Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Keynote Speaker - Statistical Breakthroughs and Novel Perspectives in Deep Learning Theory

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

Sophie Langer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 August 2025, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Proper Scoring Rules - Estimation and Forecast Evaluation

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

Kartik Waghmare (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 August 2025, 11:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On L2 posterior contraction rates in Bayesian nonparametric regression models

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

Paul Rosa (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 August 2025, 11:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Estimating and Calibrating Uncertainty in LLMs

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

Desi Ivanova (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 August 2025, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scalable sequential design for Bayesian inverse problems via conditional transport

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

Karina Koval (Universität Heidelberg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 August 2025, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Experimental Design in the Age of GenAI  

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

Henry Moss (Lancaster University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 August 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uncertainty quantification in Gaussian Graphical Models

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

Déborah Sulem (Università della Svizzera italiana).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 August 2025, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 01 September 2025, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBA

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

Lorenzo Bianchi (University of Torino).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 01 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organisers welcome

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 01 September 2025, 10:05-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The geometry of the conjugacy problem

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Martin Bridson (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 01 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Automorphisms of virtually special groups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Elia Fioravanti (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 01 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Finiteness properties via complex geometry: Kapovich's work and its lineage

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Pierre Py (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 01 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The geometry of Hitchin grafting representations

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Ursula Hamenstaedt (University of Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 01 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Nir Lazarovich (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Landau-Ginzburg Paradigm of Topological Orders and a CFT Factory

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

Yu Zhao (Fudan University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introductions

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Drilling hyperbolic groups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Alessandro Sisto (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Who are you talking to? & What do you want to say?

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:20-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Riemann surfaces, complex projective structures, and Bers' simultaneous uniformization

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Shinpei Baba (Osaka University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Get started! & Writing about anything for anyone

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Get writing & Go to press!

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 13:30-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Alla Detinko (University of Huddersfield).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Share your front page

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 15:15-15:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fit systolic groups, exactly

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Damian Osajda (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Day 2

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 15:55-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Irreducible discrete subgroups of G × G and ergodicity on the boundary

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Subhadip Dey (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBA

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

Shira Chapman (Ben-Gurion University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Basic Principles: Audiences & Speaking and Presenting

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 10:10-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uniform exponential growth of discrete subgroups on Hadamard manifolds

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Koji Fujiwara (Kyoto University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Cohen–Lyndon property, coherence, and immersions

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Macarena Arenas (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Advanced Techniques - Stories, Jokes and Magic

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pitch Development - facilitated groups

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 13:45-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Delivery of 2-minute pitches - one per group

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 15:00-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Next Steps

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 15:50-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Virtual retractions in graphs of groups and applications

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Ashot Minasyan (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBA

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

Bowen Shi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 September 2025, 10:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry of hyperconvex surface subgroups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Maria Beatrice Pozzetti (Università di Bologna).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A new alternative for amenable groups in terms of actions on finite-dimensional CAT(0)-spaces

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Anders Karlsson (Université de Genève).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Denis Osin (Vanderbilt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rigidity and flexibility of mappings between Carnot groups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Bruce Kleiner (New York University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 04 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBA

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

Costas Bachas (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique ENS).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 05 September 2025, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

K(pi,1)-conjecture for 3-dimensional Artin groups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Jingyin Huang (Ohio State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 05 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Ergodic theory in groups with a contracting element

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Rémi Coulon (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 05 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topological median structures on R^n

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 05 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBA

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

Kaixin Ji (Fudan University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 05 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Directors Briefing

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 September 2025, 09:25-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defects in Quantum Field Theory 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 September 2025, 09:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Monday 08 September 2025, 11:00-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Laurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 September 2025, 11:30-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 September 2025, 14:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Monday 08 September 2025, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gong Show

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 September 2025, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome Reception

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 September 2025, 17:30-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break / Group Photo

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defects in Quantum Field Theory 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Laurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Komargodski's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Siwei Zhong (Stony Brook University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Carqueville's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Lorenz Weber (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 16:45-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gong Show

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Carolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Looten's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Bram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper (Universiteit Gent).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Zhang's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Sal Pace (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome & Introduction

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Mike Cates (University of Cambridge).

External.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 13:00-13:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Data-driven and Physics-aware Microstructural Modeling of Flowing Complex Fluids

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Michael Graham (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

External.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 13:10-13:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rheoinformatics: A Data-driven Platform for Unifying Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Rheology

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Safa Jamali (Northeastern University).

External.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 13:50-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using Data-driven Methods to Understand and Control Active Materials

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Michael Hagan (Brandeis University).

External.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 14:30-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Francesca Mignacco (Princeton University).

External.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 15:30-16:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Eric Vanden-Eijnden (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences).

External.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 16:10-16:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generative AI and Diffusion Models: a Statistical Physics Analysis

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Giulio Biroli (CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris).

External.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 16:50-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal Dinner at Christ's College

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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External.

