Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Image-based high strain rate testing of materials

Fabrice Pierron, MatchID, Ghent, Belgium.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Split signature supergravity - Hypersymplectic geometry via new geometric structures

Jan Gutowski (Surrey).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

When will we have intelligent robots?

Professor Jitendra Malik, Berkeley .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Automated detection of cryptocurrency investment scams at scale

Jose Gilberto Atondo Siu (University of Cambridge).

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Interferometric measurements of the 21-cm signal with SKA

Yuchen Liu and Oscar O'Hara (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

BREAD: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection

Dr Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)

Sheena McKeever (Department of History of Art).

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

Monday 06 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

TOWARDS QUANTUM COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS

Dr Burigede Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Froggatt-Nielsen Models Meet the SMEFT

Eetu Loisa (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Self-assembled active actomyosin gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues

Prof. Anne Bernheim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

Rob Morris (IMPA Rio).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Energetics now and future trends

Bill Proud, Institute of Security Science and Technology, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The entanglement membrane in exactly solvable lattice models

Michael Rampp, MPIPKS.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Chirality and Topology

Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

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

Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Radio observations of extra-galactic transients with the AMI-LA telescope

Dr. Lauren Rhodes (University of Oxford).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

Professor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

Michael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

A biography of Tor - a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core

Ben Collier, University of Edinburgh.

Online & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 26 April 2024, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Methods for information transfer within populations of structures

Dr Tina Dardeno, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

New physics searches at colliders using HEFT

Anisha (Glasgow U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Resonant Bloch oscillations in transmons embedded in high-impedance circuits

Benjamin Remez (Yale).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Some aspects in many-body quantum dynamics: from multi-channel Kondo impurities to entanglement transition in SU(1,1) periodically driven systems

Po-Yao Chang, National Tsing Hua University.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

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.

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Applications of proofs to network security

Joseph Bonneau, New York University.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavor Hierarchies from Minimal U(2) Symmetries

Anders Eller Thomsen (Bern U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

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

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Legal Concepts in Cybersecurity and Privacy for Digital & Smart Environments

Raj Sachdev, Cornell University & Plymouth State.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 02 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

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

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

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

Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Data Poisoning and Fakes in Mobile, Web and Cyber Physical Systems

Soteris Demetriou, Imperial College London.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies

Dr. Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Multi-scale cross-attention transformer encoder for event classification

Mihoko Nojiri (KEK).

***note unusual venue*** MR 9 (Pavilion B), CMS .

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Nitin Burud, University of Surrey.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Terahertz-chip-scale Systems for Intelligent Sensing and 6G Communication: Can AI help?

Prof. Kaushik Sengupta.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

Prof Sheena Radford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Examples of "control" in research and teaching at Physics

Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Attoscience, Nobel 2023, and Quantum Simulators

Prof Maciej Lewenstein, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

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.

Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Mysticeti: Low-Latency DAG Consensus with Fast Commit Path

Alberto Sonnino, Mysten Labs.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinearity in structural dynamics: when does it matter?

Dr Tore Butlin, University of Cambridge Engineering Department.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Searching for Instantons at Hadron Colliders

Valentin V. Khoze (Durham IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Dr Marina Konstantatou.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design

Roger Reed, University of Oxford.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Ingmar Posner, Oxford University .

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research

Prof. Greg Boebinger.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 11:15-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Panagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Tech .

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions

Lorenzo Pacchiardi, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

New Space & the CubeSat Revolution

Dr. Dolev Bashi.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Prototyping the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

Jingyuan Shi - University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

Professor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Damping from fragmented materials

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

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

NNLO + Strings

Peter Skands.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Strengthening of Existing Structures Using Novel High Performance Materials

Dr Andreas Lampropoulos.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The challenge of developing materials for fusion

Jim Pickles, Tokamak Energy, Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect

Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Characterizing Machine Unlearning through Definitions and Implementations

Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto and Vector Institute.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Protonic Electrochemical Synapses for Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Computing

Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Modelling of LHC Collisions in PYTHIA - Physics and Uncertainties

Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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

Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Real-time pipelines for SKA — Progress and challenges

