Darwin College Lecture Series

Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948

Professor Issa Boulos, University of Chicago.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Benefits and Challenges of using Nonlinear Vibration Absorbers in Cyclic Structures

Tobias Weidemann, PhD student, University of Stuttgart.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Precision Monte Carlo Tools and Resummation of Soft-Photon Effects for Low-Energy e+e- Scattering

Jérémy Paltrinieri, University of Liverpool.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 15:30-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Strict Manipulation-Based Conception of Causality, and its Implications

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Fredrik Savje (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 14:15-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Characterizing and identifying separable graphical models

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Christopher Meek (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:30-14:15

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Postdoctoral Research Associate Talks, Shanlin Rao | Dalila Boi

Dr Shanlin RaoD, Dr Dalila Boi, Department of Pharmacology.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila

Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

AMET seminars

Plasmas, Plants and Partnerships: Supporting Industrial Decarbonisation through Fusion Energy

Ben Evans (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

The complexity of platform power

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Are our DAGs correct? Recent developments in causal discovery evaluation

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Jonas Wahl (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Discovery in Network Data

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Elena Zheleva (University of Illinois Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Learning non-DAGs by learning DAGs

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

James Cussens (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 09:15-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2025

Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Interference: Past, Present, Future

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

M. Elizabeth Halloran (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-16:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science

Eric Winsberg (University of Cambridge & University of South Florida).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:30-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Measuring phonons with the spin of helium atoms

Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Deriving complete constraints in discrete hidden variable DAGs: some practical issues

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Erin Gabriel (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:45-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

The saga of chiral transitions in arrays of Rydberg atoms

Natalia Chepiga (Oxford).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Professor Gwénaël Rapenne

Professor Gwénaël Rapenne - University of Toulouse.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Verbal suggestion and the modulation of perception: Implications for psychological science, psychopathology, and psychedelics

Devin Terhune, KCL.

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

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discrete Causal Representation Learning

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Yuqi Gu (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-14:45

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Special Guest Lecture: Professor Bill DeGrado, De Novo Design of Protein Catalysts, Drug-Delivery Vehicles and Nanopores

Professor Bill DeGrado, School of Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Thursday 05 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Hierarchical modular organization in the brain: segregation, integration and their balance underlying cognitive diversity

Note unusual time

Prof. Changsong Zhou. Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Life Science Imaging Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University..

Online. .

Thursday 05 March 2026, 12:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal invariance and beyond

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Ernst C. Wit (Università della Svizzera italiana).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal discovery through Pearson risk invariance

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Veronica Vinciotti (University of Trento).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 10:30-11:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell; Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Parameter identification in linear non-Gaussian causal models under general confounding

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 09:15-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal Dinner at Sidney Sussex College

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

.

External.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 19:30-22:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Session

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

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Foyer.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Missing data: Mechanisms and Mitigations

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Kate Tilling (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:45-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

SimPoly: Simulation of Polymers with Machine Learning Force Fields Derived from First Principles + the Challenge of Long-Range Interactions (arXiv:2510.13696)

Dr Lixin Sun and Dr Gregor Simm, Microsoft.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Helen Shea

If you are external to BAS and would like to attend please reach out to the organisers before the talk and arrive at reception 10 minutes before so we can let you in.

Helen Shea - Monash University.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MIT bag operator in non-smooth convex domains

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Konstantin Pankrashkin (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal effect interpretation in Mendelian randomization studies

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Eleanor Sanderson (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-14:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

AI revolution! At whose cost? Towards environmental AI ethics

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

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

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 13:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Root Cause Discovery via Permutations and Cholesky Decomposition

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Jinzhou Li (National University of Singapore).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Estimates on the $L^2$ norm of the positive solutions of a two parameter family of nonlinear PDE´s of the TFW type.

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Rafael Benguria (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal discovery with tiered background knowledge

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Christine Bang (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

When the Causal Graph is Unknown, Embrace Model Pluralism: Some Ideas and Challenges

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Rohit Bhattacharya (Williams College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 09:15-10:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Glycogen to Ubiquitin and back again

Sir Philip Cohen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning

Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) .

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

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal effects conditional on post-treatment variables

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Mats Stensrud (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 16:00-16:45

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Gravitational instantons with a cosmological constant

Bernardo Araneda (Edinburgh).

CMS MR11.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing Single-atom Catalysts and Nanocatalysts for Hydrogen Production and Utilization

Professor Taeghwan Hyeon - 1 Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), 2 School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul.

Dept. of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Modelling with Stationary Processes

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Sarah Lumpp (Technical University of Munich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Single Proxy Identifiability of Causal Effects

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Silvan Vollmer (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Identification under Unmeasured Confounding: Opportunities in Multidimensional Data

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Linbo Wang (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 11:45-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Cancelled: Semiconductor-based neutron detector development at QMUL

Adrian John Bevan, Queen Mary University of London.

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Structured Offline Reinforcement Learning via Reward Filtering and Orthogonal Q-Contrasts

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Angela Zhou (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards a Complete Characterization of Target Law Identification in Missing Data DAG Models

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Razieh Nabi (Emory University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 09:45-10:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What is Digital Identity all about?

Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS. Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation

Dan Bendor, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 02 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Assessing Interactive Causes of an Occurred Outcome Due to Two Binary Exposures

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Shanshan Luo (Beijing Technology and Business University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 15:30-16:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persuasion

Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 02 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The curious spectra and dynamics of non-locally finite crystals

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Matthias Täufer (University Polytechnic Hauts-De-France).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Addressing an extreme positivity violation to distinguish the causal effects of surgery and anesthesia via a separable effects model

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Caleb Miles (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:00-14:45

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

How microbes at extremes shape the limits of the biosphere (and might help human activity in space)

Professor Charles Cockell - School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Establishment of Modern Atlantic Circulation linked to Weakening Iceland Scotland Overflow Water

David Thornally, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Emily Hughes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens).

