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Talks on 2018/2/28

10:00 Welcome and Introduction Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge); Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
10:10 Making sense of Human Microbiome Data Sergio Bacallado (University of Cambridge) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
10:30 New Insights in Immunopsychiatry (Provisional Title) Professor Ed Bullmore, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge ARClub Talks
10:50 Data Science for Networked Data Po-Ling Loh (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
12:00 Open IP in Emerging and Developing Economies Speaker to be confirmed Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre
12:20 Genomics Research at EBI: Challenges in Statistical Scaling Nick Goldman (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
12:30 Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing Claire O’Callaghan (U. of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences) Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series
12:50 Questions and Discussions Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
13:00 Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum Martin Allen, Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
13:00 Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum Dr Martin Allen, Wolfson College and Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series
13:00 The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity Dennis Lehmkuhl (Caltech/Einstein Papers) CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
13:00 Transcriptional control of pluripotent stem cell fate by the Nucleosome Remodelling and Deacetylation (NuRD) complex Dr Brian Hendrich; Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge Babraham Seminar
13:00 Debugging using valgrind Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge) RSE Seminars
14:00 Future Challenges for Scaling Big Data at the National Grid Andrew Richards (National Grid) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
14:00 NMR Inspired Perspectives on Enzymology: The Role of Dimer Asymmetry and Protomer Dynamics in Enzyme Catalysis Prof Scott Prosser, University of Toronto Mississauga RSC award lectures
14:15 **Cancelled due to strike action Sameer Murthy, King's College, London Theoretical Physics Colloquium
14:15 Nonvanishing and a canonical bundle formula in positive characteristic Jakub Witaszek (Imperial College) Algebraic Geometry Seminar
14:30 Scalable Inference for Complex Environmental Data Sofia Olhede (University College London) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
15:00 Questions and Discussions Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
15:30 Big Data Challenges in the Performance of Large IP Networks Dave Yearling (BT Head office) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
16:00 Stable diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds - POSTPONED Mark Powell, Durham Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar
16:00 Auxin and cytokinin regulation of root architecture - antagonism or synergy Eva Benkova (IST Austria) Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars
16:00 Cancelled due to weather conditions Prof. Ken McCaffrey, Durham University Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars
16:00 CANCELLED: The rise and fall of the Shopping Mall: dialogues on the relationship of commerce and city Fernando Garrefa, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Design of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil. Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series
16:00 Locomotion in extinct giant kangaroos? Hopping for resolution. Prof. Christine Janis, Brown University & University of Bristol rja58's list
16:00 Taking Big Data Upstream: Trading Storage for Approximation GCHQ Speaker (GCHQ) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
16:15 The Exposome in Epidemiological Practice Prof. Paolo Vineis - School of Public Health, Imperial College London Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology
16:30 Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals Mateja Hajdinjak (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Biological Anthropology Seminar Series
16:30 CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Concentrated, “pulsed” axial glacier flow: structural glaciological evidence from Kvíárjökull in SE Iceland Emrys Phillips, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
16:30 Putting Feminist New Materialism to work through affective methodologies in early childhood research Professor Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University Arts and Creativities Research Group
16:30 Questions, Discussion and Wrap-up Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
17:00 CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Africa's Voices Sharath Srinivasan, Director, Africa's Voices Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
17:00 Delirium: meeting the challenge of the most common acute brain disorder in hospital patients Prof. Alasdair MacLullich, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Edinburgh Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke's Hospital
17:00 Delirium: meeting the challenge of the most common acute brain disorder in hospital patients Prof. Alasdair MacLullich Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre "Distinguished Visitors" 2018 Lecture Series
17:00 AI Safety Gridworlds: Is my agent 'safe'? Jessica Yung (University of Cambridge) Engineering Safe AI
17:15 National crises, viewed in the light of personal crises Jared Diamond, UCLA CCI Conservation Seminars
17:15 CANCELLED in solidarity with strike action: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and the Unsettling of Mainstream Narratives of International Legal History Dr Lucas Lixinski; Dr Mats Ingulstad Legal Histories beyond the State
18:15 What is the Market Potential of Multilingualism? Gabrielle Hogan-Brun (University of Bristol) Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group
19:00 Spell Checking: A comparison of approaches Phoebe Nichols, Churchill College Churchill CompSci Talks
19:30 Particle Swarm Optimisation Craig Ferguson, Churchill College Churchill CompSci Talks
20:00 Volcanoes and Explosions Professor Andy Woods (BP Institute, Department of Earth Sciences) Cambridge University Physics Society
20:30 Hornby Model Railways Tim Mulhall Cambridge University Railway Club

📅 Talks on Wednesday, 28 February 2018

10:00

Welcome and Introduction

👤 Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge); Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10:10

Making sense of Human Microbiome Data

👤 Sergio Bacallado (University of Cambridge) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10:30

New Insights in Immunopsychiatry (Provisional Title)

👤 Professor Ed Bullmore, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge 📚 ARClub Talks 📍 Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road