Dr. Ying-He Celeste Lü (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

Dr Maria Christophorou.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

On amplitudes and field redefinitions

David Sutherland (University of Glasgow).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

On the Assessment and Design of Compressed Structures

Carlo Olivieri, Pegaso Università Telematica, Italy.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Scientific machine learning - opportunities and challenges from an industrial perspective

Dr Dirk Hartmann, Siemens.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Shock and Impact Deformation: A Geological Perspective

Auriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Neuromorphic sensing and computing in today’s AI landscape

Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning

Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

New insights at ultra-low temperatures: superconductivity and nuclear-electronic quantum criticality

Prof. Alix McCollam, School of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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

James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Owl - an augmented password-authenticated key exchange protocol

Feng Hao, University of Warwick.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

PUEO and Ultra High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy

Stefano Vergani (UCL).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices

Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

Sir Gregory Winter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Separate treatment of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in structural dynamics

Dr John Hickey, Trinity College Dublin.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Baryon-baryon interactions and the H dibaryon from lattice QCD

Jeremy Green (DESY, Zeuthen.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart integral bridge design

Douglas Morley.

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

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart integral bridge design

Douglas Morley.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Dr Nirav Vashant Shah, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Full field measurement technique enabling the discovery of new materials laws

Dr Zifan Wang, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Multi-Scale Characterization of Materials under Extreme Conditions

Vatsa Gandhi, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities

Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Matthew Turner, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Merons, bimerons and skyrmions in α-Fe2O3: from cosmology to spintronics

Prof Paolo Radaelli, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Securing the WebPKI in Practice: A tour of the technologies, politics and open problems

Dennis Jackson, Mozilla.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Overview and Status of the 2x2 NDLAr Demonstrator: A Pixel-Based LArTPC Prototype for the DUNE Near Detector

Karolina Wresilo (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

Dr Danielle Shore .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Closing in on New Physics with the Flavor, Collider, and Electroweak Triad

Benjamin Stefanek (King's Coll. London).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Discovering the 2D world with XPS

Shaoliang Guan, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers

Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting critical temperature - applications to flat bands, FeSe/STO, cold atoms and connections to quantum geometry

Dr. Tamaghna Hazra, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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

Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Dead Code Removal at Meta: Automatically Deleting Millions of Lines of Code and Petabytes of Deprecated Data

Will Shackleton, Meta.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

Professor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Dr Zhongbei Tian, University of Birmingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quantum entanglement of top quarks

Claudio Severi (U. Manchester).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 02 February 2024, 15:45-16:45

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

David Knight, Cake Industries.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nanovoid Irradiation Hardening in Metals: A Mesoscale Perspective".

Dr Ashley Roach.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Role of Phase Transformation on Shock Compression Behavior of Iron

Dr Vatsa Gandhi, Ashby Fellow.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot

Nick von Jeinsen, Surface and 2D Nanoscience, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot)

Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization

Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford .

Mott Seminar Room (531).

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Mixing, stopping, coupling, lifting, and other keys to the second Monte Carlo revolution

Prof Werner Krauth, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

An Experimental and Phenomenological dissection of heavy quark decays into light leptons

Davide Lancierini (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin

Prof Paul Barrett.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Alex Aylward (University of Oxford).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Energy-conserving equivariant GNN predictions of stiffness for lattice materials

Ivan Grega, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

On the uses of Geometry for Higgs Physics

Rodrigo Alonso (IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

One Protocol to Rule Them All? On Securing Interoperable Messaging

Jenny Blessing (University of Cambridge).

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Neil Thomas, Atelier One.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Prof Vito Rubino École Centrale de Nantes, France.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems

John Chalker (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Mysteries in the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4

Dr. Clifford Hicks, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 11:15-12:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

A Comprehensive Study of the Extremist Narratives and the Role of Alternative Social Networks that Facilitate Radical Discourse

Antonis Papasavva, University College London.

Webinar & SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Probing the M Dwarf Cosmic Shoreline with JWST

Dr. James Kirk, Imperial College London.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

A Clue to the Mystery of Dark Matter: Direct Searches with LZ and XLZD

Dr Kimberly Palladino (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.

Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research .

