Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org

Food provided

Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Turbulence driven by tides in planetary cores: wave turbulence vs. geostrophic turbulence

Thomas Le Reun, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

ym354's list

Organic Bioelectronic Interfaces Based on Crystalline PEDOT:PSS Films, Microfibers, and Fibrillar Hydrogel

Professor Myung-Han Yoon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) .

Lecture Room 3, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

Rogier Kievit (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Earth System Models

Dr. Cat Scott, University of Leeds.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

An optimal transport formulation of the Einstein equations of general relativity

Andrea Mondino (Univ. of Oxford).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 20 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record

Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Abstract Diagrammatic Reasoning with Multiplex Graph Networks

Duo Wang.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Self-Programming Networks: Applications to Financial Trading Systems

Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford).

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tourist taxation and heritage cities

Dr Guo Ji.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Negative controls in causal inference

Yuhao Wang.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:30-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case

Gareth Tyson, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Molecular strategies to increase robustness of organic semiconductor thin films for application in photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices

Kevin Sivula EPFL.

Raleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Fluctuations in the number of level set components of planar Gaussian fields

Stephen Muirhead (Queen Mary).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Eye gaze controlled interface design for automotive, aviation and assistive products

Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:15-15:00

Category Theory Seminar

A Formal Approach to Generalisations of Monads

Gabriele Lobbia (University of Leeds).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Holographic Uhlmann Holonomy and the Entanglement Wedge Symplectic Form

Josh Kirklin (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for lepton flavour violation in B decays with the LHCb experiment

Alison Tully (EPFL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Structure searching and longitudinal-transverse mode coupling in sulfur

Jack Whaley-Baldwin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Molecular approaches for studying antigen processing topology and T-cell activation kinetics.

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15pm

Dr. Sander van Kasteren, Leiden University.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Optiver: Machine learning in trading: Let’s build a quantitative trading strategy

Food provided

Dennis Fleurbaaij.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Stability of homomorphisms into symmetric groups

Oren Becker (Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:45-14:45

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Mirrors of the Johnson-Kollár series

Giulia Gugiatti, Imperial College London.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

A proposal for the CFT dual for superstrings on ADS3 at the string radius.

Massimo Porrati, NYU.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Digital Modeling of Reality with Machine Learning

Dr Cengiz Oztireli, Graphics Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 15:05-15:55

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Unravelling mysterious interactions between viruses and antibodies: molecular mechanisms and importance in vaccination

Dr Sarah Caddy, Senior Research Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Groups acting improperly on cube complexes

Jason Manning, Cornell.

MR13.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Higher local constants, local global principles, and the Langlands correspondence for GL(n)

Guy Henniart (Université Paris-Sud).

MR12.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Higher local constants, local global principles and the Langlands correspondence for GL(n)

Guy Henniart (Paris-Sud).

MR12.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Bank Intermediation and Consumer Bankruptcy

Anne Villamil (Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the University of Iowa).

Upper Hall, Peterhouse College, Cambridge CB2 1RD.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

Mira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization β-Amyloid, Membranes and the Magic Angle

Prof. Robert G. Griffin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals

Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Group Seminars

Predicting visible flicker in temporally changing images

Gyorgy Denes, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Stable isoperimetry in lattice-like graphs

Ben Barber (University of Manchester).

MR12.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Sampling and Representation of Stiff ODEs in Large Dimension

Omar Knio, KAUST.

MR 14.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional Network-Informed Approach

Anna Maria Mandalari (Imperial College).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Intersection Theory and Feynman Integrals

Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular chaperones in protein folding and quality control

Prof. Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl ( Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Zoonotic Disease Transmission Risks in Displaced Populations

Dorien Braam (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 24 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Gates Grand Challenge: development of a universal influenza vaccine at the Laboratory of Viral Zoonotics

George Carnell.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 24 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Biophysical Seminars

Functional amyloid in bacteria

Professor Daniel E. Otzen, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Christoph Kehle (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 24 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Mechanisms of immune decline and strategies for enhancing immunity during ageing.

Arne Akbar, University College London, Hosted by Menna Clatworthy

Arne Akbar, University College London, Hosted by Menna Clatworthy.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 24 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

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

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ben Stratford, University of Warwick .

CMS, MR13.

Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Wind & Bridges: Aerodynamic Force Models

Dr Igor Kavrakov, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some implications of self-similarity in canonical wall turbulence

Beverley McKeon, Caltech.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

ARClub Talks

The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology

Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 27 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein LMB Seminar Series: Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 27 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Cambridge Design Partnership

Food provided

Jason Mashinchi, Graduate Software Engineer and Tom Vajzovic, Consultant Software Engineer.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

The ocean boundary layer beneath a melting Antarctic ice shelf: stratification, tides and turbulence

Cat Vregdenhil, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

Elaine Fuchs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms

Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Jacob Deasy.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Topics in Political Philosophy: Luck Egalitarianism & Comparative Fairness

Ben Jooste-Jennings.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:30-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Security economics to inform behaviour change support

Simon Parkin, Information Security Group, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

Pablo Shmerkin (Buenos Aires).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Cell competition during development and disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jasmin Matz (University of Copenhagen).

MR13.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Surface charges for gravity in tetrad variables: some surprises explained

Simone Speziale (Marseille).

MR11.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Anubis

Oleg Brandt (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

ARClub Talks

Voice processing in autism

Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Adaptive control of RIPK1 dependent cell death signalling in T-cells.

Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

Professor Ben Seddon, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

Justin Crocker, EMBL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS - title TBC

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Exterior algebras and local mirror symmetry

Jack Smith, University of Cambridge.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Litim, University of Sussex.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

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

Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

TBC.

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

Parasitology Seminars

The Toxoplasma acrobat: combining biophysics and real time imaging to decode Toxoplasma top gliding performance

Dr Isabelle Tardieux, Université Grenoble.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Rational curves and birational contractions on hyperkahler manifolds

Ekaterina Amerik, Orsay.

MR13.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Ancient DNA, extinction, domestication and the cost of modern farming

Dr Laurent Frantz, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Update on novel human astrovirus replication and disease

Susana Guix (University of Barcelona).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression

Thomas Schön, Uppsala University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Moire superlattice effects in heterostructures of two-dimensional materials

Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

On the derivation of the Boltzmann equation : irreversibility and fluctuations

Isabelle Gallagher (ENS-Paris).

MR 14.

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Controlling time in networking: from delay-tolerant networking to low-latency networking

Kyunghan Lee (UNIST).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya

Sabine Clarke (University of York).

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

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

Chaucer Club

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quasi-PDFs as observables

Luigi del Debbio (Edinburgh).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

BPI Seminar Series

SPECIAL SEMINAR - PLEASE SEE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE

Prof Stephen Belcher, Chief Scientist, Meteorological Office .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Charlotte Palmer, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 31 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Inferring Mycobacterium bovis transmission between cattle and badgers using the RBCT sampling framework

Andries van Tonder, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 31 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Doubt thy models: rethinking hypothesis testing in NLP

Rescheduled

Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Transforming heathcare through AI-enabled pathways.

Mihaela van der Schaar, The Alan Turing Institute, Hosted by Andres Floto

Mihaela van der Schaar, The Alan Turing Institute, Hosted by Andres Floto.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Oliver Tattersall (University of Oxford).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Hierarchical structuring of micro and nanoparticles for Li-ion battery electrodes

Dr Michael De Volder, IfM, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Deep Learning for Molecular Physics

Professor Frank Noe, Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active control of aircraft cabin noise and other topics

Ian Stothers, Ultra Electronics.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The control of moist atmospheric processes on weather forecast errors

Suzanne Gray, University of Reading.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

Paolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Quantifying irreversible mixing in stratified turbulence and breaking internal waves

Chris Howland, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates

Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Variations on Gehring’s lemma

Olli Saari (Univ. of Bonn).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 03 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The impact of uncertainty on trade agreements between the UK and EU

Oliver Exton, Department of Economics.

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 03 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanism

Hosted by: Fengzhu Xiong & Ben Simons

Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections

Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

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

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

Single cell whole genome sequencing approaches to model evolution in cancer

** Please note this seminar is on a Tuesday **

Sohrab Shah, MSKCC.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality

Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Causal Inference Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Rong Zhou.

MR13.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Overview of ATLAS jet measurements

Jennifer Roloff (BNL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Conformal geodesics, gravitational instantons, and integrability.

Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Mechanisms of germinal centre dependent antibody dysregulation in early life.