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

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Brain age prediction and early neurodegeneration detection using contrastive learning on brain biomechanics

Jakob Träuble, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uncertainty for Causal Discovery

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Y. Samuel Wang (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 11:30-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Model-oriented Graph Distances via Partially Ordered Sets

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Richard Guo (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 10:45-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Learning and exploiting graphical structure to support valid inference for causal effects

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Daniel Malinsky (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 09:30-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organisers' Welcome

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Thomas Richardson (University of Washington), Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 09:15-09:20

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology

Professor Conny Aerts, KU Leuven.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design Optimisation of Locally Resonant Metamaterials under Uncertainty

Niccolo Klinger, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Baryogenesis in the 2HDM+a

Tom Gent (University of Sussex).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Fractional Multiscale Many-Body Quantum Materials: From Phase Transitions to Causality

Lincoln Carr (Colorado School of Mines).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Friday 27 February 2026, 14:15-15:15

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Elle McDonagh, Variant interpretation at scale for safer and more effective disease treatment

Dr Elle McDonagh.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

To divide or differentiate, that is the question

Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics

Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

Scott Lectures

2026 Scott Lectures: Superconducting Spintronics for Racetrack Memory

Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics).

Lecture Theatre, Level 2, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Friday 27 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ladybirds in the UK: more diverse than you may think!

Peter Brown.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Novel quantum dynamics with superconducting qubits

Pedram Roushan (Google Quantum AI).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

AI, automation, and the problem of error in science

Stephan Guttinger (University of Exeter).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Cancelled

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The effect of damage on the mechanical response and sensitiveness of energetic composites

Kieran Heal, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room North, Room A0.019, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exciton Self-Trapping, Frozen Disorder, and Morphotropic Phase Boundaries in Halide Perovskites

Prof. Julia Wiktor (Chalmers).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Translational psychological science for youth mental health

Tim Dalgleish, U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

The brain as a changing operating environment

Charles Micou, University of Cambridge.

LR5, Department of Engineering..

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

LECTURE SERIES: Biosensors, process modelling, strain engineering and AI protein design talks

Various.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-17:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Computational Neuroscience

Multiplexed representations of decision content and uncertainty in visual processin

Dominik Straub; Ishan Kalburge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 09:00-11:00

Scott Lectures

2026 Scott Lectures: 2D van der Waals materials for spintronics

Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 16:15-17:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Algorithm-mediated social learning

William Brady (Northwestern University).

Online.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

A rule that’s made to be broken? Reframing the Arrhenius law and the calculation of activation energies for ion transport in solid electrolytes.

Dr Vanessa Ward, Durham University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pleijel's theorem for sub-Riemannian Laplacians

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Rupert Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Boosting local biomanufacturing in the global south to impact health and sustainability

Dr Jenny Molloy - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 13:30-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Recent Progress in the Hot Spots Conjecture

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Jaume de Dios Pont (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reading your DNA

Sir Shankar Balasubramanian.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge

Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fluorescence-Lifetime Super-Resolution Microscopy

Prof Jörg Enderlein, Georg August University, Göttingen.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

A new legacy of Cavendish radio astronomy: high dynamic range imaging of 3CRR

Dr. Vijay Mahatma (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Towards the discovery of 0vbb: first results from LEGEND

William Quinn (University College London).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Climate scientists as analysts, advisors, advocates, or activists: what’s the difference and does it matter?

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDJlNDNiMGItY2YxZS00MjRiLTk5NjgtZWZkYjM2MjI3ZTQx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Prof Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED .....CSAR lecture: Finding common ground

Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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

Monday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops

Livia de Hoz, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Scott Lectures

2026 Scott Lectures: Spintronics for massive data memory-storage – past present and future

Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:15-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Overdetermined problems and higher order mean curvatures: symmetry and stability results (a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Nunzia Gavitone (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The limiting case of the fractional Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension one

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Mariel Saez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Considerations and counterfactuals for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands

Tom Reershemius, Newcastle University .

MR3, CMS.

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature

Hilbrand Wouters (University of Konstanz).

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

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900

Dr Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine

Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modal Identification via Computer Vision

Mario Visconte, PhD student, University of Calabria, UNICAL.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Top-Yukawa- and light-quark-induced electroweak corrections to Higgs-Pair Production via Gluon Fusion

Arunima Bhattacharya (Valencia U., IFIC).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructurally informed material modelling workflows for fusion engineering applications

Dr. Pratheek Shanthraj, UKAEA.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Shorthouse, AI (and robots!) for Accelerated Discovery in Pharmaceutical Science

Professor David Shorthouse.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

AMET seminars

Why Water’s Worth Weighing: The Missing Molecule in Materials of the Future

Ben Davey (Xylem).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Friday 20 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Update on Swift Conservation in the UK

Dick Newell.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Chronic nation: the politics of experts, health and making modern Indian citizens (1940–70s)

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Functional theory of the occupied spectral density and solution of its dynamical Euler-Lagrange equations

Prof. Andrea Ferretti.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Something for everyone: Stories from the vault of an optoelectronic materials group.

Professor Eli Zysman-Colman, Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control of Lumped-Distributed Control Systems

Richard Vinter, Imperial College.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering..

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How the Usefulness of Statistical Evidence Depends on the Relevant Legal Criteria in Civil Cases in the U.S.

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

Joseph Gastwirth (George Washington University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain

Nicholas Wright (University College London; Georgetown University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Condensation in pores as a metaphor for benign overfitting?

Dr Christian Kexel, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory

Marcus Hutter (DeepMind).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR5.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

The genetic architecture of autism: from medicine to neurodiversity

Prof. Thomas Bourgeron, Université Paris Cité, Institut Pasteur, .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81286610099?pwd=HsKTIo1MzZ7eEOJUaVYrEBbCvSSW1g.1.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electrons to Empires: A First-principles View on Science, Technology, and Politics in a Materials World

Professor Nicola Marzari.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria

Chidi Ugwu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka).

