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Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Task Alignment

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.

UserVihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 26 June 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

UserTim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs?

UserShiwei Liu, University of Oxford.

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

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

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

UserPurnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

UserSubhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis

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.

UserTim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 29 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Leveraging AI for Breakthroughs in Genomic Research

Hybrid: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/2554325137?pwd=NGZEbGl1WkJxQVdkV09oc2k1L2pwQT09 Meeting ID: 255 432 5137 Passcode: 360730

UserMike Sikic, Genome Institute of Singapore .

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockFriday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

The Cognitive Biology of Language

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

UserProfessor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

UserAlexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders

UserProfessor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts

UserDr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

UserSara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NNs

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

UserAdrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 01 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The UK AI Safety Institute

UserNitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge & UK AI Safety Institute).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSS03, William Gates Building. .

ClockFriday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

UserBruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

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

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

UserBruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

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

UserDmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

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

UserYanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

UserProfessor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Inverting Language Models

UserAlexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

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

UserJihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

UserAfonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults.

The host for this talk is Trevor Robbins

UserDr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

UserAlexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED

POSTPONED. Sorry for inconvenience.

UserProf. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

UserAnna Calissano (Imperial College).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

UserSander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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

UserMatt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Cortical interneurons in health and disease.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

UserProfessor Oscar Marín, King's College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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

UserJames Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

UserGiovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

UserPriyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Prosocial Language Models

UserSoroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College.

HouseGR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

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

UserAndrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

UserAlex Kwong, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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

UserTor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

When Art meets Psychology

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

User Prof. Clive Wilkins.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

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

UserMarco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Statistics

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

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

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

UserNicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:30

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

UserPerrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

UserJulius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

UserSeraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

UserNaomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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

UserEmile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

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

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

UserDr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

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

ClockTuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language

The host for this talk is Kanad Mandke

UserDr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

UserZhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficiency by Construction

UserFermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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

UserDr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83721191406?pwd=V0xkY0Vvb3czWUJkR0xIZC9qMnM0QT09

UserPhilipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

UserProfessor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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

UserGreg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges

This talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729

UserArne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL).

HouseZoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

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

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

UserMarkus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

UserNafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

UserJan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) .

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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.

UserDr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity

The host for this talk is Amy Milton

UserDr Liat Levita, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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

UserProf. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

UserArthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Representation and computation in visual working memory

UserProfessor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

UserGleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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

UserSpencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

ClockWednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Revolutionizing Biosensing Technologies: Plug and Play Devices in Medical and Agricultural Diagnostics

UserMuhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI), Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW 2800.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies

Notice that this talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729 Pietro Lio and Chaitanya Joshi will introduce the speakers

UserKarolis Martinkus & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche).

HouseZoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

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

Zangwill Club

Cortical gradients of functional integration

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

UserDr Daniel Margulies .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

UserCiara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

UserSourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

UserFreek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amstersdam).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

UserFreek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

UserStijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Bad Information with AI

UserDavid Corney (Full Fact).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Decoding the neural processing of speech

The host for this talk is Usha Goswami

UserProfessor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

UserSinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

UserMiloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Laboratory, room SS03.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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

UserHanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

ClockWednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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

UserStratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

ClockWednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Protein generation and fitness optimization

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94094286505?pwd=T2V3MFVSQ1ZKTFFyYlFueHlzTE83Zz09

UserJason Yim, EECS, MIT.

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

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

Note this is on zoom only! Note a change of date! Note a new zoom link!

UserPietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

Housezoom only!.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

UserJames Thorne (KAIST).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

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

Canceled

UserSofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

UserKatie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

UserKatie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

UserJohn Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

HouseMR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

UserMarie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93934749405?pwd=M0ZERUZleklON01vZlpXbzhqTld0Zz09. ; ID riunione: 939 3474 9405 Passcode: 374750

UserLovro Vrcek, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR.

HouseSeminar Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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

UserProf. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

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

ClockWednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Information Spreading on Networks

NOTE A CHANGE OF ROOM DUE TO EXAMS. NOW SS03

UserCharlotte Out.

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

UserRuth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

HouseMR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

UserDustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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

UserTor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

UserZhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

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

UserDr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR05.

ClockThursday 25 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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

UserUsman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

The host for this talk is David Belin

UserDr David Dupret (Oxford University).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

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

UserLaura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts

UserProfessor Josep Call, University of St Andrews.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

UserVered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

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

UserMiri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

The DNA revolution and psychology

UserProfessor Robert Plomin (King's College, London).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

UserAad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

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

UserBurigede Liu.

