Cambridge Language Sciences

Zangwill Club

Choice under Computational Complexity

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

“The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action”

(Please note later start time)

Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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

Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention

The hosts for this talk are Tristan Bekinschtein and Andrés Canales-Johnson

Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages

Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk

Mona Diab, Meta AI.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Quantity implicature and perspective-taking: insights from a novel task

Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Room 2 - Faculty of Divinity.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations

Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough

Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex

Henry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling

Piotr Nawrot, University of Edinburgh.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Structure-based Drug Design and Molecular Optimisation with Diffusion Models

Charlie Harris, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Zangwill Club

The Neuroscience of Reading: Tracing words from the page through the brain

Dr Geoffrey M. Boynton (University of Washington).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

Jonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 24 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand

Ken Valyear (Bangor University).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs

Fangyu LIU (University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Networks for High-Dimensional Tabular Biomedical Datasets

Andrei Margeloiu (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

Pinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication

Organized by Donato Crisostomi and Pietro Barbiero

Luca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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

Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Composite Feature Selection using Deep Ensembles

Alex Norcliffe - University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causality

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 February 2023, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice

Helen Barron (U. of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages

Sebastian Ruder, Google.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

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

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED OWING TO THE RAIL STRIKE

Dr David Dupret (Oxford University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

Shiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, Room FW09.

Friday 03 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines

Kelsey Allen (Deep Mind).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views

Pinelopi (Nelly) Papalampidi, DeepMind.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

When Vision Transformers Meet Cooperative Perception

Runsheng Xu, UCLA (USA).

Online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle

Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

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

Zangwill Club

Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

Peter John (King's College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 27 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting Passive by Extending Classes: A Novel Verb-Learning Study with Adults and Children

Dr Emma Nguyen (Newcastle University).

Lecture Room 3 - Faculty of Divinity.

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

Chaucer Club

Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being

Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems

Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-off

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet?

Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring and Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-Playing 

Paul Röttger (Oxford University).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 20 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex

Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

Kris Cao (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 02 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss

Tamar Makin (MRC CBU).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Distance Function based Cascaded Neural Network for accurate Polyps Segmentation and Classification

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning

Mikel Artetxe, Meta.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Kai Yi, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Steve Azzolin.

Online (Zoom).

Friday 25 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

The measurement of difficult things: From psychophysics to psycho-oncology

Professor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Brain charts for the human lifespan.

Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

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

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Han Xuanyuan, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

FW11 + zoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Computer Lab, TBD.

Friday 25 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Harrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge.

lecture theatre 2 dept of computer science and zoom.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity

Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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

Andy Lin, MLG.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers

Yoli Shavit, Huawei TRC and Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Zoom.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Disruption of Information in Working Memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research).

Via Zoom - See website for details: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding

Aishwarya Kamath, New York University.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

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

Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs

Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2 and Zoom.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement

Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

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

Zangwill Club

Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing

Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sentiment analysis: methods and applications

Dr Antonio Moreno Ortiz (Universidad de Málaga).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition

Steve Fleming (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models

Ignacio Iacobacci, Huawei .

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Neural Networks for Geometric Graphs

Chaitanya K. Joshi, Simon V. Mathis.

Lecture Theatre 2 and Zoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

Tom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Computer Lab, FW11.

Monday 07 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation

Professor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Chaucer Club

Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits

Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

Antoine Miech, DeepMind.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AI for Science: An Oral Report from a Recent Dagstuhl Workshop

Neil Lawrence.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Zangwill Club

Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder

Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

Liza Levina (Michigan).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

Join the talk online here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87391346417?pwd=NnVUa0gydlFDNEFycmg2bUpFOGhTdz09

Prof Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

ACMP: Allen-Cahn Message Passing with Attractive and Repulsive Forces for Graph Neural Networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

Yu Guang Wang.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes

The host for this talk is Simon Baron-Cohen (sb205@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

Min Xu (Rutgers University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text

Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

FW09.