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

Andreas Schaefer.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design methodologies for performance improvement of smart structures

Dr Najib Kacem, femto-st Institute.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Two Sides of the Same Crime

Michael Dewar, Vice President for Data Science at Mastercard.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials

Joseph Barker (Leeds).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Lighting the Quantum Future

Prof Ian Walmsley FRS, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

The History of MRAO

Malcolm Longair (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 16 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Professor Kanat Camlibel, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen.

JDB Seminar room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

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

LT6 Seminar Room.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Differential Privacy: Theory to Practice for the 2020 US Census

Simson Garfinkel.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Monday 18 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The dynamic Universe of preferred axion models

Andrew Cheek.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Securing Supply Chains with Compilers

Nicholas Boucher, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

“IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe?

Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vehicle-bridge interaction in railways: forward and inverse applications

Dr Charikleia Stoura, ETH.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sound Control Synthesis with Logics and Data

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

25 years of crypto wars and privacy tussles – where next?

Ross Anderson, Duncan Campbell, Ben Collier, Ahana Datta, Merlin Erroll, Gus Hosein, Julian Huppert, Jim Killock, Jen Persson, Sam Smith and Martyn Thomas.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Thursday 30 November 2023, 16:00-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

New Innovative Idea on Bio Medical Research

Makoto Kaneko, Meijo University and Osaka University..

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics

Alex Matthews, DeepMind.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Human-producible Adversarial Examples

David Khachaturov, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

Dr Emily Sandford (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.

Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Dr Ludovic Renson, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Machine Learning needs Better Randomness Standards: Randomised Smoothing and PRNG-based attacks

Pranav Dahiya, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Folding tape springs and “tapered” springs

Jamie Clarkson.

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Tagging rare top, Z and Higgs decays at colliders

Jernej Kamenik.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Hardening effects in metals

Claire Lincoln, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains

Nick Jones, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial colonies

Aidan Brown, Edinburgh University.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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

Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

Dr Brendan Swain.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Exploiting Structure for Scalable Design and Verification of Complex Systems

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

Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

What are the Clouds of Venus made of?

Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Physics for Sustainable Development

Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

Prof Ian Fleming.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Saxena Group List

Exploring Superconductivity under High Pressure

Prof Katsuya Shimizu, Osaka University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 20 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Erica Fischer (King's College London).

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Jan Koune, TU Delft.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The rational design of sociotechnical systems in healthcare

Tom Bashford,CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 17 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Build the future: Design concrete with machine learning

Bogdan Zviazhynski, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Passivity-based control of underactuated surgical robots

Enrico Franco, Imperial College.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D

Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Lighting up superconductivity

Prof Eugene Demler, ETH Zürich.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices

Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich.

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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

Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systems

Prof Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Red teaming privacy-preserving systems using AI

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Imperial College London.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Revisiting the Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources with LOFAR

Vijay Mahatma.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Jet Propulsion: Advancing the performance and understanding of hadronic objects in ATLAS for Run 3

Dr Matt LeBlanc (University of Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry

Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

High Energy Resummation for Jet Processes at the LHC

Jennifer Smillie.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Control, Estimation and Optimization in Multi-agent Systems

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

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Challenges in capturing transient thermal evolutions in materials using IR imaging

Janice Barton & Karthik Ramakrishnan, School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response

Please note a different venue than the usual

Mehran Kardar (MIT).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Anne-Men Huijzer, University of Groningen.

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

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Forces from fluctuations in and out of equilibrium (in QED and Active Matter)

Prof Mehran Kardar, MIT.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

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.

Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Hills Coffee Talks

High Resolution Stabilised Spectrographs and HARVY

Clark Baker, Cavendish Astrophysics.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

How To Upgrade A Hardware Trigger

Gareth Bird (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

Dr Tamar Makin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Rachel Feldberg (University of York).

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Tetraquarks, Pentaquarks, and the Legacy of the Three-Body Problem

Mikhail Mikhasenko.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Hossein Emami, Laval University.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Venue to be confirmed.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell University.

Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The stochastic wave function method for diffusion of alkali atoms on metallic surface

Elena Torres, Institute of Fundamental Physics, Madrid, Spain.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries

Frank Schindler, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Saxena Group List

Seminar on Superconductivity enhancement in polar metals

Isao H. Inoue from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:15-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition

Prof. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:15-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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

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

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

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Many Parameters, Many Problems

Jaime Ruiz Zapatero.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Data, Identity and Governance: Evolution and Trajectory of Digital Public Infrastructure in India

Aakansha Natani, IIIT Hyderabad, India.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

Professor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Infrared singularities and subtraction schemes: the Torino method at NNLO

Chiara Signorile-Signorile.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Building stable tensegrities for engineering applications

Dr Ajay Harish, University of Manchester.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

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

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

New Avenues for Quantum Simulations In- and Out-of-equilibrium

Prof Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, LMU.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical minimum

David Khmelnitskii.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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

Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Mixing and CP violation in open-charmed beauty decays

Dr Jordy Butter (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

Prof David Rubinsztein.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Célia Küpfer, EPFL.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement, Assessment and Modelling of Heavy Goods Vehicle Energy Consumption

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Quantitative Microbiology With Smart Microscopy

Georgeos Hardo, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Waves topology in geophysical flows

Antoine Venaille (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Improved statistical estimation of impact sensitivity

Dennis Christensen, Oslo, Norway.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

CIA to AIC: Why Cyber Must Enable the Business

Keith A Price, Chief Security Officer, National Highways.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Where’s SUSY? The electroweak SUSY landscape after ATLAS Run 2 searches

Ben Hodkinson (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab

Dr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 16 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Harry Fieldhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Precise predictions for jet vetoed cross sections at the LHC

Matthew Lim, University of Sussex.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Symmetry, Group Theory and Applications to Structural Mechanics

Professor Alphose Zingoni, University of Cape Town.

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge)

Professor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Mechanics and Many Body Games

Prof Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

A Tale of Two Internet (In)Security Problems

Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Webinar & FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

Prof Adam Nelson.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Welcome - introduction to the Group

Professor David Cebon.

JDB Teaching room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Heavy quark fragmentation and its application to top-pair events with B-hadrons

Terry Generet.

Potter Room, B1.34, DAMTP.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales

Ramin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Pressure, Rate, and Temperature Effects on Mechanical Properties in Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)

Jennifer Jordan, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 September 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Toward Better Bone Regeneration: Innovation in Metallic and Ceramic Scaffolds

Prof. Donghui Zhu,.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

In Search of Relativistic Extensions of Modified Newtonian Dynamics

Amel Durakovic, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 20 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

On the Insecurity of PLC Systems

Eli Biham, Technion.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 19 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability

Jorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Superieure, lpens, Paris, France).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores

Benedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Journey of Droplet through various spatio-temporal scales

Prof Saptarshi Basu.

LR3B, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems

Chang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 23 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics

Siddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The classical equations of motion of quantised gauge theories

*** Note unusual topic of talk ***

Tom Melia (IPMU).

Potter Room, B1.34, DAMTP.

Thursday 03 August 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The quantum Mpemba effect

Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

EviHunter: Identifying Digital Forensic Artifacts from Android Apps/Devices via Static & Dynamic Analysis + Android™ App Forensic Artifacts Database

Yong Guan, Iowa State University.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 21 July 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence

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

LR3A, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar)

Prof Yuanbo Zhang (Fudan University).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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

Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

A View of the Dark Web through the Lens of NLP and Language Modeling

Youngjin Jin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST).

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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

Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

The Unlearning Problem(s)

Anvith Thudi, University of Toronto.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Taking Physics Forward with FASER

Prof Anna Sfyrla (University of Geneva).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

Prof Zdenek Bazant .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

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

Saxena Group List

Quantum materials in and beyond equilibrium

Prof Christian Rüegg, Director, Paul Scherrer Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2023, 10:30-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

WISE(Wearable Intelligent Sensors & Electronics) Research and Applications

Prof. Xueji Zhang, Shenzhen University.

LR6.

