Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Classical and Quantum Density Functional Theory for Materials Science

Angus Lockhart <angus@secqai.com>.

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

East 1/West Hub

Edmund.George & Mei Lin Gan .

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Complexity of real and artificial networks

East 1/West Hub

Dr. Gueorgui Mihaylov (Haleon.com).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 2

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 1

East 1/West Hub

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Introduction to G-Research, ML engineers and Quant Research

East 1/West Hub

Charles Martinez & Yousuf Mohamed-Ahmed /G-RESEARCH .

East 1 room - West Hub.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Exploring SAS Viya and the Future of AI-Driven Innovation

Prathiba Krishna <Prathiba.Krishna@sas.com>.

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Generative Ai.rplane

Thomas Gessey-Jones (physicsx.ai).

East 1, West Hub.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Prerak Desai - GSK.

Maxwell Centre.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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