Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Methods for information transfer within populations of structures

Dr Tina Dardeno, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Algorithmic diagnosis and the problem of statistical evidence

CANCELLED

Sune Hannibal Holm (University of Copenhagen).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism

Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 15:00-16:30

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.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

Prof. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. .

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Acoustic Emission Data Analysis in Concrete Fatigue and Fracture: An Entropic Perspective

Nitin Burud, University of Surrey.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 15 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Examples of "control" in research and teaching at Physics

Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Inferring from negative analogies: lessons on analogical reasoning from clinical medical practice

Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:00-14:30

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

Early Science and Medicine

Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500

Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum

Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinearity in structural dynamics: when does it matter?

Dr Tore Butlin, University of Cambridge Engineering Department.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Conceptual structural design via graphic statics for the generation of materially-efficient, structurally expressive architectural forms.

Dr Marina Konstantatou.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 08 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design

Roger Reed, University of Oxford.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem

Emma Tobin (University College London).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Learning to Predict and to Act - Exploring Structure in World Models and Latent Spaces

Ingmar Posner, Oxford University .

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference

Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic Systems

Panagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Tech .

Board Room, Baker Building, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 04 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Damping from fragmented materials

Dr Jem Rongong, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Strengthening of Existing Structures Using Novel High Performance Materials

Dr Andreas Lampropoulos.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 01 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior

Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is AI generated art really art?

Milena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350

Catherine Rider (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838

Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The acoustics of bouncing: drumsticks, impact hammers and church bells

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

On the Assessment and Design of Compressed Structures

Carlo Olivieri, Pegaso Università Telematica, Italy.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 23 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Scientific machine learning - opportunities and challenges from an industrial perspective

Dr Dirk Hartmann, Siemens.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary

Marion Boulicault (University of Edinburgh).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Neuromorphic sensing and computing in today’s AI landscape

Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:15-15:15

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine

Various speakers.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s

Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 19 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Separate treatment of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in structural dynamics

Dr John Hickey, Trinity College Dublin.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart integral bridge design

Douglas Morley.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart integral bridge design

Douglas Morley.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-parallel based deep learning for the model order reduction of parametrized partial differential equations

Dr Nirav Vashant Shah, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Full field measurement technique enabling the discovery of new materials laws

Dr Zifan Wang, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Conceptualising climate futures

Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Accommodating magnitude and rate-limits in model reference adaptive control systems

Matthew Turner, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Limit objects and emergence

Miklós Rédei (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

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

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution

Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic

Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant

Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 05 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Railway Decarbonisation Technologies: Energy-efficient Train Operation and Renewable Traction Power Networks

Dr Zhongbei Tian, University of Birmingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The intersection of design, engineering and craft - what we learn by collaboration

David Knight, Cake Industries.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 02 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nanovoid Irradiation Hardening in Metals: A Mesoscale Perspective".

Dr Ashley Roach.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Role of Phase Transformation on Shock Compression Behavior of Iron

Dr Vatsa Gandhi, Ashby Fellow.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

In defense of the medical model of obesity

Andreas De Block (KU Leuven).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When the data cannot speak clearly: Covid-19 and minoritised groups

Michael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730

Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

Alex Aylward (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Energy-conserving equivariant GNN predictions of stiffness for lattice materials

Ivan Grega, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The world of modern technology and the natural world: how to negotiate the data driven world and nature itself

Neil Thomas, Atelier One.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 26 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamic rupture behavior and friction evolution revealed by laboratory experiments using ultra high-speed digital image correlation

Prof Vito Rubino École Centrale de Nantes, France.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

PhD Showcase

Various speakers.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 22 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design methodologies for performance improvement of smart structures

Dr Najib Kacem, femto-st Institute.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces

Professor Daniele Dini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India

Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

AI Engineering as Design Engineering: Creating User-Centric AI Systems

Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data informativity: a new perspective on data-driven analysis and control

Professor Kanat Camlibel, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen.

JDB Seminar room.

Friday 12 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sense, Think, Act: Decision and Control, from Biology to Technology

Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

LT6 Seminar Room.