Friday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics

Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocomputational basis of anxiety

Oliver Robinson (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Query-based Hard-Image Retrieval for Object Detection at Test Time

Ed Ayers, Five AI.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Plastic brains for flexible decisions

Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Complement clause section as a (non-)local relation

Join the talk online here: https://meet.google.com/ygt-zovb-wnp

Dr Anna Roussou (University of Patras).

English Faculty, GR06/07.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning

Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Quantifying Linguistic Variation

Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Multi-Head State Space Model for Sequence Modeling

Yassir Fathullah, Speech Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Hybrid: LT6, First floor Baker building, Engineering Dept or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

What kind of network is the brain?

John Mollon (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 07 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Tidying up working memory

Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience.

Danielle Belgrave, DeepMind.

Zoom.

Tuesday 04 October 2022, 13:15-14:15

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP

Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt.

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Backward Compatible Embeddings

hybrid event (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92564083880?pwd=Wk5DVWpUc2lIN0krMFU5azEwUGpEUT09)

Weihua Hu, Stanford University and Google.

Lecture Theatre 2 (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92564083880?pwd=Wk5DVWpUc2lIN0krMFU5azEwUGpEUT09).

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

What are the unsolved problems in Conversation Design?

Hybrid meeting. If you'd like to talk with Cathy after the talk over sandwiches please contact Kate Knill kmk1001@cam.ac.uk.

Cathy Pearl, Google.

Hybrid: JDB Seminar Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Monday 18 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction

Martin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology ).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 12 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Problem of Size Generalization in Graph Neural Networks

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jNbgtBl_k

Davide Buffelli , Universita' di Padova.

Lecture theatre and zoom (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96155557207?pwd=VXlyUVZidVRxWFRaWS9tak1SUjV3Zz09 ID: 961 5555 7207 Passcode: 913748).

Monday 04 July 2022, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies

Karen Campbell (Brock University).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Chaucer Club

Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains

Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neighbourhood matching creates realistic surrogate temporal networks

Antonio Longa, FBK.

Lecture theatre and zoom (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97150757190?pwd=Q2Nib09aVi9CRFptSFY3NlZGUnhUdz09).

Monday 20 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 17 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information

Yftah Ziser, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84968458381?pwd=TWM5ZkF2bjdBM09jaVlJZHRUTFlFUT09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Sequence Models for Mathematical Reasoning

RESCHEDULED, NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME

Yuhuai(Tony) Wu, Stanford University & Google.

Zoom.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

Zeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Monday 13 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation

Junjie Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control

Sven Bestmann (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Confidence estimation for attention-based encoder-decoder models for speech recognition

This talk will be both online (zoom) and offline (CBL Meeting Room)

Qiujia Li (University of Cambridge).

Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Monday 06 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation

Yixuan Su, University of Cambridge.

Board Room, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

Yanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Deciphering speech: a top-down approach to zero-resource speech recognition

This talk will be both online (zoom) and offline (JDB Seminar Room)

Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh).

Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multi-fidelity machine learning models for improved high-throughput screening predictions

David Buterez.

Zoom.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 13:15-14:15

Chaucer Club

Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings

Joel Voss (University of Chicago) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds

Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London).

Zoom.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-17:50

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The grammar of self-talk. What different modes of talking reveal about the language faculty.

Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

English Faculty, GR04.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the Equation

Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can we automatically anonymize text documents?

Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Lifted Relational Neural Networks

Gustav Šir, Czech Technical University in Prague.

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

Lili Mou (University of Alberta).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Participative multilingual identity education: Theory, evidence and impact of the ‘We Are Multilingual’ Campaign

MEITS WAM Project Team, University of Cambridge, Linda Fisher, Michael Evans, Karen Forbes, Angela Gayton (Glasgow), Yongcan Liu, Dee Rutgers (Sheffield Hallam).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqd-mtqT0rE9Bsoi8plgq-jMoq1ExWFPv4.

Monday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles

Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks

Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84829493214?pwd=HI3JJJ8nrt6O8AELEzbXvT8ZoBj51t.1.

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

David Burt, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition

Professor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

Alon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 06 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning

Roger Levy, MIT.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS)

Cathy Price (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bests of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development

Professor Pasco Fearon.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

On the Two-fold Role of Logic Constraints in Deep Learning

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99805544705?pwd=cXR6MTlaeXd6VmEreVdQSmFRblBtUT09

Dr Gabriele Ciravegna, Inria – Université Côte d'Azur.