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

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

AI for Sound

Prof. Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Spin dynamics and hydrodynamical regimes of quantum matter

Prof Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

Professor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Robert Szafron - Uncertainty of perturbative QCD predictions

Robert Szafron.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 09 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tea Time Talks - Poster Session

Group poster presentation.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Proffesor George Haller, ETH Zurich.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits

Adam Gali (Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

The Nym mixnet: Design and Evaluation

Harry Halpin & Ania Piotrowska, Nym Technologies.

Webinar & SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Not all hopes for new physics die immediately

David Rousso (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Manuel Morales Alvarado - Towards DGLAP evolution equations in the SMEFT

Manuel Morales Alvarado.

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The Transfer Matrix Method revisited: computations and applications to dynamics

Professor Atanas Popov, University of Nottingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Geometry and mechanics of liquid crystal elastomers

Dr John Biggins, University of Cambridge .

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

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides

Changming Yue (University of Fribourg).

Zoom.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

The Electron-Phonon Problem Revisited

Prof Steve Kivelson, Stanford University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

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.

Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Counting periodic orbits. LMS Hardy Lecture

Eva Miranda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya).

CMS, MR9.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Measurement of the Pion Charge-Exchange Differential Cross Section on Argon with the ProtoDUNE Detector

Kang Yang (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix

Professor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Lynn Berry (Open University).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Oliver Fischer - Sterile neutrinos at colliders and beyond

Oliver Fischer .

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CANCELLED - Nonlinear damping measurement in rotating fan and compressor disks

Dr Matt De Brett, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Tensegrity systems: a brief history

Geoff Morrow, StructureMode.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale

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

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet

Tommaso Gorni (CINECA).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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.

Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Climate Emergency: can Particle Physics ever be sustainable?

Prof Veronique Boisvert (RHUL).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

James Moore - The top quark legacy of the LHC Run II for PDF and SMEFT analyses

James Moore.

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Kate Bassil, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

AMOP list

Topological charge pumping with ultracold atomic gases

Prof Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (University of Göttingen).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Friday 19 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

James Whitely and Tara Venkatadri, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

DYMAT in historical context

Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos

Alexander Altland (University of Cologne).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Scanned Josephson Tunneling Microscopy: Visualizing Electron-Pair Fluids and Density Waves

Prof J.C. Séamus Davis, University of Oxford, University College Cork, Cornell University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Classification of static extreme black holes

James Lucietti (Edinburgh).

MR11.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

The INCEL Movement: A New Form of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Melissa Hamilton, University of Surrey.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Simulating Collision Events on a Quantum Computer

Simon Williams (Imperial College).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

Prof. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Extraordinary Mechanics in Structures

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University .

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Nico Gubernari - Probing the Standard Model with rare B-Meson Decays

Nico Gubernari.

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Brightening clouds for regional cooling

Edmund Reardon, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Fusion is coming: Recent achievements and activities in the nuclear fusion

Simon Kirk, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder

Jeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problems

Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles

Jenny Coulter (Harvard).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

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.

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Hills Coffee Talks

1 arcsecond imaging strategy for LoTSS survey using the International LOFAR Telescope

Haoyang Ye, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University.

Battcock Meeting Room, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Testing the Effectiveness of Targeted Financial Sanctions on Russia: Law or War?

Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Daniel Reichelt - Jet angularities in quark and gluon jets at the LHC

Daniel Reichelt.

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Strategies for international electrification of heavy goods vehicles

Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Angus Low’s 3rd equation; serendipity in research

Professor Chris Burgoyne, University of Cambridge .

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Dr Sam Tawfick, University of Illinois .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

Aad van der Vaart (Delft).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

An overview of the CASS group at Imperial

John Dear, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

An investigation into the effectiveness of patch repairs to restore impact properties of CFRPs for aerostructure application

Zoe Hall, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Planckian dissipation in metals

Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservation

Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Burigede Liu.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Force Aweakens: searching for new sources of CP violation in the electroweak sector

Prof Andrew Pilkington (University of Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space

Ian Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 01 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bogie Damage: Train or Track?

Dr Stuart Grassie, Railmeasurement Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Nicholas Rodd - Echos of the Early Universe in Axion Haloscopes

Nicholas Rodd.

