Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Feedback Forensics: A Toolkit to Measure AI Personality

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Detecting Changes in Production Frontier and Beyond

Yining Chen (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning

Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning

Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

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Varun Jain (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

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Varun Jain (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Complexity of sampling truncated log-concave measures, and the role of stochastic localization

Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

In-sample calibration yields conformal calibration guarantees

Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hard and soft equivariance priors via Steerable CNNs

Dr Gabriele Cesa - Qualcomm AI Research, Amsterdam.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning

Eugene Wong(UC Berkeley and Clare Hall, Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Computer Vision: Between Forensics and Biomedical Imaging

Giovanna Maria Dimitri, University of Siena (Italy).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Recreating the Physical Natural World from Images

Dr Elliott Wu - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models

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Miri Zilka, Neel Alex, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Deep Learning Approaches for Label-Free Tumour Image Segmentation Spectroscopy in Cancer Diagnosis

Thomas Hartigan.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

Probability

Mixing of a random walk on a randomly twisted hypercube

Zsuzsa Baran (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Blueprints of Life: Understanding the Sex Chromosomes

James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94132066038?pwd=OF2EjwrvRQxl0XgpGK0N5L4bDNaayi.1.

Monday 19 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.

Kosuke Imai (Harvard University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Type-driven Development with Idris 2

Dr Edwin Brady - School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Foundation AI

Sheaf-Based Diffusion for Multimodal Graph Learning

Mar Gonzàlez i Català (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 16:00-16:45

Probability

Metrics and random walks on 2D critical percolation and CLE

Yizheng Yuan.

MR12.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Explainable AI in Neuroscience: From Interpretability to Biomarker Discovery

Mike Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

Superposition in GNNs

Lukas Pertl.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Exploring the interplay between Ricci Flow, the Fisher Information Matrix and Gradient Descent in Neural Networks

Physics.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The TPTP World - Infrastructure for Automated Reasoning

Dr Geoff Sutcliffe - Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, USA.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Probability

The Porous Medium Equation: Multiscale Analysis of a Zero-Range Process, Integrability Estimate and Large Deviations

Daniel Heydecker (Imperial College).

MR12.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Sphere Embedding: The Atom for Explainable and Reliable AI and Machine Reasoning (Part 1). recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfrnwqpKRE

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Foundation AI

bla bla

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Saturday 26 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

bla bla

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Saturday 26 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

MRC LMB Seminar Series

César Milstein Lecture: Mechanisms driving the rapid evolution of genomes

David Pellman - Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97042445746?pwd=rjwSiStXxjdk1Q2tPOdRnqr8aM3qwn.1.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 10:00-11:00

Foundation AI

bla bla

Zeno.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 23 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

blabla

Cassidy.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sunday 13 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Transmission of Misfolded Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Common Mechanism of Disease Progression

Virginia Man-Yee Lee, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99931963515?pwd=6FBGl1amJG2tfvl9ycgkErGpbebGw3.1.

Tuesday 08 April 2025, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - How small molecules rescue a folding disease: principles learned from the ion channel CFTR

Jue Chen - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93491001276?pwd=2utwaSIeA0haHVdOuRkZlBlQq6wzLb.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Higher Order Transient structures and the principle of dynamic connectivity in membrane signaling

Rod MacKinnon - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92311841585?pwd=auhAdp8eTD8Ca0xGZpaNlZrChEcHAr.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications

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Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 02 April 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2) recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCHg-DAnEs

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 31 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

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Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1)

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Surgical data using LLMs

Hugo Georgenthum.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Which Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Colleges and Universities

Professor Frank Dobbin - Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:05-14:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

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Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Probability

Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals

Louis-Pierre Arguin (Oxford).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1).

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Modelling microbiome-mediated epigenetic inheritance of disease risk

Hybrid

Bobby Ranjan.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology

Note: unusual date compared to regular AI Seminars

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

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Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Black Holes & spin-offs

Prof Katherine Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Probability

Sharp threshold for the ballisticity of the random walk on the exclusion process

Daniel Kious (Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - One or two membranes? Investigating the transition between monoderm and diderm cell envelopes across the Tree of Bacteria - IN PERSON ONLY

Simonetta Gribaldo, Intstitut Pasteur.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 10 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning

hybrid : meet.google.com/bhz-scdk-unp

Alvaro Arroyo, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data

NOTE unusual date

Urška Matjašec (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Generative modelling for de novo design of therapeutics

Dr Joe Watson - Co-founder, Xaira Therapeutics and Dr Emile Mathieu.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Influence Functions

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Adrian Goldwaser, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Probability

The scaling limit of random planar maps with large faces.

Armand Riera (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Cryo-OrbiSIMS – high resolution mass spectrometry imaging in the native biological state

Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92454273602?pwd=kKpRjV53ALrNtk3FXYDG1jqaNTjGa4.1.

