Featured lists

Rethinking Academic Recruitment: Exploring the Potential of Narrative CVs

User Dr Noam Tal-Perry, Research Strategy Office & Bennett Institute for Public Policy, UK.

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

The atmospheric response to Arctic amplification: Insights from idealised models

User Will Seviour (Exeter).

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

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

Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge

User Benjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute).

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

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Lipid Nanoparticles that Enable the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Gene Therapies

User Pieter Cullis, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC.

Monday 03 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

User Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals

User Professor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

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

Open to Possibility: Pioneers who Promoted Women in Math and Science

MHMW04 - History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching

User Della Dumbaugh (University of Richmond).

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 09:45-11:15

The Proton EDM experiment

User Alex Keshavarzi, University of Manchester.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

Planetary uprising: Climate colonialism, Extinction Rebellion and the transformation of global politics

Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2VlZmM3OTgtOTQwNS00ZTcxLTk5ZGEtZWZiMzU4NTdiMGY1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

User Tobias Müller, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

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

Results of beamline testing at the MROI

User Dr. John Young (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Resource discussion and development, stimulated by Dumbaugh talk

MHMW04 - History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching

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Tuesday 04 February 2025, 11:45-13:15

You Fight Your Way, I Fight My Way: Wu Wen-Tsun's Research amid Weak Mathematical Institutions in China

MHMW04 - History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching

User Jiří Hudeček (Charles University, Prague).

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:15-15:45

Resource discussion and development, stimulated by Hudeček talk

MHMW04 - History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching

User .

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 16:15-17:45

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

Nucleic-Acid based therapeutics: how to use mechanistic information to ensure "safe-by-design"

User Prof Anne Willis.

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

Ethics in Mathematics at Cambridge - 9 years on

MHMW04 - History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching

User Maurice Chiodo (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 09:00-10:30

Resource discussion and development, stimulated by Chiodo talk

MHMW04 - History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching

User .

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality

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

User Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

The Rise of Data Science: Widows, Slaves and Children

MHMW04 - History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching

User John Tucker (Swansea University).

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Modelling Excited State Processes in Molecular Crystals

User Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero, University College London.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships

User Daniel Toribio Florez (University of Kent).

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

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

Resource discussion and development, stimulated by Tucker talk

MHMW04 - History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching

User .

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

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

ARClub Talks

It’s All in the Hands — Changing Developmental Trajectories of Young Children with ASD Using the Early Social Interaction (ESI) Model

User Amy M. Wetherby, Florida State University.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Exploring Quantum Phases of Matter on Quantum Processors

User Frank Pollmann (TU Munich).

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

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Sontinuity: Judeo-Spanish Transmission and Cultural Sonicity

User Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge).

House Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Situated Green Chemistries

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:30-14:30

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

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

User John Duncan (MRC CBU).

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Low-power embedded event-based vision processing for low-latency robotics

User Jörg Conradt, KTH Stockholm, Sweden.

House JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

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

Study of RAM Vessel Diameter on Mixing Effectiveness and Faraday Instabilities

User Gereon Leckebusch, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:00-15:30

Challenges and opportunities for biological network inference

User Dr Kimberly Glass.

Applied and Computational Analysis

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

Numerical analysis of high frequency wave scattering via semiclassical analysis: a case study with non-uniform meshes

User Jeffrey Galkowski (UCL).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Sample geometry for shear testing with a UTM

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

User Benjamin Revie, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:30-16:00

Recalculating equality: data, race and environmental health models in 19th-century West Africa

User Matthew Eddy (Durham University).

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

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

Foster Talks

From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour

User Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich.

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

Oscillons

User Andrzej Wereszynski (Jagiellonian U., Krakow).

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

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

Alice Hibbert-Ware: Nature Study and the Little Owl Food Enquiry (1936-7)

User Max Long.

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension

User John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Harnessing non-smooth dynamics for self-propelled gastrointestinal endoscopies with vibro-impact capsules

User Prof. Yang Liu University of Exeter.

House Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Population-Based Inference in Mechanics

User Arnaud Vadeboncoeur, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 07 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Flavour Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the SMEFT Likelihood

User Peter Stangl (CERN).

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

A CUED-developed flexible multi-sensor device enabling handheld sensing of heart sounds by untrained users

User Dr Max Nussbaumer, CUED.

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

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

User Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

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

Revealing the Spatial Pattern of Brain Hemodynamic Sensitivity to Healthy Aging through Sparse Dynamic Causal Model

User Dr Giorgia Baron, Neuropsychology Laboratory of IRCCS San Camillo, Venice, Italy..

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Monday 10 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

The structure and lifecycle of stratified mixing in forced shear flows

User Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

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

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

University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks

User Various speakers.

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment

User Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland .

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

User Professor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Lorena Escudero.

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

Title TBC

User Sinah Legner (University of Cambridge).

Computational Neuroscience

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

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

User Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

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

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

Spacetime extensions in low regularity

User Peter Cameron (Imperial).

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

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

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

User Prof Sonya Clegg.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

User Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey.

House BAS Seminar Room 2.

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

ARClub Talks

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

User Rebecca Knickmeyer, Michigan State University.

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

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Marie-Laure Bocquet, Ecole Normale Supérieure.

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

Computational Neuroscience

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

User Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

User Prof Suzanne Turner; Dept of Pathology.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Izabella Lovas, ETH Zurich.

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

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

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

User Tessa Dekker (UCL).

