Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 27 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to fight financial crime with AI

Dr Stuart Burrell & Dr Maeve Madigan / Featurespace.

East 1, West Hub.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Everything is connected: galaxy properties couple internally, environmentally, and historically

Christian Kragh Jespersen (Princeton University).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 09 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Maxwell Centre

Dr Loubna Bouarfa (Okra.ai).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Data validation through anomaly detection for Gaia DR4

Sireesha Chamarthi (IoA / CASU).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 25 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

AI Meets Theoretical Physics

Maxwell Centre

Dr Sven-Ludwig Krippendorf (Physics/DAMTP).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Discarded Worlds: Astronomical ideas that were almost correct…

Br. Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA .

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to find a co-founder and start a company after university?

Small Lecture Theatre

Dominik Diak (Entrepeneur First).

Small Lecture Theatre.

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Type Ia Supernovae standardisation with the ZTF SN Ia DR2 sample

Madeleine Ginolin (IP2I, Lyon).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 11 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What?

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory

Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

PolymathicAI: Scaling up a Generalist AI Model for Science

East 2/ West Hub

Dr Miles Cranmer (DAMTP/Physics/IoA).

East 2/ West Hub.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Scaling laws for large time-series models: More data, more parameters

James Alvey (KICC).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 28 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Maths meets Radiology: developing data science methods for cancer research

Lorena Escudero, Joshua Kaggie, Ander Biguri.

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

From parallel computing to parallel machine learning: Harness the power of parallelism for distributed optimization processes

Maxwell Cai (Intel Corporation).

East 2 room - West Hub.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Hybrid Summary Statistics: Telling Neural Networks where to look

Lucas Makinen (Imperial).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 14 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The Transformer (OOD) House of Cards

Petar Veličković (Google Deepmind).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

From TDEs and GRBs to supernovae - Redback: A Bayesian inference software package for electromagnetic transients

Nikhil Sarin (Stockholm University).

Hoyle Committee Room, IoA.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

The future of astronomy in the era of AI and big data

Sara Webb (Swinburne University of Technology).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Learning Posterior Distributions in Underdetermined Inverse Problems

Christina Runkel, DAMTP, Cambridge Image Analysis..

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

EuCAIFCon recap

Speaker to be confirmed.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Neural ratio estimation: the future of supernova cosmology?

Matthew Grayling (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 10:00-11:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

pop-cosmos: Comprehensive Forward Modelling of Photometric Galaxy Survey Data

Stephen Thorp - Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 27 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Prerak Desai - GSK.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

International Women's Day at the IoA

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Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA .

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Know Your System: Harness the Power of The Dawn Supercomputer

Maxwell Cai - Intel.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

‘Putting Theory into Practice – Myths and Misconceptions from the World of Systematic Investing’

Chris Longworth - Gam.com.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Simulation Based Inference - an inevitable future?

David Yallup (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 10:00-11:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Contrastive Learning and High-Redshift Quasars

Xander Byrne .

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Unlocking the Power of Transfer Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Mobile App Predictions in Data-Scarce Environments

Bending Spoons.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

An Overview of Probabilistic Latent Variable Models

Aditya Ravuri (Computer Lab).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 10:00-11:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

All molecules are interesting

Jonathan Goodman - Chemistry.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

DiSE project presentations

Speaker to be confirmed.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 14:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Sustainable academic performance

Sarah Hardy - Student Support Services.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Application of normalising flows to hierarchical Bayesian inference

Will Handley (Cavendish/KICC).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 10:00-11:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Introduction to Transformers and N-grams

Sinan Deger (Institute of Astronomy).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 10:00-11:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Rage against the Turing Machine?

Rahul Tyagi (CEO) & Arlind Visha (Quantum Algorithms Engineer) + Angus Lockhart - SECQAI.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to Fight Financial Crime with AI

David Sutton - Featurespace.

Maxwell Centre.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Generative AI for actionable insights

Loubna Bouarfa & Alessio Caciagli - Okra.ai.

Maxwell Centre.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Calda AI: sustainability for heavy industry

Niall Jeffrey - Calda.

Maxwell Centre.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What?

Aditya.Desai & Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports).

Maxwell Centre.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Polymathic AI: Foundation Models for Science

Miles Cranmer - DAMTP/IoA.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Learning generalizable models on large-scale multi-modal data

Yutian Chen - DeepMind.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Community and Belonging in your Postgraduate studies

Sarah Hardy - Student Support Services.