Monday 03 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

Incorporating Flexibility in Antibody-Antigen Interaction Prediction

Sara Joubbi.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Digital Money and Decentralised Finance

Professor Frank Stajano and Dr Ferdinando Samaria - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling with diffusion models

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Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Probability

Branching random walk with non-local competition

Sarah Penington (Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Beyond Interpolation: Extrapolative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks

Niccolò Grillo.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:45-19:15

Foundation AI

Network modelling and Graph Neural Networks for emergency healthcare management

Annamaria Defilippo, PhD Student - Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:00-18:30

Foundation AI

Harnessing Large Language Models for Medical Data Processing: Structured Information Extraction, Disease Classification, and RAG Integration 

Cristian Cosentino (Università della Calabria).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 17:30-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning -- Why Machine Learning Cannot Reach the Rigour of Logical Reasoning? recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x38GySbuGJg

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-17:45

ML@CL Seminar Series

Robust and Conjugate Gaussian Process Regression.

Matías Altamirano.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning

Dr Ilan Price - Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

MRC LMB Seminar Series

The Francis Crick Lecture 2025 - The DNA Quadruplex Helix

Shankar Balasubramaniam, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93702571246?pwd=I6zsi0w8N5XcKg2gu0bac58rcyTfba.1.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design

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Zixing Song.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Probability

Height gap of the planar Brownian motion

Titus Lupu (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hardware Datapath: For Machine Learning and Beyond

Professor George A. Constantinides - Professor of Digital Computation, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

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Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

Prof Sonya Clegg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Probability

A switching property for percolation of Brownian loops

Wendelin Werner (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Alpha-Synuclein and its aggregation: Past, Present and Future

Maria Grazia Spillantini, University of Cambridge, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98728840077?pwd=Z0MZ2xWLsyUC6fI31cIklaUbSYALwy.1.

Monday 10 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

EU AI Act: A firsthand perspective

Dr Gabriele Mazzini - Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab. Architect & lead author of the EU AI Act.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality

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Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nucleic-Acid based therapeutics: how to use mechanistic information to ensure "safe-by-design"

Prof Anne Willis.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Probability

Road layout in the KPZ class

Marton Balazs (Bristol).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

Cătălina Cangea, ex-Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Green Algorithms, Green DiSC and GREENER principles: making computational science more environmentally sustainable

Dr Loïc Lannelongue - Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

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Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys

Prof Brian Cantor.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 18:00-19:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

SynFlowNet: Design of Synthesisable Molecules with GFlowNets

Miruna Cretu (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - The immune system of bacteria - IN PERSON ONLY

Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 27 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Foundation Models in Robotics

Liyou Zhou (Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Multi-Head Explainer: A General Framework to Improve Explainability in CNNs and Transformers

record: https://youtu.be/iuT_tkVEgA4

Bohang Sun(Bob) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 17 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?)

Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

2024 Milstein Lecture: 11am Centrioles in homeostasis, disease and evolution: tiny organelles, multiple and critical functions - IN PERSON ONLY

Mónica Bettencourt Dias.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 09 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andy Lin.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andy Lin.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

With a Little Help from My Friends: New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry

Prof Patrick Unwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 18:00-19:30

Probability

The Brownian loop measure on Riemann surfaces and applications to length spectra

Yilin Wang (IHES).

MR12.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Constrained Neural Flows

https://meet.google.com/cwu-sumr-qzq

Chandan Gupta.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 29 November 2024, 17:00-17:45

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 29 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The first AGI will be Federated

Professor Nic Lane - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Order, Disorder, Flexibility, Function

Prof Andrew Goodwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Foundation AI

Expanding the borders of Multimodal Graph Learning with Sheaf Neural Networks

Mar Gonzàlez i Català.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 17:20-18:00

ML@CL Seminar Series

AI and Science: An Opportunity To Strengthen the African Scientific Landscape

Ciira Maina, Data Science Africa.

Christ's College.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Probability

The *-Edge Reinforced random walk, bayesian statistics and statistical physics

Pierre Tarres (Paris and Shanghai).

MR12.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Mixing times for the open ASEP

Dominik Schmid (Columbia).

MR12.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Controlling Behavioral Diversity in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back

Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Metabolism, Cellular Decisions and the Language That Unites Them

Jared Rutter.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link:https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97590440299?pwd=d3k2U3l1WENLbllGT1ZUODYyd3lFZz09.

Monday 25 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 22 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Sensing human activities: from the lab to the home of the elderly

Professor Claudio Bettini - Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms

Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?

Dr Alexander Borodavka.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Probability

The point of view of the particle for 2D random walks in Dirichlet environment

Christophe Sabot (Lyon).

MR12.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Bias Mitigation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Computing for Climate Science and Programming for the Planet

Dr Dominic Orchard - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Co-director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS).

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Are we making progress in unlearning? 

Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

Dr George Malliaras.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Probability

A reduction of the theta(pc) problem to a correlation inequality.

Gady Kozma (Weizmann Institute).

MR12.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Random growth models with half space geometry

Jimmy He (Ohio State University).

MR12.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

2024 Max Perutz Lecture: Antisense Modulation of RNA Splicing for Rare Disease Therapy - In Person Only

Adrian R. Krainer, Ph.D., St. Giles Foundation Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 11 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

ML@CL Seminar Series

Adaptive probabilistic ODE solvers without adaptive memory requirements

Nico Krämer - Danish Technical University.

SS03, Computer Lab.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Lean Learning: Applying Lean and Agile Techniques to Software Engineering Education

Dr Robert Chatley - Director, Software Engineering Practice and Director, DoC EdTech Lab, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The rise of life on land: new insights from exceptionally preserved fossils

Dr Sandy Hetherington.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Probability

Rotationally Invariant First passage percolation - Scaling and Chaos

Allan Sly (Princeton).

MR12.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Paying Attention to Efficiency: LLM Deployment on Mobile and Edge Devices

Stefanos Laskaridis, Brave Software.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

2024 John Kendrew Lecture: Wiring Specificity of Neural Circuits - In Person Only

Liqun Luo.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 04 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

Sam Livingstone (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle

Prof Tina Potter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2024: Supercharging the Human Mind With AI

Professor Yvonne Rogers - Professor of Interaction Design, Director of UCL Interaction Centre, Deputy Head of the Computer Science Department UCL.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for human TB and its treatment from the tiny transparent zebrafish larva

Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Probability

Fragmentations with erasure

Serge Cohen, Toulouse.

MR12.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Universality of directed polymers in the intermediate disorder regime

Julian Ransford (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our archaeal origins

Dr Buzz Baum.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development - In Person Only

Kathy Niakan.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 14 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions

Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

CANCELLED - LMB Seminar: RNA Meets DNA: Dangerous Liaisons in the Genome

Karlene Cimprich - Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry.

CANCELLED.

Thursday 03 October 2024, 10:30-11:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

**Seminar cancelled**

Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 30 September 2024, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Francis Crick Lecture 2024: Neuronal circuits for body movements - In Person Only

Silvia Arber.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 30 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data

Luke Braithwaite.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 27 September 2024, 17:00-18:00

Foundation AI

Enhancing Climate Prediction with Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning Models

Simone Monaco, Politecnico if Torino.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 26 September 2024, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Monday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Feedback control of mitosis in the context of the kinetochore

Andrea Musacchio, Director, Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96608781341?pwd=MG5QMXVmOStXcFVtalBqUlBYc0tEdz09.

Monday 23 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Linking nanoscale synapse organization, function and plasticity

Dr Daniel Choquet - University of Bordeux Institute for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience and the Bordeaux Imaging Center.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link:https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94686992877?pwd=Q0VlRmFsRXNta0ZJMVhlRnZqNEs3QT09.

Monday 16 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Laser phase plate in cryo-EM and cryo-ET

Holger Müller.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99208619370?pwd=MkR4anNjVFhtbHlIQmRSZzBobWxNdz09.

Monday 09 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data

Luke Braithwaite (University of Cambridge, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 23 August 2024, 17:00-18:00

Robotics Seminar Series

Reinforcement Learning and Learning-guided Search for Generalizability for Multi-agent Mobility Systems

Cathy Wu, MIT.

Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26.

Thursday 18 July 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Navigating Privacy Risks in Language Models

Peter Kairouz -- Google.

West 2, West Hub (https://www.westcambridgehub.uk/visit).

Tuesday 16 July 2024, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Digital Cancer Twins: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Applications

Professor Jasmin Fisher, UCL Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 July 2024, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Separate yet connected: mitochondrial and nuclear genome stability

Agnel Sfeir.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link:https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91614790739?pwd=QncrTFFvNG1xWVZJOWhqL0lTcHVIQT09.

Monday 01 July 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Task Alignment

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 26 June 2024, 11:00-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Mechanosensing in cancer invasion and metastasis

Laura M Machesky, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99537530757?pwd=UVk1YjIyeFY4QzNjNkhwa0xwbERoQT09.

Monday 17 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

How deep can LLMs reason? Benchmarking GPT and Llama models on nested mathematical formulas

Flavio Petruzzellis, Universita' di Padova.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 07 June 2024, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Loop-erased random walk in three dimensions

Daisuke Shiraishi (Kyoto).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Identification of alternative pathways for metabolism or cell death using haploid genetics

Thijn Brummelkamp, Netherlands Cancer Institute/Oncode Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link:https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95178919042?pwd=OUp6RUN3a0dkNFZqWGxQV0p0T0JOZz09.

