Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Correcting nonignorable nonresponse bias in turnout estimation using callback data

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Wang Miao (Peking University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Markov categories and the inflation technique for latent-variable causal inference

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Tobias Fritz (Leopold-Franzens Universtät Innsbruck).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Open Problem Session - booked by M Karpukhin

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Mikhail Karpukhin (University College London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 10:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Identification is easy, factorization is hard

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Critically revisiting causal mediation

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Vanessa Didelez (Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

AMET seminars

The Bumpy Road to Net Zero

David Reiner (Judge Business School).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Friday 23 January 2026, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Meritxell Canals Buj, Pharmacology, signalling and regulation of the mu-opioid receptor

Professor Meritxell Canals Buj.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 23 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel discussion: Foundation of causal inference

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Philip Dawid (University of Cambridge), Thomas Richardson (University of Washington), Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Emilija Perkovic (University of Washington), Betsy Ogburn (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free Discussion and Refreshments

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 15:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The elephant in the room: Machine Learning directly into physical models

Professor Matthew Juniper, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Among the Rarest: Theoretical Insights into Four Top-Quark Production at the LHC

Michele Lupattelli (Münster U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

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

Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?

Professor Hans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 09:15-09:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's Welcome

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Qingyuan Zhao (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Population Heterogeneity, Causal Inference, and AI-Generated Data for Social Science

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Yu Xie (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causation in Law and Statistics

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Overturning 'overturning paradigms': radiocarbon constraints on glacial-interglacial ocean circulation and CO2 change

Luke Skinner, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Differential Adherence and Differential Treatment Response

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

David DeGarmo (University of Oregon).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From Pregnancy to Adulthood: Opportunities for Causal Insights from the Norwegian MoBa Cohort

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Alexandra Havdahl (Norwegian Institute of Public Health).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Sergey Tikhonov (ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An overview of the UK's new nationally-representative birth cohort studies

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Pasco Fearon (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to studying visual memory

Mark Eldridge, Newcastle University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 26 January 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hidden Universe of The Human Microbiome and Its Role In Health and Disease: How DNA sequencing approaches can help us understand the hidden dark matter of the human microbiome

Dr. Alexandre Almeida, School of the Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 26 January 2026, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Machine learning, causal inference, and economics

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Inference and Decompositions for Sequence Data Using Generative Models

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Susan Athey (Stanford University).

No Room Required.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title TBC: (Long-lived Particles)

Dominique Trischuk (University of Victoria).

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

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nonparametrics in causal inference: densities, heterogeneity, & beyond

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Edward Kennedy (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 13:30-14:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Composite electrodes for sodium-ion batteries – are two phases better than one?

Professor Robert Armstrong - Principal Research Fellow, School of Chemistry - University of St Andrews.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Linear Estimation of Structural and Causal Effects for Nonseparable Panel Data

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Whitney K Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Adventures in Demand Analysis Using AI

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Victor Chernozhukov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Ultra-tough metals via high strain-hardening

Professor Thomas Pardoen, UCLouvain and WEL Research Institute.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

When Fokker–Planck Meets Contact Geometry in Thermodynamics

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

An academic journey from the genetic code reprogramming to therapeutic innovation

Prof Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo).

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

AI and the Democratic Information Environment

Helen Margetts (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Learning Quantum Matter

Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 16:15-17:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 29 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute), Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway to Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Setting the Scene

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBC

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Hannah Fry (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:20-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Be intelligent, not artificial

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Christopher Budd (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:30-10:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Master of the Machinery: Climate and Energy Modelling

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Aled Jones (Anglia Ruskin University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:50-11:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talking from experience - how NOT to communicate Mathematics

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

David Abrahams (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 11:10-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Q&A and Discussion

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 11:30-11:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Public opinion and the art of asking questions

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Gillian Prior (National Centre for Social Research).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 12:00-12:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Adapting to a Changing Audience

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Kat Phillips (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 12:20-12:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Providing access to data and information

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Anna Khoo (Office for National Statistics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 12:40-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Q&A and Discussion

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Anna Khoo (Office for National Statistics), Gillian Prior (National Centre for Social Research), Kat Phillips (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-13:10

Chaucer Club

Correcting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy sources with reinforcement learning

Stefano Palminteri, Ecole Normale Superieure.

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

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Decoding Mechanisms for Reactivity Discover & Design

Prof Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) .

