Applied and Computational Analysis

Generalized Sliced-Wasserstein Distances

Soheil Kouri, HRL Laboratories.

MR 14.

Tuesday 23 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The g-2 experiment

Rebecca Chislett (UCL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 23 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination-Assisted Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Bringing Orthogonality in the Tetrazine Ligation with (strained) alkenes

Kimberly M. Bonger.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 23 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains

 Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

University of Waterloo.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains

 Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

University of Waterloo.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Research track on mechanism design at the INI

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Research track on mechanism design at the INI

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

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Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Seeking the protective shield in the brain: the role of inhibitory control in regulating unwanted memories and actions Talk 2. Social status and mood: from evolutionary theory to neural signature

Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian & Daisy Follett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Simulating the Quantum Behavior of Matter: Algorithms and Applications

Professor Michele Ceriotti, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions

Dr Marwa El Zein.

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

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

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

Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Complex materials: A journey from disappearing ice phases and ‘pink’ phosphorus to stacking disordered silver iodide

Prof. Christoph G. Salzmann (University College London).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism via "Berryogenesis" in driven electronic systems

Prof. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Learning to read words: from novice to expert

Kate Nation (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The vector leptoquark solution to B-anomalies: from EFT to UV

Claudia Cornella (UZH Zurich).

MR3, CMS.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bio-electromechanical interfaces and sensors based on functional nanomaterials

Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 26 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Crystal and Magnetic Structures of a Family of Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnets

Dr Lucy Clark, University of Liverpool.

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

Friday 26 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Crystal and Magnetic Structures of a Family of Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnets

Dr Lucy Clark, University of Liverpool.

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

Friday 26 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

University Library tour : 200 years of the Cambridge Philisophical Society

Prof Jim Woodhouse (jw12).

University Library - meet at main entrance.

Friday 26 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making

Prof. Naomi Leonard, Princeton.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematics for energy systems: an engineer’s view

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Janusz Bialek (None / Other).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematics for energy systems: an engineer’s view

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Janusz Bialek (None / Other).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Power Grids: Failures and Opportunities

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Adilson Motter (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Power Grids: Failures and Opportunities

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Adilson Motter (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Imagers Interest Group

Directed dynamical connectivity in neuroimaging data: approaches, promises, and pitfalls

Daniele Marinazzo, Ghent University.

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The politics of the potato in the 19th century

Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Anupama Kowli (Indian Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Anupama Kowli (Indian Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Molecular Theory of Ion Transport through Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

Professor Akihiro Morita, Tohoku University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Veronika Grimm (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Veronika Grimm (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: What do we agree on when we disagree? Forward contracts with private forecasts

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Eddie Anderson (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: What do we agree on when we disagree? Forward contracts with private forecasts

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Eddie Anderson (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 29 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

“The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived?

Mr. Mark Slack, CMR Surgical and University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mobilizing Grid Flexibility for Renewables Integration through Topology Control and Dynamic Thermal Ratings

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Shmuel Oren (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mobilizing Grid Flexibility for Renewables Integration through Topology Control and Dynamic Thermal Ratings

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Shmuel Oren (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Steady-State Control with Application to Secondary Frequency Control of Power Systems

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

John Simpson-Porco (University of Waterloo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Steady-State Control with Application to Secondary Frequency Control of Power Systems

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

John Simpson-Porco (University of Waterloo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Power Flow with Stochastic Reserves

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Johanna Mathieu (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Power Flow with Stochastic Reserves

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Johanna Mathieu (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Smart Grids Observability using Bilevel Programming

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Claudia D’Ambrosio (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Smart Grids Observability using Bilevel Programming

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Claudia D’Ambrosio (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nonsmooth Optimization put to good use in energy problems

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Claudia Sagastizabal (Universidade Estadual de Campinas).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nonsmooth Optimization put to good use in energy problems

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Claudia Sagastizabal (Universidade Estadual de Campinas).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Geometry and symmetries of homogeneous kinematical spacetimes.

José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh).