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 19:30-21:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Defects in Quantum Field Theory 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Combinatorial Metamaterials: From Spin Ice to Novel Mechanical Functionalities

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Yair Shokef (Tel Aviv University).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 09:15-09:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Active Solids

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Anton Souslov (University of Cambridge).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 09:55-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Emanuela Del Gado (Georgetown University).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 10:35-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 11:30-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Thermodynamics of Disperse Polymer Blends and Solutions OR Theoretical/Computational Prediction of Polymer Mechanics

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Phillip Rauscher (Syensqo).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 11:35-12:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Theory of Phase Behaviour and Fluctuations in Polydisperse Systems: From Carbon-fiber Composites to High-performance Membranes

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Jean Baudry (ESPCI ParisTech).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 13:35-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Carolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dynamic Polymer Thin Film Rheology

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Ellie Porath (Université PSL).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:00-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Understanding Polar Solvents through the Lens of Stochastic Density Functional Theory

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Sleeba Varghere (Sorbonne Université).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:10-15:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A General Framework for Designing Evolutionary Experiments to Select Specific Phage Phenotypes Using Neural Networks, Statistical Simulations, and Symbolic Regression

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Hassan Alam (University of Cambridge).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:20-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Geometrically Exact Spectral Method for Elastohydrodynamics of Cosserat Rods

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Mingjia Yan (University of Cambridge).

External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:30-15:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Entropy Induced Organization and Dynamics of Topologically Modified Ring-polymers

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:40-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elevator Pitch Talk 6

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:50-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elevator Pitch Talk 7

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:00-16:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Komargodski's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Siwei Zhong (Stony Brook University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elevator Pitch Talk 8

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:10-16:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elevator Pitch Talk 9

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:20-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elevator Pitch Talk 11

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:30-16:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elevator Pitch Talk 11

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:40-16:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Carquevillei's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Lorenz Weber (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:45-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Elevator Pitch Talk 12

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:50-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Exhibition and Networking

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 17:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Workshop Dinner (Churchill College)

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 19:30-20:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Laurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heterogeneity in Ion Binding for Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance: Exquisitely Designed or Just Good Enough for The Job in Hand?

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

David J Scott (University of Nottingham).

External.

Friday 12 September 2025, 09:15-09:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Mehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

External.

Friday 12 September 2025, 09:55-10:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Friday 12 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Active Gel Theory in Practice: Decoding Dynamics of Actomyosin Systems

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

Yuting Li (Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria)).

External.

Friday 12 September 2025, 10:35-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Lootens' Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Bram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper (Universiteit Gent).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 September 2025, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Round Table Discussion

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Friday 12 September 2025, 11:35-12:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial for Zhang's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Sal Pace (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wrap-Up

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Friday 12 September 2025, 12:20-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lunch and Finish

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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External.

Friday 12 September 2025, 12:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

Carolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Foyer.

Friday 12 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Directors Briefing

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 09:15-09:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's Welcome

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Steven Niederer (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Alexander Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Center).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster presentations

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Erik Sahai (The Francis Crick Institute), Trevor Graham (Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)), Gibin Powathil (Swansea University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Jasmin Fisher (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 13:30-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Paul Macklin (Indiana University Bloomington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 14:15-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Anna Sher (GlaxoSmithKline), Kevin Litchfield (Isomorphic Labs), Justicia Kyeremeh (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Richard Gilbertson (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Trachette Jackson (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 19 September 2025, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster presentations

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 19 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Simon Walker-Samuel (University College London), Victor M. Pérez-García (Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 19 September 2025, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Hector Gomez (Purdue University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 19 September 2025, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Mark Chaplain (University of St Andrews), Katie Bentley (The Francis Crick Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 19 September 2025, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OOEW07 - Mathematical Foundations of Oncological Digital Twins

Kristin Swanson (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 19 September 2025, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Aspects of 'duality' - memories from a long collaboration.

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

Ed Corrigan (University of York).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 September 2025, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Virasoro algebra: its roles and its strangeness

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

Graeme Segal (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 September 2025, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tea and Coffee Break

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

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Foyer.

Thursday 25 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scattering in Field Theory

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

Louise Dolan (University of North Carolina).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 September 2025, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

CFT x 2

OOEW09 - Strings, CFT and Monopoles: Celebrating Peter Goddard's 80th birthday

Werner Nahm (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 25 September 2025, 16:45-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Topological Quantum Field Theory: From Physics to Mathematics and back

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

Ilka Brunner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Title to be confirmed

Stephane Popinet, Sorbonne University.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Modeling and simulation of salt caverns: from lab to field scale

Herminio Tasinafo Honorio, Delft University of Technology.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute), Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway to Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 10:00-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On Quantum Extended Church-Turing Thesis

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

Zhenghan Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 10:20-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

Harry Buhrman (Quantinuum).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 10:55-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 12:00-12:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 12:35-13:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

With Fault Tolerance the Ultimate Goal, Error Mitigation is the Path that gets Quantum Computing to Usefulness

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

Kristan Temme (IBM Research).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 14:10-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Anomaly Detection in the Real World: From Algorithm to Prototype to Product, Now and in the (Quantum?) Future

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

Alessandra Cagnazzo (Eyer).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 14:45-15:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion with Speakers

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 15:50-16:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Final Remarks

OFBW75 - BIDs4Tech: Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 November 2025, 16:50-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Title to be confirmed

Mark Symes, University of Glasgow.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 08 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 10 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 11 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 12 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introductions

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Who are you talking to? & What do you want to say?

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:20-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Get started! & Writing about anything for anyone

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Get writing & Go to press!

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 13:30-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Share your front page

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 15:15-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Day 2

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 15:55-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Basic Principles: Audiences & Speaking and Presenting

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 10:05-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pitch Development - facilitated groups

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Advanced Techniques - Stories, Jokes and Magic

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 13:30-14:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentation Practice

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 14:25-14:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Delivery of 2-minute pitches - one per group

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 15:10-15:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Next Steps

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 15:55-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 31 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scientific Steering Committee meeting - tbc

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 May 2026, 12:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Public Lecture: Title TBC

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Jens Marklof (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 16:00-17:00