Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

JPMorgan Technology Showcase

Food provided

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding I

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:30-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Michael Rule.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Question Answering

Patrick Lewis, UCL.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

DIAL seminars

Reconfiguration of Accident-and-Emergency Facilities in England

Dr Houyuan Jiang (Cambridge Judge Business School).

Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effects of wind on trees and forests

Toby Jackson - Cambridge Conservation Initiative .

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Crush Your Code

Food provided

Facebook.

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:15-14:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Unique geotechnical issues in the Dead Sea region

Sam Frydman, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 15:00-15:45

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

A Constitutive Model for Locally Drained Shear Bands in Globally Undrained Dense Sand

Hansini Mallikarachchi, CUED.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-16:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations

Oana Camburu, University of Oxford.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Surface energy approaches in modeling of nano-objects

Prof Anna Zemlyanova, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

Song Liu — University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The legacy of Lord Rayleigh's 'Theory of Sound'

Emeritus Prof Jim Woodhouse, CUED .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

How we remember and how we forget

Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding II

Rajen Shah (University of Cambridge).

MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

How to Build a Neuron: establishing spatial identity in a structurally complex cell

Michael Fernandopulle - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning

Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Motile cilia - understanding the origin of collective dynamics

Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Friday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

LaTeX for report-writing

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 01 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Malar Chellasivalingam, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

James McBride, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:30-17:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

The Blessing of Multiple Causes

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR10, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Antarctic climate of the last 115,000 years from ice cores

Isobel Rowell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Thiago Burghi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Do switches dream of machine learning?

Noa Zilberman (Computer Lab).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Modelling physiological and pathological glia-neuron interactions in cerebral organoids

Dr Andras Lakatos, MRC Clinician Scientist, Neurologist, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Supplementary Python

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 08 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Loic Salles, Imperial College.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Speech Recognition: What’s Left?

This talk is organised in conjunction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for which Dr Michael Picheny is a Distinguished Industry Speaker

Dr Michael Picheny.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Tackling invalid instrumental variables

Sven Wang (University of Cambridge).

MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Colloquium - The Statistical Finite Element Method

Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Recruitment Fair

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:30-16:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Growing minibrains: 3D organoid cultures to model tissue development and diseases

Laura Pellegrini - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Luka Ribar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

TBD

Kyunghan (UNIST).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Recruitment fair

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 November 2019, 11:30-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Room Change: SS03

Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Understanding the chemistry of ageing and disease in the extracellular matrix

Prof Melinda J Duer, Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

MR12.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Research and development of new vibro-acoustic methods in the commerical software wave6

Dr David Hawes, DS Acoustics SIMULIA.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Giuseppe Sanitate, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Higher-order influence function

Dr Yuhao Wang.

MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

Henryk Michalewski.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

Lucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Timothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

MR12.

Friday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Phase engineered two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for electrochemistry

Dr Manish Chhowalla Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Robust code development with MATLAB

Dr Tim Johns, Mathworks.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 22 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Anchor regression

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Sexual Health, Risk and Migration: Challenging exclusionary constructions of migrant men who have sex with men

Arthur Davis - Centre for Gender Studies.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On Nucleic Acid Feedback Controllers

Declan Bates, University of Warwick.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Room Change: SS03

Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 29 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Oncotripsy: Selective ablation of cancer cells through tuned low-intensity pulsed ultrasound

Prof Michael Ortiz, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

MR12.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Lennart Ljung, Linköping University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

TBD

Florian Pein.

MR10, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

Anna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sliding Modes for Estimation: theory and practice

Sarah Spurgeon, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR 12.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - Christmas Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Moments of Nonlinear Systems: From Model Reduction to Identification and Circuits Theory

Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Craddock (University of Bristol).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Carmela Troncoso (EPFL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:00-16:00