MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - The immune system of bacteria - IN PERSON ONLY

Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science.

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

Monday 27 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Climate policy: why is it needed and how to make it work

Sanna Markkanen (CISL).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 27 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Feynman problems for the Klein-Gordon and wave equation

Michal Wrochna (Utrecht).

MR13.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Demikernel Datapath Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems

Irene Zhang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle

Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 27 January 2025, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 January 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

GScan’s industrial tracker system for the muon tomography applications

Andi Hektor, GScan.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Debiased regression adjustment in completely randomized experiments with moderately high-dimensional covariates

Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Assigning responsibility for the ‘right to die’: moral and legal ambiguity in the regulation of assisted dying

Janna Bryson, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology.

1 Newnham Terrace seminar room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:10-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

S_n-extensions with prescribed norms

Sebastian Monnet (UCL).

MR13.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys

Prof Brian Cantor.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 18:00-19:30

ARClub Talks

Reflecting upon the double empathy problem: new directions and practical implications.

Damian Milton, University of Kent.

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

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - January 2025

Greta Markert and Dr Karen Sayal.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:45-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How do we protect the democratic information environment in an AI-powered world? Tackling online harms with computational social science and AI

Helen Margetts (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Lower bounds for incidences and Heilbronn's triangle problem

Dmitrii Zakharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 13:30-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling sea ice dynamics using brittle dynamics: impact in pack ice and marginal ice zones

Guillaume Boutin (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center).

BAS Seminar Room 1; .

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Intersection theory on moduli spaces of parabolic bundles

Miguel Moreira, MIT.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

NMR Prediction Uncertainty Enables DFT-Free Structural Confirmation

Ruslan Kotlyarov, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Halogenation Site-Selectivity Prediction Just Got Faster

Henrique Magri Marçon, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 15:00-15:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Green Algorithms, Green DiSC and GREENER principles: making computational science more environmentally sustainable

Dr Loïc Lannelongue - Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 15:05-15:55

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Epidemiology and modelling to support the routine infant immunisation programme in England

Lauren Adams, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar January 2025 - Focus on the microbiome in disease

Virginia Pedicord, CITIID, University of Cambridge and Ghaith Bakdash, Microbiotica.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Steroid hormone regulation of cancer immunity

Dr Bidesh Mahata, Dept of Pathology.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Muzlifah Haniffa, Sanger Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Multiphase Transport Phenomena and Energy Process Intensification

Yulong Ding, University of Birmingham.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cooperative Mechanisms Against Climate Change

Carl Edward Rasmussen.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

Dr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Real Space Approaches to Topological Band Systems

Ryan L Barnett (Imperial College London).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy

Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool).

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

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Expander graphs from Cayley graphs of groups where every generating set works

Oren Becker (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Expander graphs from Cayley graphs of groups where every generating set works

Oren Becker (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pulling away from science, epistemic self-reliance, and the tale of Thabo Mbeki

Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in infection and sterile inflammation

Clare Bryant, Professor of Innate Immunity, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 30 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Prospects for formalizing the theory of weak infinite-dimensional categories

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Marine World

Frances Dipper.

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

Thursday 30 January 2025, 18:45-20:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models

James Thorne (KAIST).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Maxwell equations on the full Kerr black hole family

Rita Teixera da Costa.

Potter Room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 31 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding Battery Function - New Metrologies, New Chemistries and New Insights

Professor Dame Clare P. Grey, FRS, DBE + 3 Researcher Presentations.

Dept of Chemistry, (BMS) Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically-grown morphogenesis of Voronoi-type materials

Dr Zahra Hooshmand Ahoor, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-14:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Police responses to young people’s experiences of cyberstalking

Tahreem Tahir, University of Central Lancashire.

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

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Numerical Investigation of Orientation Effects in Cross-grain Fracture of Wood

Dr Hao Yin, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:30-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Cosmological tensions? A guide for high energy theorists

William Handley (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vibration Energy Harvesting Based on Internal Resonance

Prof. Li-Qun Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Cracking the capillary code: towards mesoscopic self-assembly and functional micromachines

Professor Nicolas Vandewalle, University of Liège.

MR2.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

Maya Youssef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The atmospheric response to Arctic amplification: Insights from idealised models

Will Seviour (Exeter).

MR3, CMS.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ahmed Ellithy.

MR13.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

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

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Building global resilience to high-impact volcanic eruptions

Lara Mani, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 February 2025, 19:00-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Could stratospheric aerosol injection produce meaningful global cooling without novel aircraft?

Alistair Duffey, PhD Student at University College London, Earth Sciences.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Proton EDM experiment

Alex Keshavarzi, University of Manchester.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Results of beamline testing at the MROI

Dr. John Young (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Chocolate and Bibles: How Victorian Collectors Spent their Evenings and Shaped Scholarship

Dr Harry Spillane, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University Library and Research Fellow, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Towards a Faster Finality Protocol for Ethereum

Luca Zanolini, Ethereum Foundation.

