Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The statistical challenges in tackling persistent climate model uncertainty through model-observation comparisons.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OWJjY2ViNjktOWZjMS00NGJmLWI5MTUtNTYxM2E5MTgyMTQ1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr Jill S Johnson; School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Color pattern evolution in jumping spiders (Salticidae) [UPDATED TIME]

Cynthia Tedore, University of Hamburg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Exoplanet Demographics: A Journey Through Space and Time

Timothy Hallatt (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechano-hydraulic control of mammalian folliculogenesis

Chai Jou (Joe) Chen (MBI Singapore) (co-hosted with TLM) .

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 16 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Detecting Changes in Production Frontier and Beyond

Yining Chen (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

JWST Debris Disks: Transforming our Understanding of Exoplanetary Systems

Christine Chen, STScI.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 10:00-11:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The Response and Observability of Exo-Earth Climates to Cometary Impacts

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Contribution of mitonuclear genomes to evolutionary processes

Flo Camus, UCL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Global modelling of ice-nucleating particles and their impact on cirrus clouds and the climate system

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmUxMWIxYTgtZDM3OS00MTYzLTg1NGQtYzEzNWZhZDRhNDlh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr. Christof Beer.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Ana Patricia Ramos-Forming an Eye: from cell behaviour to tissue shape changes; Kumud Saini-Temperature Regulation of Cell Cycle and Growth Dynamics in Arabidopsis

Kumud Saini, Robinson Lab, Sainsbury Laboratory & Ana Patricia Ramos, IGC, Portugal .

Online.

Monday 09 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Hints of Planet Formation Signatures in a large-cavity disk in Upper Scorpius

Anibal Sierra (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Maik Bischoff-Plexin/Semaphorin Antagonism Orchestrates Collective Cell Migration and Organ Sculpting by Regulating Epithelial-Mesenchymal Balance; Harry McNamara-Decoding and controlling self-organization in stem cell models of embryonic development

Maik Christian Bischoff, UNC, Mark Peifer lab; Harry McNamara, Yale University.

Online.

Monday 02 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

In-sample calibration yields conformal calibration guarantees

Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Jules Macome: Against Epistemic Pessimism in Origins of Life Research

Jules Macome (Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Scaling life: How Single Cells Orchestrate Tissue-Level Coordination

TUESDAY online seminar (details will be sent via email to subscription list)

Prisca Liberali, FMI.

Online (Tuesday!).

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Using AI to understand what works in conservation and other stories

Sam Reynolds, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Understanding the initial stages of planet-driven gap formation 

Amelia J. Cordwell (DAMTP).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

When fire plumes glow in the dark: Tracing organic aerosol chemical regime dominance clues via light-absorbing species

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MWYzYmRiMDctNzNkNi00N2JmLTk4NDUtYzBiMDM4YjgyNjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr. Eleni Dovrou, Technical University of Crete.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

David Russell on Compartmentalization at Life's Origins

David Russell (Cambridge Biochemistry).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Seminars

Chemical Composition of the Enceladus’ Ocean and its Habitability

Jihua Hao, University of Science and Technology of China (Department of Geochemistry and Planetary Sciences).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

On Activity and Planets of Low-Mass Stars: Towards the Tenth Anniversary of CARMENES

Lev Tal-Or (Ariel).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Echinoderms in a changing ocean

Miles Lamare, University of Otago.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

For both titles please look in the abstract session below.

Please sign in at the Gurdon reception upon entry and the seminar will take place in the tea room.

Katie Goodwin-MRC LMB; Miguel Ángel Ortiz Salazar-MRC LMB.

In person at Gurdon Institute and Online.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

Kosuke Imai (Harvard University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Coffee - Ligia F Coelho on "the changing colours of our planet as a tool for ilfe detection on icy moons and exoplanets"

Ligia F Coelho (Cornell Astronomy).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Seminars

Astrochemical Origins of Planetary Habitability

Karin Öberg, Harvard University (Department of Astronomy)​.

East Seminar Room, Ray Dolby Centre.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Deciphering giant planet formation

Olja Panic (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

What we (un)know about Neotropical montane species of butterflies

Karina Lucas Da Silva Brandao, Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interpreting multimodel ensembles

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTFiNjIwOTctZGZmNC00MDk3LWEyMDAtZTVmMGZkYmU1NTg2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Prof Richard Chandler, UCL.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Collective cell behaviors in mammalian intestinal morphogenesis

Kaelyn Sumigray, Department of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine.

Online.

Monday 12 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Nicole Shibley on Ice-Ocean Interactions in the Solar System

Nicole Shibley (Cambridge, DAMTP).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The Dynamic Chemistry of Planet-Forming Disks

Luke Keyte (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Steven Benner: How life could not NOT originate on rocky planets, Earth, Mars, and 100 billion others in the Milky Way Galaxy

Steven Benner (FfAME Distinguished Fellow).

East Seminar Room, Ray Dolby Centre.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Social Immunity: the colony-wide immune system of insect colonies 

Sylvia Cremer, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Formation of planetary cores in spontaneously generated dust traps during the secular evolution of magnetized protoplanetary disks

Timmy Delage (Imperial).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Clancy Jiang on the Mn Cycle

Clancy Jiang (Cambridge Earth Science).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Rick Anslow & Tereza Constantinou on Icy Moons

Rick Anslow & Tereza Constantinou (Cambridge IoA).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Catriona McDonald - The Comet’s Tale: A game of chance.

Catriona McDonald (Cambridge IoA).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Coffee - CANCELLED

None.

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From active surfaces to evo-devo-mechanobiology

Guillaume Salbreux, University of Geneva, Switzerland .

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Jack Szostak: Primordial Genetic Alphabet?

Jack Szostak (Chemistry, University of Chicago).

Martin Ryle Large Meeting Room, KICC.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Exoplanet Seminars

An Early Heavy Bombardment of the Inner Solar System

Craig Walton (ETH).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Speciation with gene flow, assortative mating and chemical senses: insights from genomics

Carole Smadja, Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Could stratospheric aerosol injection produce meaningful global cooling without novel aircraft?

Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Njk5ZjBhMmUtMmIwMS00YjNkLWE4N2QtOTYwN2EyZGRhMzI5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

Alistair Duffey PhD Student at University College London, Earth Sciences.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

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

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Fred Simmons: "Abiogenetic Bias, Axiology, and Teleology."

