Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

TITLE: Evaluating machine learning models for prediction of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among autistic individuals using genetic data

Niran Okewole, Department of Psychiatry.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:00-12:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Woman Can Do? Weaponised Attachment and the Invisible Abuser

Mags Lesiak, Institute of Criminology.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:00

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Bringing distributed training natively to Transformers library

Ferdinand Mom - Hugging Face.

Computer Lab, LT1.

Monday 16 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The search for life beyond the solar system 

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzMxOWYyNjAtYWFjNS00ZGNlLTliOTYtZjY2MTM2YWE4OGI2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, now at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

Large Language Models, Model Collapse, and the Conservation of Information

LT1

George Montanez.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Foundation AI

Catastrophic Forgetting and Explainable AI in Large-Scale Models for Neuroscience

Dr. Michail Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria

Chidi Ugwu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka).

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

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Information Theory Seminar

Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory

Prof Marcus Hutter, Google DeepMind, London.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Geometric Gaussian Processes

Dr Viacheslav Borovitskiy - School of Informatics Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Cooperative behaviors in unicellular ciliates: some recent case studies

Professor Antonio DeSimone, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Understanding Model Decisions and Failures

Fazl Barez (University of Oxford).

Little Hall (S016, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA) and online (https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1).

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control of Lumped-Distributed Control Systems

Richard Vinter, Imperial College.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering..

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Chronic nation: the politics of experts, health and making modern Indian citizens (1940–70s)

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr HaDi MaBouDi

Dr HaDi MaBouDi, University of Sheffield.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Certifying Synthetic Mathematics in Lean

Wojciech Nawrocki (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Helena Xie (Tsinghua University/Cambridge University).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 20 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

3D Radiative Transfer Modeling of Heterogeneous Vegetation Canopies: from Reflectance to Photosynthesis

Jianbo Qi, Beijing Normal University .

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Pratheek Shanthraj, UKAEA.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Nonlinear Structural Mechanics

Dr Alberto Pirrera, University of Bristol.

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

Friday 20 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modal Identification via Computer Vision

Mario Visconte, PhD student, University of Calabria, UNICAL.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc Talks

Postdocs.

MR2.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The role of Selenoprotein O in mitochondrial signaling

Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature

Hilbrand Wouters (University of Konstanz).

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

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Finding common ground

Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Climate scientists as analysts, advisors, advocates, or activists: what’s the difference and does it matter?

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDJlNDNiMGItY2YxZS00MjRiLTk5NjgtZWZkYjM2MjI3ZTQx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Prof Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Fault Tolerance by Construction

Benjamin Rodatz, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-11:50

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marco Zenone, University of Ottawa.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

AI for Future Healthcare

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89579877801?pwd=7OZ116Hh9XwJeEy6ZDMbbYF63ViN13.1

Bjoern Eskofier, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge

Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Boosting local biomanufacturing in the global south to impact health and sustainability

Dr Jenny Molloy - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 13:30-14:45

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The Cybersecurity Awareness Experience: A Masterclass in Social Engineering, Behavioral Psychology, and Digital Self-Defense

Paul Draper.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Mor Geva (Tel Aviv University, Google Research)

Mor Geva (Tel Aviv University, Google Research).

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3674017464325?p=04vmZBjTtuQwz5Rqvk.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

RSE Seminars

FTorch: facilitating hybrid ML-numerical modelling in scientific computing

Joe Wallwork and Jack Atkinson, RSEs - ICCS, University of Cambridge.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "New Bayesian methods and tools to address health challenges"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/7KTIPoNBSVuPXcFtZh8MiQ

Dr Raiha Browning, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Automatically Formally Verified Hardware using Aristotle

Satnam Singh, Software Engineer, Harmonic.

Computer Lab, FW26.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

AI, automation, and the problem of error in science

Stephan Guttinger (University of Exeter).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Emma Mitchell (NEB, sponsor), Magdalena Crossley (PI, CRUK, Cambridge, UK).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Emma Mitchell (NEB, sponsor), Magdalena Crossley (PI, CRUK, Cambridge, UK).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:30-18:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Axel Ljungström (University of Nottingham).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What Happens When They're Smarter Than Us?

Dr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute).

FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

EO-AI4GlobalChange: AI-Driven Earth Observation for Monitoring Global Environmental Change

Yifang Ban, Professor and Director, Division of Geoinformatics KTH Royal Institute of Technology Associate Director, Digital Futures Stockholm, Sweden Lead, GEO AI4EO Working Group.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design Optimisation of Locally Resonant Metamaterials under Uncertainty

Niccolo Klinger, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

AI weather forecasting: past, present and future

Richard Turner, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Emily Hughes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens).

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

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hossein Hafezi, New York University (NYU).

Webinar & SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning

Cristos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) .

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

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Automated Translation of Real-World Codebases: How Far Are We?

Dr Cristina David - School of Computer Science, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

RSE Seminars

TBC

Oliver Elbert - Computational Scientist, NOAA GFDL.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dimitris Spathis, Google.

Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Roger Grosse (University of Toronto)

Roger Grosse (University of Toronto).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science

Eric Winsberg (University of Cambridge & University of South Florida).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Aleksej Zelezniak

Dr Aleksej Zelezniak, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and King's College London.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Anand Rao Tadipatri (University of Cambridge).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Mario Giulianelli (UCL).

FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Tom Bearpark, Princeton University.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Benefits and Challenges of using Nonlinear Vibration Absorbers in Cyclic Structures

Tobias Weidemann, PhD student, University of Stuttgart.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections

Kimberley Glassman (Fitzwilliam Museum).

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

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Millimetre-wave antenna designs for future wireless communications and radar sensor applications

Dr James Henderson, Plextek Services Limited.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 09 March 2026, 19:30-21:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Space-Time Optimisations for Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Sanaa Sharma, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 11:00-11:50

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Tang, Meta.

Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Am I a Member? Auditing Private Machine Learning

Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770–1800)

Maria Florutau (Uppsala University).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

RSE Seminars

High-performance computing with the Julia language

Mosè Giordano - Principal RSE, UCL ARC.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Tal Linzen (NYU)

Tal Linzen (NYU).

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3674017464325?p=04vmZBjTtuQwz5Rqvk.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:30-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Christoph Benzmüller (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and Freie Universität Berlin).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

Coffee with Scientists

Research on research

Steven Wooding (Head of Research on Research, Research Strategy Office).

Board Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 13 March 2026, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 13 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

PILA: Physics-Informed Low Rank Augmentation for Interpretable Earth Observation

Yihang She, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Did 1960's structural engineers know more than 2020's structural engineers - unpicking the engineering of Cambridge's iconic Faculty of History

Eng. Simon Smith.

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

Friday 13 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Data-driven nonlinear spectral modelling of fluid flows

George Haller, ETH Zurich.

MR2.

Friday 13 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection

Alice Wickenden (Faculty of English).

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

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The birth of scientific anti-racism

Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).

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

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Representational Geometry of Language Models

Matthieu Téhénan (University of Cambridge).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Community-Based Participatory Research on Food-Energy-Water Projects

Dr Vasiliki Karanikola - University of Arizona.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:30-14:45

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Vicente Ordóñez (Rice University)

Vicente Ordóñez (Rice University).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Enrique Amigó (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 20 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Reconstructing Landsat Archive 1997-2024+: Sun, Clouds, Snow, Noise and Humans

Tomislav Hengl, OpenGeoHub Foundation.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Shock-Induced Pore Collapse in PMMA: Deformation Physics and Failure Mechanics

Professor Guruswami Ravichandran, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 20 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid dynamics of the aqueous humour of the eye

Jennifer Tweedy, University of Bath.

MR2.

Friday 20 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Quantum state preparation via piecewise QSVT

Oliver O'Brien, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 11:00-11:50

Robotics Seminar Series

Compositional Design of Society-Critical Systems: From Autonomy to Future Mobility

Gioele Zardini.

Department of Computer Science and technology, SS03.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Guillermo Parada Gonzalez (Postdoc, Crick Institute and KCL, London, UK), Eleni Liapi (Postdoc, Aarhus University, DK).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 16:30-18:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 27 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Reinforcement Learning with Exogenous States and Rewards

Professor Thomas G. Dietterich, School of EECS, Oregon State University.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Wednesday 01 April 2026, 13:30-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Careers in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Teams link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eeb7b90f-e364-4b6d-9712-829d1bf78de7@49a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9

Adnan Iqbal, CEO at Luma Health and Deborah Grubbe, operations consultant and retired multinational executive.

Online via Teams.

Thursday 02 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 03 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 10 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Yuzhe Yang, UCLA and Google.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 17 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 24 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: In a post-Ozempic world, have we cured obesity?

Professor Giles S.H. Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2026, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Science and Policy Lectures

CSaP Annual Cleevely Lecture 2026

To register, please visit https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/csap-annual-cleevely-lecture-2026/

Professor Jennifer Rubin, King's College London.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 17:30-18:45

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Ròża Przanowska (Postdoc, UVirginia), Zhipeng Lu (PI, USC).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 April 2026, 16:30-18:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Floris van Doorn (University of Bonn).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding the Interplay between LLMs' Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge

Prof Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 01 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 01 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Duncan MacLachlan, Rolls Royce.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 08 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Developing future marine engines running on ammonia and other green fuels

Johan Hult - Everllence.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Friday 08 May 2026, 13:30-14:15

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Simon Moore - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 15 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 15 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Özlem Durmaz-Incel, University of Twente.

Online.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Stafford - School of Psychology, Universitry of Sheffield.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 22 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Kotz - Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Miguel Aracena Velazquez (PhD student, UYork), Pedro Madrigal (Project Leader, EMBL EBI).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 28 May 2026, 16:30-18:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Thomas Powell (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 28 May 2026, 17:00-18:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 29 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Hana Aliee - Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 June 2026, 15:05-15:55

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

Valeria Ruscio.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 17:00-17:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 05 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 12 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 19 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Nida Ali (Postdoc, UCambridge, UK), TBD (Novogene, Sponsor).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 25 June 2026, 16:30-18:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 26 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 03 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 10 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Sung Chul Kwon (PI, UHong Kong), TBD .

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 July 2026, 16:30-18:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 17 July 2026, 13:00-14:00