Host: Naomi McGovern, nm390@cam.ac.uk; Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

Dr James Harker, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ulrike Rieß, ETH Zürich.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multi-billion speedup of glassy dynamics with swap Monte Carlo: equilibrium phase transitions and rugged energy landscapes

Dr Ludovic Berthier, CNRS - Universite de Montpellier.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Nicolas Chamel, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Machine Learning at the Extreme Edge - an Open Platform Approach

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Resonant spaces for volume preserving Anosov flows

Gabriel Paternain, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Biset functors for categories

Peter Webb (Minnesota).

MR12.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Eric Miska

Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title to be confirmed

Alberto Manconi (Bocconi School of Management).

Upper Hall, Peterhouse College, Cambridge CB2 1RD.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Women@CL Events

What is High-Performance Computing and why does it matter?

Lunch provided

Rosemary Francis (Ellexus).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Zhu Jing (University of Warwick).

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports

Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems

Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

The SPHERE project

Ian Craddock (University of Bristol).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On pluralism in psychiatry

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

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

Chaucer Club

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

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

Foster Talks

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Chris Edgcombe, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Harrold-Odell Country Park

Richard Dowsett.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Peter Cameron (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

The translational journey of quorum sensing inhibition approach to managing chronic bacterial infections: a case study.

Michael Graz, University of Bristol, Hosted by Ankur Mutreja

Michael Graz, University of Bristol, Hosted by Ankur Mutreja.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

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

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Title to be confirmed

Martin Van Beek, University of Birmingham.

CMS, MR13.

Friday 07 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Ole Nielsen.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands World_link.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Present day anthropogenic climate forcings: The impact of including Earth System interactions

Dr. Fiona O'Connor, Met Office.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Impacts of surface-derived meltwater on ice motion in Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula

Andrew Sole, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 10 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

A phenomenological constitutive theory for polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics based on orientation distribution functions

Dr Martin I. Idiart, Departamento de Aeronáutica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CONICET, Argentina.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write good papers

Michael Anderson (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Daniele Leonori, University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 10 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Ljiljana Fruk - title to be confirmed

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Biology and Engineering 18.00-19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

"Whatever they (weigh) will be given to him in plenty”: Commemorative Objects as Expression of Mercantile Religious Identities in the Ancient Near East

Dr Nancy Highcock.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

Sunil Chhita (Durham).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Category Theory Seminar

D-ultrafilter monads

Lurdes Sousa (CMUC, University of Coimbra & IP Viseu).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Takamichi Sano (Osaka City University).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrmions from monopoles and calorons

Josh Cork (Lancaster).

MR11.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Ourpath

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Engineering advanced neural interfaces

Christopher Proctor Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Geometry of the double ramification cycle

David Holmes, Leiden University.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum topological effects in the transport properties of ionic conductors

Professor Stefano Baroni, SISSA — Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Sudi Avanzati, Trieste.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Silke Weinfurtner.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Climate, Carbon, and Computer Science

Professor Keshav - Robert Sansom Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Parasitology Seminars

Identification of a novel protein complex essential for erythrocyte invasion by human-infective malaria parasites

Dr Ellen Knuepfer, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Commensal E. coli are a reservoir for the transfer of XDR plasmids into epidemic fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella sonnei

Prof. Stephen Baker, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Recent progress on the Fried conjecture

Viet Dang, Lyon.

MR13.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

Dr. Claudia Schneider.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

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

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Representations and subgroups of SL(4), with applications to physics

Robert Wilson (Queen Mary UL).

MR12.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Graham Benham, École Polytechnique · Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Anna Kajaste (Ospedale San Raffaele Milan).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data links

Michael Cantoni, University of Melbourne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics

Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Securing IoT with Azure Sphere

James Scott (MSR).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

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

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

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Modelling energy dissipation at surfaces

Jörg Meyer, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pedro Schwaller (Mainz).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lines in nature and the landscape

Martin Davies.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 14 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Zangwill Club

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Women@CL Events

TBC

Lunch provided

Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

William Barker (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Antagonistic inflammatory phenotypes dictate tumor fate and response to immunotherapy.