Monday 03 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Reinforced Random Walk and a Supersymmetric Spin System on the Tree

Peter Wildemann (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Scaling limit of high-dimensional random spanning trees

Eleanor Archer (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 14:14-15:15

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unveiling Causal Drivers of Non-Communicable Diseases with Interpretable Models

Sheresh Zahoor.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 24 May 2024, 17:15-18:00

Statistics

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Leveraging AI for Breakthroughs in Genomic Research

Hybrid: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/2554325137?pwd=NGZEbGl1WkJxQVdkV09oc2k1L2pwQT09 Meeting ID: 255 432 5137 Passcode: 360730

Mike Sikic, Genome Institute of Singapore .

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Iterative active learning for the rapid discovery of best-in-class multispecific antibody therapeutics

Dr Leonard Wossnig - CTO at LabGenius and Honorary Research Fellow in Computer Science at UCL.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 15:05-15:55

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Evading ageing: Mitochondrial and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes

Elvan Boke, Group Leader, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain .

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92134536179?pwd=bHVnRkpmamhnWWY2bXpVMHAyblhlZz09.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Two new results on random matrices

Yi Han (Statslab).

MR12.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Exploring novel (bio)molecular spaces by design – a dialogue between representation and generation

Professor Bruno Correia - Laboratory of Protein Design and Immunoengineering, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NNs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk

Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Packing Spheres Randomly

Marcelo Campos (DPMMS).

MR12.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The UK AI Safety Institute

Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge & UK AI Safety Institute).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Programmed evolution: Using asexual gene drives to sculpt tumor populations and combat genetic diversity

Justin Pritchard, Penn State College of Engineering.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells

Ibrahim Cissé, Department of Biological Physics, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99208619370?pwd=MkR4anNjVFhtbHlIQmRSZzBobWxNdz09.

Thursday 11 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Biosynthesis and degradation of the underappreciated green polymer cyanophycin

Martin Schmeing, Ph.D., James McGill Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Directeur, Centre de recherche en biologie structurale, McGill University.

In person in the LMB's Klug Seminar Room (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96568201418?pwd=c3F0aCtOeTVwR3IyQzZYdkxoWHdPUT09.

Thursday 04 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide Inhibitors

Scott Lovell, University of Bath.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:30-13:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

Prof Sheena Radford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Private Data Analysis over Large Populations

Professor Graham Cormode - Research Scientist, Facebook and professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Matrix Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics

Zhe Wang (DeepMind).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolution

Dr Weini Huang.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Distribution Shifts in Human-Centered Representation Learning

Dr Ali Etemad - Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Canada. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 15:05-15:55

Probability

Quantitative sub-ballisticity of self-avoiding walk on the hexagonal lattice

Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED

POSTPONED. Sorry for inconvenience.

Prof. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

A Data-Free, Universal Prior Distribution for Syntactic Structures

Dr Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Two-periodic weighted dominos and the sine-Gordon field at the free fermion point

Scott Mason (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

Dr Maria Christophorou.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell size - A new hallmark of aging?

Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

CANCELLED: LMB Seminar: New therapeutic modalities based on pseudo-natural peptides, products, and neobiologics

Prof. Hiroaki Suga, Ph.D, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry.

N/A.

Monday 26 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

David Burt, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

Towards Machine Learning-enhanced Monitoring

Andrea Brunello and Nicola Saccomanno, University of Udine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in cancer cells and parasites with long-read sequencing and AI

Dr Michael Boemo.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Making Large Language Models Safe: A Case Study of Llama2

Pushkar Mishra - Lead AI Research Engineer, Meta and Computer Science Part 1B Supervisor, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Probability

The Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow and other critical SPDEs

Nikos Zygouras (Warwick).

MR12.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

Sir Gregory Winter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Foundation AI

Opinion dynamics inspired sheaf neural networks.

Ferran Hernandez Caralt.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue Scales

Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Graph Neural Networks for skillful weather forecasting

Dr Ferran Alet - Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Excess Folding for Transient Random Walks, Simple or Branching

Amine Asselah (Paris) and Bruno Schapira (Marseille).

MR12.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-16:15

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning to Receive Help: Intervention-Aware Concept Embedding Models

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

Dr Danielle Shore .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancers

Prof. Elizabeth Murchison.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The Compilation Game: Unifying AI, Hardware Design, Quantum, Climate Modelling, and Verification

Dr Tobias Grosser - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Distances on the CLE(4), critical Liouville quantum gravity and 3/2-stable maps

Emmanuel Kammerer (Ecole Polytechnique).

MR12.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 15:30-16:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Towards Learning-Powered Networked Systems

Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing

Dr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Cell volume and dry mass across time scales in cultured mammalian cells: from milliseconds in migrating and circulating cells to homeostasis during cycles of growth and division

Matthieu Piel, Institut Curie.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96572384351?pwd=MkJzbE1qM2dGd0ZSTi9hTmV0elZ5dz09 .