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

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Novel Latent Variable Modeling and Methods for Complex Large-scale Assessments

Chun Wang.

S3.04, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Introduction to Cavendish Arts Science Fellow Thulani Rachia

Thulani Rachia.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy from Non-Supersymmetric String Theory

Susha Parameswaran (University of Liverpool).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The search for life beyond the solar system 

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzMxOWYyNjAtYWFjNS00ZGNlLTliOTYtZjY2MTM2YWE4OGI2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, now at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What insect-watching can tell us about the evolution of animal behaviour

Dr William Foster.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brainwide sequences of neural activity

Matteo Carandini, University College London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

How much permafrost organic carbon will be released to the atmosphere by 2100? - some geochemical perspectives

Catherine Hirst, University of Durham.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 16 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex

Samira M. Epp, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance

Dr Matthew Gordley, Carlow University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 13 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Technology choice for road freight electrification

Dr Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Untangling the IBP Equations

William Liu (University of Cambridge).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Lightweight Structures: Integrating Engineering and Architecture

Dr Joshua Schultz, Gonzaga University.

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

Friday 13 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D/4D static recrystallisation and grain growth behaviour in magnesium alloys

Dr Dikai Guan, University of Southampton.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Ron, How is Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Recognised?

Professor David Ron.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Lineage architecture of the human and avian spinal cord revealed by single cell genomic barcoding

Giulia Boezio, Francis Crick Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on

Marcus Munafò, University of Bath.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Return of the Beaver: reintroducing the first beavers to Northamptonshire for 400 years

Ben Casey, Wildlife Trust BCN.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Permission to know

Jessie Munton (Faculty of Philosophy).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Topological pumping and quantum information

Konrad Viebahn ETH Zurich.

Ray Dolby Centre, 2nd floor seminar room, PHY-RDC B2.002 .

Thursday 12 February 2026, 15:30-16:45

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Experimental-Numerical Failure Investigation in Adhesively Bonded Lightweight Structures in Extreme Mechanical Environments

Please note that this seminar will not be livestreamed.

Maria Lißner, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room North, Room A0.019, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Concluding Discussion

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:30-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

From Anderson to Many-Body localization: Instabilities in the random-field XXZ chain

Dr Jeanne Colbois (CNRS).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:00-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum metal-organic frameworks: harnessing the modularity of magnetic MOFs towards quantum function

Professor Matthew Cliffe, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Understanding, predicting and reducing dementia risk: insights from the heart and brain

Sana Suri, U. of Oxford.

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

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: AI-Driven Drifter Placement for Ocean Currents

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Rui-Yang Zhang (Lancaster University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Projective Shape Analysis of Spatial Orientation

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Mihaela Pricop-Jeckstadt (University Politehnica of Bucharest).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:30-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Variational Flow Matching: A Tutorial on Generative AI for Scientific Applications

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Jan-Willem van de Meent (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Discovery of Spin-Crossover Metal-Organic Frameworks from Limited and Noisy Data using Quantile Active Learning - Virtual Presentation

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Roberta Poloni (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 10:00-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Foundation models for biology, across scales and modalities

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Jean-Philippe Vert (Bioptimus).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 09:00-10:00

Computational Neuroscience

Compositional Generalization and Learning

Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 09:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building Embodied Intelligence: Insights from Wayve’s Journey in Autonomous Driving

Dr Alex Kendall.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Emergent physics in atomically thin semiconductors

Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 16:15-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion: Synergies in AI for Health, Geosciences and beyond

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Jean-Philippe Vert (Bioptimus), Stig Niklas Linde (Université de Lausanne), Ronghui Xu (University of California, San Diego), Sarah Brüningk (Universität Bern).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Behaviour change to achieve net zero

Lorraine Whitmarsh (University of Bath).

Online.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Markov Categories

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

Tobias Fritz (Leopold-Franzens Universtät Innsbruck).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 15:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial on Bayesian inference with deep generative models: Examples from hydrogeology and geophysics

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Stig Niklas Linde (Université de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title: A new approach to address scrambling of quantum information using Graph and Ergodic theories.

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann Institute of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: A review of modern Bayesian and post-Bayesian sampling methods

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Marina Riabiz (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Turning Start-ups into Reality with Chemical Engineering

Rulande Rogers - Chief Technology Officer, Thermulon Ltd..

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 13:30-14:45

ARClub Talks

Investigating the role of three screening measures to support clinical decision-making in adult autism assessments

Dr Janine Robinson, CPFT.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81286610099?pwd=HsKTIo1MzZ7eEOJUaVYrEBbCvSSW1g.1.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial on Mechanistic Learning in Mathematical Oncology

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Sarah Brüningk (Universität Bern).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Resolution-adaptive networks for uniform performance across heterogeneous medical image cohorts

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Richard McKinley (Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 10:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Cognitive brain imaging in the age of AI

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Bertrand Thirion (INRIA).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 09:00-10:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Adventures in Molecular recognition: from one happy accident to another

Professor Jeremy Sanders.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China

Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Agentic AI for Science Workshop Activity

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 15:45-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to the "Raspberry Pi for Agentic AI" idea

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Neil Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 15:30-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Interactive discussion session

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:25-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scaling LLMs to serve the academic community

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Ryan Daniels (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:10-14:25

Surface Physics Seminar

Measurement of electrical currents

Bill Allison, Cavendish Lab.