Tuesday 09 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vehicle-bridge interaction in railways: forward and inverse applications

Dr Charikleia Stoura, ETH.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-driven ML-enhanced approaches to support accelerated materials design for extreme conditions

Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sound Control Synthesis with Logics and Data

Professor Alessandro Abate, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

New Innovative Idea on Bio Medical Research

Makoto Kaneko, Meijo University and Osaka University..

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:15-15:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Unifying the notion of objectivity

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Early Science and Medicine

The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia

Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia

Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Control-based Continuation – A new paradigm for testing nonlinear systems

Dr Ludovic Renson, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Folding tape springs and “tapered” springs

Jamie Clarkson.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 24 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering

Prof Kumar Shanmugam, Professor of Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing, University of Glasgow.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of science in Arctic North America after 1945

Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial colonies

Aidan Brown, Edinburgh University.

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science

Lena Kästner (Universität Bayreuth).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933

Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Exploiting Structure for Scalable Design and Verification of Complex Systems

Professor Murat Arcak, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley.

Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)

Erica Fischer (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 20 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Challenges in Bayesian inference and reliability with large numbers of uncertain parameters

Jan Koune, TU Delft.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The rational design of sociotechnical systems in healthcare

Tom Bashford,CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lifecycle of a constant: e

Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Passivity-based control of underactuated surgical robots

Enrico Franco, Imperial College.

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:15-15:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The case of Ignaz Semmelweis revisited: a plea for Popperian science

Zuzana Parusniková (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systems

Prof Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Control, Estimation and Optimization in Multi-agent Systems

Professor Wei Ren, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside.

Department of Engineering, LT6, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact.

Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Where inattention pays

Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Modelling and analysis of electrical circuits with memristors for neuromorphic computing applications

Anne-Men Huijzer, University of Groningen.

Department of Engineering, LR5, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics

Claire Shaw (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century

Rachel Feldberg (University of York).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Friday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Multi-criteria optimization of sustainable Timber-Concrete-Composite floor systems

Hossein Emami, Laval University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Venue to be confirmed.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Theory of Stability Regions and its Practical Application in Online Stability Assessment of Large-Scale Power Grids

Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell University.

Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections

McConnell Lecture

Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Can anyone be a target of discrimination? Lessons from philosophy of science and work on human kinds

Marion Godman (Aarhus University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Early Science and Medicine

Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe

Philippa Carter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Building stable tensegrities for engineering applications

Dr Ajay Harish, University of Manchester.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites

Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lineages as evolving processes

John Dupré (University of Exeter).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain

Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England

Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 23 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active noise control: what's the best you can do?

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Don’t crush concrete, reuse it! Designing new structures with saw-cut reused concrete pieces.

Célia Küpfer, EPFL.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement, Assessment and Modelling of Heavy Goods Vehicle Energy Consumption

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India

David Arnold (University of Warwick).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Quantitative Microbiology With Smart Microscopy

Georgeos Hardo, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why we shouldn't democratise science

Stephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Early Science and Medicine

Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina

Silvia M. Marchiori (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Mathematical driver model with a Gaussian Process internal model to represent learning behaviour

Harry Fieldhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Symmetry, Group Theory and Applications to Structural Mechanics

Professor Alphose Zingoni, University of Cape Town.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China

Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Welcome - introduction to the Group

Professor David Cebon.

JDB Teaching room, CUED.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys

Prof. Upadrasta Ramamurty, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Toward Better Bone Regeneration: Innovation in Metallic and Ceramic Scaffolds

Prof. Donghui Zhu,.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 29 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale design strategies for the progressive failure of architected materials and structures – Focus on interface cracking

Dr Federica Daghia, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Journey of Droplet through various spatio-temporal scales

Prof Saptarshi Basu.

LR3B, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 31 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The elastic stability and transitions between the unusual equilibrium states of a special hexagram ring

John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence

Prof. Wanlin Guo, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

LR3A, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials

Professor J.R. Greer, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain Energy

Prof Zdenek Bazant .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 16 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

WISE(Wearable Intelligent Sensors & Electronics) Research and Applications

Prof. Xueji Zhang, Shenzhen University.