Monday 05 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The invariant measure of the 2D Yang-Mills Langevin dynamic

Ilya Chevyrev (Edinburgh).

MR12.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

Catalina Cangea (Google DeepMind).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin

Prof Paul Barrett.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: The allosteric landscape of a protein

Ben Lehner FRS FMedSci, Head of Generative and Synthetic Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, ICREA Professor, Systems and Synthetic Biology, CRG, Barcelona, ES.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96896374524?pwd=VFJYbkZmRlZQREJ6a1QwelRSdEZwdz09.

Monday 29 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Personalising Crutch Geometries through Bayesian Optimisation

Riccardo Conci, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 19:00-20:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Quantum computing via the lens of additive combinatorics

Dr Tom Gur - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 15:05-15:55

Probability

Some aspects of the Anderson Hamiltonian in 1D

Laure Dumaz (CNRS, ENS Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Accelerating Generative AI on Custom Hardware Accelerators - Challenges and Opportunities

Partha Maji (Tenstorrent).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

Andreas Schaefer.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Fantastic ML x Biology Problems and Where to Find Them

Contact the organiser (svm34@cam.ac.uk) for room information.

Dr. Simon Kohl (Latent labs & former Deepmind AlphaFold team).

Department of Computer Science (Room TBA, meet at reception for now).

Monday 22 January 2024, 17:45-18:45

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Vibe checks and red teaming: why ML researchers are increasingly reverting to manual evaluation

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 16 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: From regeneration to homeostasis: tissue-scale decision making

Pros. Prisca Liberali.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97161414783?pwd=UEhEZUdDSVVLbDU0Q2lPdFhPQ3M2UT09.

Monday 15 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

*CANCELLED* LMB Seminar: Alpha-Synuclein and its aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases

Prof Maria Grazia Spillantini, Professor of Molecular Neurology, University of Cambridge.

N/A.

Monday 11 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Power to the protein: analyse, signal and protect with bacterial superglues

Professor Mark Howarth, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95625236862?pwd=NGttT1d6ay9SWFRqUHMvRWNPdDhyZz09.

Monday 04 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

A brief introduction to causal inference

Dr Apinan Hasthanasombat - Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Weak coupling scaling of critical SPDEs

Guiseppe Cannizzaro, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics

Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Crick Lecture 2023: Innovating metagenomics to explore the strange world of archaeal extrachromosomal elements

Jill Banfield, University of California, Berkeley.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96751041497?pwd=SDgyU1NMdjFVdENscUZqams4Z1RWUT09 .

Monday 27 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Cross-lingual transfer learning with multilingual masked language models

Professor Mamoru Komachi - Research Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

Dr Brendan Swain.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83721191406?pwd=V0xkY0Vvb3czWUJkR0xIZC9qMnM0QT09

Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

Probability

Critical core percolation on random graphs

Alice Contat (University of Paris-Saclay).

MR12.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Hybrid Multi-Modal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

Prof Ian Fleming.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Perutz Lecture 2023: Decoding the protein dance

Prof. Dr. Paola Picotti, Associate Professor for Molecular Systems Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 20 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2023: Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse

Professor Simon Peyton Jones - Honorary Distinguished Fellow of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

A topological transition in the XY model

Diederik van Engelenburg (Lyon).

MR12.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges

This talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729

Arne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL).

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Multi-Agent Graph Learning-Based Optimization and its Applications to Computer Networks

Guillermo Bernárdez Gil, UPC Barcelona.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Coherence Attacks and Defenses in 2.5D Integrated Systems

Professor Paul Gratz - Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Phase transitions of the graphical representations of the Ising model

Frederik Ravn Klausen (University of Copenhagen) .

MR12.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multi-Agent Simulation and Learning in TorchRL

Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Pharmacological Adaptation of Proteostasis to Ameliorate Aging-associated Degenerative Diseases

Jeffery W. Kelly, The Scripps Research Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94698100541?pwd=L0RIZUcvY0dvYjhaRW5VU0pXNThKUT09.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

Dr Tamar Makin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Pathfinding for 10k agents

Dr Keisuke Okumura - Visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

How long are the arms in Dielectric-Breakdown Model?

Ilya Losev (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Kendrew Lecture 2023: Cryo-electron tomography or the power of seeing the whole picture

Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98196424925?pwd=a0V2Z1FOYU5UZFgreHp1ckQ4Z2UyUT09.

Monday 30 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

An invitation to univalent foundations of mathematics

Dr Jon Sterling - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Revolutionizing Biosensing Technologies: Plug and Play Devices in Medical and Agricultural Diagnostics

Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI), Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW 2800.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:00

Probability

Determinants of Laplacians of converging surfaces

Renan Gross (Tel Aviv).

MR12.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies

Notice that this talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729 Pietro Lio and Chaitanya Joshi will introduce the speakers

Karolis Martinkus & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche).