Zoom + presence (lecture theatre 2) .

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarization

Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 29 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time

Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

University of Cambridge.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87988930234?pwd=eHRGTHFtUE9UL0pJOWNtdDF2VDN2UT09.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec

This talk will be on zoom

Neil Zeghidour (Google).

Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Monday 04 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

Emiel Hoogeboom.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Thinking the right thoughts

Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 25 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvduuuqTkpHN2xDSsRYUvE0ePfHgq0xzc7. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

Christopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

Online.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of AI Alignment

Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19

Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

Nicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory

Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU

Milan Gritta, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab.

GR06/07, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine learning as an assay for high-dimensional biology

Sara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA.

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

SpeechBrain: Unifying Speech Technologies and Deep Learning With an Open Source Toolkit

This talk will be on zoom

Titouan Parcollet (Avignon University).

Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Monday 14 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Psychology talks and events

Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition

Professor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL).

virtually served - Zoom.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate

Nate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 March 2022, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-murjwjEt3yZ3AXJkcFOOK85zwVBmB3. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

Online.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages

Emanuele Bugliarello, University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Work in progress: Making efficient use of language models for theorem proving

Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird.

Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

Caroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Exploring Multicultural London English across Offline and Online space

Dr Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh).

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training

Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Covid and Cognition

Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators

Shashi Narayan (Google Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceCqqj8rHNCNkScsQHH_2tNV69WzD3ga

Dr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

Online.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors

Lucina Uddin (UCLA) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification

Prof. Yulan He, University of Warwick.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED till next week!!!! Work in progress: Making efficient use of language models for theorem proving

Postponed till next week

Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Seeking Education for All through Multilingual Mother Tongue Education (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2021-2022)

Professor Wayne Wright, Purdue University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqf-6trz0uG9DxjoGEqB7OzPbk_Mg7KK2K.

Monday 21 February 2022, 15:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields

John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases

Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice

Prof. Anne Charity Hudley (Stanford University).

Online.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages

Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcu2rrTMvE9FQR6ffKaOVTIUt5w4zGx8V. You will receive a link immediately after signing up.

Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language), and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University).

Online.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Sheaf Diffusion: A Topological Perspective on Heterophily and Oversmoothing in GNNs

Cris Bodnar.

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

Statistics

Robust inference for intractable likelihood models using kernel divergences

Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data

Zachary Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity

Carolyn McGettigan (UCL) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Adaptive Gaussian Processes on Graphs via Spectral Graph Wavelets

Felix Opolka.

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior

Professor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexicon

Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The development of Old English conjunct clauses: How syntactic changes interact

Dr Richard Zimmermann (University of Manchester).

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models

Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search

Nils Reimers, HuggingFace.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention

Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Brain charts for the human lifespan

Richard Bethlehem, Autism Research Centre & Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments

Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 28 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP

Prof. He He (New York Univeristy).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

Alex Davies and Petar Velickovic (DeepMind).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research

Irene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 21 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients via complementary sketching

Tengyao Wang (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 January 2022, 13:30-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP

Nedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 21 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of working memory

Timothy Buschman (Princeton University) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Safety

Neel Alex.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online-only.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience

Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 09 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations

Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 03 December 2021, 14:45-16:15

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Lotty Brand (University of Sheffield) .

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

New models of human hearing via machine learning

Josh McDermott (MIT).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Zero-shot learning and out-of-distribution generalization: two sides of the same coin

Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

An Introduction to Federated Learning and its Applications in Medicine

Blaise Thomson, Bitfount.

Zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Unsupervised Speech Disentanglement for Speech Style Transfer

This talk will be on zoom

Kaizhi Qian (IBM).

Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Monday 29 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

What does magic tell us about free will?

Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

Statistics

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

Heather Battey (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints

Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Dynamics of multilingualism in language revitalisation and activism: Applied linguistic insights from Oaxaca, Mexico

Dr. Haley de Korne (University of Oslo).

Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness

Mohamed Abdalla, University of Toronto.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation

Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning on Graphs with Missing Node Features

Emanuele Rossi, Twitter & Imperial College.

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Time perception as accumulation of salient events

Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Statistics

Variable elimination and graph reduction: towards an efficient g-formula for causal DAGs

Richard Guo (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points

Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations

To register for this talk, please use this link: https://forms.gle/E5rAVyaoMM4BbxKJ6

Dr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

Online.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web

Suraj Nair, Stanford University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories

Lila Davachi (Columbia University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Jèrriais: The Norman Language of Jersey

Please register for this webinar at: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

L'Office du Jèrriais.

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Cellular: CW Networks

Cristian Bodnar (University of Cambridge) and Fabrizio Frasca (Imperial College, Twitter).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies

Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

Statistics

Random Graph Asymptotics for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference

Shuangning Li (Stanford University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines

Roger Levy (MIT).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vulnerable Left Periphery: Why there is no other alternative to change

Prof. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam).

Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Document Summarisation: Modelling, Datasets and Verification of Content

Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ideophone patterns across Kiranti languages (Eastern Nepal),

Please register for this talk at https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

Dr Aimée Lahaussois (Université Paris 7).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Gaussian Processes on Graphs via Spectral Kernel Learning

Yin-Cong Zhi, Oxford Man Institute.

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Motivational persistence in multiple language learning: Identities, vision, and goal self-concordance (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2021-2022)

Professor Alastair Henry, University West.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuCrrjItHdEYjDLBdE4XNnQ1UOUj4-HS.

Monday 08 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Cross-corpora experiments of automatic proficiency assessment and error detection for spoken English

This talk will be on zoom

Stefano Bannò (University of Trento).

Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Monday 08 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour

Dominik Bach (University College London).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Statistics

New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes

Lan Wang (University of Miami).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing

Yevgeni Berzak (Technion).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope

To register for this link, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/5GCRb7HT8RUjJbvQA

Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

Yixin Wang.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

MARS via LASSO

Aditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Morphophonological issues in the development of Huave language revitalisation materials

Dr. Yuni Kim (University of Essex).

Online - Registration link https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdOysqTwjGdUcXMCelqJOBr_D4sZdUzFM.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Measuring Factuality in Text Generation: When Language Models Are Twisting the Facts

Roee Aharoni, Google Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

Prof. Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

English Faculty, GR05.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Machines that can read lips

This talk will be on zoom

Pingchuan Ma (Imperial College London).

Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Monday 25 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking

Richard Holton (University of Cambridge).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems

Marjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 22 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

Dr. Péter Rácz (Central European University, Budapest University of Technology, University of Canterbury)..

Online.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers

Tal Linzen, New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of working memory

Tim Buschman (Princeton University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Planning Meeting + PI Presentations

CBL and Computer Lab PIs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect

David Bannerman (University of Oxford).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

Statistics

TBC

Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

Zoom.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning

Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners

Ryo Nagata (Konan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 15 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unlikelihood-training and Back-training for robust natural language understanding

Siva Reddy, McGill University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

3D Pre-training improves GNNs for Molecular Property Prediction

Hannes Stark, TU Munich.

Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Generative Speech Separation based on Pitch Information

This talk will be on zoom

Dr Xiang Li, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87426783837?pwd=akx4ZWZMYVZML2ZoOWRlYzdRaTd6dz09.

Monday 11 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Global testing for dependent Bernoullis

Sumit Mukherjee (Columbia University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The function of spontaneous brain activity

Maurizio Corbetta (University of Padua).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models

Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt.

https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09.

Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina Savin

Cristina Savin, New York University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85184505624?pwd=WnhWZWR1SjhxUXFDOWtPT2c2cG90Zz09.

Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Prosody transfer evaluation and temporal prosody control in speech synthesis

This seminar will take place on zoom

Papercup.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 06 July 2021, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal Pfister

Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84626937837?pwd=RC95RTdybkRlNHhOcThjclQzYUxkdz09.

Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Low-resource expressive text-to-speech using data augmentation

Dr Thomas Merritt, Amazon.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Automatic Speech Recognition in a State-of-Flux

Ralf Schlüter, RWTH Aachen.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process

Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Translating the Deaf Self: Translanguaging, interpreting & identities of deaf signers at work

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/PnyrnLjX4NAKnRMBA

Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research?

Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unlocking Deep Learning for Graphs

Dominique Beaini, Valence Discovery, MILA, Canada.

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 13:15-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez

Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89542469691?pwd=bVJjdXJGd3BkaDk1SHk3a1dLZzlZUT09.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-19:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP

Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression

Jonathan Roiser (UCL).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Structure-aware generation of molecules in protein pockets

Pavol Drotar.

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Time-domain multi-channel speech separation and extraction

This talk will be on zoom.

Jisi Zhang, University of Sheffield.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections

Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class.

David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84495932262?pwd=MlFJL3Z3c1JmenFOY2xJQTNPSzdsQT09.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True

Note unusual time

Philip Resnik (University of Maryland).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us?

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/Pv8gjUQsuMiyWnUMA

Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense Madrid).

Online.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Statistical Finite Element Method

Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience

Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:15-18:00

Statistics

Distribution-free inference for regression: discrete, continuous, and in between

Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

How do stylistic features “work” in news texts about a violent event that took place abroad? A cross-cultural case study.

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/UqMEAFyne44WyZCP6

Ashley Riggs (Université de Genève).

Online.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Carving the world into useful task representations

Yael Niv (Princeton University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing

Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Long Sequence-to-Sequence Summarization: Efficient Transformer Models & Complementary Techniques

This talk will be on zoom.

Potsawee Manakul, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership

Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests

Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP

Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention

Mariam Aly (Columbia University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk)

Various.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:30-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Graphs, Groups, Geodesics, and Gauges

Petar Veličković.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Audio-Visual Learning: Challenges and New Approaches

This talk will be on zoom

Dr Jie Pu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge

Marie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers

Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84960287802?pwd=N1pTZGpKMjhhMTVVV1RNSS9Gc3Jqdz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Correlated randomly growing graphs

Miklos Racz, Princeton University.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks

Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 14 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/XdoC5YnNfbS5USeb7

Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages

Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticity

Silvia Bunge (UC Berkeley).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Topological: Message Passing Simplicial Networks

Fabrizio Frasca, Yu Guang and Cris Bodnar.

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Automatic Assessment Systems for the Spoken CALL Shared Tasks

This talk will be held on zoom

Mengjie Qian, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors

Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D, University of Miami.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 07 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology

Ryan McDonald (ASAPP).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 07 May 2021, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

The geometry of neural representations in artificial and biological neural networks

Stefano Fusi (Columbia University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models

Amir Feder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Towards Robust and Reliable Model Explanations

Hima Lakkaraju, Harvard University .

Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:15-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep Learning

Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Recent progress on the KLS conjecture and Eldan’s stochastic localization scheme

Yuansi Chen, Duke University.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes

Maria Liakata (University of Warwick).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 30 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/k4VN9jrfoq9z2FC9A

Adnana Boioc Apintei, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest).

Online.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Physiology and pathology of the higher brain function: insights from intracranial EEG recordings

Riki Matsumoto (Kobe University) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain

Eyal Ben-David, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Predicting outcome for psychotic disorders, using brain connectivity and transcribed speech data

Sarah Morgan.

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 13:15-14:15

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Transcending Dependencies

Martha Palmer, University of Colorado.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 22 April 2021, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

Andrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes

Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81961210430?pwd=cUZGbzU4NzJickd5THlsYzJ4cmlndz09.

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Gordon Wilson.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 16 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof

Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks

Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Ryan McDonald (Google).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

On the phonetics and phonology of English H* and L+H* pitch accents

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/MCZQPEjAVVryicLY6

Amalia Arvaniti (Radboud University).

Online.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The role of content-free pointers in online visual memory

Ed Awh (University of Chicago).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning language by observing the world and learning about the world from language

Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Processes I have Known

Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning

Qingbiao Li.

