NLIP Seminar Series

Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media

Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution

Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR12.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

My part in the discovery of the black hole in Cygnus X-1

Professor Paul Murdin.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Engineering Safe AI

Who do we want to control human-level AI?

Jade Leung (Center for the Governance of AI, University of Oxford).

Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Friday 22 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

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

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Researching LGBTQ+ Issues: Building Community

Charlotte Allen, Frank Frangeskou, Becky Moses, Lucian Stephenson.

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

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy

Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC).

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution.

Dr John Gent, KCL.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 25 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Creating a Commonwealth intelligence culture? Security sector reform and the politics of assistance in building the Tanzanian state, 1945-1989

Thomas Maguire.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning”

Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

THE POWER OF CATALYTIC CONVERSATIONS: An unexpected journey and response to the question 'How do we turn STEM into STEAM?

Carole Bent, Creative Catalyst, Advisor and Art Partner .

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

Professor Danny Dorling.

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The geology of Mercury and the BepiColombo mission

Professor David Rothery.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Experience of Motherhood for Autistic Women

Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Computational Neuroscience

Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex

Gergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Identifying the cognitive dimensions of learning problems in children who have been identified as struggling at school

Joni Holmes (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

DevOps and Cloud Native development in the University of Cambridge

Dr Abraham Martin - Head of DevOps, University of Cambridge Information Services .

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:15-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

Anna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Classification Game: Topological Insulators and Other Beasts

Professor Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Long-term stability of human neurons in an organotypic slice culture system – a new model to study disease mechanisms of neurological disorders

Henner Koch, University of Tübingen.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tracking neuroinflammation in the brains of depressed patients

Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Institutional multilingualism: theories, policies and practices of language and law in the EU

Javier Moreno-Rivero (PhD student, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room G, Second Floor, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Challenging monolingual histories: Multilingual evidence from the Dutch-German borderlands in the long nineteenth century

Dr Andreas Krogull (MEITS postdoctoral research associate, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room G, Second Floor, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

Neural Code Comprehension: A Learnable Representation of Code Semantics

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

Tal Ben-Nun, ETH Zurich.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Solving Darwin’s 'abominable mystery': the evolution and development of nectar spurs

Ms Erin Cullen (Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

A Framework for Data Collection and Management for IoT

Maribel Fernandez (KCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

Tamar Makin (UCL).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Prof Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

CMIH seminar series

Texture analysis and Machine Learning for the Prediction of Cardiovascular Events

Elizabeth Le (University of Cambridge).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in Colombia

Professor Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

Professor Alison Murdoch.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Deep Reinforcement Learning: from AlphaGo to AlphaStar

Dr David Silver, DeepMind.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Monday 04 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.

Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Sophie Calle: Turning Love Backwards

Jezebel Mansell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

Dr Anne Corcoran.

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Infrared Astronomy at NASA Ames Research Centre in the late 1980s, KAO to SOFIA

Paul Mulvaney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization

Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. .

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor

Tea served from 4.15

Bill Short University of Exeter .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Glucose monitoring for diabetes

Dr Hannah Hare, TTP plc.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Neurons without batteries: Dissecting cell type-specific neuronal contribution to mitochondrial disease

Albert Quintana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

100 years since Nijinsky met Bleuler: What can we learn from individual cases in psychiatry?

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

How to see, measure and capture the arts experience

Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room 2S7.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Observing active galaxies, the sites of growing supermassive black holes

Dr George Lansbury (University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Dementia Journal Club

Title to be confirmed

Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI.

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

TBC

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Science of Musical Meaning

Professor Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute).

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Mental Health Life Course Lecture Series

Blueprint: The DNA revolution and a lifespan approach to psychological traits

Professor Robert Plomin.

Cambridge Institute of Public Health Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR.

Monday 11 March 2019, 12:30-14:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Regulatory Genomics: From Basic Biology to Disease Mechanisms and Ageing

Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

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

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write a Fellowship proposal

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Financial History Seminar

Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach.

Dr Walter Jansson, Bank of England.

Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Scenarios, forecasts, and projections – thinking about the future of technological change and climate change mitigation

Ida Sognnaes.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

A variational approach to nonlinear and interacting diffusions

Professor Pierre Del Moral.

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

Professor Mike Cates.

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Catching Comets by their Tails

Professor Geraint Jones.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic: Endangered communities and languages in contact

Prof Eleanor Coghill, Uppsala University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

Relativistic fluid flows

Professor Nils Andersson, University of Southampton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation

Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Craik Club

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Learning from rivers about long-term controls on Earth’s climate

Dr Jotis Baronas (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

LinuxKit: new ways of using Linux

Justin Cormack.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Imagers Interest Group

Practical Power Estimation for fMRI

Tom Nichols, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 15 March 2019, 10:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.

Professor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 15 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Debugging and Repairing P4 Programs

Costin Raiciu (University Politehnica of Bucharest).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Representation Learning on Graphs

Jure Leskovec - Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Chief Scientist at Pinterest, and investigator at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 16:15-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transforming cancer care

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:45-20:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Dementia Journal Club

Title to be confirmed

Please volunteer!.

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

Thursday 21 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Network Science and Telecommunications

Piet Van Mieghem (TU Delft).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

Steve Wilson, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Case For In-Network Computing On Demand

Noa Zilberman (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 22 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Calcium-mediated processes as a potential common denominator in motor neuron degeneration

Roland Patai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Imagers Interest Group

Towards a theory of functional MRS

Paul Mullins, Bangor University.

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

Monday 01 April 2019, 12:30-14:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Direct neuronal reprogramming of patient skin fibroblasts: a new approach to study idiopathic Parkinson's disease

Janelle Drouin-Ouellet, University of Montreal.

TBC.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Osborn, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Aurora Gomez-Duran, University of Cambridge.

VGB.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies”

Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

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

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jakob Bardram (DTU).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

MR12.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making

Prof. Naomi Leonard, Princeton.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Daniele Marinazzo, Ghent University.

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

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

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Coralia Cartis.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

Professor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 09 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?

Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

MR12.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

MR12.

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

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

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

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

Second Language Education Group

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

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

MR12.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation in plants

Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Roger Koenker, University College London.

MR12.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anna Obenauf from Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Aging Mind: An Owner's Manual

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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