Cavendish HEP Seminars

ML beyond Neutrino Physics: Cancer Research

Lorena Escudero.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The capacity of Constant Torsion Emergent Gravity to resolve cosmological tensions

Sinah Legner (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economic Cost of Depression: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

Fergus McCormack, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Designing Counter Strategies against Online Harms

Stefanie Ullmann, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A switching property for percolation of Brownian loops

Wendelin Werner (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

17T7 as a Galois group over Q through Hilbert modular forms

Raymond van Bommel (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:00-15:45

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:45-16:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spacetime extensions in low regularity

Peter Cameron (Imperial).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

Prof Sonya Clegg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School

Enterprise Tuesday: Quantum – ready or not

Ilyas Khan, Founder and Chief Product Officer of Quantinuum; Nick Fishwick, Non-Executive Director of the HM Courts & Tribunal Service; Phil O’Donovan, Cambridge Angel; and Dr Jeremy Sosabowski, Co-founder Executive Director, AlgoDynamix..

Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington St, CB2 1AG.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Short-term, high-resolution sea ice forecasting with diffusion model ensembles

Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey.

BAS Seminar Room 2; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/96472472041.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

A model-theoretic approach to Roth's theorem

Amador Martin-Pizarro (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Sampling using Diffusion Processes

Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Using global multicohort studies to determine how genetic and environmental factors influence brain development in infancy and early childhood.

Rebecca Knickmeyer, Michigan State University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Functional interfaces in UHV and in water : recent insights from ab initio

Professor Marie-Laure Bocquet, Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks.

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hardware Datapath: For Machine Learning and Beyond

Professor George A. Constantinides - Professor of Digital Computation, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Positivity in the Sky

Professor Claudia de Rham - Imperial College, London.

MR3.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knot theory and complex curves

Matthew Hedden (Michigan State University).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Understanding Eimeria population, genetic and antigenic diversity to improve control against coccidiosis

Professor Damer Blake, Royal Veterinary College.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Reconstructing the hominin tree

Dr Suzy White, University of Reading.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Tensor product functoriality via p-adic propagation

Zachary Feng, University of Oxford.

MR12.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate-ice sheet interactions in the long-term past and their importance for the long-term future

Marie-Luise Kapsch (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 17:30-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner; Dept of Pathology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Effects triggered by singular solutions in the collapse of non-spherical bubbles

Daniel Fuster, Institut D'Alembert.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Giuseppe Policastro, Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The microscopic barriers protecting your airway everyday

Leah Hurst, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Dynamical Complexity in Living Active Matter

Praneet Prakash (University of Cambridge, DAMTP).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum phases of matter under non-unitary dynamics

Izabella Lovas, ETH Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

Tessa Dekker (UCL).

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

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Jan Petr (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science as communication

Jim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Quantitative microbiome profiling in health and disease.

Prof. Jeroen Raes, Vice director, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinear dynamics and condition monitoring in rotating machines

Professor Alan Champneys, Bristol University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Algebraising foundations of elliptic curves

David Angdinata (University College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Squirrels of the British Isles: Red, Grey, and Black!

Helen McRobie, Anglia Ruskin University.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training

Jeremy Bernstein (MIT).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes

Harvey Reall, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86544434784?pwd=dE3XiqwmaWGPz9w5pXNkKk93XsmtJv.1.

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The agroecology of subsistence in Japan during the 1st Millennium BC using ecological modelling

Leah Brainerd (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:15-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

On the congruence subgroup property for mapping class groups of surfaces

Henry Wilton, Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Deformation and Fracture of Metallic Glasses.

Dr Wenqing Zhu, CUED .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

 Anomalous fluctuations in stochastic cellular automata

Takato Yoshimura, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-driven homogenisation of the mechanical response of solids

Dr Mirac Onur Bozkurt, CUED .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Dematerialisation in Construction

Michal Drewniok, University of Leeds, UK.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 14 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jose Luis Narbona Valiente, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Do we really need more data?

Max Langtry, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Stefan Schacht (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Synchronization in Navier-Stokes turbulence and it's role in data-driven modeling

Professor Masanobu Inubushi, Tokyo University of Science.