Seminar Room - North, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Advancing agricultural resilience to climate and disease risks with AI tools

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Jacob Smith (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 13:55-14:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Agents for scientific discovery

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Boris Bolliet (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 13:40-13:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An Introduction to the Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Jessica Montgomery (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 13:30-13:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Representing Time Series, Missingness, and Semantics in Surgical Risk Prediction

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Hugo Armando Guillen Ramirez (Universität Bern).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:30-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Muon Collider As The Next Generation Particle Physics Facility

Karol Krizka (University of Birmingham).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Contributed Talk: Learning to Design Infrastructure Networks

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Akanksha Ahuja (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A synthesised global database of dimethylsulfide concentration in the marine atmosphere

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzIyNGNhYzEtNzg5Zi00MDYzLWFmMDMtMzgwZjEzNDM0ODBi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

George Manville, University of Exeter.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Lightning Talks

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 10:00-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Benefits of Multi-modality: alignment, unpaired data and cross-model correspondences - Virtual presentation

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Stefanie Jegelka (Technical University of Munich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design

Prof Bill O’Neill FREng, FInstP, FLIA, FIAPLE, Director of the Centre for Industrial Photonics, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Learning to perceive what is important: An olfactory optimisation story

Jamie Johnston, University of Leeds.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 09 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Tutorial on AI in Biomedical Research: Bridging Data, Causality, and Clinical Impact

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Judith Abecassis (INRIA).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 15:45-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

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Foyer.

Monday 09 February 2026, 15:15-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral inequalities for the Laplacian on manifolds with bounded sectional curvature

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Jean Lagacé (King's College London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Artificial Intelligence Pathways from Weather to Climate

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Tom Beucler (Université de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's welcome

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham), David Ginsbourger (Universität Bern), Florence d'Alché-Buc (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:05-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Deputy Director's Briefing

RCLW05 - AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:00-14:05

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Atmospheric waves: gravity waves and their representation in climate models

Iman Toghraei, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: investigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium

Brad Scott (Queen Mary University of London).

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

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Leveraging large-scale datasets in boutique MEG studies

Chetan Gohil, University of Oxford, UK..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs We Grow By

Dr Ibrahim Baltagi, Lebanese American University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness

Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modelling tyre-belt vibrations at acoustic frequencies

Dr Will Graham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

NNLO QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with a jet

Colomba Brancaccio (Turin U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

De Novo Design of Functional Proteins

This talk is a part of the "AI for Proteins: Industry/Academia Mini Symposium" 13:00-17:00 on 6 February - All welcome

William DeGrado, University of California, San Francisco.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 February 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:45-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenvalue optimisation in geometric analysis

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Mikhail Karpukhin (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-14:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-Driven Constitutive Modelling for Non-Equilibrium Systems

Dr. Shenglin Huang, Sheffield University .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Clare Bryant, Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in infection and sterile inflammation

Professor Clare Bryant.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters

Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

AMET seminars

Perspectives on Green Chemistry Innovation

Ruth Pegington (Cambridge Display Technology).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Friday 06 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimization problems for magnetic ground states on surfaces

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Marco Michetti (Chalmers University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometric spectral properties of electromagnetic waveguides

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Michele Zaccaron (ENSTA ParisTech).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Friday 06 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

About the shape maximizing the gradient of the torsion function

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Ilias Ftouhi (Nîmes University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Quantitative stability for minimizers of a Yamabe problem on manifolds with boundaries

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Hanne Van Den Bosch (Universidad de Chile).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 09:45-10:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trumpington Meadows past, present and future

Iain Webb, Wildlife Trust BCN.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenvalue Estimates and Geometric Rigidity of Hypersurfaces

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Abhitosh Upadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:35-16:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A quantitative result for the k-Hessian equation.

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Alba Lia Masiello (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, Rome).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:20-16:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The asymptotic behavior of the first Robin eigenvalue with negative parameter as $p$ goes to $+\infty$

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Rosa Barbato (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:05-16:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymptotic analysis of the Steklov problem within a conformal class

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Thomas Héliere (Université Laval).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:50-16:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:30-15:50

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The secret causes of the Castle Bravo accident

Alex Wellerstein (Stevens Institute of Technology).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral Analysis of high-contrast degenerate random systems

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Matteo Savasta (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:15-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A Journey From The Center Of The Earth

Please arrive at RDC reception by 14:55 if coming from outside the department.

Charles Carrigan, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room C, Room C3.002, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory (through the speed gates opposite the Cavendish Cafe).

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Lieb-Thirring type inequalities for Schrödinger operators with complex potentials

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Sukrid Petpradittha (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Structure-Preserving FEEC Methods for Spectral and Pseudospectral Analysis of Dynamo Operators

Umberto Zerbinati (University of Oxford).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lower bounds for the Hodge Laplacian spectrum on non-convex domains

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Tirumala Venkata Chakradhar (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:45-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanistic understanding-led transition metal catalyzed C-H functionalization

Professor Igor Larrosa (Department of Chemistry | University of Manchester) .

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Robin and Cheeger partitions of domains

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

James Kennedy (Universidade de Aveiro).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:00-14:45

Chaucer Club

Exploring high-level cognition through large language models

Ariel Goldstein, U. of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Biophysics of motility of unicellular organisms

Prof. Antonio De Simone.

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimality and stability of the radial shapes for the Sobolev trace constant

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Simone Cito (Università del Salento).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On some functionals involving torsional rigidity and principal eigenvalue

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Vincenzo Amato (Scuola Superiore Meridionale).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral properties of Maxwell operators

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Francesco Ferraresso (Università degli Studi di Verona).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Doubling inequalities for eigenfunctions

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Eugenia Malinnikova (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Informal Dinner

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 19:00-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Careers Session: Panel Discussion

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

ARClub Talks

The Biology of Profound Autism: From Embryogenesis to Social Neural and Clinical Outcomes by Pre-School Ages

Professor Eric Courchesne, University of California, San Diego.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81074736811?pwd=wGWdPzaQKPkbBPqrdFgk4o1mkITSyV.1.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Open problems session

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:30-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimisation of Steklov transmission eigenvalues and minimal surfaces

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Alain Didier Noutchegueme (Université de Montréal).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Giangiacomo Navarra

If you are external to BAS and would like to attend please reach out to the organisers before the talk and arrive at reception 10 minutes before so we can let you in.

