Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Exploring Mechanistic Interactions that Shape the Biological Carbon Pump: Do We Know Enough to Predict Its Future?

Lavenia Ratnarajah, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection

Alice Wickenden (Faculty of English).

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

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

From phase transitions to minimal submanifolds in low codimensions

Davide Parise (Imperial College London).

MR13.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Catalytic Transfer Reactions of Non-Stabilized Carbenes

Purdue University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:30-16:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Targeting AD-related pathophysiology with non-invasive brain stimulation

Sam Barnes, Imperial College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 16 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Peer review, past, present… and future

Professor Aileen Fyfe FRSE, FRHistS, FHEA, University of St Andrews.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Accelerator Developments for Particle Physics at the Cockcroft Institute

Peter Ratoff (University of Lancaster).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Slouching towards Caracas, Venezuela: Contested Fisherman Identity during the 2025 U.S. Bombings in the Southern Caribbean

Dr Oliver Antczak .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Am I a Member? Auditing Private Machine Learning

Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto.

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

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Massive holomorphicity in near-critical dimers and the Sine Gordon model

Nathanael Berestycki (University of Vienna).

MR12.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Degenerate Representations of GL_n over a p-adic field

Johannes Girsch (University of Durham).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The birth of scientific anti-racism

Please note earlier time

Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).

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

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 15:00-16:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Interpretability in the Wild: When Explainability Meets Causality and Clinical Reality

Note unusual time

Prof Sonali Parbhoo (Imperial College London).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Foundation AI

Neural semantic reasoning for interpretable and rigorous logical reasoning

LT1

Dr. Tiansi Dong.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are Airborne Ultrafine Particles the Next Frontier in Air Pollution Research?

Professor Roy Harrison.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale

Bidipta Sarkar (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale

Bidipta Sarkar (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Representational Geometry of Language Models

Matthieu Téhénan (University of Cambridge).

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sebastian Rodriguez Duque (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:00-14:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

On the structure of infinite sumsets in the integers

Florian Richter (EPFL).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:30-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Community-Based Participatory Research on Food-Energy-Water Projects

Dr Vasiliki Karanikola - University of Arizona.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:30-14:45

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Andrew Styles

If you are external to BAS and would like to attend please reach out to the organisers before the talk and arrive at reception 10 minutes before so we can let you in.

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Saturated formations and characters of solvable groups

Iris Gilabert Manzanares, Universitat Politècnica de València.

MR12.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities.

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

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fractional Chern and topological insulators

Prof. Titus Mangham-Neupert (Zurich).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanistic insights into electron-transfer reactions: from electrocatalysis to solar cells

Professor Maxie M. Roessler.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Chaucer Club

The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions

Peter Kok, UCL.

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

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Constructions of Turán systems that are tight up to a multiplicative constant

Oleg Pikhurko (Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Enrique Zuazua (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

*CANCELLED!* [NK cells in host immunity]

Dr Joseph Sun, Cornell/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2026

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

The President and Officers.

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 18:30-18:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Natural History: Contributions from some Cambridge scientific giants of the 19th century

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

CNHS President and a former President of Cambridge Philosophical Society.

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

NLIP Seminar Series

AI Metrics: Theoretical Foundations, Design, and Selection of Evaluation Metrics Based on Ground Truth

Enrique Amigó (National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 20 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Reconstructing Landsat Archive 1997-2024+: Sun, Clouds, Snow, Noise and Humans

Tomislav Hengl, OpenGeoHub Foundation.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Aneuploidy and its impact on human embryo development

Marta Shahbazi.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A Nonlinear Endpoint of Charged Horizon Instabilities

Zach Gelles (Princeton University).

Potter Room / Zoom : https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85131795570.