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

ClockWednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

UserHelmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

UserJoe Stacey (Imperial College London).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking

UserProf Stefan Hinterwimmer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

HouseLucia Windsor Room (Newnham College).

ClockThursday 27 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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.

UserAdrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

ClockWednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent 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.

UserAlexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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.

UserRoss Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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

UserPingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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

UserWenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Choice under Computational Complexity

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot.

UserCarlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow.

HouseSR 24.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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

UserMicah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserProfessor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

UserHongyu Zhao (Yale University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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.

UserIsaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations

UserProfessor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

UserMona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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.

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

UserJonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

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.

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

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

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

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

UserRobin Evans (University of Oxford).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

UserPinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 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

UserLuca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 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.

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

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

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

Statistics

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

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

UserSebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 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

UserProfessor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserJixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserDr David Dupret (Oxford University).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

UserJoshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

UserShiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Laboratory, Room FW09.

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

Zangwill Club

Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

UserPeter John (King's College London).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

UserIeva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

UserDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

UserAlastair Young (Imperial College, London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

UserKris Cao (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

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

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

User Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution

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

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

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 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

UserSteve Azzolin.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

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

Zangwill Club

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

UserProfessor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

Brain charts for the human lifespan.

UserDr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 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

UserJohn Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 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

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

HouseFW11 + zoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

HouseComputer Lab, TBD.

ClockFriday 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

UserHarrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge.

Houselecture theatre 2 dept of computer science and zoom.

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

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.

UserAndy Lin, MLG.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers

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

HouseZoom.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

UserFelipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

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

Zangwill Club

Disruption of Information in Working Memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

UserAnnika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

UserJasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

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.

UserVihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

UserJelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

UserBryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sentiment analysis: methods and applications

UserDr Antonio Moreno Ortiz (Universidad de Málaga).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR05.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

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

HouseComputer Lab, FW11.

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

Zangwill Club

Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

UserNiels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

UserElizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

UserMrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

UserLiza Levina (Michigan).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockThursday 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

UserProf Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR05.

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

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

UserYu Guang Wang.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockTuesday 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)

UserDr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

UserLuca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW09.

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

Zangwill Club

Plastic brains for flexible decisions

UserZoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Complement clause section as a (non-)local relation

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

UserDr Anna Roussou (University of Patras).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR06/07.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Quantifying Linguistic Variation

UserMax Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen.

HouseGR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

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

Zangwill Club

What kind of network is the brain?

UserJohn Mollon (University of Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 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

UserVictor Chernozhukov (MIT).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

UserMartyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Chaucer Club

Tidying up working memory

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience.

UserDanielle Belgrave, DeepMind.

HouseZoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Backward Compatible Embeddings

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

UserWeihua Hu, Stanford University and Google.

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

ClockFriday 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.

UserCathy Pearl, Google.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

UserDmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

UserChristina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Sequence Models for Mathematical Reasoning

RESCHEDULED, NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME

UserYuhuai(Tony) Wu, Stanford University & Google.

HouseZoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

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

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

UserAlberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

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)

UserQiujia Li (University of Cambridge).

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

UserYanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockWednesday 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)

UserPeter Bell (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds

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

HouseZoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Lifted Relational Neural Networks

UserGustav Šir, Czech Technical University in Prague.

HouseZoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

UserLili Mou (University of Alberta).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockTuesday 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

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

UserAlon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

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

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

HouseZoom + presence (lecture theatre 2) .

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

Zangwill Club

Thinking the right thoughts

UserNathaniel Daw (Princeton University).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 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.

UserChristopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

HouseOnline.

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

UserNicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

UserRob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

TBC

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseFaculty of English and Online.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

UserEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine learning as an assay for high-dimensional biology

UserSara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA.

HouseZoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

UserNate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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.

UserMichelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

HouseOnline.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

UserTalay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

UserProfessor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

UserCaroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Exploring Multicultural London English across Offline and Online space

UserDr Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh).

HouseFaculty of English and Online.

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

Zangwill Club

Covid and Cognition

UserLucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) .

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Statistics

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

UserPurvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators

UserShashi Narayan (Google Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserDr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

HouseOnline.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

UserJiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Zangwill Club

Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

UserSebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

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.

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

HouseOnline.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

UserShreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

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

UserDr Richard Zimmermann (University of Manchester).