LR6.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

AI for Sound

Prof. Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

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

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Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tea Time Talks - Poster Session

Group poster presentation.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Data-Driven Reduction of Non-Linearizable Dynamics for Solids, Fluids and Controls

Proffesor George Haller, ETH Zurich.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The Transfer Matrix Method revisited: computations and applications to dynamics

Professor Atanas Popov, University of Nottingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Geometry and mechanics of liquid crystal elastomers

Dr John Biggins, University of Cambridge .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 02 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

In defence of dimensions

Caspar Jacobs (Merton College, Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Early Science and Medicine

The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view

Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

Lynn Berry (Open University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CANCELLED - Nonlinear damping measurement in rotating fan and compressor disks

Dr Matt De Brett, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Tensegrity systems: a brief history

Geoff Morrow, StructureMode.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 26 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness

Prof Laura M. Machesky, department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale

Prof Dr Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth

Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Bayesian explanationism

Stephan Hartmann (MCMP, LMU Munich).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I

Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 22 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Blood pressure measurement: the mystery of inferring arterial pressure from outside of the body

Kate Bassil, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 19 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision

Prof William P. King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics

Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Student seminar - Effect of Prestress on the Bistability of Deployable Hinges, and Design of optimized reinforced concrete floor grillages

James Whitely and Tara Venkatadri, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Not for me: on the external function of guilt

Shaun Nichols (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Extraordinary Mechanics in Structures

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Monday 15 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment

Valentine Delrue (Ghent University & Ca' Foscari University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 15 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Brightening clouds for regional cooling

Edmund Reardon, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival

Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problems

Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of branchmaking

Nick Huggett (University of Illinois Chicago).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine

Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72

Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 08 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Strategies for international electrification of heavy goods vehicles

Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Angus Low’s 3rd equation; serendipity in research

Professor Chris Burgoyne, University of Cambridge .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 05 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Coiled Muscle + Snapping Beams: From Nonlinear Mechanics to Miniature Robotic Design

Dr Sam Tawfick, University of Illinois .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

Michael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservation

Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Can present-day philosophers make scientific contributions? From philosophy in science to conceptual and theoretical thinking in science

Thomas Pradeu (CNRS).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

CANCELLED

Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bogie Damage: Train or Track?

Dr Stuart Grassie, Railmeasurement Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974)

Gregory Radick (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Vector-based steering control in the insect brain

Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Laws unconstrained: against minimal primitivism about laws of nature

Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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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

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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

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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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Advanced Tissue Biofabrication

Prof Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School.

Room LR6, Cambridge University Engineering Department, CB2 1PZ.

Friday 31 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of nature-inspired heterogeneous architected materials (HAMs)

Prof Bosco Yu, University of Victoria.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

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

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The taming of the tape spring: Practical methods for storing and deploying structural flexible tubes

Dr Andrew Viquerat, University of Surrey.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Seeing opportunity in failure: can common issues in metal Additive Manufacture help deliver innovative material solutions?

Prof. Iain Todd from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

CANCELLED - An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

Melanie Zeilinger.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 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

Early Science and Medicine

Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period

Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain

Max Long (History, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 13 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Automatic customization of transparency mode and audio equalization in ear buds

Dr Ole Nielsen, BOSE.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The Shear Paradox

Dr Michele W.T. Mak, University of Leeds .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Physics-enhancing machine learning strategies for friction force evaluation

Alice Cicrello, TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context

CANCELLED

Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary Biology

Harrison Steel, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Realism and technocracy: a working hypothesis

Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960

Dora Yao (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal

Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics by the sea with BBC Coast

Professor David Sharp, The Open University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The chase for fluid-structure interaction effects – An obsession or something important?

Dr Vegard Aune, NTNU, Norway.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks during cancer metastasis

Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression

Marion Boulicault (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Human perception of transient longitudinal vehicle motion

Samer Abdelmoeti, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Elastic Mechanism – Exploring the Effects of Elastic Deformation on Kinematic Motion in Mechanisms, and Squashing a doughnut – analysis of tape ring flattening

Charles Gai & Jamie Clarkson, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 24 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strength prediction of polymer composite laminates under uncertainties using theory-guided machine learning

Prof Pedro Camanho, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Porto.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Rationalizing discrimination

Zeynep Pamuk (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Learning and Control for Networked Autonomy

Konstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

Lynn Berry (Open University).

Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Soil-structure interactions during underground construction: measurement and monitoring

Dr Brian Sheil, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

Prof Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science

CANCELLED

Samir Boumediene (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Microbial growth behavior and the control of protein synthesis in and out of steady state

Jonas Cremer, Stanford University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines

Prof Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimization

Raphael Jungers, UC Louvain.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century

Taylor E. Dysart (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

Monday 13 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Complexity in Vibrations and Dynamics – Phenomena and Methods

Professor Norbert Hoffmann, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Geometric compatibility: from simple mathematics to complex materials, structures and mechanics

Dr Fen Fang, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Stress-unsupervised learning of material models using experimental data

Dr Akshay Joshi, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Multistable morphing structures

Professor Yang Li, Wuhan University .

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Feedback system analysis: back to the future

Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The causal structure of cultural domination

Tarun Menon (Azim Premji University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990

Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

Jan Becker (European University Institute).

Zoom.

Monday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Zero Carbon Cement

Dr Cyrille Dunant and Professor Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 03 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond

Prof Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?

Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688

Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

Frederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

Zoom.

Monday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Why is the clarinet like a violin?

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Using Architected Materials to Enable Novel Properties

Professor Yunlan Zhang, University of Texas .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Computationally derived correlations between segregation, microstructure variations and process-induced cracks in AM

Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University.

Meeting ID: 898 8054 7075 .

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

He Bian (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability

Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science

Uwe Peters (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer

Anna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A spectrum of physics-informed machine learning approaches for problems in structural dynamics

Professor Lizzy Cross, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Design, Analysis and Applications of Well-behaved Non-linear Structures

Dr Mark Schenk, University of Bristol.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting

Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Against presence empiricism

Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Smarter materials for simpler robotics

Andrew Conn.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Instabilities in kirigami structures

Dr Marcelo Dias, University of Edinburgh.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 09 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Background and uses of guided ultrasonics

Dr David Alleyne, CEO, Guided Ultrasonics Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networks

Sebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Active Rheology and Stiffening Control of cementitious materials

Professor Geert De Schutter, Ghent University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

Sonia Wigh.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750

Lucy Havard (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 28 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Probabilistic sensitivity using Fisher information and its symplectic eigenvalue decomposition

Dr Jiannan Yang, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A Swiss Structures seminar from FlexLab

Luna Lin, Fani Derveni, and Michael Gomez, EPFL Lausanne.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

What machine learning can do for (meta)materials-by-design

Dr Sid Kumar, Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Identifying future-proof science

CANCELLED

Peter Vickers (Durham University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling

Fiora Salis (University of York).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany

Madeline White (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 21 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Concrete Canvas – from university project to global company

Peter Brewin, Conrete Canvas.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 18 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective

Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history

Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Berlin).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On motor intelligence for soft robots

Cosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems

Jaakko Kuorikoski (University of Helsinki).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

Early Science and Medicine

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Development and validation of a user-friendly hybrid prediction tool for railway induced vibration

Professor Geert Degrande, KU Leuven.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Snap through Dynamics and some strategies for morphing

Professor Dominic Vella, University of Oxford.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 11 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructure control in metal additive manufacturing: a LEGO analogy

Dr Matteo Seita, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan

Lewis Bremner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and control

Christian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

Tom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

Zoom.

Monday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tyre wear modelling of multi-axle trucks

Chen Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Theory and the Creation of Structures; Using the concepts of Airy, Maxwell, Michell, Heyman, Calladine, Pellegrino, Guest and McRobie to create structures

Bill Baker, SOM & University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 04 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cut it out - residual stresses in dynamic cell sheets

Dr Stephanie Hoehn, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement

Michael Diamond-Hunter (London School of Economics).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization

Alessandra Basso (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgery

Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Sunday 30 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Identifying performance limits for active noise reduction in nonlinear systems

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Understanding Tensegrity with an Energy Function

Professor Simon Guest.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 28 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Simulating the Tumor Microenvironment for Immune Cell Interactions via Deployable Extrusion