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Shock-Induced Pore Collapse in PMMA: Deformation Physics and Failure Mechanics

Professor Guruswami Ravichandran, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 20 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Toponium at the LHC: a new frontier in top-quark physics

*** notice unusual time of this talk ***

Benjamin Fuks (Paris, LPTHE).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 20 March 2026, 14:45-15:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid dynamics of the aqueous humour of the eye

Jennifer Tweedy, University of Bath.

MR2.

Friday 20 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Topographically Generated Internal Waves in the Arctic Ocean Northward of the Critical Latitude

Tianshu Liu.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 20 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning

Prof Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Rainbow Group Seminars

Towards a Comprehensive View on Technology Transparency: Cross-Technology Investigations of Users’ Transparency Needs and Perceptions

Ilka Hein, LMU Munich.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Monday 23 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How life finds a way: resilience in mammalian embryogenesis

Sarah Bowling, PhD. Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Local Jordan-Wigner transformations and topological sectors on the torus

Oliver O'Brien, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 11:00-11:50

ARClub Talks

From group psychotherapy to robot-assisted intervention: New therapies for socio-emotional challenges in individuals with autism

Prof Dr Isabel Dziobek, University of Berlin.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81286610099?pwd=HsKTIo1MzZ7eEOJUaVYrEBbCvSSW1g.1.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 11:30-12:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Expansion, divisibility and parity

Note this talk will take place in MR5.

Harald Helfgott (CNRS--Jussieu).

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 13:30-14:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Navid Nabijou, Queen Mary University of London.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Generative Molecular Dynamics

Prof. Simon Olsson, Chalmers University of Technology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre - Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dan Abramovich, Brown University.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 26 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Yuncheng Mao (Aix-Marseille Université).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 26 March 2026, 14:00-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Stay flexible, get lucky: nonlinear approximation and random sampling meet scientific machine learning

Simone Brugiapaglia (Concordia University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Robotics Seminar Series

Compositional Design of Society-Critical Systems: From Autonomy to Future Mobility

Gioele Zardini.

Department of Computer Science and technology, SS03.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Functional Genomics in the Opportunistic Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Prof Susanne Häußler, Head of Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research.

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

Thursday 26 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Guillermo Parada Gonzalez (Postdoc, Crick Institute and KCL, London, UK), Eleni Liapi (Postdoc, Aarhus University, DK).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

David MacKay: Energy and Information

One-Day Meeting.

Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Friday 27 March 2026, 09:00-17:45

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Reconstructing biomolecular condensates for translation

Ruth Lehmann, Whitehead Institute, MIT.

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

Friday 27 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Developing biomolecular force fields in the machine learning age

Dr Joe Greener, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre - Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 April 2026, 11:00-12:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Reinforcement Learning with Exogenous States and Rewards

Professor Thomas G. Dietterich, School of EECS, Oregon State University.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Wednesday 01 April 2026, 13:30-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 01 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Careers in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Teams link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eeb7b90f-e364-4b6d-9712-829d1bf78de7@49a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9

Adnan Iqbal, CEO at Luma Health and Deborah Grubbe, operations consultant and retired multinational executive.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 02 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Foundation AI

to decide

Kartik Tandon.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Friday 03 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A unifying framework for generalised Bayesian online learning in non-stationary environments"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/W8Gl6_hoQ7mUob4Rh8miIA

Gerado Duran-Martin, Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford .

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

Tuesday 07 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 107th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Natural World

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Saturday 11 April 2026, 11:00-17:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Yuzhe Yang, UCLA and Google.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 15 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Antoine Molaro, iGReD.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Amanda Prorok (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 14:00-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Michael Woodley (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Roser Vento-Tormo, Group leader, Sanger Institute

Roser Vento-Tormo, Group leader, Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 16 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Soft tissue

Layla Thompson, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 17 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Execution-Free Reward Models

Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).

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

Friday 17 April 2026, 12:00-13:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

RSC Organic Chemistry Community South & East Regional Meeting 2026

Speaker to be confirmed.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 April 2026, 10:00-16:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Scattering Plenty: the people who made the modern countryside

Note unusual day - Wednesday - and start time - 7.45pm

Jim Dixon, former CEO of the Peak District National Park.