Santiago Zelenay, The University of Manchester, Hosted by Bidesh Mahata

Santiago Zelenay, The University of Manchester, Hosted by Bidesh Mahata.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The mechanical regulation of brain development

Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy: characterisation of elastic and anelastic behaviour of metals, ceramics and functional oxides associated with ferroic, multiferroic and normal-superconductor phase transitions

Prof Michael A. Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Models, Uncertainty and Design

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Optical control of hydrodynamic flows in cells and embryos

Moritz Kreysing, MPI-CBG Dresden .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Consciousness

Tristan Bekinschtein, (Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alexander Strohmaier (Univ. of Leeds).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 17 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Ben Day (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Want to stop fake news? Become a fake news tycoon!

Jon Roozenbeek.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:30-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marie Vasek, Information Security Group, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The optimal matching problem

Martin Huesmann.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alina Ostafe (The University of New South Wales).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The homology of correspondence spaces and some massless tree amplitude identities

Hadleigh Frost (Oxford).

MR11.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Immunology in Pathology

Oxygen-dependent control of T-cell mediated immunity.

Host: Nick Holmes, (nh106@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

Dr. Sarah Ross, Babraham Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Green Custard Ltd: Innovating at pace in IoT

Food provided

Zoltan Molnar and Gavin Dolling .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Nuno Reis - title TBC

Dr Nuno Reis, University of Bath.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Elizabeth Gasparim, Antogafasta.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Christian Byrnes, University of Sussex.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Exploring the intimacy between bats and viruses: the evolution and function of bat antiviral IFITM proteins

Dr Camilla Benfield, Royal Veterinary College, University of London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

An arithmetic count of rational plane curves

Kirsten Wickelgren, Duke.

MR13.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway

Dr Simon Cook, Babraham Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Cedric Baume, Uni of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title to be confirmed

Ernst Maug (University of Mannheim, Business School).

KH107, Keynes House, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues

Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Rapid microbial evolution across the parasite-mutualist continuum

Host: Frank Jiggins

Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

Hamilton cycles in highly symmetric graphs

Torsten Mutze (University of Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

PETs, POTs, and pitfalls: rethinking the protection of users against machine learning

Carmela Troncoso (EPFL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The case for modelled democracy

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Peter Newton, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Silicon as a plant nutrient: An opportunity to improve household incomes of small scale mango farmers in Kenya

Ravin Jugdaohsingh, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 21 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Claudia Zindl, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 21 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Impact of multiple modes on the black-hole superradiant instability

Giuseppe Ficarra (King's College London).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Multidimensional Super-resolution Imaging.

Steven Lee, University of Cambridge, Hosted by Andres Floto

Steven Lee, University of Cambridge, Hosted by Andres Floto.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Vanessa Didelez, University of Bremen.

MR12.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexandre Kabla, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Title to be confirmed

Haiping Yang, Imperial College London.

CMS, MR13.

Friday 21 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Structural dynamics in the construction of the world's tallest modular building

Dr John Hickey.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Correlations in suspensions of microswimmers

Alexander Morozov, University of Edinburgh .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

How mixed is the ocean mixed layer?

Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational Psychiatry of Autism

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

Annette Fayet (Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks - Combining ML and Reasoning

James Fletcher, Haikal Pribadi (Grakn).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:30-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

The politics of data-driven governance

Lina Dencik, Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

Amarjit Budhiraja (UNC Chapel Hill).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for dark matter with the ATLAS detector

Phillip Gadow (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Tzany Kokalova Wheldon (Birmingham).

MR11.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: How our chromosomes are replicated

John Diffley, Associate Research Director, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

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

ARClub Talks

Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach

Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu .

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Protection against pathogen colonisation and transmission by the microbiota.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

Dr. Thomas B. Clarke, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Sum of its Parts: MBE-FCI Theory

Dr Janus Juul Eriksen, University of Bristol.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Hiranya Peiris, UCL.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Parasitology Seminars

Understanding the mechanism of chromosome segregation: lessons from diversity

Dr Bungo Akiyoshi, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Highly connected manifolds in dimensions larger than 248

Jeremy Hahn, MIT.

MR13.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Genomic epidemiology of bacterial antimicrobial resistance across the One Health spectrum

Dr Alison Mather, Group Leader and Food Standards Agency Fellow, Quadram Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Linda Dixon (Pirbright Institute).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Evidence for finite dissipation during vortex reconnection

Rober Kerr, University of Warwick.

