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Talks on 2026/3/2

09:15 Director's Briefing Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
09:20 Organisers' Welcome Thomas Richardson (University of Washington), Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
09:30 Learning and exploiting graphical structure to support valid inference for causal effects Daniel Malinsky (Columbia University) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
10:45 Model-oriented Graph Distances via Partially Ordered Sets Richard Guo (University of Michigan) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
11:30 Uncertainty for Causal Discovery Y. Samuel Wang (Cornell University) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
12:30 Brain age prediction and early neurodegeneration detection using contrastive learning on brain biomechanics Jakob Träuble, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge CBU Monday Methods Meeting
13:00 Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Emily Hughes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens) Cabinet of Natural History
13:00 Valencina: Centrality, Monumentalism and Female Leadership in a Copper-Age Mega-Site Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan, University of Seville Later European and Mediterranean Prehistory Group (LEPG)
14:00 Addressing an extreme positivity violation to distinguish the causal effects of surgery and anesthesia via a separable effects model Caleb Miles (Columbia University) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
14:00 How microbes at extremes shape the limits of the biosphere (and might help human activity in space) Professor Charles Cockell - School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Edinburgh Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
14:30 Feline Lindhount: Linking human neurodevelopmental timing and evolution, James Fitzsimmons: Brassinosteroid controls leaf air space patterning non-cell autonomously by promoting epidermal growth Feline Lindhount, James Fitzsimmons Morphogenesis Seminar Series
14:30 The curious spectra and dynamics of non-locally finite crystals Matthias Täufer (University Polytechnic Hauts-De-France) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
15:00 Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persuasion Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI) Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
15:30 Assessing Interactive Causes of an Occurred Outcome Due to Two Binary Exposures Shanshan Luo (Beijing Technology and Business University) Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
16:00 Cooling the solar atmosphere with shocks Ben Snow (Exeter) DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars
16:00 AION-1: An Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical Sciences Thomas Hehir (IoA) Astro Data Science Discussion Group
16:15 A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation Dan Bendor, University College London Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
17:00 Moral Geographies of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Examining Elite Indian and Chinese Women's Political Thought c. 1920 - 45 Shruti Balaji (London School of Economics) Political Thought and Intellectual History
17:00 The road to 1997: Bank of England operational independence in historical perspective Dr Chetun Patel (King’s College London) Financial History Seminar
17:15 Book Presentation: Inside Criminalized Governance. How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro Nicholas Barnes (University of St Andrews) CLAS Open Seminars - Lent Term 2026
17:30 Hallucinating Mice, Neural Circuits and Immunity - Towards Mechanistic Treatments for Psychosis Katharina Schmack, Group Leader at Francis Crick Institute Cambridge University Biological Society

📅 Talks on Monday, 02 March 2026

09:15

Director's Briefing

👤 Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

09:20

Organisers' Welcome

👤 Thomas Richardson (University of Washington), Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

09:30

Learning and exploiting graphical structure to support valid inference for causal effects

👤 Daniel Malinsky (Columbia University) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10:45

Model-oriented Graph Distances via Partially Ordered Sets

👤 Richard Guo (University of Michigan) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

11:30

Uncertainty for Causal Discovery

👤 Y. Samuel Wang (Cornell University) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12:30

Brain age prediction and early neurodegeneration detection using contrastive learning on brain biomechanics

👤 Jakob Träuble, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge 📚 CBU Monday Methods Meeting 📍 MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

13:00

Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

👤 Emily Hughes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens) 📚 Cabinet of Natural History 📍 Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

13:00

Valencina: Centrality, Monumentalism and Female Leadership in a Copper-Age Mega-Site

👤 Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan, University of Seville 📚 Later European and Mediterranean Prehistory Group (LEPG) 📍 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room

14:00

Addressing an extreme positivity violation to distinguish the causal effects of surgery and anesthesia via a separable effects model

👤 Caleb Miles (Columbia University) 📚 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

14:00

How microbes at extremes shape the limits of the biosphere (and might help human activity in space)

👤 Professor Charles Cockell - School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Edinburgh 📚 Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 📍 Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site

14:30

Feline Lindhount: Linking human neurodevelopmental timing and evolution, James Fitzsimmons: Brassinosteroid controls leaf air space patterning non-cell autonomously by promoting epidermal growth

👤 Feline Lindhount, James Fitzsimmons 📚 Morphogenesis Seminar Series 📍 in person at Level 2 meeting room, Gurdon Institute and online

14:30

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📅 Talks on Monday, 02 March 2026

Director's Briefing

Organisers' Welcome

Learning and exploiting graphical structure to support valid inference for causal effects

Model-oriented Graph Distances via Partially Ordered Sets

Uncertainty for Causal Discovery

Brain age prediction and early neurodegeneration detection using contrastive learning on brain biomechanics

Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Valencina: Centrality, Monumentalism and Female Leadership in a Copper-Age Mega-Site

Addressing an extreme positivity violation to distinguish the causal effects of surgery and anesthesia via a separable effects model

How microbes at extremes shape the limits of the biosphere (and might help human activity in space)

Feline Lindhount: Linking human neurodevelopmental timing and evolution, James Fitzsimmons: Brassinosteroid controls leaf air space patterning non-cell autonomously by promoting epidermal growth

The curious spectra and dynamics of non-locally finite crystals

Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persuasion

Assessing Interactive Causes of an Occurred Outcome Due to Two Binary Exposures

Cooling the solar atmosphere with shocks

AION-1: An Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical Sciences

A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation

Moral Geographies of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Examining Elite Indian and Chinese Women's Political Thought c. 1920 - 45

The road to 1997: Bank of England operational independence in historical perspective

Book Presentation: Inside Criminalized Governance. How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro

Hallucinating Mice, Neural Circuits and Immunity - Towards Mechanistic Treatments for Psychosis