West Hub, East 2.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Explainable and generative AI for actionable insights

Alessio Caciagli - OKRA / Lars Henklemann - CDT.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 13:00-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Machine Learning Applied to Video Compression

Mark Thompson - AMD.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 13:00-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Placements talks - Shell and Satavia

Jonathan Itcovitz + Clay Roberts (University of Cambridge).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 13:00-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

AI + HPC for Astrophysics

Maxwell Cai - Intel.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

All molecules are interesting

Jonathan M Goodman, Professor of Chemistry (Cambridge).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

An introduction to careers and challenges in Quantitative Finance

Charles Martinez - G-Research.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Machine learning for scalable quantum computing: eventually, you run out of PhD students.

David Wise - Quantum Motion.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 13:00-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data science and data methodologies at the Office for National Statistics

Mary Cleaton and Salah Merad — ONS.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The environmental impacts of computational science: how bad is it and what can we do about it?

Loïc Lannelongue.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 13:00-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Searching for new physics with machine learning at the Large Hadron Collider

William Fawcett.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 13:00-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

What’s in a video? AI, free speech, and the challenge of content moderation

Sasha Haco - Unitary.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The granular analysis of risk in complex insurance policies, and saving world heritage

Trevor Maynard, Liz Marston, Tobias Stone -- Sotera Heritage.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Using Invariants and Metric Data Structures for Better Materials Research

Alya Bin Thabet - Montserrat Lab, Cambridge.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Bayesian inference with likelihood reweighting: motivation, method, and application to gravitational-wave astrophysics

Isobel Romero-Shaw (DAMTP).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Calabi—Yau manifolds and Machine Learning

Challenger Mishra (University of Cambridge).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

AI applications in radiological image analysis for cancer research

Lorena Escudero.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Hot & cool: tackling the Fusion grand challenge with AI and HPC

Lorenzo Zanisi - UK Atomic Energy Authority.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Prospects for wide-field time domain surveys and multi-messenger astronomy

Stephen Smartt (QUB, Belfast).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA (Coffee at 11:00 am).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Ifan Williams.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Matthew Whittle -- BBC.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Tom Gillam -- GAM Systematic (Cantab Capital).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Stefano Vergani.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Peter McGill.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Fruzsina Agocs.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data Science without labels

Karthik Tadinada -- FeatureSpace.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

New Insights into the Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Meg Urry (Yale).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Deep Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks for Somatic Variant Calling

Omar Darwish - DAMTP and Geoffroy Dubourg-Felonneau - CCG.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Post Placement Talk: Spherical Defense

Josh Briegal.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Why Policy Matters for Space Science - Scientific Collaboration in a Time of Geopolitical Shift

SW Chiu (Space Engineering Research Center).

Martin Ryle Meeting Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Dreams-AI, a comprehensive machine learning company

Bryan Yau -- Dreams AI.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Coping with Data Reality

Arlen Anderson -- Ab Initio Software .

Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Stochastic Filament Dynamics in Tokamaks

Theo Steele.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Systematic trading using sentiment analysis data

Matyas Molner.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Representation learning and its applications

Akbir Khan -- Spherical Defense.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data-driven Discovery in the Time Domain

Gautham Narayan (UIUC).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 19 December 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Unsupervised Multi-Task Feature Learning on Point Clouds

Hooman Shayani -- Autodesk.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

A Bayesian Approach to Machine Learning

Fergus Simpson -- PROWLER.io.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Nested Sampling: an efficient and robust Bayesian inference tool for Machine Learning and Data Science

Will Handley - Kavli.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to make your scientific codes publicly available

Hanno Rein - University of Toronto.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data science from a practitioners perspective

Srinivasa Raghavan - Infosys.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Model Interpretability (or Why have you sent me another marketing offer?)

Ben Houghton -- Head of Data Science for Barclays Payments.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Subsurface imaging with deep learning

Song Hou -- CGG.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

A journey into the Perseus Cluster of galaxies

Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais (ESO Chile).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond

Jan Millsapps.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 16:00-18:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

**Canceled**

Anna Jordan - Alchera Technologies.

**Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy**.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Delivering precision medicine while providing individual data protection and transparency

Patrick Short - Sano Genetics.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Multidimensional interactive optimisation for urban development

Helene Margrethe Bøhler - Spacemaker.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Can you predict the winner? Data Science for Sports

Stephen Smith & Emmanuel Dimont - Pythia Sports.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The model is simple until proven otherwise

Anita Faul (University of Cambridge).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Climate Prediction in the Era of AI

Scott Hosking - Cambridge ‘AI for Environment Risks’ CDT.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Mapping the 3-D Distribution of Dust in the Milky Way with Stellar Photometry

Josh Speagle - Harvard.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 13:00-14:30