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

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Road layout in the KPZ class

Marton Balazs (Bristol).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marti Oller Riera (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

Prof Anne Willis.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Cryptography, quantum computers and analytic number theory

Cédric Pilatte (University of Oxford).

MR4, CMS.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization and Informativeness of Conformal Prediction

Dr Fredrik Hellstrom, UCL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modelling Excited State Processes in Molecular Crystals

Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero, University College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships

Karen Douglas (University of Kent).

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

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Gabriele Mazzini - Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Computational Methods to Design Broad-Spectrum Medical Countermeasures Against Antigenically Diverse Pathogens

Phil Palmer, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT1, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

ARClub Talks

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

Amy M. Wetherby, Florida State University.

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

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

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Unipotent representations in the local Langlands correspondence

Beth Romano, King's College London.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Tom Welton, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic events underpinning squamous lung cancer

Alice Chernaik (Medicine, University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour

Host - Erik Clark

Dr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Chaucer Club

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

John Duncan (MRC CBU).

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

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Decomposing Latin squares into transversals.

Candida Bowtell (Birmingham).

MR12.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Study of RAM Vessel Diameter on Mixing Effectiveness and Faraday Instabilities

Gereon Leckebusch, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Sample geometry for shear testing with a UTM

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

Benjamin Revie, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Matthew Eddy (Durham University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr. Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology

Dr. Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology.

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

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

Foster Talks

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

Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich.

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

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalisation of Combinatorial Optimisation in Isabelle/HOL

Thomas Ammer (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

Max Long.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 07 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Sayyed Rassouli.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Prof. Yang Liu University of Exeter.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Peter Stangl (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Max Nussbaumer, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bubble dynamics in complex fluids

Professor Valeria Garbin, Delft University of Technology.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Alpha-Synuclein and its aggregation: Past, Present and Future

Maria Grazia Spillantini, University of Cambridge, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98728840077?pwd=Z0MZ2xWLsyUC6fI31cIklaUbSYALwy.1.

Monday 10 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The structure and lifecycle of stratified mixing in forced shear flows

Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

MR3, CMS.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

John R. King (University of Nottingham).

MR13.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

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

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Lorena Escudero.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

Sinah Legner (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economic Cost of Depression: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

Fergus McCormack, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Designing Counter Strategies against Online Harms

Stefanie Ullmann, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Raymond van Bommel (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

Prof Sonya Clegg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Amador Martin-Pizarro (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Marie-Laure Bocquet, Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hardware Datapath: For Machine Learning and Beyond

Professor George A. Constantinides - Professor of Digital Computation, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Positivity in the Sky

Professor Claudia de Rham - Imperial College, London.

MR3.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knot theory and complex curves

Matthew Hedden (Michigan State University).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Damer Blake, Royal Veterinary College.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Zachary Feng, University of Oxford.

MR12.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner; Dept of Pathology.

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

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

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Effects triggered by singular solutions in the collapse of non-spherical bubbles

Daniel Fuster, Institut D'Alembert.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The microscopic barriers protecting your airway everyday

Leah Hurst.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Izabella Lovas, ETH Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Chaucer Club

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

Tessa Dekker (UCL).

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

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

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Jan Petr (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science as communication

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

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Prof. Jeroen Raes, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium

Prof. Jeroen Raes, Vice director, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium.

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinear dynamics and condition monitoring in rotating machines

Professor Alan Champneys, Bristol University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

David Angdinata (University College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

Helen McRobie, Anglia Ruskin University.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training

Jeremy Bernstein (MIT).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Harvey Reall, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Dr Wenqing Zhu, CUED .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Do we really need more data?

Max Langtry, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Stefan Schacht (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Synchronization in Navier-Stokes turbulence and it's role in data-driven modeling

Professor Masanobu Inubushi, Tokyo University of Science.

MR2.

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

Zangwill Club

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

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

Jo Hopkins (NOC).

MR3, CMS.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Annalaura Rebucci, MPI Leipzig.

MR13.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Ancestral Sight

Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Stephen John.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

William Bains.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Laura Fabbri, University of Bologna.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

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

Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Simon Birnbach, University of Oxford.

Webinar & GN06, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Graham (Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

The Francis Crick Lecture 2025 - The DNA Quadruplex Helix

Shankar Balasubramaniam, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93702571246?pwd=I6zsi0w8N5XcKg2gu0bac58rcyTfba.1.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 10:00-11:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Yair Litman, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

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

Online.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ilan Price - Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ilan Price - Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

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

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

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

James Morris, IEEF.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Fractal geometry: an introduction to fractal dimensions

Jose Ramon.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Dr Alexandra Gibbs - University of St Andrews .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Professor Paul Kubes, Cumming School of Medicine

Professor Paul Kubes, Cumming School of Medicine.