10:50

Data Science for Networked Data

👤 Po-Ling Loh (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12:00

Open IP in Emerging and Developing Economies

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📚 Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre 📍 Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building

12:20

Genomics Research at EBI: Challenges in Statistical Scaling

👤 Nick Goldman (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12:30

Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing

👤 Claire O’Callaghan (U. of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences) 📚 Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

12:50

Questions and Discussions

👤 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

13:00

Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

👤 Martin Allen, Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum 📚 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term 📍 Combination Room, Wolfson College

13:00

Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

👤 Dr Martin Allen, Wolfson College and Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum 📚 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 📍 Combination Room, Wolfson College

13:00

The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity

👤 Dennis Lehmkuhl (Caltech/Einstein Papers) 📚 CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar 📍 Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

13:00

Transcriptional control of pluripotent stem cell fate by the Nucleosome Remodelling and Deacetylation (NuRD) complex

👤 Dr Brian Hendrich; Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge 📚 Babraham Seminar 📍 Babraham - The Cambridge Building; Kings Hedges Room

13:00

Debugging using valgrind

👤 Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge) 📚 RSE Seminars 📍 Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room

14:00

Future Challenges for Scaling Big Data at the National Grid

👤 Andrew Richards (National Grid) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

14:00

NMR Inspired Perspectives on Enzymology: The Role of Dimer Asymmetry and Protomer Dynamics in Enzyme Catalysis

👤 Prof Scott Prosser, University of Toronto Mississauga 📚 RSC award lectures 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

14:15

**Cancelled due to strike action

👤 Sameer Murthy, King's College, London 📚 Theoretical Physics Colloquium 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

14:15

Nonvanishing and a canonical bundle formula in positive characteristic

👤 Jakub Witaszek (Imperial College) 📚 Algebraic Geometry Seminar 📍 CMS MR13

14:30

Scalable Inference for Complex Environmental Data

👤 Sofia Olhede (University College London) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

15:00

Questions and Discussions

👤 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

15:30

Big Data Challenges in the Performance of Large IP Networks

👤 Dave Yearling (BT Head office) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

16:00

Stable diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds - POSTPONED

👤 Mark Powell, Durham 📚 Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar 📍 MR13

16:00

Auxin and cytokinin regulation of root architecture - antagonism or synergy

👤 Eva Benkova (IST Austria) 📚 Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars 📍 Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street)

16:00

Cancelled due to weather conditions

👤 Prof. Ken McCaffrey, Durham University 📚 Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars 📍 Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.

16:00

CANCELLED: The rise and fall of the Shopping Mall: dialogues on the relationship of commerce and city

👤 Fernando Garrefa, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Design of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil. 📚 Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series 📍 Mill Lane Lecture Room 1

16:00

Locomotion in extinct giant kangaroos? Hopping for resolution.

👤 Prof. Christine Janis, Brown University & University of Bristol 📚 rja58's list 📍 Department of Zoology, in the Part2 Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site

16:00

Taking Big Data Upstream: Trading Storage for Approximation

👤 GCHQ Speaker (GCHQ) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

16:15

The Exposome in Epidemiological Practice

👤 Prof. Paolo Vineis - School of Public Health, Imperial College London 📚 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology 📍 Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory

16:30

Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals

👤 Mateja Hajdinjak (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) 📚 Biological Anthropology Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG

16:30

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Concentrated, “pulsed” axial glacier flow: structural glaciological evidence from Kvíárjökull in SE Iceland

👤 Emrys Phillips, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh 📚 Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar 📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College

16:30

Putting Feminist New Materialism to work through affective methodologies in early childhood research

👤 Professor Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University 📚 Arts and Creativities Research Group 📍 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1

16:30

Questions, Discussion and Wrap-up

👤 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

17:00

CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Africa's Voices

👤 Sharath Srinivasan, Director, Africa's Voices 📚 Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events 📍 King's Audit Room, King's College

17:00

Delirium: meeting the challenge of the most common acute brain disorder in hospital patients

👤 Prof. Alasdair MacLullich, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Edinburgh 📚 Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke's Hospital 📍 Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Keith Day Road Cambridge CB2 0SL

17:00

Delirium: meeting the challenge of the most common acute brain disorder in hospital patients

👤 Prof. Alasdair MacLullich 📚 Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre "Distinguished Visitors" 2018 Lecture Series 📍 The Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre (Addenbrooke's Hospital - Block S)

17:00

AI Safety Gridworlds: Is my agent 'safe'?

👤 Jessica Yung (University of Cambridge) 📚 Engineering Safe AI 📍 Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. For directions see http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions

17:15

National crises, viewed in the light of personal crises

👤 Jared Diamond, UCLA 📚 CCI Conservation Seminars 📍 The Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site Pembroke Street , Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

17:15

CANCELLED in solidarity with strike action: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and the Unsettling of Mainstream Narratives of International Legal History

👤 Dr Lucas Lixinski; Dr Mats Ingulstad 📚 Legal Histories beyond the State 📍 Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd

18:15

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