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

Prof David Rubinsztein.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

CRUK CI.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Spectral Graph Neural Network: Polynomial Approximation and Optimization

Keke Huang, National University of Singapore.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-18:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Spin glass phase in the Edwards-Anderson model at zero temperature

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

On Learning Latent Models with Multi-Instance Weak Supervision

Efi Tsamoura (Samsung AI, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

How can we make trustworthy AI?

Professor Mateja Jamnik - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 15:05-15:55

Probability

Sampling from the random cluster model on the random regular graph at all temperatures

Andreas Galanis (Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

Prof Adam Nelson.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Right-Most Position of a Last Progeny Modified Branching Random Walk

Antar Bandyopadhyay, ISI Delhi.

MR11.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"

Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Talking to cells: biomolecular ultrasound for imaging and control of cellular function in intact organisms

Mikhail G. Shapiro, Max Delbrück Professor, Caltech.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94069360553?pwd=djJlT09ZOTlENzNJVzRYVnp6WWVZQT09.

Tuesday 12 September 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Subgraphs

hybrid zoom and presence

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 28 August 2023, 17:00-18:00

Foundation AI

Ethical and legal aspects of AI training in healthcare

join us also with zoom

Chiara Gallese, University of Turin.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Sediment core analysis using artificial intelligence

Gianluca Carlini.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 July 2023, 18:00-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Scattering Networks and Singular Values Decomposition: different methods to remove background in Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy image

hybrid (zoom link at the end of the abstract)

Lisa Cuneo, University of Genova and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia .

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 July 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Sphere Neural-Network for Higher-level Cognition

join us also with zoom

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 July 2023, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Decoding the role of solute carriers in health and disease

Professor Simon Newstead.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94311710455?pwd=N05mNDk4ZXlDZWdUTzVnaHJTQzRWQT09.

Monday 10 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases

Pau Castel, NYU School of Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Tuesday 04 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Single-molecule studies reveal the dynamics of replication origin licensing

Stephen P. Bell, MIT, Dept. of Biology and HHMI.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93130142776?pwd=dEhGKzFGTkw2RGI1enhVSGg0Vm1VZz09.

Monday 03 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Is ChatGPT adequate for decision-making?

Victor O.K. Li, University of Hong Kong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Protein generation and fitness optimization

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94094286505?pwd=T2V3MFVSQ1ZKTFFyYlFueHlzTE83Zz09

Jason Yim, EECS, MIT.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

Note this is on zoom only! Note a change of date! Note a new zoom link!

Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

zoom only!.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: What do we know about (your) antibodies? Novel insights from novel techniques in mass spectrometry

Albert Heck, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92910980652?pwd=U2V6MGFOOU9kbmRnckNaU05HaXl4QT09.

Monday 19 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Canceled

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Scaling limits and decay of correlations for non-convex interaction

Stefan Adams (Warwick).

MR14.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limits and decay of correlations for non-convex interaction

Stefan Adams (Warwick).

MR14.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED: Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

This talk has moved to 20 June 2023.

Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Blending Proteins: Democratising Access to Beautiful Molecular Landscapes

Brady Johnston.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93844733292?pwd=RGczZ0szUnVxVUJOb0U5c1AvbWdhdz09.

Monday 12 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93934749405?pwd=M0ZERUZleklON01vZlpXbzhqTld0Zz09. ; ID riunione: 939 3474 9405 Passcode: 374750

Lovro Vrcek, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR.

Seminar Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Information Spreading on Networks

NOTE A CHANGE OF ROOM DUE TO EXAMS. NOW SS03

Charlotte Out.

Computer Lab, SS03.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Privacy in mobility measurements

Professor Jörg Ott - Technische Universität München.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

On Lévy-driven Loewner Evolutions

Room changed

Anne Schreuder (Statslab).

MR14.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Hypergraph Factorisation for Multi-Tissue Gene Expression Imputation

NOTE: Room changed, now Lecture Theatre 1

Ramon Vinas Torne.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

MaRF: Representing Mars as Neural Radiance Fields

Lorenzo Giusti, Universita' La Sapienza.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 29 May 2023, 18:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unveiling Bounded Confidence Dynamics in Sheaf Neural Networks

Olga Zaghen, University of Trento.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 29 May 2023, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Bayes in the age of intelligent machines

Professor Tom Griffiths - Princeton University.

Online.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Improving learning with noisy labels in two possibile scenarios.

Maria Sofia Bucarelli, La Sapienza University.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 17:30-18:00

Probability

Sphere-packings on lattices in mathematical physics

Izabella Stuhl (Penn State).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Scaling limit of multi-type stationary measures in the KPZ class

Ofer Busani (Bonn).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Relative Entropy Coding for Learned Data Compression

Greg Flamich, Engineering Department (Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2.