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Combination of Deep Speaker Embeddings for Diarisation and Discriminative Neural Clustering for Speaker Diarisation

Seminar on zoom

Brian Sun, Quija Li, Florian Kreyssig, Cambridge University Speech Research Group.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Rethinking food reward

Dr Dana Small Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 12 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

🎈🎈🎈🥳 NLP Social Hour 🥳🎈🎈🎈

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Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/ofRcLr4aBxyZh7yP6

Dr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:45-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval

Unusual date and time

Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Note unusual time

Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortex

Dora Hermes (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Achieving Universality in Machine Translation: M4 - Massively Multilingual, Massive MT Models for the Next 1000 Languages

Orhan Firat, Google Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Representation Learning

Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Computational foundations of morphogenomics

Bianca Dumitrascu.

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Natural Language Interpretation in Dialogue Systems

Seminar on zoom

Dr Svetlana Stoyanchev, Speech Technology Group, Toshiba CRL.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Future of Louisiana Creole

Various.

Zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Functional Models for Time Varying Random Objects

Paromita Dubey, Stanford University.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

RESCHEDULED TBD

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Rethinking Benchmarking in AI

Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Multiethnolects as contact languages: the case for the Jamaican influence in London

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/1RUHXqvAEkBvTAps5

Paul Kerswill (University of York).

Online.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depression

Michelle Craske (UCLA).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Landscape and Gaps in Open Source Fairness Toolkits

Michelle Lee.

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Interpretable representation learning for speech and audio signals

Seminar on zoom

Dr Purvi Agrawal, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Microsoft India.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Language Teacher Wellbeing: Dispelling Myths, Complexifying Constructs, and Setting an Agenda (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2020-2021)

Professor Sara Mercer, University of Graz.

No list.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity

Emily BJ Coffey, PhD .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Seminar Cancelled

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

Robert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 26 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bcgdZgxu4PbNjAqn6

Dr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

Online.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Imaginative reinforcement learning

Sam Gershman (Harvard University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models

Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Inference in Stochastic Processes

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine Learning and String theory

Challenger Mishra.

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Semi-supervised Learning for Low-resource Multilingual and Multimodal Speech Processing with Machine Speech Chain

Seminar on zoom

Prof Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences?

Dr. ValdasNoreika, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary University of London.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 19 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Optimal rates for independence testing via U-statistic permutation tests

Tom Berrett, University of Warwick.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Mariam Redi (Wikimedia).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia

Miriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Efficient sentence encoders for Conversational AI in the industry

Inigo Casanueva, PolyAI.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fairness in AI

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural ODE Processes

Cris Bodnar, Alex Norcliffe, Ben Day, Jacob Moss .

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Should Ensemble Members Be Calibrated?

Seminar on zoom

Dr Xixin Wu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Being an I: Cognitive and Neurobiological processes of “Self” models

Dr. Roy Salomon.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 12 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic

Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

A data-driven approach to advancing cognitive neuroscience

Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Adapters in Transformers. A New Paradigm for Transfer Learning…?

Jonas Pfeiffer, Technical University of Darmstadt.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Bayes as Surrogate Regression

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Tackling Multispeaker Conversation Processing based on Speaker Diarization and Multispeaker Speech Recognition

Seminar on zoom

Prof Shinji Watanabe, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets

Stephen Bates, University of California Berkeley.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit

Note unusual time

Amrith Krishna (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language change in bilingual returnee children: mutual effects of bilingual experience and cognition

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/gNiWovYWud8dTQds9

Maki Kubota (UiT The Arctic University of Norway).

Online.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The human language system in the mind and brain

Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

From Translation Divergences to Structure-aware Neural Machine Translation

Omri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning under model misspecification

Andrés R. Masegosa, Universidad de Almería (Spain).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities

Dr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge.

On-line.