MR2.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Developing More Effective Pharmacological Treatments for Chronic Pain

David Hughes, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Reconciling seismic and thermo-chemical models of cratonic lithosphere

Felix Davison.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Luisa Lucie-Smith (University of Hamburg).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Stratification and mixing regimes in the global coastal ocean: classifications and trends from models and observations

Jo Hopkins (NOC).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century

Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

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

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

(Cancelled)

Annalaura Rebucci, MPI Leipzig.

MR13.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Making waves in Stars: Bridging modern asteroseismology and numerical simulations

Tamara Rogers (Newcastle).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Ancestral Sight

Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom

Efthimios Karayiannides (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 17 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The Federal Reserve's 'rate war' and its aftermath: the political consequences of financial instability, 1966-72.

Dr Arthur Rothier-Bautzer (Centre for Financial History and GlobalCapital).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 17 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice

Professor Stephen John.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

How to run a library: 20 years of employment

Sarah Humbert (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 17 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Searching for Life in Stranger Seas

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09 Meeting ID: 898 2630 6833 Passcode: 662640

William Bains.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Laura Fabbri, University of Bologna.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Accounting for Noise and Singularities in Bayesian Calibration Methods for Global 21-cm Cosmology Experiments

Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Bloodshed, embodiment, politics, and theology

Professor Daniel Weiss, Faculty of Divinity, Fellow of Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Physical-Layer Security of Satellite Communications Links

Simon Birnbach, University of Oxford.

Webinar & GN06, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

TBA

Titus Lupu (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Graham (Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The S Algebra in Self-Dual Yang-Mills: Twistorial and Spacetime Perspectives

Adam Kmec (Oxford).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

The Francis Crick Lecture 2025 - The DNA Quadruplex Helix

Shankar Balasubramaniam, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93702571246?pwd=I6zsi0w8N5XcKg2gu0bac58rcyTfba.1.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Unraveling Water’s Behavior in Anisotropic Environments

Dr Yair Litman, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Microtargeting Manipulation Machine

Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).

Online.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ilan Price - Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Progress in the pipeline: cholera, politics and the waterworks revolution in Germany.​

Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen University)​.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:00-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Searching for new physics with ultracold molecules

Michael Tarbutt (Imperial College).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Vincenzo di Bartholo, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing levels of volcanism in the late Pleistocene

Jack Longman (Northumbria University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 17:30-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

James Morris, IEEF and Emma Lepinay, IEEF.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Xiang Zhao, IPHT.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Hydrodynamic Hamiltonians of active two-dimensional fluids

Naomi Oppenheimer (Tel Aviv University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Fractal geometry: an introduction to fractal dimensions

Jose Ramon.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

RSC Prizewinner Seminar - "Linking structure and properties in complex quantum materials"

Dr Alexandra Gibbs - University of St Andrews .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London.

Online.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On conceptual engineering in psychiatry: is it time to eliminate or reappropriate the category of psychiatric disorder?

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, pleomorphic tumour necrosis, and metastasis”

Jose M. Adrover, Francis Crick Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Sonia Garcia-Ruiz (Postdoc, UK Dementia Research Institute, Dept. Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Vanessa Loiacono (PI, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam Brandenburg, GE).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalising Brauer Group and Group Cohomology in Lean4

Jujian Zhang (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Great Fen: progress on the peat

Henry Stanier, Monitoring & Research Officer at the BCN Wildlife Trust.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Development of diagnostic assays using a surface plasmon resonance platform technology

Alex Currie, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Preparing for the next pandemic: a computationally designed, future-proofed pan-H5 haemagglutinin nanoparticle vaccine

Chloe Huang, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP

Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09..

Friday 21 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Alex Vañó-Viñuales (IST Lisbon).

Potter room.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Abauntz Cave (Navarre): New Excavations at a Classic Palaeolithic Site

Mikel Arlegi (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:15-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Martin Palmer, Leeds.

MR13.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Strategies for the Rapid Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogues and the Total Synthesis of the Antimitotic Natural Product Eleutherobin

Professor Rob Britton (SFU).

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Conceiving, designing and testing giant ultralight coilable space structures

Prof. Sergio Pelligrino, California Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Post-doc talks

Post-doc talks, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Steve Webb, Webb Yates Engineers, UK.

