Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Alpha-unstable flows and the fast dynamo problem

Michele Coti Zelati (Imperial College).

MR3.

Monday 16 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Fast Superconductivity Through Chemical Bonding Interactions.

Francesco Belli - Unifersity of Buffalo.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 February 2026, 14:00-14:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Predicting Thermoelectric Materials Through Crystal Structure Prediction and Energy Filtering Mechanisms

Simone Di Cataldo - Sapienza university of Rome.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 February 2026, 14:30-15:00

Probability

Tba

Erwin Bolthausen (Universität Zürich).

MR12.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The polaron problem and Kac type interactions

Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich).

MR12.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Pointwise bounds for 3-torsion

Stephanie Chan (UCL).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Foundation AI

Large Language Models, Model Collapse, and the Conservation of Information

LT1

George Montanez.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Information Theory Seminar

Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory

Prof Marcus Hutter, Google DeepMind, London.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory

Marcus Hutter (DeepMind).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR5.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner.

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

Thursday 19 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

CQIF Seminar

XOR trick for the Ising model and its graphical representations

Frederik Ravn Klausen, DAMTP.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:15-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Lower bounds for van der Waerden numbers

Zach Hunter (ETH Zurich).

MR12.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Certifying Synthetic Mathematics in Lean

Wojciech Nawrocki (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pavel Zalesski (Brasilia).

MR13.

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

Minimax rate for multivariate data under componentwise local differential privacy constraints

Chiara Amorino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Ng, University of Bonn.

MR13.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900

Dr Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Mixing Estimates for Sobolev and BV Vector Fields

Lucas Huysmans (MPI Leipzig).

MR3.

Monday 23 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Title to be confirmed

Dr Kevin Maik Jablonka, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany).

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 23 February 2026, 14:30-15:00

Probability

The random walk on the exclusion process: a Law of Large numbers in dimensions $\geq 5$

Guillaume Conchon--Kerjan (King's College London).

MR12.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Damián Gvirtz-Chen (University of Glasgow).

MR13.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Lewis Topley, University of Bath.

MR12.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Combinatorics Seminar

The diameter of somewhat dense Cayley graphs on $A_n$

Peter Keevash (Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Axel Ljungström (University of Nottingham).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

What is the probability that two elements of a group commute?

Armando Martino (Southampton).

MR13.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

Rainfall, volatility and roughness: an intriguing story across scales

Marc Hoffmann (Université Paris-Dauphine).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Yifan Zhao (Imperial College London).

MR13.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology

Professor Conny Aerts, KU Leuven.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

TBC

Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley).

MR13.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Coupling Electronic and Molecular DFT to Study Solvation in Dichloromethane under High Pressure.

Jean-Marc Lude, Université Paris-Saclay.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:00-14:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Aqemia: Drug Discovery using Physics and AI

Laura Scalfi, Aqemia.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:30-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Giorgio Navone (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Information Theory Seminar

Graph Joinings, Graph Isomorphism, and Reversible Markov Chains

Prof Andrew Nobel, UNC Chapel Hill.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Nicolas Dupre, University of Wuppertal.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell; Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

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

Thursday 05 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Anand Rao Tadipatri (University of Cambridge).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Elena Bogliolo (Pisa).

MR13.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yee Whye Teh (Oxford/Deepmind).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Paweł Nosal, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948

Professor Issa Boulos, University of Chicago.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

TBC

David Bate (Warwick).

MR13.

Monday 09 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Title to be confirmed

Aaron Kaplan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA).

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 09 March 2026, 14:00-14:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

TBC

Vittoria Sposini, University of Padova.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 09 March 2026, 14:30-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Yan Yau Cheng (University of Edinburgh).

MR13.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Yihan Zhang, University of Bristol .

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Rahul Pandharipande ( Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich).

MR13.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:15-15:15

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Ivan Smith (Cambridge).

MR13.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Amit Hazri, University of Leeds.

MR12.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How can the pedagogy of statistics inform the teaching of machine learning?

Paul Fannon, Department of Genetics: Bioinformatics Training Facility.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 19:15-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Targeted Protein Degradation tools for novel therapeutic strategies in cancer

Dr Catherine Lindon, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

Thursday 12 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Gérard Ben Arous (Courant).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Christoph Benzmüller (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and Freie Universität Berlin).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway).

MR13.

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

Scalable causal discovery for statistically efficient causal inference

Sara Magliacane (University of Amsterdam).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Elliot Gathercole, University of Lancaster.

MR13.

Friday 13 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song

Richard Morrison, The Times.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 13 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

TBC

Ryan Barrett, Leipzig University.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:00-14:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

TBC

Loïc Lannelongue, University of Cambridge.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:30-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Johannes Girsch (University of Sheffield).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Florian Richter (EPFL).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities.

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

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Note this talk will take place in MR5.

Harald Helfgott (CNRS--Jussieu).

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 13:30-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 26 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

MR2, CMS.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Floris van Doorn (University of Bonn).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Anitha Thillaisundaram (Lund).

MR13.

Friday 01 May 2026, 13:45-14:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Brad Wilson, UCL.

MR13.

Friday 01 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

The Inaccessible Game

Professor Neil Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Thomas Powell (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 28 May 2026, 17:00-18:00

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

Valeria Ruscio.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 17:00-17:45

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Johan Öinert (Blekinge).

MR13.

Friday 05 June 2026, 13:45-14:45

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dídac Martinez Granado (Luxemburgh).

MR13.

Friday 12 June 2026, 13:45-14:45