Fred Simmons (Cambridge Divinity).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Greedy icy planets, or How Uranus and Neptune enrich their atmospheres in carbon by core accretion in the debris disc phase

Paul Huet (Paris Observatory).

Hoyle Committee Room - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

The Sensory Ecology of Navigation

Marie Dacke, Lund University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Fengzhu Xiong.

in person at LMB and Online.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Quantifying & predicting resilience from individuals, to populations, to whole communities

Roberto Salguero-Gómez, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

The causes and consequences of marine human wildlife conflict

Katrina Davis, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Environmental and ecological drivers of early animal evolution

Ilya Bobrovskiy (Organic Geochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Seminars

Animals, Sediments, Slime, Muck and Goo: The Record of Earth’s Early Animals and their Environments with Implications for Discovering Life Elsewhere

Mary Droser, University of California, Riverside (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences)​.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Devolatilization during rocky planet formation: Observations, theories, and implications

Haiyang Wang (Copenhagen).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

High-Resolution PM2.5 Mapping Across Malaysia Using Multi-Satellite Data and Machine Learning Techniques

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTQ5N2Q5ZDYtODRmYi00MzJhLTg0ZjctNjc2NGVlZDUzYmUx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Kasturi Kanniah, Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Deciphering how complex organ form emerges in development

Timothy Saunders.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Luis Ohlendorf: Requirements for self-sustained ribozyme evolution

Luis Ohlendorf (UCL, Chemistry).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Early results from observing aligned vs misaligned hot Jupiters with JWST as a testbed for planet formation and migration models

Eva-Maria Ahrer (MPIA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

A telomeric tale: 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus evolution

Dr Charlotte Houldcroft, Department of Genetics.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental patterning of head-like inflorescences in Asteraceae

Paula Elomaa,University of Helsinki .

Online.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Pee in the sea: Consumer-mediated nutrients in marine ecosystems

Isabelle Cote, Simon Fraser University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Marc Laflamme on "Ediacaran Endgame: The Rise of Complex Life"

Marc Laflamme (Earth Science, University of Toronto Mississauga).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

TOI-2407b: A hot Neptune in the Neptune Desert discovered with the SPIRIT Infrared Detector

Clàudia Jano Muñoz (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Searching for Life in Stranger Seas

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2YxZjU5NTgtYzIwNi00MTY2LThkY2ItZjQyMTJmNjdkMWQw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

William Bains.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Juan Alonso-Serra -Hydraulic patterns in plant development; Ana Patricia Ramos-Forming an Eye: from cell behaviour to tissue shape changes.

Juan Alonso-Serra,University of Helsinki; Ana Patricia Ramos, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal .

Online.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Greg Cooke on 3D Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres

Greg Cooke (Cambridge IoA).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Towards Habitable Worlds: Detailed Characterization of the Nearest Planetary Systems

Note new Zoom details

Prof. Andrew Vanderburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Effects of dynamical interactions on stars and planets in their birth environment

Christina Schoettler (Keele University).

HOYLE LECTURE THEATRE + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

The roles of chromosomal rearrangements and hybridisation in the rapid diversification of Ithomiini butterflies

Joana Meier.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Akantsha Jain-Unveiling the choreography of human brain development;Yamini Ravichandran-Topology changes of the regenerating Hydra define actin nematic defects as mechanical organizers of morphogenesis

Akantsha Jain,Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland; Yamini Ravichandran,University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Uncovering the stellar impact on planetary systems through population demographics

Ed Bryant (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Planetary uprising: Climate colonialism, Extinction Rebellion and the transformation of global politics

Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2VlZmM3OTgtOTQwNS00ZTcxLTk5ZGEtZWZiMzU4NTdiMGY1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

Tobias Müller, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition

Andrea Pauli, IMP (Institute of Molecular Pathology), Vienna, Austria.

Online.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Zoë Lehmann Imfeld: Talking About Mars and Beyond: Narrative Strategies in Science Writing

Zoë Lehmann Imfeld (Universität Bern, English).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

From Small Worlds to Giant Planets: Uncovering New Exoplanets with Ground-Based Observations

Mathilde Timmermans (Birmingham).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Morphogenetic control of cellular differentiation during gastrulation

Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

in person at Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, PDN and online.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The State of Wildfires

Doulgas Kelley UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Sai Shruthi Murali on Prebiotic Chemical Kinetics

Sai Shruthi Murali (Cambridge Physics).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 16 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Christmas Coffee

None.

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Seminars

From astronomy to Chemistry: towards a continuous path for the origins of life

11:00-13:00 Lunch (free for all participants) 13:00-14:00 Talk

Zoe Todd, University of Wisconsin-Madison ​ (Department of Astronomy).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

An observational perspective on white dwarf planetary systems

Laura Rogers (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Come rain or snow: extreme precipitation in Antarctica

Dr Ella Gilbert, British Antarctic Survey (PolarRES project).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

LCLU Seminars

From Astronomy to Chemistry: towards a continuous path for the origins of life

12:00-13:00 Lunch ​ (free for all participants), ​ 13:00-14:00 Talk​ ​

Zoe Todd, University of Wisconsin-Madison ​ (Department of Astronomy).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 12:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez on Cometary Impacts on Exoplanets

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez (Leeds Astrophysics).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Seminars

Coupling Planetary and Ecosystem Modeling to Asses Habitability and Inhabitation in the Solar System and beyond

Stephane Mazevet, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice (France).

West Hub, West Cambridge Campus, EAST Room 1-First Floor.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Constraining planet populations through debris disc morphology with JWST and astrometric accelerations

Raphael Bendahan-West (Exeter).

HCR + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Modelling Self-Organisation

Jeremy Green-King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.

Online.

Monday 25 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Pavan Tanna on "Moon-Forming Impacts"

Pavan Tanna (Cambridge, IoA).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Characterising Exoplanetary Atmospheres in High Resolution with NLTE Modelling

Mitch Young (Queen's University).

HCR + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Writing Computational Models that are FAIR and VRAI

Dr Dominic Orchard; Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, and University of Kent.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Chemo-mechanical signal in embryo development

Roberto Mayor.

In person at Physiology Lecture Theather, and online.

Monday 18 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Planets in a different light: a multi-wavelength approach to atmosphere characterisation

Dominique Petit dit de la Roche (Geneva).