MR 14.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Trip Report - CCC

Richard Mortier (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself

Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

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

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

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Highways and byways in the history of high rate mechanical testing

Stephen Walley, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

Sophia Upton.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Combining 3D printing and collagen scaffolds to produce orthopaedic implants

Matt Meek, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 28 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

From genes to physiology - further lessons from the retriever obesity model

Eleanor Raffan, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 28 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Maria Liakata (University of Warwick/Alan Turing Institute).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jakub Supeł (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Activation of innate immune sensors by viruses and self: DNA's identity crisis?

Nicolas Manel, The Institut Curie, Hosted by Paul Lehner

Nicolas Manel, The Institut Curie, Hosted by Paul Lehner.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

The modern-day blacksmith

Dr Gareth Conduit, Theory of Condensed Matte, Physics, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Naoki Onozato, MHI.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The 3D Navier-Stokes Bermuda Triangle

John Gibbon, Imperial College .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Helena Stage, Manchester.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation

Dr. Natalie Harvey, University of Reading.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

Matthew Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bigging up behaviour on coral reefs

Sally Keith (Lancaster University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:30-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Rutger Leukfeldt, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

Christian Webb (Aalto, Finland).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Djordjo Milovic (University College London).

MR12.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Random surfaces and Liouville quantum gravity

Ewain Gwynne (DPMMS).

MR11.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for new physics with kaons at NA62 and beyond

Prof. Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Affect and empiricism in the early modern Arctic

Anne Goldgar (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Isolation and analysis of Immune niches along the human intestine.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

Dr. William Winston Agace, Danish Technical University .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Approaching Exact Quantum Chemistry by Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations

Professor Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Patrick Popescu-Pampu (Lille).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Carlos Herdeiro, Aveiro University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Parasitology Seminars

From magnets to stigma: multiple approaches to tackle the challenges of cutaneous leishmaniasis

Dr Helen Price, Centre for Applied Entomology & Parasitology, Keele University.

Dixon/Greaves Rooms, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Peter Lambert-Cole, MPI Bonn.

MR13.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Alessandro Busetti, Metabolomics Field Application Specialist, Metabolon, Inc..

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pham Tiep (Rutgers).

MR12.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title to be confirmed

Gyöngyi Lóránth (University of Vienna).

KH107, Keynes House, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Genetics Seminar

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

Kerry Franklin, Bristol.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s

Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Deep Dictionary Learning Approaches for Image Super-Resolution

Pier Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College London).

MR 14.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Optimisation of a Modern Numerical Library: a Bottom-Up Approach

Jianxin Zhao (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Postcolonial blood infrastructures of hepatitis B (a view from West Africa)

Noemi Tousignant (UCL).

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

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

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Mike O'Donnell, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

Mal Faloon.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 06 March 2020, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Michalis Agathos (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Distinct mucosal or systemic responses to non-pathogenic intestinal microbes build the baseline B cell repertoire and its functional responsiveness.

Andrew Macpherson, University Hospital of Bern Hosted by Jacqueline Siu

Andrew Macpherson, University Hospital of Bern Hosted by Jacqueline Siu.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

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

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Conni Ciavarella, Imperial.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tailoring nonlinearity for advanced engineering design

Prof Gaëtan Kerschen, University of Liege.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Free Surface Nanoflows

James Sprittles, University of Warwick .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

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

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

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

Causal Inference Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:30-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Kit Murdock, University of Birmingham.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Kious (Bath).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Matteo Tamiozzo (Imperial College London).

MR12.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Double Copy of a Point Charge

Ricardo Monteiro (Queen Mary).

MR11.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Language development in exceptional circumstances: effects of permanent childhood hearing loss

Dr Lorna Halliday (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Ewa Marek - title TBC

Dr Ewa Marek, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Astrid Eichhorn, CP3-Origins.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Adrian Friday (Lancaster University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dogs, Cats, Disease, and the Galapagos Islands

Ben Howitt MRCVS, Darwin Animal Doctors.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

Dr David Stillwell.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

Cleaning soil layers by impinging liquid jets

Ian Wilson, Dept of Chemical Engineering (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley

Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Gearset - Continuous Delivery in Practice

Food provided

Ben Roberts, Software Engineer and Luke Drury, VP of Engineering.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals: Modeling, Analysis, Computations and Experiments

Panayotis Kevrekidis.

