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

ym354's list

Organic Bioelectronic Interfaces Based on Crystalline PEDOT:PSS Films, Microfibers, and Fibrillar Hydrogel

Professor Myung-Han Yoon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) .

Lecture Room 3, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Earth System Models

Dr. Cat Scott, University of Leeds.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case

Gareth Tyson, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Structure searching and longitudinal-transverse mode coupling in sulfur

Jack Whaley-Baldwin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Wind & Bridges: Aerodynamic Force Models

Dr Igor Kavrakov, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some implications of self-similarity in canonical wall turbulence

Beverley McKeon, Caltech.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

Elaine Fuchs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Security economics to inform behaviour change support

Simon Parkin, Information Security Group, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Cell competition during development and disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS - title TBC

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya

Sabine Clarke (University of York).

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

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Hierarchical structuring of micro and nanoparticles for Li-ion battery electrodes

Dr Michael De Volder, IfM, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active control of aircraft cabin noise and other topics

Ian Stothers, Ultra Electronics.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The control of moist atmospheric processes on weather forecast errors

Suzanne Gray, University of Reading.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates

Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanism

Hosted by: Fengzhu Xiong & Ben Simons

Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Women@CL Events

What is High-Performance Computing and why does it matter?

Lunch provided

Rosemary Francis (Ellexus).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Zhu Jing (University of Warwick).

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On pluralism in psychiatry

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Ole Nielsen.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Present day anthropogenic climate forcings: The impact of including Earth System interactions

Dr. Fiona O'Connor, Met Office.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

A phenomenological constitutive theory for polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics based on orientation distribution functions

Dr Martin I. Idiart, Departamento de Aeronáutica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CONICET, Argentina.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

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

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

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

Centre for Science and Policy Lectures & Seminars

Centre for Science and Policy Annual Lecture - What does it take to achieve science-informed policy?: the case of antimicrobial resistance

Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College.

Palmerston Room.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Ourpath

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Engineering advanced neural interfaces

Christopher Proctor Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

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

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Women@CL Events

TBC

Lunch provided

Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

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

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy: characterisation of elastic and anelastic behaviour of metals, ceramics and functional oxides associated with ferroic, multiferroic and normal-superconductor phase transitions

Prof Michael A. Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Models, Uncertainty and Design

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Optical control of hydrodynamic flows in cells and embryos

Moritz Kreysing, MPI-CBG Dresden .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marie Vasek, Information Security Group, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

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

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

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Nuno Reis - title TBC

Dr Nuno Reis, University of Bath.

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

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

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues

Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The case for modelled democracy

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexandre Kabla, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Structural dynamics in the construction of the world's tallest modular building

Dr John Hickey.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Correlations in suspensions of microswimmers

Alexander Morozov, University of Edinburgh .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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 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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

The politics of data-driven governance

Lina Dencik, Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself

Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

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

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

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

The modern-day blacksmith

Dr Gareth Conduit, Theory of Condensed Matte, Physics, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Naoki Onozato, MHI.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The 3D Navier-Stokes Bermuda Triangle

John Gibbon, Imperial College .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation

Dr. Natalie Harvey, University of Reading.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Rutger Leukfeldt, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Affect and empiricism in the early modern Arctic

Anne Goldgar (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s

Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Postcolonial blood infrastructures of hepatitis B (a view from West Africa)

Noemi Tousignant (UCL).

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

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tailoring nonlinearity for advanced engineering design

Prof Gaëtan Kerschen, University of Liege.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Free Surface Nanoflows

James Sprittles, University of Warwick .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Kit Murdock, University of Birmingham.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Ewa Marek - title TBC

Dr Ewa Marek, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Adrian Friday (Lancaster University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bioengineering Conference

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McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 08:30-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Chaos and permanence in Elasto-Inertial Turbulence

Yves Dubief, University of Vermont .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

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

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Developmental strategizing towards the treatment of kidney disease

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong

Andrew McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Explosive and Degassing volcanic eruptions: natural analogues with relevance for geoengineering schemes

Professor Jim Haywood, University of Exeter/Met Office.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Feng Hao, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Professor Liam Grover - title TBC

Professor Liam Grover, University of Birmingham.

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

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Henrice Altink (University of York).

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Axel Gelfert (TU Berlin).

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

Thursday 07 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Genetic conflicts shape meiosis, centromeres, and species

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview and latest results

Prof. Peter Bernath - University of Waterloo.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 14 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Steve Jackson & Hansong Ma

Titia de Lange, Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Kikuë Tachibana, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Fabian Theis, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.

To be confirmed.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:30-12:30