MR11.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

LHC analysis interpretation

Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dynamic monitoring and decision systems (dymonds) framework for data-enabled integration in complex electric energy systems

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Marija Ilic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dynamic monitoring and decision systems (dymonds) framework for data-enabled integration in complex electric energy systems

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Marija Ilic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Slavonic Studies

History is a rehearsal of the future: How Russia’s past defines its perspectives and how it still can change

Mikhail Zygar, journalist, writer, and filmmaker.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme 'Mathematics of Energy Systems'

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Bert Zwart (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI); Technische Universiteit Eindhoven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme 'Mathematics of Energy Systems'

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Bert Zwart (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI); Technische Universiteit Eindhoven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Econometrics of Intraday Electricity Prices

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Florentina Paraschiv (NTNU).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:20-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Econometrics of Intraday Electricity Prices

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Florentina Paraschiv (NTNU).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:20-10:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Analytics and Forecasting for Renewable Energy Generation

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Pierre Pinson (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:55-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Analytics and Forecasting for Renewable Energy Generation

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Pierre Pinson (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:55-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Moving Energy through Time: Storage and Demand Side Response

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

James Cruise (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 11:50-12:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Moving Energy through Time: Storage and Demand Side Response

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

James Cruise (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 11:50-12:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Budgeting and Scheduling of Maintenance and Replacement of Power System Components

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Louis Wehenkel (Université de Liège).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:25-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Budgeting and Scheduling of Maintenance and Replacement of Power System Components

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Louis Wehenkel (Université de Liège).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:25-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

1. Neural competition accounts for differences in recognising and learning spoken words and pseudowords 2. Phonological mismatch negativity, and its relation to language skills and environmental factors in children

Carol Wang & Alexander Irvine (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

PLEASE NOTE, WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY. THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1.00PM. PLEASE ALSO NOTE, THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computation in Markets with Risk

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Michael Ferris (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computation in Markets with Risk

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Michael Ferris (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-14:35

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Stabilization of AgI’s polar surfaces by the aqueous environment, and its implications for ice formation

Dr Stephen Cox, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Energy Storage and Decarbonised Energy Systems

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Shane Slater (Element Energy).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:35-15:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Energy Storage and Decarbonised Energy Systems

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Shane Slater (Element Energy).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:35-15:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Open Networks Project - Laying the foundations of a Smart Grid in GB

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Farina Farrier (Energy Networks Association).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Open Networks Project - Laying the foundations of a Smart Grid in GB

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Farina Farrier (Energy Networks Association).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 15:30-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Value of Data

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Carol Choi (UK Power Networks).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Value of Data

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

Carol Choi (UK Power Networks).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 16:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion and Questions

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 16:20-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion and Questions

OFBW47 - Managing Next Generation Energy Systems

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 16:20-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Mahnoosh Alizadeh (University of California, Santa Barbara).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Mahnoosh Alizadeh (University of California, Santa Barbara).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:00-10:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serious Ovarian Cancer

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

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Distributed Coordination of Cyber-Physical Networked Systems with Limited Communication

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Na Li (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Distributed Coordination of Cyber-Physical Networked Systems with Limited Communication

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Na Li (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exploring fundamental limits in future grids with mathematics, computation and data-based methods

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

David Hill (University of Hong Kong; University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exploring fundamental limits in future grids with mathematics, computation and data-based methods

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

David Hill (University of Hong Kong; University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

East of England Research Interest Group - Parkinson's UK.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Enrique Mallada (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Enrique Mallada (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Automotive Control Using Non-Linear System Models With Uncertainty

Thomas Steffen, Loughborough University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Exploring the amyloid beta secretome in 2D and 3D culture models

Laura Pellegrini (MRC-LMB).

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Simon Lieu, Imperial College London .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Balancing the Grid through Distributed Control of Flexible Loads

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Ana Busic (CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Balancing the Grid through Distributed Control of Flexible Loads

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Ana Busic (CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2018

Henrice Altink (University of York).

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

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

Matt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

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

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

From the deuteron to the beauteron

Tim Burns (Swansea).

