Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Moonshot Thinking to Unleash Innovation, Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha: MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

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

Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha.

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

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

Ben Day.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Globalizing music education and the international music education community

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs?

Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison).

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Rory Waite.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR12.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Alain Goriely (University of Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org

Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Duo Wang.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Optiver

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

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

TBC.

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

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

MR12.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nick Dorey (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

IMC

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Jacob Deasy.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Second Language Education Group

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 Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

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

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

Chaucer Club

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Doubt thy models: rethinking hypothesis testing in NLP

Rescheduled

Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Dimensional Analysis: How to get something for (nearly) nothing

Prof. Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality

Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Machine Learning at the Extreme Edge - an Open Platform Approach

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Women@CL Events

TBC

Lunch provided

Rosemary Francis (Ellexus).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Climate change (TBC)

Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Structures Research Group.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Dr Colm-Cille Caulfield (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Eske Willerslev, Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Copenhagen.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

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

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3..

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Ourpath

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

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

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Women@CL Events

TBC

Lunch provided

Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Green Custard Ltd

Zoltan Molnar.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Vanessa Didelez, University of Bremen.

MR12.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anthony Ashton (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor Rebecca Kilner - title to be confirmed

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

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

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TBC.

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

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, emissions and enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 March 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

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

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

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Tina Potter, Cavendish.

TBC.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Gearset

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

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

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

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

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Rouse Ball Lectures

Undecidability in number theory

Bjorn Poonen, MIT.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Monday 27 April 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability

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

Danielle Turton (Lancaster University).

English Faculty Building, TBC.

Sunday 05 December 2021, 16:30-18:00