HCR + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

The functional (trait) dimension of biodiversity

Manuela González-Suárez, University of Reading.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Bioengineering neural organoid morphogenesis

Adrian Ranga.

Online.

Monday 11 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

Queen Mary University of London (Math Building Lecture Theatre).

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Margarida Hermida, Topic TBA

Margarida Hermida (Kings College London, Philosophy).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric Heterogeneous Chemistry after the 2019–2020 Australian Wildfires

Dr. Kane Stone, Research Scientist, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Insights into the birth and death of exoplanetary systems from polluted white dwarfs

Andy Buchan (Warwick).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Noah Mitchell - Mapping the Mechanics and Dynamics of Gut Morphogenesis; Stefan Harmansa - Shaping Growing Tissues by Basement Membrane Mechanics

Noah Mitchell - University of Chicago & Stefan Harmansa-Living Systems Institute - University of Exeter United Kingdom.

Online.

Monday 04 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Predicting Emergent Properties of Spatially Structured Microbial Systems

Simon van Vliet, University of Basel .

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Statistics

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

Sam Livingstone (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

The Road to the Radius Valley

James Rogers.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Connecting from genes to behavior during the diversification of sea fireflies

Dr Nicholai Hensley, Department of Zoology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Marine emissions of methanethiol increase aerosol cooling in the Southern Ocean

Dr Charel Wohl University of East Anglia.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Duy-Chi Trinh-How do flowers close themselves: the story from Arabidopsis; Liyuan Sui-Cell tilting: A novel mechanism driving three-dimensional epithelial morphogenesis

Duy-Chi Trinh-ENS de Lyon, France; University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam & Liyuan Sui-Postdoc from Christian Dahmann’s Lab School of Science, Technische Universität Dresden.

Online.

Monday 28 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Euan Furness on "Drivers of the Shuram isotope excursion: biology, geology, and chemistry at the origin of animal life."

Euan Furness (Cambridge Zoology).

Glover Room, Memorial Court, Clare College.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Exo-mineralogy: Predicting the interior compositions of rocky exoplanets

Rob Spaargaren.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Species-level morphological changes on geological time scales: cheilostome bryozoans as a study system

Professor Lee Hsiang Liow, University of Oslo.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Fascinating World of Lightning Research

Dr Daniel Mitchard, Senior Lecturer Lightning Laboratory, Cardiff University.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental Constraint Underlying the Evolution of Morphological Diversity

Madelaine Bartlett, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

in person at Genetics, Part II teaching room and online.

Monday 21 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Non-apical mitoses contribute to cell delamination during mouse gastrulation

Isabelle Migeotte IRIBHM - Jacques E. Dumont Institut Interdisciplinaire en biologie humaine et moléculaire - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE .

online TUESDAY.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Gregory & Virginia Chaitin: "Von Neumann on biology and life as evolving software?"

Gregory & Virginia Chaitin.

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Manuel Scherf on "The evolution and prevalence of Earth-like Habitats in the Galaxy"

Manuel Scherf (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

Battcock, Room F17.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Habitability of terrestrial planets: study with 1D and 3D climate models

Guillaume Chaverot.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ensembling climate models with Gaussian processes to better characterise future extremes

Note unusual time

Kenza Tazi (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Jonah Peter: Building the Molecules of Life on Ocean Worlds

Jonah Peter (Harvard Biophysics).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 19 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Laurent Wiesenfeld: "The coming of age of Astrochemistry"

Laurent Wiesenfeld (Lab. Aimé-Cotton CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay).

Battcock, Room G05.

Thursday 05 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Zoe Todd on Prebiotic Chemistry in a Planetary Context

Zoe Todd (Chemistry & Astronomy, University of Wisconsin).

Battcock, Room F17.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Robin Wordsworth on "‘Life beyond planetary gravity wells"

Robin Wordsworth (Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 27 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Craig Walton on "Teach a man to fish"

Craig Walton (ETH Zurich).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 20 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Mohammad Farhat on the Earth and the Moon

Mohammad Farhat (Paris Observatory).

Battcock, Room F17.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Setting the stage for planet-formation

Anna Miotello (ESO).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions

Eva Deinum.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 10 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Siyi Xu on the Composition of Exoplanets

Siyi Xu (Gemini Observatory, MIT).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 06 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

First steps of planet formation in the VLT, ALMA and JWST era

Paola Pinilla (MSSL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aerosols and clouds in the UKCA across time and space

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89998723970?pwd=ekw0Q3RqaUVFU3NaT3J1djlHTytiQT09

Daniel Grosvenor, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), University of Leeds,.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 11:30-12:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Wolfram Pönisch-Deciphering the role of noise in cell shape changes during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition; Constance Le Gloanec-Protect and provide: the dual role of the cauline leaf.

Constance Le Gloanec and Wolfram Pönisch.

Online.

Monday 03 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multiscale mechanical linkage elongates tissues in development

Shinuo Weng, Johns Hopkins University.

online TUESDAY.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Exoplanet Seminars

The distortion of radio observations by the heliosphere

Nicolina Chrysaphi (Sorbonne).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Ben Tutolo on Mars Geochemistry

Ben Tutolo (Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment; University of Calgary).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88161587298?pwd=U0I2ejRHTXROQmhiNHo2OTF6NE1kZz09

Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, The George Washington University.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Exploring the atmospheric structure of water-rich sub-Neptunes

Hamish Innes (Freie Universität - Berlin).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

You are not encoded - a biological theory of form

Alan Rodrigues, Rockefeller University.

Online.

Monday 20 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Xinnian Dong, Duke University, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Nidhi Rohit Bangera on ''Production of false-positive Biosignatures on Hot Gas Giants''

Nidhi Rohit Bangera - OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

Emily Sandford (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanisms and mechanics of morphogenesis

Katja Röper, University of Cambridge.

In person at Bryan Matthews Room, PDN and online.

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Chris Oldfield: What counts as a life in the science of life?

Chris Oldfield (Cambridge Philosophy).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of methane for chemistry-climate interactions: rapid radiative adjustments and climate feedbacks

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09

Laura Stecher, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (Engl: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enid MacRobbie Women in Science Lecture

Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Seminars

A New Spin on the Origin of Biological Homochirality

Furkan Ozturk, Harvard University, Department of Physics.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Stellar activity mitigation in radial velocity measurements

Florian Lienhard (ETH Zurich).