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science as communication

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Nonlinear dynamics and condition monitoring in rotating machines

User Professor Alan Champneys, Bristol University.

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

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

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

User Helen McRobie, Anglia Ruskin University.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

User Dr Wenqing Zhu, CUED .

House Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-driven homogenisation of the mechanical response of solids

User Dr Mirac Onur Bozkurt, CUED .

House Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Do we really need more data?

User Max Langtry, PhD student, CUED.

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

TBA

User Stefan Schacht (Durham U.).

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

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

User David Hughes, University of Glasgow.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

User Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

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

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

User Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

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

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

User Jo Hopkins (NOC).

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

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

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

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

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

Ancestral Sight

User Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Stephen John.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Searching for Life in Stranger Seas

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

User William Bains.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Title to be confirmed

User Laura Fabbri, University of Bologna.

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

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

User Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge).

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

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

User Adam Kmec (Oxford).

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

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

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

User Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Yair Litman, University of Cambridge.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

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

Title to be confirmed

User Michael Tarbutt (Imperial College).

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

User Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

User Dr Alexandra Gibbs - University of St Andrews .

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

User Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

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

Great Fen: progress on the peat

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

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

User Professor Rob Britton (SFU).

House Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Conceiving, designing and testing giant ultralight coilable space structures

User Prof. Sergio Pelligrino, California Institute of Technology.

House Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

User Prof. Robin Langley, Emeritus, CUED.

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

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

User Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab.

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

TBA

User Rene Poncelet (Cracow, INP).

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

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

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

Eve's Byte of the Apple

User Sandi Toksvig OBE.

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

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

User Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK.

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

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

Human Judgement and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

User Helen Roberts (Met Office).

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

User Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Jerimiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

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

Title TBC

User Clàudia Janó Muñoz (University of Cambridge).

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

RSC 2023 Faraday Early Career Prize: Marlow Prize Winner

User Dr Bryan Bzdek, University of Bristol.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

User Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne).

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

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

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

User Dr Josh Smalley.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House BAS Seminar Room 1.

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

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

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

House Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems immunology and variation in the human immune system

User Professor Adrian Liston.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture I

User Prof. Patrick Unwin, University of Warwick.

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Title to be confirmed

User Steve Simon, Oxford.

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

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

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

User Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge).

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

Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

User Neil Safier (Brown University).

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

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

CNHS Field Studies 2024

User Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits – the Contribution of Rare and Common Variants

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

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

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

User Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture II

User Prof. Patrick Unwin, University of Warwick.

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

25 years with MathWorks and its customers

User David Sampson, MathsWorks.

House Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

User Harry Fieldhouse, PhD student, CUED.

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

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

TBA

User John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum).

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

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

User Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

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

Title to be confirmed

User Rob Hall (UEA).

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

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

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

User Isobel Newby (University of Leeds).

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

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

User Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

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

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold

User Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester.

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

TBA

User Nick Manton (DAMTP).

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

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

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

User Prof Thanh Nguyen.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Stefan Grimme, University of Bonn.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

User Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

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

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

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang

User Zhang, MIT.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

User Natalia Berloff (DAMTP).

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

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

User Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine

User Keith Wailoo (Princeton University).

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

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

History of Forests

User Charles Turner.

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Jie Yuan, University of Southampton.

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

TBA

User Matthew Kirk (Durham U.).

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

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Florian Merkle, title TBC

User Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

User Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

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

Polari - a Very Queer Code

User Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

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

Ice Shelves: Antarctica’s Gatekeepers

User Becky Dell (Geography).

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

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

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

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

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

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

User Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

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

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

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

Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS

User Lars Henkelmann.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House BAS Seminar Room 2.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Carole Morrison, University of Edinburgh.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Clare P. Grey.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Clare P. Grey.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

User Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

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

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

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

User Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

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

Title to be confirmed

User Fulden Eratam, Diamond Light Source, Harwell.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

User Ekaterina Babintseva (Purdue University).

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

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

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

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

User Bob Jarman.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zürich.

House Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Maria Maiarú, title TBC

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

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

Decoding our Humanity

User Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

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

Title to be confirmed

User Jesse Taylor-West (Bath).

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

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

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

User Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

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

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

User Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED).

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

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

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

User Prof Maria Ubiali.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Jochen Blumberger, UCL.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

User Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute .

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

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

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

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

User Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania.

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

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

Annual General Meeting 2025

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

User The President and Officers.

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

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

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

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

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

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

User Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

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

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr James Reading, title TBC

User James Reading, University College London.

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

TBA

User Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN).

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

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

User Sarah Hart (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Principles of intensive human neuroimaging

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

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

House Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Title TBC

MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

User Karine Chemla (University of Edinburgh).

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House BAS Seminar Room 330b.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Artificial Intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

User Dr Namshik Han, Milner Institute and Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Cecilie Glittum (Freie Universität Berlin).

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

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

MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

User Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (University of Agder).

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

The Unknown Maxwell

User The Cambridge Philosophical Society.

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

Artefacts in MEG data

User Dr Golan Karvat, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.

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

House Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Title TBC

MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Hold for EHT OfB

User .

House No Room Required.

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

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House BAS Seminar Room 2.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

User Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

House Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

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

User Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK .

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

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

EHT - Equivariant homotopy theory in context

User .

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House BAS Seminar Room 330b.

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

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

MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story

User John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Applied and Computational Analysis

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

Title to be confirmed

User Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

To be confirmed

The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

User Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA.

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

Rothschild Public Lecture: Title TBC

EHT - Equivariant homotopy theory in context

User Prof. Jörg Behler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

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

Title to be confirmed

User Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.