Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

Steven Klein (King's College London).

Zoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Latent Action Space for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Wenxuan Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 13:15-14:15

Probability

Factors in probability and ergodic theory

Terry Soo (UCL).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Captive polar bears: politics, (re)production, and performance

Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Physics and ML

Prof. Max Tegmark (MIT).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

Zoom.

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

Medical Staff Round

Title: Hot Topic, Hot feet

Presenter: Dr Huda Al-Kutubi.

Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title: Opening a can of worms

Presenter: Dr Alexander Ross.

Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 13:30-14:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A chemical perspective on electron correlation in transition metal complexes

James Shee (UC Berkeley).

Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Rethinking the Virtual: Towards Digital Decolonisation in the Scott Polar Research Institute

Eva Crowson and Elise Nyborg (University of Cambridge, SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Truth AND consequences

Polly Mitchell (King's College London).

Zoom.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Case Against Smooth Null Infinity

Leonhard Kehrberger (DPMMS).

Zoom.

Friday 29 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Sensor Innovations in Diagnostics and Medical Technology

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/industry-lecture-isabella-miele-of-cambridge-consultants-tickets-137447656641

Isabella Miele of Cambridge Consultants.

Zoom.

Monday 01 February 2021, 13:30-15:00

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning under model misspecification

Andrés R. Masegosa, Universidad de Almería (Spain).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

Zoom.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

How to be a solid yet more fluid than a fluid?

Chang Woo Myung.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Medical Staff Round

Title: ASO therapies don't always make sense!

Presenter: Professor Roger Barker.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 13:30-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

Josie Gill (University of Bristol).

Zoom.

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

Contemporary Political Theory

We Who Must Fight in the Shade: Derrick Bell’s Philosophy of Racial Realism as the Basis of a Black Politics of Disempowerment

Tommy Curry (Edinburgh).

Zoom.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Frameworks for model independent data analysis — towards a cosmology founded on observations

Asta Heinesen, UCB Lyon, CRAL-ENS Lyon.

Zoom.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Hima Lakkaraju, Harvard University .

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Defence and Security in the Arctic: The UK perspective

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Communication in disasters

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

Ziheng Lu.

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Fishing and conservation in the Southern Ocean: methodological challenges with stakeholders’ interviews

Daniela Portella Sampaio (City, University of London).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition

Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dejan Gajic (DPMMS).

Zoom.

Friday 12 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

PDG Seminars (Pathogen Dynamics Group)

Estimating the impact of school reopening on the COVID-19 dynamics in Indiana, USA and Bogotá, Colombia.

For Zoom details please e-mail: pdgcambridge@gmail.com

Guido Camargo España, University of Notre Dame.

Zoom.

Friday 12 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

Susan Shell (Boston College).

Zoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural ODE Processes

Cris Bodnar, Alex Norcliffe, Ben Day, Jacob Moss .

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

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

Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

Zoom.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

Julia Schumann.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Medical Staff Round

Title: Mafia Medicine: pregabalin and gabapentin in 2021

Presenter: Dr Luke Hughes-Davies.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title: "The dog that didn't bark: COVID-19 at the University of Cambridge"

Presenter: Dr Ben Warne.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 13:30-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science

Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University).

Zoom.

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Normative Powers

Laura Valentini (KCL).

Zoom.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The tail effect as a window on the self-force problem and the propagation of scalar and electromagnetic waves in curved spacetime.

Case Western Reserve University.

Zoom.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

Zoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Challenger Mishra.

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Animals and disasters

Mihai Swift (Natural History Museum / King’s College London) and Donelle Gadenne (Edge Hill University) .

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

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

Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

Zoom.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

Phil Hasnip (York).

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Medical Staff Round

CPC – Specialty Gastroenterology

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The challenges and opportunities of working across the physical and social sciences

Laura Seddon (University of Durham).

Zoom.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

Chiara Ambrosio (University College London).

Zoom.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Miren Radia (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

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

Zoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Landscape and Gaps in Open Source Fairness Toolkits

Michelle Lee.

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

Cavendish HEP Seminars

MicroBoonNE

Kirsty Duffy (FNAL).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s

Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

Andrea Zen.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939

Richard Noakes (University of Exeter).

Zoom.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Audre Lorde on Care

Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State).

Zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Bianca Dumitrascu.

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Economics and disasters

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Zoom.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Space projected electrical conductivity and spectral properties of the conduction matrix

Dave Drabold (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Greenland Geopolitics in the light of renewed American attention

Marc Jacobsen (SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

Zoom.

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

PDG Seminars (Pathogen Dynamics Group)

Transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in China and the United States

For Zoom details please e-mail: pdgcambridge@gmail.com

Sen Pei, Columbia University.

Zoom.

Friday 12 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

Zoom.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940

Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Inhomogeneous strain fields in Moiré superlattices

Danny Bennett.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Predicting outcome for psychotic disorders, using brain connectivity and transcribed speech data

Sarah Morgan.

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 13:15-14:15

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sarah Rees (Newcastle University).

Zoom.

Friday 30 April 2021, 13:45-14:45

Financial History Seminar

The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage

Dr Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London.

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Andy Minn, University of Pennsylvania.

Zoom.

Thursday 16 December 2021, 13:00-14:00