Battcock coffee area + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Playing with Patterns via VisualPDE

Andrew Krause, Durham University.

Online.

Monday 29 April 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Jules Macome on Philosophy of Origins of Life Research

Jules Macome (Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The physical mechanism of the streaming instability, and whether it works in vortices

Nathan Magnan (DAMTP).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Statistics

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Sean Jordan on Venus and Exo-Venus

Sean Jordan (Cambridge IoA).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Coffee

N/A.

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 28 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Jiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Andrew Robinson on "Vital Signs: What has Semiotics to do with the Origins of Life?"

Andrew Robinson (Exeter Theology).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Seminars

Water-rock reactions and the search for life

Cara Magnabosco, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences .

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Relative contribution from comets and carbonaceous asteroids to the Earth's volatile budget

Sarah Joiret (U Bordeaux).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Toward understanding iodine and sulfur secondary aerosol formation in marine atmosphere

Xu-Cheng He - University of Helsinki/University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanisms underlying colour pattern variation within and between species of cichlid fishes

Emilia Santos, Department of Zoology.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 11 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling

Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Mass extinctions and community structure through the Phanerozoic

Alexander Dunhill; University of Leeds, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Reassessing the Evidence for Time Variability in the Atmosphere of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b

Maura Lally (Cornell).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Holly Lovegrove: Mitosis in Motion: Cell division during collective cell migration; Leo Otsuki: Puzzling out tissue regeneration.

Holly Lovegrove, University of Manchester and Leo Otsuki, Elly Tanaka lab, IMP, Vienna .

Online.

Monday 04 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Rhett Harrison, CIFOR.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

CANCELLED: Rafal Szabla on Quantum Chemical Perspective on the Prebiotic Origins of RNA and DNA

Rafal Szabla (Wroclaw Tech, Chemistry).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Evolutionary Genetics of Visual Preferences: Beauty, Brains and Butterfly Diversity

Richard Merrill; LMU Munich, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Protoplanetary disc: what can we learn by combining theory and observations?

Claudia Toci (ESO).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

Andy Chan - Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09

Prof Andy Chan, Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

CRISPy Chickens-screening fate transitions from caudal epiblast to neural tube-Ashley Libby; Coupling mitochondrial energy metabolism to branching morphogenesis in the developing avian lung-Bezia Lemma.

Ashley Libby, Briscoe lab,The Francis Crick Institute; and Bezia Lemma, Nelson lab, Princeton University.

Online.

Monday 26 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Kenneth Sporne Lecture: Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes

Sandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

The genetic basis of a recent transition to live-bearing in marine snails

Sean Stankowski; University of Sussex, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Uncovering Long-Period Transiting Exoplanets with TESS and CHEOPS

Amy Tuson (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Insights into the mechanism of hind limb initiation in Xenopus laevis

John Young, Department of Biology, Simmons University.

Online.

Monday 19 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

David Baum on "On Autocatalytic Chemical Ecosystems and the Origins of Evolution"

David Baum (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Botany).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

The evolution of (almost) everything

Armand Leroi; Imperial College London, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Disc evolution in young intermediate-mass stars

Daniela Iglesias Vallejo (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical transport modelling to support the UNECE Air Convention

David Simpson - EMEP MSC-W, Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Temporal patterning during development and tumorigenesis

This seminar will be host at PDN and we will be streaming it on zoom as well, for details please check our email or website.

Cedric Maurange, IBDM, Marseille,France.

In person at PDN and online.

Monday 12 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology

Alex Costa, University of Milan, Italy.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Decoding time information from sun and moon for the regulation of physiology and behavior

Kristin Tessmar-Raible; Max Perutz Labs, Austria.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Photoevaporation from Exoplanet Atmospheres: Understanding the Role of Stellar Winds and Considering Water-rich Atmospheres

Room changed

Laura Harbach (Imperial).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Echinoderm embryos to model epithelial morphogenesis: from cell biology to evo-devo

Vanessa Barone, Hopkins Marine Station, Biology Department, Stanford University.

Online.

Monday 05 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Richard Anslow on Impacts and Prebiotic Chemistry

Richard Anslow (Cambridge IoA).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Planetary debris at white dwarfs

Andrew Swan (Warwick).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

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What can we learn from simulations of the dust intensification over Greenland during the last ice-age?

Peter Hopcroft, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK..

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

*CANCELLED*: Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions

Sorry due to some unforeseen circumstances, this talk is cancelled and will be reschedulled in next term hopefully.

EE (Eva) Deinum, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 29 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

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

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation

Luke Mackinder, University of York.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Barbara Sherwood Lollar on the Hidden Biogeosphere

Barbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto Earth Sciences).

Battcock F17 + online.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Seminars

Evolving Concepts of Planetary Habitability from Earth Analogue Environments

Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Novel ecoinformatic approaches to help monitor and solve the biodiversity crisis

Joe Millard; Natural History Museum, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

From dust to planets: The ALMA and VLA view of planet formation

Francesco Zagaria (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From microscopy images to mechanical models of tissues and back

Hervé Turlier, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, College de France.

Online.

Monday 22 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Tereza Constantinou on the Link Between Geochemistry and Atmospheres

Tereza Constantinou (Cambridge IoA).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Hydrogen – the second best option – taking a whole system view

To join this seminar in-person or online, please register for details by emailing njw44@cam.ac.uk.

Jon Saltmarsh, Energy Systems Catapult.

Chemistry Dept, Todd Hamied room and Zoom.

Monday 11 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Liton Majumdar on the Link Between Planet Formation and Atmospheres

Liton Majumdar (NISER, Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sleeping giant – opening access to the untapped scientific data held in the Cambridge University Herbarium

Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Seeing the world in a new light: Polychaete worms wriggle winding evolutionary paths to vision

Michael Bok; Lund University, Sweden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Exoplanets in the Galactic Context

Dolev Bashi (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multicellular and extracellular matrix dynamics underlying skin morphogenesis.

Dr. Hironobu Fujiwara, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan.

Online.

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

Professor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Stephane Mazevet on Methanogenesis in Enceladus

Stephane Mazevet (Nice, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Iridescence as Camouflage

Karin Kjernsmo; University of Bristol, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

The future of ground-based Astronomy? (from a transit hunting perspective)

Peter Pedersen (ETH Zurich).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Evaluation of 14CO as a Tracer of OH in a Global Model

Last talk of term

Liam Blyth – Imperial College London.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

How Cell and Tissue Geometry Influences Morphogenesis

Dr. Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie .

Online.

Monday 20 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mining the medicinal plant treasures of a biodiversity hotspot using biotechnological tools

Professor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Coffee - Lloyd Demetrius on "The Origin of Cooperation"

Lloyd Demetrius (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard).

Battcock F17 + online.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Evolution of sensory-driven behaviours in blind cavefish

Sylvie Retaux; NeuroPSI, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Co-evolution of (Proto)Planets and Substructures in Disks

Haochang Jiang (ESO).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Turning biological morphology into numbers

Dr. Virginie Uhlmann, EMBL.

Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium+online.

Monday 13 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chasing the ghost behind germination and starvation: the unidentified hormone ‘KL’

Dr Thomas Irving, Cereal Symbiosis Group, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences..

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Sam Roberts on Prebiotic Chemistry

Sam Roberts (MRC-LMB).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Phenotypes, Fossils, and the Reach of Microevolution

Gabriel Bever; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Drosophila axis extension is robust to an orthogonal pull by invaginating mesoderm-Dr. Claire Lye; Decoding cell fates in the shoot apical meristem through single-nuclei transcriptomics-Dr. Sebastian Moreno.

Dr. Sebastian Moreno, Sainsbury Laboratory and Dr. Claire Lye, PDN.

Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium+online.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Exoplanet Seminars

Direct detection of cold exoplanets with JWST

Elisabeth Matthews (MPIA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Statistics

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

Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

RR-Myb related transcription factors, novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis

Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Detection of planetary signals in cases of extreme stellar activity

Oscar Barragán, University of Oxford.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Coordinated alternative splicing in development, featuring Transformer2b and ciliary tissues.-Dr. Charlotte Softley.

Dr. Holliday Lovegrove, Univ of Manchester & Dr. Charlotte Softley, University Clinic Freiburg.

Online.

Monday 30 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Seminars

LCLU Annual Talk: On Life's Origins: a View from Astrophysics

Prof Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University, USA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of the plasmodesmata cell wall

Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Dimitar Sasselov on The Central Dogma of Biological Homochirality

Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard Astronomy).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Evolution of neurons and neuropeptides in early animal lineages

Maria Sachkova; University of Bristol, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Comparison of methods to estimate aerosol effective radiative forcings in climate models

Note unusual time and location

Mark Zelinka; PCMDI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

U202 Meeting room, Department of Chemistry and Zoom.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Population level study of the influence of planetesimal fragmentation on planet formation

Nicolas Kaufmann, University of Bern.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mitotic rewiring on evolutionary timescales

Dr. Gautam Dey, EMBL.

Online.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Decoding Exoplanet Personalities Big and Small while Inspiring the Next Generation

Note unusual day

Nataliea Lowson (U. Southern Queensland).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

Dr Lee Cackett, Plant Physiology and Symbiosis Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Alejandro Paredes on Numerical modeling of radiation-induced reactions

Alejandro Paredes (UNAM, Earth Science).

Battcock, Room location TBA.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Task-dependent vision in the marine environment

Martin How; University of Bristol, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

LCLU Seminars

Absence and ambiguity in life’s emergence on the Hadean earth

: Prof Stephen Mojzsis, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary..

Ryle Seminar Room, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 16 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Dr. Natasha Shylo-Morphological changes and two Nodal paralogs drive left-right asymmetry in the squamate veiled chameleon; Dr. Nicole Edwards-Discovering the developmental basis of trachea-esophageal birth defects: evidence for endosomeopathies.

Dr. Natasha Shylo, Stowers Institute for Medical Research & Dr. Nicole Edwards, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Online.

Monday 16 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Beyond Campus: Industry Expert Seminar - Enhancing the sustainability of the food system through SEEDesignTM

Dr Mike Nuccio, Senior Director of AI at Inari, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Skyla White on Exploring the Kinetics of Prebiotic Reaction Networks

Skyla White (Cambridge Physics).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

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

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Exploring the role of lighting, pattern and habitat geometry on animal behaviour, evolution and conservation

Jolyon Troscianko; University of Exeter, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Interior dynamics of tidally locked super-Earths

Dr. Tobias Meier, University of Oxford.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ozone Secrets: Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Martian Atmosphere

Megan Brown, The Open University and University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Role of mechano-gated ion channels in epithelial tissue morphogenesis

Prof. Jorg Grosshans, Philipps University Marburg, Germany.

Online.

Monday 09 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

3D simulations of oxygenated rocky exoplanet atmospheres and observational predictions

Gregory Cooke (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 03 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Paul B Rimmer on Prebiotic Fitness Landscapes

Paul B Rimmer (Cambridge Physics).

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 28 September 2023, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Pathway to study molecular oxygen in exoplanet atmosphere with FIOS

Special out-of-term talk

Surangkhana Rukdee (MPE Garching).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 19 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Coffee

N/A.

Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

Thursday 14 September 2023, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Coffee Summeries

Summer Interns.

Battcock, Room location TBA.

Thursday 31 August 2023, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Coffee: The Puzzle of Planet Formation

Joanna Drazkowska, MPS Göttingen.

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 24 August 2023, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Coffee - How to Build a Planet

Anders Johansen (Lund).

Battcock, Room TBA.

Thursday 17 August 2023, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

How to Build a Planet - Ingredients -- with Martin Suttle

Martin Suttle (Open University).

Battcock, Room location TBA.

Thursday 10 August 2023, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

(Afternoon Tea) Sy Garte - Accurate Self Replication and Life

Sy Garte (Rutgers).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 20 July 2023, 15:00-16:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Marrick Braam - The Space of Chemical Complexity in Exoplanet Atmospheres

Marrick Braam (Edinburgh).

Battcock, Room F17.

Thursday 06 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Living Matter Group

"Does evolution have a built in Occam’s razor?"

Professor Ard Louis.

Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Connecting spaces and scales in embryos

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Jesse Veenvliet.

Online.

Monday 19 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

Canceled

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cued or cueless? Mechanisms that shape mesoderm and enable cell ingression

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Sevan Hopyan .

Online.

Monday 12 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis

Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Annelies Mortier - Extrasolar Planets and their Stars

Annelies Mortier (Birmingham).