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Training Taster Session by: Duncan Yellowlees

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Duncan Yellowlees (Freelance).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:10-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

What’s the story? Numbers and Narratives

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Timandra Harkness (Freelance).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:30-14:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Importance of Engaging with the News Media – The Work of the Science Media Centre

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Ed Day (Science Media Centre).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:50-15:10

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Directional reflectance microscopy: Beyond conventional crystal orientation mapping

Matteo Seita, Department of Engineering, The University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

An extrapolation principle for the Fourier operator

Miquel Saucedo (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBC

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:10-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Q&A and Discussion

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Anna Khoo (Office for National Statistics), Timandra Harkness (Freelance), Ed Day (Science Media Centre).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:30-15:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Training Taster Session by: Ben Sparks

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Ben Sparks (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:40-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Training Taster Session on Evaluation

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Jamie Gallagher (Freelance).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 16:20-16:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel - Next Steps from Themes of the Day

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

David Abrahams (University of Cambridge), Anna Khoo (Office for National Statistics), Katie Steckles (Manchester Metropolitan University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 16:40-17:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wrap Up

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 17:20-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Networking Reception with Brady Haran (Numberphile)

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

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Foyer.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Nature's Memory; behind the scenes at the world's natural history museums

Jack Ashby, Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology.

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

Thursday 29 January 2026, 18:45-20:00

hkb32's list

Degrading Proteins in the Brain: Can we get there and how can we make it work?

Will Farnaby, University of Dundee Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation.

Clifford Allbutt Building Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 30 January 2026, 11:30-12:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Evangelia Petsalaki, From data towards Digital Twins of biological systems: Network-based approaches to study context-specific cell signalling

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes

Patrick Cai, University of Manchester.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Interested in Catalysis ? Biology sets ultimate goals, from electrocatalysts to tandem++ cascades in mesoporous materials

Professor Fraser Armstrong, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Analysis of Long-Term Degradation of Electric Heavy Goods Vehicle Traction Batteries Using In-Service Data

Harry Durham, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Towards precision Studies of B → Kπ l+ l- from Lattice QCD Beyond the Narrow-Width Approximation

Felix Erben, CERN.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place

Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 30 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's welcome

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 10:05-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry of Small Laplace and Steklov Eigenvalues

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Asma Hassannezhad (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Monday 02 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Monday 02 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Hanna Kim (UNC Chapel Hill and RIMS).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hessian operators, overdetermined problems, and higher order mean curvatures: symmetry and stability results

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Gloria Paoli (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Efficient fMRI design for activations and patterns

Rik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Quantifying the human component of the Earth System

Eric Galbraith, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Semiclassical inequalities for Dirichlet and Neumann Laplacians

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Simon Larson (Göteborgs Universitet).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Shape optimisation under width type constraint

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Ilaria Lucardesi (Università di Pisa).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Monday 02 February 2026, 15:30-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Boundary regularity of optimal sets for the critical buckling load of clamped plates

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Mickaël Nahon (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 15:50-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep

Helen Barron, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 02 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome Reception & Poster Session

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Monday 02 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cars, aeroplanes, and quantum physics: Why complexity makes life simpler for the vibration engineer

Professor Robin Langley FREng. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Michael Magee (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Bram Petri (Sorbonne Université).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 10:30-11:15

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title TBC: (Compressed Slepton searches)

Alessandro Ruggiero (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break / Group Photo

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

Skyla White (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Matilde Gianocca (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Parametric deformation arguments in spectral geometry

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Josef Greilhuber (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral inequalities, thick sets, and quantum graphs

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Michela Egidi (University of Rostock).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-14:45

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Challenges for the Montreal Protocol revealed in atmospheric measurements

RSC 2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Mid-Career Prize Winner

Prof Matthew Rigby, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Samuel Perez-Ayala (Haverford College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 15:30-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free boundary regularity for a spectral optimal partition problem with volume and inclusion constraints

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Dario Cesare Severo Mazzoleni (Università degli Studi di Pavia).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 15:50-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Open Problems Session

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Sabine Boegli (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Lawford Hatcher (Indiana University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On conformal and related eigenvalue optimization problems in higher dimensions

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Denis Vinokurov (Université de Montréal).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimisation of Steklov transmission eigenvalues and minimal surfaces

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Alain Didier Noutchegueme (Université de Montréal).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Open problems session

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Careers Session: Panel Discussion

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Informal Dinner

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 19:00-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Eugenia Malinnikova (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral properties of Maxwell operators

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Francesco Ferraresso (Università degli Studi di Verona).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On some functionals involving torsional rigidity and principal eigenvalue

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Vincenzo Amato (Scuola Superiore Meridionale).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimality and stability of the radial shapes for the Sobolev trace constant

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Simone Cito (Università del Salento).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Biophysics of motility of unicellular organisms

Prof. Antonio De Simone.