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

Thursday 20 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Sonia Garcia-Ruiz (Postdoc, UK Dementia Research Institute, Dept. Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Vanessa Loiacono (PI, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam Brandenburg, GE).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalising Brauer Group and Group Cohomology in Lean4

Jujian Zhang (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Great Fen: progress on the peat

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP

Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09..

Friday 21 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Alex Vañó-Viñuales (IST Lisbon).

Potter room.

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

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Rob Britton (SFU).

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

Prof. Sergio Pelligrino, California Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Post-doc talks

Post-doc talks, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Prof. Robin Langley, Emeritus, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Rene Poncelet (Cracow, INP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Human Judgement and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Helen Roberts (Met Office).

MR3, CMS.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jacek Jendrej.

MR13.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jerimiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

Clàudia Janó Muñoz (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploring dietary behaviours, narratives and attitudes in Cambridge colleges

Sigurdur Martinsson, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

RSC 2023 Faraday Early Career Prize: Marlow Prize Winner

Dr Bryan Bzdek, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Probability

Branching random walk with non-local competition

Sarah Penington (Bath).

MR12.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Li Huerta (MPIM).

MR13.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Mike Hochman (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Samir Perlaza, INRIA.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Digital Money and Decentralised Finance

Professor Frank Stajano and Dr Ferdinando Samaria - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Christiaan van Ooij, Keele University.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Simon Goodwin, University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems immunology and variation in the human immune system

Professor Adrian Liston.

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

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

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Professor Matthew Davidson, Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Super-resolution optical microscope for use in the life sciences

Rebecca McClelland.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture I

Prof. Patrick Unwin, University of Warwick.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Steve Simon, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions

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

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Neil Safier (Brown University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Seth Coffelt, Professor of Cancer Immunology, University of Glasgow

Seth Coffelt, Professor of Cancer Immunology, University of Glasgow.

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

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Francisco Ferreira Ruiz (Royal Holloway, University of London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2024

Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture II

Prof. Patrick Unwin, University of Warwick.

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

David Sampson, MathsWorks.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language meets Control Theory

Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Harry Fieldhouse, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fast flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction

Professor John Hinch, DAMTP.

MR2.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92454273602?pwd=kKpRjV53ALrNtk3FXYDG1jqaNTjGa4.1.

Monday 03 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Rob Hall (UEA).

MR3, CMS.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jo Evans, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

James Grime, Institute of Continuing Education.

Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Monday 03 March 2025, 19:15-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

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

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold

Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Metaphysics as Communing with the Unknown: Crossing between Emanuel Levinas and Karl Jaspers

Connor Hayes.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Chris Wuthrich (Nottingham).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Peter Varju (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Gergely Flamich, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Stefan Grimme, University of Bonn.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Joe Watson - Co-founder, Xaira Therapeutics.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Charles Senecal, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

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

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

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mathematical Modelling of Emergent Survival in Microbial Communities

Naomi van den Berg.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

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

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine

Keith Wailoo (Princeton University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Gunnar Nilsson, Professor of Experimental Allergy Research, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Gunnar Nilsson, Professor of Experimental Allergy Research, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.

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

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Forests

Charles Turner.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward

Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 07 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jie Yuan, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Matthew Kirk (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The mathematics and physics of wound healing

Professor Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol.

MR2.

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Simonetta Gribaldo, Intstitut Pasteur.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93131890304?pwd=5wJQaRCpTeWdDhK0bgmfZrXu2qFmLY.1.

Monday 10 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Ice Shelves: Antarctica’s Gatekeepers

Becky Dell (Geography).

MR3, CMS.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Razvan Radu.

MR13.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Intelligent manufacturing - TBC

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

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS

Lars Henkelmann.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book of protecting Osiris among those of the Netherworld: An annotated version of the First Hour.

Chike Pilgrim, PhD Student, Department of Archaeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Siqi Yang (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Ben Krause (University of Bristol).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Carole Morrison, University of Edinburgh.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Edwin Brady - School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 15:05-15:55

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

To be confirmed

Professor Tilman Plehn - Heidelberg University.

MR3.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

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

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Blood Cancer Research

Shanlin Tong.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

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

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Title to be confirmed

Fulden Eratam, Diamond Light Source, Harwell.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Ekaterina Babintseva (Purdue University).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formal verification of the 5th Busy Beaver value

Tristan Stérin (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Maja Kądziołka.

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

Bob Jarman.

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

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

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape

Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zürich.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent zonal jets: self-organization and wave-mean flow interactions

Dr Daphné Lemasquerier, University of St Andrews.

MR2.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jesse Taylor-West (Bath).