Giangiacomo Navarra - Princeton.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenvalue optimization in higher dimensions and p-harmonic maps

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Denis Vinokurov (Université de Montréal).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The hot-cold distance 

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Lawford Hatcher (Indiana University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the discrete spectrum of non-selfadjoint operators with applications to Schrödinger operators with complex potentials

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Sabine Boegli (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the role of the SCI hierarchy in spectral theory and PDEs — Determining uncertainty principles and the boundaries of mathematics in analysis

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Other Departmental Seminars

From Optimal Gridding toward Learning-Based Imaging in Radio Interferometry

Dr Haoyang Ye, Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Seminar Room C, RDC, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 09:30-10:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The death of consumerism and how we build a more sustainable future

Professor Mark Miodownik.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

Experimenting on/with eels: colonial space and electric knowledge construction in the 18th century

Soile Ylivuori (University of Helsinki).

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

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Open Problems Session

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free boundary regularity for a spectral optimal partition problem with volume and inclusion constraints

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Dario Mazzoleni (Università degli Studi di Pavia).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 15:50-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 15:30-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Minimal Submanifolds in Asymptotically Hyperbolic Manifolds

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Samuel Perez-Ayala (Haverford College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral inequalities, sampling sets, and quantum graphs

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Michela Egidi (University of Rostock).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-14:45

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Challenges for the Montreal Protocol revealed in atmospheric measurements

RSC 2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Mid-Career Prize Winner

Prof Matthew Rigby, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Surface Physics Seminar

Quantum Simulations of Ballistic Motion

Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

B2.009, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Parametric deformation arguments in spectral geometry

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Josef Greilhuber (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

SENSOR SEMINAR SERIES: Aptamer-based Biosensors for Mapping Neurochemicals at the Nanoscale

Professor Nako Nakatsuka - Laboratory of Chemical Nanotechnology, EPF Lausanne.

Room C, West Hub, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rigidity in the Ginzburg–Landau equation from S2 to S2

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Matilde Gianocca (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break / Group Photo

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Hills Coffee Talks

Exploring Pathways from Chemistry to Complexity in Dynamic Environments

Skyla White (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Hints of Dark Matter at the LHC in Electroweak SUSY final states?

Alessandro Ruggiero (University of Oxford).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Apollonian random manifolds and their bass notes

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Bram Petri (Sorbonne Université).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The spectral gap of a hyperbolic surface

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Michael Magee (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Computational Neuroscience

Mind-body dualism: A perceptual core

Ehud Ahissar, Weizmann Institute for Science.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 09:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cars, aeroplanes, and quantum physics: Why complexity makes life simpler for the vibration engineer

Professor Robin Langley FREng. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome Reception & Poster Session

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Monday 02 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep

Helen Barron, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 02 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Boundary regularity of optimal sets for the critical buckling load of clamped plates

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Mickaël Nahon (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 15:50-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Monday 02 February 2026, 15:30-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Shape optimisation under width type constraint

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Ilaria Lucardesi (Università di Pisa).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Semiclassical inequalities for Dirichlet and Neumann Laplacians

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Simon Larson (Göteborgs Universitet).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 14:00-14:45

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Quantifying the human component of the Earth System

Eric Galbraith, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Representing the tropical 'hortus': natural knowledge in Michael Boym's Flora Sinensis (1656)

Eszter Csillag (Hong Kong Baptist University).

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

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Efficient fMRI design for activations and patterns

Rik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hessian operators, overdetermined problems, and higher order mean curvatures: symmetry and stability results

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Gloria Paoli (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Two disks maximize the third Robin eigenvalue: positive parameters

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Hanna Kim (UNC Chapel Hill and RIMS).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Foyer.

Monday 02 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

.

Foyer.

Monday 02 February 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry of Small Laplace and Steklov Eigenvalues

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Asma Hassannezhad (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's welcome

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 10:05-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

GSTW05 - Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2026, 10:00-10:05

Darwin College Lecture Series

Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place

Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 30 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Analysis of Long-Term Degradation of Electric Heavy Goods Vehicle Traction Batteries Using In-Service Data

Harry Durham, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Towards precision Studies of B → Kπ l+ l- from Lattice QCD Beyond the Narrow-Width Approximation

Felix Erben, CERN.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Interested in Catalysis ? Biology sets ultimate goals, from electrocatalysts to tandem++ cascades in mesoporous materials

Professor Fraser A. Armstrong FRS, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Friday 30 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Evangelia Petsalaki, From data towards Digital Twins of biological systems: Network-based approaches to study context-specific cell signalling

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes

Patrick Cai, University of Manchester.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

hkb32's list

POSTPONED, new date t.b.c. Degrading Proteins in the Brain: Can we get there and how can we make it work?

POSTPONED new date t.b.c.

Will Farnaby, University of Dundee Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation.

Clifford Allbutt Building Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 30 January 2026, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Nature's Memory; behind the scenes at the world's natural history museums

Jack Ashby, Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Networking Reception with Brady Haran (Numberphile)

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

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Foyer.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wrap Up

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 17:20-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel - Next Steps from Themes of the Day

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Julia Gog (University of Cambridge), Anna Khoo (Office for National Statistics), Katie Steckles (Manchester Metropolitan University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 16:40-17:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Training Taster Session on Evaluation

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Jamie Gallagher (Freelance).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 16:20-16:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Make it Move - Training Taster Session from Ben Sparks

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Ben Sparks (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:40-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Q&A and Discussion

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Timandra Harkness (Freelance), Ed Day (Science Media Centre), John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:30-15:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lessons from Journalism

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:10-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Directional reflectance microscopy: Beyond conventional crystal orientation mapping

Matteo Seita, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

An extrapolation principle for the Fourier operator

Miquel Saucedo (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Importance of Engaging with the News Media – The Work of the Science Media Centre

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Ed Day (Science Media Centre).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:50-15:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

What’s the story? Numbers and Narratives

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Timandra Harkness (Freelance).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:30-14:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Training Taster Session by: Duncan Yellowlees

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Duncan Yellowlees (Freelance).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:10-14:30

Chaucer Club

Correcting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy sources with reinforcement learning

Stefano Palminteri, Ecole Normale Superieure.