IRIS Collaboration F2F Meeting

Organiser: Nic Walton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 08:30-16:00

IRIS Collaboration F2F Meeting

Organiser: Nic Walton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 10:30-18:00

Frontiers of Multi-messenger Gravitational-wave Astrophysics

Stephen Taylor (Cal Tech).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:30-12:15

Facing the challenges of 21-cm cosmology

Anastasia Fialkov (Sussex).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:15-11:00

The origin of interstellar dust through cosmic time

Ilse De Looze (UCL).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 09:30-10:15

Astrophysics in the Big Data era: Studying Dark Matter and galaxy evolution with large surveys

Sergey Koposov (CMU).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 11:30-12:15

A comprehensive view of dark matter

Simona Vegetti (MPA, Munich).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 10:15-11:00

Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization, Present and Future

Laura Kreidberg (Harvard).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 09:30-10:15

Cosmology from structure beyond the power spectrum

Daniel Gruen (Stanford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Monday 25 March 2019, 11:30-12:15

Exploring fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys

Florian Beutler (Portsmouth).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Monday 25 March 2019, 10:15-11:00

Co-Evolution of Galaxies & their Supermassive Black-Holes In the Era of Big Sky Surveys

Manda Banerji (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 15 March 2019, 11:30-12:15

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Aviva’s Algorithmic Decision Agent

Damian Rumble - Aviva.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Oil Trading - Statistical Analysis using Financial and Fundamental data Sets

Milos Krkic - BP (Supply and Trading).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

** CANCELED **

Stephanie Wright - The Hut Group.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The computational challenge of the Square Kilometre Array

Mark Ashdown - SKA.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Learning when to “Love Thy Neighbour” in Blockchain Communication Networks

Jonathan Ward - Fetch.AI.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Canceled

Ulrich Kerzel.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Neural Machine Translation at SDL

Adria De Gispert - SDL.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Musical Musicologies for the Digital Age

Mark Gotham - Cornell University.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Challenges of the Gaia photometric processing

Marco Riello - Gaia.

**Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy**.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

An introduction to Arm Systems and Arm ML

Matteo Andreozzi - ARM.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data Science in Drug Discovery

Maciej Hermanowicz - GSK.

**Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy**.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Time Series Analytics for Big Data

James Corcoran - Kx.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Feeding 10 million people using Machine Learning

Olmo Martinez - Tesco supply chain.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Pattern Recognition in Particle Physics

Stefano Vergani.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Space Exploration: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Norms and Ethics in Space

Dr. Sara Langston.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 27 July 2018, 13:30-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Going from Data to Science with the Planck Satellite

Steven Gratton - IoA.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Satavia - Making Aviation Smarter

Darren Gallagher, Dirk Simon, and Lisa Lentati - SATAVIA.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The cloud in the clinic

Henry Farmery - Cambridge Cancer Genomics.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The journey from concept to product opportunities and challenges

Loubna Bouarfa - OKRA.

**Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy**.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Software Engineering in Practice

Jos Martin - Mathworks.

**Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy**.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

******* CANCELLED ********* The Convergence of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Supercomputing

Joint talk with Cantab Capital Institute for Mathematics of Information

Dr. Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow/MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center Founder.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Friday 20 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Analysis of Gravitational Wave Data

Michalis Agathos - DAMTP.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

One format to rule them all? How to generate high quality data for research and industry: notes from the National Physical Laboratory.

Marina Romancikova - NPL.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

A Data Intensive Approach to Modelling the Evolution of Technology

Erik Gjesfeld - McDonald Centre for Archaeological Research.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

'The Social Anthropology of Data Centres: Debunk(er)ing Data Objectivity

A.R.E. Taylor - Department of Social Anthropology.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

From Black Holes to Battlefront

Chris Doran - ARM.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Learn how to become an AI Super-hero in research

Kenji Takeda - Director, Azure for Research, Microsoft Research (@MSFTResearch), Visiting Fellow Alan Turing Institute.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Challenges of Big Data in Science

Ian Bird - CERN.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

From Metrics to Models - Data Science at a Fashion Tech Startup

Erika Nitsch and Jim Downing - Metail.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Tackling Data Science using High Performance Computing: opportunities and trends

Filippo Spiga - Cambridge University Computing Service.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth

Niel Brandt (Penn State).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop

Organiser: Manda Banerji.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 09:30-12:30

LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop

Organiser: Manda Banerji.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 09:00-17:30

LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop

Organiser: Manda Banerji.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Monday 25 September 2017, 10:30-17:30

XZ: X-ray spectroscopic redshifts of obscured AGN

Charlotte Simmonds.