On Zoom Only

Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94647233365?pwd=SGlubDdCL2ZSTWJvNHNjV0NiWHM5dz09.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Integrating Radiomics and Explainable Methods: Paving the Way for Transparent and Interpretable Medical Imaging Analysis

Francesco Prinzi, University of Palermo.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 19 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium

multiple.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 09:45-17:15

Probability

Mixing time of random walk on dynamical random cluster

Alexandre Stauffer (Bath).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Dimensionality Reduction via Probabilistic Inference

Aditya Ravuri (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Tissue genomics: High throughout tools for measuring and perturbing tissues

Fei Chen.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93095291087?pwd=NGRzTnRJb3M0YWxqOC8xQXVNUXBmQT09.

Monday 15 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry

Sam Power, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Learning the topology of complex systems from their dynamics

Professor Ginestra Bianconi - Queen Mary University of London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Sir John C. Kendrew

Professor Paul Wassarman, Mount Sinai, New York.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91598384955?pwd=RnE5M0p4bjU3bS8vMjFldHFadE9OZz09.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

From the GUI to ChatGPT: a historical sketch of HCI research agendas and their applicability today

Professor Richard Harper - Lancaster University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Burigede Liu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

The bead process on the torus

Samuel Johnston (King's College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

Jason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

TALK CANCELLED: Explicit Weakening (A Functional Pearl)

Professor Philip Wadler - Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Finding Target-Disease-Drug evidences from Literature and supporting curators. Please note: the details of this talk have changed

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Matthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Capacity of the range of random walk

Izumi Okada (Tokyo).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Transition of the simple random walk on the graph of the ice-model

Serge Cohen (Toulouse).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

Prof. Melinda Duer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Katherine Lawler, Research Associate Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Properties of the gradient squared of the Gaussian free field

Alessandra Cipriani (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

Dr Ilia Shumailov - Christ Church, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

On the Replica Symmetric Regime of the SK Model

Christian Brennecke (Bonn).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Structure-based Drug Design and Molecular Optimisation with Diffusion Models

Charlie Harris, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

Prof. Alison Smith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Data Science and Machine Learning in Context

Dr. Alfred Z. Spector Visiting Scholar, MIT EECS.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Seeing the Unseen

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Jordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Random trees conditioned on the number of vertices and leaves

Slava Kargin (Binghampton).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Large deviations for out of equilibrium correlations in the symmetric simple exclusion process

Benoit Dagallier (Statslab).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Networks for High-Dimensional Tabular Biomedical Datasets

Andrei Margeloiu (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery

Thomas Lanyon-Hogg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Memorial Event for Alexander 'Sandy' Fraser

Various.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:00-18:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in parasites and cancer cells with long-read sequencing and AI

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Dr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication

Organized by Donato Crisostomi and Pietro Barbiero

Luca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Composite Feature Selection using Deep Ensembles

Alex Norcliffe - University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals

Prof. Steve Brusatte.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine

Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University.

CRUK CI.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologies

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Nick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Random tournaments

Brett Kolesnik (Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit

Dr. Josephine Bryant.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Does computational biology explain Fibonacci numbers in plants?

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Jonathan Swinton.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

When Vision Transformers Meet Cooperative Perception

Runsheng Xu, UCLA (USA).

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Space: The Final Front-queer

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle

Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Milstein Lecture 2023: Understanding the Hox timer by Using mammalian Pseudo-Embryos

Denis Duboule, Collège de France, Paris France, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Thursday 26 January 2023, 10:30-11:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-off

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Engineering a bacteria for lung therapy

Prof. Luis Serrano.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99349389275?pwd=ZHI3em1DQTA0VTlVLzkvUTN6ZGkxdz09.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics

Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Monday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated

Cynthia Rudin, Duke University.

Zoom.

Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Structural basis of how the BIRC6/SMAC complex regulates apoptosis and autophagy

Tim Clausen, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP).

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 10:00-11:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Distance Function based Cascaded Neural Network for accurate Polyps Segmentation and Classification

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Kai Yi, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Using Everyday Routines as a Resource for Understanding Behaviors and Making Recommendations

Professor Anind Dey - Dean and Professor of the Information School at the University of Washington.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 15:30-16:20

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College).

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Mechanism and regulation P element transposition in Drosophila

Donald Rio, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94108711681?pwd=cXN4VGlQVHBZYkpMUVJ0SXV3emtaUT09.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Probability

On the number of level sets of smooth Gaussian fields

Dmitry Belyaev (Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre.

Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Steve Azzolin.

Online (Zoom).

Friday 25 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Han Xuanyuan, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

FW11 + zoom.