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cavity Magnonics

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Vector-based steering control in the insect brain

Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

New Directions in the Fractalization, Quantization, and Revival of Dispersive Systems

Peter Olver (University of Minnesota).

MR11.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 17:00-18:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magneto-optical probes shed light on the unconventional transport and magnetism of Eu – based semi-metals

Dr. Veronika Sunko, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 11:15-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Beauty meson to double charm decays at LHCb

Fionn Bishop (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 11:00-12:00

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.

Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

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

AMOP list

Quantum computing with neutral ytterbium atoms

Jeff Thompson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 10:00-11:00

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.

Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena

Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

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.

Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Advanced Tissue Biofabrication

Prof Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Prof Bosco Yu, University of Victoria.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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

Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Organisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Chris Monahan - Determining the partonic structure of hadrons via lattice quantum chromodynamics

Chris Monahan (William-Mary Coll.).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Dr Andrew Viquerat, University of Surrey.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems

Marin Bukov (PKS Dresden).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Melanie Zeilinger.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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

Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrme crystals

Martin Speight (Leeds).

MR11.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

Prof. Melinda Duer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Max Long (History, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Automatic customization of transparency mode and audio equalization in ear buds

Dr Ole Nielsen, BOSE.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Felix Kahlhoefer - From picoseconds to teraseconds: The lifetime frontier of particle physics

Felix Kahlhoefer (RWTH Aachen U.).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The Shear Paradox

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

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Physics-enhancing machine learning strategies for friction force evaluation

Alice Cicrello, TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Ultrafast diffusion at the onset of 2D growth: O/Ru(0001) and S/Ni(111)

Jack Kelsall, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary Biology

Harrison Steel, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Algorithms and the criminal justice system: promises and challenges in deployment and research

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

HHarmony in Bb — the present and future of ATLAS DiHiggs(4b) searches

Teng Jian Khoo (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

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

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal

Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics by the sea with BBC Coast

Professor David Sharp, The Open University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Eetu Loisa - TBA

Eetu Loisa (DAMTP).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Dr Vegard Aune, NTNU, Norway.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in the multi-fluid plasma regime with transport effects

Kyriakos Tapinou, University of Queensland.

Zoom.

Friday 03 March 2023, 10:00-11:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Keeping up the pressure

Patricia Alireza, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

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

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Carroll, Cotton and Ehlers

Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechique).

MR11.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

On the motivations and challenges of affiliates involved in cybercrime

Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Université de Montréal.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

Prof Chris Hays (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

Prof. Alison Smith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

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

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Human perception of transient longitudinal vehicle motion

Samer Abdelmoeti, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Gluons and Euclidean Gravity on the Lattice

Chris Bouchard (Glasgow).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Charles Gai & Jamie Clarkson, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The formation of contrast in scanning helium microscopy

Sam Lambrick, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM

Hrvoje Jasak (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Learning and Control for Networked Autonomy

Konstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

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

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

No One to Blame, but... : Fear and Failure in Securing Large Organisations

Ahana Datta, University College London.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?

Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery

Thomas Lanyon-Hogg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

CANCELLED

Lynn Berry (Open University).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Effective Field Theories for heavy and light new physics.

Anke Biekötter (Mainz U.).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Soil-structure interactions during underground construction: measurement and monitoring

Dr Brian Sheil, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

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

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids

Zohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Jonas Cremer, Stanford University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

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

Department of Engineering - LR6.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Binary Stars: How Crime Shapes Insurance and Insurance Shapes Crime

Anja Shortland, King's College London.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

Raphael Jungers, UC Louvain.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals

Prof. Steve Brusatte.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Taylor E. Dysart (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Complexity in Vibrations and Dynamics – Phenomena and Methods

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

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Mao Zeng - Gravitational waves and multi-loop scattering amplitudes

Mao Zeng (Edinburgh U.).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Dr Fen Fang, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Stress-unsupervised learning of material models using experimental data

Dr Akshay Joshi, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Multistable morphing structures

Professor Yang Li, Wuhan University .