Teaching Room (James Dyson Building).

Friday 21 February 2025, 15:30-16:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Joseph Malbon, University of Edinburgh.

MR13.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The statistics of nonlinear vibration via the Fokker-Planck equation: an overview

Prof. Robin Langley, Emeritus, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger, title TBC

Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Rene Poncelet (Cracow, INP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Autonomy as an Engine for Wellbeing, Engagement, and Student Performance: A Gamification Approach"

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Nathan J. Emery PhD FHEA, Dept of Biological & Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Playing with dice: two unusual use cases for experimental randomisation in fMRI

Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Chon Man Sou 蘇俊文 (Tsinghua U., Beijing).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Human Judgement and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Helen Roberts (Met Office).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic

Justine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jacek Jendrej.

MR13.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Instabilities and the remarkable survivability of AGN jets.

Serguei Komissarov (Leeds).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Post-Kantian Perfectionism

Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa/University of Sydney).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 24 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 24 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jerimiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

Clàudia Janó Muñoz (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploring dietary behaviours, narratives and attitudes in Cambridge colleges

Sigurdur Martinsson, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Approaches to Characterise the Surface and Bulk Compositions of Picolitre Droplets

RSC 2023 Faraday Early Career Prize: Marlow Prize Winner

Dr Bryan Bzdek, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Branching random walk with non-local competition

Sarah Penington (Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities

Kyle Beadle, UCL.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Can kernel machines be a viable alternative to deep neural networks?

Dr Parthe Pandit, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Li Huerta (MPIM).

MR13.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

On kink clusters for scalar fields in dimension 1+1.

Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

‘A peculiar survey … for our peculiar purpose’: founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland

Finnian O'Cionnaith, Dublin.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Mike Hochman (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Variations of the Expectation due to Changes in the Measure: Applications to Generalization and Game Theory

Dr Samir Perlaza, INRIA.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Probing biomolecular phase separation through multiscale computer simulations.

Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:00-15:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Digital Money and Decentralised Finance

Professor Frank Stajano and Dr Ferdinando Samaria - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:30-16:30

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Christiaan van Ooij, Keele University.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Porous nitride semiconductors for novel light sources

Rachel Oliver (DMSM).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Simon Goodwin, University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Preserving What Was Lost: Endangered Languages of Yazd’s Religious Minorities Zoroastrians and Jews and Their Vernacular Heritage

Professor Saloumeh Gholami (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems immunology and variation in the human immune system

Professor Adrian Liston.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Professor Matthew Davidson, Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Cynthia Keeler, Arizona State University.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

The ups and downs of budding yeast's transport of glucose

Peter Swain (University of Edinburgh).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Super-resolution optical microscope for use in the life sciences

Rebecca McClelland.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture I - New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry

Prof. Patrick Unwin, University of Warwick.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Steve Simon, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample

Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions

Helen Chadwick, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Where is Amazonia on display (today)? A global approach to understanding Amazonian collections

Neil Safier (Brown University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Seth Coffelt, Professor of Cancer Immunology, University of Glasgow

Seth Coffelt, Professor of Cancer Immunology, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Francisco Ferreira Ruiz (Royal Holloway, University of London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2024

Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Evaluation of fluorescence in situ hybridisation for the detection of bacterial pathogens in liver biopsy samples from dogs with idiopathic chronic hepatitis

Arran Smith, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 28 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Investigating the role of Influenza virus neuraminidase activity on the host immune response

Mahmoud Elgamal, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 28 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Zangwill Club

Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2025, 12:00-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease

Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Geoarchaeological insights into the start of crop cultivation in the Dutch wetlands

Hans Huisman (University of Groningen / Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:15-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pablo Sánchez-Peralta, UAM.

MR13.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture II - "Tales of the Unexpected: New Perspectives on Electrochemistry at Carbon Electrodes and Membranes"

Prof. Patrick Unwin, University of Warwick.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

25 years with MathWorks and its customers

David Sampson, MathsWorks.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Kelly Wang, University of Cambridge .