Corrado Mazzaglia, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Smart micro-textiles: from bioinspired sensing to bioelectronic interface

Andy Wang CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations

Jo Wolff (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Multivariable Control in 40 Minutes

Prof. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

'Put on my tomb: this is what she was trying for': the extraordinary life of Margaret Masterman

Peter da Bolla (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

Tinne Claes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Graphic Statics as a Legendre Transform

Professor Allan McRobie.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 21 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment

Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Coloniality, global health, and reparations

Eugene Richardson (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Wearable technologies

Tamar Makin, MRC CBU at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Worries about philosopher experts

Cathrine Holst (University of Oslo).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions

Eleanor Myerson (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 17 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A linearised hybrid FE-SEA method for built-up structures with nonlinear joints under random loading

Henry Allen, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science in crisis? Reproducibility and the philosophy of science

Samuel Fletcher (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices

Annika Windahl-Pontén (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 10 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An Introduction to the DVRG

Prof Hugh Hunt, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Welcome to term and to new PhD students

Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids

Dr Ankit Srivastava, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University.

LR6.

Friday 09 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

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

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Architected Materials Beyond the Laboratory: harnessing self-architecture and exploring extreme conditions

Carlos M Portela, MIT.

LR5.

Friday 01 July 2022, 10:00-11:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Controlling imperfect robot swarms

Hector Garcia de Marina, Universidad de Granada.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries

James Woodward (University of Pittsburgh).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Clamping Stresses in Reinforced Concrete

Evan Bentz, University of Toronto.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CVDC Truck Demo

Dr Francesco Amoruso, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upcycling Structural Design – new developments

Corentin Fivet, EPFL.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits

Yuzhen Qin, University of California, Riverside.

JBD seminar room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Poster Session

Speaker to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

BRE Structural Testing and Investigation

David Stewart, BRE Group.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Control of DC Microgrids with Flexible Structure

Mahdieh S. Sadabadi, Queen Mary University of London.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

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

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Pleasures and perils of family-based natural history in early modern Europe

Alix Cooper (SUNY-Stony Brook).

Zoom.

Monday 30 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Lagrange and Hamilton for damped systems with an unexpected link to quantum mechanics

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Crack-based assessment and retrofit of concrete members

Boyan Mihaylov, University of Liege.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Fundamental Limits of Learning with Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Friday 27 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Size-dependence of switching and stable behavior in biochemical systems

Monika Jozsa, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

Kathryn Renton (UCLA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories

Anna Guasco (Department of Geography).

Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Some model testing experience of a floating wind turbine platform in a wave tank

Dr Jiannan Yang, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Form and Structure

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Form and Structure

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood

Prof Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Materials Innovation University of Maryland.

Meeting ID: 849 1452 9444 .

Friday 20 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality

Pieter R. Adriaens (KU Leuven, Belgium).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Analysis and design of bio-inspired indecision-breaking decision makers

Alessio Franci, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 2376 0684 Passcode: 986863).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

Naftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

Zoom.

Monday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bowed-string transients: a challenging nonlinear oscillation problem

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Department of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Computational Imaging and Sensing: Theory and Applications

Prof. Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

David Burt, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution

J'Nese Williams (University of Notre Dame).

Zoom.

Monday 09 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Intelligent Structures for Low Noise Environments

Dr Jordan Cheer, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Compact Folding of Flat Arrays Composed of Panels with Uniform Thickness

Zhong You, University of Oxford.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 06 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins

Prof Pilar Ariza, University of Sevilla.

LR5, Baker Building, CUED.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation

Elselijn Kingma-Vermeer (King's College London).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Weak Control for Human-in-the-loop Systems

Masaki Inoue, Keio University.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 892 4602 0075 Passcode: 913765).

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

Catherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bests of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Understanding the dynamic soil-structure interaction between buildings and nearby underground railway tunnels

Mr Tisal Edirisinghe, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

Hyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On Minimax Adaptive Control

Anders Rantzer, Lund University.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 832 4377 0774 Passcode: 684832).

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Passivity, Monotonicity, and Network Optimization: New Perspectives for Network Systems Analysis

Daniel Zelazo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 837 4007 0422 Passcode: 081031).