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Monday 14 August 2017, 11:30-12:30

Characterising exoplanet interiors

Caroline Dorn (National Centre for Space Research & Planetary Sciences, University of Bern).

Bullard Lecture Theatre, in the Wolfson Building at Madingley Rise.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 10:00-10:45

A hitchhiker’s guide to planet evolution: how to unravel the coevolution of planet interiors, fluid envelopes and life

Vlada Stamenkovic (Dept of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 15:00-15:45

Abiotic chemical cycling on Earth and beyond

Ollie Shorttle (Dept of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:05-12:50

Geophysical influences on surface habitability - from Earth to rocky exoplanets

Lena Noack (Dept of Reference Systems and Geodynamics, Brussels).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 10:00-10:45

The Composition of Rocky Planetary Bodies: Earth and Exo-planetary

Amy Bonsor (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 09:00-09:45

Understanding the epoch of reionisation and the first galaxies with 21cm and line intensity mapping

Jonathan Pritchard (Department of Physics, Imperial College London).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 14:45-15:30

The emerging fields of astrostatistics and astroinformatics: understanding early, mid and late cosmic evolution

Jason McEwen (Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College London (UCL).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:45-14:30

Understanding Dark Matter through dwarf galaxies and stellar streams in large surveys of the sky

Sergey Koposov (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 06 February 2017, 15:30-16:15

Optimising Type Ia Supernova Distances & Cosmology: Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Optical and Near-Infrared Light Curves and Spectra

Kaisey Mandel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 06 February 2017, 14:20-15:05

Deciphering the dynamical Universe via large scale Bayesian data interpretation

Jens Jasche (Technische Universitat Munchen).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:30-14:15

Cracking Cosmic Dawn

Anastasia Fialkov (Harvard University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 30 January 2017, 12:15-13:00

The Gaseous Features of the Magellanic System

Bi-Qing For (U Western Aus).

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Gravitational Wave Update

Chris Moore (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 16 June 2016, 16:00-16:30

Extra Exoplanet Talk - Connecting the chemical properties of exoplanets and their atmospheres to planet formation

Ralph Pudritz (McMaster).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

The circumplanetary disk and the late accretion of giant planets

Judit Szulagyi (ETH).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Dynamical Processing of Stars and Planets Through Star Clusters

Aaron Geller, Northwestern University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Art meets science

Sophy Rickett.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 19:30-20:30

The Instability of Astrophysics

Professor Martin Harwit (Cornell University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Friday 18 July 2014, 11:30-12:30

Deep Keck spectroscopy of high-redshift quiescent galaxies: constraining the size growth

Sirio Belli (Caltech).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 17 July 2014, 14:30-15:30

State transitions in X-ray Binaries

Mitch Begelman (JILA, University of Colorado).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 16:00-16:30

The Mass of the Local Group

Jorge Penarrubia (Edinburgh).

Hoyle Committee Room, IoA.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 10:00-11:00

The angular size of the Sun and Moon and the emergence of Devonian tetrapods

Professor Steve Balbus (Oxford).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 07 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

Probing the Dark Sector of the Vacuum Using Cavities, Atoms and Lasers

Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay, Director of the Cockcroft Institute and Sir John Cockcroft Chair of Physics at Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 02 August 2013, 10:00-11:00

Cosmology with Photometric Cluster Samples

Refreshments follow talk in the KICC common area

Dr Eduardo Rozo, Einstein and KICP Fellow, University of Chicago.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

21cm Cosmology

Ue-Li Pen (CITA Toronto).

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building (Tea at 4.00pm in Hoyle Foyer).

Thursday 04 August 2011, 16:30-17:30

Cosmography with cluster strong lensing

Priyamvada Natarajan (Department of Astronomy, Yale University).

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Wednesday 08 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Talk Lists

The 2010 Decadal Survey: A Cambridge Perspective

Paul Alexander, Rob Kennicutt and more....

Martin Ryle Large Meeting Room, KICC.

Friday 26 November 2010, 14:00-17:30

Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Astrophysical Black Holes

Dimitrios Psaltis.

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Wednesday 24 March 2010, 11:30-12:30

Paul Dirac: Britain's Einstein

Graham Farmelo.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 17:45-18:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A simple model for solar iso-rotation contours

The Nature of High Reynolds Number Turbulence

Balbus, S (ENS Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Was there Anything Before the Big Bang? Possibly!

FREE ADMITTANCE

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS.

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

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Far-IR/Submm Missions of the Future: Scientific and Technology Challenges

Dr Wayne Holland, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

The South Pole Telescope

Dr Steve Padin (University of Chicago).

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 07 October 2008, 11:00-12:00