Guy Emerson's list

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

User Lucia Specia (Imperial College London).

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

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

User Peter Orbanz — University College London.

Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the World

User Dr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham.

Friday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Mathematics of Turbulent Flows: A Million Dollars Problem!

User Edriss S. Titi (University of Cambridge).

Friday 18 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

JPMorgan Technology Showcase

Food provided

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-15:00

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

The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800

User Paul Sampson (Rutgers University).

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Quantile QT-Opt for Risk-Aware Vision-Based Robotic Grasping

User Cristian Bodnar.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Michael Rule.

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Searching for exoplanets with PLATO

User Dr Dominic Ford.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A

User Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College).

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities

User Patricia Andrews Fearon.

House Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Methodological Diversity in Design Fixation Research

User Dr Nathan Crilly is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Design at the University of Cambridge. .

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Question Answering

User Patrick Lewis, UCL.

House Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

The effects of wind on trees and forests

User Toby Jackson - Cambridge Conservation Initiative .

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

House LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Crush Your Code

Food provided

User Facebook.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:15-14:30

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

A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks

User Andrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) .

Thursday 24 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

User Dr. Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

House GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

User Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

House GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Re-entry vehicles for future space missions

User Dr Paul Bruce (Imperial College London).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

User Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

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

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

User Song Liu — University of Bristol.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

How we remember and how we forget

User Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chasing the bacteria in the river Cam with real-time DNA sequencing: Results of the PuntSeq study

User Dr Lara Urban, Wolfson College..

Friday 25 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

The classification of black holes

User Dr Harvey Reall ( DAMTP).

House Department of Computer Science and technology, Lecture Theatre 1.

Friday 25 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

CL-CompBio

Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach

User Jack Hidary, Alphabet's X.

Monday 28 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

User Professor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

User Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital.

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

Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Question Answering in Realistic Visual Environments: Challenges and Approaches

User Catalina Cangea.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

User Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Clusters of Galaxies

User Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy).

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder

User Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

StructureNet: Hierarchical Graph Networks for 3D Shape Generation

User Professor Niloy Mitra - Professor of Geometry Processing in the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 15:05-15:55

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S5.

New horizons for piano: historic women composers who wrote for the keyboard and how to reintroduce their work into piano education

User Colin J Hazel, director of music at St Augustine's Church, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Wataching Molecules in Action

User Professor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Christ's College.

House Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

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

The Modern Bootstrap

Annual Maxwell Talk (Collaboration with Archimedeans) - Free Entry

User Professor J Cardy FRS, University of California, Berkeley.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 19:30-20:30

How to Build a Neuron: establishing spatial identity in a structurally complex cell

User Michael Fernandopulle - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making

User Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Not even wrong

User Dr Robert Brady (Cambridge Computer Laboratory).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning

User Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

User Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

Friday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Schrödinger and his Equation

User Sir David Clary FRS (University of Oxford).

Friday 01 November 2019, 19:00-20:00

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

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

User Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development

User Professor Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, Dr.Dieuwerke Rutgers, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine Learning Systems Design

User Prof Neil Lawrence.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Mary Allan Building, Auditorium, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH .

Collaborative Poetics

User Helen Johnson, University of Brighton.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

User Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Active Galactic Nuclei: the powerful cores of the most luminous galaxies

User Amy Rankine.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments

User Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

User Ebany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Force Awakens

User Professor Ben Allanach, DAMTP.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Antarctic climate of the last 115,000 years from ice cores

User Isobel Rowell.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

User Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Documenting Endangered Languages: Experiences in Indonesia

User Prof Mary Dalrymple (Oxford).

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Title to be confirmed

User Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

User Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

User Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Handles and Homotopies

User Jake Rasmussen (Cambridge).

Friday 08 November 2019, 19:00-20:00

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

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

User Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP

User Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

100 Years of Universes

User Professor John D Barrow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics .

Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

User Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

User Duo Wang.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR

User Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

User Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Apollo at 50 - and the next giant leap for human kind

User Dr Christopher Riley.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

User Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

The Digital Architecture of Future Cities

User Dr Ian Lewis - Director, Infrastructure Investment - Computer Laboratory.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 15:05-15:55

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Colloquium - The Statistical Finite Element Method

User Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

House MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

You Can Achieve Anything - with a Laser

There will be hands-on activities involving Laser Beam equipment.

User Dr Ray Davies, Photonics Academy of Wales @ Bangor.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

House The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Recruitment Fair

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:30-16:00

Growing minibrains: 3D organoid cultures to model tissue development and diseases

User Laura Pellegrini - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence

User Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

User Prof. Federico Federici (University College London).

House GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Looking ahead in the world of science

1973 Nobel Prize in Physics

User Prof Brian Josephson (Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Recruitment fair

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 15 November 2019, 11:30-16:00

House SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Title to be confirmed

Room Change: SS03

User Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

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

Title to be confirmed

User Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

User Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

User Professor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

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

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

User Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

User Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

Title to be confirmed

User Aaron Stockdill.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Is Obesity a Choice?

User Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exozodiacal clouds - the local environment of habitable planets

User Professor Mark Wyatt.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory

User Dr Athena Akrami (University College London).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

User Henryk Michalewski.

House CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Earphones: The Next Significant Platform after Smartphones

User Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Is equilibrium overrated? Processing of optical materials at finite time scales

User Prof. Ursula J. Gibson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

User Lucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

User Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

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

Plurilingualism and Assessment (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume)

User Dr. Nick Saville, Cambridge English Assessment.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

User Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

User Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

Friday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Conservation and plant diversity

User Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Friday 22 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

The Limits of Symmetric Computation

User Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge).

Friday 22 November 2019, 19:00-20:00

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

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

User Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (Newton International Fellow, British Academy and University College London).

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

User Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of "The Spirit of Inquiry" 200 years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

User Zohreh Shams.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Mathematics vs Dementia

User Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

User James Kent.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths

User Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

User Joseph Marks.

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Building with DNA: From understanding to redesign of molecular machines

User Prof. Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Sexual Health, Risk and Migration: Challenging exclusionary constructions of migrant men who have sex with men

User Arthur Davis - Centre for Gender Studies.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain

User Anthony Wagner (Stanford University).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

House SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Title to be confirmed

Room Change: SS03

User Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

Friday 29 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

User Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

User Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.

User Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

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

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: the life sciences on film and radio

User Max Long (Faculty of History).

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Some elements of algebraic geometry

User Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge).

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Monday 02 December 2019, 19:00-20:00

Title to be confirmed

User Paul Scherer.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

User Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Polluted White Dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets

User Laura Rogers.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Decoding the mysteries of quantum physics

User Professor Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 19:30-20:30

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

User Anna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

User Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?

User Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

A talk by Dr Antonio Rodrigues

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 13 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

User Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

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

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

User Ben Day.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Globalizing music education and the international music education community

User Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

A fusion power plant — why not

User Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

House TBC.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

User Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Friday 24 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

User Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, University of Surrey.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Professor Nigel Peake - title to be confirmed

User Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics .

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneering genetic therapies for Huntington's disease and its relevance for neurodegeneration

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2020 Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Ann Waterman (aw244@cam.ac.uk).

User Professor Tony Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Climate change (TBC)

User Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Structures Research Group.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Eske Willerslev - title to be confirmed

User Professor Eske Willerslev, Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Copenhagen.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Class, Control and Classical music: Musical practices and white middle-class identities among young people in the south of England

User Dr Anna Bull, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

User Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Professor Rebecca Kilner - title to be confirmed

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Professor David Baulcombe FRS- 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

User Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

A Wikipedia article on our speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Kent

User Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

House TBC.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Volcanic Behaviour

User Dr Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Let food be thy medicine.

User Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

TBC

User Tina Potter, Cavendish.

House TBC.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges

User Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:30-18:00