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanistic understanding-led transition metal catalyzed C-H functionalization

Professor Igor Larrosa (Department of Chemistry | University of Manchester) .

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Robin and Cheeger partitions of domains

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

James Kennedy (Universidade de Aveiro).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:00-14:45

Chaucer Club

Exploring high-level cognition through large language models

Ariel Goldstein, U. of Cambridge.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lower bounds for the Hodge Laplacian spectrum on non-convex domains

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Tirumala Venkata Chakradhar (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:45-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A Journey From The Center Of The Earth

Please arrive at RDC reception by 14:55 if coming from outside the department.

Charles Carrigan, Dept of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University.

Seminar Room C, Room C3.002, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory (through the speed gates opposite the Cavendish Cafe).

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Sukrid Petpradittha (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Structure-Preserving FEEC Methods for Spectral and Pseudospectral Analysis of Dynamo Operators

Umberto Zerbinati (University of Oxford).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral Analysis of high-contrast degenerate random systems

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Matteo Savasta (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:15-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:30-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Thomas Héliere (Université Laval).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:50-16:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The asymptotic behavior of the first Robin eigenvalue with negative parameter as $p$ goes to $+\infty$

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Rosa Barbato (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:05-16:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A quantitative result for the k-Hessian equation.

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Alba Lia Masiello (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, Rome).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:20-16:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenvalue Estimates and Geometric Rigidity of Hypersurfaces

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Abhitosh Upadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:35-16:50

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trumpington Meadows past, present and future

Iain Webb, Wildlife Trust BCN.

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

Thursday 05 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Quantitative stability for minimizers of a Yamabe problem on manifolds with boundaries

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Hanne Van Den Bosch (Universidad de Chile).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

About the shape maximizing the gradient of the torsion function

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Ilias Ftouhi (Nîmes University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Friday 06 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometric spectral properties of electromagnetic waveguides

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Michele Zaccaron (ENSTA ParisTech).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimization problems for magnetic ground states on surfaces

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Marco Michetti (Chalmers University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Clare Bryant, Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in infection and sterile inflammation

Professor Clare Bryant.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters

Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenvalue optimisation in geometric analysis

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Mikhail Karpukhin (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:45-15:15

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Nonlinear Structural Mechanics

Dr Alberto Pirrera, University of Bristol.

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

Friday 06 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modelling tyre-belt vibrations at acoustic frequencies

Dr Will Graham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Colomba Brancaccio (Turin U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Zangwill Club

BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness

Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs We Grow By

Dr Ibrahim Baltagi, Lebanese American University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Leveraging large-scale datasets in boutique MEG studies

Chetan Gohil, University of Oxford, UK..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Atmospheric waves: gravity waves and their representation in climate models

Iman Toghraei, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:00-14:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's welcome

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:05-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Tom Beucler (Université de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Foyer.

Monday 09 February 2026, 15:15-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial on AI in Biomedical Research: Bridging Data, Causality, and Clinical Impact

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Judith Abecassis (INRIA).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 15:45-16:45

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Learning to perceive what is important: An olfactory optimisation story

Jamie Johnston, University of Leeds.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 09 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design

Prof Bill O’Neill FREng, FInstP, FLIA, FIAPLE, Director of the Centre for Industrial Photonics, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Stefanie Jegelka (Technical University of Munich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Spotlights

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 10:00-10:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title TBC: (Physics Potential of a future Muon Collider)

Karol Krizka (University of Birmingham).

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

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Learning to Design Infrastructure Networks

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Akanksha Ahuja (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A synthesised global database of dimethylsulfide concentration in the marine atmosphere

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzIyNGNhYzEtNzg5Zi00MDYzLWFmMDMtMzgwZjEzNDM0ODBi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

George Manville, University of Exeter.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Representing Time Series, Missingness, and Semantics in Surgical Risk Prediction

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Hugo Armando Guillen Ramirez (Universität Bern).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Accelerate Science Session (Part I)

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Neil Lawrence (University of Cambridge), Jessica Montgomery (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 13:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Accelerate Science Session (Part II)

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Neil Lawrence (University of Cambridge), Jessica Montgomery (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Cognitive brain imaging in the age of AI

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Bertrand Thirion (INRIA).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Resolution-adaptive networks for uniform performance across heterogeneous medical image cohorts

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Richard McKinley (Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 10:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial on Mechanistic Learning in Mathematical Oncology

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Sarah Brüningk (Universität Bern).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Turning Start-ups into Reality with Chemical Engineering

Rulande Rogers - Chief Technology Officer, Thermulon Ltd..

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

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 13:30-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title: A new approach to address scrambling of quantum information using Graph and Ergodic theories.

