Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models

Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

FDCSP+ fibroblasts predict response to cancer immunotherapy

Dr Daniele Biasci.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Imaginative reinforcement learning

Sam Gershman (Harvard University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bcgdZgxu4PbNjAqn6

Dr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

Online.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

CRISPR Cas Genome Editors - from Bacteria to Biotech

Prof Martin Jínek (Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich).

Online.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 18:15-19:45

NLIP Seminar Series

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

Robert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 26 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Women@CL Events

Lent Talklets: Costanza and Cătălina

Costanza Conforti (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge); Cătălina Cangea (Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge).

Remote.

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Seminar Cancelled

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity

Emily BJ Coffey, PhD .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Online.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Back to the Future: Ice Cores and Climate Science

Register for meeting access details, see below

Dr Helene Hoffmann (Wolfson College, Cambridge).

Wolfson College Zoom meeting.

Friday 26 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Week 6 - Prof. Emily Riehl of Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).

Online (Zoom) - sign up via the form before end of Sunday.

Monday 01 March 2021, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

Professor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7XLjb1S08.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas

YouTube Lecture available online now

Dr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

https://youtu.be/keEFh3za-Eo.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Youtube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Interpretable representation learning for speech and audio signals

Seminar on zoom

Dr Purvi Agrawal, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Microsoft India.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Entrust: Is Quantum Computing really a threat to Security Systems?

Dr Pali Surdhar, Product Security Director, Entrust.

Online.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:05-13:55

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Landscape and Gaps in Open Source Fairness Toolkits

Michelle Lee.

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Challenges in the development of therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Professor Dame Kay Davies.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ivan Titov - University of Edinburgh.

Online.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Dr Sabin Roman.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depression

Michelle Craske (UCLA).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Multiethnolects as contact languages: the case for the Jamaican influence in London

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/1RUHXqvAEkBvTAps5

Paul Kerswill (University of York).

Online.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Rethinking Benchmarking in AI

Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Molecular Nanostructures with Unusual Electronic and Optical Properties

Professor Harry L. Anderson ( Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford).

Online.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 18:15-19:45

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Paromita Dubey, Stanford University.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Online.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

Chris Wingfield.

Zoom.

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

HP: Title tbc

Ian Pratt.

Online.

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:05-13:55

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Space Weather - exploring the science, impacts and challenges posed by space weather.

Professor Richard B. Horne, Head of Space Weather and Atmosphere, British Antarctic Survey..

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 08 March 2021, 19:30-21:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Week 7 - Prof. Ana Caraiani of Imperial College London

Prof. Ana Caraiani (Imperial College London).

Online (Zoom) - sign up via the form before end of Sunday.

Monday 08 March 2021, 20:30-21:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Seminar on zoom

Dr Svetlana Stoyanchev, Speech Technology Group, Toshiba Europe Research Ltd, Cambridge Research Lab.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Bianca Dumitrascu.

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Representation Learning

Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Weiwei Sun - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis

Professor Charles Swanton FRCP FMedSci FAACR FRS.

Google Meets.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortex

Dora Hermes (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Note unusual time

Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval

Unusual date and time

Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/ofRcLr4aBxyZh7yP6

Dr Matt Tyler (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Online.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The art of conversation

Professor Antje S. Meyer.

Google Meets.

Friday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850

Andreas Weber (University of Twente).

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Week 8 - Dr. Henry Wilton of Trinity College Cambridge

Dr. Henry Wilton (Trinity College Cambridge).

Online (Zoom) - sign up via the form before end of Sunday.

Monday 15 March 2021, 20:30-21:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Combination of Deep Speaker Embeddings for Diarisation and Discriminative Neural Clustering for Speaker Diarisation

Seminar on zoom

Brian Sun, Quija Li, Florian Kreyssig, Cambridge University Speech Research Group.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Cadence Design Systems: Intelligent System Design and Computational Software

Andrew Hall.

Online.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 13:05-13:55

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning

Qingbiao Li.

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mass spectrometry: From ribosomes to receptors

Professor Dame Carol Robinson DBE FRS FMedSci.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GPs on Data from Simulators

Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Do We Report the Information that is Necessary to Give Psychology Away?

Bharathy Premachandra (Cornell University).

via zoom .

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

YouTube link to be confirmed.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

YouTube upload date to follow soon

Professor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

YouTube link to be confirmed.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic

YouTube upload date to follow soon

Dr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

YouTube link to be confirmed.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology.

YouTube link to be confirmed.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Ed Awh (University of Chicago).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

On the phonetics and phonology of English H* and L+H* pitch accents

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/MCZQPEjAVVryicLY6

Amalia Arvaniti (Radboud University).

Online.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Ryan McDonald (Google).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Week 9 - Prof. Leonard Susskind of Stanford University

Prof. Leonard Susskind (Stanford University).

Online (Zoom) - sign up via the form before end of Sunday.

Monday 22 March 2021, 20:30-21:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Potsawee Manakul, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Innovation - the engine of economic growth

Lord David Sainsbury, University of Cambridge.

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 29 March 2021, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Sets & Set Transformers

Vidhi Lalchand (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices

Prof Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London..

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 19 April 2021, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

PAC-Bayes

David Burt.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Predicting outcome for psychotic disorders, using brain connectivity and transcribed speech data

Sarah Morgan.

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 13:15-14:15

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nicolas Boumal (EPFL).

Online (email ccimi@maths.cam.ac.uk for the link).

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jeremy Yallop - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.

Professor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University.

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Ice templating for Regenerative Medicine - using ice to define cell-guiding frameworks for healing

Professor Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 24 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Richard Grisenthwaite - SVP, Chief Architect & Fellow, Arm.

Online.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: The Teenage Mind

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, University of Cambridge.

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 07 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Mark Girolami - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

A Retrospective on the 2014 NeurIPS Experiment

Professor Neil Lawrence - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.

Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge.

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 21 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - title to be confirmed

Professor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

new date

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - title to be confirmed

Professor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum Future - One day meeting

Date and venue to be confirmed

Organised by : Professor Ron Horgan and Professor Adrian Kent.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Saturday 30 October 2021, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE - title to be confirmed

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Julia Wolf - title to be confirmed

Dr Julia Wolf, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor Sadaf Farooqi - title to be confirmed

Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Department of Medicine.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 November 2021, 18:00-19:00