MR3, CMS.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Studying charge density wave systems and THz collective excitations with a meV atomic beam

Toni Tamtögl, Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPF

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Steven Low (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPF

MESW03 - Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050

Steven Low (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational instabilities and model deep earthquakes

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

Prof Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 03 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

Professor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 03 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

When is a cow not a cow?

Harriet Ritvo (MIT).

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

Monday 06 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees

Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Sensors CDT seminars

An Introduction to Beko R&D and how Sensors are Integral to the Smart Home

To register to attend: https://beko-rd-industry-lecture.eventbrite.co.uk

Natasha Conway and Graham Anderson.

Lecture Room 2, Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Drive, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

David Ho (Imperial College London).

MR11.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for lepton flavour universality violation in B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− decays at LHCb

Paula Alvarez Cartelle (Imperial College).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

What else does researching with Haraway’s successor science make possible in childhood studies?

Dr Jayne Osgood, Professor of Education, Middlesex University.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms of working memory training: not plasticity, but routines and fine-tuning

Sue Gathercole (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Direct electricity production from photosynthetic microorganisms

Professor Chris Howe.

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

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reviving an old idea of Boys and Handy: the transcorrelated method in the context of FCIQMC

Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

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

Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

How wide and how tall? Genome Wide Association Studies in debate, from height to educational attainment and back

Ulrika Björkstén (Clare Hall; Sveriges Radio).

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

X-ray and light scattering in disordered textured systems: wood and cellulose nano-composites

Prof Yoshiharu Nishiyama (French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Screening materials from high-throughput ab initio calculations

Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Particles in Membranes

Ralf Kornhuber (Freie Universitaet Berlin).

MR 14.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry

Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Alexa Morcom .

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Studying molecule-surface interactions using rotational orientation control of ground-state molecular beams

Gil Alexandrowicz, Department of Chemistry, Swansea University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from B Mesons

Miguel Escudero (King's College, London).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Slavonic Studies

KURBAS: 1920s Avant-garde Theatre in Ukraine, The Ninth Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening

Virlana Tkacz (NYC) and Waldemart Klyuzko (Kyiv).

Ramsden Room, St Catherine’s College.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:30-19:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling and Assessing the Impacts of Intercropping, as a Sustainable Farming Practice, on Food Security, Air Quality, and Public Health

Ka Ming Fung, Graduate Division of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 May 2019, 11:00-12:15

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?

Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ronan Daly, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Quantum Materials

Prof Dr Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt.

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

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Quantum Materials

Prof Dr Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt.

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

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Tim Albrecht, University of Birmingham.

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

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

How computerized assessment may transform measurement in mental health

Dr Jan Stochl, Department of Psychiatry.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 10 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)

Luz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

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

Monday 13 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Flexoelectricity from first principles

Prof. Cyrus E. Dreyer, Stony Brook University and Flatiron Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 13 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

Dr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

CP violation in charm

Sascha Stahl (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be Confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance Talk 2. Multivariate approaches to understanding the brain-behaviour relationships in cognitive ability

Alexander Quent & Ivan Simpson Kent (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Highly Polar Supramolecular Species with Enhanced IR Activity

Professor Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Sense and Sensibility in Child Literature: Disinformation, Affect and the Literary Imagination

Katharine Jones Sullivan, Committee Research Office, Canberra, Australia.

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

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

Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Rosa Chiara Paolicelli, University of Lausanne.

TBC.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Narrative in neuroscience: evolutionary approach as a teaching tool

Dr Derek Tracy, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London; Senior Lecturer, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS

Jenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).

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

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Dementia Journal Club

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory

Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex).

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

Thursday 16 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Characterising explosive blast loading for structural engineering, protection and blast injury sciences

Jack Denny, Department of Engineering, University of Southampton.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

The effect of pore structure and pore fluids on the elastic moduli and wavespeeds in porous rocks

Prof. Robert Zimmerman. Imperial College London.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Chair of Civil Engineering, CUED.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Friday 17 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

Bringing electrostatics to light: Electrometry probes a new dimension at the molecular scale

Madhavi Krishnan, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation in plants

Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 17 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England

James Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter).