MR13.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language meets Control Theory

Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Harry Fieldhouse, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fast flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction

Professor John Hinch, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Cryo-OrbiSIMS – high resolution mass spectrometry imaging in the native biological state

Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92454273602?pwd=kKpRjV53ALrNtk3FXYDG1jqaNTjGa4.1.

Monday 03 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Intensified shelf break exchange through submarine canyons: upwelling, internal tides, and turbidity currents

Rob Hall (UEA).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Sadra Jazayeri (Imperial College).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004

Isobel Newby (University of Leeds).

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

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jo Evans, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

James Rogers (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech

Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 03 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

What does it mean to Democratize Finance?

Dr Leah Rose Downey (University of Cambridge).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 03 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

tbc

Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

James Grime, Institute of Continuing Education.

Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Monday 03 March 2025, 19:15-21:00

Lattice field theory informal seminars

Title to be confirmed

Niccolò Forzano (Swansea University).

MR15 (GL.02), Pavilion G, CMS.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 10:00-11:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

High-Resolution PM2.5 Mapping Across Malaysia Using Multi-Satellite Data and Machine Learning Techniques

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTQ5N2Q5ZDYtODRmYi00MzJhLTg0ZjctNjc2NGVlZDUzYmUx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Kasturi Kanniah, Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold

Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Metaphysics as Communing with the Unknown: Crossing between Emanuel Levinas and Karl Jaspers

Connor Hayes.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Towards a Faster Finality Protocol for Ethereum - RESCHEDULED

Luca Zanolini, Ethereum Foundation.

Webinar & GN06, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisiting the paradigm of African ape and human origins

Prof David Begun, University of Toronto.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

TBA

Armand Riera (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Chris Wuthrich (Nottingham).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jeremy Hahn (Cambridge).

CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 10:30-11:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Emergent phenomena in nanosculpted devices of quantum materials

Max Birch - RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Trotter of the Empire: Krepysh, National Dreams, and the Price of Perfection

Dr Olga Petri, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Peter Varju (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Gergely Flamich, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

g-xTB: DFT accuracy at tight-binding speed

Professor Stefan Grimme, University of Bonn.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Joe Watson - Co-founder, Xaira Therapeutics.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:05-15:55

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang

Zhang, MIT.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Transport and the transmission of plague across settlements in early modern England.​

Charlie Udale and Eric Schneider (LSE)​.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Natalia Berloff (DAMTP).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Health and nutrition among the Maya

Dr Ines Varela-Silva, Loughborough University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Charles Senecal, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Breaking the Ice: Abrupt climate change and deglaciation

Ruza Ivanovic (University of Leeds).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

Dr Daniel Munoz Espin, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

David Ramirez, University of Cambridge.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mathematical Modelling of Emergent Survival in Microbial Communities

Naomi van den Berg.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mike C. Payne, FRS (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice?

Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London.

Online.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery

Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine

Keith Wailoo (Princeton University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Gunnar Nilsson, Professor of Experimental Allergy Research, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Gunnar Nilsson, Professor of Experimental Allergy Research, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Forests

Charles Turner.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - QICG

Alison Hayes, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 07 March 2025, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward

Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 07 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation

Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jone Lopez de Gamiz Zearra, Bilbao.

MR13.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:45-14:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sam Fischer, University of Oxford.

MR13.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jie Yuan, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Matthew Kirk (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Florian Merkle, title TBC

Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The mathematics and physics of wound healing

Professor Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Channels or waves: controls on melt migration through the upper mantle

Min Huang.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - One or two membranes? Investigating the transition between monoderm and diderm cell envelopes across the Tree of Bacteria - IN PERSON ONLY

Simonetta Gribaldo, Intstitut Pasteur.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 10 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Ice Shelves: Antarctica’s Gatekeepers

Becky Dell (Geography).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Alkistis Pourtsidou (University of Edinburgh).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623

Alexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Razvan Radu.

MR13.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Paul Barrere (Geneva).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 10 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought

John Coffey (University of Leicester).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 10 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

tbc

Dr Eva Marquis - University of Exeter.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 10 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS

Lars Henkelmann.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book of protecting Osiris among those of the Netherworld: An annotated version of the First Hour.