Battcock, Room location TBA.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Living Matter Group

Tracing cell fate specification and pattern formation during branching morphogenesis

Dr. Lemonia Chatzeli & Prof. Ignacio Bordeu.

Webinar.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

Online.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Snowpack nitrate photolysis drives the summertime atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) budget in coastal Antarctica

Millie Bond, British Antarctic Survey.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81374421855?pwd=bHdnVmxxTUlyL3lzTlpiVTRmZWtIQT09.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Opening doors and boosting energy: cellular programs that enable macrophage tissue infiltration.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Daria Siekhaus, ISTA, Vienna Austria.

MRC LMB + online (hybrid).

Monday 05 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants

Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

Online.

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

Statistics

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

Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade

Dr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Philipp Spillmann - Anomalies and Life in the Universe

Philipp Spillmann - Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling marine aerosol, airborne microplastics and rocket launches

Associate Professor Laura Revell, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87388257085?pwd=Ylh5RjVpRGZuWURoaVBab2ljcEY2QT09.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Nonlinear Dynamics of Distorted Astrophysical Discs: Warps and All

Callum Fairbairn (DAMTP).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Are plant cells balloons? A biomechanical perspective on plant cell growth.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Yuchen Long .

Online.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective

Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Characterising Polluted White Dwarfs with Machine Learning to Probe Extrasolar Geochemistry

Mariona Badenas-Agusti (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

You shall not pass! How ectoderm patterning modulates lateral mesendoderm migration in the early zebrafish gastrula.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Stefania Tavano, ISTA Vienna, Austria .

Online.

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

STOMATA DIVISION ORIENTATION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN GEOMETRY, GROWTH, AND MECHANICAL STRESS

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Leo Serra The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, United Kingdom .

Online.

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Discussion with Dieter Braun: Godwin Room, Clare College

Dieter Braun (LMU, Munich).

Godwin Room, Clare College.

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

LCLU Seminars

Driving the chemistry of early Life with microscale geophysics

Dieter Braun (LMU Munich).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Towards emulated Lagrangian particle dispersion model footprints for satellite observations

Dr Elena Fillola Mayoral, University of Bristol.

Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87824253668?pwd=eHpVZ1VwemkxbTY1a1ZYdmlUZS9Pdz09.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The scattered light of debris disks

Julien Milli, IPAG.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU 101 Lectures

Planetary Astrochemistry

Paul Rimmer (Cavendish Laboratory).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

Professor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University London and Royal Botanic Garden Kews, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Understanding and modelling activity-induced distortions in the absorption lines of Sun-like stars

Baptiste Klein (Oxford).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Abhishek Upadhyay - Signatures (4 'R's) of biological life: Reproduction, Replication, Respiration & Rhythms

Abhishek Upadhyay - Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

Online.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Stellar winds and their interactions with exoplanets

Aline Vidotto (Leiden Observatory).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Patterning and folding of intestinal villi by active mesenchymal dewetting

Tyler Huycke (UCSF).

Online.

Monday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Modelling active morphogenesis of patterned epithelia

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Diana Khoromskaia (Crick Institute, London).

Online.

Monday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Introductions

Everyone!.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 13 April 2023, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Eran Tal - Measurement in Science (Afternoon Tea)

Eran Tal (McGill University).

Battcock, F17.

Thursday 06 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Christopher Shingledecker - The Fate of Sulfur in the Interstellar Medium

Christopher Shingledecker, Benedictine College.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical modelling of (exo)planetary atmospheres: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it mild but old

Last talk of term

Dr Éric Hébrard, University of Exeter.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84554294579?pwd=Und2Zkd3MHBZRG1GbHROeWNjQ2Ivdz09 .

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unraveling the molecular evolution of betalain-producing enzymes to boost their industrial application

Dr Alejandra Guerrero Rubio, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Casey Platnich - DNA and Data Storage

Casey Platnich - Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Seminars

Our Astrochemical Origins

Paola Caselli (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Hoyle Building.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Freshwater salinization: From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Dr Rick Relyea, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Connecting spaces and scales in embryos

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Jesse Veenvliet .

Online.

Monday 13 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Considering B vitamin metabolism in plants, and for food and nutritional security

Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish

Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birds on a tree: Progress and challenges of whole-genome phylogenomics

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Josefin Stiller, University of Copenhagen.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Visualization of prebiotic chemistry

Ziwei Liu (Cambridge MRC LMB).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Life and death of cells a mystery solved through biomechanics

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanics and patterning combine to orient cell divisions in a planar polarised epithelium

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unravelling the molecular mechanism of petal spot initiation in sexually deceptive South African daisy Gorteria diffusa.

Dr Udhaya Ponraj, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Furkan Ozturk - Magnetic Fields and Solving the Chirality Problem

Furkan Ozturk - Harvard.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Modern views on the diversity, functional disparity, and structure of Cambrian ecosystems

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Karma Nanglu, Harvard University.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Revealing Multiple-planet Architectures with the ExoStriker toolbox

Trifon Trifonov (MPIA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

On the specification of leaf dorsiventrality

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Agata Burian (University of Silesia in Katowice) .

Online.

Monday 27 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

CANCELLED.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU 101 Lectures

The Origins of Life in the Universe in Arts and Humanities Research

Andrew Davison (Faculty of Divinity).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish

Molly Schumer, Stanford.

online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish

Molly Schumer, Stanford.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Constraining Stability Timescales in FGK Dwarf Planetary Systems with Kepler Observations

Christopher Lam (U of Florida).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Building and Breaking the Neural Tube

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Clare Buckley (PDN, University of Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Heterogenous Chemistry and The Possibility for Life in the Clouds of Venus

Paul Rimmer, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever.

Monday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Bumblebees' floral preferences are shaped by rapid valuation of sensory nectar properties

Dr Fei Peng, Visiting Researcher, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Callum Fairbairn & Nathan Magnan - Streaming Instabilities and Planet Formation

Callum Fairbairn & Nathan Magnan, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian

Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of a sexually selected syndrome in Mediterranean wall lizards

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Dr Nathalie Feiner, Lund University.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Radial Velocity Survey for Planets around Young stars (RVSPY): A transiting warm super-Jovian planet around HD 114082

Olga Zakhozhay (MPIA Heidelberg).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cephalo-pelvic integration in hybrid mouse models and implications for human obstructed labour

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Eva Zaffarini (McCaig Institute, University of Calgary).