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

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Decoding Mechanisms for Reactivity Discover & Design

Prof Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) .

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Q&A and Discussion

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Anna Khoo (Office for National Statistics), Gillian Prior (National Centre for Social Research), Kat Phillips (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-13:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Providing access to data and information

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Anna Khoo (Office for National Statistics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 12:40-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Adapting to a Changing Audience

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Kat Phillips (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 12:20-12:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Social attitudes and the art of asking questions

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Gillian Prior (National Centre for Social Research).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 12:00-12:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Q&A and Discussion

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 11:30-11:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talking from experience - how NOT to communicate Mathematics

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

David Abrahams (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 11:10-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Master of the Machinery: Climate and Energy Modelling

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Aled Jones (Anglia Ruskin University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:50-11:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Be intelligent, not artificial

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Christopher Budd (University of Bath).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:30-10:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Hannah Fry (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:20-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Setting the Scene

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

TGM156 - Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute), Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway to Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:00-10:10

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Computational Neuroscience

Infinite Hidden Semi-Markov Models

Carl Ashworth; Vince Velkey.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 09:00-11:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

AI and the Democratic Information Environment

Helen Margetts (University of Oxford).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

When Fokker–Planck Meets Contact Geometry in Thermodynamics

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

An academic journey from the genetic code reprogramming to therapeutic innovation

Prof Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo).

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Ultra-tough metals via high strain-hardening

Professor Thomas Pardoen, UCLouvain and WEL Research Institute.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building molecules that mimic biological function

Professor Jonathan Clayden.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Adventures in Demand Analysis Using AI

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Victor Chernozhukov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Linear Estimation of Structural and Causal Effects for Nonseparable Panel Data

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Whitney K Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Composite electrodes for sodium-ion batteries – are two phases better than one?

Professor Robert A. Armstrong - Principal Research Fellow, School of Chemistry - University of St Andrews.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Surface Physics Seminar

Journal club: High resolution neutron Larmor diffraction using superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms

Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

B3.009, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nonparametrics in causal inference: densities, heterogeneity, & beyond

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Edward Kennedy (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 13:30-14:30

Hills Coffee Talks

The SuperSharp story - a space tech company spun out of Cambridge Astronomy

Ian Parry (IoA and CTO of SuperSharp Space Systems Ltd).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Inference and Decompositions for Sequence Data Using Generative Models

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Susan Athey (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searching for long-lived heavy neutrinos at the LHC

Dominique Trischuk (University of Victoria).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Machine learning, causal inference, and economics

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hidden Universe of The Human Microbiome and Its Role In Health and Disease: How DNA sequencing approaches can help us understand the hidden dark matter of the human microbiome

Dr. Alexandre Almeida, School of the Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 26 January 2026, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to studying visual memory

Mark Eldridge, Newcastle University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 26 January 2026, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An overview of the UK's new nationally-representative birth cohort studies

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Pasco Fearon (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

From Pregnancy to Adulthood: Opportunities for Causal Insights from the Norwegian MoBa Cohort

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Alexandra Havdahl (Norwegian Institute of Public Health).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fourier uncertainty principles

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Sergey Tikhonov (ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Differential Adherence and Differential Treatment Response

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

David DeGarmo (University of Oregon).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:30-14:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Overturning 'overturning paradigms': radiocarbon constraints on glacial-interglacial ocean circulation and CO2 change

Luke Skinner, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causation in Law and Statistics

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Population Heterogeneity, Causal Inference, and AI-Generated Data for Social Science

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Yu Xie (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's Welcome

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Qingyuan Zhao (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

CIFW05 - Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 26 January 2026, 09:15-09:20

Darwin College Lecture Series

Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?

Professor Hans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Individual differences in mathematical cognition: A Bert’s eye view

Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The elephant in the room: Machine Learning directly into physical models

Professor Matthew Juniper, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Among the Rarest: Theoretical Insights into Four Top-Quark Production at the LHC

Michele Lupattelli (Münster U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free Discussion and Refreshments

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 15:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel discussion: Foundation of causal inference

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Philip Dawid (University of Cambridge), Thomas Richardson (University of Washington), Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Emilija Perkovic (University of Washington), Betsy Ogburn (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Meritxell Canals Buj, Pharmacology, signalling and regulation of the mu-opioid receptor

Professor Meritxell Canals Buj.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 23 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

AMET seminars

The Bumpy Road to Net Zero

David Reiner (Judge Business School).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Friday 23 January 2026, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Critically revisiting causal mediation

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Vanessa Didelez (Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Identification is easy, factorization is hard

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Open Problem Session - booked by M Karpukhin

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Mikhail Karpukhin (University College London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 10:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Markov categories and the inflation technique for latent-variable causal inference

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Tobias Fritz (Leopold-Franzens Universtät Innsbruck).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Correcting nonignorable nonresponse bias in turnout estimation using callback data

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Wang Miao (Peking University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 23 January 2026, 09:00-09:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

The intricate relationships of Sallow and Hazel and the Organisms that live on them

Duncan Mackay.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free Discussion

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University, Boston.

Online.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Session and Refreshments

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Foyer.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:45-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Frugal computation

Xaq Pitkow (CMU).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:30-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological design of light beams: vortices, knots, textures & beyond

Mark Dennis (Birmingham).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talk 5

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

James Robins (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-14:45

Chaucer Club

Scales of injustice: Why a balance metaphor can be misleading when weighing evidence

David Lagnado, UCL.