Chike Pilgrim, PhD Student, Department of Archaeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Kious (Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Siqi Yang (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Lister, University of Western Australia.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Title to be confirmed

Edith Heard, EMBL.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Ben Krause (University of Bristol).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Carole Morrison, University of Edinburgh.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Edwin Brady - School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 15:05-15:55

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

To be confirmed

Professor Tilman Plehn - Heidelberg University.

MR3.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBC (Geometry Colloquium)

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBC (Mini-course talk 1)

Please note the unusual time and place.

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

CMS, MR14.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:15-12:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Matthew Jackson, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ofer Aharony, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

A general role of mechanical pre-patterning in tissue shape formation in embryos

Fengzhu Xiong (University of Cambridge, Gurdon Institute).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Blood Cancer Research

Shanlin Tong.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain

Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Title to be confirmed

Fulden Eratam, Diamond Light Source, Harwell.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Creativity for the information age: making up minds and machines in the United States and the Soviet Union

Ekaterina Babintseva (Purdue University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formal verification of the 5th Busy Beaver value

Tristan Stérin (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Maja Kądziołka.

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Cambridgeshire Bird Club - 1925 to 2025: a century of bird watching

Bob Jarman.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Unraveling Its Variability, Mimics, and Predictors

Jose Novo Matos, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 14 March 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Geospatial Analysis and Forecasting of Bacterial Meningitis Outbreaks in Africa

Molly Cliff, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 14 March 2025, 08:45-10:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBC (Mini-course talk 2)

Please note the unusual time and place.

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

CMS, MR15.

Friday 14 March 2025, 10:30-11:30

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape

Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Late Holocene hunter-gatherer interaction through oxygen and strontium isotopes: cautionary tales, machine learning and mobility in Patagonia

Alejandro Serna (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 14 March 2025, 13:15-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alice Kerr, Bristol.

MR13.

Friday 14 March 2025, 13:45-14:45

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zürich.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Daniil Mamaev, London School of Geometry and Number Theory.

MR13.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent zonal jets: self-organization and wave-mean flow interactions

Dr Daphné Lemasquerier, University of St Andrews.

MR2.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Maria Maiarú, title TBC

Dr Maria Maiarú, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Normal mode coupling in an aspherical planet

Alex Myhill.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Model-free and model-based methods for estimating neural timescales

Roxana Zeraati, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Giulia Cusin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Volcanic fissure localisation and lava delta formation: Modelling of volcanic flows undergoing rheological evolution

Jesse Taylor-West (Bath).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

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

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Malcolm Druett (Sheffield).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Two New Developments concerning Noether's Two Theorems

Peter Olver.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Monday 17 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses

Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law

Dimitrios Halikias (Princeton University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Money: a Treasury-centric view

Mario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?

Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

tbc

Dr Barbara Kunz - The Open University.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 17 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Alex Joyner, Sloan Kettering Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alice Hutchings (University of Cambridge).

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

Louis-Pierre Arguin (Oxford).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Maleeha Khawaja (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marie-Aude Measson - CNRS Institut Neel.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Schubert variety of a hyperplane arrangement

Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Jochen Blumberger, UCL.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Parasitology Seminars

Structure-function studies of essential mitochondrial complexes of apicomplexan parasites

Professor Lilach Sheiner, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mortality in the century of apartheid, 1940-1970: spatial and racial inequalities in mortality and doctors during the antibiotic transition.​

Nick Fitzhenry (LSE)​.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar March 2025 - Focus on programmable biology

Ola Wlodek, Constructive Bio and Ben Lenher, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) .

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

From known to unknown? Investigating Pleistocene landscapes at Happisburgh’

Dr Rachel Bynoe, University of Southampton.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Rise and fall of Bronze Age Mediterranean societies: a new geoarchaeological and chronostratigraphic sequence of Nuragic Sardinia

Gian Battista Marras (British School at Rome).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and clinical insights from genome-wide association studies of cancer

Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute .

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Yifei He, Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

George Vassiliou, CSCI Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges

Professor Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford .

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania.