Online.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Junctional Remodelling in Vascular Morphogenesis

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Maria Paraskevi Kotini (Biozentrum, Basel Switzerland).

Online.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

LCLU Afternoon Tea with Corinna Kufner

Corinna Kufner (Harvard).

Battcock, F17.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular insights into abiotic and biotic factors shaping diatom ecophysiology and signalling

Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Is it the weather or the neighbours? The role of the physical and biotic environment in determining biodiversity distributions.

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Regan Early, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Peering into the interiors of Earth-like planets

Tom Wilson (St Andrews).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Online only.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Jonathan Jiang on Climate and Exoplanets

Jonathan Jiang, NASA JPL.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Seeing through the noise: how fish use visual information to navigate in challenging conditions

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Cait Newport, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

White Dwarf Planetary Systems: a window onto exoplanetary composition

Andrew Buchan (IoA), Laura Rogers (IoA), Chris Manser (Imperial).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechano-chemical feedbacks in plant regeneration

Kalika Prasad (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India).

Online.

Monday 30 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol

Prof. Susan Solomon (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88479554336.

Monday 30 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:15-13:45

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Kyogo Kawaguchi .

Online.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Heads and shoulders: progress on the origin of the modern vertebrate body plan

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Dr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London.

Main Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Evolution of Morphogenesis: the case of cephalic furrow

Pavel Tomancak (MPI CBG, Dresden, Germany & CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic).

Online.

Monday 23 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Cyrille Jeancolas - Philosophy of Origins and Astrobiology

Cyrille Jeancolas, University of Durham.

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Jens Krause, IGB Berlin.

Main Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Planet formation in circumbinary systems

Gavin Coleman (QMUL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Battcock F17 - Life, the Universe, and Science Fiction: Utopia and the Technological Imagination

Caroline Bassett (Cambridge).

Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Invisible Ship Tracks: What can we learn about the aerosol effect on clouds and climate from previously unseen ship-polluted clouds?

Peter Manshausen (University of Oxford).

Unilever Lecture Hall (and zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86500676542?pwd=NTFuNnpJQ1orMzZtem10cFNySjJiZz09 )).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and its modelled effect on the oceans

Prof. Manoj Joshi.

Unilever Lecture Hall (and zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84313398848?pwd=b1RaNGV5cm1jQ1hIOXBLd1hQRzdGQT09 ).

Monday 05 December 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Olfactory cues in a changing world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Jorg Hardege, University of Hull.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Debris Discs as Probes of Planetary Systems

Tim Pearce (Jena).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Dynamics and mechanics of cell shape changes during cellular state changes

Ewa Paluch, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. .

Online.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Battcock F17 - Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology

Béla Frohn (Max Planck).

Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

LCLU Seminars

Building planets: what sets their composition?

Ewine F. van Dishoeck (Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The hidden depths of avian genomes

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Alex Suh, UEA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Origins of Hot and Warm Jupiters from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution

Malena Rice (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals

Lucie Riglet, Sainsbury's Laboratory, Cambridge University.

Online.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Branching morphogenesis of the lung: tales of the sculptor and the sculpture

Katharine Goodwin (Princeton, MRC LMB) .

Online.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Assessment of Major Air Pollutants in the Tropical Urban Environment of Kuala Lumpur

Prof. Mohd Talib Latif (University Kebangsaan Malaysia).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88446733633?pwd=UVZDWjZJaVg1UHZwS2tlRFpyTm5IZz09.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

A deep radius valley revealed by Kepler short cadence observations

Cynthia Ho (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Single-cell phenomics reveals behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpinning migratory activity during mouse anterior patterning

Shankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford .

Online.

Monday 14 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Godwin: Sulfur Redux

Paul Rimmer (Cambridge).

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution and assembly of a complex weapon system

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Christine W Miller, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The multi-wavelength effects of stellar activity and the need for a public forecast

Lalitha Sairam (Birmingham).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Computational Models of the Development of the Central Nervous System

Dagmar Iber, ETH Zurich (Computational Biology) .

Online.

Monday 07 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The second generation of meta-learning methods

Massimiliano (Max) Patacchiola, University of Cambridge.

Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris

Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial Communities in an Ever-Changing World

Hybrid talk - email for a zoom link

Alex Dumbrell, University of Essex.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm landscapes

Clara Zemp.

Zoom only - contact organiser for link.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Cosmic dust as a planetary fertiliser: collisional evolution of the prebiotic Earth

Craig Walton (Cambridge, Earth Sciences).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Submerged by 4-way junctions: how the early embryo of the brown alga Saccharina e-copes

Bénédicte Charrier .

Online.

Monday 31 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

Liza Levina (Michigan).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century

Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Godwin

Andrew Buchan (IoA).

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

Online.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Exoplaneteer Introduction

All of us!.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell extrusion—an exciting start to the end of life

Jody Rosenblatt, King's College London.

Online.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

Min Xu (Rutgers University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

Dr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The dynamics of predators in a novel world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Robert Fletcher, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Retrieval of initial planetary disk properties and the Radius Valley of Steam, Photoevaporation and Migration

Remo Burn (MPIA, Heidelberg).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multi-organ FGF crosstalk orchestrates the construction of the water conserving cryptonephridial complex in a beetle

Robin Beaven, University of Edinburgh.

Online.

Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

How tissues orchestrate growth and morphogenesis – lessons from the vertebrate retina 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Mauricio Rocha Martins (Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal) .

Online.

Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

Sam Power (University of Bristol).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

LCLU 101 Lectures

Building Rocky Worlds

Amy Bonsor (IoA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

R. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford .

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Cavendish: Are we alone in the universe? (Probably)

Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge).

Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Environment-neuroendocrine interactions regulating larval settlement in the marine worm Platynereis

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Elizabeth Williams, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Modelling the Emission from Winds from Photoevaporating Protoplanetary Discs

Andrew Sellek (Cambridge).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of multicellularity in real time: what we've learned from 5,000 generations of laboratory evolution

Online talk - email organisers for a zoom link

William Ratcliff, Georgia Tech.

Venue to be confirmed.

Saturday 08 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

White dwarfs as probes of convective overshoot and evolved exoplanetary systems

Tim Cunningham, University of Warwick.