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

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A quantum experiment with joint exogeneity violation

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bipartite graphical causal models

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Joris Mooij (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scalable Causal Discovery for Statistically Efficient Causal Inference

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Sara Magliacane (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 09:45-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems immunology and variation in the human immune system

Professor Adrian Liston, Dept of Pathology.

Seminar Rooms 1+2 School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hidden Confounding: How Time and Experiments Help

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Jonas Peters (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion: Gaps between theory/methods and scientific applications

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

James Robins (Harvard University), Erin Gabriel (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)), Linbo Wang (University of Toronto), Caleb Miles (Columbia University), Luke Keele (University of Pennsylvania).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Confounding, Dependence, and Causal Variables

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Betsy Ogburn (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 14:45-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using artificial intelligence to push the limits of one-dimensional NMR for structure elucidation

Professor Thomas E. Markland, Stanford University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Laura Taylor

If you are external to BAS and would like to attend please reach out to the organisers before the talk and arrive at reception 10 minutes before so we can let you in.

Laura Taylor (British Antarctic Survey and University of Cambridge).

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lower and upper bounds for the magnetic lowest Dirichlet-to-Neumann eigenvalue in the strong magnetic limit

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Bernard Helffer (Université de Nantes).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gene-environment equivalence: the fundamental principle of Mendelian randomization

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

George Davey Smith (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lost in Aggregation: The Causal Interpretation of the IV Estimand

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Frederick Eberhardt (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 11:30-12:15

ARClub Talks

Community Action to Understand and Prevent Suicide among Autistic People

Dr. Anne Kirby, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Trinity College Dublin .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81286610099?pwd=HsKTIo1MzZ7eEOJUaVYrEBbCvSSW1g.1.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On common roots of Legendre polynomials

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Dan Mangoubi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Inference for Group Interaction Experiments

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Cyrus Samii (New York University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 10:15-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Does causality only mean one thing?

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Phyllis Illari (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 09:30-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser Welcome

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Qingyuan Zhao (University of Cambridge), Mats Stensrud (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director Briefing

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 09:15-09:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Registration

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Foyer.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 08:45-09:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Being Realistic About Unmeasured Biases in Observational Studies

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Paul Rosenbaum (University of Pennsylvania).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Free Discussion and Refreshments

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Machine learning & nonparametric efficiency in causal inference

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Edward Kennedy (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Surface Physics Seminar

Density Functional Theory: Fundamental Principles and Applications

Min Lin, Cavendish Laboratory.

B2.002, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Beyond the Hype: Distinguishing LLM Agents from Generative AI Startups Through a Natural Experiment

Dequn Teng.

S3.06, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Machine learning & nonparametric efficiency in causal inference

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Edward Kennedy (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 11:30-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Measuring the diffuse Galactic synchrotron spectral index and curvature between 45 and 2300 MHz

Dr. Melis Irfan (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for Supersymmetry using two or three leptons with ATLAS detector

Dr Shuhui Huang (University of Cambridge).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Inference With Instrumental Variables

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Hyunseung Kang (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Inference With Instrumental Variables

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Hyunseung Kang (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bobert Meeting

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Staff Meeting Room.

Tuesday 20 January 2026, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

CANCELLED Patterned optogenetics to probe perceptual representations

Dr Edmund Chong, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 19 January 2026, 16:15-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral Inequalities and Quantitative Unique Continuation for Schrödinger operators (a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Eugenia Malinnikova (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Tutorial on Identification, Non-Identification, and Parameterizations in Causal Graphs with Hidden Variables (Part 2)

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Rohit Bhattacharya (Williams College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 January 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Tutorial on Identification, Non-Identification, and Parameterizations in Causal Graphs with Hidden Variables (Part 1)

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Rohit Bhattacharya (Williams College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

AMET seminars

The Bumpy Road to Net Zero

David Reiner (Judge Business School).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Monday 19 January 2026, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC (copy)

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

What is new in randomization tests?

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Qingyuan Zhao (University of Cambridge), Yao Zhang (National University of Singapore).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Foyer.

Monday 19 January 2026, 10:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Origins of randomization for causal inference

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Qingyuan Zhao (University of Cambridge), Yao Zhang (National University of Singapore).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser Welcome

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Qingyuan Zhao (University of Cambridge), Mats Stensrud (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 January 2026, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director Briefing

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 19 January 2026, 09:15-09:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Registration

CIFW01 - Foundations of causal inference

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Foyer.

Monday 19 January 2026, 08:45-09:15

Zangwill Club

Earth, Brain and Mental Health: Uncovering How the Environment Shapes the Mind

Gunter Schumann, Fudan University Shanghai, and Charité University Medicine, Berlin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Friday 16 January 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nilpotentisation and heat asymptotics of Sub-Riemannian structures

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Luc Hillairet (Université d'Orléans).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 16 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Department of Pharmacology: David James Lecture 2026, Prof Lotte Bjerre Knudsen

Professor Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Head of IDEA and Chief Scientific Advisor at Novo Nordisk.

Department of Biochemistry, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Closing Remarks/Discussion

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Friday 16 January 2026, 12:15-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Spectral Cluster Bounds for Orthonormal Functions

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Jean-Claude Cuenin (Loughborough University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 16 January 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Friday 16 January 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentations on Challenges

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Friday 16 January 2026, 11:15-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Quantum unique ergodicity for magnetic Laplacians on the torus

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Gabriel Rivière (Université de Nantes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 16 January 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentations on Challenges

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Friday 16 January 2026, 09:30-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Opening Comments

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Friday 16 January 2026, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break-out Groups

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 15:45-17:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Nodal statistics from quantum graphs to random matrices: universality and phase transitions

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Lior Alon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scattering of internal waves in a two-dimensional channel

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Jared Wunsch (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Leveraging theory and simulation to decode and design multidimensional electronic spectroscopies in the condensed phase

Prof. Thomas E. Markland (Stanford).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 14:00-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break-out Groups

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenfunction and spectral projection estimates on hyperbolic surfaces

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Xiaoqi Huang (Louisiana State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break-out Groups

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 10:50-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Control of eigenfunctions on negatively curved manifolds

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Semyon Dyatlov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 10:15-11:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Hh signalling and the anti-tumour immune response: biology and new treatment opportunities

Dr Maike de La Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Plenary – Catch-up on Challenges

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal Dinner at Christ's College

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 19:30-22:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Networking

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 17:15-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group Photograph

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 17:00-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Next Steps

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 15:50-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break-out Groups

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 15:45-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Share your front page

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 15:15-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Break-out Groups

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Get writing & Go to press!

