:30-11:30 Estimating the Pen Trajectories of Handwritten Static Scripts using Hidden Markov ModelsEmli-Mari Nel, Vicon. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 05 December 2008, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Relational LearningRicardo Silva (UCL Statistics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:30 Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives.Dr Saul Griffith, Makani Power. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 December 2008, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Astrophysics meeting room (Rutherford building, first floor, room 911). Wednesday 03 December 2008, 11:30-12:30 Journal Club: Mixed Membership Stochastic BlockmodelsOliver Stegle (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 01 December 2008, 11:00-12:00 Quantum Criticality, the Alpha/Delta Puzzle, and Dual VacuaJoint TCM/QM Seminar Prof George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 28 November 2008, 11:30-12:30 Deep Networks for VisionMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Reinforcement Learning in Continuous POMDPsMilica Gasic (University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 November 2008, 14:00-15:30 Patterns of co-existing order parameters and universal escapeway to the magnetic quantum critical pointProf. Georgios Varelogiannis, National Technical University of Athens. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 The 1995 wavelet paper of Donoho, Johnstone, Kerkyacharian and PicardRichard Nickl, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:30-17:30 Inaugural Lecture: "Blink, and you miss it"Professor Jeremy Baumberg. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:15-17:15 Bayesian Inductive ProgrammingR J Henderson (Edinburgh). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars From Medical Images to Virtual Physiological HumansProf. Nicolas Ayache, INRIA. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Astrophysics meeting room (Rutherford building, first floor, room 911). Wednesday 26 November 2008, 11:30-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubIan Howard (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 Freezing of cluster solids and the Gibbs phase ruleProf. Daan Frenkel FMRS, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Rank DataPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Rutherford building, Seminar Room B. Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:30-12:30 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Exactness and Approximation of the Stochastic Simulation AlgorithmIvan Mura, CoSBi. Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Colonies of Synchronizing Agents: Computability and RobustnessRadu Mardare, CoSBi. Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Value Propagation: A Graphical Model for Bayesian Reinforcement LearningPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Title to be confirmedSpeakers to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 13 November 2008, 17:30-19:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gaussian Process Latent Variable ModelsMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 November 2008, 14:00-15:30 Ronald Fisher's 1934 likelihood and inference paperPeter McCullagh, University of Chicago. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-17:30 Lord Rayleigh's LegacyProfessor Ted Davis, Universities of Leicester and CAmbridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 16:15-17:15 Thermochemistry and Nuclear power - Clean responsive electricityJonathan Lee, Trinity College. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankingsDr Marina Meila (University of Washington). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Astrophysics meeting room (Rutherford building, first floor, room 911). Wednesday 12 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJulijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 Spiking Boltzmann MachinesPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 10 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Point Process Intensity Estimation with GP'sYunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-15:30 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Astrophysics meeting room (Rutherford building, first floor, room 911). Wednesday 05 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 A Precision-Click Method for Multiple-Choice ProblemsTamara Broderick (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 03 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Knows What It Knows: A Framework For Self-Aware LearningPedro Ortega (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 David Cox's 1972 proportional hazards paperPhil Dawid, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:30-17:30 Pulsars: A Marvellous SerendipityProfessor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Low-cost large-scale renewable energyDenis Bonnelle. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Astrophysics meeting room (Rutherford building, first floor, room 911). Wednesday 29 October 2008, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Aldo Faisal (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 28 October 2008, 17:00-18:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 28 October 2008, 11:00-13:00 The discovery of structural formDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 27 October 2008, 11:11-12:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Approximating the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Between GMMsRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Forensic Genomics:Kin Privacy, Driftnets and Other Open QuestionsFrank Stajano, Lucia Bianchi, Pietro Liò and Douwe Korff. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars What makes cellular decisions irreversible?Prof. Béla Novák, University of Oxford. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's CoalescentNote unusual time Dr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. Committee Room (1st floor, Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 11:00-12:00 Context in human robot interactionThomas Kollar (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Computational analysis of the connection between cell cycle and circadian rhythmJudit Zámborszky, CoSBi. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Title to be confirmedSpeakers to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 16 October 2008, 17:30-19:30 Charles Stein's 1956 inadmissibility paperLarry Brown, Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania. Thursday 16 October 2008, 17:00-18:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED To Naive Bayes or to Logistically Regress: That is the QuestionJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Virtual Cosmology with Superfluid 3HeProfessor George Pickett, FRS, Physics Department, University of Lancaster. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Mate Lengyel (Cambridge University, UK). Tuesday 14 October 2008, 17:00-18:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-18:00 Random searching: shining a light on structure spaceDr Chris Pickard, University of St Andrews. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 09 October 2008, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CANCELLEDCANCELLED Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 09 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor ProcessesDr Erik Sudderth (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 08 October 2008, 13:30-14:30 Inferring the hazard rate in change point modelsNote unusual day and time Robert Wilson, U. Penn. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 07 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 02 October 2008, 18:00-19:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Condition MonitoringRyan Turner (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group How do we program the home? Gender, attention investment, and the psychology of programming at home.Steven Clarke and Cecily Morrison. Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 02 October 2008, 11:00-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars From calcium imaging to spikes, using sequential Monte Carlo methodsJoshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-12:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 30 September 2008, 17:00-18:00 Physics at the kitchenNote time and location Prof. Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome. Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 29 September 2008, 14:30-15:30 Spoken Dialogue ManagementSebastien Bratieres. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 29 September 2008, 11:00-12:00 A Bayesian approach to language learningDr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 26 September 2008, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 25 September 2008, 18:00-19:00 Learning Bigrams from UnigramsAndrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 18 September 2008, 18:00-19:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Development tools for mobile devicesAlexander Griekspoor (mekentosj.com), Alistair de B Clarkson (nCipher). CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 18 September 2008, 17:30-19:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Levy ProcessesKatherine Heller (CUED Machine Learning). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 September 2008, 14:00-15:30 Nonparametric Bayesian Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Hierarchical, Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language ModelDr Frank Wood (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 17 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Clustering by linear programming, convex optimization and belief propagationNote unusual time Brendan Frey, University of Toronto. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 16 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubComputational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 16 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learningJo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 15 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 11 September 2008, 18:00-19:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The War on LoopsFrederik Eaton (CUED). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 September 2008, 14:00-15:30 Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priorsDr Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Matrix Factorization and Relational LearningAjit Paul Singh (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 09 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 04 September 2008, 18:00-19:00 Assessing the effects of statistical dependencies on neural population coding in the visual pathwayJonathan Pillow (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL). Wednesday 03 September 2008, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 28 August 2008, 18:00-19:00 Associative Memories(This talk was postponed from 20 August) Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 27 August 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 21 August 2008, 18:00-19:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 14 August 2008, 18:00-19:00 Artificial intelligence in combinatorial game designCameron Browne, Queensland University of Technology. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 13 August 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 07 August 2008, 18:00-19:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group “Resistance is Futile”: Reading Science Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous ComputingMark Blythe, University of York. The Courtyard, William Gates Building. Thursday 07 August 2008, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 31 July 2008, 18:00-19:00 From Automated Currency Validation to Protein Fold Recognition: Probabilistic Multi-class Multi-kernel LearningTheodoros Damoulas (CS, University of Glasgow). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 30 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 24 July 2008, 18:00-19:00 Semantic Texton Forests for Image Categorization and Segmentation.Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 23 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 17 July 2008, 18:00-19:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Provisional: Field Programmable Gate ArraysPOSTPHONED TO LATER IN THE YEAR Speakers to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 17 July 2008, 17:30-19:30 Modeling with Bounded Partition FunctionsRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 16 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Double Feature: Optimal Precoding for MIMO and Divergence Estimation for Continuous DistributionsDr Fernando Perez-Cruz (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Dynamical SystemsEmily Fox (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Message-passing inference on graphical modelsSimon Byrne (Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 July 2008, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Enzymatic computingKlaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Take control or how to manage your supervisorTristram Hooley, UK GRAD Programme. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 4Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Machine Learning book reading clubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 10 July 2008, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Summer School In search of the holy grailWouter Spek, European Science Foundation. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How does the Internet work?Richard Black, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Grand challenges in computingTony Hoare, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang, University of Cambridge. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 3Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks The Geometry of the Space of ShapesHosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research) Prof. David Mumford (Brown University). Queen's Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College, CB2 3AP http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/conferences/maps/. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Mind-reading machinesPeter Robinson, University of Cambridge. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 2Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 1Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Machine Learning Book Reading ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 03 July 2008, 18:00-19:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Affective computing: problems, reactions and intentionsShazia Afzal. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 03 July 2008, 11:00-12:30 Dynamics of 1d quantum liquidsProf. Alex Kamenev. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 01 July 2008, 11:15-12:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational Bayesian Mixtures of GaussiansMilica Gasic. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian analysis of complex biological systemsDr Edo Airoldi (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 June 2008, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Modelling and simulation of biological systems with COPASIProf. Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 25 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Provisional: Workflow processingSpeakers to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 19 June 2008, 17:30-19:30 Bayesian Models for Dependency Parsing Using Pitman-Yor PriorsHanna Wallach (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 17 June 2008, 11:15-12:15 Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processesDr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 16 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Seeing Patterns in Randomness: Irrational Superstition or Adaptive Behavior?Dr Angela Yu (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00 SU(2) gauge theory, the Berry phase and spintronicsProf. Stewart Barnes, University of Miami. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 12 June 2008, 14:15-15:15 Assessing high-dimensional latent variable modelsDr Iain Murray (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Long wavelength spin dynamics of ferrromagnetic condensatesProf. Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:15-15:15 Quantum Dynamics in the Thermodynamic LimitDr Jasper van Wezel. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 09 June 2008, 16:00-17:00 Cutting CheeseCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 09 June 2008, 11:15-12:15 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Evaluating user interface systems researchPer Ola Kristensson. Rainbow Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory. Thursday 05 June 2008, 11:00-12:30 Uniform sampling from various setsPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 02 June 2008, 11:15-12:15 Identification of dynamical subpopulations, optimal experiment design and moreAlberto Giovanni Busetto, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 30 May 2008, 11:00-12:00 Gaussian Process Density SamplerRyan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stochastic integration and Ito's lemmaFrederik Eaton (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 H-Infinity ClusteringProf. Sam Roweis (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Structural analysis of cellular networksProf. Jörg Stelling, ETH Zürich. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Sustainable Energy - without the hot airDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Tuesday 27 May 2008, 14:00-16:00 Journal Club: The Dynamic Hierarchical Dirichlet ProcessOliver Stegle (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 May 2008, 11:15-12:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Continuous Time Bayesian NetworksJurgen Van Gael. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:00-15:30 Object-Attribute ModelsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 19 May 2008, 11:15-12:15 Breaking the Protein Amino Acid Code (aka the Code of Life)Note unusual time J. C. Phillips, Rutgers. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 16 May 2008, 15:30-16:30 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Provisional: Productivity Applicationstbc. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 15 May 2008, 17:30-19:30 Modeling Behaviour in Economic Games using Game-Theoretic POMDPsDebajyoti Ray (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 14 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive RoboticsDr Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 13 May 2008, 11:30-12:30 Measuring Game Temperature With UCT-Monte CarloPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 12 May 2008, 11:15-12:15 An Introduction to Statistical Learning TheoryMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-18:00 Noise in the central nervous systemAldo Faisal. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Tutorial on Monte Carlo methodsDavid MacKay (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 May 2008, 11:15-12:15 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group What Is Good? – A Comparison Between The Quality Criteria Used In Design And ScienceCecily Morrison. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 01 May 2008, 11:00-12:30 Some models for biologyNote unusual time Leopold Parts. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 25 April 2008, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug designHiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 On Sparsity and Overcompleteness in Image ModelsPietro Berkes (and Richard Turner). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 23 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 Treed Gaussian Processes for Regression and ClassificationNote new date and time. Tamara Broderick (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 April 2008, 11:15-12:15 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Functional ProgrammingVarious Speakers. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 17 April 2008, 17:30-19:30 An analytical approach to a model of spin interactions in quartic wellsDr Godfrey Akpojotor, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 17 April 2008, 14:15-15:15 Bound states of 2D electrons induced by the spin-orbit interactionProf A.V.Chaplik, Semiconductors Physics Institute, Novosibirsk. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 11 April 2008, 14:15-15:15 Expectation Propagation DemonstrationCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 07 April 2008, 11:15-12:15 Beam Sampling for Infinite Hidden Markov ModelsJurgen Van Gael. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 02 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Molecular arms race between host and parasite leads to evolution of robustness against gene loss in signaling networksDr Orkun Soyer, CoSBi. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 26 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge SciComp minitalksMeeting Room 4, CMS tbc. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 20 March 2008, 17:30-19:30 On sparsity and overcompleteness in image modelsPostponed until April! Richard E. Turner (Gatsby Unit, UCL), Pietro Berkes. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 19 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 Learning quantum physicsDr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 17 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 Cheap and cheerful neural inferencePhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 March 2008, 11:30-12:15 On the Benefits of Confidence Visualization in Speech RecognitionKeith Vertanen and Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 March 2008, 11:15-11:30 (clashing event: Sustainable Energy and Arithmetic)Computer Lab seminar clashes with normal group meeting David MacKay. Computer Laboratory, West Cambridge Site. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 14:15-15:00 Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energyDr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00 Discriminative Methods with StructureSimon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 11 March 2008, 11:30-12:30 Expectation Propagation on the TrueSkill modelCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 10 March 2008, 11:15-12:15 Understanding Humans - Serendipity and AnthropologyProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University. Friday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED 'All of Nonparametric Statistics'Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 March 2008, 14:00-15:30 A Bayesian approach to network modularity: inferring the structure and scale of modular networksJake Hofman (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 March 2008, 11:00-12:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Unpacking a Timesheet: Formalisation and RepresentationRobin Boast and Alan Blackwell. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 06 March 2008, 11:00-12:30 Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphiteIgor Luk'yanchuk, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia. Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 03 March 2008, 16:00-17:00 Hierarchical ClusteringChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 03 March 2008, 11:15-12:15 Cosmological SerendipitySimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer. Friday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Inductive Logic ProgrammingMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London). LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Information Bottleneck / Dynamic Kernals for speaker verificationZoi Roupakia and Sandy Klemm. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 February 2008, 14:00-15:30 How nervous systems are designed to be energy efficientSimon Laughlin (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Spatial point process modelling and its applications in ecologyDr. Janine B. Illian, University of St. Andrews. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Image superresolutionShin-Ichi Maeda. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 25 February 2008, 11:15-12:15 Serendipity as a Force in PhysicsProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Python Tools for software developmentOliver Stegle (University of Cambridge). CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 21 February 2008, 17:30-19:30 Statistical Machine TranslationMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Bill Byrne, Machine Intelligence Laboratory. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 Model selection and model order adaptation for clusteringPeter Orbanz (ETH Zurich). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear ModelMatthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Biomedical Image SearchAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 18 February 2008, 11:30-12:30 Infera - a Bayesian team-ranking program from 1996David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 18 February 2008, 11:10-12:45 Serendipity in Political LifeOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament. Friday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Information RetrievalMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic Matrix Factorization/Deep Belief NetsRyan Turner and Phillipp Hennig. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 February 2008, 14:00-15:30 Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observersDr Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 13 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing LifeSimon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'. Friday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedTao Li. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Computational ThinkingSimon Peyton Jones and Luke Church. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 07 February 2008, 11:00-12:30 Title to be confirmedProfessor Simon Tavare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 February 2008, 16:15-17:15 Stable distribution and data sketchingIoana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Principled Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative ModelsPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 04 February 2008, 11:10-12:45 HIV and the Naked ApeProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London. Friday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Spectral methodsRicardo Silva and Arik Azran. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 January 2008, 14:00-15:30 Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored LightsGabriel J. Brostow (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 30 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Reinforcement LearningMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture (Note unusual day) Peter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 29 January 2008, 16:00-18:00 Sparse Feature Learning for Deep Belief NetworksPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 28 January 2008, 11:15-12:45 The Stratigraphy of SerendipityProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University. Friday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active LearningAndreas Vlachos and Sinead Williamson. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 January 2008, 14:00-15:30 Title to be confirmedProfessor Anton Zeilinger, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 January 2008, 16:15-17:15 Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document CollectionsDavid Blei, Computer Science, Princeton University. Wednesday 23 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease MappingJarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 22 January 2008, 11:00-12:00 Semantic Hashing, Deep Autoencoders and Universal ApproximatorsPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 January 2008, 11:15-12:45 Serendipity's Guide to the GalaxyProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge. Friday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30 Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birthDima Khmelnitskii ( TCM.). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 18 January 2008, 15:30-16:30 A theoretical and methodological discussion of nested samplingNicolas Chopin (Bristol). MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB. Friday 18 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Graphical ModelsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Christopher M. Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Adaptive Inference and Adaptive TrainingRogier van Dalen and Christian Steinruecken. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 January 2008, 14:00-15:30 NIPS presentationsPhilipp Hennig (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 16 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Scientific Computing in Cambridge meetingSpeaker to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 13 December 2007, 17:15-19:15 A Numerical Renormalization Group for Continuum One Dimensional SystemsRobert Konik, Brookhaven National Laboratory. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 10 December 2007, 14:15-15:15 Composing: Linear and Non-Linear ThinkingNote unusual time Richard Burns (Cambridge Poet). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 07 December 2007, 11:00-12:30 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Getting to Grips with TechnologyMo Syed and Tim Regan. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 06 December 2007, 11:00-12:30 The development of a motor network in Drosophila, the role of precocious neural activity in the emergence of coordinationMichael Bate (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far?Prof. Nikos Logothetis, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen. Main Physiology Lecture Theatre (Theatre 1), Department of PDN, Downing Site. Monday 26 November 2007, 16:30-17:30 Gene Regulatory Network Inference: A Kernel-Based Learning ApproachSandy Klemm, University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 26 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 Reinforcement Learning in continuous state-spacesPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 November 2007, 11:15-12:15 Error Correcting CodesMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hierarchical Dirichlet ProcessesSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:00-15:30 Quarks and their quirksProfessor Christine Davies, Department of Physics, University of Glasgow. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 Clinical data based optimal STI strategies for HIV: a reinforcement learning approachDr Guy-Bart Stan (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Life beyond the Physics departmentEd Ratzer (GCHQ). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 16 November 2007, 17:15-18:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Scientific Computing in Cambridge meetingSpeaker to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 15 November 2007, 17:15-19:15 Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language ParsingMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Reinforcement LearningSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 November 2007, 14:00-15:30 Millennium Mathematics Project Chance, Probability and Rankings: the Truth About League TablesThis lecture is fully booked. If you'd like to receive early notice of future lectures, please visit http://mmp.maths.org/events/eventlist.php to join our e-mail list. This is a low-volume e-mail list; usually only 1-2 e-mails are sent per term. Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge. MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for. Wednesday 14 November 2007, 17:00-18:00 Phenomena in cold exciton gasesJoint TCM/OE seminar Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 14 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 Branch and Bound reconstruction of Balanced Minimum Evolution optimal treesFabio Pardi. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 14 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Variational methodsInference Group. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 12 November 2007, 11:15-12:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Transductive and Semi-Supervised LearningKarsten Borgwardt (University of Cambridge) and Katherine Heller. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 November 2007, 14:00-15:30 The Discovery and Early Development of X-Ray CrystallographyDr Gordon Squires, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 An overview of covariance operators in Hilbert space, and their applicationsArthur Gretton. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process ModelsMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 11:30-12:30 Loopy Belief PropagationPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 November 2007, 11:15-12:15 Prequential StatisticsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Philip Dawid, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational inference and exponential familiesJurgen Van Gael and Frederik Eaton. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 November 2007, 14:00-15:30 The last thing that we should talk aboutDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 31 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Basics of Belief PropagationPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 29 October 2007, 11:15-12:15 Spectral ClusteringMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Arik Azran, Machine Learning Group. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sparse Bayesian Linear ModelsMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge), Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 25 October 2007, 14:00-15:30 Cosmology for Physicists - Why You Should Take Inflation SeriouslyProfessor Malcolm Longair, Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 24 October 2007, 16:15-17:15 Bliss-Dasher -- Efficient semantic writing with any muscleDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 24 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Scientific Computing in Cambridge meetingSpeaker to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 18 October 2007, 17:15-19:15 Group Theory and Machine LearningMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Imre Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Statistical mechanics of large optimisation problemsProf. Giorgio Parisi, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational LearningRicardo Silva (Statistical Laboratory). LR6, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 17 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Fast Visual Tracking By Temporal ConsensusCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 15 October 2007, 11:15-12:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Autonomous Agents under Operational ClosurePedro Ortega (University of Cambridge). LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Thursday 11 October 2007, 14:00-15:30 Bose Einstein Condensation of PolaritonsProfessor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 October 2007, 16:15-17:15 Improving the Power of eQTL Studies by accounting for non-genetic FactorsOliver Stegle, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 10 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Sensible Priors for Sparse Bayesian LearningOliver Stegle (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 08 October 2007, 11:15-12:15 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers ThinkGilbert Cockton and Luke Church. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 04 October 2007, 11:00-12:30 Optimal Spreading Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems; Using CSK as a Case StudyTheodore Papamarkou, University of Warwick. LR5, Engineering, Department of.. Wednesday 03 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Developing a general-purpose message-passing libraryRegistration is required for this one-day meeting Tom Minka. Friday 28 September 2007, 17:15-17:55 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Short talks about statistical machine learning IIIISpeaker to be confirmed. Friday 28 September 2007, 16:30-17:15 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Discussion + teaZoubin Ghahramani, Engineering. Friday 28 September 2007, 15:20-16:30 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Short talks about statistical machine learning IIIVarious speakers. Friday 28 September 2007, 14:40-15:20 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Inference in Gaussian Process modelsCarl Rasmussen, Engineering. Friday 28 September 2007, 14:00-14:40 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Short talks about statistical machine learning IIVarious speakers. Friday 28 September 2007, 11:50-12:40 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Short talks about statistical machine learningVarious speakers. Friday 28 September 2007, 10:40-11:20 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Sequencing hundreds of humans - how to collect the data efficiently and make sense of itRegistration is required for this one-day meeting Richard Durbin. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Friday 28 September 2007, 10:00-10:40 Machine Learning and Inference (One day meeting) Coffee + mingle.. Friday 28 September 2007, 09:00-10:00 Shape writing: a fast and fluid writing system designed for mobile devicesPer Ola Kristensson. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 26 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Hierarchical Bayesian inference in networks of spiking neuronsPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 24 September 2007, 11:00-12:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Scientific Computing in Cambridge meetingSpeaker to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 20 September 2007, 17:15-19:15 The non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in microcavity polariton systemsDr. Iacopo Carusotto, INFM-CNR, Universita di Trento. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 20 September 2007, 14:15-15:15 Graph Kernels for Data MiningKarsten Borgwardt, Machine Learning Group @ CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 19 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Predictive Interaction using the Delphian DesktopPer Ola Kristensson. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 September 2007, 11:00-12:00 Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component AnalysisHao Shen, National ICT Australia and Australian National University, Canberra. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Friday 14 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Covariate Shift Adaptation: Supervised Learning When Training and Test Inputs Have Different DistributionsMasashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technlogy). LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 13 September 2007, 13:00-14:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series A new mathematical framework for optimal choice of actionsEmo Todorov, UCSD. LR5, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 12 September 2007, 16:00-17:00 Five energy plans for BritainDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 12 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Physics-Based Human Motion Models for Animation and TrackingAaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto. Tuesday 11 September 2007, 15:00-16:00 Combining Causal and Similarity-based reasoningChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 10 September 2007, 11:00-12:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Assessing Dimensions of Perceived Visual Aesthetics of Web SitesNathan Crilly and Chris Nash. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 06 September 2007, 11:00-12:30 Efficient Bayesian Task-Level Transfer LearningDavid Stern (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 03 September 2007, 11:00-12:00 What is a Fab Lab?Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 August 2007, 14:00-15:00 Kingman's coalescent, non-parametric Bayesian agglomerative clusteringDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 27 August 2007, 11:00-12:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Scientific Computing in Cambridge meetingSpeaker to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 23 August 2007, 17:15-19:15 Contextual dependencies in unsupervised word segmentationKeith Vertanen (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 20 August 2007, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian network structure learning from uncertain interventionsKevin Murphy, University of British Columbia. Tuesday 14 August 2007, 15:00-16:00 Pre-Gatsby WorkshopPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 August 2007, 11:00-12:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Design parameters of rating scales for web sitesLuke Church and Per Ola Kristensson. The Courtyard, William Gates Building. Thursday 02 August 2007, 11:00-12:30 Knowledge CompilationChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 30 July 2007, 11:00-12:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Scientific Computing in Cambridge meetingSpeaker to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 26 July 2007, 17:15-19:15 Minimal Perfect Hashing: hash tables with no collisions15 min talk Piotr Zielinski and others. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 25 July 2007, 14:00-14:15 Clustering by Passing Messages Between Data PointsPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 23 July 2007, 11:00-12:00 Title Language ModelPhil Cowans (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 July 2007, 11:00-12:00 Bring your Papers!. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 09 July 2007, 12:30-13:30 Translational regulationhttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tcbsymposium/ Christine Vogel, UT Austin, TX, USA. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 17:00-17:30 From superfamilies to familieshttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tcbsymposium/ Julian Gough, Bristol University, UK. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 16:30-17:00 The relation between sequence and function divergence in genomeshttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tcbsymposium/ Sarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 16:00-16:30 Pfam: 1000 families (and counting) for the molecular biologisthttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tcbsymposium/ Alex Bateman, Sanger Institute, Cambridge. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 15:00-15:30 Ultraconserved nonsensehttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tcbsymposium/ Steven Brenner, Berkeley, USA. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 14:30-15:30 Principles and classification of protein structurehttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tcbsymposium/ Alexey Murzin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 14:00-14:30 Predicting RNA geneshttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tcbsymposium/ Sean Eddy, Janelia Farm, USA. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 12:00-12:30 About Sandwich Proteins, their sequences and structures, and about many other thingshttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tcbsymposium/ Alex Kister, Rutgers, USA. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 11:30-12:00 Human pseudogenesone-day computational biology meeting Mark Gerstein, Yale University. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 11:00-11:30 Protein folding: a theoretical viewone-day computational biology meeting Alexeii Finkelstein, Pushchino, Russia. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 10:00-10:30 The globins: we thought we understood themone-day computational biology meeting Arthur Lesk, Penn State University. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 09:30-10:00 Cam, Cals and Caprione-day computational biology meeting Joel Janin, LEBS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol. Saturday 07 July 2007, 09:00-09:30 Computational and Systems Biology Computational genomics of structural RNAsCCBI Distinguished Seminar Series Sean Eddy, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus. MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Friday 06 July 2007, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kingman's coalescent, non-parametric Bayesian agglomerative clustering, and ICML 2007Yee Whye Teh, Zoubin Ghahramani. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 05 July 2007, 13:00-15:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Do artifacts have politics?Andrea Grimes and Robert Doubleday. Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 05 July 2007, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sensible priors from finite linear modelsNote unusual time Ed Snelson and Joaquin Candela. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 28 June 2007, 15:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Generative models for audio and music processingTaylan Cemgil, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 26 June 2007, 15:00-16:00 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Report from Apple WWDC07Speaker to be confirmed. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 21 June 2007, 17:15-19:15 SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Linux on the Playstation3David Fox, JPY Ltd.. CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 21 June 2007, 17:15-19:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Statistical Models for Partial MembershipKatherine Heller. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 21 June 2007, 13:00-15:00 Symposium on Computational Biology DNA-binding computation at large and small scalesDr. Marco Consentino-Lagomarsino, Institut Curie, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 19 June 2007, 15:10-16:00 Symposium on Computational Biology Insight into ion channel biophysics via computer simulationsDr. Carmen Domene, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:20-15:10 Symposium on Computational Biology Quadruple stranded DNA: cancer, gene regulation and evolutionDr. Julian Huppert, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 19 June 2007, 13:30-14:20 Symposium on Computational Biology Simulations of phase transitions: from colloids to proteinsDr. Stefan Auer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:40-12:30 Symposium on Computational Biology The physics of protein foldingDr. Patricia Faisca, Universadade Nova de Lisboa. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:50-11:40 Symposium on Computational Biology Measuring and predicting complexityDr. Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:00-10:50 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Infinite ICA and Information RetrievalWill Youzhi Zou and David Knowles. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 14 June 2007, 13:00-15:00 Density-functional perturbation theory goes time dependent: from static properties, to lattice vibrations, up to optical excitationsProf. Stefano Baroni, DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center Trieste. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 14 June 2007, 11:30-12:30 Language Modelling DiscussionPhil Cowans. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 13 June 2007, 14:00-15:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group How HCI Interprets the ProbesAlan Blackwell and Richard Harper. Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 07 June 2007, 11:00-12:30 Open Vocabulary Confusion Networks for Speech RecognitionKeith Vertanen. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 06 June 2007, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars identity variables for face recognition: from distance based methods to probabilistic inferenceSimon Prince, University College London. Tuesday 05 June 2007, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Inference for binary Markov random fields without tears (or MCMC).Nial Friel, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 05 June 2007, 14:30-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Overlapping Clusters and 4th-year ProjectsZoubin Ghahramani and Katherine Heller. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 31 May 2007, 13:00-15:00 An Error-Correcting KeyboardCarl Scheffler, Inference Group, University of Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 30 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Probabilities, Complexities and Game SemanticsChristian Steinruecken. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 28 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED What can Gaussian Processes do for Reinforcement Learning?Marc Deisenroth, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 24 May 2007, 13:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted Speaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Accelerating Discovery: A Grand Challenge for HCIProfessor Ben Shneiderman. Monday 21 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED System Conditioning vs Explicit Bayes Inference, and Collaborative LDAPedro Ortega and Sinead Williamson. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 17 May 2007, 13:00-15:00 Learning and Stability in Random Sigma-Pi NetworksPhilip Sterne. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 16 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Affinity Propagation and Hierarchical Beta ProcessesRoom changed, Note unusual time Arik Azran and Frederik Eaton. Room 422b, 4th floor, Engineering Department (Zoubin's office). Friday 11 May 2007, 11:00-13:00 Shape writing: fluid text entry on mobile devicesPer Ola Kristensson. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 09 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 The thoughts and brain activity of taxi drivers navigating in LondonDr Hugo Spiers (UCL). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 03 May 2007, 16:15-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Optimal LearningCarl Rasmussen. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 03 May 2007, 13:00-15:00 Bayesian nonparametric latent feature modelsZoubin Ghahramani. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 02 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gaussian Approximations for Binary Gaussian Process Classification, and Hidden Topic Markov ModelsHannes Nickisch, Katherine Heller. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 26 April 2007, 13:00-15:00 Context Tree WeightingMartijn van Veen and Philip Cowans. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 25 April 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Function Approximation in MDPsBlaise Thomson, CUED. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 19 April 2007, 13:00-15:00 Variational free energy and the brainKarl Friston, UCL. Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Thursday 12 April 2007, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Change Point Problems in Linear Dynamical SystemsPostponed (originally April 5) Onno Zoeter, Microsoft. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 12 April 2007, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars A Bayesian model that links microarray mRNA measurements to mass spectrometry protein measurementsAnitha Kannan, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2007, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Analysis of Channel Coding for Redundant SourcesJoseph Boutros, ENST Paris. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 03 April 2007, 13:00-14:00 Learning Patterns in the Game of GoNote unusual time Emil Nijhuis, University of Amsterdam. Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 30 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED GP-LVMsJoaquin Quiñonero Candela. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 29 March 2007, 13:00-15:00 Inductive Logic Programming and Kernel methodsDavid Kirchheimer, Bristol University. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Inference in Bayesian Networks using Dynamic DiscretisationNote unusual time Martin Neil, Agena Ltd & David Marquez, Queen Mary, University of London. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Logistic regression with a Laplacian prior on the singular values: convex duality and application to EEG classification.Note unusual time and location Ryota Tomioka (冨岡亮太), University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST IDA. Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 23 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Topics in Convex OptimisationRyota Tomioka, University of Tokyo. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 22 March 2007, 13:00-15:00 Monte Carlo Approaches to Game PlayingDavid Stern, Strategic Inference Task Force, Cambridge. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 21 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Motion TrackingFabian Wauthier, University of Edinburgh. Friday 16 March 2007, 10:00-11:00 Bayesian RankingAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ralf Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 March 2007, 16:00-18:00 Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classificationNote different room and time Ryota Tomioka (University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST). LT1 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars A complete set of rotationally and translationally invariant features based on a generalization of the bispectrum to non-commutative groupsImre Risi Kondor, Columbia University. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 15:30-16:30 Gaussian Process Product ModelsRyan Adams. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Reverse Engineering the Human Visual System with Networks of Spiking NeuronsSimon Thorpe, Brain and Cognition Research Centre, Toulouse France. Tuesday 13 March 2007, 15:00-16:00 SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERSPeter Crane, University of Chicago. Friday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30 A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physicsProfessor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Generalized Ensemble MCMC for Machine LearningUlrich Paquet. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 08 March 2007, 13:00-15:00 Optics with laser-like atom wavesProfessor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 Metropolis-Coupled MCMC for Nested SamplingRatthachat (Jung). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trappingRefreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer Professor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 Journal Club: "Analysis of Contour Motions"Speaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 March 2007, 12:30-13:30 IMMUNOLOGICAL SELFPhilippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado. Friday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30 Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet ProcessesAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Some NIPS papersBlaise, Katherine, and Zoubin. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 01 March 2007, 13:00-15:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Moving on from Weiser's Vision of Calm Computing: engaging UbiComp experiencesCecily Morrison. Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Thursday 01 March 2007, 11:00-12:30 Some interesting data: Cryptic DNA sequence periodicities are ubiquitous, organism specific and distinguish introns from exons.Giselle Walker. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 February 2007, 14:00-15:00 An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian MethodsRoom changed this week! Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Universal Artificial Intelligence, and Probability MonadsPedro Ortega and Frederik Eaton. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 22 February 2007, 13:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted Giselle Walker. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 21 February 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural NetworksPedro Ortega and Will Youzhi Zou. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 15 February 2007, 13:00-15:00 Cold and dense dipolar exciton quantum fluids in two dimensions.Dr. Ronen Rapaport, Bell Labs. Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 14 February 2007, 14:15-15:15 NIPS presentationsRyan Adams. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 14 February 2007, 14:00-15:00 Journal Club: "Bayesian Policy Gradient Algorithms"Speaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 12 February 2007, 12:30-13:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Margin- and Evidence-Based Approaches for EEG Signal ClassificationN. Jeremy Hill, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Friday 09 February 2007, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Dirichlet Diffusion TreesFrederik Eaton and Sinead Williamson. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 08 February 2007, 13:00-15:00 Planar Photonics meta-materials: spectral selectivity, "invisible metals", magnetic mirrors, chirality, asymmetric transmission and nano-focusingProf. Nikolay Zheludev, Southampton University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 February 2007, 16:15-17:15 Gaussian Process Belief PropagationSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 February 2007, 12:30-13:30 Robot Localisation and MappingAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Paul M Newman, Oxford University. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 February 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Non-parametric mixture modelsDavid Knowles and Blaise Thomson. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 01 February 2007, 13:00-15:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group How expert engineering teams use disciplines of innovationAlan Blackwell and Chris Bishop. Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 01 February 2007, 11:00-12:30 Modeling Natural Sounds with Gaussian Modulation Cascade ProcessesRich Turner, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 31 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 Loss Functions for Discriminative Training of Energy-Based ModelsSpeaker to be confirmed. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 29 January 2007, 12:30-13:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active Learning and Experimental DesignNote unusual time Andreas Vlachos and Bobby Gramacy. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Friday 26 January 2007, 13:30-15:30 SOME MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF FILMS AND BUBBLES DEMONSTRATEDDr Cyril Isenberg, University of Kent. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 24 January 2007, 16:15-17:15 Modeling text with Dirichlet compound multinomial distributionsCharles Elkan, UCSD. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 24 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 Estimation of non-normalized statistical models using score matchingDavid MacKay. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 January 2007, 12:30-13:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Collaborative FilteringWill Youzhi Zou and David Knowles. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 18 January 2007, 13:00-15:00 Learning from positive and unlabeled dataJurgen Van Gael. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 17 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 HMMs for controlling dynamical systemsMarcus Frean. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 10 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Emotion recognition in human-computer interactionTal Sobol-Shikler and Lorna Brown. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 04 January 2007, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Computer Go Research in the University of Alberta GAMES GroupMartin Müller, University of Alberta. Jasmine meeting room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 02 January 2007, 15:00-16:00 Title to be confirmedThis talk has been canceled/deleted Luis Diaz-Santana, Dept of Optometry and Visual Science, City University. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 13 December 2006, 14:45-15:15 Robust Gaussian Process Regression and ApplicationsOliver Stegle. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 13 December 2006, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Where’s my rocket? – Stochastic simulations of rocket flight pathsSimon Box, Microsoft Research. Tuesday 12 December 2006, 15:00-16:00 Journal Club: "Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks"O. Stegle. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 08 December 2006, 12:30-13:30 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Using action research in information systems design to address change: a South African health information systems case studyNathan Crilly and Cecily Morrison. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 07 December 2006, 11:00-12:30 Transcription regulation: from parts list to genomic network.Nicholas Luscombe. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 December 2006, 14:00-15:00 Na_x Co O_2: What's going on at high dopingChris Hooley, University of St Andrews. TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 04 December 2006, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED On Choosing PriorsProf Zoubin Ghahramani, CUED. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 30 November 2006, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Learning Conditional Random Fields with Hierarchical Features: Application to the Game of GoScott Sanner, University of Toronto. Wednesday 29 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Constraint Programming Techniques for Virtual Camera ControlMarc Christie, Nantes University. Tuesday 28 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Journal Club: "Clustering appearance and shape by learning jigsaws"David Stern. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 24 November 2006, 12:30-13:30 Advanced MCMC MethodsAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Iain Murray, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)Blaise Thomson, and Sinead Williamson. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 23 November 2006, 13:00-15:00 Bayesian estimation of neuronal connectivity from MEA recordingsFabio Rigat. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 22 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 Journal Club "Searching for memories, Sudoku, implicit check-bits, and the iterative use of not-always-correct rapid neural computation"Philip Sterne. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 17 November 2006, 12:30-13:30 Expectation PropagationAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Tom Minka, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Nonlinear Dimensionality ReductionFrederik Eaton and Arik Azran. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 16 November 2006, 13:00-15:00 Vector Gaussian ProcessesRyan Adams, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 Journal Club: "Document language models, query models, and risk minimization for information retrieval"Phil Cowans. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 10 November 2006, 12:30-13:30 CausalityAdvanced Tutorial Lecture Series on Machine Learning Dr Ricardo Silva, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning Reading Group in Engineering DepartmentSpeaker to be confirmed. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 09 November 2006, 13:00-15:00 Relationships between Structure, Dynamics and Catalytic Activity at Solid SurfacesProf Sir David King, Director of Research, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government & Head of the Office of Science and Innovation. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:15 Do Scanning Electron Microscopes have a point-spread function?Philipp Hennig. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Learning microRNA regulatory networks from genomic sequence and expression dataJim Huang, University of Toronto. Tuesday 07 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Journal Club: A Neural Probabilistic Language Model-. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 03 November 2006, 12:30-13:30 Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars Embodiment and the Sciences of the MindProfessor Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research. Monday 30 October 2006, 13:00-14:00 Gaussian Processes for Machine LearningAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ed Snelson, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-18:00 Dynamic imaging of blood flow in the conjunctival and episcleral microcirculations of the human eye: a new chapter in diagnostic imaging?Dr. Paul Meyer, Ophthalmology Department, Addenbrookes Hospital. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 26 October 2006, 14:45-15:15 WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT?Prof Clifford Will, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15-17:15 Expectation Consistent Approximate Inference-. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 23 October 2006, 11:00-12:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Learning Probabilistic Sequence Models for Uncovering Gene RegulationThis talk was originally scheduled for October 4. NOTE THAT IT IS NOT AT THE USUAL TIME. Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Wednesday 18 October 2006, 16:15-17:15 Teaching Statistics - A Bag of TricksDavid MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 October 2006, 14:00-15:00 Leaf Selection for Maximising Diversity in a TreeFabio Pardi. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 16 October 2006, 14:00-15:00 Fred Hoyle: discovery and conflict in astrophyiscs and cosmologyDr Simon Mitton, St Edmunds College, Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 October 2006, 16:15-17:15 Mixture Models and the EM AlgorithmAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-18:00 Optimised Digital Fountain Codes for Medium BlocklengthsOliver Madge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 September 2006, 14:00-15:00 An interesting preprintDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 13 September 2006, 14:00-15:00 MCMC for doubly-intractable distributionsIain Murray, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 September 2006, 14:00-15:00 Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars Rethinking Information and Space in Ubiquitous ComputingPaul Dourish, University of California at Irvine. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Friday 01 September 2006, 11:30-12:30 A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model based on Pitman-Yor ProcessesHanna Wallach, University of Cambridge. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 24 August 2006, 10:00-11:00 How to veto anonymously under surveillance?Piotr Zielinski, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 Journal Club: "A Bayesian Analysis of Projective Incidence"Piotr Zielinski. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 22 August 2006, 11:00-12:00 Naive OCR?Seb Wills, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 Getting it Right the Second Time: Recognition of Spoken CorrectionsKeith Vertanen, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 Cognitive CarsK. Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Motor Company. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 August 2006, 11:00-12:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Understanding Non-Literacy as a Barrier to Mobile Phone CommunicationNathan Crilley and Lucia Terrenghi. Rainbow Room (FS07), Computer Laboratory. Thursday 03 August 2006, 11:00-12:30 sparse GP classificationPOSTPONED Andrew Naish. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 neural phase codesBob Wilson. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 August 2006, 14:00-15:00 Graphical Combinator ProgrammingChristian Steinruecken. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 July 2006, 16:00-17:00 The Manufacture of Bioethanol - A brief IntroductionSamir Bhatt. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 Divergence measures and latent variable modelsUlrich Paquet. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 Implicit learning in MusicMartin Rohrmeier, Centre for Music and Science. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 18 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 On the Analysis of Ellipsoid Approximation of Nested SamplingRatthachat Chatpatanasiri. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Older People as a focus for Inclusive DesignJoy Goodman and Lorisa Dubuc. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 06 July 2006, 11:00-12:30 Gaussian Process models for solving ODEsOliver Stegle, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 July 2006, 14:00-15:00 Ligand detection and discrimination by spatial relocalisation: the complexities of T cell activationNigel Burroughs (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick). Part 2 Seminar Room (First Floor), Craik-Marshall Building. Wednesday 28 June 2006, 17:00-18:00 Information-Theoretic Security in Wireless Networks: From Theory to PracticeMiguel Rodrigues, Digital Technology Group, Cambridge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 Music Access for the DisabledJon Hall, Engineering Department. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 June 2006, 11:00-12:00 Blissymbolics - The Emergence of a Written LanguageAnnalu Waller, Dundee. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 27 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 In search of the brain's wiringPhilipp Hennig, Heidelberg. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 A Bayesian Unfolding Method Applied to the PAMELA ExperimentGermano Percossi. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 20 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 BlissymbolicsAnnalu Waller, University of Dundee. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 15 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 Journal Club: Dirty paper coding and applications. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 08 June 2006, 11:00-12:00 Finite element modelling of growing microtubulesMichael Verhoek, KCL. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 June 2006, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian SetsSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 01 June 2006, 15:00-16:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologiesJack Lang and Andrew Barry. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 01 June 2006, 11:00-12:30 Capacity of phase-based attractor networks with pairwise couplingsDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 31 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 Joint LDPC Decoding and Timing Recovery Using Code Constraint FeedbackChristopher Jones. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 26 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 SUPERFAST SOLUTION OF REAL POSITIVE DEFINITE TOEPLITZ SYSTEMSOliver Stegle and Ryan Adams. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 26 May 2006, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedDavid Stern, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 24 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 Unsupervised Learning from Users' Error Correction in Speech Dictation. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 18 May 2006, 11:00-12:00 Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 11 May 2006, 11:00-12:00 How to Parameterize a Positive-definite MatrixDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 May 2006, 15:00-16:00 To be confirmedDavid Stern, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Implications for DesignAbigail Sellen and Nathan Crilly. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 04 May 2006, 11:00-12:30 Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures for plasmon engineering to molecular detectionProfessor Jeremy Baumberg, Department of Physics, University of Southampton. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 May 2006, 16:15-17:15 The Capacity of the Deletion ChannelDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 May 2006, 14:00-15:00 "Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population". Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 03 May 2006, 11:00-12:00 Sleeping Beauty and the Armchair CosmologistNote unusual time David MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 April 2006, 14:30-15:30 Machine Learning Journal Club: Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning Chapter VIII. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 26 April 2006, 11:00-12:00 The 'Rich Club' phenomenon in large networksNote unusual day Anthony Leung, Hong Kong. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 21 April 2006, 15:00-16:00 Bayesian approximation for physical inverse problemsDebasish Roy. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 April 2006, 16:30-17:00 Hierarchical Passage RetrievalPhil Cowans, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 April 2006, 15:00-16:00 The Swendsen-Wang algorithm (tutorial), and the "Baby and Toy" algorithmDavid MacKay. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 13 April 2006, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Journal Club: "Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 30 March 2006, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian Online Changepoint DetectionRyan Adams, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 March 2006, 15:00-16:00 Graph Transformation Method for Calculating Waiting Times in Markov ChainsSemen Trygubenko, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 28 March 2006, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Journal Club: "Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 23 March 2006, 11:00-12:00 Epitomic representation of natural signalsAnitha Kannan, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 22 March 2006, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Journal Club: "Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 17 March 2006, 11:00-12:00 Aggregation of Particles in Stochastic FlowsPer Sillr?n, Chalmers University, Sweden. Astrophysics New Small Meeting Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 13 March 2006, 15:00-16:00 Student Project Presentations: "Colour Memorisation", "One button communication" and "Optimising digital fountain codes"J.E. Main, Naath (Helen) Cousins, and Olly Madge. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 10 March 2006, 11:00-12:30 Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum MatterProfessor J C Seamus Davis, Cornell University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 March 2006, 16:15-17:15 Student Project Presentations: "Redundancy in Turing machines"; "A two button implementation of Dasher" and "Relationships between energy and information in fly retina"R.J. Henderson, Tim Ward, and Mike Baker. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 07 March 2006, 14:00-15:30 Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable ModelDr Neil Lawrence, Computer Science, University of Sheffield. LR10, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 07 March 2006, 12:30-13:30 SURVIVING LONGERCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco. Friday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30 A Brief History Of Electronic Musical InstrumentsPhil Cowans, Inference Group. Number 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College. Friday 03 March 2006, 13:00-14:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Project Ernestine: Validating a GOMS analysis for predicting and explaining real-world performanceAlan Blackwell and William Newman. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 02 March 2006, 11:00-12:30 "Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen"Professor Gerald Gabrielse, Physics Department, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 01 March 2006, 16:15-17:15 Speech Recognition During Dictation CorrectionsKeith Vertanen, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 01 March 2006, 15:00-16:00 SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINEAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Friday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 Machine Learning Journal Club: "Dependent Gaussian Processes"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 23 February 2006, 11:00-12:00 Topic Modeling: Beyond Bag-of-WordsHanna Wallach, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 22 February 2006, 15:00-16:00 SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERSJames Jackson, Cambridge University. Friday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 Introduction to CinematographyDavid Stern, Inference Group. Number 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College. Friday 17 February 2006, 13:00-14:00 Uncertainty LogicChristian Steinruecken. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 16 February 2006, 15:15-16:15 Machine Learning Journal Club: "Assessing Approximations for Gaussian Process Classification"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 16 February 2006, 11:00-12:00 Experimental Annotation of the Human GenomePaul Bertone, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 February 2006, 15:00-16:00 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Diquarks: Reforming Hadron SpectroscopyProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 10 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 Machine Learning Journal Club: "Sparse Gaussian Processes using Pseudo-inputs"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 09 February 2006, 11:00-12:00 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Dark Matters: WIMPs and AxionsProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 08 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 Virtual-move Parallel TemperingIvan Coluzza, University of Cambridge. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 February 2006, 15:00-16:00 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family ProblemProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGESPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London. Friday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 Bird flu, MMR, herceptin; Medicine and the Media.Steve Smith, Cambridge University. Number 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College. Friday 03 February 2006, 13:00-14:00 reading-group: Divergence measures and message passingSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 02 February 2006, 11:00-12:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group An evaluation of integrated zooming and scrolling on small screensPhil Tuddenham + Keith Vertanen. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 02 February 2006, 11:00-12:30 Latency-optimal fault-tolerant replicationPiotr Zielinski, Inference Group. Committee Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 01 February 2006, 15:00-16:00 reading-group: Expectation PropagationSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 26 January 2006, 11:00-12:00 "The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope"Professor R Kennicutt, Plumian Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 January 2006, 16:15-17:15 Dynamical Networks for Agent SystemsPedro Ortega, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 January 2006, 15:00-16:00 Recognition and prediction of biological motionRobert Wilson, University of Pennsylvania. To Be Determined, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 20 January 2006, 15:00-16:00 Lexicographic text analysis using non-negative factorisation techniquesSinead Williamson. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 19 January 2006, 15:00-16:00 reading-group: Interpolating Between Types and Tokens by Estimating Power-Law GeneratorsSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 19 January 2006, 11:00-12:00 Probability + Information Reading Group Uffink's "Can the maximum entropy principle be explained as a consistency requirement?"Speaker to be confirmed. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 January 2006, 11:30-12:30 Eye Tracking with Consumer HardwareDan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 January 2006, 15:00-16:00 Interactive FictionNick Montfort, University of Pennsylvania. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 13 December 2005, 12:30-13:30 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group The streamlined cognitive walkthrough method, working around social constraints encountered in a software development companyWilliam Newman and Lorisa Dubuc. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 01 December 2005, 11:00-12:00 reading-group: TD-GammonSpeaker to be confirmed. Ryle Seminar Room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 30 November 2005, 15:00-16:00 Birdsong and the Environment: How to Speed Up EvolutionCaroline Dingle, Zoology Department. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 November 2005, 12:30-13:30 Probability + Information Reading Group Uffink's "Can the maximum entropy principle be explained as a consistency requirement?"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 November 2005, 11:30-12:30 Cheap and cheerful inference machines for trackingOllie Williams, CUED. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 28 November 2005, 14:30-15:30 Reading Group: "Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 24 November 2005, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor controlProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2005, 16:15-17:15 Efficient Quantum Computation with linear opticsOliver Stegle, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2005, 15:00-16:00 Probability + Information Reading Group Gull and Skilling's "The Maximum Entropy Method"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2005, 11:30-12:30 Locked-in syndromeMick Donegan, ACE Centre Oxford. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 18 November 2005, 14:00-15:00 Probability + Information Reading Group Knuth's "Source Separation as an exercise in logical inference"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 November 2005, 11:30-12:30 Scanning the cosmological horizonProfessor Sir Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 November 2005, 16:15-17:15 Monte Carlo is BayesianJohn Skilling, ex-DAMTP. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 November 2005, 15:00-16:00 Controlling Natural VentilationBen Lishman, BP Institute. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 November 2005, 13:00-14:00 Probability + Information Reading Group John Skilling's "The Calculus of Rational Inference"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 November 2005, 11:30-12:30 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group User interface design with matrix algebra.William Newman and David Mackay. Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 03 November 2005, 11:00-12:30 Dasher for the blind, and some visual illusionsDavid MacKay, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 November 2005, 15:00-16:00 "Matplotlib" for Numerical PythonOliver Stegle, Inference Group. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 November 2005, 12:30-13:30 Probability + Information Reading Group Knuth's "Lattice Duality: The Origin of Probability and Information"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 November 2005, 11:30-12:30 Probability + Information Reading Group Knuth's "Lattice Duality: The Origin of Probability and Information" (4)Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 October 2005, 11:30-12:30 Probability + Information Reading Group Knuth's "Lattice Duality: The Origin of Probability and Information" (3)Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 October 2005, 11:30-12:30 The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental CratonsProfessor James Jackson, Earth Sciences, Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2005, 16:15-17:15 A Cross-Entropy Based Method to Analyse Iterative DecodingQinglin Luo. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2005, 15:00-16:00 Introduction to the African Institute for Mathematical SciencesDavid MacKay, Inference Group. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2005, 12:30-13:30 Probability + Information Reading Group Knuth's "Lattice Duality: The Origin of Probability and Information" (2)Speaker to be confirmed. HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2005, 11:00-12:00 Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family ProblemProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 06 October 2005, 16:15-17:15 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Bounding Rational Analysis: Constraints on the Approach to OptimalityRichard Young and Alan Blackwell, UCL/Cambridge. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 06 October 2005, 11:00-12:30 Bayesian Pattern Ranking for Move Prediction in the Game of GoDavid Stern, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 October 2005, 15:00-16:00 Sustainable computer workstationsSeb Wills, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 October 2005, 12:30-13:30 Probability + Information Reading Group Knuth's "Lattice Duality: The Origin of Probability and Information"Speaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 October 2005, 11:00-12:00 To be confirmedSpeaker to be confirmed. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 27 September 2005, 12:30-13:30 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Wicked Problems RevisitedMartyn Dade-Robertson and Alex Taylor. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Friday 02 September 2005, 11:00-12:30 Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Simulation and OptimizationChunlin JI, Engineering Department. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 17 August 2005, 15:00-16:00 Language relationships, phonology, and GreekTudor Dimofte, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 17 August 2005, 12:30-13:30 Efficient communication with buttons: an update on Button DasherIngrid Jendrzejewski, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 16 August 2005, 12:00-13:00 An introduction to HaskellFrederik Eaton. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 09 August 2005, 12:30-13:30 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group Let's stop pushing the envelope and start addressing it: a reference task agenda for HCIWilliam Newman and Jost Schatzmann. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Friday 05 August 2005, 11:00-12:30 Progress with #Dasher, a Continuous Gesture IDELuke Church. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 August 2005, 15:00-16:00 How Work WorksDavid MacKay, Inference Group. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 August 2005, 12:30-13:30 Why do fruitflies like bananas?Gregory Jefferis, Department of Zoology. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 22 July 2005, 15:00-16:00 Photon Collection Paradigms: Exposure Control in PhotographyKeith Vertanen. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 19 July 2005, 12:30-13:30 New faces in human evolution: Do recent discoveries warrant the media hype?Brenda Frazier, Pennsylvania State University. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 12 July 2005, 12:30-13:30 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group An activity theory approach to affordanceAbi Sellen and Kasim Rehman, Microsoft Research / Computer Laboratory. Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Friday 08 July 2005, 11:00-12:30 multicanonical samplingOle Winther, IMM, DTU and Inference Group. Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 07 July 2005, 11:30-12:30 An introduction to Brain-Computer InterfacesSeb Wills, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 July 2005, 15:00-16:00 The Debian Women ProjectHanna Wallach, Cambridge University. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 05 July 2005, 12:30-13:30 To be confirmedDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Sunday 03 July 2005, 15:00-16:00 What we face in facing up to complexity in the genetics of complex diseaseKen Weiss, Pennsylvania State University. Ryle Seminar Room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 They are talking, are you listening: Bacterial Communication and Community BehaviourRita Monson, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge University. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 28 June 2005, 12:30-13:30 LOCUS: Learning Object Classes with Unsupervised SegmentationJohn Winn, Microsoft Research. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 22 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 Efficient computer interfaces using continuous gestures, language models, and speech; Probabilistic methods for interpreting electronic inkKeith Vertanen and Phil Cowans, Cavendish Laboratory. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 21 June 2005, 16:30-17:30 A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief NetsGeoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 Epitomes And EpitextsPhil Cowans, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 14 June 2005, 14:00-15:00 Sustainable EnergyDavid MacKay, Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 14 June 2005, 12:30-13:30 Monte Carlo experiments in computer GoLukasz Lew, Vrije University, Amsterdam. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 10 June 2005, 15:30-16:30 Language Modelling In Dasher: A TutorialPhil Cowans. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 10 June 2005, 11:00-12:00 Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group What we talk about when we talk about contextAlan Blackwell and Richard Harper, University of Cambridge / Microsoft Research Cambridge. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Friday 10 June 2005, 11:00-12:30 Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Models for Time Series DataMatthew Beal, SUNY at Buffalo. Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 09 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 Reading group: Bayesian inference via searchThore Graepel. Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Thursday 09 June 2005, 11:00-12:00 Japanese Language ModelTakashi Kaburagi. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 09 June 2005, 09:30-10:30 A Tale of T9Cliff Kushler. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 June 2005, 16:30-17:30 Information and IntelligenceAlex Selby. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 June 2005, 15:00-16:00 Neighbourhood Components AnalysisSam Roweis, University of Toronto. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 07 June 2005, 16:00-17:00 Scheme: The Programming Language of the GodsRyan Adams, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Room 911, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 07 June 2005, 12:00-13:00 Probing the Early Universe with Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background RadiationProfessor George Efstathiou, Institute of Astronomy. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 May 2005, 16:30-17:30 Local Interstellar Medium / History of Investigation of Mars and Venus in USSR (1960-1996)Professor Vladimir Kurt, P N Lebedev Physical Institute . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 May 2005, 16:30-17:30 Nested Sampling for Motif DiscoveryThomas Down, Sanger Institute. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 17 May 2005, 14:00-15:00 Atom Chips: A Vision for Quantum InformationProfessor Ed Hinds, Imperial College. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 May 2005, 16:30-17:30 Joint Gaussian Process-Density MixturesOle Winther, DTU / Inference Group. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 May 2005, 14:00-15:00 Feeling and Influencing Active Intracellular Polymer Networks with LightProfessor Josef Kas, University of Leipzig. Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 06 May 2005, 14:00-15:00 Computer OthelloSanjoy Mahajan. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 03 May 2005, 14:00-15:00 Variational Gibbs SamplingUlrich Paquet. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 27 April 2005, 15:00-16:00 Astronomical Image RecognitionDavid MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 April 2005, 15:00-16:00 Bloom Filters and Tries (a comparison)David MacKay. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 11 April 2005, 16:00-17:00 The predictive power of contractive neural-network spacesAshley Mills. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 05 April 2005, 16:30-17:30 Communicating with buttons: current progress in one- and two-button DasherIngrid Jendrzejewski. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 March 2005, 15:00-16:00 Bayesian Learning for Visual InferenceOllie Williams. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 March 2005, 15:00-16:00 Approximating The Hierarchical Dirichelet DistributionPhil Cowans. Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 March 2005, 15:00-16:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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