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We organise interdisciplinary forums where simulating talks are followed by discussions from young scholars with various backgrounds.

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Yan Wu; Yanyu Guo; . If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

25 upcoming talks and 4813 talks in the archive: show first 500.

Chaucer Club

Scales of injustice: Why a balance metaphor can be misleading when weighing evidence

UserDavid Lagnado, UCL.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Individual differences in mathematical cognition: A Bert’s eye view

UserBert De Smedt, University of Leuven.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Competence, Pain and the Geometry of Intelligence: Three Perspectives on Learning and Representation

UserProf Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).

HouseFW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2026, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Correcting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy sources with reinforcement learning

UserStefano Palminteri, Ecole Normale Superieure.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The Geometry of Random Neural Networks

UserDomenico Marinucci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 30 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Exploring high-level cognition through large language models

UserAriel Goldstein, U. of Cambridge.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayesian intensity estimation for covariate-driven point processes

UserMatteo Giordano (Università degli Studi di Torino).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 06 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug

UserJing Huang (Stanford University).

HouseONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

ClockFriday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness

UserJuliane Britz, University of Fribourg.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Understanding, predicting and reducing dementia risk: insights from the heart and brain

UserSana Suri, U. of Oxford.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on

UserMarcus Munafò, University of Bath.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserAtticus Geiger (Goodfire) .

HouseONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

ClockFriday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine

UserEmilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics

UserClaire Elwell, University College London (UCL).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute).

HouseFW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

ClockFriday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Rainfall, volatility and roughness: an intriguing story across scales

UserMarc Hoffmann (Université Paris-Dauphine).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 27 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Verbal suggestion and the modulation of perception: Implications for psychological science, psychopathology, and psychedelics

UserDevin Terhune, KCL.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The complexity of platform power

UserPhilipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserMario Giulianelli (UCL).

HouseFW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

ClockFriday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

UserGérard Ben Arous (Courant).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserZhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).

HouseONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

ClockFriday 13 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Emotions as Moral Character Trackers

UserRoger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions

UserPeter Kok, UCL.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning

UserProf Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

UserValeria Ruscio.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockThursday 04 June 2026, 17:00-17:45

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