Online.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Tal Arnon, Professor of Cellular Immunology, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford

Tal Arnon, Professor of Cellular Immunology, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Alessandro Bonetti (Director of Neuroscience, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Kevin Weeks (PI, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-19:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

David Wang (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2025

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

The President and Officers.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 18:30-18:55

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

Jim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 19:00-20:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 21 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Analytical pyrolysis for characterising wood and textile: applications and methodological challenges

Deborah Roversi (University of York / Côte d'Azur University).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:15-14:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Peter Zaika, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr James Reading, title TBC

James Reading, University College London.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonmonotonic flow curves and shear banding in granular flows

Dr Christopher Ness, University of Edinburgh.

MR2.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

James McCann.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

(Cambridge Festival) Life in Lilliput - The Mathematics of Fictional Realms

Sarah Hart (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Saturday 22 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Max Perutz Lecture 2025: Title TBC

Reinhard Lührmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91444589642?pwd=jnwAAhDSdpwbVU89ouG9RenIhuXRDL.1.

Monday 24 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Principles of intensive human neuroimaging

Dr. Eline Kupers, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Kim V. Berghaus (Caltech).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 24 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

Karine Chemla (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 24 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Revealing the Unseen: AI's Role in Novel Target Discovery for High Unmet Needs Areas Through Multi-Omics Integrationce for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Research & AI, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

DAMTP BioLunch

Mechanically-Grown Morphogenesis of Voronoi-Type Materials

Zahra Hooshmand Ahoor (University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Cecilie Glittum (Freie Universität Berlin).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Public Lecture- Refugee mathematicians from Nazi Germany with an emphasis on the U.K

MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (University of Agder).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Professor Awen Gallimore, Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University

Professor Awen Gallimore, Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Unknown Maxwell

The Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 March 2025, 09:00-17:15

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Artefacts in MEG data

Dr Golan Karvat, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

Deborah Kent (University of St Andrews), Jemma Lorenat (Pitzer College).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 31 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hold for EHT OfB

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No Room Required.

Tuesday 01 April 2025, 09:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

Professor Serena Nik-Zainal.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW72 - MHM OfB

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No Room Required.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 14:00-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBC

OFBW72 - MHM OfB

.

No Room Required.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 14:15-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBC

OFBW72 - MHM OfB

.

No Room Required.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 15:30-16:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

2024 Novo Nordisk Prize Lectures

Professors Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Sir David Klenerman.

Dept of Chemistry, (BMS) Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBC

OFBW72 - MHM OfB

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No Room Required.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 16:15-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Frontiers in Biophysics and Chemical Biology symposium

Professor Ed Boyden, MIT; Professor Jason Chin, University of Cambridge; Professor Thomas Carrell from LMU, Munich; Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago; and Professor Xiaowei Zhang, Harvard University..

Dept of Chemistry, (BMS) Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 April 2025, 10:30-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Rod MacKinnon - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92311841585?pwd=auhAdp8eTD8Ca0xGZpaNlZrChEcHAr.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Jue Chen - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93491001276?pwd=2utwaSIeA0haHVdOuRkZlBlQq6wzLb.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 09:30-10:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

From Batch to Flow: Advancing Synthetic Organic Chemistry through Technological Innovation

Professor Timothy Noël (University of Amsterdam, Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences).

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach

Roger Sewell.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 19:15-21:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

osl-ephys: A Python toolbox for the analysis of electrophysiology data

Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK .

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

EHT - Equivariant homotopy theory in context

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Daniel Tennant, University of Birmingham, UK.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 April 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

TBA.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 April 2025, 17:00-19:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 23 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: An Ocean of Calculation. Episodes from the History of Indian Mathematics

MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2025, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

César Milstein Lecture 2025: Title TBC

David Pellman - Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97042445746?pwd=rjwSiStXxjdk1Q2tPOdRnqr8aM3qwn.1.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 10:00-11:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Simon Powell, MSKCC.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

John Kendrew Lecture 2025: Title TBC

Elena Conti - Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92203736389?pwd=68nPyr7JP1gZrsR4lgJKm1ad4idxyx.1.

Monday 28 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Nicole Righi (King's College London).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 28 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meritxell Huch, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Bjarne Bergh, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Calculations of excited electronic states using density functionals - without introducing time-dependence

Professor Hannes Jónsson, University of Iceland.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Corey Holt, University of Bath.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Mac Shine, University of Sydney.