HouseFaculty of English and Online.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

UserGergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention

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

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Brain charts for the human lifespan

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

HouseZoom.

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP

UserProf. He He (New York Univeristy).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

UserAlex Davies and Petar Velickovic (DeepMind).

HouseZoom.

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

Zangwill Club

Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

UserNedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline-only.

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

Zangwill Club

The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations

UserPeter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserLotty Brand (University of Sheffield) .

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

UserStratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Zangwill Club

What does magic tell us about free will?

UserGustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Statistics

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

UserHeather Battey (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints

UserVlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning on Graphs with Missing Node Features

UserEmanuele Rossi, Twitter & Imperial College.

HouseZoom.

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

Zangwill Club

Time perception as accumulation of salient events

UserWarrick Roseboom (University of Sussex).

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points

UserFrank Keller (University of Edinburgh).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserDr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

HouseOnline.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

UserSebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 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

UserL'Office du Jèrriais.

HouseZoom.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Cellular: CW Networks

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

HouseZoom.

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

Zangwill Club

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

UserLucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) .

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines

UserRoger Levy (MIT).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

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

UserProf. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam).

HouseOnline: Zoom talk.

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

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

UserDr Aimée Lahaussois (Université Paris 7).

HouseZoom.

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

Zangwill Club

Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour

UserDominik Bach (University College London).

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing

UserYevgeni Berzak (Technion).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserPatrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

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

Statistics

MARS via LASSO

UserAditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

UserProf. Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR05.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

User Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Machines that can read lips

This talk will be on zoom

UserPingchuan Ma (Imperial College London).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking

UserRichard Holton (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems

UserMarjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

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

HouseOnline.

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

Zangwill Club

Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect

UserDavid Bannerman (University of Oxford).

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Statistics

TBC

UserLester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

HouseZoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners

UserRyo Nagata (Konan University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Generative Speech Separation based on Pitch Information

This talk will be on zoom

UserDr Xiang Li, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

ClockMonday 11 October 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

UserJemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unlocking Deep Learning for Graphs

UserDominique Beaini, Valence Discovery, MILA, Canada.

HouseZoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

UserMohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserPavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

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

Zangwill Club

Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections

UserDr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

Note unusual time

UserPhilip Resnik (University of Maryland).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserCarmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense Madrid).

HouseOnline.

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

Zangwill Club

Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

UserShuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserAshley Riggs (Université de Genève).

HouseOnline.

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

Zangwill Club

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

User Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

UserJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Audio-Visual Learning: Challenges and New Approaches

This talk will be on zoom

UserDr Jie Pu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks

User Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserAntonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Automatic Assessment Systems for the Spoken CALL Shared Tasks

This talk will be held on zoom

UserMengjie Qian, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology

UserRyan McDonald (ASAPP).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes

UserMaria Liakata (University of Warwick).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

UserRyan McDonald (Google).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserAmalia Arvaniti (Radboud University).

HouseOnline.

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

Zangwill Club

Rethinking food reward

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

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

UserDr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 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

UserChenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Note unusual time

UserChenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Natural Language Interpretation in Dialogue Systems

Seminar on zoom

UserDr Svetlana Stoyanchev, Speech Technology Group, Toshiba CRL.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

RESCHEDULED TBD

UserJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

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

UserPaul Kerswill (University of York).

HouseOnline.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

UserValerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Interpretable representation learning for speech and audio signals

Seminar on zoom

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

UserEmily BJ Coffey, PhD .

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Statistics

Seminar Cancelled

UserRina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

UserRobert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserDr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

HouseOnline.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Inference in Stochastic Processes

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

UserMariam Redi (Wikimedia).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

NLIP Seminar Series

The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia

UserMiriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fairness in AI

UserElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural ODE Processes

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

HouseZoom.

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Should Ensemble Members Be Calibrated?

Seminar on zoom

UserDr Xixin Wu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic

UserPreslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit

Note unusual time

UserAmrith Krishna (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserMaki Kubota (UiT The Arctic University of Norway).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning under model misspecification

UserAndrés R. Masegosa, Universidad de Almería (Spain).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities

UserDr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge.

HouseOn-line.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism

UserProfessor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction

UserZhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserProfessor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards explainable fact checking

UserProf. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen.

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

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Latent Action Space for Offline Reinforcement Learning

UserWenxuan Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Selection of Talks from Interspeech 2020

Seminar on zoom

UserYiting 'Edie' Lu, Vyas Raina, Qingyun Dou, Cambridge University Speech Research Group.