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism

Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 29 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction

Zhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 29 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/hhmex2pjepqHeZpr6

Professor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Online.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Pushing the boundaries of episodic memory: Representation and segmentation of naturalistic events by cortico-hippocampal networks

Charan Ranganath (University of California, Davis).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards explainable fact checking

Prof. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Latent Action Space for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Wenxuan Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Selection of Talks from Interspeech 2020

Seminar on zoom

Yiting 'Edie' Lu, Vyas Raina, Qingyun Dou, Cambridge University Speech Research Group.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Social Minds in Joint Action

Professor Natalie Sebanz.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 22 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

A precise high-dimensional asymptotic theory for Adaboost

Pragya Sur (Harvard University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 22 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification

Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 22 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Early adversity, brain development, and risk/resilience for mental health across development

Deanna Barch (Washington University, St. Louis).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation

Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser, CIS, LMU Munich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits

Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Debugging Machine Learning Code

Svet Penkov, Efemarai.

Zoom.

Tuesday 19 January 2021, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Translanguaging: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Claims (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy (2020-2021)

Professor Jim Cummins, University of Toronto.

On-line.

Monday 18 January 2021, 15:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

- Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness

Prof Hakwan Lau.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 15 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-reinforcement learning

Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Predicting material properties with the help of machine learning

Bingqing Cheng.

Zoom.

Tuesday 12 January 2021, 13:15-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of NeurIPS

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

[NEW DATE:11th of December] Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 11 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Improving the Aggregation in Graph Networks: can nodes understand their neighbourhood?

Gabriele Corso.

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing

Weiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 December 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Focus Association with ONLY

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/By3XNQtaYLUksF1S9

Dr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pitfalls in Evaluation of Multilingual Text Representations

Goran Glavaš.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmQyY2ViNDgtZDE1MC00MzZhLWFjZGItOWFmMjM2OTI1ZDQy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2230bfe2fc-8896-487c-84f2-f4b8875a60b2%22%7d.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Processes

Andrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Wasserstein Natural Gradients for Reinforcement Learning

Ferenc Huszár.

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Transformer: the 3rd generation neural network acoustic models for ASR and its application at Facebook

Please note change of time from original post to 3-4pm

Yongqiang Wang, Facebook.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94591123432?pwd=bUJObFZ3UnFYLy9pWENDcS9aYUZqUT09.

Monday 30 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Professor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 27 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Generalized Kernel Two-Sample Tests

Hao Chen (University of California, Davis).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 27 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations

Elizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Friday 27 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Voice-Prosody and Technologies to Give Voice to Endangered Languages: an Irish Perspective

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/pW2NTo3WHdVe59vD6

Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin).

Online.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

From Sparse Modeling to Sparse Communication

André F. T. Martins.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmQyY2ViNDgtZDE1MC00MzZhLWFjZGItOWFmMjM2OTI1ZDQy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2230bfe2fc-8896-487c-84f2-f4b8875a60b2%22%7d.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Neural Networks for Biomedical Data

Note the change of date and time. This seminar is part of the Wednesday seminar series too.

Marinka Zitnik, Harvard University.

Zoom.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large-scale sequential experimentation

Wessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingual Brains

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bTVzfMTKSVwyaJRHA

Professor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU).

Online.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language

Muhao Chen.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzU4Y2NiOTItYjE1My00ZDFhLWE3NTItOWVmMDU1MmNkNjU5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c409a60-a41c-43c1-a95a-f00471773d03%22%7d.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the Adolescent Cognition Brain Development Study

Damien Fair (University of Minnesota).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

Robert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

What is Next for the Efficient Machine Learning Revolution?

Nicholas Lane.

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe

Mark Levy, John Simpson, Ann Veitch (British Council).

On-line.

Monday 16 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Understanding Fallism

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS ZANGWILL HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Provable representation learning in deep learning

Jason Lee (Princeton University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions

Sian Gooding (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 13 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The crucial role of truth-compatible interferences

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/jAiDPFv3tJ3XMiSb6

Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University).

Online.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listening

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Semiparametric Language Models

Dani Yogatama.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjYzNzQyOWUtZWM0MC00YzI5LWEwMzMtOGU0ODM4ZDU1NDcw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c409a60-a41c-43c1-a95a-f00471773d03%22%7d.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:05-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Second Order Behaviour in Augmented Neural ODEs

Alexander Norcliffe.