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 13:30-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lunch and Networking (Group Formation)

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Challenge Selection

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 12:45-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Get started! & Writing about anything for anyone

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Weyl formulae and concentration of eigenfunctions for singular Riemannian metrics with application to acoustic modes in gas giants

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Charlotte Isabel Dietze (Sorbonne Université).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to the Challenges and OUTPLACE

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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External.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 11:20-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Opening Remarks

TGM160 - Mathematics Workshop: Theory of Electromagnetic Activity

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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 11:00-11:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Who are you talking to? & What do you want to say?

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 10:20-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Inverse localization properties of high-energy eigenfunctions of the Laplacian

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Daniel Peralta-Salas (ICMAT).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introductions

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar: The Categorical Instrumental Variable Model: Characterization, Partial Identification, and Statistical Inference

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

Richard Guo (University of Michigan), Yilin Song (University of Washington).

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Day 2

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

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Tuesday 13 January 2026, 15:55-16:00

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Scattering for the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on singular domains

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Ruoyu Wang (Yale University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Delivery of 2-minute pitches - one per group

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

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Tuesday 13 January 2026, 15:10-15:55

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Afternoon Break

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Presentation Practice

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Tuesday 13 January 2026, 14:25-14:40

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Tunneling and Weyl laws for the d-bar operator

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Michael Hitrik (University of California, Los Angeles).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Advanced Techniques - Stories, Jokes and Magic

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 13:30-14:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pitch Development - facilitated groups

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

External.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

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Fractal uncertainty principle in the volume bound regime

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Zhongkai Tao (IHES).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break / Group Photo

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 11:15-11:45

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Classical spectral asymptotics with a modern twist

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Leonid Parnovski (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Basic Principles: Audiences & Speaking and Presenting

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

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Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:05-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome Reception

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Monday 12 January 2026, 16:30-17:30

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Improved L∞ bounds for eigenfunctions of randomly perturbed operators

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Maxime Ingremeau (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 12 January 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Monday 12 January 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Semiclassical analysis on filtered manifolds

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Clotilde Fermanian (Université Angers).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 12 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

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Bernstein inequalities for eigenfunctions

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Stefano Decio (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 12 January 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

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Foyer.

Monday 12 January 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Isospectrality and Moduli Spaces

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Julie Rowlett (Chalmers University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 12 January 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's welcome

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Matteo Capoferri (Heriot-Watt University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 12 January 2026, 10:05-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

GSTW01 - High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 12 January 2026, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Closing remarks

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute), Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway to Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 09 January 2026, 14:30-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Inclusivity in the Mathematical Sciences - actions and ideas

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 09 January 2026, 13:30-14:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Research Culture Talk: Corinna Alberg and Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (Library)

Corinna Alberg and Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (Library).

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 09 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

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Panel - Academia and EDI

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

June Barrow-Green (The Open University), Asma Hassannezhad (University of Bristol), Qingyuan Zhao (University of Cambridge), Benjamin Walker (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 09 January 2026, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Using History of Mathematics to Promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within Mathematics

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

June Barrow-Green (The Open University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 09 January 2026, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Developing Ethical Agency in a Data-Driven World: An Introduction for Researchers

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Anne Alexander (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 15:45-16:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The Krakencoder: a multi-modal connectome fusion tool for brain-behavior mapping

Prof. Amy Kuceyeski.

Online.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Developing Ethical Agency in a Data-Driven World: An Introduction for Researchers

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Anne Alexander (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 14:00-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematics in Polar Oceanography

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Andrew Styles (British Antarctic Survey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 12:30-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Accelerating Medicine Development with Data Science & AI

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Vera Hazelwood (AstraZeneca).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 12:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Working with Government and Policy Makers

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Julia Gog (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 10:45-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

AI assisted research in (pure) maths

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Jonas Henkel (Philipps-Universität Marburg).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 10:00-10:45

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism through the lens of Otto Warburg

Prof Christian Frezza CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

Online only via Zoom.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Final feedback

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Alan Champneys (University of Bristol), William Lee.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 07 January 2026, 16:45-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group work and feedback

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Alan Champneys (University of Bristol), William Lee.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 07 January 2026, 15:10-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Problem Formulation: Measuring Hydrogen in Gas Pipes

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Alan Champneys (University of Bristol), William Lee.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 07 January 2026, 14:00-14:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

KE the Basics - What is KE?

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Chris Breward (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 07 January 2026, 11:30-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Knowledge Exchange Landscape

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway to Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 07 January 2026, 10:45-11:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Alan Champneys (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 07 January 2026, 10:00-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Look forward to KE days

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway to Mathematics).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 06 January 2026, 15:50-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pitch Delivery

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Alison Kiddle.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 06 January 2026, 15:05-15:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Advanced Techniques - Stories, Jokes and Magic

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Alison Kiddle.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 06 January 2026, 13:30-14:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pitch Development - facilitated groups

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Alison Kiddle.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 06 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Basic Principles: Audiences. Speaking and Presenting

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Alison Kiddle.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 06 January 2026, 10:05-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introductions

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 06 January 2026, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction to Day 2

TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 05 January 2026, 16:50-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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TGM159 - Graduate Training Workshop for the Mathematical Sciences

Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 05 January 2026, 16:15-16:50