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Harrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge.

lecture theatre 2 dept of computer science and zoom.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Formalised Mathematics: Obstacles and Achievements

Professor Lawrence Paulson - Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Andy Lin, MLG.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Probability

The contact process over a dynamical d-regular graph

Daniel Valesin (Warwick).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 15:30-16:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers

Yoli Shavit, Huawei TRC and Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Zoom.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable seafood for human health

Dr David Willer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Probability

Expander graphs are globally synchronising

Victor Souza, Cambridge.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Financing Forests: A Credible Approach towards Halting Tropical Deforestation

Professor Anil Madhavapeddy - Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Probability

Gaussian multiplicative chaos measures, Painlevé equations, and conformal blocks

Harini Desiraju (Newton Institute).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs

Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2 and Zoom.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

Prof Fang Xie.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement

Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

CANCELLED: Turning the metaverse from myth to reality

Herman Narula - CEO of Improbable.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

New Frontiers in PKA Signaling

Susan Taylor, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99725572898?pwd=NG82MzVpQmczczAvdkZzN2lJNkt1UT09.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Probability

The scaling limit theory of critical planar fuzzy Potts models

Matthis Lehmkuehler (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Neural Networks for Geometric Graphs

Chaitanya K. Joshi, Simon V. Mathis.

Lecture Theatre 2 and Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis

Prof Roisin Owens.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Crick Lecture 2022: Neurobiology of Social and Sickness Behaviors

Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91021060396?pwd=c1o1TWVTSTNHTWM1dW5lcm54cURKQT09.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Regularity of SLE: Precise variation and modulus of continuity

Yizheng Yuan (Statslab).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AI for Science: An Oral Report from a Recent Dagstuhl Workshop

Neil Lawrence.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial Perspective

Ms Miranda Lowe.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

Liza Levina (Michigan).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Buffering genetic variation in populations

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Probability

State spaces and stochastic dynamics for Yang Mills in 2D and 3D

Ajay Chandra (Imperial).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

ACMP: Allen-Cahn Message Passing with Attractive and Repulsive Forces for Graph Neural Networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Yu Guang Wang.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling the cell cycle: A new model

Sir Paul Nurse.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TALK POSTPONED

Francesca Buffa.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

Min Xu (Rutgers University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Developing an artificial heart

Dr Mark Goldberg - Camp Lowell Cardiology.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

A semantics knowledge commons for climate change

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Peter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limit of a branching process in a varying environment

Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (Bath).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Query-based Hard-Image Retrieval for Object Detection at Test Time

Ed Ayers, Five AI.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Cryo-ET reveals sarcomere structures at molecular resolution

Prof. Dr. Stefan Raunser, Director, Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96648790745?pwd=Tkx6OVpoY01ieTRMTFMzZ0QvWWR2UT09.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why We Aren't Just Great Apes

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

Sam Power (University of Bristol).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Would you trust a cybercriminal?

Dr Alice Hutchings - Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

An introduction to counts-of-counts data

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Simon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Probability

The scaling limit of the 2D discrete Gaussian model at high temperature

Jiwoon Park (Statslab).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the Poles

Prof Michael Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience.

Danielle Belgrave, DeepMind.

Zoom.

Tuesday 04 October 2022, 13:15-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Regulation of mRNA translation and decay

David Bartel, Professor of Biology, MIT, HHMI, and Whitehead Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99553714360?pwd=bVRGN3o1a0dsazJIMnVIemlRbjltZz09.

Tuesday 27 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Encoding tissue morphogenesis with genetics, mechanics and geometry

Professor Thomas Lecuit, Group leader at IBDM and Turing Center for living systems, Marseille. Professor at Collège de France, Paris.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91594582633?pwd=UlBaTk1uTHJ4bW9JbFMwSEZxRE0zdz09.

Thursday 08 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

Probability

Schur-Weyl duality and large $N$ limit in 2d Yang-Mills theory

Thierry Lévy (Sorbonne Université).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Well-posedness and large-particle limit for a model in collective dynamics

Sara Merino-Aceituno (Universität Wien).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations and the Hastings-Levitov models

Vittoria Silvestri (Università di Roma La Sapienza).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Probability

The Anderson operator

Ismael Bailleul (Université de Rennes).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Probability

Limits of Polya urns with innovations

Jean Bertoin (Zurich).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 09:00-10:00

Probability

Depth-First Search in a Random Digraph

Svante Janson (Uppsala Universitet).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Hidden Ancestor Graphs with Assortative Vertex Attributes

Richard Darling (NSA).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Kac's process and the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation

Daniel Heydecker (MPI).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Height function delocalisation on cubic planar graphs

Piet Lammers (IHES).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Probability

On the enumeration of random maps with three tight boundaries and its probabilistic consequences

Gregory Miermont (Lyon).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Probability

The motion of hybrid zones (and how to stop them)

Alison Etheridge (Oxford).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 09:00-10:00

Probability

Stability of the elliptic Harnack Inequality

Martin Barlow (UBC).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 16:30-17:30

Probability

A polynomial expansion for Brownian motion and the associated fluctuation process

Karen Habermann (Warwick).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Signatures and functions on unparameterised path space

Thomas Cass (Imperial College London).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 14:00-15:00