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

Wednesday 22 April 2026, 19:45-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Decoding genomic chaos - a pancancer compendium of chromosomal instability

Professor Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 23 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof Lukasz Fidkowski (Washington).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 23 April 2026, 14:00-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Behnam Hashemi (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 23 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Claudia Ribeiro Almeida, Group Leader, Babraham Institute

Claudia Ribeiro Almeida, Group Leader, Babraham Institute.

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

Thursday 23 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A novel hereditary encephalopathy in four related Labrador Retrievers associated with a missense variant in the ALDH5A1 gene’

Georgina Harris and Ellen Schofield, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 24 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Anya Patel, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 24 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Mechanisms of mRNA packaging and export

Clemens Plaschka, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna.

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

Monday 27 April 2026, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: In a post-Ozempic world, have we cured obesity?

Professor Giles S.H. Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 April 2026, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

MR2, CMS.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Marcel Goh (McGill University).

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 13:30-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Assembly of icosahedral quasicrystals from colloidal particles

Dr Eva G. Noya, Instituto de Química-Física “Blas Cabrera” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Calle Serrano 119, Madrid 28006, Spain.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Shelley McKeown Jones (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

From lab to clinic: an introduction to translational research

Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology .

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

Thursday 30 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

CONFERENCE: Chemical and material sciences enabled by AI and automation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 10:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Fun experiments you can only do with frogs

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr Dinis Calado, Senior Group Leader, Immunity and Cancer Laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute

Dr Dinis Calado, Senior Group Leader, Immunity and Cancer Laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute.

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

Thursday 30 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Ròża Przanowska (Postdoc, UVirginia), Zhipeng Lu (PI, USC).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 April 2026, 16:30-18:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Floris van Doorn (University of Bonn).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding the Interplay between LLMs' Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge

Prof Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 01 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 01 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Duncan MacLachlan, Rolls Royce.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Mihnea Popa (Harvard).

MR13.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 14:30-15:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tomas Petricek - Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

Katja Roeper and Nadine Muschalik.

in person at Gurdon Institute.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 16:00-17:30

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Laura DeMarco (Harvard).

MR13.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr Charlotte Odenall, Senior Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London

Dr Charlotte Odenall, Senior Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London.

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

Thursday 07 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Oncology

tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 08 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 08 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Developing future marine engines running on ammonia and other green fuels

Johan Hult - Everllence.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Friday 08 May 2026, 13:30-14:15

MRC LMB Seminar Series

César Milstein Lecture - Title TBC

Edith Heard, Director General of EMBL and Collège de France.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95122962995?pwd=dG75ztaqH0oR5SMRb80IXw88rEDmQo.1.

Monday 11 May 2026, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex

Andreas Keller, University of Basel.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 11 May 2026, 16:15-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Connor Box, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Sakshi Ghai (London School of Economics).

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

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Simon Moore - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer

Dr Huiqi Yang and Dr Nicola Thompson, Cambridge University Hopitals Trust.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 09:30-10:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

Francisco X. Real, CNIO, Madrid.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Tissue-scale communication in cancer development

Hosts – Alex Cagan, Elena Scarpa and Ben Steventon

Professor Richard White from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Raul Perea-Causin (Stockholm).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 14 May 2026, 14:00-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Advances in Label-Free High-Resolution Molecular Imaging using J Series III Cluster SIMS

Naoko Sano, Ionoptika. Ltd., Chandler’s Ford, UK.

Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Professor Philip Rosenstiel, W3 Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University

Prof Philip Rosenstiel, W3 Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University .

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

Thursday 14 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS Presentations

tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 15 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 15 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 15 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery

Yuri Yuri (Oxford) .

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Saturday 16 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Foundation AI

The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery

Yuri Yuri (Oxford) .

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Saturday 16 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Foundation AI

The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery

Yuri Yuri (Oxford) .