Thursday 21 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

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

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordination

Praneeth Namburi, MIT.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 825 7950 4541 Passcode: 123551).

Thursday 14 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Dr Ulas Cilingir, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ørsted

Dr Ulas Cilingir, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ørsted.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 13 April 2022, 19:00-20:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Cybergenetics: A control theory for living cells

Corentin Briat, ETH-Zürich.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 3342 6333 Passcode: 367773).

Thursday 31 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

Emiel Hoogeboom.

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

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Advanced Sliding Mode Control

Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 0420 7880 Passcode: 578888).

Thursday 24 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of AI Alignment

Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

New Frontiers in Sensing for Infrastructure Management

Sriram Narasimhan, UCLA.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 18 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

blblblb

Speaker to be confirmed.

CUED LR4.

Friday 18 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade

Yijun Wang (New York University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology

Emiliano Cabrera Rocha (Department of Geography).

Zoom.

Monday 14 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Decarbonising the UK’s Heavy Goods Vehicles with an Electric Road System

Daniel Ainalis and Christopher de Saxe.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Challenging construction through computational and digital fabrication

Mariana Popescu, TU Delft.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 11 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically-instructive Scaffolds to Steer Tissue Regeneration: Merging Mechaniobiology with Biofabrication

Prof Lorenzo Moroni, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Complex Tissue Regeneration Department. Maastricht University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 11 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Learning (to learn) from others

Richard Moore (University of Warwick).

Zoom.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts

Bart Besselink, University of Groningen.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 842 0121 0459 Passcode: 338605).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On the nonexistence of moralometers

Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

Wayne Soon (Vassar College).

Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659)

Svit Komel (University of Ljubljana).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 07 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The OAK | Prototype of a concrete shell as building floor for circular sustainable construction

Robin Oval, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 04 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Complexes and conservation: constructing numerical methods for physical systems

Prof Garth Wells, Hibbit Professor of Solid Mechanics, CUED.

CUED LR5.

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

Axel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Learning-based control of soft robots

Thomas George-Thuruthel, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 839 0458 8067 Passcode: 572898).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

The FOCUS project: real-time monitoring to inform underground construction operations

Dr Brian Sheil, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Oxford.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge

CANCELLED

Huiyi Wu (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 28 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Rail corrugation: a problem solved?

Stuart Grassie .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of Architected Materials Across Length and Time Scales

Prof Carlos M Portela, School of Engineering, MIT.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Epistemic bunkers

Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

Zoom.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data-driven stabilization of nonlinear polynomial systems with noisy data

Meichen Guo, University of Groningen.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom: Meeting ID: 875 1060 6963, Passcode: 661347).

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Micp from micro to macro: towards bio-inspired geotechnics

Dr Alexandra Clarà Saracho, Affiliated Lecturer in Engineering, King's College, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Room 5, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Recent advances in Statistical Machine Learning for problems in Applied Mechanics

Dr Alice Cicirello .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Textile reinforcement: Research and application

Philipp Preinstorfer, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 18 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A phase-field model for ferroelectrics with general kinetics

Prof Laurent Guin, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 18 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

Daniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Zoom.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Saddle-point dynamics, non-expansive semiflows, and necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence

Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge).

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Signature modes and formants: comparing stringed instrument

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Exploding, weeping and reversible phase transformations in ceramics

Prof Richard James, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 11 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928–1955

CANCELLED

Megan Barford (Royal Museums Greenwich).

Zoom.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Challenges from pipe installation to rehabilitation

Dr Haitao Lan - Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i

Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800

Sophia Spielmann (Technische Universität Berlin).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 07 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Passenger Discomfort during Longitudinal Vehicle Motion

Samer Abdelmoeti .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Data-driven Approaches for Structural Optimisation

Ahmet Oguzhan Yuksel, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Reconceptualising decarbonisation: Understanding UK industrial decarbonisation through the lens of megaprojects

Samual Stephenson, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Do we have enough energy resources for a net-zero 2050?

Jennifer Hawkin, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Designing vascular networks for tissue engineering

Andrew Guy.

CUED LR4.