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

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Experimental and numerical study of detonation reaction zones

James Edgeley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Understanding Metallic Bonding

Volker Heine.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Feedback system analysis: back to the future

Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Extending the leading direct dark matter searches to lighter particles

Prof Henrique Araujo (Imperial).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

Professor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit

Dr. Josephine Bryant.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

Jan Becker (European University Institute).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Miguel Crispim Romao - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Collider and Beyond the Standard Model Physics

Miguel Crispim Romao (Southampton U. and LIP, Minho).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Zero Carbon Cement

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

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

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

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Influence Policing: Mapping the Rise of Strategic Communications and Digital Behaviour Change within UK Law Enforcement and Security Services

Note unusual time

Ben Collier, University Of Edinburgh.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Heavy quark fragmentation: why, how, and where to?

Chris Pollard (Warwick).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Space: The Final Front-queer

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age?

Professor Mark Girolami FREng GRSE.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Monday 30 January 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Frederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Why is the clarinet like a violin?

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Using Architected Materials to Enable Novel Properties

Professor Yunlan Zhang, University of Texas .

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University.

Meeting ID: 898 8054 7075 .

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Quantum tunnelling effects in the guanine-thymine wobble misincorporation via tautomerism

Louie Slocombe, Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Surrey.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability

Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electron Correlation and Coupling with Phonon in the Rhombohedral Stacked Graphene

Prof. Long Ju, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Custom Orthogonal Weight functions (COWs) - an improved event weighting procedure for removing background from signal.

Matt Kenzie (University of Warwick).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?

Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Professor Lizzy Cross, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

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

Dr Mark Schenk, University of Bristol.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting

Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Smarter materials for simpler robotics

Andrew Conn.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Rare neutral current decays of b quarks at LHCb

Lakshan Mohan (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Special Departmental Seminars

Radio Cosmology — a new window on the Universe"

Dr Richard Shaw, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Monday 09 January 2023, 11:45-12:25

Special Departmental Seminars

Mapping the Universe at 21 cm

Dr Seth Siegel, McGill University, Montreal.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Monday 09 January 2023, 11:00-11:40

Special Departmental Seminars

Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Re-ionization: unveiling the mysteries of the infant universe with experimental radio cosmology

Dr Eloy de Lera Acedo.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Monday 09 January 2023, 10:00-10:40

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

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

Special Departmental Seminars

“Multi-survey cosmology: opportunities in the systematics-limited regime”

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Elisabeth Krause.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 16:30-17:10

Special Departmental Seminars

Interpretable Machine Learning for Science

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Miles Cranmer, Princeton University.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 15:50-16:30

Special Departmental Seminars

Cosmology with photometry galaxy surveys: from precision to accuracy

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Boris Leistedt.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:50-15:30

Special Departmental Seminars

"Black Hole Physics Meets Gravitational Wave Data"

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Christopher Moore.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:10-14:50

Special Departmental Seminars

"Data-driven exploration beyond the Standard Model of particle physics"

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Ken Mimasu.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 13:30-14:10

Special Departmental Seminars

“Getting a flavour for New Physics at LHCb”

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Matthew Kenzie.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 11:50-12:30

Special Departmental Seminars

"Nested sampling: powering the next-generation of Bayesian inference tools for cosmology, particle physics and beyond"

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Will Handley.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 11:10-11:50

Special Departmental Seminars

"On Modelling Complex Systems in Astronomy"

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Prof Yuan-Sen Ting.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 10:20-11:00

Special Departmental Seminars

“Machine Learning and Gravitational Waves”.

This will be a hybrid lecture, all members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture.

Dr Stephen Green.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 09:40-10:20

Special Departmental Seminars

"Image analysis: from particle physics to cancer research"

The lecture will be hybrid in format, all members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture.

Dr Lorena Escudero Sanchez .

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 09:00-09:40

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

A Sociotechnical Audit: Assessing Police use of Facial Recognition

Note unusual time

Evani Radiya-Dixit, Minderoo Centre for Tech & Democracy.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Vector Boson Scattering to Unravel EWSB and probe BSM physics

Karolos Potamianos (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Instabilities in kirigami structures

Dr Marcelo Dias, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Evidence is all you need: Nested Sampling for particle physics

David Yallup (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Science Student Research Series

Wolfson College's PhD students.

Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 02 December 2022, 17:45-19:15