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodents

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Professor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 06 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Minimax estimation of smooth densities in Wasserstein distance

Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 06 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?

Note time change

Nasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental origins

Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) .

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best Papers from ICML 2020

Reading group participants.

https://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Modulated Bayesian Optimisation

Carl Henrik Ek.

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Professor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA..

Zoom meeting.

Friday 30 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Model selection for estimation of causal parameters

Dominik Rothenhaeusler (Stanford University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 30 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The pronoun interpretation problem in bilingual Dutch-German children

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/mW1tMswxgY6Nwhug6

Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen).

Online.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Constraining Variational Inference with Geometric Jensen-Shannon Divergence

Jacob Deasy.

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalizing Louisiana Creole

Various.

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

This talk happens earlier this week. in a shared event between Zangwill and SPSS

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Friday 23 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 23 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages

Please pre-register for this talk by noon on Oct 22nd https://forms.gle/4QF4qiepxGDVEWky6

Dr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (University College London).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

How is Human Social Cognition Special?

Please note, this talk is combined with the Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Professor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Zoom meeting.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Predicting Mortality and Length of Stay with Patient Graph Representation Learning

Emma Rocheteau.

Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

The case for formal methodology in scientific reform

Please note, virtual tea at 4.15pm with talk starting at 4.30pm

Dr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho..

Zoom meeting.

Friday 16 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 16 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Culture, language and cognition: a methodological and theoretical exploration with reference to spatial concepts

Please register for this talk by NOON on Oct 15th

Chris Sinha (University of Hunan, University of East Anglia).

Online.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Flexible redistribution in the language network

Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks

Ilia Shumailov.

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

Please pre-register for this event by noon on Thursday October 8th : https://forms.gle/QsDW2EdTzjNC2d6i7

Professor Robyn Carston, UCL.

Online.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Adolescent brain development as a window of social-affective opportunities

Eveline Crone (Leiden University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities

Andrey Malinin, Yandex Research.

Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link).

Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Emergent Multi-Agent Communication: The story so far

Agnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge).

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Weighting Based Adversarial Approach to Fairness in Machine Learning

Mladen Nikolić, University of Belgrade.

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 23 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards explainable fact checking

Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

https://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

Friday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Iconic Plurals

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 18th of June, 12pm BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=tuYFO -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS / New York University).

Online.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

Johannes Welbl (UCL).

https://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

Friday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

Online.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Adversarial Explanations - You Shouldn't Trust Me: Learning Models Which Conceal Unfairness From Multiple Explanation Methods

Botty Dimanov (University of Cambridge).

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement

Topic: Zangwill Zoom Meeting _Brian Earp Time: Jun 5, 2020 04:00 PM London 4-430pm social with Brian pre-Zangwill 430 to 6pm Talk + discussion.

Brian D. Earp, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford..

Zoom meeting.

Friday 05 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Alexandra Perovic (UCL).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Monosyllabic Salience in Cantonese: Facilitation of transference of monosyllabic English words (MEWs) into Hong Kong Cantonese-English mixed code

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 4th of June, 10am BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=NLNKu -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof David Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Online.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Developing a Concept-Oriented Search Engine for Isabelle Based on Natural Language : Technical Challenges

Yiannos Stathopoulos and Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki.

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic representation and its disorders

Professor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 29 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery

Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 29 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content

Rescheduled

Maria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute).

https://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

Friday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

TBC.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Representation Learning under Uncertainty (WIP)

Catalina Cangea and Ben Day (University of Cambridge).

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

Statistics

Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning

Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 22 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

We will have a Tea and coffee informal gathering from 1pm to 1.30pm and the talk will start at 130.pm followed by questions and discussion at 230pm.

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88316473204?pwd=NGV5RHdh Q3o3am5sRVpabVRVSFhPZz09 Meeting ID: 883 1647 3204 Password: Bowman.

Friday 22 May 2020, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Marijke De Belder (Oldenburg University).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Temporal Pointwise Convolutional Networks for Length of Stay Prediction in the Intensive Care Unit

Emma Rocheteau (University of Cambridge).

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

Statistics

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions

Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 15 May 2020, 14:00-15:00