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

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Social Minds in Joint Action

UserProfessor Natalie Sebanz.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification

UserCarolina Scarton (University of Sheffield).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

- Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness

UserProf Hakwan Lau.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 15 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-reinforcement learning

UserKris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 13 January 2021, 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

UserDr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 11 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

UserHari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 04 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing

UserWeiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserDr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

UserEarl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Processes

UserAndrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

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

UserProfessor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations

UserElizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 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

UserAilbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

UserJulie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles).

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

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

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.

UserMarinka Zitnik, Harvard University.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large-scale sequential experimentation

UserWessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserProfessor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

UserRobert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Second Language Education Group

English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe

UserMark Levy, John Simpson, Ann Veitch (British Council).

HouseOn-line.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Understanding Fallism

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS ZANGWILL HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor 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.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 13 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions

UserSian Gooding (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserMira Ariel (Tel Aviv University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

UserProfessor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?

Note time change

UserNasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best Papers from ICML 2020

UserReading group participants.

Househttps://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

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

UserProfessor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA..

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 30 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

UserPetra Hendriks (University of Groningen).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

UserDirk Hovy (Bocconi University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserDr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

How is Human Social Cognition Special?

Please note, this talk is combined with the Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

UserProfessor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

The case for formal methodology in scientific reform

Please note, virtual tea at 4.15pm with talk starting at 4.30pm

UserDr 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..

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

UserGuy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 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

UserChris Sinha (University of Hunan, University of East Anglia).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Flexible redistribution in the language network

UserDr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences).

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

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

UserProfessor Robyn Carston, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 08 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

UserJonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

UserAustin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

ClockWednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards explainable fact checking

UserIsabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

Househttps://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

ClockFriday 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.

UserProf Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS / New York University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

UserGergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

UserJohannes Welbl (UCL).

Househttps://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

ClockFriday 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.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

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.

UserBrian 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..

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 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.

User Dr Alexandra Perovic (UCL).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

ClockThursday 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.

UserProf David Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Zangwill Club

The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic representation and its disorders

UserProfessor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 29 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content

Rescheduled

UserMaria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute).

Househttps://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

ClockFriday 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.

UserProf Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 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.

UserProf Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Representation Learning under Uncertainty (WIP)

UserCatalina Cangea and Ben Day (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline on Teams.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

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.

UserProfessor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

HouseJoin Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88316473204?pwd=NGV5RHdh Q3o3am5sRVpabVRVSFhPZz09 Meeting ID: 883 1647 3204 Password: Bowman.

ClockFriday 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.

UserDr Marijke De Belder (Oldenburg University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

ClockThursday 21 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Classification

UserXin Tong, University of Southern California.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

ClockFriday 08 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics

Please sign up via the link in order to receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50YGCrYnFdptyU5

UserDr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 07 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR 2020

User (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem

Online Seminar

UserDanielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt.

ClockFriday 01 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] L2 phonological learning in adults: The role of language background, age of acquisition, and exposure

To register for the online event, please follow the link below: https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=DszBy

UserDr Job Schepens (TU Dortmund).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Planning

UserWill Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

Househttps://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

UserProfessor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockWednesday 22 April 2020, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Strategic Classification

UserJiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Sets

User (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

ClockWednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

ClockThursday 02 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

World Models

UserDr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

HouseHangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

ClockWednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

UserProfessor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

UserHilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Federated Learning

UserSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

UserManos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Network change point detection

UserYi Yu, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

UserEric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

UserDr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

UserKate Tilling, University of Bristol.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

UserMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mechanisms in non-native speech perception

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserDr Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

UserJavier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses

UserVanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

UserAntonia Ruppel (Oxford).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

UserElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

UserProfessor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

UserSergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

UserMolly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

UserRafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London.

HouseGR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic

tea served from 4.15

UserDaniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

UserAdria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

UserDr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

UserEmeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

UserEmeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3..

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

UserProfessor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

UserChengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

UserEdoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

UserPaolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

UserDr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Conveying quantity pragmatically

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserDr Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2019-2020)

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

UserProfessor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications

UserDr Barbara McGillivray (University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute).

HouseGR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

UserNicholas Zair, Cambridge.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

UserDr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

UserProfessor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

UserYoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

UserDirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

HouseGR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

UserTamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA THIS WEEK

UserProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

UserRory Waite (Emotif.ai).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment

chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian

UserDr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel .

HouseSeminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Correlations Between Word Vector Sets

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

UserAleksandar Savkov, Babylon.

HouseBoard room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

UserGaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Long Form Question Answering

UserAngela Fan (Facebook).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserDanielle Turton (Lancaster University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, TBC.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes

UserDavid Burt, Andrew Foong.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!

UserProfessor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other irreversible MCMC methods

UserAlain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

UserHong Ge and John Bronskill.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Statistics

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

UserGabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

UserSebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

UserProfessor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

UserRoshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Attention

UserElre Oldewage, George Hron.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

UserAdam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

UserProfessor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

UserVeronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

UserShauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf. Federico Federici (University College London).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Leveraging non-expert semantic intuitions to support multilingual NLP

UserOlga Majewska, PhD student in Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

HouseRoom 326, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

UserJames Allingham, Omer Sella.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR - THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

UserSharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Speech Recognition: What’s Left?

This talk is organised in conjunction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for which Dr Michael Picheny is a Distinguished Industry Speaker

UserDr Michael Picheny.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT1.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

UserWilliam Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserDr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

UserQiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

UserEbany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyperparameter Optimisation

UserRoss Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Statistics

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

UserHenry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

UserDr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

UserJohn Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

How we remember and how we forget

User Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

UserSong Liu — University of Bristol.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

UserHatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Methodological Diversity in Design Fixation Research

UserDr Nathan Crilly is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Design at the University of Cambridge. .

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

UserPeter Orbanz — University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

UserLucia Specia (Imperial College London).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL TALK THIS WEEK

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 00:00-00:00

Chaucer Club

The perceptual prediction paradox

UserClare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

UserElchanan Mossel (MIT).

HouseMR12.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space

UserProfessor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

UserSam Livingstone — University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Latent Variable Models for Text Generation

UserXiaoyu Shen, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute.

HouseBoard room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 10 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseases

Please note: This is a Pre-Zangwill Talk - see change of venue

UserProfessor Mauro Maccarrone, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome, Italy.

HouseNick Mackintosh Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles

UserEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A human-oriented term rewriting system

UserEd Ayers (University of Cambridge).

HouseFC22.

ClockMonday 23 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Promoting multilingual literacy and reader identity:Global Storybooks and open technology

UserBonny Norton , FRSC, Professor and University Scholar , Department of Language & Literacy Education, UBC, Canada.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA

UserRajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks

UserMatthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks

UserAmos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockFriday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Generation in the Wild

UserDaniel Beck, University of Melbourne.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

UserJon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

HouseMR12.

ClockMonday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

UserCatherine Travis (The Australian National University).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockWednesday 19 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

UserFelix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

UserLukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

UserMouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Relational knowledge in vector spaces

UserLuis Espinosa-Anke (University of Cardiff).

HouseBoard room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 06 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Collaborative Poetics

Reserve your space at http://collaborativepoetics.eventbrite.com

UserHelen Johnson, University of Brighton.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS5.

ClockMonday 03 June 2019, 14:00-16:30

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

UserRoger Koenker, University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards secure and efficient DNNs

UserAaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

UserProf. Anita Mehta (University of Oxford).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, SR-24 (second floor).

ClockThursday 30 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

UserYiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq

UserDr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM

UserProfessor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

UserMasoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

UserRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Driving a wedge between communication and language learning in autism

There will be a coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Mikhail Kissine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).

HouseFaculty of Divinity, Lecture Room 2.

ClockThursday 23 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Language attitudes in Ningbo, China

UserHui (Annette) Zhao, MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 336, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

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

Statistics

On distributed Bayesian computation

UserHarry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI

UserKarina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA AT 4.00PM

UserDr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Particle MCMC

UserWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

UserProfessor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

in conjunction of the launching Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching

User Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

UserJulie Josse, École Polytechnique.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

UserDr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

UserKris Cao, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable stochastic optimization and large-scale data

UserMichael W. Mahoney (ICSI and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality

UserZohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

UserMatt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Juggling School-Research partnerships: funding, methodologies, accountability and impact.

UserAssociate Professor Madonna Stinson, School of Education and Professional Studies Griffith University, Australia.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

PLEASE NOTE, WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY. THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1.00PM. PLEASE ALSO NOTE, THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

UserProfessor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Nuisance parameters

UserHeather Battey, Imperial College London.

HouseMR12.

Clock