MR 14.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Systematic Rateless Coding for Efficient Data Transport in Data Centres

Mohammed Alasmar (University of Sussex).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

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

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

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

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

Foster Talks

3D Genomics in development and disease

Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Steven Abel (Durham).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bioengineering Conference

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McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 08:30-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Zoe Wyatt (University of Edinburgh).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

How Tuberculosis senses and responds to the host to achieve infection.

Michael Glickman, Sloan Kettering Institute, Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan

Michael Glickman, Sloan Kettering Institute, Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Chaos and permanence in Elasto-Inertial Turbulence

Yves Dubief, University of Vermont .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

E. John Wherry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seasearch

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Paul Mylrea.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

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

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

The genome organizer Satb1 is critical for the development of TH17 cell-mediated immune pathology.

Marc Beyer, University of Bonn, Hosted by Paul Lyons

Marc Beyer, University of Bonn, Hosted by Paul Lyons.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 20 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Robert Moon, Department of Immunology & Infection, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Richard Baird, Department of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alexander Borodavka (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A trillion trees?

Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Julie Ahringer, PhD FMedSci, Director, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Member of the Department of Genetics.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 27 March 2020, 00:00-00:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Tissue-specific features of human innate lymphoid cells.

Jenny Mjosberg Karolinska Institute, Hosted by Tim Halim

Jenny Mjosberg Karolinska Institute, Hosted by Tim Halim.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 27 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars - date to be found

Post Doc invited speaker

Zach Lippman, Cold Spring Harbor.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Vicky Hunt, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Gerry Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 03 April 2020, 00:00-00:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Developmental strategizing towards the treatment of kidney disease

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong

Andrew McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 1

Free Public Exhibition.

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 2

Free Public Exhibition.

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Metallic metabolism in Toxoplasma gondii

Dr Clare Harding, Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Girls and women on the autism spectrum

Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Zlatko Bačić, New York University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Universite Paris Saclay.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: David Summers and John Welch

Dr Trevor Lawley, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Karyn Le Hur, Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sergio Hernandez Cuenca (UCSB).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 24 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Undecidability in number theory

Bjorn Poonen, MIT.

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Explosive and Degassing volcanic eruptions: natural analogues with relevance for geoengineering schemes

Professor Jim Haywood, University of Exeter/Met Office.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

David Baker, PhD, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 00:00-00:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Feng Hao, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Professor Liam Grover - title TBC

Professor Liam Grover, University of Birmingham.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title to be confirmed

Merih Sevilir (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University).

TBC.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowski group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-13:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

Professor Kate Storey, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Leibniz University Hannover.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Henrice Altink (University of York).

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

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

Foster Talks

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

AGM and Presidential Address: Cambridge Dragonflies

AGM and Duncan Mackay.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-20:30

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Peijun Zhang, Director of the electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC).

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 00:00-00:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Predicting catalysis and photochemistry using automated reaction discovery tools

Dr Scott Habershon (University of Warwick).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Parasitology Seminars

Cholinergic regulation of immunity to gastrointestinal nematode parasites

Prof Murray Selkirk, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

Greg Reeves, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Axel Gelfert (TU Berlin).

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

Thursday 07 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Allègre Hadida, Judge Business School.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 19:15-21:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Martin Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Paul McVeigh, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title to be confirmed

Helene Rey (London Business School).

TBC.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Michael Imbeault

Dr Kim Judge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Marco Schiro, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Foster Talks

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Nieng Yan, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 18 May 2020, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

Professor Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Nicholas Blunt, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tim Gilberger, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Genetic conflicts shape meiosis, centromeres, and species

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Christoph Dellago, University of Vienna.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Jonathan Weissman,Professor Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Title to be confirmed

Albert J. Menkveld (VU University Amsterdam).

TBC.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New tools to understand and protect the biosphere

Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview and latest results

Prof. Peter Bernath - University of Waterloo.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 14 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 September 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Rod Jones, Department of Chemistry.

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

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 19:15-21:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Steve Jackson & Hansong Ma

Titia de Lange, Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Clare Isacke, The Institute of Cancer Research.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Kikuë Tachibana, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Fabian Theis, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.

To be confirmed.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Wendy Bickmore, University of Edinburgh.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 December 2020, 13:00-14:00