Friday 04 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Biofabrication techniques for vascular graft and network

Dr Alex Justin .

CUED LR4.

Friday 04 February 2022, 14:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences

Alexander Bird (Faculty of Philosophy).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)

Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

Minakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Decarbonising Road Freight

Prof David Cebon CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 28 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

Eleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

Zoom.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Epidemic mitigation through testing and optimal urban mobility

Muhammad Umar B Niazi, KTH.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories

Daniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 24 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Measurement, Assessment and Prediction of Energy Consumption of Heavy Goods Vehicles

Dr Xiaoxiang Na CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 21 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical metamaterials: Does toughness characterise fracture?

Dr Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea, Ashby Fellow, CUED.

CUED LR4.

Friday 21 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Structural Design for the World's New Tallest Building - DCH Tower

Xueyi Fu, National Master of Engineering Design and Geotechnique Investigation, China.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 21 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico

Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University).

Zoom.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Safety

Neel Alex.

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

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

DYNAMICS AND VIBRATION TEATIME TALKS

Speaker to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Wednesday 05 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online-only.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Contraction and Convexity, Robustness and Regularisation

For the Zoom link to this talk, please e-mail tbb29@cam.ac.uk

Prof. Ian Manchester, University of Sydney.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 December 2021, 09:00-10:00

Early Science and Medicine

Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)

Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

Cockroft Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Week 9

Speaker to be confirmed.

TBC - JDB Seminar room, CUED or Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 03 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Connectivity of Two-Dimensional Assemblies

Priyan Dias, University of Morutawa.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 03 December 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Shape-shifting assemblies in cutting and dividing cells

Dr Andela Šarić, UCL.

CUED LR6.

Friday 03 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Landslide pipe-soil interaction: new insights using fiber optic sensing and change detection photogrammetry

Geoff Eichhorn, Senior PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK.

Online via zoom.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 19:00-20:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Towards a Theory of Energy Conversion

Prof. Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

Zoom.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

Zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories

Online only

Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa).

Zoom.

Monday 29 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

How to Conduct your own Predictive Simulations of Biomechanical Models

Sam Brockie .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Forward and inverse homogenization of cellular metamaterials

Prof Dennis Kochman, ETH Zürich.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Henk van Waarde, ETH Zurich.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic behaviour of anchored steel sheet pile retaining walls in sand

Alessandro Fusco, Senior PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 19:00-20:00

Early Science and Medicine

Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China

Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

Marieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

Zoom.

Monday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Predicting Nonlinear Vibration Response Under Combined Harmonic and Random Excitation

Please note room change for this week.

John Hickey, CUED .

JDB Teaching room, CUED.

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Learning based multiscale modeling

Dr Burigede Liu, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Physical computations are idealisations

Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Modeling human sensorimotor control for better control of surgical robots

Prof. Ilana Nisky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

Mathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America

Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 15 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Stethoscope Acoustics

Max Nussbaumer, Acoustics Group.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Adaptive lightweight deployable structures as civil infrastructure

Ann Sychterz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 12 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Energy absorption of foams with non-linear variation in cross-sectional area under stationary impact BD

Dr Sri Datta Rapaka, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Active light-driven microfluidic components made of soft smart materials

Dr Klaudia Dradrach, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe

Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Optimal Secondary Frequency Control for Power Systems With Delay Independent Stability

Dr. Mengmou Li, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Mobilisable strength design for retaining walls and introduction of software PROWD

Dr Chuhan Deng, Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 19:00-20:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

Jacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Model-Free Data-Driven Mechanics: A tutorial

Prof. Michael Ortiz, Caltech.

Meeting ID: 893 5973 8882.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 09:30-11:00

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain

João Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Enhancing Reduced-order Models Using Insights from Nonlinear Modal Interactions

Dr Tom Hill, University of Bristol.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Quantifying and Controlling the Seismic Risk of Nonstructural Building Components

Dimitrios Konstantinidis, University of California, Berkeley.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 05 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioprinting with Microgel Materials

Professor Marcy Zenobi-Wong, Head of Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 05 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

Yixin Wang.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

A deterministic least squares approach for simultaneous input and state estimation

Greg Gakis, University of Cambridge.

LR 11, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00