MR3, CMS.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Alex Joyner, Sloan Kettering Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

An alkaline world: a new assessment of the global chemical climate for PM2.5 formation and nitrogen and sulphur deposition

Dr Yao Ge, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alice Hutchings (University of Cambridge).

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Maleeha Khawaja (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Positivity theorems for hyperplane arrangements via intersection theory

Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon.

CMS MR13.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Jochen Blumberger, UCL.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Structure-function studies of essential mitochondrial complexes of apicomplexan parasites

Lilach Sheiner, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute .

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

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

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

Seminars in Cancer

George Vassiliou, CSCI Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

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

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Tal Arnon, Professor of Cellular Immunology, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford

Tal Arnon, Professor of Cellular Immunology, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford.

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Alessandro Bonetti (Director of Neuroscience, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Kevin Weeks (PI, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-19:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

David Wang (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2025

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

The President and Officers.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

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

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 21 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonmonotonic flow curves and shear banding in granular flows

Dr Christopher Ness, University of Edinburgh.

MR2.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Max Perutz Lecture 2025: Title TBC

Reinhard Lührmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91444589642?pwd=jnwAAhDSdpwbVU89ouG9RenIhuXRDL.1.

Monday 24 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Cecilie Glittum (Freie Universität Berlin).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Professor Awen Gallimore, Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University

Professor Awen Gallimore, Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Unknown Maxwell

The Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

Professor Serena Nik-Zainal.

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

Thursday 03 April 2025, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Rod MacKinnon - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92311841585?pwd=auhAdp8eTD8Ca0xGZpaNlZrChEcHAr.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Jue Chen - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93491001276?pwd=2utwaSIeA0haHVdOuRkZlBlQq6wzLb.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

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

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach

Roger Sewell.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 19:15-21:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Daniel Tennant, University of Birmingham, UK.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

TBA.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 April 2025, 17:00-19:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

César Milstein Lecture 2025: Title TBC

David Pellman - Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97042445746?pwd=rjwSiStXxjdk1Q2tPOdRnqr8aM3qwn.1.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 10:00-11:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Simon Powell, MSKCC.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

John Kendrew Lecture 2025: Title TBC

Elena Conti - Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92203736389?pwd=68nPyr7JP1gZrsR4lgJKm1ad4idxyx.1.

Monday 28 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meritxell Huch, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Calculations of excited electronic states using density functionals - without introducing time-dependence

Professor Hannes Jónsson, University of Iceland.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci, FRS (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Hang Li (Sorbonne Université).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Tim Austin (Warwick).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 02 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Pianos, guitars and double decays

Prof. Jim Woodhouse, Emeritus, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Justin Coon, University of Oxford.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Maria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Prakash Murali - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Rouse Ball Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Prof Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

TBC.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Nikos Nikiforakis (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Yang (Imperial College, London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Samuel Coles, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

Online.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

To be confirmed

Professor Gary Horowitz - University of California, Santa Barbara.

MR3.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

Antoine Molaro, iGReD.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Prediction and its application to mechanical properties

Peter Gould.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title TBC - Prof. Anat Milo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Anna Wredenberg, Karolinska Institute, Finland.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Friday 16 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94132066038?pwd=OF2EjwrvRQxl0XgpGK0N5L4bDNaayi.1.

Monday 19 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story

John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Swinburne, UC Berkeley.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Chiara Leadbeater, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Alberto Paganini (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sergio Blanes (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Gill Barnett and Dr Christopher Jones, Cambridge University Hospital & Dept of Oncology .

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Leonardo Tolomeo (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

TBC

Professor David Sancho Madrid, Spanish Center for Cardiovascular Research.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Nixon Niyonzima, Uganda Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jörg Behler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 17:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Andy Fire - Stanford University School of Medicine.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93594800418?pwd=cAhtrP8MGG3FclWimSbLLwl9XhIHNX.1.

Monday 30 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Marileen Dogterom - TU Delft, Delft University of Technology.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95584842300?pwd=V2DAKEE0bQXA4bbbSUryiRPELlhmzP.1.

Monday 07 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

**Please note new date for this seminar**

Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Christian Haass - Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96372751903?pwd=C2hRQ8UF0B03vDp6IHGfWuTlsqzrTi.1.

Monday 14 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98880219442?pwd=2LiGulNdYohUjaMnbiN88kLpt3r8M9.1.

Monday 08 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Nenad Ban - ETH Zurich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97937314535?pwd=SciQzQiuFkLGF3ERwcMiLLTEbryUxV.1.

Monday 22 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Hiroaki Suga - The University of Tokyo.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96488916942?pwd=BpCGRwD8hD8ec89yfaJ0yKPmV3o6lv.1.

Monday 29 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, The Francis Crick Institute.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 19:15-21:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

Steffi Oesterreich, University of Pittsburgh.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:00-21:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00