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Saturday 16 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

John Kendrew Lecture - Title TBC

Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95988394961?pwd=aaFWaBpqCJ5drab6eos7mkUvhn9Nfj.1.

Monday 18 May 2026, 11:00-12:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Özlem Durmaz-Incel, University of Twente.

Online.

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

The Inaccessible Game

Professor Neil Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 15:00-15:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Stafford - School of Psychology, Universitry of Sheffield.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Gill Barnett; Dept of Oncology; Dr Christopher Jones, Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals .

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

Thursday 21 May 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Marko Ljubotina (TUM).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 21 May 2026, 14:00-15:15

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute

Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute.

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

Thursday 21 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS Presentations

tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 22 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 22 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Basile Curchod, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 14:30-15:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Kotz - Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Jens Madsen (London School of Economics).

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

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Emil J. Bergholtz (Stockholm).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 28 May 2026, 14:00-15:15

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Arturo Zychlinsky, Director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Arturo Zychlinsky, Director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.

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

Thursday 28 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Miguel Aracena Velazquez (PhD student, UYork), Pedro Madrigal (Project Leader, EMBL EBI).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 28 May 2026, 16:30-18:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Thomas Powell (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 28 May 2026, 17:00-18:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 29 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Non-stationarity in structural dynamics, challenges and implications for modelling and structural health monitoring

Luis David Avendaño-Valencia, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 29 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Hana Aliee - Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 June 2026, 15:05-15:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Using Light for Cancer Detection

Dr Danielle Harper; Dept of Oncology and Early Cancer Institute .

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

Thursday 04 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. José J. Baldoví (University of Valencia).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 04 June 2026, 14:00-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Catherine Powell (University of Manchester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 15:00-16:00

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

Valeria Ruscio.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 05 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Leor Zmigrod.

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

Wednesday 10 June 2026, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Tomáš Bzdušek (UZH).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 11 June 2026, 14:00-15:15

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Prof Greg Towers, Professor of Molecular Virology, Centre for Immunobiology and Infection, Queen Mary University of London

Prof Greg Towers, Professor of Molecular Virology, Centre for Immunobiology and Infection, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Thursday 11 June 2026, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Equine

Speaker to be confirmed.

LT2.

Friday 12 June 2026, 08:45-10:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 12 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Tyler Jacks, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Professor James Davies, Professor of Genomics, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

Note unusual time (15:00-16:00)

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Thursday 18 June 2026, 15:00-16:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 19 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Denis Bartolo (ENS, Lyon).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 25 June 2026, 14:00-15:15

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr Leticia Monin Aldama, Department of Immunology and Inflammation - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

Dr Leticia Monin Aldama, Department of Immunology and Inflammation - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

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

Thursday 25 June 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Nida Ali (Postdoc, UCambridge, UK), TBD (Novogene, Sponsor).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 25 June 2026, 16:30-18:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 26 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Max Perutz Lecture - Title TBC

Reinhard Lührmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94514662338?pwd=QFmpzVDjmvrrMmV476z2wynx6r2aoA.1.

Monday 29 June 2026, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Teuta Pilizota (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 02 July 2026, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr Masahiro Ono, Reader in Immunology, Imperial College London

Dr Masahiro Ono, Reader in Immunology, Imperial College London.

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

Thursday 02 July 2026, 16:00-17:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 03 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

in person at Gurdon Institute.

Wednesday 08 July 2026, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr Molofsky, Tissue Immunology Research Lab, UCSF, USA

Dr Molofsky, Tissue Immunology Research Lab, UCSF.

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

Thursday 09 July 2026, 16:00-17:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 10 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

tbc

Prof. Choon Hong Tan, National University of Singapore.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 July 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Sung Chul Kwon (PI, UHong Kong), TBD .

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 July 2026, 16:30-18:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 17 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

Marta Zlatic.

in person at Gurdon Institute.

Wednesday 07 October 2026, 16:00-17:30