Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Systemic Design (or Building Toys) in Games

Food provided

George Prosser and James Callin, Studio Gobo.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 22 October 2018, 13:05-14:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Second Language Education Group

The role of medium of instruction for multilingual children: a study of primary school children in India".

Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

Dr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Synthetic biology: host-construct interactions

Dr Francesca Ceroni, Imperial College, London.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Monday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

How to Build an Exchange

Food provided

Gabor Szarka, JaneStreet.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 13:15-14:30

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2018

Professor Gerard t' Hooft, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Listening to the Universe – LISA Pathfinder and LISA

Professor Timothy Sumner.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Statistical methods for the study of heterogeneity in cognitive decline: applications to French and UK cohorts

Anaïs Rouanet (MRC Biostatistics Unit) .

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

Double accusatives in Ancient Greek: διδάσκω between traditional and modern approaches

Tea served from 4.15

Marina Benedetti .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Elimination of Cervical Cancer by 2050: reality or wishful thinking

Professor Margaret Stanley OBE.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Randomness in classical and quantum dynamics

Professor Thomas Spencer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language

Pasquale Minervini, University College London.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Interference and memory capacity limitations

Ansgar Endress (City University).

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

Thursday 25 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Trinity Life in Science and Politics

Co-hosted with Trinity Politics Society

Julian Huppert (University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers

Kostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

TBC

Food provided

RealVNC.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:05-14:05

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

MR12.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences

Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685

Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Influenza pandemics: past and future

Wendy Barclay.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Title to be confirmed

Professor Chris Lintott.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks

Kamila Jozwik (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Transforming Retail with Machine Learning

Food provided

Martin Gee, Principal Head of Software Engineering, Argos.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:05-14:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The dangerous consequences of the decline of coral reefs

Max Bodmer (Operation Wallacea).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 18:00-19:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Goldman Sachs: Banking with Bots – Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

Food provided

Niccolo Lamanna, Goldman Sachs.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:05-14:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Patagonian Afrikaans: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Friday 02 November 2018, 14:30-16:00

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

Yuting Wei, Stanford University.

MR12.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Sleep for Systems Consolidation

Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor, The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

In-Network Computing: Your network just got a lot smarter

Dr Noa Zilberman, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 02 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century

Martha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 05 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada

Dr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

Aubrey de Grey.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Particle Physics & CERN

Professor Daniela Bortoletto.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

KAO and SOFIA: observing the atmosphere of other planets from the air

Paul Mulvaney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise

Tobias Goehring (MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025

Carl Hewitt - Emeritus professor at MIT.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:15-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

PIE alignment change and the emergence of the thematic conjugation: Two sides of the same diachronic coin?

Tea served from 4.15

Roland Pooth, Ghent.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Languages, speakers and history: Romance and Greek in Southern Italy

Cristina Guardiano.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 18:15-19:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

From brain descriptions to brain explanations

Professor Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

Cognition in corvids and kids

Nicky Clayton (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Interacting with instabilities: Nonlinearity in structural engineering

Ahmer Wadee (Imperial College London).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 18:00-19:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry of Coal

Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Laurent Massoulié, INRIA.

MR12.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Social timing in autism spectrum disorders

Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Unraveling the hidden microbial world of the river Cam.

Lara Urban, European Bioinformatics Institute.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 09 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century

Marie de Rugy (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Asteroseismology as a tool for astrophysics: from the deep interiors of stars to the evolution of the Milky Way

Andrea Miglio.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load

John Duncan (MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Embracing the Volatility of AWS Spot Fleet

Food provided

Matthew Mead-Briggs, Yelp.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:05-14:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Failing with Style: Why and How we Should Encourage Humans to Fail with Highly Capable Systems

Professor Steve Benford, Mixed Reality Laboratory, School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:15-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

From deep learning to the dark universe

Professor Ofer Lahav, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Computer Laboratory Recruitment Fair

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:30-16:00

Chaucer Club

Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusion

Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow).

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Computer Laboratory Recruitment Fair

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 11:30-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Pierre Alquier, ENSAE.

MR12.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Making sense of time in the Human mind

Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Future developments in healthcare – does cancer lead the way?

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 16 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872

Oscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 19 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?

Dr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spagetti hoops

Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Non coding RNA and normal botany

David Baulcombe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Southwood.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches

Romy Lorenz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek. A reconsideration

Tea served from 4.15

Klaas Bentein, Ghent.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Children's Literature

North American Girls' Literature

Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Truman State University.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

On the impact of debasilectalization in language documentation: insights from the "missing Spanish creoles"

Danae Perez, University of Zurich.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 18:15-19:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking

Professor David Tong, DAMTP.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

A Bayesian approach to internal models

Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Paula Czarnowska & Chris Davis, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

MR12.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know

Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

From nuclear transfer to prospects for cell replacement therapy: The origins and future of pluripotency and cellular reprogramming

Professor Sir John Gurdon, The Gurdon Institute.

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 23 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle

Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen).

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Children's Literature

FEAST: Consuming Children - A roundtable discussion on food in children's literature

FEAST journal contributors.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

Axel Behrens.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in the Era of Big Sky Surveys

Dr Manda Banerji.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Rahia Mashoodh (Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

From molecules to recurrent visual hallucinations: multimodal imaging and computational modelling of Dementia with Lewy bodies

Dr Li Su - Alzheimer’s Research UK Senior Research Fellow.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:15-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Harnessing the quantum world — can lab experiments become practical technologies?

Professor Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control

Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

From blood to genomic variants: deciphering the genome of patients with rare disorders

Dr Karyn Megy Department of Haematology, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 30 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Learning from Luther: 95 theses about technology

Professor John Naughton, CRASSH, Cambridge..

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 07 December 2018, 17:45-19:10

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Centre for the Future of Intelligence / Faculty of Philosophy.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

Dr. Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Children's Literature

Giving Comics Back to Children

Professor Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Wired Magazine.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

TBD

Professor Jane Clarke, FRS, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Speaker to be confirmed.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00