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann Institute of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Title tbc

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Marina Riabiz (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Lorraine Whitmarsh (University of Bath).

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

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion: Synergies in AI for Health, Geosciences and beyond

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Emergent physics in atomically thin semiconductors

Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building Embodied Intelligence: Insights from Wayve’s Journey in Autonomous Driving

Dr Alex Kendall.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

TBA

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Jean-Philippe Vert (Mines Paris Tech).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 09:00-10:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

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

Thursday 12 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Title TBC

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Roberta Poloni (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 10:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Jan-Willem van de Meent (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Projective Shape Analysis of Spatial Orientation

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Mihaela Pricop-Jeckstadt (University Politehnica of Bucharest).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:30-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

From Anderson to Many-Body localization: Instabilities in the random-field XXZ chain

Dr Jeanne Colbois (CNRS).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Professor Matthew Cliffe

Professor Matthew Cliffe, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Chaucer Club

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

Sana Suri, U. of Oxford.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: AI-Driven Drifter Placement for Ocean Currents

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Rui-Yang Zhang (Lancaster University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Concluding Discussion

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:30-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Title to be confirmed

Maria Lißner, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Oxford.

Seminar Room North, Room A0.019, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Return of the Beaver: reintroducing the first beavers to Northamptonshire for 400 years

Ben Casey, Wildlife Trust BCN.

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

Thursday 12 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Zangwill Club

Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on

Marcus Munafò, University of Bath.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Ron, How is Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Recognised?

Professor David Ron.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D/4D static recrystallisation and grain growth behaviour in magnesium alloys

Dr Dikai Guan, University of Southampton.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Lightweight Structures: Integrating Engineering and Architecture

Dr Joshua Schultz, Gonzaga University.

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

Friday 13 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Technology choice for road freight electrification

Dr Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance

Dr Matthew Gordley, Carlow University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 13 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex

Samira M. Epp, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Research Culture: Professor Yeun Joon Kim, Culture Creation and Change in Medical Institutions: Stage 1 Findings at IMS-MRL

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

How much permafrost organic carbon will be released to the atmosphere by 2100? - some geochemical perspectives

Catherine Hirst, University of Durham.

MR3, CMS.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brainwide sequences of neural activity

Matteo Carandini, University College London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What insect-watching can tell us about the evolution of animal behaviour

Dr William Foster.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title TBC: (Dark Energy in String Theory)

Susha Parameswaran (University of Liverpool).

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The search for life beyond the solar system 

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzMxOWYyNjAtYWFjNS00ZGNlLTliOTYtZjY2MTM2YWE4OGI2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Speaker to be confirmed.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Condensation in pores as a metaphor for benign overfitting?

Dr Christian Kexel, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Nicholas Wright (University College London).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Functional theory of the occupied spectral density and solution of its dynamical Euler-Lagrange equations

Prof. Andrea Ferretti.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman

Professor Eli Zysman-Colman, University of St Andrews.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Update on Swift Conservation in the UK

Dick Newell.

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

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Shorthouse, AI (and robots!) for Accelerated Discovery in Pharmaceutical Science

Professor David Shorthouse.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Pratheek Shanthraj, UKAEA.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Mario Visconte, PhD student, University of Calabria, UNICAL.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Zangwill Club

Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine

Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900

Dr Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Considerations and counterfactuals for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands

Tom Reershemius, Newcastle University .

MR3, CMS.

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The limiting case of the fractional Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension one

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Mariel Saez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tba (this is a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Nunzia Gavitone (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops

Livia de Hoz, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Energy Efficient Cities initiative: TBC

Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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

Monday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title TBC: (The LEGEND experiment)

William Quinn (University College London).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Climate scientists as analysts, advisors, advocates, or activists: what’s the difference and does it matter?

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDJlNDNiMGItY2YxZS00MjRiLTk5NjgtZWZkYjM2MjI3ZTQx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Prof Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

A new legacy of Cavendish radio astronomy: high dynamic range imaging of 3CRR

Dr. Vijay Mahatma (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:15-12:00

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fluorescence-Lifetime Super-Resolution Microscopy

Prof Jörg Enderlein, Georg August University, Göttingen.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Boosting local biomanufacturing in the global south to impact health and sustainability

Dr Jenny Molloy - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 13:30-14:45

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

A rule that’s made to be broken? Reframing the Arrhenius law and the calculation of activation energies for ion transport in solid electrolytes.

Dr Vanessa Ward, Durham University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Algorithm-mediated social learning

William Brady (Northwestern University).

Online.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tbc

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Rupert Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Julia Wiktor (Chalmers).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Felix Voigtlaender (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Pedram Roushan (Google Quantum AI).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ladybirds in the UK: more diverse than you may think!

