Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency?

Prof Richard 'Dick' Hudson.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

Ivan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Orbit recovery from invariants

Jonathan Weed (MIT).

MR12.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The genetics of depression

Dr Na Cai, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 27 April 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade

Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University).

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

Monday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Understanding Dementia - Master of St John's College

Professor Nick Dobson.

Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College.

Monday 30 April 2018, 19:00-20:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Social Representations of Women who Live as Men in Northern Albania

Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

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

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

Children's Literature

The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh

Kathryn Aalto.

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach

Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

An extinct coastal Sami musical tradition – How, when and why?

Ola Graff, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling

Ehsan Shareghi.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?

Gareth Gaskell (U. of York).

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages

Dr James Kirby (University of Edinburgh).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

Rahul Pandharipande (ETH).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

Andrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex

Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science, Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Electronic and optical properties of molecular semiconductors, quantum dots and novel nanoscale structures (TBC)

Dr Akshay Rao, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 04 May 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)

Marine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

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

Monday 07 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Mathematics and Machine Learning

Title to be confirmed

Devavrat Shah, MIT.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR4.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study)

Sophia Borgeest (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Latent Variable Model, Matrix Estimation and Collaborative Filtering

Prof Devavrat Shah - MIT.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Title TBC

Speaker TBC.

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

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Title to be confirmed

Prof Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

GR-05, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 10 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Rouse Ball Lectures

Regularity of interfaces in phase transitions via obstacle problems

Alessio Figalli (ETH).

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

Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

Kris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

MR12.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)

László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest).

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

Monday 14 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Beyond crazy: Rationality, irrationality, and conspiracy theory

Professor Robbie Sutton, University of Kent.

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

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

French Linguistics Research Seminars

French in Canada: Ontario and Quebec compared

Prof. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 18:00-19:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds

Frank Hezemans (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

A New Era of Open-Source System-on-Chip Design

Prof Christopher Batten - Cornell University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Elfdalian, a divergent Nordic dialect now and throughout the ages

Guus Kroonen, University of Copenhagen/Leiden University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Chaucer Club

Remembering complex events

Chris Bird (U. of Sussex).

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

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children

Margaret Kehoe, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (FAPSE), University of Geneva.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Rausing Lecture

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Andreas Malm (Lund University).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kolyan Ray (King's College London).

MR12.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms

Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Anti-cancer drugs for transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

Maximilian Stammnitz, Transmissible Cancer Group, Cambridge.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 18 May 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869

Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence).

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

Monday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

MR12.

Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system

Moataz Assem (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Rule Control Of Teleo-Reactive, Multi-Tasking, Communicating Robotic Agents

Keith Clark - Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Why are we so bad at face recognition?

Mike Burton (U. of York).

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

Thursday 24 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NAACL practice talks

Marek Rei, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Marc Hallin (UL Bruxelles).

MR12.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Metacognition of internally-generated processes

Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Race and gender in the scientific institution: Basic history and analysis.

Carmen Palacios, Quantum Information and Nanoscale Metrology Group.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 25 May 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Re-thinking cognitive training research

Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

The Wheeler Lecture In Computer Science

Professor Stephen Pulman - Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 14:30-18:00

Children's Literature

The Childist Turn in Children’s Literature Studies

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Anglia Ruskin University and University of Wroclaw .

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

The structure and function of visual working memory

Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology).

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

Thursday 31 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alexander Clark, King's College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

MR12.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations

Professor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Relativity, Quantum Theory and Cryptography

Professor Adrian Kent, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 01 June 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it?

Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience).

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

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients

Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) .

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

Thursday 07 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Victor Panaretos (EPFL).

MR12.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated Corpus

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline

James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney).

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

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages

Serge Sharoff (Leeds).

tba.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Concept learning as compression

Bradley Love (UCL).

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

Thursday 14 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Joel Tropp (Caltech).

MR12.

Monday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

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

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

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

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, The Alan Turing Institute.

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

Mordell Lectures

Title and date to be confirmed

Elon Lindenstrauss.

MR2, CMS.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 17:00-18:00