HOYLE LECTURE THEATRE + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 04 October 2022, 13:15-14:15

LCLU 101 Lectures

Adaptive Phototaxis and Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity

Raymond Goldstein (DAMTP).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 13:30-14:30

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Godwin: Natural Selection and Purpose

Seth Hart (University of Durham).

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Cavendish: HCN -- Why do we care, and how can we make it?

Paul B Rimmer.

Meeting Room (G05), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Thursday 15 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Godwin Room - Synthetic Biology

Camillo Moschner (Cambridge).

Godwin Room, Clare College.

Thursday 01 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Battcock F17 - Quantum Chemistry

Alex Thom (Cambridge).

Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Thursday 04 August 2022, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Using Cheops to push beyond TESS’s orbital period barrier

Hugh Osborn (MIT / Bern).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Friday 22 July 2022, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee in Battcock F17 - Lightning Shocks and Prebiotic Chemistry

Patrick Barth (St Andrews).

Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Thursday 21 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone and stratosphere-troposphere exchange in the Last Glacial Maximum

Qiang Fu (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington and Leverhulme Visiting Professor in DAMPT, Cambridge University).

Todd-Hamied room, Chemistry Department (and on zoom).

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

(CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Understanding the stars in our search for another Earth

Annelies Mortier (Cambridge).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

4D reconstruction of developmental trajectories

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Giovanni Dalmasso (EMBL Barcelona, Sharpe Lab) .

Online.

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Exploring variation in neural crest development among East African cichlid fishes

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Aleksandra Marconi (Zoology Department, Santos lab) .

Online.

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A new approach to Coupled Data Assimilation and Earth System Reanalysis – climate science for the decades ahead":

Prof. Detlef Stammer, University of Hamburg.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89859792053?pwd=M1dIZFd5NlNwRVdBV2RKZWJpV1pGUT09 .

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The LIFE mission - atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infrared with a large space-based nulling interferometer

Sascha Quanz (ETH Zurich).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

CANCELLED!!!!!! Cell invasion: a casualty of dysregulated cell extrusion

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Jody Rosenblatt, Randall’s Division for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London..

Online.

Monday 06 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions

Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 03 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Gaussian Processes and Physical stellar properties

Belinda Nicholson (Oxford).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Atmospheric-interior connection of super-earths and sub-neptunes

Hilke Schlichting (UCLA).

Institute of Astronomy .

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Organoids – how can they shed light on immune-mediated development and disease?

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Geraldine Jowett (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Differentiation of the extra-embryonic endoderm is required for development of the pluripotent epiblast

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Antonia Weberling (PDN, Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions

Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

Dr Dorit Hockman.

Zoom.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

How to accurately measure spin-orbit angles in planetary systems

Matthew Hooton (Cambridge).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Drivers of cnidarian morphogenesis

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Aissam Ikmi (EMBL, Heidelberg).

Online.

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

LCLU 101 Lectures

Life as a planetary phenomenon: the evolution of ecological complexity over planetary lifetimes

Emily Mitchell (Department of Zoology).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:30-14:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States

Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Protocells - between chemistry and biology

Filip Boskovic (Cavendish Laboratory).

Wolfson Seminar South, Trinity College .

Thursday 19 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Edwige Moyroud.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat

Eric Ober.

Online.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State

Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Exoplanet Seminars

Sublimating ices feeding forming planets

Alice Booth - Leiden.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multicellular coordination in context

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands .

Online.

Monday 16 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of chemistry and oxidants on the forcing from vegetation emissions and the next steps for understanding the atmospheric composition changes and forcing from widespread tree planting

Dr James Weber (The University of Sheffield).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88391274319?pwd=ZzhVaGtkYUtBTWdsQUR4dm5IWnprZz09.

Monday 16 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions

Yihong Wu (Yale University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops

Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Gaspar Jékely.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

Online.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Exoplanet Seminars

What makes our solar system “tick”: A presentation of various forms of planetary activity in our solar system

Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry (Abu Dhabi).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell-type-specific behaviour underlies cellular growth variability in plants

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Daniel Kierzkowski Montreal University .

Online.

Monday 09 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required

Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Monday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent

Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

Professor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas.

Online.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Arts and humanities and life in the universe

Dr Andrew Davison (Faculty of Divinity).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Jordi Solana.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

LCLU Seminars

Water and the Origins of Life

Matthew Powner (University College London).

Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Paola Oliveri.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification

Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice

Raffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Exoplanet Seminars

From gas turbulence to planets: the formation of rocky planets at the dead-zone inner edge.

Mario Flock - MPIA.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Matteo Rauzi (IBV, Nice).

Online.

Monday 25 April 2022, 14:30-15:30

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Do anthropic arguments really work?

Speaker to be confirmed.

Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Galactic cosmic ray environment for young stars and planets

Donna Rodgers-Lee (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies).

Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College.

Thursday 07 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity

Clement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement

Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money

Phil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB .

Online.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies

Dr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC.

Online.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

DNA methylation changes at major animal evolutionary transition

Alexandre de Mendoza Soler.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 22 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

LCLU 101 Lectures

Silicate weathering: the universal planetary thermostat

Edward Tipper (Department of Earth Sciences).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 13:30-14:30

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Coffee

Speaker to be confirmed.

Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

Dr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna

Pete Heintzman (The Arctic University of Norway).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Titanium chemistry in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b

Jens Hoeijmakers (Lund).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

Online.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world

David Sims (Marine Biological Association).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Retrieving the atmospheric properties of cloudy directly imaged planets

Paul Molliere, MPIA.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Getting into shape: new insights into morphological patterning from the Drosophila wing

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Natalie Dye (POL Dresden) .

Online.

Monday 07 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Who Cares About Hornworts?

Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

LCLU Coffee Meetings

Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistry (part 2)

Craig Walton (Department of Earth Sciences).

Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution, ecology, and genetics of live-bearing and egg-laying reproduction

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Discs: A Vanishing Act

Sahl Rowther, Warwick.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

The fossil origins of eukaryotic morphogenesis: exploring the beginnings of complex multicellularity in the Holozoa

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Paul K. Strother (Boston College) .

Online.

Monday 28 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mechano-eco-evo of the Common Dandelion: What the Notorious Weed Tells Us About Plant Dispersal Strategies

Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London.

Online.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Differentiation, Communication, and Collective Behavior in Ant Societies

Daniel Kronauer (The Rockefeller University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 13:00-14:00