Peter Brown.

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Zangwill Club

A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics

Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Elle McDonagh, Variant interpretation at scale for safer and more effective disease treatment

Dr Elle McDonagh.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

To divide or differentiate, that is the question

Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Niccolo Klinger, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology

Professor Conny Aerts, KU Leuven.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Title to be confirmed (Topic: Recent changes in Ocean Circulation)

David Thornally, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Matthias Täufer (None / Other).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation

Dan Bendor, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 02 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What is Digital Identity all about?

Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS. Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Semiconductor-based neutron detector development at QMUL

Adrian John Bevan, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Konstantin Pankrashkin (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Lixin Sun and Dr Gregor Simm, Microsoft.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell; Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

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

Thursday 05 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Natalia Chepiga, TU Delft.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Professor Gwénaël Rapenne

Professor Gwénaël Rapenne - University of Toulouse.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Chaucer Club

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

Devin Terhune, KCL.

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

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Catherine Powell (University of Manchester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2025

Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

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

Thursday 05 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Zangwill Club

The complexity of platform power

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Postdoctoral Research Associate Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila

Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948

Professor Issa Boulos, University of Chicago.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Antarctic ice-ocean interactions: lessons from paleo-records

Svetlana Radionovskaya, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstact tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Vladimir Lotoreichik (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tba (a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Alexander Strohmaier (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The function of the top-down processes in the visual cortex: contextual processing and scene segmentation

Matthew Self, University of Glasgow.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 09 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title TBC: (ATLAS ITk)

Dr. Bart Hommels (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Commutativity properties of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Romain Speciel (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Daniel Grieser (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Irene Burghardt, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Manon Revel (Google DeepMind).

Online.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Nicola Marzari (Cambridge, EPFL).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:15-17:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Targeted Protein Degradation tools for novel therapeutic strategies in cancer

Dr Catherine Lindon, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

Thursday 12 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Henrik Dreyer (Quantinuum).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Marcus Webb (University of Manchester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Measuring phonons with the spin of helium atoms

Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, The University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room North, Room A0.019, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seed Testing, its History and Links with Cambridge

Pam Butler.

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

Thursday 12 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Illuminating mechanisms of PGC migration in the early mouse embryo

Kate McDole (LMB).

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Did 1960's structural engineers know more than 2020's structural engineers - unpicking the engineering of Cambridge's iconic Faculty of History

Eng. Simon Smith.

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

Friday 13 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Emotions as Moral Character Trackers

Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song

Richard Morrison, The Times.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 13 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Title to be confirmed (Topic: Iron delivery to the Southern Ocean and the Biological Pump)

Lavenia Ratnarajah, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

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

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.

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:30-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Pedro Freitas (University of Lisbon).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

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

Title TBC: (Accelerator Development at the Cockroft Institute)

Peter Ratoff (University of Lancaster).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Nathanael Berestycki (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Nikolai Filonov (Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

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

Professor Maxie M. Roessler

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

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 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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Ben Lehner, Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale

Professor Ben Lehner.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Alberto Enciso (ICMAT).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Bruno Colbois (Université de Neuchâtel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Alexandre Girouard (Université Laval).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Richard Laugesen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Giada Franz (Université Gustave Eiffel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Daniel Stern (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Antoine Song (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Romain Petrides (Université Paris Cité).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

David Sher (DePaul University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Jean Lagacé (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Cristina Trombetti (University of Naples Federico II).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Luigi Provenzano (Sapienza Università di Roma).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Dorin Bucur (Université de Savoie).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Antoine Henrot (Université de Lorraine).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Michiel van den Berg (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Simone Brugiapaglia (SISSA).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Jonathan Rohleder (Stockholm University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

David MacKay: Energy and Information

One-Day Meeting.

Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Alessandro Savo (Sapienza Università di Roma).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 27 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Katie Gittins (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 27 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Gopal Sapkota, title tbc

Professor Gopal Sapkota.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 27 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

David Tewodrose (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 27 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 31 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 31 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 07 April 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 107th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of 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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 16:30-17:30

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 16:30-17:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Dr Eva González Noya, Rocasolano Institute of Physical Chemistry, Madrid.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 05 May 2026, 16:30-17:30

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 12 May 2026, 16:30-17:30

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scientific Steering Committee meeting

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 May 2026, 12:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Public Lecture: Title TBC

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Jens Marklof (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 16:30-17:30

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Semina

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 May 2026, 16:30-17:30

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 June 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 June 2026, 16:30-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Tomáš Bzdušek (UZH).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 23 June 2026, 16:30-17:30