Online.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci, FRS (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Hang Li (Sorbonne Université).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The mechanical properties of wood at high rates of strain

Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Tim Austin (Warwick).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 02 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Anitha Thillaisundaram, Lund.

MR13.

Friday 02 May 2025, 13:45-14:45

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Pianos, guitars and double decays

Prof. Jim Woodhouse, Emeritus, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability

Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton University).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 05 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography

Onur Engin, University of Cambridge.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 17:30-18:30

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Justin Coon, University of Oxford.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Maria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Prakash Murali - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Rouse Ball Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Prof Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

TBC.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Nikos Nikiforakis (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Can we design fatigue-resistant alloys?

Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Professor Paul Kubes, Cumming School of Medicine

Professor Paul Kubes, Cumming School of Medicine.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Yang (Imperial College, London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Arnaud de Mattia (IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experimental Democracy

Leah Downey (St. John's College, University of Cambridge).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Title to be confirmed

Danesh Moazed, Harvard University.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The transformative power of empathy for education: reflection and realisation for teaching and learning

Dr Helen Demetriou, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sven Friedemann - University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Samuel Coles, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

Online.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

To be confirmed

Professor Gary Horowitz - University of California, Santa Barbara.

MR3.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Antoine Molaro, iGReD.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Creation of Chemical Complexity via Controlled Functionalization of Organoboron Compounds

Prof Hong Geun Lee (Seoul National University).

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Prediction and its application to mechanical properties

Peter Gould.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title TBC - Prof. Anat Milo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Anna Wredenberg, Karolinska Institute, Finland.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Friday 16 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94132066038?pwd=OF2EjwrvRQxl0XgpGK0N5L4bDNaayi.1.

Monday 19 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Adrien La Posta (University of Oxford).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 19 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Moral Philosophy and the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1860

Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary University of London).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 19 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Walter Kohn: the theoretical physicist who created DFT and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Prof. Sir David Clary, FRS (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story

John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Title to be confirmed

Sophie Joscelyne (University College London).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 26 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Swinburne, UC Berkeley.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Public Lecture: Title TBC

EHT - Equivariant homotopy theory in context

Michael Hill (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Paul Goddard - University of Warwick.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Chiara Leadbeater, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Alberto Paganini (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Chris Hooley (Coventry).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sergio Blanes (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Etienne Camphuis.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 09 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

Dr Gill Barnett and Dr Christopher Jones, Cambridge University Hospital & Dept of Oncology .

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Leonardo Tolomeo (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Hendrik Hildebrandt (Ruhr University Bochum).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 16 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

TBC

Professor David Sancho Madrid, Spanish Center for Cardiovascular Research.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Nixon Niyonzima, Uganda Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jörg Behler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 17:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Andy Fire - Stanford University School of Medicine.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93594800418?pwd=cAhtrP8MGG3FclWimSbLLwl9XhIHNX.1.

Monday 30 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Marileen Dogterom - TU Delft, Delft University of Technology.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95584842300?pwd=V2DAKEE0bQXA4bbbSUryiRPELlhmzP.1.

Monday 07 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

**Please note new date for this seminar**

Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Christian Haass - Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96372751903?pwd=C2hRQ8UF0B03vDp6IHGfWuTlsqzrTi.1.

Monday 14 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98880219442?pwd=2LiGulNdYohUjaMnbiN88kLpt3r8M9.1.

Monday 08 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Alan Brown, Harvard Medical School.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99625598840?pwd=tiFsd5DQ5nqRyGefhp24MlXakfaa9L.1.

Monday 15 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Nenad Ban - ETH Zurich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97937314535?pwd=SciQzQiuFkLGF3ERwcMiLLTEbryUxV.1.

Monday 22 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Hiroaki Suga - The University of Tokyo.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96488916942?pwd=BpCGRwD8hD8ec89yfaJ0yKPmV3o6lv.1.

Monday 29 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, The Francis Crick Institute.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 19:15-21:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Steffi Oesterreich, University of Pittsburgh.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:00-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00