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

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Sensors CDT seminars

The opportunities for sensors in physiologically relevant organ on a chip devices

To register to attend: https://kirkstall-industry-lecture.eventbrite.co.uk

Malcolm Wilkinson, Kirkstall Ltd.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich.

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

Monday 20 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Not a jet all the way: discovery prospects using substructure

Deepak Kar (University of Witwatersrand).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Tim Adamo (Imperial College London).

MR11.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Awareness in sight: Self and other appraisals of disability in acquired brain injury Talk 2. The regulation of intrusive autobiographical memories

Andrea Kusec & Giulia Barsuola (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Directions for Random Search

Professor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Is the child the father of the political man?

Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London.

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

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

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

3D nanostructures for biosensing in living tissues

Dr. Francesco De Angelis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia .

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Bryan Jones - University of Utah.

TBC.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Primary and Secondary Prevention of Dementia: can we PROTECT our Cognitive Health?

Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-related Diseases, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

Prof. Dr. Sven Schneider (Georg-August-Universität).

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems

Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Colloids in confinement: From two-dimensional melting to membrane transport

Alice Thorneywork, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Intelligent Monitoring to Inform Shaft Construction

Dr. Brian Sheil, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Tyler Corbett (NBI Copenhagen).

MR3, CMS.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The Language of Julia Donaldson: Rhetoric, style and cognition

Michael Burke , Utrecht University .

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Strain gradient plasticity: Numerical modeling of size-effects in porous metals

Prof Christian F. Niordson, DTU.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 May 2019, 14:00-14:30

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM

Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

TBC

Dr Elizabeth Harper, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 24 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

This is a joint ACA-GAPDE seminar

Filippo Cagnetti (University of Sussex).

MR 14.

Monday 27 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Visual nonlinearities

Alyse Brown (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using the Energy Landscape to Elucidate Protein-Ligand Interactions

First Year PhD Report

Alasdair Keith, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:15-14:35

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face

Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London.

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Intersubjectivity, Place and Embodied Cognition in Children’s Literature Translation Studies

Beata Piecychna, University of Bialystok, Poland.

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

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

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin).

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

Thursday 30 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Numerical stability in hard and infrared regions in OpenLoops2

Jean-Nicolas Lang (Zurich).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Atomistically inspired origami

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

Prof Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 31 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Guglielmo Aglietti, University of Surrey.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?

Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Applied and Computational Analysis

An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

Ilse Ipsen (NCSU).

MR 14.

Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Gavin Salam (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement

Giacomo Bignardi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding the Dynamics of Unentangled Associating Polymers by Means of Molecular Simulations

Professor Jorge Ramírez García, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

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

Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Crossing over OMICS in mitochondrial diseases affecting the optic nerve

Guy Lenaers, University of Angers - France.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Giordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

TBC

Jeff Calder (University of Minnesota).

MR 14.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

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

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Crispin Barnes, Thin-Film Magnetism Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Fabrizio Caloa (Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sebastian Pattinson, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Poster session

Programme to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Leigh Whitehead (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception

Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Kumbakonam Rajagopal, Texas A&M University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Digitally Distracted

Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL).

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

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur in Children's Literature

Elly McCausland, University of Oslo..

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

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

Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lonely young adults in modern Britain: findings from an epidemiological cohort study

Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

Dr. Wim L. Noorduin (AMOLF).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens

Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York).

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

Thursday 13 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Prof. Malte Gather, University of St Andrews.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The childhood cancer genome

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

Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The clinical effectiveness of sertraline in primary care and the role of depression severity and duration: The PANDA pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovative engineering: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the Square Kilometer Array

Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 24 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

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

Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the parent-infant social connection through interpersonal neuroscience

Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

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

Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 04 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan.

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

Monday 08 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

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

Friday 12 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Gabriel Balmus, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

History and Future of Psychiatry: Reflections on Kathleen Jones's "Asylums and after"

Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 11 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Stephan Roche, ICREA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 21 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Professor Serena Best - title to be confirmed

Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Susannah Gibson - title to be confirmed

Dr Susannah Gibson, Affiliated Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Professor Nigel Peake - title to be confirmed

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Professor David Baulcombe FRS- title to be confirmed

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

Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Volcanic Behaviour

Dr Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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