Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

Probabilistic and Deep Models for 3D Reconstruction

 Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Andreas Geiger, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care

Dr Cheng Zhang.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Open Evening for Women in Engineering

Chris Bishop.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 17:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events

Andrea Greve (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Deconstructing and reconstructing memory, and what this means for understanding dementia

Kim Graham (U. of Cardiff).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering

Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

Professor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jac Davis, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory

Sebastian Scheegans (U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Novel Worldview Suggested by Quantum Gravity

Maxwell Lecture - Free entry

Professor Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Theorique.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

Perspective taking during communication

Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Transfer Learning for NLP

Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

The Productivity Paradox: are we too busy to get anything done?

Various: see full details in abstract.

McGrath Theatre, St Catharine's College and Pembroke College.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:00-22:00

Zangwill Club

The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status

Dr Pranjal Mehta, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Large scale network interactions in consciousness

Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Quicker Sorting

Dietmar Kuhl, Bloomberg.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13:05-14:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr David Hardcastle - Amazon.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Quest of Modelling Complex Systems

Professor Kim Christensen, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning

Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

How memory guides value-based decisions

Daphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

How Power Affects Those Who Possess it: Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation

Dr Ana Guinote, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

Professor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Apurv Chauhan, University of Brighton.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity

Anne-Laura Van Harmelen (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Real-time Ocean Simulation and Rendering for Console Game

Alastair Toft and James Callin, Studio Gobo.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 13:05-14:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Future of Particle Physics

Professor Ian Shipsey, Univeristy of Oxford (ATLAS Oxford Group, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health

Pierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory

Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions

Marieke Mur (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Satnam Singh - X, The Moonshot Factory.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Physics of the Everyday

Professor Dame Athene Donald, Churchill College (Biological and Soft Systems).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications

Dominique deQuervain (U. of Basel).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Francesca Carota (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Touch: The sensory scaffold of development?

Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

A BUG’S LIFE: Creeping and Crawling through Children’s Literature

Speaker to be confirmed.

Boulind Room 6/7, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Saturday 04 November 2017, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine

Professor Richard Durbin FRS, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Women, Depression and 'collective' action: possibilities for 'social change' within primary mental health care settings in South Africa

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Room (2nd floor) for attendees only.

Dr Rochelle Burgess, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk title TBC

Peter Jones (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Lee Smith - ARM .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

What is and Elementary Particle?

Dr Claudio Castelnovo, Cavendish Laboratory (Theory of Condensed Matter).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

The brain isn't porridge

Dick Passingham (U. of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Bonfires with a Bang. Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 19:00-20:30

Zangwill Club

Information networks, truth and value.

Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech

Matt Davis (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Amanda Prorok - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Nature's Optics and our Understanding of Light

Professor Sir Michael Berry, Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus), University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease

Dennis Chan (U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia

Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alicia Renedo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cardiovascular problems predict poorer white matter health in the Cam-CAN adult lifespan cohort

Delia Fuhrmann (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Using Modern C++ - stepping up to C++14/17

Dr Bjarne Stroustrup.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge Language Sciences

A feast of languages: multilingualism in neuro-typical and atypical populations

Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

A Mechanical Basis of Morphogenesis

Dr John Biggins, University of Cambridge (Theory of Condensed Matter).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory

Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control

Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Nada Amin - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:15-17:30

Chaucer Club

Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retention

David Shanks (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory

Dr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 December 2017, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

The role of attachment in cults and radicalization

Dr Alexandra Stein, Mary Ward Centre, London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Title to be confirmed

Professor Pietro Circuta, Head of Biological and Soft Systems, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 January 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cell Migration

Professor Petra Schwille, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Katy Greenland, Cardiff University (Wales).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugee Migration

Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Charis Psaltis, University of Cyprus, Nicosia.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

Kavita Puri, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Title to be confirmed

Professor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Title to be confirmed

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng. Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Prof Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

Professor Ian Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What we don't know about the Universe: from the very large to the very small : ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers Professor David Tong and Professor Ron Horgan.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Friday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:00-14:00