Imagers Interest Group

Issues in Interpreting Cluster-Based Permutation Tests

Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt.

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 12:30-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org

Food provided

Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

Rogier Kievit (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Abstract Diagrammatic Reasoning with Multiplex Graph Networks

Duo Wang.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Self-Programming Networks: Applications to Financial Trading Systems

Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford).

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tourist taxation and heritage cities

Dr Guo Ji.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Eye gaze controlled interface design for automotive, aviation and assistive products

Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:15-15:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars

Sanjeev Gupta.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Optiver: Machine learning in trading: Let’s build a quantitative trading strategy

Food provided

Dennis Fleurbaaij.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Digital Modeling of Reality with Machine Learning

Dr Cengiz Oztireli, Graphics Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf website.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

Mira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Predicting visible flicker in temporally changing images

Gyorgy Denes, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional Network-Informed Approach

Anna Maria Mandalari (Imperial College).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

ARClub Talks

The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology

Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Cambridge Design Partnership

Food provided

Jason Mashinchi, Graduate Software Engineer and Tom Vajzovic, Consultant Software Engineer.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Jacob Deasy.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Topics in Political Philosophy: Luck Egalitarianism & Comparative Fairness

Ben Jooste-Jennings.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

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

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space

Dave Wealthy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Voice processing in autism

Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

TBC.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

Nicholas Zair, Cambridge.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2020 Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression

Thomas Schön, Uppsala University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Controlling time in networking: from delay-tolerant networking to low-latency networking

Kyunghan Lee (UNIST).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Doubt thy models: rethinking hypothesis testing in NLP

Rescheduled

Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning

Dr Chandrima Ganguly .

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

Paolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Financial History Seminar

The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population

Professor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality

Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO

Nicholas Walton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Machine Learning at the Extreme Edge - an Open Platform Approach

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports

Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

The SPHERE project

Ian Craddock (University of Bristol).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands World_link.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Stepping up climate change mitigation

Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write good papers

Michael Anderson (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Ljiljana Fruk - title to be confirmed

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Biology and Engineering 18.00-19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

"Whatever they (weigh) will be given to him in plenty”: Commemorative Objects as Expression of Mercantile Religious Identities in the Ancient Near East

Dr Nancy Highcock.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3..

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past

Gareth Collins.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Ourpath

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Climate, Carbon, and Computer Science

Professor Keshav - Robert Sansom Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

Dr. Claudia Schneider.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Class, Control and Classical music: Musical practices and white middle-class identities among young people in the south of England

Dr Anna Bull, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic

tea served from 4.15

Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data links

Michael Cantoni, University of Melbourne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Securing IoT with Azure Sphere

James Scott (MSR).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The mechanical regulation of brain development

Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Consciousness

Tristan Bekinschtein, (Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Ben Day (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Want to stop fake news? Become a fake news tycoon!

Jon Roozenbeek.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Green Custard Ltd: Innovating at pace in IoT

Food provided

Zoltan Molnar and Gavin Dolling .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

Antonia Ruppel (Oxford).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

PETs, POTs, and pitfalls: rethinking the protection of users against machine learning

Carmela Troncoso (EPFL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Vanessa Didelez, University of Bremen.

MR12.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Imagers Interest Group

The use of multi-parametric maps (MPMs) in ageing research

Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational Psychiatry of Autism

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks - Combining ML and Reasoning

James Fletcher, Haikal Pribadi (Grakn).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted?

Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes

Sarah Bosman.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach

Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

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

Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Trip Report - CCC

Richard Mortier (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Maria Liakata (University of Warwick/Alan Turing Institute).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 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

Matthew Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory - the history of star formation in the Universe

Stephen Eales.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Optimisation of a Modern Numerical Library: a Bottom-Up Approach

Jianxin Zhao (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Imagers Interest Group

Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI

David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

Financial History Seminar

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Sounds of Space

Nigel Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Language development in exceptional circumstances: effects of permanent childhood hearing loss

Dr Lorna Halliday (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

Dr David Stillwell.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Gearset - Continuous Delivery in Practice

Food provided

Ben Roberts, Software Engineer and Luke Drury, VP of Engineering.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Systematic Rateless Coding for Efficient Data Transport in Data Centres

Mohammed Alasmar (University of Sussex).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

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

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

3D Genomics in development and disease

Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges

Juniper Hill, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

DIAL seminars

Data Driven Design - Advanced analytics on a major railway enhancement in the North

Aaron Johnson (Jacobs Asset Management).

Seminar Room 3, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

chair: Dr Muzaffer Kaser

Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

Professor Jonathan Roiser, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Girls and women on the autism spectrum

Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

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

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

Professor Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Elena Boto, University of Nottingham.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Robin Ince, University of Glasgow.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New tools to understand and protect the biosphere

Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The common link between schizophrenia and diabetes

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 18 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 10:30-11:30