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A personal list of talks. If you have a question about this list, please contact: John Dudley. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 3 upcoming talks and 2747 talks in the archive. Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networksBrent Doiron, University of Chicago. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:30 Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid InnovationsRobert Katzschmann, ETH Zurich. LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 Negative imaginary systems theory: An introductionAlexander Lanzon, University of Manchester. LR3B, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo SamplersXianda Sun (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11:00-12:30 State space models (as alternatives to Transformers)Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:30-15:00 Predicting antibiotic resistance evolutionFernanda Pinheiro, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy.. LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable Sampling Using Annealed AlgorithmsSaifuddin Syed (University of Oxford). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:00-12:30 From Holonic Systems to Human-Integrated SystemsKarel Kruger, University of Cambridge. LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Are we making progress in unlearning?Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11:00-12:30 Geometry of neural representationsCarl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:30-15:00 Vector Quantization in Deep Neural Networks for Speech and Image ProcessingMohammad Vali, Aalto University, Finland. Online only: Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89623597387?pwd=PalnRtu2be5cw3aGReM6EyvfcMrcly.1. Monday 11 November 2024, 12:00-13:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill RatingDr Sam Power, University of Bristol. Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 Adaptive closed loop control: from reflexes to planningBernd Porr, University of Glasgow. LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find ThemZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 06 November 2024, 11:00-12:30 Iterative Learning Control --- Past, Present, and FutureEric Rogers, University of Southampton. LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Lippmann Photography: The Art and Science of Multispectral ImageryProfessor Martin Vetterli (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Department of Engineering - LT2. Wednesday 30 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Linear Attention for Efficient TransformersIsaac Reid (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11:00-12:30 Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuitsDaniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:30-15:00 The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science Wheeler Lecture 2024: Supercharging the Human Mind With AIProfessor Yvonne Rogers - Professor of Interaction Design, Director of UCL Interaction Centre, Deputy Head of the Computer Science Department UCL. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00-17:00 SummaryMixing: A Linear-Time Attention AlternativeShucong Zhang, Samsung AI Center. Monday 21 October 2024, 12:00-13:00 Complex Robotic Systems: Modeling, Control, and Planning using Dual Quaternion AlgebraBruno Vilhena Adorno, University of Manchester. LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populationsKen Harris, University College London. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Friday 11 October 2024, 17:00-18:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Different Target Prediction Algorithms for Automotive, HRI and VR Digital TwinProf. Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science. Wednesday 11 September 2024, 14:00-15:00 Controlling and Muting Whisper: Universal Acoustic Adversarial Attacks on Speech Foundation ModelsVyas Raina. Monday 19 August 2024, 12:00-13:00 Towards Improving End-to-End Neural DiarizationDr Federico Landini, Brno University of Technology. Tuesday 06 August 2024, 12:00-13:00 Reinforcement Learning and Learning-guided Search for Generalizability for Multi-agent Mobility SystemsCathy Wu, MIT. Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26. Thursday 18 July 2024, 16:30-17:30 Reinforcement Learning and Learning-guided Search for Generalizability for Multi-agent Mobility SystemsCathy Wu, MIT. Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26. Thursday 18 July 2024, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Task AlignmentZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 26 June 2024, 11:00-12:30 Towards understanding the performance of individuals within automatic speaker recognition systemsVincent Hughes, University of York. Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89860790207?pwd=sbErkKGhMwBJhyJcmlJ1jcQml5oTd4.1. Monday 24 June 2024, 12:00-13:00 Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basisRalf Haefner, Department for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Monday 24 June 2024, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil List MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence Research ReviewJohn Dudley (University of Cambridge), Course Director. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Tuesday 18 June 2024, 12:45-16:30 Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil List MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence Research ReviewJohn Dudley (University of Cambridge), Course Director. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Tuesday 18 June 2024, 12:45-16:30 Learning Bayesian inference models of cortical visual processingRodrigo Echeveste, sinc(i), Santa Fe, Argentina. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 18 June 2024, 10:00-11:00 Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection stepsCharlie Wedd, University of Cambridge. JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 13 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection stepsCharlie Wedd, University of Cambridge. JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 13 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection stepsCharlie Wedd, University of Cambridge. JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 13 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysisHugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysisHugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysisHugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Wednesday 05 June 2024, 14:00-16:00 Fit for purpose: the right model for the right robotic taskMarcello Calisti, University of Lincoln. JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 30 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A Light Introduction to Topological Data AnalysisZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 29 May 2024, 11:00-12:30 Circuit for memory-based action selectionMarta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Friday 24 May 2024, 10:00-11:00 Nonlinear motion controlSebastiaan J.A.M. van den Eijnden, Eindhoven University of Technology. JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 Integrated Spin model with global inhibition for decision makingNir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Monday 20 May 2024, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Quickest Change Detection Using Mismatched CUSUMProf. Sean Meyn, University of Florida. Monday 13 May 2024, 14:00-13:00 Effect of room acoustics on speech intelligibility under noise between native and non-native listenersDr Yusuke Hioka, University of Auckland. Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82427061964?pwd=UE15aHJKSlZDQ0tobktJWEV3K25rUT09 . Monday 13 May 2024, 10:00-11:00 Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive mapsJames Whittington, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University & Oxford University. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Wednesday 08 May 2024, 12:15-13:15 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series When will we have intelligent robots?Professor Jitendra Malik, Berkeley . Department of Engineering - LR4. Tuesday 07 May 2024, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRui Xia, Youjing Yu. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Wednesday 01 May 2024, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Mean Field Theory of NNsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 01 May 2024, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussing the Stanford AI ReportZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussing the Stanford AI ReportZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30 Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning for Audio and Speech ProcessingUmberto Cappellazzo, University of Trento. Monday 22 April 2024, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED AI ControlZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural likelihood-free inferenceZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30 Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognitionSeán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 19 March 2024, 10:00-11:00 Speaker Retrieval in the Wild: Challenges, Effectiveness and RobustnessErfan Loweimi, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86177109545?pwd=TmE1YlgzNWJKdGJQa1NQdk1kNS9zQT09. Monday 18 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 Examples of "control" in research and teaching at PhysicsPietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge. JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient MethodZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30 Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor LearningIncoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00 Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor LearningJonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00 Learning to Predict and to Act - Exploring Structure in World Models and Latent SpacesIngmar Posner, Oxford University . JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Multimodal Inference and Assistance for Effortless XR InteractionAakar Gupta, Fujitsu Research America. Sir Arthur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Thursday 07 March 2024, 11:00-12:00 Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic SystemsPanagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Tech . Board Room, Baker Building, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom). Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Transformer Neural ProcessesZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 Title to be confirmedGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00 Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial SettingsDavid Burt, MIT. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Neuromorphic sensing and computing in today’s AI landscapeYulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom). Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning Symmetries in Neural NetworksZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec . Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 End-to-end contextual speech recognition with Tree-constrained pointer generatorBrian Sun, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Monday 19 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 Accommodating magnitude and rate-limits in model reference adaptive control systemsMatthew Turner, University of Southampton. JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom). Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubChangmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK). CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian coresetsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 “End-to-end multi-speaker neural TTS with LLM-based prosody prediction”Penny Karanasou, Amazon R&D. Monday 29 January 2024, 12:00-13:00 AI Engineering as Design Engineering: Creating User-Centric AI SystemsPer Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge. JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom). Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 Data informativity: a new perspective on data-driven analysis and controlProfessor Kanat Camlibel, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen. Friday 12 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 Sense, Think, Act: Decision and Control, from Biology to TechnologyProfessor Antonis Papachristodoulou, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. Tuesday 09 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 The applications of discrete speech tokens for robust and context-aware text-to-speech synthesisChenpeng Du. In-person for Cambridge University members only: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department. Monday 11 December 2023, 12:00-13:00 Sound Control Synthesis with Logics and DataProfessor Alessandro Abate, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 New Innovative Idea on Bio Medical ResearchMakoto Kaneko, Meijo University and Osaka University.. Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom). Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in betweenZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Modern Bayesian Experimental DesignDr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00 Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial coloniesAidan Brown, Edinburgh University. Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom). Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative SystemsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Exploiting Structure for Scalable Design and Verification of Complex SystemsProfessor Murat Arcak, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley. Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room. Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Passivity-based control of underactuated surgical robotsEnrico Franco, Imperial College. Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom). Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A Poisson Process Model for Monte CarloZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systemsProf Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich. Department of Engineering - LT2. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSpeaker to be confirmed. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Questioning Ideas in Uncertainty Estimation in Deep LearningGuoxuan Xia (Imperial College London). Monday 13 November 2023, 12:00-13:00 Distributed Control, Estimation and Optimization in Multi-agent SystemsProfessor Wei Ren, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside. Friday 10 November 2023, 14:30-15:30 Modelling and analysis of electrical circuits with memristors for neuromorphic computing applicationsAnne-Men Huijzer, University of Groningen. Department of Engineering, LR5, and online (Zoom). Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous OptimizationZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Theory of Stability Regions and its Practical Application in Online Stability Assessment of Large-Scale Power GridsHsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell University. Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room. Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather PredictionZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSamuel Eckmann. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSamuel Eckmann. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSamuel Eckmann. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning linear models in-context with transformersZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Spencer Frei, UC Davis. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRui Xia, Edward Young. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Quantitative Microbiology With Smart MicroscopyGeorgeos Hardo, University of Cambridge. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better samplingIsaac Reid, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30 An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based ControlMelanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:15-15:15 A new look at eye designSimon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDepartment of Zoology, Cambridge. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Structured recognition for generative models with explaining awayChangmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK. CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Monday 02 October 2023, 13:30-14:30 Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"Jay McClelland, Stanford University . Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00 Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descentJeremy Bernstein, MIT. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00 Information Engineering Division seminar list The Work-Verse: Using scene understanding and senses augmentation for productive work.Eyal Ofek, Ph.D.. Tuesday 04 July 2023, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept BottlenecksZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars AI for SoundProf. Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey. Thursday 15 June 2023, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The LLM Tidal WaveZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Katie Collins, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The LLM Tidal WaveZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Katie Collins, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Distributed Learning for Scalable Collaboration in Robotic Multi-Agent SystemsGuillaume Sartoretti, National University of Singapore (NUS). Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26. Thursday 08 June 2023, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verificationZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRui Xia and David Lui. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte CarloZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubWill Greedy, University of Bristol. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-16:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/MicroscaleProf Dr Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Reward ModellingZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30 Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problemsEric Kerrigan, Imperial College. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from IsoperimetrySam Power, University of Bristol. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the FieldZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30 Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservationJacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantificationZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Burigede Liu. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30 Vector-based steering control in the insect brainBarbara Webb, University of Edinburgh. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Tangent KernelZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) . Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent LearningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral AnalysisZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30 Attention Forcing: Improving attention-based sequence-to-sequence modelsQingyun Dou, University of Cambridge. Thursday 30 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Physics-informed machine learningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMarine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud). In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Causal Machine LearningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 CANCELLED - An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based ControlMelanie Zeilinger. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED User Manipulation in Recommender SystemsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk. Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary BiologyHarrison Steel, University of Oxford. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Random Features for Kernel ApproximationZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks during cancer metastasisMohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated LearningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30 Distributed Learning and Control for Networked AutonomyKonstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Neural NetworksZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLuke Johnston, Wayne Soo. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-16:00 Microbial growth behavior and the control of protein synthesis in and out of steady stateJonas Cremer, Stanford University. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Offline Reinforcement LearningZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30 Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimizationRaphael Jungers, UC Louvain. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPuria Radmard and David Liu. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-16:00 Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil List The Philosophy of Explainable AI and Applications in MedicineDr Rune Nyrup, Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Monday 13 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Feedback system analysis: back to the futureRodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED {PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown ConstraintsZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30 The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learningYasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:30-14:30 Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil List Promises and Challenges in Trustworthy Machine Learning Deployment, with a Criminal Justice Case StudyDr Miri Zilka, Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Machine Learning Group; Research Associate at King’s College; Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Monday 06 February 2023, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil List Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam DebacleRoger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00 Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam DebacleRoger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00 A Modern Conjecture on Absolute StabilityJoaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Smarter materials for simpler roboticsAndrew Conn. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEsDavid Duvenaud (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00 Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEsDavid Duvenaud (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEdward Young, Zahara Girones. CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networksSebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviourJuan Alvaro Gallego. CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building. Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Object-Centric 3D PerceptionProf. Angela Dai (Technical University of Munich). LR3B, Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge (CB2 1PZ). Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared InvariancesVedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland . Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845. Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information Geometry — Natural Gradient DescentZoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Andy Lin, MLG. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRui Xia and Mate Lengyel. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00 Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transportFelipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00 On motor intelligence for soft robotsCosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent InteractionStefano Albrecht, Edinburgh. Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Predicting generalization of ML models.Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders. Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.. Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagementLachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations. Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering. Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and controlChristian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A tutorial on diffusion modelsEmile, Sasha from CBL. Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSamuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian. In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom. Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The second generation of meta-learning methodsMassimiliano (Max) Patacchiola, University of Cambridge. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgeryProf. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Sunday 30 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Multivariable Control in 40 MinutesProf. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 27 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learningAustin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJake Stroud and David Liu. Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00 Random walks, self-reinforcement and neuronsDaniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 . Monday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30 Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Wearable technologiesTamar Makin, MRC CBU at the University of Cambridge. Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of rewardMichael Cohen, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30 Multi-Head State Space Model for Sequence ModelingYassir Fathullah, Speech Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Tuesday 11 October 2022, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest TalkRoman Novak, Google Brain. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Self-supervised Learning from Images, Videos, and a single Image plus AugmentationsDr. Yuki M. Asano (University of Amsterdam). Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge (CB2 1PZ). Wednesday 31 August 2022, 16:30-17:30 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Modeling Light for View SynthesisDr. Ben Mildenhall (Google Research). Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge (CB2 1PZ). Friday 26 August 2022, 11:00-12:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Analysis by synthesis for interpretable image collection analysisDr. Mathieu Aubry (Tenured Researcher at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech). Tuesday 26 July 2022, 14:00-15:30 What are the unsolved problems in Conversation Design?Hybrid meeting. If you'd like to talk with Cathy after the talk over sandwiches please contact Kate Knill kmk1001@cam.ac.uk. Cathy Pearl, Google. Monday 18 July 2022, 11:00-12:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Synthetics with Digital HumansDr. Erroll Wood (Staff Software Engineer at Google). Friday 08 July 2022, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learningGreg Yang, Microsoft Research. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30 Controlling imperfect robot swarmsHector Garcia de Marina, Universidad de Granada. Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The role of meta-learning for few-shot classificationEleni Triantafillou, Google Brain. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic DataAntti Honkela, University of Helsinki. Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Benefits and Shortcomings of AssistanceDmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear BanditsYuzhen Qin, University of California, Riverside. JBD seminar room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 16 June 2022, 16:00-17:00 Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling studyFabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative PriorsSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Distributed Control of DC Microgrids with Flexible StructureMahdieh S. Sadabadi, Queen Mary University of London. Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural NetworksSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Confidence estimation for attention-based encoder-decoder models for speech recognitionThis talk will be both online (zoom) and offline (CBL Meeting Room) Qiujia Li (University of Cambridge). Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09. Monday 06 June 2022, 12:00-13:00 Deciphering speech: a top-down approach to zero-resource speech recognitionThis talk will be both online (zoom) and offline (JDB Seminar Room) Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh). Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09. Wednesday 01 June 2022, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Rethinking evaluation for machine learning modelsAdrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Fundamental Limits of Learning with Feedforward and Recurrent Neural NetworksProf. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich. Department of Engineering - LT1. Friday 27 May 2022, 12:00-13:00 Size-dependence of switching and stable behavior in biochemical systemsMonika Jozsa, University of Cambridge. Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and GeneralizationSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30 Analysis and design of bio-inspired indecision-breaking decision makersAlessio Franci, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inferenceWen-Hao Zhang. Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning TasksAnastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley. Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Computational Imaging and Sensing: Theory and ApplicationsProf. Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College London. Thursday 12 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.David Burt, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00 Weak Control for Human-in-the-loop SystemsMasaki Inoue, Keio University. Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bests of ICLRSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30 Passivity, Monotonicity, and Network Optimization: New Perspectives for Network Systems AnalysisDaniel Zelazo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Thursday 21 April 2022, 14:00-15:00 Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordinationUniversity of Cambridge. Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning with Quantum ComputersAmira Abbas and Maria Schuld. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30 Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordinationPraneeth Namburi, MIT. Thursday 14 April 2022, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDavid Liu and Edward Young. Tuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00 SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio CodecThis talk will be on zoom Neil Zeghidour (Google). Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09. Monday 04 April 2022, 12:00-13:00 Cybergenetics: A control theory for living cellsCorentin Briat, ETH-Zürich. Thursday 31 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Autoregressive Diffusion ModelsEmiel Hoogeboom. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30 Advanced Sliding Mode ControlAntonella Ferrara, University of Pavia. Thursday 24 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Overview of AI AlignmentNeel Alex, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AIEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30 SpeechBrain: Unifying Speech Technologies and Deep Learning With an Open Source ToolkitThis talk will be on zoom Titouan Parcollet (Avignon University). Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09. Monday 14 March 2022, 12:00-13:00 Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contractsBart Besselink, University of Groningen. Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Introduction to differential privacyTalay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubFlavia Mancini and Finn Ashley. Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00 Learning-based control of soft robotsThomas George-Thuruthel, University of Cambridge. Thursday 03 March 2022, 11:00-12:00 Data-driven stabilization of nonlinear polynomial systems with noisy dataMeichen Guo, University of Groningen. Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Retrieval Augmented NLPJiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30 Saddle-point dynamics, non-expansive semiflows, and necessary and sufficient conditions for convergenceDr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge). Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Circuits and InterpretabilityLauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Optimal Transport MetricsShreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJake Stroud and Michal Wojcik. Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learned CompressionGergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30 Epidemic mitigation through testing and optimal urban mobilityMuhammad Umar B Niazi, KTH. Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Jensen and Marine Schimel. Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Diffusion and Score-based Generative ModelsVincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED AI SafetyNeel Alex. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED [Cancelled] Best of NeuripsSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30 Contraction and Convexity, Robustness and RegularisationFor the Zoom link to this talk, please e-mail tbb29@cam.ac.uk Prof. Ian Manchester, University of Sydney. Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 09 December 2021, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDaniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern. Tuesday 07 December 2021, 15:00-16:30 Towards a Theory of Energy ConversionProf. Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen. Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Energy-Based ModelsStratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30 Unsupervised Speech Disentanglement for Speech Style TransferThis talk will be on zoom Kaizhi Qian (IBM). Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09. Monday 29 November 2021, 15:00-16:00 Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cellsSimon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedDr. Henk van Waarde, ETH Zurich. Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGeorgia Turner and Falvia Mancini. Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:30-15:00 Modeling human sensorimotor control for better control of surgical robotsProf. Ilana Nisky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Cambridge. Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep KernelsSebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30 Distributed Optimal Secondary Frequency Control for Power Systems With Delay Independent StabilityDr. Mengmou Li, University of Cambridge. Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)Speaker to be confirmed. Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYashar Ahmadian and Gido van de Ven. Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:30 Cross-corpora experiments of automatic proficiency assessment and error detection for spoken EnglishThis talk will be on zoom Stefano Bannò (University of Trento). Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09. Monday 08 November 2021, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Representation Learning: A Causal PerspectiveYixin Wang. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09. Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00 A deterministic least squares approach for simultaneous input and state estimationGreg Gakis, University of Cambridge. LR 11, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom). Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in MLRoss Clarke (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Implicit Regularization in Deep LearningJezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research). Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang and Wayne Soo. Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:30 Machines that can read lipsThis talk will be on zoom Pingchuan Ma (Imperial College London). Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09. Monday 25 October 2021, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Planning Meeting + PI PresentationsCBL and Computer Lab PIs. Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A. Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen. Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:30 Generative Speech Separation based on Pitch InformationThis talk will be on zoom Dr Xiang Li, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87426783837?pwd=akx4ZWZMYVZML2ZoOWRlYzdRaTd6dz09. Monday 11 October 2021, 12:00-13:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMarine Schimel and David Liu. Tuesday 28 September 2021, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal ModelsMatej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt. https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09. Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00 Closing The Gap Between Theory and Experiments in The Design of Biomolecular Feedback CircuitsZoom meeting link to be released Noah Olsman, Harvard University. Thursday 05 August 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina SavinCristina Savin, New York University. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85184505624?pwd=WnhWZWR1SjhxUXFDOWtPT2c2cG90Zz09. Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00 Prosody transfer evaluation and temporal prosody control in speech synthesisThis seminar will take place on zoom Papercup. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 06 July 2021, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal PfisterJean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84626937837?pwd=RC95RTdybkRlNHhOcThjclQzYUxkdz09. Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00 Combining two mechanisms to produce neural firing rate homeostasisZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97625047934 Paul Miller, Brandeis University. Thursday 01 July 2021, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Jensen and Georgia Turner. Tuesday 29 June 2021, 15:00-16:30 Low-resource expressive text-to-speech using data augmentationDr Thomas Merritt, Amazon. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 29 June 2021, 12:00-13:00 Spiking Control SystemsZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93178617889 Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge. Thursday 24 June 2021, 14:00-15:00 Automatic Speech Recognition in a State-of-FluxRalf Schlüter, RWTH Aachen. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 22 June 2021, 12:00-13:00 Graphical Nonlinear System AnalysisZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96507147724 Tom Chaffey, University of Cambridge. Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYashar Ahmadian and Wayne Soo. Tuesday 15 June 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-VelezFinale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89542469691?pwd=bVJjdXJGd3BkaDk1SHk3a1dLZzlZUT09. Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian ProcessesWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30 Time-domain multi-channel speech separation and extractionThis talk will be on zoom. Jisi Zhang, University of Sheffield. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 08 June 2021, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class.David Duvenaud, University of Toronto. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84495932262?pwd=MlFJL3Z3c1JmenFOY2xJQTNPSzdsQT09. Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00 Capacity and errors in classification of object manifoldsUri Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Thursday 03 June 2021, 10:00-11:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Statistical Finite Element MethodMark Girolami (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMate Lengyel and Jasmine Stone. Tuesday 01 June 2021, 15:00-16:30 Long Sequence-to-Sequence Summarization: Efficient Transformer Models & Complementary TechniquesThis talk will be on zoom. Potsawee Manakul, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 25 May 2021, 12:00-13:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li. Tuesday 18 May 2021, 15:00-16:30 Audio-Visual Learning: Challenges and New ApproachesThis talk will be on zoom Dr Jie Pu, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 18 May 2021, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical DesignersShakir Mohamed, Deepmind. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84960287802?pwd=N1pTZGpKMjhhMTVVV1RNSS9Gc3Jqdz09. Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Best of ICLRSpeaker to be confirmed. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:00-12:30 Automatic Assessment Systems for the Spoken CALL Shared TasksThis talk will be held on zoom Mengjie Qian, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 11 May 2021, 12:00-13:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubZahara Girones and Ivan Tomic. Tuesday 04 May 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep LearningMark van der Wilk, Imperial College London. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09. Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to PAC-BayesAndrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian ProcessesThéo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81961210430?pwd=cUZGbzU4NzJickd5THlsYzJ4cmlndz09. Tuesday 20 April 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep LearningAndrew Gordon Wilson. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09. Friday 16 April 2021, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Online Learning and Online Convex OptimisationSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30 Distribution and regulation of ion channels in neurons: Quantitative studies of global protein transport and homeostatic synaptic scalingZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99231423419 Adriano Bellotti, University of Cambridge. Thursday 08 April 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine LearningJames Allingham (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang and Jonathan So. Tuesday 06 April 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proofNicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09. Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Generalized Nash equilibrium seeking under partial informationZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96326600203 Sergio Grammatico, TU Delft. Thursday 25 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream TasksYaniv Yacoby, Harvard University. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJake Stroud and Marine Schimel. Tuesday 23 March 2021, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gaussian Processes I have KnownAnthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Combination of Deep Speaker Embeddings for Diarisation and Discriminative Neural Clustering for Speaker DiarisationSeminar on zoom Brian Sun, Quija Li, Florian Kreyssig, Cambridge University Speech Research Group. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 16 March 2021, 12:00-13:00 The role of space in evolution: insights from microbial and viral expansionsZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99083035008 Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge. Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Causal Representation LearningChaochao Lu, University of Cambridge. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJascha Achterberg and Kris Jensen. Tuesday 09 March 2021, 15:00-16:30 Natural Language Interpretation in Dialogue SystemsSeminar on zoom Dr Svetlana Stoyanchev, Speech Technology Group, Toshiba CRL. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 09 March 2021, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Long-Range TransformersValerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 Interpretable representation learning for speech and audio signalsSeminar on zoom Dr Purvi Agrawal, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Microsoft India. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 02 March 2021, 12:00-13:00 Information transfer from biological to analog microcircuitsZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97349674751 Prof. Alain Nogaret, University of Bath. Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Inference in Stochastic ProcessesJavier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDavid Liu and Jeroen Olieslagers. Tuesday 23 February 2021, 15:00-16:30 Semi-supervised Learning for Low-resource Multilingual and Multimodal Speech Processing with Machine Speech ChainSeminar on zoom Prof Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 23 February 2021, 12:00-13:00 Stabilization of Discrete-Time Switched Affine Systems and their Applications in Power ElectronicsZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98109940596 Dr. Lucas Egidio, Université Catholique de Louvain. Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Fairness in AIElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30 Should Ensemble Members Be Calibrated?Seminar on zoom Dr Xixin Wu, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 16 February 2021, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational Bayes as Surrogate RegressionWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:00-12:30 Tackling Multispeaker Conversation Processing based on Speaker Diarization and Multispeaker Speech RecognitionSeminar on zoom Prof Shinji Watanabe, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 09 February 2021, 12:00-13:00 Stability of Optimisation-based Control: Brief Review and New ResultsZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93349961156 Wen-Hua Chen, Loughborough University. Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Selection of Talks from Interspeech 2020Seminar on zoom Yiting 'Edie' Lu, Vyas Raina, Qingyun Dou, Cambridge University Speech Research Group. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09. Tuesday 26 January 2021, 12:00-13:00 Data-driven control à la Finsler and YakubovichZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92943573797 Henk van Waarde, University of Cambridge. Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process BanditsSattar Vakili (MediaTek Research). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Meta-reinforcement learningKris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30 A theory for Hebbian Learning in recurrent E-I networksSamuel Eckmann (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Friday 18 December 2020, 09:00-10:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Best of NeurIPSSpeaker to be confirmed. https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubCalvin Kao and Marine Schimel. Tuesday 15 December 2020, 15:00-16:30 The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computingMatthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 Identification and model reduction of complex network systemsZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93541687585 Dr. Xiaodong Cheng, Eindhoven University of Technology. Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural ProcessesAndrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30 Transformer: the 3rd generation neural network acoustic models for ASR and its application at FacebookPlease note change of time from original post to 3-4pm Yongqiang Wang, Facebook. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94591123432?pwd=bUJObFZ3UnFYLy9pWENDcS9aYUZqUT09. Monday 30 November 2020, 15:00-16:00 A canonical brain computation: from mechanism to purposeZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99373703786 Dr. Yashar Ahmadian, University of Cambridge. Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Large-scale sequential experimentationWessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30 A Digital Twin for Controlling Industrial ProcessesZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98082715567 Dr. Amritam Das, University of Cambridge. Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Symmetries in Reinforcement LearningRobert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJasmine Stone (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 November 2020, 15:00-16:30 Electronics on the BrainProf. George Malliaras, University of Cambridge. Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gradient-based Hyperparameter OptimisationRoss Clarke (University of Cambridge). https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09. Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:05-12:30 Self-Healing CodesZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92275948382 Dr. Michael Rule, University of Cambridge. Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Best Papers from ICML 2020Reading group participants. https://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet. Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30 Understanding and engineering biological networks using timelapse microfluidic microscopyZoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93507110597 Somenath Bakshi, University of Cambridge. Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 An Optimal Control Approach to Covid-19Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97430090424 Prof. Jan Maciejowski, University of Cambridge. Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang and Wayne Soo. Tuesday 20 October 2020, 15:00-16:30 Cognitive switches and functional reprogramming of sensory cortexAbhishek Banerjee, Newcastle University. Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Jensen and David Liu. Tuesday 06 October 2020, 15:00-16:30 Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and OpportunitiesAndrey Malinin, Yandex Research. Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link). Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active LearningAustin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv. Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30 EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training -- Agriforwards CDT (CAMBRIDGE) Automation through Grower-reprogrammable Roboticshttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0b0V1n26TbmUi8ryUGmKdw Dr Matthew Howard, King's College London. Friday 19 June 2020, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEsGergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba. Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30 Nonlinear resonance and excitability in interconnected systemsIlario Cirillo, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 System Identification of Neuronal BehaviorsThiago Burghi, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMate Lengyel (Engineering Department). Tuesday 02 June 2020, 15:00-16:30 On feedback control of switches and oscillators based on dominance theoryFulvio Forni, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department.. Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series A mathematical theory of deep neural networksPostponed due to COVID-19 Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich. Department of Engineering - LT1. Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00 Geometric Thinking in Engineering and Applied SciencesCyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department.. Thursday 21 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 19 May 2020, 15:00-16:30 Tradeoffs in biological optimisationDhruva Raman, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD. Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Title to be confirmedPostponed due to COVID-19 Prof Mustafa Khammash. Department of Engineering - LT1. Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 Hierarchical Robust Performance Analysis of Uncertain Large Scale SystemsKhaled Laib, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD. Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Best of ICLR 2020(University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx. Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJake Stroud (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 May 2020, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Differentiable PlanningWill Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler. https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa. Wednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Why do neurons spike spontaneously?Tim Vogels (University of Oxford). Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30 Why do neurons spike spontaneously?Tim Vogels (University of Oxford). Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep LearningAndrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop. https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq. Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 April 2020, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Strategic ClassificationJiri Hron (University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh. Wednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning on Sets(University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg. Wednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Jensen and Marine Schimel. Tuesday 07 April 2020, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing FlowsVincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg. Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail). Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED World ModelsDr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge). Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail). Wednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Federated LearningSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubXizi Li (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00 Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Playwellman@umich.edu. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:00-12:00 An overview of Research and Robotics at Google DeepmindFrancesco Nori, Deepmind. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Distributed distributional codes for learning successor features in partially observable environmentsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eszter Vértes, Gatsby Unit, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Self-Supervised Representation LearningJavier Antoran (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMarine Schimel. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMarine Schimel. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00 Exploiting Sparsity in Semidefinite and Sum of Squares ProgrammingAntonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 Soft Aerial Robotics for Digital Infrastructure SystemsMirko Kovac, Imperial College. Department of Computer Science and technology, Lecture Theatre 2. Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kernel Mean EmbeddingsElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30 Development of sensors for soft material structuresFrank Clemens, EMPA, Switzerland. James Dyson Building, Seminar Room. Tuesday 18 February 2020, 15:00-16:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Intellectual Debt and the Death of the ProgrammerProf Neil Lawrence. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00 Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data linksMichael Cantoni, University of Melbourne. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Tangent KernelAdria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubWayne Soo (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sankie: Using Data to Build Better Systems and ServicesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Microsoft Research-India. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:00-12:00 Principles of lossless adjustable one-portsMalcolm Smith, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning MeetupMarc Brockschmidt (MSR Cambridge) and Vincent Dutordoir (Prowler). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-19:30 Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regressionThomas Schön, Uppsala University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSimon Schug (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSimon Schug (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution ShiftZack Lipton, CMU. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00 Networks of Nonsmooth Oscillators & Applications in NeuroscienceStephen Coombes, University of Nottingham. Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD. Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back PropagationUwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars On the Stability and the Uniform Propagation of Chaos Properties of Ensemble Kalman-Bucy FiltersProf Pierre Del Moral, INRIA. Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubKris Torp Jensen. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Moonshot Thinking to Unleash Innovation, Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha: MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Reliability function near the zero error capacityDr Marco Dalai, University of Brescia. Monday 09 December 2019, 15:00-16:00 Neuroevolutionary approaches to generating increasingly intelligent behaviours in virtual creatures / (simulated) robotsAlastair Channon, University of Keele. James Dyson Building, Teaching Room, main Engineering site. Friday 06 December 2019, 14:00-15:00 Information and Decision-MakingProf Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire). Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (Dyson Centre Department of Engineering). Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:30-15:30 Sliding Modes for Estimation: theory and practiceSarah Spurgeon, University College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR 12. Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Lie Group Machine Learning and Natural Gradient from Information GeometryDr Frederic Barbaresco, THALES Land and Air Systems. Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable Gaussian ProcessesDavid Burt, Andrew Foong. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Mobile Computing Platform after Smartphones - Prof Romit Roy Choudhury: MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof Romit Roy Choudhury, UIUC. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 December 2019, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAdriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Gradient-based Adaptive Markov Chain Monte CarloDr Michalis Titsias, DeepMind. LR11, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 03 December 2019, 15:00-16:00 Data Science: From System Identification to (Deep) Learning and Big DataLennart Ljung, Linköping University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:00 Biologically realistic mean-field models of neuronal populationsAlain Destexhe, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France.. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Thursday 28 November 2019, 16:00-17:00 On Nucleic Acid Feedback ControllersNuno Paulino, University of Warwick. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic ProgrammingHong Ge and John Bronskill. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photonic-chip-based soliton microcombs Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tobias Kippenberg: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2019, 13:30-15:00 Learning and retaining tasks in redundant brain circuitsTimothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural AttentionElre Oldewage, George Hron. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYul Kang (University of Cambridge). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00 Neuromorphic controlLuka Ribar, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networksOmri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNsJames Allingham, Omer Sella. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Speech Recognition: What’s Left?This talk is organised in conjunction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for which Dr Michael Picheny is a Distinguished Industry Speaker Dr Michael Picheny. Department of Engineering - LT1. Tuesday 12 November 2019, 12:00-13:00 Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processesWilliam Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hyperparameter OptimisationRoss Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30 Computational neuroscience journal clubMonika Jozsa. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00 Neural information processing during behavior and sleepMayank Mehta (UCLA). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 05 November 2019, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"John Bronskill, Marton Havasi. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30 Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and EfficiencyHaitham Ammar, Huawei. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:00-11:00 Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time seriesVincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 28 October 2019, 11:00-12:00 Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language ExplanationsOana Camburu, University of Oxford. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00 A tool for analysis and synthesis of heterogeneous multi-agent systemsJin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical ModelsVidhi Lalchand. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMichael Rule. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00 Interaction between humans and with robotEtienne Burdet, Imperial College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 Synchronization of heterogeneous agents via funnel couplingStephan Trenn, University of Groningen. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11. Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 Soft robotics: Fusing actuation with perceptionKaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 Dopamine as prediction error in active inferenceRafal Bogacz (Oxford). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Random Caching Based Transmission in Ultra-Dense Wireless NetworksProf. Fu-Chun Zheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Wednesday 09 October 2019, 15:00-16:00 Neurotransmitter spillover modulates neuronal information transmissionMehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich). CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Wednesday 09 October 2019, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubCalvin Kao. CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions). Tuesday 08 October 2019, 16:00-17:00 Long-term dynamics of synapses and representations in the mouse auditory cortexProf. Simon Rumpel, University of Mainz. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Tuesday 24 September 2019, 14:00-15:00 Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian PrinciplesEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Advanced polarized light microscopy for mapping molecular orientation Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Prof Rudolf Oldenbourg, Marine Biological Laboratory, MA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 September 2019, 09:30-11:00 TBDJin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Friday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00 Minkowski, Lyapunov, and Bellman: Inequalities and Equations for Stability and Optimal ControlSasa Rakovic, Beijing Institute of Technology. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB. Thursday 12 September 2019, 14:00-15:00 Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolutionDan Wetmore, PhD, Director of Clinical and Research partnerships, CTRL-labs. Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolutionPatrick Kaifosh, PhD, Chief Science Officer, CTRL-labs. Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCARajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Three case studies for coexisting mechanisms in protein-pattern forming systemsFridtjof Brauns, LMU Munich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 September 2019, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling User Experience in Games: Lessons LearnedPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gerogios Yannakakis, University of Malta. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep LearningWesley Maddox (New York University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 23 August 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Physical security and side channel attacks in Arm based SoCs Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Chowdary Yanamadala & Jeremy Dubeuf, ARM. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 09 August 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using reason and evidence to do the most goodEve McCormick - Effective Altruism Cambridge & Olly Crook - University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 31 July 2019, 14:00-15:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series How good is your classifier? Revisiting the role of evaluation metrics in machine learningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Sanmi Koyejo, University of Illinois . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 31 July 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Antennas for light and their applications in classical optics Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dr Rupert Oulton, Imperial College . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:00-17:30 Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control theoryMelvin Leok, University of California, San Diego. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 1. Thursday 18 July 2019, 14:00-15:00 Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial AttacksMatthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00 Efficiency and Transferability of Neural NetworksAmos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00 Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational InferenceTrevor Campbell, University of British Columbia. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 26 June 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PRECOG: PREdiction Conditioned On Goals in Visual Multi-Agent SettingsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rowan McAlister, University of California, Berkeley. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 June 2019, 13:30-14:30 Automotive Control Using Non-Linear System Models With UncertaintyThomas Steffen, Loughborough University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3. Thursday 20 June 2019, 14:00-15:00 Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local CompetitionKonstantinos P. Panousis. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence – MPhil Student PresentationsMPhil MLMI Students. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Monday 17 June 2019, 14:30-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Simple Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Continuous State and Action Space SystemsProf. Rahul Jain, University of Southern California. Monday 17 June 2019, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photons in the cloud: communicating and storing dataPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof John H Marsh, University of Glasgow. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 June 2019, 16:00-17:30 Morphological Computation - A Potential Solution for the Control Problem in Soft RoboticsHelmut Hauser, University of Bristol. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photonics for Computing: from Optical Interconnects to Neuromorphic ArchitecturesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 June 2019, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDhruva Raman (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 11 June 2019, 16:00-17:00 Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and DivisivenessReza Babaei. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 11 June 2019, 15:00-15:30 Stochastic Sylvester equations for output regulation of linear stochastic systemsGiordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00 On indefinite damping and gyroscopic stabilizationTobias Damm, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Tuesday 04 June 2019, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubThomas Burger (Control Group). Tuesday 28 May 2019, 16:00-17:00 Limits of precision in stochastic cell biologyGlenn Vinnicombe, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars A local weak limit approach to the study of graphical dataProf. Venkat Anantharam, University of California, Berkeley. Tuesday 21 May 2019, 15:00-16:00 How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and decelerationEmilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine). Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars The Statistical Finite Element MethodProf. Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Chair of Civil Engineering, CUED. Friday 17 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence?Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 17 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 Cascade Dynamics, Multiplex Networks and HeterogeneityNaomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Particle MCMCWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Deep Learning for Multifarious Speech Processing: Tackling Multiple Speakers, Microphones, and LanguagesJonathan Le Roux, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA. Friday 10 May 2019, 15:00-16:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00 Robust speech processing on multi-talker mixed speechYanmin Qian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room. Friday 10 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 Regulation of Ant Foraging as a Closed-Loop Excitable SystemNaomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stochastic Differential EquationsDavid Burt. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:30 Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable GuaranteesUmut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00 Human and Robot Decision Making in Multi-Armed Banditsnaomi@princeton.edu. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Generalisation in neural networksMarton Havasi. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:30 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-makingProf. Naomi Leonard, Princeton. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00 Probabilistic Reliability Management for Electric Power Systems OperationLouis Wehenkel, University of Liège. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Overview of Normalizing FlowsRobert Pinsler. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. University of Waterloo. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. University of Waterloo. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 2Please note, this event will be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:30-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 1Please note, this event will be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2019, 10:30-12:00 NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular GraphsAbir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00 Global model explainability via aggregationUmang Bhatt, CMU. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-16:45 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sampling as OptimizationEric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15 Robust machine learning for causal inference in health careDavid Sontag, MIT. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubTa-Chu (Calvin) Kao -- CBL. Tuesday 19 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 How can speech technologies support learners to improve their skills of speaking, listen-ing, conversation and more?Nobuaki MINEMATSU . Department of Engineering - Lecture Theater 6. Tuesday 19 March 2019, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR Cambridge Cloud Talk Series; Structured light: seeing less to see more in optical microscopy Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Professor of Photonics, Mark Neil, Imperial College London . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What difference does one tonne make?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. David Carter, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 The K-FAC method for neural network optimizationJames Martens, Google Deep Mind. Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Implicit Variational InferenceAndrew Foong (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15 Open Issues in Build SystemsUlf Adams, Google. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 March 2019, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and ApproachesSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-15:15 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Deep Reinforcement Learning: from AlphaGo to AlphaStarDr David Silver, DeepMind. Department of Engineering - LT1. Monday 04 March 2019, 11:00-12:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Neural Code Comprehension: A Learnable Representation of Code SemanticsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tal Ben-Nun, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement LearningChaochao Lu (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15 Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortexGergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics). Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:00-12:00 Block Scaled Diagonal Dominance for Applications in Control Theory and OptimisationAivar Sootla, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Generative models for few-shot prediction tasksMarta Garnelo (Google DeepMind). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubFlavia Mancini (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Unleashing your inner makerProf. Daniela Rus, MIT. Department of Engineering - LT2. Monday 18 February 2019, 12:00-13:00 Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSEMarco Gallieri, NNAISENSE. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in miceDr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge). Friday 15 February 2019, 10:00-11:00 Contraction Analysis of Monotone SystemsYu Kawano, University of Groningen. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 Online Meta-LearningMassimiliano Pontil, University College London. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Logical UncertaintyAdrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (CBL). Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replayDr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford. Friday 01 February 2019, 12:30-13:30 Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on ManifoldsTaco Cohen. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:30-14:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Latent Variable Models for Bayesian Inference with Stable Distributions and ProcessesMarina Riabiz, King's College London. Wednesday 30 January 2019, 15:30-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stein DiscrepancySebastian Ober (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30 The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loopsRoy Smith, ETH Zürich . Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning SystemsTom Everitt (DeepMind). Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor). Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDaniel Acosta-Kane (CBL). Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00 Local and global synaptic credit assignmentDr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol). Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-12:00 Stochastic modeling and control of power grids under uncertaintyAlessandro Zocca, California Institute of Technology. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 Fairness for Sequential Decision Making AlgorithmsHoda Heidari. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-12:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series What Can Fair ML Learn from Economic Theories of Distributive Justice?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Hoda Heidari, ETH Zurich . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 Tracking performance of time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPFSteven Low, Caltech. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Wednesday 09 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data modelsMartin Tegner. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 18 December 2018, 10:30-11:00 Control across scales by positive and negative feedbackRodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2. Thursday 13 December 2018, 14:00-15:00 Robustness and model reduction of dominant systemsAlberto Padoan, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 06 December 2018, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars On optimal sampling in off-the-grid sparse regularisation.Dr Clarice Poon, DAMTP & Peterhouse. Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:00-16:00 Distributed price-based control of flexible electrical loadsAntonio De Paola, University of Bath. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Ordinary Differential EquationsEric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Idris 2: Type Driven Development of Idris Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Edwin Brady, St Andrews University . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:00-12:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus".Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London. The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Natural gradient in deep neural networksAlberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:30 A brain-machine interface for locomotion driven by subspace dynamicsKaren E. Schroeder, Columbia University. Cambridge University Engineering Dept., CBL Seminar Room (4th floor). Wednesday 21 November 2018, 11:00-12:00 Neural mechanisms of model-based planning in the ratKevin Miller, University College London. Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Estimating low-rank matrices via approximate message passingRamji Venkataramanan, CUED. Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:00-16:00 Control Design Using Differential Games – From Centralised to Decentralised ControlThulasi Mylvaganam, Imperial College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2. Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Graph Neural NetworksMatej Balog (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMichael Rule (Control Group). Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 13 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Defending Against Adversarial AttacksRoss Clarke (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic InferenceRobert Pinsler, Calvin Kao. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAdriana Perez-Rotondo (Control group). Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 Kōrero Māori - indigenous language revitalisation powered by machine learningKeoni Mahelona & Peter-Lucas Jones. Department of Engineering - Lecture Room 12. Tuesday 30 October 2018, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Flux: Elegant Machine Learning with Julia Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Mike Innes, Julia Computing, Inc.. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:00 Optimal control of ballistic movements in a thalamo-cortical circuit modelGuillaume Hennequin, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRodrigo Echeveste (CBL). Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning AlgorithmsMihaela van der Schaar . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 11 October 2018, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Fastest Convergence for Reinforcement LearningProf. Sean Meyn, University of Florida. Monday 08 October 2018, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlberto Bernacchia (CBL). Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 02 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Reactivation in biological and artificial neural networksGido van de Ven, PhD; Baylor College of Medicine. Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building). Tuesday 11 September 2018, 10:00-11:00 Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answersBeen Kim, Google Brain. Engineering Department, Board Room on the 2nd Floor. Monday 10 September 2018, 11:00-12:00 Simulation for Intelligent SystemsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Vladlen Koltun, Intel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 August 2018, 13:00-14:30 Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD)Biwei Huang, CMU. Friday 24 August 2018, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars How to use particle filtering methods to solve numerical optimization problems ?Bin Liu. JDG-14, James Dyson Building Meeting Room, Ground Floor. Friday 10 August 2018, 14:00-15:00 General teacher-student learning for automatic speech recognitionJeremy Wong, University of Cambridge. Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room. Tuesday 31 July 2018, 12:00-13:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (CBL). Tuesday 17 July 2018, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 15:00-16:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Interpretability in Machine Learning: What it means, How we're getting there Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 13:00-14:00 Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex ModelsEmtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 16 July 2018, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Combating Student Mental Illness with Technology—from the Imagine Cup UK FinalsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Michaela Brady and Shu Ishida, Oxford University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 July 2018, 15:00-16:00 Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable ModelsGeorge Tucker, Google Brain. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00 Monitoring and Fault-tolerant Control for Large-Scale Interconnected SystemsFrancesca Boem, University College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 21 June 2018, 14:00-15:00 Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyondThomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 21 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte-Carlo Estimator Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Jakob Foerster, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Herding Nulls – and other C# stories from the futurePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Mads Torgersen, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup FairnessProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Windows Insider ProgramPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 04 June 2018, 14:15-15:00 Control theory of switches and clocksRodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 31 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAdrianna Loback (Control Group). Tuesday 29 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect FeaturesJulius von Kugelgen. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 23 May 2018, 11:30-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Design techniques for sparse regression codesAdam Greig, CUED. Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00-13:00 Gaussian distributions in symmetric spaces: novel tools for statistical learning with covariance matricesSalem Said, CNRS, IMS Laboratory, Bordeaux. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 17 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAndrey Stoychev (Control Group). Tuesday 15 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 Input-to-State Stability for complex dynamics: From global to almost global… and backDavid Angeli, Imperial College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social NetworksAna Stoica, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00 Information Engineering Division seminar list Inspiring Engineers - Machine Learning for Social Tech Entrepreneurship & GaN Power Electronics: My experiences in EngineeringNikita Hari. Tuesday 08 May 2018, 12:00-14:30 Information Efficacy of a Dynamic SynapseMehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich). Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-16:30 Finding Complex Structure in Biological DataIoannis Kontoyiannis, University of Cambridge and Athens University of Economics & Business. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 Predictive Uncertainty in Deep LearningAndrey Malinin (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR5 Lecture Room. Thursday 03 May 2018, 12:00-13:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional inverse problemsDr Alexandros Beskos, UCL. Thursday 26 April 2018, 15:00-16:00 On a Model for the Growth of Tree Stems and VinesMichele Palladino, Penn State University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10. Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00 A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGDDr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11. Tuesday 17 April 2018, 11:00-12:00 Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social NetworksAna Stoica, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Sunday 15 April 2018, 11:00-12:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Active Machine Learning: From Theory to PracticeRobert Nowak, McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Engineering - LT2. Monday 19 March 2018, 12:00-13:00 Autonomous learning of multimodal internal models for robots using multiple sources of informationMartina Zambelli, Deepmind. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Thursday 08 March 2018, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Networks and Natural Language ProcessingMatej Balog (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:30-15:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Manual Robotic Intelligence and the Success of Assistant RobotsProf. Ángel Pascual Del Pobil. Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Dept of Engineering, Trumpington Street. Tuesday 06 March 2018, 14:00-15:00 Structure in tensor-variate data: a trivial byproduct of simpler phenomena?John P. Cunningham. Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Information-theoretic perspectives on learning algorithmsDr Varun Jog, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Monday 05 March 2018, 14:30-15:30 Designing emergent behaviours of (soft) robotsFumiya Iida, Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR12. Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information Theory, Codes, and CompressionChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:30-15:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Intelligent Self-Driving VehiclesPaul Newman, BP Professor of Information Engineering, University of Oxford. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 23 February 2018, 12:00-13:00 ADMM for Exploiting Structure in MPC ProblemsFelix Rey, ETH Zurich. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR12. Thursday 22 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRobert Taylor (Bays Lab). Tuesday 20 February 2018, 16:00-17:00 Structured Deep Learning for Dialogue ManagementKai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Department of Engineering - LR3B Lecture Room. Monday 19 February 2018, 12:00-13:00 Lipschitz Global OptimizationProfessor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria. Friday 16 February 2018, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Statistical Learning TheoryMaria Lomeli. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:30-15:00 Interfacing with the brain using organic electronicsGeorge Malliaras (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,). Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:00-12:00 Neuromechanical models of locomotion: from biology to roboticsAuke Ijspeert, Biorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR12. Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Generative ModelsJonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:30-15:00 Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Convex OptimizationStephen P. Boyd, Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 26 January 2018, 12:00-13:00 Object Oriented Convex Optimization with CVXPYStephen Boyd and Steven Diamond, Stanford University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR4. Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Minimum Description LengthCarl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:30-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGreg Sotiropoulos (CBL). Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:00-17:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Optimal algorithms for smooth and strongly convex distributed optimization in networks Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francis Bach, INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning for SoundsAkisato Kimura. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS 2017 HighlightsSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:30-15:00 Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priorsManfred Opper, TU Berlin. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 13 December 2017, 13:30-14:30 Bayesian Generative Adversarial NetworksProfessor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University. Wednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDhruva Raman (Control Group). Tuesday 12 December 2017, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andrew Wilson, Cornell University. Auditorium , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 December 2017, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hardware Efficient Machine LearningRobert Peharz; Marton Havasi. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (CBL). Tuesday 28 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation.Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto). Monday 27 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Mind Under Matter: Controlling Movements of Soft Animals and RobotsBarry Trimmer, Departments of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University.. Friday 24 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient DescentYutian Chen, DeepMind. Friday 24 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Towards Scale-Free Control of large-scale traffic networksCarlos Canudas-de-Wit, CNRS, Grenoble. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11. Thursday 23 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning to LearnSiddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Towards true end-to-end learning & optimizationDr Frank Hutter. Friday 17 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Invariant Kalman filteringSilvère Bonnabel, Mines ParisTech. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11. Thursday 16 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED WGAN and Optimal TransportMark Rowland; Wenbo Gong. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Intelligent Processing for Future Communication NetworksDr Geoffrey Li, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Dyson Building Teaching Room. Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Let’s speed up the Internet, fast! Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof. Ankit Singla - ETH Zürich. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 15 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMahdieh Sadabadi (CBL). Tuesday 14 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 How much to gain: Controlling space and time via gain modulation in cortical networksJake Stroud (Tim Vogels Lab. University of Oxford). Monday 13 November 2017, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking the Quantified Self to make personal data engaging and usefulPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Steve Whittaker, University of California Santa Cruz. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 13 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Interpretability in Machine LearningAdrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Model Reduction by Moment Matching at Poles for Linear and Nonlinear SystemsAlberto Padoan, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR10. Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting RecognitionJuan Murillo Fuentes. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:30-15:00 Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-makingJoshua Kroll. Wednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlberto Bernacchia (CBL). Tuesday 31 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Multilayered dielectric elastomer actuators for soft roboticsMihai Duduta - Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Tuesday 31 October 2017, 12:00-13:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Multilayered dielectric elastomer actuators for soft roboticsMihai Duduta - Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Tuesday 31 October 2017, 12:00-13:00 Somatosensory cortex is essential for adaptive motor control in miceMackenzie Mathis, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University. Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Thursday 26 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Cooperative Inverse RLRobert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:30-15:00 From the olfactory cocktail party to markerless trackingAlexander Mathis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. Thursday 26 October 2017, 10:00-11:00 Are right-half plane zeros necessary for inverse response? It depends…Jan Maciejowski (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11. Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Infer.NETJohn F. Bronskill. Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38. Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:30-15:00 Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learningProf. Aapo Hyvarinen. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00 Spike timing in motor controlIlya Nemenman (Emory University). Tuesday 17 October 2017, 11:00-12:00 Frequency domain tools for the analysis of Lur'e feedback dominant systemsFelix Miranda-Villatoro, University of Cambridge. Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering. Thursday 12 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 Smooth Operators Enhance RobustnessKeith Glover, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11. Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-14:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRodrigo Echeveste (CBL). Tuesday 03 October 2017, 15:00-16:00 Attasi ND systems, polynomial system solving and algebraic optimizationBernard Hanzon (University College Cork). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Friday 29 September 2017, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Open Evening for Women in EngineeringChris Bishop. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 September 2017, 17:30-21:00 A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health careDr Cheng Zhang. Tuesday 26 September 2017, 15:00-16:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Probabilistic and Deep Models for 3D Reconstruction Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andreas Geiger, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 September 2017, 13:00-14:00 Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit MatricesProfessor Ryan Adams, Princeton. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual FairnessDr Matt Kusner. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 12 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximationHironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image InpaintingMariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Deep learning for autonomous drivingTakayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) . CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Manifest Sharing with Session TypesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Affective computing for assessing treatments in psychiatryJustin Dauwels . Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab, Engineering, Department of. Friday 01 September 2017, 16:30-17:30 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Coin Betting for Backprop without Learning Rates and More Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francesco Orabona, Stony Brook University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 24 August 2017, 13:00-14:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer? Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 August 2017, 13:00-14:00 Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence FunctionsPang Wei Koh, Stanford University. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 20 July 2017, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubTimothy O'Leary (Control Group). Tuesday 11 July 2017, 16:00-17:00 A simple neural network module for relational reasoningDavid Barrett, DeepMind. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 06 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 Future technology: machine learning using memristors networksFrancesco Caravelli (LANL). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 Future technology: machine learning using memristors networksFrancesco Caravelli (LANL). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00 OSQP: An Operator Splitting Solver for Quadratic ProgramsBartolomeo Stellato, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Thursday 29 June 2017, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDhruva Raman (Control Group). Tuesday 27 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Biological Systems as Communication NetworksProf. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California. Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6. Wednesday 21 June 2017, 14:00-15:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Simulating Fetal Sensory-Motor Experiences and Embodied Neural LearningYasuo Kuniyoshi, Professor of Mechano-Informatics, School of Information Science and Technology, and Director of Next Generation AI Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan.. Oatley Meeting Room 1, Engineering, Department of. Monday 19 June 2017, 12:00-13:00 motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networksVincent Fortuin (ETH). Wednesday 14 June 2017, 11:30-12:15 Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigationStefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute). Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:45-11:30 Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction timesYul Kang (Columbia University). Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-10:45 Excitable behaviorsRodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks AI and Healthcare Open Evening at Microsoft ResearchChristopher Bishop. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 07 June 2017, 17:30-19:30 Low-Rank Inducing Norms with Optimality InterpretationsChristian Grussler, University of Lund. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 01 June 2017, 14:00-15:00 Distributed schemes for stability and optimality in power networksAndreas Kasis, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 25 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial NetworksMartin Arjovsky. Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration LanguagesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 May 2017, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration LanguagesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 May 2017, 10:00-11:00 Performance Verification and Optimal Synthesis of Embedded Optimization-Based ControllersColin Jones, EPFL, Switzerland. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Monday 15 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 Verification of Control Laws Using Formal MethodsKestutis Siaulys, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 11 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigationAndreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen. The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 08 May 2017, 16:30-18:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series A Novel Bioinspired Variable Stiffness Design Concept - Bridging the gap between Soft and Traditional RoboticsAgostino Stilli, KCL. Monday 08 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Nuclear norm methods for frequency domain system identificationRoy Smith, ETH Zurich. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Aapo Hyvarinen (University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Situated Intelligent Interactive SystemsZhou Yu, CMU, US. Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room. Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft & the Future of Education Technology & Learning Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Ian Fordham, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Title to be confirmedIoannis Kontoyiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business. Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6. Wednesday 19 April 2017, 10:30-11:20 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Title to be confirmedYoung-Han Kim, University of California. Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6. Wednesday 19 April 2017, 09:25-10:15 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Title to be confirmedAlbert Guillen i Fabregas (Department of Engineering). Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6. Wednesday 19 April 2017, 08:30-09:20 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation LearningGroup Discussion. Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gabriel Brostow (University College London). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 April 2017, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gabriel Brostow (University College London). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 April 2017, 10:30-11:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Sparse trees and long memory: Bayesian inference for discrete time seriesIoannis Kontoyiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business. LR12, Baker Building, Department of Engineering (Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ). Monday 03 April 2017, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security and Privacy in Machine LearningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 March 2017, 13:15-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security and Privacy in Machine LearningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 March 2017, 13:15-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generalizing Convolutions for Deep LearningPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof. Max Welling (University of Amsterdam). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 29 March 2017, 13:00-14:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Facets of Information TheoryYoung-Han Kim, University of California. Department of Engineering - LR3A. Monday 27 March 2017, 14:00-15:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNsGroup Discussion. Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kernel Mean EmbeddingsJiri Hron; Adam Scibior. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Information Engineering Division seminar list Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic ProgramsTom Rainforth, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Wednesday 15 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural NetworksGroup Discussion. Tuesday 14 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Differentially Private Bayesian LearningDr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 14 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Control, inference and learningProf. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Differential PrivacyJohn Bradshaw; Alex Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Differential Privacy TutorialAlex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSebastian Schneegans (Bays Lab). Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Skinning a robot: Design Methodologies for Large-Scale Robot SkinDr Perla Maiolino , Goldsmiths University of London. Friday 03 March 2017, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Disrupting Developer Productivity One Bot At A Time, Margaret-Anne (Peggy) Storey, University of Victoria / Microsoft TSEPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Margaret-Anne Storey - University of Victoria / Microsoft TSE. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 Designing Bregman storage functions for microgrid controlNima Monshizadeh, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:15-15:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNetsGroup Discussion. Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:30-15:00 A missing data approach to data-driven filtering and controlIvan Markovsky, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Monday 27 February 2017, 12:00-13:00 Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems and the Challenges for Machine LearningProfessor Steve Young, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Department of Engineering - Lecture Theater 2 (Inglis Building). Monday 27 February 2017, 12:00-13:00 Transfer functions of infinite-dimensional systems: positive realness, stabilization and absolute stabilityChris Guiver, University of Bath. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A. Friday 24 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement LearningDylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 23 February 2017, 15:00-16:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional NetworksGroup Discussion. Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (CBL). Tuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 Dynamic reorganization of neuronal activity patterns in parietal cortexLaura Driscoll (Harvard University). Monday 20 February 2017, 10:00-10:30 Positivity, Monotonicity, and Consensus on Lie GroupsCyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 16 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic NumericsAlessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - OptimizationGroup Discussion. Tuesday 14 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bilinear Inverse Problems: How much does structure help? (Leverhulme Lecture)Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California. James Dyson Building Seminar Room - Department of Engineering. Friday 10 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programsValentin Dalibart. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Friday 10 February 2017, 11:00-12:00 A Control Systems Perspective on Supercapacitor Modelling and DesignRoss Drummond, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlberto Bernacchia (CBL). Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - RegularizationGroup Discussion. Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:30-15:00 Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNsGroup Discussion. Tuesday 31 January 2017, 13:30-15:00 Variational Bayes In Private SettingsMijung Park, University of Amsterdam. CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 25 January 2017, 15:00-16:00 Julia: Introduction and new developmentsDr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 24 January 2017, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS 2016 papers in 5minsMLG members. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:30-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Models and Capacity Bounds for Optical Fibre ChannelsProf. Gerhard Kramer, TU Munich. CBL Meeting Room (BE-438), Cambridge University Engineering Department. Friday 16 December 2016, 11:30-12:30 Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated modelsDaniel Roy (University of Toronto). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 15 December 2016, 11:00-12:00 Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot CollaborationElena Corina Grigore (Yale University). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 14 December 2016, 15:00-16:00 Variational autoencoders with latent graphical modelsProf David Duvenaud (University of Toronto). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 13 December 2016, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars High Resolution Optical and SAR Satellite Image Processing for Disaster Management using Hierarchical MRFsProf. Josiane Zerubia, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, INRIA, France . LR4, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Friday 02 December 2016, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Symmetry in Statistical ModelsMark Rowland; Maria Lomeli. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Well-founded functions, induction, and extreme predicates in an SMT-based verifierPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 December 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Well-founded functions, induction, and extreme predicates in an SMT-based verifierPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 December 2016, 10:00-11:00 Substrate Enzyme-Sequestration in Multisite Protein Phosphorylation - Introducing WCDD M-matrices in designing stationary probability distributionsAndreas Petrides, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian OptimizationPawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:30-15:00 A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddingsKrzysztof Choromanski, Google NY. Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering the Future: Engineering in Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft Research CambridgeChristopher Bishop. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 23 November 2016, 17:15-19:30 On structure preserving H-infinity optimal controlProfessor Anders Rantzer, Lund University, Sweden. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 Rejection Sampling Variational InferenceFrancisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge). Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11:30-12:30 Bayesian Optimization for Accelerated Exploration of Chemical SpaceJosé Miguel Hernández Lobato, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED deep generative modelsDave Janz; James Requeima. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-15:00 Neural representations of uncertainty: the right tool for the right jobCristina Savin (IST Austria). Thursday 17 November 2016, 12:15-13:15 Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?Prof. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick). CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering. Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Grid cells get back to the memory gameAlessandro Treves (SISSA). Monday 14 November 2016, 09:00-10:00 Controllability and stabilizability of piecewise affine dynamical systemsKanat Camlibel, University of Groningen. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 10 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sketching methodsJohn Bradshaw. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Flexible PaxosPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Heidi Howard, University of Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 November 2016, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGreg Sotiropoulos (CBL). Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 A talk in two parts: (1) AI Neuroscience: How much do deep neural networks understand about the images they classify? (2) Robots that can adapt like animals.Note venue: James Dyson Building Prof. Jeff Clune (U Wyoming). Dyson Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Monday 07 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Semidefinite approximations of matrix logarithmHamza Fawzi, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room. Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement LearningAlexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:30-15:00 Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable ModelsTomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstrationDushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute. Wednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Unsupervised Cluster Matching for Relational DataPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tomoharu Iwata, NTT Communication Science Laboratories. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Developing PDE-compartment hybrid frameworks for modelling cell migrationPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Kit Yate, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Developing PDE-compartment hybrid frameworks for modelling cell migrationPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Kit Yate, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Investigating the interdependencies between DNN architectures and optimisation methods for Large Vocabulary Speech Continuous Speech RecognitionAdnan Haider, University of Cambridge. Department of Engineering - LR3A. Monday 31 October 2016, 12:00-13:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Tracking intentionality using behavioural models and Bayesian methods.Prof. Simon Godsill, CUED. LR4, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:00-16:00 Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensorsManon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University. Thursday 20 October 2016, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRodrigo Echeveste (CBL). Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing In Schools: How Your Skills Can Change LivesPhilip Golden. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Information and Entropy Flow in Stochastic ControlProfessor Sanjoy Mitter, MIT. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 07 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCAProfessor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS). Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Multi-band Image Super-resolutionDr Qi Wei, CUED. LR6, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Monday 26 September 2016, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Algorithms and bounds for group testingDr Oliver Johnson, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. LR6, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Monday 19 September 2016, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Queueing with Redundant Requests: A more realistic model Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Mor Harchol-Balter - CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Multiresolution Matrix FactorizationProf Risi Kondor (U Chicago). Tuesday 13 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Dynamic Models for Health DataProfessor Katherine A Heller (Duke University). Monday 12 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Safety compliant assistive exoskeletons for AAL applicationsProfessor Gurvinder Singh Virk, Professor of Robotics, University of Gävle and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SWEDEN. Friday 09 September 2016, 16:00-16:30 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Nonparametric Bayesian Word Discovery by Robots: Introduction to Symbol Emergence in RoboticsDr. Tadahiro Taniguchi, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University. . Friday 09 September 2016, 15:30-16:00 Learning with Memory EmbeddingsProfessor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Data Driven Discrete Time Modeling of Continuous Time Nonlinear Systems: Problems, Challenges, Success StoriesJohan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Womenomics" and Gender-Inclusive Software: What the Software Industry Needs to Know Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andrey Rybalchenko, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 25 August 2016, 10:30-11:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (CBL). Tuesday 23 August 2016, 16:00-17:00 Very deep convolutional neural networks for speech recognitionTom Sercu, IBM Watson, USA. Department of Engineering - LR5. Friday 19 August 2016, 12:00-13:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Internal models and the neural control of prey interceptionAnthony Leonardo, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus / HHMI. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 19 August 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing Privacy Tradeoffs in the Internet Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required David Naylor - CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 12 August 2016, 15:00-16:00 Inference as LearningGeorge Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh). Monday 08 August 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reflections on Code-Reuse Attacks and DefensesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 August 2016, 16:00-17:00 Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured DataProf Le Song (Georgia Tech). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 25 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verifying Constant-Time ImplementationsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francois Dupressoir. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 21 July 2016, 14:00-15:00 Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series MethodologyProfessor Mike West (Statistical Science, Duke University). James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Thursday 21 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Mean Field Games and the Control of Large Scale Systems: An OverviewPeter E. Caines, McGill University, Montreal. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 1. Wednesday 20 July 2016, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to program verification with F*Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Santiago Zanella-Beguelin, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 14 July 2016, 10:30-11:15 Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian InferenceProf. David Blei (Columbia University). James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor. Tuesday 12 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Cluster-Seeking Shrinkage EstimatorsDr K Pavan Srinath, CUED. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 06 July 2016, 11:00-12:00 Don't multiply lightly: exploring how DNN depth interacts with HMM independence assumptions in hybrid HMM/DNN's used for ASRSteven Wegmann, Semantic Machines and International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). James Dyson Building Seminar Room - Department of Engineering. Monday 04 July 2016, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Statically-checked Deterministic ParallelismPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Ryan Newton, Indiana University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 June 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Summer of Science Talks: An Introduction to Discrete Geometry, with application to the Principles of Concurrent Programming Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 June 2016, 10:30-11:45 A decision-theoretic framework for active cognitionAngela J. Yu, UCSD Cognitive Science. Friday 17 June 2016, 10:30-11:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJózsef Fiser (Central European University). Tuesday 14 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 A modular architecture for Unicode text compressionAdam Gleave (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 15:00-15:15 Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task LearningVia Skype Yu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 11:00-12:00 Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learningVia Skype Sixin Zhang (NYU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 10:00-11:00 It’s not MPC! An Explicit Reference Governor for the supervision of constrained nonlinear systemsRoom and time changed Emanuele Garone, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 09 June 2016, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Exploiting Asymptotic Structure for Resolution Enhancement in Physical Imaging SystemsDr Bogdan Roman, Computer Laboratory & DAMTP, University of Cambridge. LR3B, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 09 June 2016, 15:00-16:00 Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning ActivityIsabel Valera . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 09 June 2016, 11:00-12:00 Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical ModelsStephen Pasteris (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 10:30-11:30 Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networksNote: via Skype! Teppo Niinimäki (Helsinki). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 09:30-10:30 Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal MathematicsJosef Urban. William Gates Building - FW26. Friday 03 June 2016, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Shrinkage Estimation in High DimensionsDr K. Pavan Srinath, CUED. LR6, Department of Engineering. Thursday 02 June 2016, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:30-16:00 Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximationsAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 11:30-12:30 Novel MCMC and SMC schemes for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture modelsMaria Lomeli (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 10:30-11:30 Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in JuliaHong Ge (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 June 2016, 09:30-10:30 Perceptual decision-making: models of the decision-making process and formulation of uncertaintyDavid Zoltowski, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 31 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Towards a theory of layered neural circuit architecturesAlireza Alemi (École Normale Supérieure). Tuesday 31 May 2016, 11:30-12:30 Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech RecognitionGabriel Synnaeve. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Adaptive Group Sparsity Using the Ordered Weighted l1 RegularizerProf. Mario Figueiredo, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico University of Lisbon, Portugal. LR6, Department of Engineering. Thursday 26 May 2016, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning polynomials with Neural NetworksAldo Pacchiano (Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:30-16:00 Algebraic methods for parameter-free analysis of biochemical networksHeather Harrington, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:00-15:00 Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic ModelingRobert Peharz (TU Graz). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00 Perception as a closed-loop convergence processThe host for this talk is Máté Lengyel. Note the unusual time and the unusual location Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute). Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Resource Allocation for Next Generation of Radio Access Networks: how effective are my schedulers?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending. Bahar Partov Poor, Hamilton Institute Bell Laboratories. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 May 2016, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Approximate Smoothing and Parameter Estimation in High-Dimensional State-Space ModelsDr Axel Finke, CUED. LR6, Department of Engineering. Thursday 19 May 2016, 15:00-16:00 MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical ModelsKui Tang, Columbia University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 13 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Quantum control and quantum synchronizationAndreas Nunnenkamp, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 12 May 2016, 14:00-15:00 Bounded Control that Preserves System Stability and its ApplicationsQing-Chang Zhong, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and University of Sheffield. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Tuesday 10 May 2016, 15:00-16:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series A role for circadian rhythms in maintaining neuronal propertiesTimothy O'Leary. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 10 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An introduction to Bayesian nonparametrics: some inference schemes for infinite mixture modelsMaria Lomeli. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Turbocharging Rack-Scale In-Memory Computing with Scale-Out NUMAPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Boris Grot - University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Methodology in design research Mapping and risk in healthcareAlexander Komashie (University of Cambridge). Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 04 May 2016, 10:30-11:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series From Sensation to Conception: Theoretical Perspectives on Multisensory Perception and Cross-Modal TransferProf Robert Jacobs (University of Rochester) . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 03 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Topics in Expectation PropagationYingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:30-16:00 Design Considerations for Economic MPCMuyiwa Olanrewaju, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering the Future: an open evening for women in engineeringChristopher Bishop, Microsoft Research, Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research, Matthew Johnson, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Admitting more tenants with tail latency SLOsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Timothy Zhu, CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 25 April 2016, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PCC: Re-architecting Congestion Control for Consistent High PerformancePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 25 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGoShixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:30-16:00 Architectural Issues in the Design of Model Predictive Control: From Centralized to DistributedHe Kong, Cranfield University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Scalable inference for a full multivariate stochastic volatility modelProf. Petros Dellaportas, Dept. of Statistical Science, UCL. LR11, Department of Engineering. Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 Synaptic origins of working memory capacityMisha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel . Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness ProblemPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Torsten Sattler, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness ProblemPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Torsten Sattler, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness ProblemDr Torsten Sattler is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computer Vision and Geometry (CVG) Group of the Institute for Visual Computing of the Department of Computer Science> at ETH Zurich headed by Prof. Marc Pollefeys. Dr Sattler is working on the V-C. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11. Monday 18 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Communications Research Group Seminar DNA Fountain channelsJossy Sayir, University of Cambridge / European Bioinformatics Laboratory. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Friday 15 April 2016, 14:30-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED inference failures in probabilistic programmingTom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 April 2016, 14:30-16:00 A Bayesian Approach to Molecular CommunicationChun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Wednesday 13 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Perspectives on Designing Optimal User InterfacesDr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 12 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational Methods and Compressed SensingNilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 April 2016, 14:30-16:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness ProblemDr Torsten Sattler, . Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Meeting Room (Room No. BN2-05). Wednesday 06 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming SystemJan-Willem van de Meent (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 05 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Fast Fusion of Multi-band Images: A Powerful Tool for Super-resolutionQi Wei (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 March 2016, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Pony: Co-Designing a Type System and a RuntimePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Sylvan Clebsch, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks General-purpose representation learning from words to sentencesPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Felix Hill, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 March 2016, 09:30-10:30 Methodology in design research Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Flow PhysicsPranay Seshadri, Engineering Design Centre. Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 23 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Approximate Message Passing AlgorithmsDr Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 22 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information-Theoretic Bounded RationalityPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Pedro Ortega, University of Pennsylvania. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 22 March 2016, 10:15-11:15 Brain State Control by Closed-Loop Environmental FeedbackTaro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute. Monday 21 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Ocean Heat and Hot air (with apologies to David MacKay)Prof. Charles F Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. LT1, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:30-15:30 Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural AssumptionsJacob Steinhardt (Stanford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 The stabilized supralinear network: A simple "balanced network" mechanism explaining nonlinear cortical integrationKen Miller, Columbia University. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrineTom Dean, Google Research. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stamping Out Concurrency BugsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Baris Kasikci, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Parallel Inference and Learning with Deep Structured DistributionsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Alexander Schwing, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 March 2016, 10:15-11:15 Communities and privacy in mobile phone social networksVincent Blondel, Université catholique de Louvain. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Friday 11 March 2016, 14:30-15:30 The geometry of uncertaintyFabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University. Engineering Department, Boardroom on the 2nd floor (past canteen on the left). Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 Methodology in design research OptimizationBilly Fitton, Engineering Design Centre. Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 09 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Methodology in design research OptimizationThomas Kopsch, Engineering Design Centre. Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 09 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Into the Mountains: The Extraordinary True Story of Survival in the Andes and its AftermathPedro Algorta. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-18:00 Isolating Invisible Dynamics in the Design of Robust Hybrid Internal ModelsLorenzo Marconi, University of Bologna. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 04 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic programmingHong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:30-16:00 Model Predictive Control for changing operation conditionsDaniel Limon, University of Seville. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 Methodology in design research System modelling using post-it notesDr Sam Waller ( Engineering Design Centre). Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 02 March 2016, 10:30-11:30 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Soft & Wet Chemical RobotsProf Shingo Maeda, Shibaura Institute of Technology. Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning by learning rich generative modelsThang Bui (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 25 February 2016, 14:30-16:00 Methodology in design research Inspiration on design fixationLuis A. Vasconcelos, Engineering Design Centre. Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 24 February 2016, 11:00-12:00 Methodology in design research 'Designing in' informal interaction in bioscience architecture: design intent and scientists' practicesAlison McDougall-Weil, Engineering Design Centre. Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 24 February 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Freeform interactions and disrupted displaysPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. David Sweeney, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 23 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 A more Automated StatisticianDavid Janz, Oxford University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 19 February 2016, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Regularized Optimal Transport and ApplicationsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Marco Cuturi, Kyoto University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 19 February 2016, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Natural gradient descent and variational inferenceMark van der Wilk; Alex Matthews . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:30-16:00 Stability and power sharing in microgridsJohannes Schiffer, University of Leeds. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPsNOTE Topic Change Yarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:30-16:00 Computable analysis and control synthesis of complex dynamical systems via formal verificationAlessandro Abate, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 Methodology in design research Intelligent Inclusive Human Machine InteractionDr Pradipta Biswas (University of Cambridge). Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 10 February 2016, 11:00-12:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Long-term tracking of human pose in videosDr James Charles, Research Fellow at the University of Leeds: Computer Vision - Machine Learning - Probabilistic modeling. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Meeting Room (Room No. BN2-05). Wednesday 10 February 2016, 11:00-12:00 Variational Inference in Gaussian Processes for non-linear time seriesCarl Edward Rasmussen, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 04 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 Methodology in design research Comparing and sharing complex design practices accross domainsDr Chih-Chun Chen, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 10:30-11:30 Methodology in design research How to help stakeholders of socio-technical systems understand resilienceEloise Taysom, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. Sir Arhur Marshall Room, Engineering Design Centre, CUED. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What I Learned From Inventing Scala Macros?Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eugene Burmako, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What I Learned From Inventing Scala Macros?Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eguene Burmako, Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Machine Learning Techniques for 3D Registration with ImagesProfessor Vincent Lepetit of Graz University of Technology, Austria. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT2. Monday 01 February 2016, 15:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Random projection ensemble classificationTimothy Cannings. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:30-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep learning for time seriesChristof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:30-16:00 Decomposition and Structured Model Reduction for Large Scale Systems AnalysisJames Anderson, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Opportunistic Storage Maintenance (SOSP’15)Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 January 2016, 14:30-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stochastic discrete integrationAdrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-16:00 Integral Quadratic Constraint Theorem: A topological separation approachJoaquin Carrasco Gomez, University of Manchester. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks End-user programmers need first-class software engineering toolsFelienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 January 2016, 15:00-16:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Robotics in AgricultureProf Simon Blackmore, Harper Adams. Monday 11 January 2016, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verasco, a formally verified C static analyzerPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Jacques Henri Jourdan, INRIA Paris. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 January 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Formalising and Analysing Transactional Consistency ModelsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Andrea Cerone. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 January 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Synthesising Gene Regulatory Networks from Single-Cell Gene Expression DataPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Steven Woodhouse, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 January 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Symbiotic design for machine intelligence systemsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Cecily Morrison, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 04 January 2016, 09:30-10:30 General Reinforcement LearningJan Leike (Australian National University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Decade of ThrillPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Brendan Walker, Middlesex University/University of Nottingham/Aerial. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 14 December 2015, 10:00-11:00 The contribution of millisecond spike timing of cortical neurons to sensory coding and perceptual decisionsStefano Panzeri, Italian Institute of Technology. Friday 11 December 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Model-Based Hand Tracking with Texture, Shading and Self-occlusionsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Martin De La Gorce, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 December 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Constructive Approach to Secure-Channel ProtocolsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Bjorn Tackmann, University of California San Diego. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Activity recognition in naturalistic environmentsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nils Yannick Hammerla, Newcastle University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Bio-inspired small scale manufacturing by self-assembly and self-foldingDr Shuhei Miyashita. Tuesday 01 December 2015, 16:30-17:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Sustainable robotic devices for personalized medical assistanceDr Dana Damian, University Sheffield. Tuesday 01 December 2015, 16:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stochastic optimization and adaptive learning ratesYingzhen Li (University of Cambridge); Mark Rowland. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:30-16:00 Electron beam stabilisation for a synchrotron: An example of the control of spatio-temporal systemsStephen Duncan, Oxford University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian EyesYarin Gal, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 On the Nonlinear Dynamics of Collective Decision-Making in Nature and DesignNaomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Logic, Theorem Proving, and Probabilistic ProgrammingChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Boolean to Quantitative Methods in Formal VerificationPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Thomas Henzinger, IST Austria. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Cloud Radio Access Networks: Challenges and (Some) SolutionsProf. Osvaldo Simeone, New Jersey Institute of Technology. LR5, Department of Engineering. Thursday 19 November 2015, 11:30-12:30 Transferring the Principles of Human Impedance Control to Soft Robotic SystemsMatthew J Howard, King's College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 13 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Connections between kernels, GPs, and NNsMatthias Bauer (University of Cambridge); Paul Rubenstein. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:30-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Gain from Multiple Measurements: Measurement Diversity and Resource AllocationDr Wei Dai, Imperial College London. LR5, Department of Engineering. Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 Path-complete Lyapunov techniques: when Algebra and Combinatorics meet in ControlRaphaël Jungers, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 12 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 Towards Advanced Conversational SystemsG. Wu, Maluuba. Department of Engineering - LR11. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising modelDr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDavid Zoltowski (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Robotics and Space Engineering in Tohoku UniversityProfessor Kazuya Yoshida, Tohoku University (Japan) . Monday 09 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Robotic Approaches in Locomotor BiologyDr William Seller (University of Manchester). Friday 06 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Detecting paraphrases using recursive autoencodersFeynman Liang. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 November 2015, 14:30-16:00 Optimal control of wave energy convertersEric Kerrigan, Imperial College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 05 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 What the DNN heard? Dissecting the machine brain for a better insight.Khe Chai Sim, National University of Singapore. Department of Engineering - LR5. Wednesday 04 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Non-stationary Network Modelling by Particle Filtering: case of Gene Interaction NetworksDr Ercan E Kuruoglu, ISTI-CNR, Pisa. LR5, Department of Engineering. Monday 02 November 2015, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian optimization and its applicationsDr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:30-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Capturing Accurate Colour ImagesProf. Joel Trussell, North Carolina State University . LR3B, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Sum of squares programming for discrete-time non-linear systems - with application to power convertersMorten Hovd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series Evolving robotic ecosystems in real hardwareProf. G. Eiben. Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED LP relaxations for MAP inferenceAdrian Weller (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:30-16:00 Stability of Reaction Networks: A System-Theoretic ApproachMuhammad Ali Al-Radhawi, Imperial College London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking Storage and Networking in Next Generation RacksSergey Legtchenko, Post-doc Researcher, Systems & Networking, Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 22 October 2015, 10:00-11:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) Seminar Series AmphiBot and Salamandra robotica: four generations of modular amphibious and swimming robotsDr Alessandro Crespi, EPFL. Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-18:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Construction of Capacity-Achieving Lattice Codes: Polar LatticesDr Cong Ling, Imperial College London. LR5, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 21 October 2015, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars A Novel Application of Information Theory in Heart Sound Signal Analysis for Cardiovascular Disease DiagnosisDr Booma Devi Sekar, University of Macau, Macau SAR. Sigproc Meeting Room (BN3-05), 3rd floor CUED. Thursday 15 October 2015, 15:00-16:00 Meta-Bayesian AnalysisProf. Daniel Roy (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 October 2015, 11:00-12:00 Approximate nonlinear filtering with a neural networkJean-Pascal Pfister, ETH Zurich. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 12:00-13:00 Efficient Inference and Learning with Intractable Posteriors? Yes, Please.Diederik P. Kingma (University of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Dale’s principle and the neural processing of latent factorsAlberto Bernacchia, Jacobs University, Bremen. Monday 12 October 2015, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Characterizing degrees of freedom through additive combinatoricsProf. Helmut Bölcskei, ETH Zurich. LR5, Department of Engineering. Friday 09 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Input allocation using dynamics: theory and applicationsLuca Zaccarian, LAAS-CNRS and University of Trento. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 08 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Talking with Reddit: Exploring limitations of recurrent neural network conversational systems.Alexander Gaunt - Trinity College, Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 08 October 2015, 10:00-11:00 Decoding of complex stimuli from large retinal populationsVicente Botella-Soler. Wednesday 07 October 2015, 10:15-11:00 Complementary approaches to Synaptic Plasticity: Objective Functions and BiophysicsRodrigo Echeveste, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt. Wednesday 07 October 2015, 09:30-10:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: What are the Prospects for Automatic Theorem Proving?Prof Sir Timothy Gowers. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 October 2015, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Neuroevolution of Reactive and Deliberative 3D AgentsAdam Stanton, Keele University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 30 September 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Title to be confirmedMaking sense of language: It's okay to countGabe Recchia, University of Cambridge. Indigo 05-27, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studiesFrancesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 25 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Line Searches for Stochastic Optimisation. Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Maren Mahsereci, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Tübingen). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 21 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The structures of induction and co-induction. Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Downen, University of Oregon.. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 17 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Eye Gaze TrackingDr Pradipta Biswas, CUED. LR11, Department of Engineering. Thursday 17 September 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Human factors of software updatesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Harmonic Exponential Families and Group-Equivariant Convolution NetworksTaco Cohen (University of Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 16 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped ParametersKoh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 15 September 2015, 10:30-11:30 A-Star Sampling ReviewChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 14 September 2015, 12:00-13:00 Convex Factorization MachinesMathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 14 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Program Logic for Concurrent Objects under Fair SchedulingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Hongjin Liang, USTC. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 September 2015, 14:30-15:30 Belief and Truth in Hypothesised BehavioursStefano V. Albrecht - School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 10 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and PerceptionJason Yosinski (Cornell). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Power of Negations in CryptographySiyao Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Power of Negations in CryptographySiyao Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer-aided Concurrent Programming using Concurrent Trace SetsRoopsha Samanta, IST Austria. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 September 2015, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Cross-fertilization Between Propositional Satisfiability and Data MiningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending LAKHDAR SAÏS, CRIL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Information-Theoretic Bounded RationalityPedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 07 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Executable Relational Specifications of Polymorphic Type Systems using PrologThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ki Yung Ahn, Portland State University. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 September 2015, 10:00-11:00 Interspeech presentationsSandwiches will be provided at 12:00 Various (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR5. Wednesday 02 September 2015, 11:00-13:00 On the Relation between Optimal Transport and Schroedinger Bridges: A Control PerspectiveMichele Pavon, University of Padova. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Tuesday 01 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Hard limits on robust control over delayed and quantized communicationsYorie Nakahira, California Institute of Technology. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR11. Friday 28 August 2015, 14:00-15:00 The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphsDr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 27 August 2015, 15:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Protecting the forward edge: Is that light at the end of the tunnel?"Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Istvan Haller, Vrije Universiteit . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 August 2015, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Plug into the SupercloudThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendi Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 August 2015, 11:00-12:00 A normative account of episodic memory in online learning over open model spacesGergo Orban, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest. Monday 24 August 2015, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bayesian estimation for multi-object systemsDr. Jeremie Houssineau, Heriot-Watt University. LR3B, Department of Engineering. Thursday 06 August 2015, 14:00-15:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent NetworksAny further queries regarding meeting, please direct them to Ankur Handa ah781@cam.ac.uk Andrej Karpathy, PhD student, Stanford University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Thursday 06 August 2015, 12:00-13:00 Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific DiscoveryDr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 29 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences(via Skype!) Alex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 27 July 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Giorgia Azzurra MarsonSpeaker to be confirmed. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 22 July 2015, 10:00-11:00 Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization through reversible learningDr David Duvenaud (Harvard). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 20 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Rich Component AnalysisJames Zou (Microsoft Research New England). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 17 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 A new MCMC hybrid scheme for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture modelsMaria Lomeli-Garcia, UCL. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 16 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solving Second-Order Constraints with Program SynthesisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Cristina David, Oxford University. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 14 July 2015, 11:00-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Capturing and simulating the interaction of light with the world around us.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Wenzel Jakob, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 13 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person’s Experience of Turing’s Impacttalkscam@microsoft.com David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 10 July 2015, 14:00-15:00 Contextual modulation of gamma rhythms in inhibition stabilized cortical networksYashar Ahmadian, Columbia University. Wednesday 08 July 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bonsai: Reactive Tools for Data ScienceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Goncalo Lopes, The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @ UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 July 2015, 14:00-15:00 Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling RegressionSHORT TALK (20 minutes) Prof Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 03 July 2015, 12:30-13:00 Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & RecommendationManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 02 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learningAnna Choromanska (New York University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 01 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Random Function Classes for Machine LearningProf Alexander Smola, Carnegie Mellon University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Tuesday 30 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Explaining Non-Linear Classifier Decisions with application to Deep LearningProf Klaus-Robert Müller (TU Berlin). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 29 June 2015, 15:00-16:00 Deep Gaussian processes and variational propagation of uncertaintyAndreas Damianou - Sheffield University. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 29 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rendering Eyes for Eye-TrackingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Erroll Wood, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 29 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generative Models for Shape and AppearanceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Neill Campbell, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Deep LearningProfessor Geoffrey Hinton FRS (U. Toronto and Google). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0. Thursday 25 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 A three-threshold learning rule approaches the maximal capacity of recurrent neural networksAlireza Alemi, Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:30-12:00 The statistical structure of noise in large neural populationsNeil Rabinowitz. Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-11:30 Random Function Classes for Machine LearningProf. Alex Smola (CMU). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Asynchronized Concurrency: The Secret to Scaling Concurrent Search Data StructuresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vasileios Trigonakis, EPFL, Switzerland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 19 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable ModelsZhenwen Dai. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 18 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable ModelsZhenwen Dai. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 16 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks VISC: VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTINGThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vikram Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:00-17:00 Structural Markov laws / Geometry and HMCDr Simon Byrne. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 09 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Mean Field Approaches to Two Sequential Decision Making Problems.This talk will be given via Skype Ramki Gummadi. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438 - Skype. Monday 08 June 2015, 17:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Intelligible Machine Learning Models for HealthCareThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Rich Caruana, MSR Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Koopman Operator Theory for Dynamical Systems and Control PracticeIgor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10. Tuesday 02 June 2015, 14:00-15:00 Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?Dr Rich Caruana (Microsoft). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 02 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Scalable design of heterogeneous networksRichard Pates (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 29 May 2015, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Factor Graph TransformsProf. Pascal O. Vontobel, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. LR5, Department of Engineering. Friday 29 May 2015, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Multilevel sequential Monte Carlo Samplers.Dr Ajay Jasra, National University of Singapore. LR5, Department of Engineering. Thursday 28 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 Communications Research Group Seminar q-ary channel polarization on monoidsJing Guo (University of Cambridge). SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 27 May 2015, 11:30-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 Rogue states: altered dimensionality of neural circuit activity in Fragile-X miceCian O'Donnell, Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute, La Jolla. Tuesday 26 May 2015, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Convolutional Neural NetworksChristof Angermueller, Alex Kendall. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Nonlinear Observers with a Contracting Riemannian DistanceRicardo G. Sanfelice, University of California, Santa Cruz. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Wednesday 20 May 2015, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Recent Advances in Information ProcessingDr. Henrique Malvar, Chief Scientist and Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Research. LR5, Department of Engineering. Monday 18 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: Toward Causal Machine LearningProf. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 15 May 2015, 16:45-17:45 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hessian-free Optimisation for Neural NetworksAdnan Haider, Andrey Malinin. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars From rats to robot navigation and beyondDr Michael Milford, Quuensland University of Technology. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 14 May 2015, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 Probabilistic numerics: treating numerical computation as learning, or; it's Bayes all the way downMichael Osborne (Oxford University). Engineering Department, LR5 (Baker Building, Trumpington Street). Tuesday 12 May 2015, 11:00-12:00 Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruningPeter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Scalable MCMCHong Ge, Jes Frellsen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:00-16:30 Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural NetworksShort talk Mark Rowland (Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 May 2015, 11:00-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Queues don’t matter when you can Jump them!This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthew P. Grosvenor, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Inferring Cancer EvolutionFlorian Markowetz, Cambridge University, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. LR3B, Department of Engineering. Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:30 Stability, Synchronisation and Model Reduction in Nonlinear SystemsEdward Hancock, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance: A collaboration between the Cambridge Machine Learning Group and Cambridge Capital ManagementCreighton Heaukulani, Matt Hoffman, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Andrew Baxter, . Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Declarative query processing in imperative managed runtimesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 27 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "... and then just encode it to SAT."This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Martin Brain, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Causal InferenceMateo Rojas-Carulla, Amar Shah. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:00-16:30 Title to be confirmedTuan Anh Le (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Enabling Connected Cars through Named Data.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Giovanni Pau, University Pierre at Marie Curie. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 17 April 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probability and Prejudice: Bridging the Gap Between Machine Learning and Programming LanguagesNeil Toronto, University of Maryland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 17 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gaussian Process Models for Time SeriesRoger Frigola, Carl Edward Rasmussen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 April 2015, 15:00-16:30 Inference for infinite mixture models and Gaussian Process mixtures of experts using simple approximate MAP InferenceAlexis Boukouvalas (Aston University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 15 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Formal verification approach to modelling biochemical systemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 14 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Dream Documentary Screening and Q&A PanelSara-Jane Dunn, Katja Hofmann, Jasmin Fisher & Sadia Ahmed from Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-18:00 Fractional calculus in control applicationsCristina Muresan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 09 April 2015, 14:00-15:00 ICASSP presentationsA sandwich lunch will be provided Various. Department of Engineering - LR4. Thursday 09 April 2015, 12:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Efficient Solver for string and regular expression constraintsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Who’s Afraid of Fractional Order Laplace?Clara Ionescu, Ghent University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B. Wednesday 08 April 2015, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Informational GeometryNilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 April 2015, 15:00-16:30 Generalized Gauss and Expectation Inequalities via Semidefinite ProgrammingPaul Goulart, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 02 April 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Visual Programming Language for building Artificial Biochemistries in HaskellThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Lance R. Williams, University of New Mexico. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Unveiling the Secrets of High-Performance DatacentersThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Gaussian ProcessesRichard Turner, Alex Navarro, Thang Bui. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 March 2015, 15:00-16:30 Communications Research Group Seminar Why I thought frame synchronisation was the most boring problem in the world and why I am beginning to change my mindJossy Sayir. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Tuesday 24 March 2015, 11:00-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Combinatorial Stochastic Processes in Bayesian NonparametricsCreighton Heaukulani. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 March 2015, 15:00-16:30 Evolutionary dynamics in a continuous public goods gameMatthias Bauer . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 19 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Pushing the Limits of Localization and Capacity in Today's Wi-Fi NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jie Xiong, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social Media Predictive Analytics: Methods and ApplicationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Svitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Can you convince me why your software works?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Anvesh Komuravelli, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 An introduction to the Mondrian ProcessMatej Balog (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 12 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Learning visual representationsDr. Andrea Vedaldi, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Convex low-rank models: from matrices to tensorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ryota Tomioka, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Relational Machine Learning for Knowledge Graphs.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Maximilian Nickel, MIT. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting the Mobile Nomadic User through Projected User InterfacesChridtian Winkler, Mobile HCI Lab, Ulm University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ensembles for Discovery of Compact Structures and Learning Back-propagation Forests.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Madalina Fiterau, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Content Placement as a Key to Leveraging Geo-Distributed Infrastructureso This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Abhigyan Sharma, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Text To Programs: Automating Computer Tasks from Natural Language DescriptionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nate Kushman, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Dynamic Topic Adaptation for Statistical Machine TranslationSandwich lunch from 13:00 Eva Hasler (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR5. Friday 06 March 2015, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic differentiation and machine learningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gunes Baydin, Maynooth University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field SensingTobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field SensingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming and Proving with Fine-Grained Concurrent ResourcesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ilya Sergey, IMDEA Software Institute. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 05 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Dopamine - beyond reward?Thomas Fitzgerald, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:00-12:30 Population Inference for Functional Brain ConnectivityGenevera I. Allen (Rice University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Design and Evaluation of Proxemic-Aware Environments to Support Epistemic ActivitiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Roman Radle, University of Konstanz. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Workshop: Machine Learning in Cambridge 2015This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 09:00-18:00 Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversationsDan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 02 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Death, Identity, and the Social NetworkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jed Brubaker, University of California. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Considering Tools for Artists, Creative Processes, and Design IdeationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Golembewski, University of Nottingham. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 25 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubAlec Greaves-Tunnell (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 A* SamplingChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 24 February 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Beyond acceleration: time, narratives, and the design of multiple worldsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Larissa Pschetz, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Un-Computing: Shaking off the ‘Computer’ BaggageThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sarah Gallacher, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solving QBF by Counterexample-Guided Abstraction RefinementThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mikoláš Janota, INESC-ID, Lisbon. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Protecting encrypted cookies from compression side-channel attacksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Douglas Stebila, Queensland University of Technology. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Context-aware programming languagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Full-Stack Security Analysis of Web ApplicationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Antoine Delignat-Lavaud. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Using random linear network coding in dynamic storage environmentsProf. Muriel Medard, Department of EECS, MIT. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Monday 16 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Difficulty of Preventing Code Reuse AttacksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Felix Schuster, University of Bochum. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling, Quantifying, and Limiting Adversary KnowledgeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Piotr Mardziel, University of Maryland, College Park. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variance Reduction Techniques and Stochastic Optimisation for Monte CarloMatt Hoffman; Yutian Chen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:00-16:30 Data-driven Nonlinear Control Design Using Robust Adaptive Dynamic ProgrammingProfessor Zhong-Ping Jiang, New York University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrent Algorithms for Emerging Hardware PlatformsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Irina Calciu, Brown University . Indigo Meeting room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 12 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 Orthologous networks in biological systemsDr Christopher Penfold (Warwick). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRyutaro Tanno (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Human-like singing and talking machines: flexible speech synthesis in karaoke, anime, smart phones, video games, digital signage, TV and radio programs, etc.Sandwich lunch from 13:00 Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Institute of Technology / Google). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 06 February 2015, 13:30-14:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Some applications of multispectral reflectance imaging in biological materials and industrial surface coatingsDr. José M. Medina, University of Granada. LR3B, Department of Engineering. Thursday 05 February 2015, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Turing trap. How the universal computer is making the internet less secure.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Will Harwood and Roger Gross, Silicon Safe Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Meta-Interpretive Learning and Program InductionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Manifold correspondence: a signal processing perspectiveThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Bronstein, USI Switzerland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predictable and Dependable Low-power Wireless NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marco Zimmerling, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering at Microsoft Research - Open EveningSpeaker to be confirmed. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-19:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bayesian Fusion of Hyperspectral and Multispectral imagesQi Wei, University of Toulouse. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Friday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Laws of Programming with ConcurrencyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture - Laws of Programming with ConcurrencyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Transfer LearningYingzhen Li; Eddy Pei-Hao Su. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars A Bayesian approach to multicanonical Markov chain Monte CarloDr Jes Frellsen, CBL, CUED. Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Causal Inference and Domain AdaptationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jonas Peters, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 Latent Branching TreesDr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Thursday 29 January 2015, 12:00-13:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge). Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cutting tail latency in cloud data stores via adaptive replica selectionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marco Canini, Université catholique de Louvain. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 26 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Genome-wide transcriptional control of blood cell type identityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Felicia Ng, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 26 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Experiments with Non-parametric Topic ModelsProf. Wray Buntine (Monash University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 23 January 2015, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced HMCNilesh Tripuraneni; Adam Scibior. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 The Geometry of Machine TranslationSandwich lunch from 13:00 Rory Waite (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 16 January 2015, 13:30-14:30 Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)4G3 course -- repeats every Wed at 12noon, and Fri at 11am during Lent Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6 (Trumpington Street). Friday 16 January 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Democratizing Electronics: Tools, Examples, and Contexts for Supporting the Construction of Personally-Meaningful Interactive ArtifactsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Mellis, MIT Media Lab. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Model-Based Prediction Augmented with Sensing Techniques for Battery Management SystemsProfessor Anna G. Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 15 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active LearningAdrian Weller; Mateo Rojas Carulla. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 January 2015, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamic PDP vs. Dynamic POR: Are they really different?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alptekin Kupcu, Koc University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:30-12:30 The Blended Paradigm: A Bayesian Approach to Handling Outliers and Misspecified ModelsProf. Steven MacEachern (Ohio State University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 15 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bedrock: A Software Development Ecosystem Inside a Proof AssistantThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Adam Chlipala, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Checking microarchitectural implementations of weak memoryThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Lustig, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 08 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Probabilistic Models (Wake/Sleep)Yan Wu; David Barrett. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 December 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning in an Exchange EnvironmentThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending R. Preston McAfee, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Platforms and Applications for "Big and Fast" Data AnalyticsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yanlei Diao, UMass Amherst. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.). Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room. Tuesday 02 December 2014, 16:00-17:00 Cluster Adaptive Training for Deep Neural NetworksSandwiches will be provided Tian Tan (visitor at CUED). Department of Engineering - LR10. Friday 28 November 2014, 12:00-13:00 Machine Translation with LSTMsRoom changed to LR3B in Inglis building and time changed to 10:30 Ilya Sutskever (Google). Friday 28 November 2014, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED PAC BayesAlex Matthews; Nikola Mrksic. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars SMC Samplers for Applications in High DimensionsDr Alexandros Beskos, University College London. Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:15-15:15 Plug-and-Play Operation of MicrogridsFlorian Dorfler, ETH Zurich. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Coping with the Intractability of Graphical ModelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Justin Domke. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 November 2014, 10:00-11:00 Oracle Variational InferenceJames McInerney (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-12:00 Syllable based keyword search: transducing syllable lattices to word latticesSandwiches will be provided at 13:00 Jim Hieronymus, ICSI (US). Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 21 November 2014, 13:30-14:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED LSTM and Recurrent Neural NetworksShixiang Gu; Andrey Malinin. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Organizing circuits and biological behaviorsDr Alessio Franci, University of Cambridge and University of Liege. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Butterfly resampling - convergence and central limit theorems for particle filters with constrained interactionsDr Kari Heine, University of Bristol. Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture Series - Technological Innovation in HealthcareThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Professor The Lord Darzi of Denham PC KBE FRS FMedSci HonFREng. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room. Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 Modulation spectrum-based approach to high-quality statistical parametric speech synthesisSandwiches will be provided Shinnosuke Takamichi (NAIST, Japan). Department of Engineering - Oatley 1 Meeting Room. Monday 17 November 2014, 12:00-13:00 Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometersshort talk Prof. Naonori Ueda (Director Machine Learning and Data Science, NTT Labs). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Friday 14 November 2014, 11:00-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Automatic Differentiation with TheanoYarin Gal; Christof Angermueller. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Physical WebThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Scott Jenson, Google. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Chaos and entropy production in spiking networksRainer Engelken. Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room. Monday 10 November 2014, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED State Space Abstraction for Reinforcement LearningRowan McAllister; Thang Bui. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 November 2014, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Importance Sampling with Particle FlowsDr Pete Bunch, Cambridge University. BN3-05 (Sigproc Meeting Room), 3rd Floor of CUED. Thursday 06 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Basing One-Way Functions on NP-HardnessThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Christina Brzuska, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 November 2014, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 04 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 Statistical Change Detection for Prognosis and DiagnosisProfessor Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Tuesday 04 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Taming GPU threads with F# and Alea.GPUThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Daniel Egloff, QuantAlea AG. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kernel Embedding for DistributionsMark van der Wilk; Felipe Tobar. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 October 2014, 15:00-16:30 Fault-Tolerant Predictive Control: A Gaussian Process Model Based ApproachXiaoke Yang, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 A Tutorial on Probabilistic ProgrammingProf. Frank Wood (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Sequential Monte Carlo for graphical models: Graph decompositions and Divide-and-Conquer SMCDr Fredrik Lindsten, CUED. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about GADT Pattern Matching in HaskellThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending George Karachalias, Ghent University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 22 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective.Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and UCL London. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Tuesday 21 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Robust Distance Queries on Massive NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Milan Vojnovic. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 20 October 2014, 10:45-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Approximate Differentiable RendererThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthew Loper; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 20 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Nonlinear Consensus and Formation Control for Switching TopologiesJohan Thunberg, University of Luxembourg. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Compressing Text - A new approachChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Thursday 16 October 2014, 10:30-11:30 Sensory processing in neocortical networks: randomness, specificity and learningSadra Sadeh, Imperial College, London, UK. Tuesday 14 October 2014, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ancient lives, new discoveries: eight mummies, eight lives, eight storiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Daniel Antoine, Curator of Physical Anthropology, British Museum. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Logic programming beyond PrologThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Maarten van Emden, University of Victoria, Canada. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks RDFox — A Modern Materialisation-Based RDF SystemThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Boris Motik, Oxford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Lottery AuctionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nicola Dimitri, Department of Political Economy & Statistics, University of Siena, Ital. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Dynamic pricing in social networks: The Word of Mouth effectAli Jadbabaie Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science, University of Pennsylvania. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Wednesday 08 October 2014, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 07 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A link between lambda calculus and mapsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Noam Zeilberger, MSR-INRIA Joint Centre. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 07 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks First-person Hyperlapse VideosThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Johannes Kopf, Microsoft Research . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 03 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Discursis: A Computational Methodology for the Analysis of Communication DataThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Daniel Angus, The University of Queensland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 01 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 On the geometry of maximum entropy problemsProfessor Michele Pavon, University of Padova. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Wednesday 01 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Case for using Trend Filtering over SplinesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine LearningJasper Snoek (Harvard University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 25 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture modelsMaria Lomeli-Garcia (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 24 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 17 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 A Study of Certain Models of Synaptic Plasticity in the Cerebellum and NeocortexDavid Higgins (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris). Tuesday 16 September 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised Many-to-many Object MatchingDr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 12 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging communityPhilipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 11 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Micro-Policies: A Framework for Tag-Based Security MonitorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Benjamin C. Pierce, University of Pennsylvania. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 September 2014, 10:00-11:00 Interspeech presentationsVarious. Department of Engineering - LR6. Wednesday 10 September 2014, 12:00-13:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks End of Internship Talk: F# Type Providers: DBpedia and the Combinator FrameworkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Stevenson, PPT Intern. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 05 September 2014, 10:30-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hedging Against Uncertainty via Multiple Diverse PredictionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dhruv Batra, Virginia Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Beyond Mindless Labeling: *Really* Leveraging Humans to Build Intelligent MachinesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Devi Parikh, Virginia Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Compositional ModelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alan Yuille, UCLA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Representing microbial communities in Earth system modelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Steve Allison, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 September 2014, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Zero Latency Photonic SwitchingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Philip Watss, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Computational Neuroscience for Technology: Event-based Vision Sensors and Information ProcessingDr Jorg Conradt, Institute of Automation and Control Engineering, TU Munich. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Tuesday 26 August 2014, 15:00-16:00 Controller Design of a Grid-tie Inverter to Enhance Fault-Ride-Through CapabilityYoshito Ohta, Kyoto University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Tuesday 26 August 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computational Video: Methods for Video Segmentation and Video Stabilization, and their Applications.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Density Evolution for SUDOKU Codes on the Erasure ChannelJossy Sayir, University of Cambridge. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Friday 15 August 2014, 12:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Systems, Science and FreeBSDThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending George Neville-Neil, Neville-Neil Consulting. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 August 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Integral Image Method for Fisheye ImagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Maria Mikhisor, Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 August 2014, 10:00-11:00 On the Bethe approximationAdrian Weller (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Monday 11 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FsLab: Doing data science with F#This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars The application of compressed sensing for longitudinal MRIDr Lior Weizman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 31 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Verified Compiler for Probability Density FunctionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tobias Nipkow, Institute of Informatics Technical Institute of Munich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 24 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Byte Night CambridgeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michelle Lamprecht, MathWorks. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 21 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Title to be confirmedLior Weizman, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology. Saturday 19 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Gaussian process regression on graphsPeter Sollich (King's College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 16 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Image representation for synthesis and recognition using multilinear algebraThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Demetri Terzopoulos, Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 11 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Brave New World of Next-Generation NoSQL Data StoresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Steps toward usable verificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Francesco Logozzo, MSR Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Techniques for Auto-Active VerificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nadia Polikarpova, ETH Zurich. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Robust Model Predictive Control with WaysetsRohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FSCL: homogeneous programming and execution for heterogeneous platformsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gabriele Cocco, Biobeats. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Give a Great Research TalkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 July 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Once and Future InternetJon Crowcroft, Computer Lab. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Implicit Representation NetworksDavid Barber (University College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 02 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Nervous system variability and robustness from cellular feedback controlTim O'Leary, Brandeis University. Tuesday 01 July 2014, 16:00-17:00 Scalable Deep Gaussian ProcessesJames Hensman (University of Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Write a Great Research PaperThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Spectral Edge Image Fusion: Theory and ApplicationsMark S Drew, School of COmputing Science, Simon Fraser University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Monday 30 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Tracking the odd: Meter inference in musical audio using particle filtersDr Andre Holzapfel, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Monday 30 June 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Local Temporal ReasoningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Eric Koskinen, New York University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 27 June 2014, 10:30-11:30 A multi-function approach to passivity-based control: The linear case.Dr Fernando Castanos, Cinvestav Mexico. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Modular Integration of SAT/SMT Solvers to Coq through Proof WitnessesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Chantal Keller. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:00-11:00 Symbiotic Relations: Control Theory and PracticeProfessor Keith Glover, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Monday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Games, Learning and Markets WorkshopThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Speaker to be confirmed. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 June 2014, 09:00-17:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.). Tuesday 17 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars A fast and robust algorithm to count topologically persistent holes in noisy clouds.Dr Vitaliy Kurlin. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1. Tuesday 17 June 2014, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Geo-replicated storage with scalable deferred update replicationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 June 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tips and Tools for Scientific Research SuccessThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Speaker to be Confirmed . Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 June 2014, 09:00-16:30 Signal Processing via Sampled-Data Control - A Challenge to Go Beyond ShannonProfessor Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Unsupervised Representation LearningAmar Shah (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Compressible priors for high-dimensional statisticsProf. Volkan Cevher, EPFL. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian ProcessesRoman Garnett, University of Bonn. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 10 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 03 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyProfessor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Tuesday 03 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence?NOTE THE SPECIAL VENUE (Microsoft Research) Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Time-varying dynamic Bayesian network reconstruction with information sharingFrank Dondelinger . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars SCATTERING CONVOLUTION NETWORKS and DUAL-TREE WAVELETSProf. Nick Kingsbury, Signal Processing and Communications Group, CUED. LR11, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 Gradient methods for huge-scale optimization problemsProf Yurii Nesterov, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Tuesday 27 May 2014, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebra of Parameterised GraphsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrey Mokhov, Newcastle University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 23 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer Vision for Movie Making and InfographicsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Chris Bregler, NYU & ILM. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 23 May 2014, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars On designing robust cost functions – applications to pattern analysisDr. Rozenn Dahyot, Assistant Professor in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced Gaussian Process approximation methodsDr. Richard Turner, Thang Bui. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Collapsible Approach to Higher Order VerificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:00 A scalable approach to the design of large networksRichard Pates, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 Adaptation, coding and Bayesian computations in single neurons and neural populationsAlessandro Ticchi, Imperial College London. Thursday 22 May 2014, 10:30-11:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt.Room changed to LR4 Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook). Engineering Department - ***LR4***. Tuesday 20 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian inference for integer-valued Lévy processes with Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck volatility modellingshort talk (30 mins) - NOTE TIME CHANGE Andrea Cremaschi (Kent). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 16 May 2014, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Statistical model criticismJames Lloyd (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:00-16:30 AR Identification of Latent Graphical ModelsMattia Zorzi, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Seminar Series @ CUED Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential FamiliesThis talk has been canceled/deleted Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential FamiliesBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Thinking for Programmers: Rising Above the CodeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 13 May 2014, 17:30-18:30 Invariant Kalman FilteringSilvere Bonnabel, Mines Paris-Tech. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Tuesday 13 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Art of Corporate StorytellingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Steve Clayton, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 A Riemannian approach to large scale constrained least squares with symmetriesBamdev Mishra, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 Stable Poisson-Kingman species sampling priors generated by general ordered size biased generalized gamma mixing distributionsProf. Lancelot James (HKUST). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 May 2014, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mid-level Likelihoods and Constraints for 3D Scene InterpretationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Fouhey, The Robotics Institute. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 07 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 06 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Radio Aspects of the Home Area Network for Smart MeteringDr. William Harrold, Thing Connect Ltd.. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 01 May 2014, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Functional ProgrammingChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 May 2014, 15:00-16:30 Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov EquationRichard Mason, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Protecting Programs During Resource RetrievalThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Trent Jaeger, Penn State University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 28 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Bernoulli Factory problem and some connections with Computable AnalysisDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:00-16:30 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Efficient Image Scene Analysis and ApplicationsMing-Ming Cheng, University of Oxford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The shadowy life of many webcamsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Robert Pless, Washington University in St. Louis. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 23 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Art of Corporate StorytellingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Steve Clayton, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 17 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Crafting VisualizationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Boris Müller, Fachhochschule Potsdam. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural Network Language ModellingChunyang Wu (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 April 2014, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge). Tuesday 08 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sustainable IT and IT for SustainabilityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Zhenhua Liu, California Institute of Technology. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic computing applications: BayesDB and stochastic digital circuitsVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 04 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Loopy belief propagationAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 April 2014, 15:00-16:30 Investigation of multilingual speech-to-text systems for use in spoken term detectionKate Knill (University of Cambridge) . Department of Engineering - LR12. Thursday 03 April 2014, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bandits with Switching Costs: T^{2/3} RegretThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 14:00-15:00 Probabilistic computing for Bayesian inferenceVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 13:30-14:30 Machine Learning and Order Book DynamicsTristan Fletcher . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Publish/Subscribe for Large-Scale Social Interaction: Design, Analysis and Resource ProvisioningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vinay Setty, University of Oslo. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Policy Evaluation with Temporal DifferencesChristoph Dann (Technische Universität Darmstadt). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 28 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decision Making and Inference under Limited Information and Large DimensionalityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Stefano Ermon, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 28 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Parallel and Distributed SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pramod Bhatotia, MPI-SWS. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 28 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks IC3 Modulo Theories via Implicit Predicate AbstractionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rich semantic representations for detailed visual recognitionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Subhransu Maji, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Globally Optimizing Graph Partitioning Problems Using Message PassingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Elad Mezuman, Hebrew University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Characterizing and Improving Last-Mile Performance Using Home Networking InfrastructureThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Srikanth Sundaresan, College of Computing, Georgia Tech. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 25 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 Forecasts and Control: Theory and Practice.Francesco Borrelli, University of California at Berkeley. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Tuesday 25 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic Differentiation - Part One: A Revisionist History and the State of the ArtThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Barak A. Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Performance Optimizations for Compiler-based Error Detection MethodologiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Konstantina Mitropoulou, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Switched differential systemsPaolo Rapisarda (joint work with Jonathan C. Mayo-Maldonado), University of Southampton. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Monday 24 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 CUED Computer Vision Research Seminars Analyzing and Abstracting Scans of Man-made EnvironmentsDr Niloy MItra, Reader, Dept of Computer Science, UCL. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A. Friday 21 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling Deep LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Misha Denil, University of Oxford. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 21 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Self-Organising ListsJossy Sayir, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. SigProC meeting room (Kitchen, 3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 19 March 2014, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using ConvNets, MALIS and crowd-sourcing to map the retinal connectomeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Srini Turaga, Gatsby Unit & Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 19 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data Driven Student Feedback For MOOCs: Global Scale Education for the 21st centuryThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jonathan Huang, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Part Detection and Species IdentificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Jacobs, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric OptimizationSuvrit Sra (Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 17 March 2014, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Performance of Deferred-Acceptance Heuristic AuctionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Paul Duetting, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 17 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and MethodologiesYee Whye Teh, University of Oxford. MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Friday 14 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Trouble-makers: Audio-video distortions as a relational resource in couples’ video callsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sean Rintel, University of Queensland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 14 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Differentially positive systemsFulvio Forni, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Thursday 13 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Dual-to-kernel learning with idealsDr. Franz Kiraly, University College London. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 13 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mechanism design for Cloud Computing and CrowdsourcingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Angelina Vidali, Duke University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving the Full Potential of State Machine Replication: High Throughput, Low Latency, Constant AvailabilityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Julian Moraru, Carnegie Mellon University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Multiple Description CodingAdam Greig. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 12 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Designing Controller Abstractions for Software-Defined NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Joshua Reich, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 12 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Learning to Learn for Structured SparsityNino Shervashidze (INRIA). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 11 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking State-Machine Replication for Multicore ArchitecturesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Parisa Jalili Marandi, University of Lugano. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 10 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Efficient Lattice Rescoring Using Recurrent Neural Network Language ModelsXunying (Andrew) Liu (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 07 March 2014, 13:00-13:30 Will recurrent neural network language models scale?Tony Robinson (Cantab Research). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00 Whither discrete-time model predictive control?Gabriele Pannocchia, University of Pisa. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Thursday 06 March 2014, 15:00-16:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Wireless communication in electromagnetic cavitiesSteven Herbert, Computer Lab. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 05 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian nonparametric dynamic-clustering and genetic imputationLloyd Elliott (Gatsby Unit, UCL / Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 04 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights.Note: time is 12 noon (*not* 11am) Prof. Nando de Freitas (Oxford). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 28 February 2014, 12:00-13:00 Bayesian canonical correlation analysisSeppo Virtanen (Aalto University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 28 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Classification on the Grassmann Manifold: Performance Limits of Compressive ClassifiersDr. Miguel Rodrigues, University College London. Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Moment relaxations for the global resolution of optimal control problemsMathieu Claeys, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computational foundations of Bayesian inference and probabilistic programmingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Roy, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRonald van den Berg, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 25 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype)Interview talks via Skype Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 25 February 2014, 09:00-16:00 Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideasYura Perov (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 24 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Particle filters and curse of dimensionalityNote: TALK via Skype! Patrick Rebeschini (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Online Allocation Mechanism with Pre-Commitment and its Application to Electric Vehicle ChargingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Valentin Robu, University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 20 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 The Ribosome Flow Model: Theory and ApplicationsMichael Margaliot, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR11. Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Is the Gaussian distribution "Normal"?: Signal processing with alpha-stable distributionsDr. Ercan E Kuruoglu, ISTI-CNR Pisa Italian National Council of Research and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin. LR4, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint ModelingNote: TALK via Skype! Changyou Chen (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 20 February 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideasThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yura Perov, Oxford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power DisaggregationIsabel Valera (University Carlos III in Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 17 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 An introduction to bi-level programming in controlProfessor Morten Hovd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 14 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Probabilistic machine learning for knowledge extraction from videos and textNote venue: LR6 Kevin Murphy (Google). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Wednesday 12 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.). Tuesday 11 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Multi Physics Modelling for Automotive Control DevelopmentAkira Ohata, Toyota Motor Corporation. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Monday 10 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Topological Data Analysis: potential applications to computer visionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vitaliy Kurlin, Durham University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 10 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Refinements in Hierarchical Phrase-Based TranslationJuan Pino (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 07 February 2014, 12:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An introduction to Sequential Monte CarloThang Bui (University of Cambridge), Jes Frellsen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 February 2014, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Declarative Static Program AnalysisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Athens. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric Bayesian credible setsBotond Szabo (Eindhoven University of Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 03 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FaRM: Fast Remote MemoryThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aleksandar Dragojevic, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 February 2014, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Joint Source-Channel Coding with Fading Channel and Side InformationDr. Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London. BN3-05 (Sigproc Meeting Room), 3rd Floor of CUED. Thursday 30 January 2014, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The persistence of structure: Layers, time, and the estimation of optical flowThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael J. Black , Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 28 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic Data Structures and AlgorithmsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 January 2014, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)4G3 course -- repeats every Wed at 12am, and Fri at 11am during Lent Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street). Friday 17 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Effective Secrecy: Reliability, Confusion and StealthGerhard Kramer, TU Munich. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Friday 17 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bayesian State-Space Modelling on High-Performance Hardware Using LibBiDr Lawrence Murray, CSIRO Australia. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 16 January 2014, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information Theory and Method of Types: Channels, Quantizers, and DivergencesAntonio Artés-Rodríguez (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 January 2014, 15:00-16:30 Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic ProgramsJan-Willem van de Meent (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 15 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Inverse reinforcement learning for modeling micro-turn takingDongho Kim. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 10 January 2014, 12:00-13:00 Sparse discriminative latent characteristics for predicting cancer drug sensitivityDavid Knowles (Stanford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 10 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Preconditioning of Laplacian Matrices for Computer GraphicsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dilip Krishnan, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Combinatorial Prediction Market for the US ElectionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sebastien Lahaie, Microsoft Research, New York. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Discrete-Time Extremum-Seeking for Wiener-Hammerstein Plants with Applications to Online Engine OptimisationDr. Rohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Wednesday 18 December 2013, 14:00-15:15 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian Machine Learning for Controlling Autonomous SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marc Deisenroth, Imperial College. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 December 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Real time control with lots of humans in the loopThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Typed functional probabilistic programming: ready for practical use?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tom Nielsen, OpenBrain. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 December 2013, 10:00-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about Eventual ConsistencyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Principles and Techniques of Automatic DifferentiationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Laurent Hascoët, INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS VIA NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATIONProf. Richard Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 05 December 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hardware Neural Network AcceleratorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Olivier Temam, Inria. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 05 December 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming Approximate SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Adrian Sampson, University of Washington. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 03 December 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Image Classification Using a Background PriorThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Keren, Department of Computer Science University of Haifa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic DifferentiationPart One: A Revisionist History and the State of the ArtThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Barak A. Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 29 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA)Sara Wade (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 November 2013, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Dynamic State Estimation using Dirac Mixture Approximation and Directional StatisticsIgor Gilitschenski, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Depot: from Byzantine fault tolerance to eventual consistency in a single systemThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Allen Clement, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 November 2013, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Randomized tree ensembles: output kernels and variable importancesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pierre Geurts, University of Liège. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Minimum Seeking for Unstable Unmodeled SystemsProfessor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B. Monday 25 November 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language based web security: the operational semantics approachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language based web security: the operational semantics approachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Second-order asymptotics in network information theoryJonathan Scarlett. Wednesday 20 November 2013, 14:30-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRonald van den Berg, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 19 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebraic methods in computer vision and automatic generation of efficient algebraic solversThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Zuzana Kukelova, Center for Machine Perception/Martin Bujnak, Capturing Reality s.r.o.. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Communication by Statistical RegressionAndrew Barron, Professor of Statistics, Yale University. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Spectral LearningMaxim Rabinovich, Aman Sinha. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 November 2013, 15:00-16:30 Optimal Control with Noisy TimeAndrew Lamperski, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:00-15:15 Learning sensory and spatial representations from interacting excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticityHenning Sprekeler (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 12 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Multimodal Gaze-Supported InteractionSophie Stellmach, Technische Universität Dresden. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Discovering the Structure of Visual Categories from Weak AnnotationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Subhransu Maji, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 08 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 Neuronal processing of continuous sensory streamsRobert Gütig, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany. Friday 08 November 2013, 11:15-12:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Random ProjectionsDavid Lopez-Paz, David Duvenaud. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 November 2013, 15:00-16:30 Communications Research Group Seminar Codes for Distributed Data CompressionRamji Venkataramanan. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Thursday 07 November 2013, 13:45-15:00 Contrastive Learning Using Spectral MethodsJames Zou (Harvard). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 06 November 2013, 13:30-14:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Herding: Driving Deterministic Dynamics To Learn And Sample Probabilistic ModelsYutian Chen (University of California at Irvine). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 October 2013, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Understanding Audio and Video at GoogleDr. Thomas C. Walters, Google. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 31 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Physically Situated Spoken Language Interaction: Opportunities and ChallengesDan Bohus (Microsoft Research, Redmond). Department of Engineering - LR12. Wednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Assembly and function of motor circuits for automatic and goal oriented movementsDr. Marco Tripodi (MRC-LMB). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 29 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series A talk of two distinct parts: 1) a parametric empirical Bayesian approach to integration of fMRI, EEG and MEG data, 2) prediction error in episodic memory encodingRik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 28 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Speech & NLP at Amazon — Unique Challenges, Unique ResourcesJeff Adams (Amazon). Department of Engineering - LR3B. Monday 28 October 2013, 10:00-11:00 Incorporating Domain-Specific Knowledge in Learning Control using Multiple Dynamics ModelsJoe Hall, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 25 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Memristors: The Future of Computer Memory and Neuromorphic Circuits?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Panayiotis Georgiou, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 25 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Bigger and Faster Bitcoin: an Analysis of High-Rate Bitcoin Transaction ProcessingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian and Bandit OptimizationDr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:00-16:30 What the Rat's Whiskers Tell the Rat's BrainDr Rasmus Petersen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester. Tuesday 22 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Type Refinement in the AbstractThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Noam Zeilberger, MSR-INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 October 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reflection methods for user-friendly submodular optimizationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Francis Bach, ENS Paris, France . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Framework for Automatically Enforcing Privacy PoliciesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jean Yang, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Nonparametric Bayesian statistics with exchangeable random structuresDaniel Roy. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 11 October 2013, 12:00-15:00 Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationshipsOliver Stegle (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 10 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 08 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Anomaly Detection in the FieldThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Christian Callegari, University of Pisa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 October 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Compositionality in Vision and LanguageThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Siddharth Narayanaswamy, Purdue University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Recurrent Continuous Translation ModelsNal Kalchbrenner (University of Oxford). Department of Engineering - LR12. Monday 07 October 2013, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Five machine learning research topics at Oxford CSThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nando de Freitas, University of British Columbia. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 04 October 2013, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active Pedestrian Safety: from Research to RealityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dariu M. Gavrila, Daimler R&D (Ulm, Germany) and Univ. of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing the Network with MerlinThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nate Foster, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Robust Models of Mouse Movement on Dynamic Web Search Results PagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research New York. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 01 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! StrategiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gerald Tesauro, IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 27 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bandlimited Intensity ModulationProf. Erik Agrell, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Friday 27 September 2013, 11:30-12:30 CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionCANCELLED Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Inextensibility constraints for 3D reconstruction of deformable objectsSara Vicente, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Auctioning based Coordinated TV White Space Spectrum Sharing for Home NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision CourseThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Babak Falsafi, EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 September 2013, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Disciplined Approximate Computing: From Language to Hardware, and BeyondThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Luis Ceze, University of Washington. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSina Tootoonian (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks QUIC Graphs: Relational Invariant Generation for ContainersThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Arlen Cox, University of Colorado Boulder/ENS Paris. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 Clustering Based on Predictive Variances in Gaussian Process Regression ModelsDr Hyun-Chul Kim . Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 13 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Is The Rise of Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing and Social Networks a Consequence of a Failed OS (Operating System) Design?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yvo Desmedt, University of Texas. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Want Effective Security Solutions? Let's Re-Think The Design ApproachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Angela Sasse, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Analysis of Cache Side ChannelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Boris Koepf, IMDEA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving Equivalences Between Prolog Semantics in CoqThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jael E Kriener, University of Kent. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domainsMilica Gasic (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 06 September 2013, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Foundations of Neuromechanical Systems Biology: Combining engineering, biology, and mathematics to understand how we moveThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Andrew Spence, The Royal Veterinary College. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep Gaussian ProcessesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 September 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Censorship Circumvention: Staying Ahead in a Cat-and-Mouse GameThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 August 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks 3D Reconstruction using Point-Based FusionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Damien Lefloch, Seigen University Germany. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 14:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Improving Time-of-Flight Range Data QualityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andreas Kolb, Seigen University Germany. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 14:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Relationship Between Separation Logic and Implicit Dynamic FramesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Alexander Summers, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Strategies for General RecognitionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Derek Hoiem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 20 August 2013, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fast and Guaranteed Learning of Overlapping Communities via Tensor MethodsAnima Anandkumar, University of California Irvine. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 19 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Datalog for Program Analysis: Beyond the Free LunchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 August 2013, 14:00-15:00 Control of PDE and Delay Systems Inspired by Applications in Fluids and StructuresProfessor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Wednesday 14 August 2013, 14:00-15:15 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars The cost of principlesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Abigail See , Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge ,UK. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 14 August 2013, 14:00-15:00 Non-Parametric Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision and Image ProcessingJeremy Jancsary (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 08 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency SituationsHannah Pauline Keiler (Columbia University and DIMACS). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 06 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks KAT on a Wire: A Foundation for Network ProgrammingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Walker, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 05 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Lifts of Convex Sets and Cone FactorizationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington, Seattle. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 August 2013, 15:00-16:00 Interspeech practice sessionVarious. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 02 August 2013, 12:00-13:30 Annealing Between Distributions by Averaging MomentsChris Maddison (U Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 02 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Efficient Multi-dimensional Parametric Mincuts for Constrained MAP InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kyomin Jung, KAIST. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic CompositionalityRichard Socher - Stanford University. Wednesday 31 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SWAN: Software-driven wide area networkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Validating SAT RefutationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nathan Wetzler, UT Austin. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 July 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data Structures for Efficient Inference and Optimization in Expressive Continuous DomainsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Scott Sanner, NICTA and the Australian National University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 July 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bridging the Discrete and the Continuous in Reasoning about ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 25 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks “When is fair sharing optimal?”This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yair Zick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Stochastic Geometry in Dynamic State EstimationProfessor Ba-Ngu Vo, University of Western Australia. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Friday 19 July 2013, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automated Analysis of Probabilistic ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Noise estimation by PDE-constrained optimisationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Schönlieb Carola-Bibiane, Cambridge University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Inference in non-linear dynamical systems -- a machine learning perspectiveCarl Edward Rasmussen and Andrew McHutchon, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Monday 15 July 2013, 16:00-17:15 Recent Work in Acoustic Modelling at GoogleDr Andrew Senior, Google, New York. Department of Engineering - LR6. Thursday 11 July 2013, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Very high speed networking in VMs and bare metalThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 09 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Ultra high accuracy (UAIM) superresolution microscopy of biological samples: How ugly images give better results than pretty onesProfessor Raimund J. Ober, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A. Friday 05 July 2013, 14:00-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Random Forests: One tool for all your problems.Novi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge); Neil Houlsby (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 July 2013, 15:00-16:30 Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studiesDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studiesDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Economic Model Predictive Control: basic theory and future directionsDr. David Angeli, Senior, Senior Lecture, Control and Power Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department., Imperial College. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR2. Friday 21 June 2013, 14:00-15:15 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Estimation with Incomplete State Information in the Smart GridIñaki Esnaola, Princeton University. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 20 June 2013, 14:00-15:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Energy-efficient wireless communicationsDr. Fernando Rosas, Wireless Technologies Laboratory, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Thursday 20 June 2013, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Probabilistic modelling of time-frequency representations with application to music signalsDr Roland Badeau, Télécom ParisTech / CNRS LTCI, France.. LR3, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:00-15:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Interactive Codes for File SynchronizationRamji Venkataramanan. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 12 June 2013, 14:30-15:30 Dialog state tracking: Open problems, challenge task, and recent workJason D. Williams, Microsoft Research. Department of Engineering - LR12. Tuesday 11 June 2013, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reaping the Benefits of Partial SDN Deployment in Enterprise NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marco Canini, T-Labs. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 07 June 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical SystemsYue Wu (University of Cambridge) and Andrew McHutchon (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 June 2013, 15:00-16:30 The combinatorial structure of conditionally i.i.d. negative binomial processes directed by a beta processCreighton Heaukulani (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-13:30 Communications Research Group Seminar Polar Coding - review and new resultsJing Guo (University of Cambridge). SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 05 June 2013, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks NetFPGA: The Flexible Open-Source Networking PlatformThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Moore, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars On the convergence of Adaptive sequential Monte Carlo MethodsDr Ajay Jasra, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore. LR11, Engineering, Department of. Monday 03 June 2013, 14:00-15:00 Next-Generation Smart Grid: Completely Autonomous Power Systems (CAPS)Qing-Chang Zhong, IET Fellow, SMIEEE Chair in Control and Systems Engineering Dept. of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering The University of Sheffield. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B. Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Demodulation and time-frequency analysis as inferenceDr Rich Turner, CUED.. LR11, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Friedrich, CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.. Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Adaptive Hamiltonian-based MCMC samplersShakir Mohamed . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:00-16:30 Communications Research Group Seminar Mismatched DecodingJonathan Scarlett (University of Cambridge). SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 22 May 2013, 14:30-15:30 Google's Approach to Building Relationships with Universities: Presentation and Talk by Dr David J HarperDr David J Harper . LR12, Baker Building, Department of Engineering (Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ). Wednesday 22 May 2013, 10:20-11:20 Engineering and medicine: Opportunities in type 1 diabetesDr. Roman Hovorka, Director of Research, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 17 May 2013, 14:00-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Nonparametrics in Real-World Applications: Statistical Machine Translation and Language Modelling on Big DatasetsYarin Gal (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:00-16:30 Dendritic computation in pyramidal neurons.Tiago Branco (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology). Thursday 16 May 2013, 10:00-11:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Entropy of the Sum of Discrete Random Variables - revisitedJossy Sayir (University of Cambridge). SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 15 May 2013, 14:30-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 14 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Research Challenges in Applying Control to Wheel-Rail Contact ProblemsProfessor T X Mei, Chair in Control and Mechatronics, University of Salford. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 10 May 2013, 14:00-15:15 Matrix Concentration Inequalities via the Method of Exchangeable PairsProfessor Michael I Jordan (UC Berkeley). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 1. Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Communications Research Group Seminar Low-complexity codes for Compression and Communication via Sparse RegressionRamji Venkataramanan. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 08 May 2013, 15:00-16:00 ICASSP poster practice sessionVarious. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 03 May 2013, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR-Lecture: Generative Models of Images of ObjectsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ali Eslami, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 03 May 2013, 10:00-11:00 Deep Gaussian ProcessesProf. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 01 May 2013, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEmil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 30 April 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Building Better Questionnaires with Probabilistic ModellingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ricardo Silva, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 Approaches to statistical modeling of network dataMaxim Nazarov (Bocconi University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: A Software Architecture for Quantum ComputingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Dave Wecker, Microsoft Research, Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 10:00-11:30 Plug-and-Play Synthesis and Computation of Predictive ControllersDr. Colin Jones, Assistant Professor, Automatic Control Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:15 Demixing scents: Sampling-based inference in olfaction.Agnieszka Grabska Barwinska, The Gatsby Unit, UCL. Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12:00-13:00 Communications Research Group Seminar High-SNR Asymptotics of Mutual Information for Discrete ConstellationsAlex Alvarado. SigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering). Wednesday 24 April 2013, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sparsity: Beyond L1Amar Shah (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 April 2013, 15:00-16:30 Sensor fusion and parameter inference in nonlinear dynamical systemsThomas B. Schön, Associate Professor, Linköping University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A. Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:00-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 16 April 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modular reasoning for modular concurrencyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aaron Turon, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reconstruction and Applications of Collective Storylines from Web Photo CollectionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gunhee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Theory and Practice of Mix-NetsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Douglas Wikström, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 09:00-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cryptoforma: Computer-Aided Cryptographic proofs with EasyCryptThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gilles Barthe. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 April 2013, 13:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and Improving the Efficiency of Failure Resilience for Big Data FrameworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Florin Dinu, Rice University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 April 2013, 11:15-12:15 Bayesian nonparametric methods for non-exchangeable dataNick Foti (Dartmouth College). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 15 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric StatisticsBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 April 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Bounded to Unbounded Proofs of CorrectnessThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Data Analytics with All-or-Nothing Parallel JobsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Intelligent Location-Privacy Preserving MechanismsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Reza Shokri, EPFL . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and Improving Device Access ComplexityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Asim Kadav, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 09:45-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Ramifications of Sharing in Data StructuresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jules Villard, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR-Lecture: Gaussian Processes for Pattern Discovery, Speaker: Andrew WilsonThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Wilson, Cambridge Universtiy. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Verification for Web Scripting LanguagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ravi Chugh, UC San Diego. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 09 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State SegmentationWill Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 08 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Robust speech recognition / Towards better probabilistic models of speech - a discussionSpeaker to be confirmed. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 05 April 2013, 12:00-13:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Graph-Based Reasoning in Separation Logic for Fun and ProfitThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Christoph Haase, LSV at ENS Cachan. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 05 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming The Parallelism ZooThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Geoffrey Mainland (Microsoft Research). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 02 April 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Algebra-Oriented ProgrammingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Bruno Oliveira, National University of Singapore. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 02 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Sum Product NetworksJosé Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 March 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CRASH/SAFE: Clean-slate Co-design of a Secure Host ArchitectureThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Catalin Hritcu, University of Pennsylvania . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Austerity in MCM - Land : Cutting the computational BudgetThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Max Welling, University of Amsterdam. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hypervisor Scheduler Enhancement Using OS-Hardware InteractionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Hwanju Kim, KAIST. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential FamilyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending James Hensman, University of Sheffield. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving Termination of Heap-Manipulating Java ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marc Brockschmidt, RWTH Aachen. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Syntactic Foundations for Machine LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sooraj Bhat, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential FamilyJames Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 25 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Wireless Networking Using Smart RadiosThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aveek Dutta, University of Colorado. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Reinforcement LearningRowan McAllister & Karolina Dziugaite. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 March 2013, 15:00-16:30 "Biased excitable networks: how cells direct motion in response to gradients (a control perspective)"Professor Pablo Iglesias, John Hopkins/Max Planck Dresden. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Thursday 21 March 2013, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Trust and Mistrust on the InternetThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pranav Dandekar, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 21 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mechanism design: dealing with interdependencies among agents.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sofia Ceppi, Politecnico di Milano. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 20 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Privacy and Integrity of Remote Storage and ComputationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Olga Ohrimenko, Brown University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 20 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Semantics\sqcap Scalability\models\bot? Are Semantics and Scalability Incompatible?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 University Lectureship in Computational Neuroscience candidate talksClaudia Clopath (Columbia), Yan Karklin (NYU), Jakob Macke (MPI Tuebingen), Kanaka Rajan (Princeton), Henning Sprekeler (Humboldt). Monday 18 March 2013, 14:30-17:15 Introduction to Dialogue SystemsBlaise Thomson (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 15 March 2013, 11:30-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic ProgrammingJames Lloyd (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 March 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal Payments in Dominant-Strategy MechanismsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Victor Naraditskiy, University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 14 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Warped Mixture Models for Meaningful Clustering and Bayesian Manifold LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Duvenaud, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 An application of HDP And IBP for stream-based action recognition and high dimensional dataAva Bargi : University of Technology, Sydney. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 11 March 2013, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving High Data Rates in Distributed MIMO SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Horia Vlad Balan, USC. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Using Context and Insight for the Analysis of LittleData?Philipp Moritz (U Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 08 March 2013, 11:00-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning in Speech RecognitionSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 March 2013, 15:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Fragmentation CoagulationHong Ge (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 February 2013, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Digitisation of modern and traditional dances using motion capture technologyDr Andreas Aristidou, Graphics and Virtual Reality Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. LT1 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning About Client Side Web ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gareth Smith, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxesTamara Broderick (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 27 February 2013, 11:30-12:30 Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes ProcessesCharles Blundell (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 22 February 2013, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Conditional Density EstimationSara Wade ( Bocconi University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 February 2013, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJonathan O'Keeffe . Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars New probabilistic methods for inference of natural selection on regulatory sequences in the human genomeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Adam Siepel, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Daniel’s Adventures in Computer Vision LandThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Freedman, Microsoft Research – Advanced Technology Labs Israel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modelling road networks in the AmazonThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sadia Ahmed, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED RCC PlanningColorado Reed (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 February 2013, 15:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automated Error Diagnosis Using Abductive InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Thomas Dillig, College of William and Mary, Virginia. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 07 February 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Detecting Sybils without GraphsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ben Zhao, University of California. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How do we model global plant physiology? A case study of leaf phenologyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Silvia Caldararu, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubSina Tootoonian, CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Land use / land cover change and malaria risk in the Amazon regionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Denis Valle, Levine Science Research Center (LSRC). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Paraphrastic Language Models / Structured SVMs for ASRAndrew Liu, Austin Zhang. Department of Engineering - LR12. Friday 01 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stratosphere: Massively parallel dataflow programmingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kostas Tzoumas, Technical University of Berlin. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 01 February 2013, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Discrete OptimizationColorado Reed (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 January 2013, 15:00-16:30 Structural Expectation Propagation (SEP): Bayesian structure learning for networks with latent variablesNevena Lazic (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:00-12:00 Programming Cells: Computing with DNADr. Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research . Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 25 January 2013, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced SamplingChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge); Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 January 2013, 15:00-16:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubYan Wu (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 Predictive control of mechatronic systemsAbhishek Dutta, PhD student, Ghent University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B. Friday 18 January 2013, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS RecapSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:30-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)4G3 course -- repeats Wednesdays at 12noon, Thursday at 2pm during Lent 2013 Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10. Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:00-15:00 Acoustic Factorisation for Robust Speech RecognitionEric(Yongqiang) Wang (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 11 January 2013, 12:30-13:30 Predictive control of mechatronic systemsMr Abhishek Dutta, PhD student at University of Gent, Belgium. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B. Monday 07 January 2013, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamic Fair Division of Multiple ResourcesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nisarg Shah, CMU. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 17 December 2012, 11:00-12:00 Pre CDC talkRichard Pates, David Hayden and Panos Brezas from Control Group, Engineering Department. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 07 December 2012, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS RecapSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 December 2012, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars From motion capture of interacting hands to video based rendering.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Luca Ballan, Institute of Visual Computing in ETH Zurich. Tuesday 04 December 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling wireless servicesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Wenjun Hu, Microsoft Research Asia. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 04 December 2012, 10:30-11:30 Efficient Decoding with Generative Score-Spaces Using the Expectation SemiringRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 30 November 2012, 12:30-13:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian and Gradient Reinforcement LearningYanyue (University of Cambridge); Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge); . Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:30-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Practical progress and research challenges in wireless technology.Dr Antony Rix, Senior Consultant, TTP . LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Handling Multitude of Nash Equilibria in Voting GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Omer Lev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Spectral Edge: Making the Invisible VisibleThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Graham Finlayson, UEA. Tuesday 27 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automating Separation Logic ReasoningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing and Autism: How a real-world challenge drives a computing research agendaThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Compressed Sensing in Cancer Biology? (A Work in Progress)Prof. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Friday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Spectral ClusteringMr Roger Grosse (MIT); Alex Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-16:00 The combinatorial structure underlying a beta processes is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemesDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 20 November 2012, 13:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal kernel choice for kernel hypothesis testingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Arthur Gretton, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Next Wave of Telco´s InnovationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Modern Neural Networks: the Hinton CampRichard Turner, Mark van der Wilk. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-16:00 Learning of Milky Way Model Parameters Using Matrix-variate Data in a New Gaussian Process-based MethodDr Dalia Chakrabarty (University of Warwick). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 November 2012, 11:30-12:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 13 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks TypeScript: JavaScript development at scaleThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mads Torgersen, Microsoft. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 12 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MIT Media Lab's Information Ecology GroupThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Henry Holtzman, MIT Media Lab. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 09 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A computer-checked proof of the Odd Order theoremThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Georges Gonthier, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Distributional compositional models of semanticsStephen Clark (Computer Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 November 2012, 13:30-15:00 Coding with DendritesPanayiota Poirazi. CBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering). Tuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 Overview of Speech Technology Research at CUEDSpeaker to be confirmed. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 02 November 2012, 12:00-13:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memoryDr Mayank Mehta. UCLA.. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Identification of causal effectsNevena Lazic. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Dual-Tree Complex Wavelets - their key properties and a range of image-processing applicationsProf Nick Kingsbury, Signal Processing and Communications Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 24 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Towards ad hoc interactions with robotsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulationsJes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 22 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Completely Random Measures in Bayesian NonparametricsDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge), Creighton Heaukulani. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEmil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar Distributed, Real-Time Bayesian Learning in Online ServicesRalf Herbrich (Facebook). LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding. Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars From the Information Extraction Pipeline to Global Models, and BackThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sebastian Riedel, UCL. Tuesday 16 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 Innovation in Cambridge Engineering – how to foster it?Pieter Knook, Sam Beale and Rick MItchell. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT0. Friday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamically Enforcing Knowledge-based Security PoliciesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Michael Hicks, University of Maryland. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 12 October 2012, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Model selection in a large compositional spacenote: the first 45 mins will be planning and the talk will start at around 3:15pm Roger Grosse (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:30-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling: A Control Theoretic ApproachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Albert Banchs, University Carlos III. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 03 October 2012, 15:00-15:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Latent Tensor FactorisationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Taylan Cemgil, Bogazici University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 01 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A new metric on kernel matrices with applications to matrix meansThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Suvrit Sra, Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen (Germany). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 27 September 2012, 10:00-10:45 Compressed Sensing Applications in Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingChristine Law (Oxford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 26 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthias Seeger, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 September 2012, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Synthesis of Verification ToolsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrey Rybalchenko, Technische Universität München. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Multi-Label Learning with Millions of CategoriesManik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Monday 24 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fast and Reliable Online Learning to Rank for Information Retrievalo This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Katja Hofmann, University of Amsterdam. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 24 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scale-Out ProcessorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Boris Grot, EPFL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 21 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Playing in the Grey Area of ProofsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Laura Kovács, Technical University of Vienna. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 19 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Audio/Video R&D at GooglePaul Wilkins and Jan Skoglund, Chrome Media and Tom Walters, Google Ears. LT2, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 18 September 2012, 16:00-17:00 Efficient Sampling with Kernel HerdingYutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 12 September 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Craig InterpretationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 10 September 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Capture of dynamic scene using multiple cameras provides rich spatial-temporal information that can be used for solving challenging computer vision problems.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tali Basha, Tel-Aviv University. Friday 07 September 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Pose Estimation to Fine Grained Activity RecognitionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Micha Andriluka, Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 06 September 2012, 15:00-16:00 Perceiving is Believing: Bayesian inference in unexpected places.Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby, UCL. Wednesday 05 September 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Tell Me Where You’ve Lived and What You Want -- I’ll Tell You What You Like and NeedThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich. Thursday 30 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Latent Hough Transform for Object DetectionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nima Razavi, ETH Zurich and Intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Wednesday 29 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learningSimon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 24 August 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Satisfiability: connecting logic and probabilityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending ramdas aaditya, CMU and intern. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 22 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Context sensitive information: Which bits matter in data?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Joachim Buhmann, ETH Zurich. Tuesday 21 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks HyperDex: A Consistent, Fault-tolerant, Searchable NoSQL StoreBernard Wong, University of Waterloo. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 20 August 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verifying Concurrent Programs with Relaxed Conflict DetectionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Serdar Tasiran, Koç University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 August 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrent Data Representation SynthesisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mooly Sagiv, Tel-Aviv University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 14 August 2012, 10:30-12:00 Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general frameworkProf. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 08 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving High Data Rates in a Distributed MIMO SystemThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Horia Vlad Balan, USC. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 07 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing CostsPedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 03 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Agent Failures in Totally Balanced Cooperative GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nisarg Shah, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cube and Conquer: Guiding CDCL SAT Solvers by LookaheadsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marijn Heule, U. of Texas, Austin. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 August 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars SmartDesign: Living with Geometric ComplexityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Niloy Mitra, University College London. Tuesday 31 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Division F Financial Modelling Group Fact or Friction: Jumps at Ultra High FrequencyDr Roel Oomen. Deutsche Bank. Lecture Room 3B, Inglis Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street. Friday 27 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random FieldsKonstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 27 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Part A: Non-parametric image optimization & Part B: Crowdsourcing gaze data collectionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dan Goldman, Adobe Inc. Tuesday 24 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Causality for Free! Parametricity Implies Causality for Functional Reactive ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alan Jeffrey, Bell Labs. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 23 July 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories & Generalized Multiple Kernel Learning with a Million KernelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Manik Varma, Microsoft Research, India. Thursday 19 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Prediction Strategies without LossThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Rina Panigrahy, Senior Researcher, MSR-Silicon Valley Campus. Friday 13 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic Methods in Cancer BiologyProf. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Tuesday 10 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to present a poster at an international conferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 06 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Body Part Recognition: Making Kinect RobustThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 July 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks F# TutorialThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks .NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom DevicesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 16:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Research Connections and Cloud Computing for ScienceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 15:00-16:00 Fast Gaussian process learning for regression, semi-supervised classification, and multiway analysisProf Alan Qi (Purdue U). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to give a great research talkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Learning of User Preferences: Elicitation, Sparsification and BeyondEdwin Bonilla (NICTA/ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to write a great research paperThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Academic SearchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving that programs eventually do something goodThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Byron Cook, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Human Computing and Crowdsourcing in SearchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Predictable Data Centers- Why Johnny can't use the cloud and what can we do about it?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for medical Image AnalysisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Planetary prediction services for societyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthew Smith, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Realizing Touchless Interaction in the Operating TheatreThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Helena Mentis, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Structured Prediction using Linear Programming RelaxationsDavid Sontag (NYU). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Functional first programming in an information-rich worldThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How reciprocity renders networks irrelevant for cooperation in social dilemmasThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Anxo Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 16:30-17:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Aggregators and the News Industry: Charging for Access to ContentThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending James Rutt, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 15:00-15:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Treasure HuntThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Markus Mobius, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Design and DefenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marcin Dziubinski, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 12:00-12:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Blotto On Facebook: The Effect of Social Relations On Strategic InteractionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 11:15-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Game theory for Security: Key Algorithmic Principles, Deployed Systems, Lessons LearnedThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Milind Tambe, University of Southern California. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decentralized Auctions for Uniformly Semimodular BiddersThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mahyar Salek, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 09:15-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing air traffic disruptions through strategic prioritizationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ian Kash, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 16:30-17:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scarce attention and the value of page rank in online searchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Harvesting the Wisdom of CrowdsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 14:15-14:50 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Communication networks in marketsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Edoardo Gallo, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 13:30-14:10 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 26 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for medical Image AnalysisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 22 June 2012, 15:15-16:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Dependent normalized random measuresChangyou Chen (College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Optimal integration of top-down and bottom-up uncertainty in humans, monkeys, and neural networksAhmad Qamar (University of Chicago). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 20 June 2012, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED GP-BUCB for Spinal Cord Injury Therapy: Batch Active Learning with ApplicationsThomas Desautels (California Institute of Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 20 June 2012, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The RCUK Digital Economy Theme – A Catalyst for ChangeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr. John G. Baird, Lead for the RCUK Digital Economy Theme, EPSRC. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Financial Modelling with 2-EPT Levy ProcessesProfessor Bernard Hanzon, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University College Cork. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Programming and Probabilistic Databases for Large-scale Knowledge-base ConstructionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant OptimizationIgor Mordatch (University of Washington). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Debugging in SmartphonesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Web Science: Politics, Demographics and MoreThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ingmar Weber. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDylan Festa (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars The Inverted Multi-IndexThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Victor Lempitsky, Yandex. Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED On Data (In-)Dependent HashingNovi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Introduction to the physics and modelling of electro- and magnetoencephalographyDr Matti Stenroos, Aalto University. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 30 May 2012, 14:15-15:00 Engineering and Control of Biological circuits: from yeast to mammalian cellsDr. Diego di Bernardo, Research Assistant Professor (Ricercatore), University of Naples “Federico II”. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 25 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Poisson Processes: Applications in Machine LearningAmar Shah (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 22 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Spreading in Social NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Flavio Chierichetti. Cambrigde Computer Lab, Lecture Theatre 1. Tuesday 22 May 2012, 13:30-14:30 Economic MPC and the role of exponential turnpike propertiesProfessor. Dr. Lars Gruene, Chair of Applied Mathematics, Bayreuth University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A rough guide to the Aldous-Hoover representation theorem for exchangeable arraysDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedAndrew Gordon Wilson. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Dirichlet Process Mixture Models and Bayesian Nonparametric Density EstimationAndrew Gordon Wilson (). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDJ Strouse (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimationBarnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Tuesday 08 May 2012, 11:00-12:00 Estimation, Identification and control of cell populationsProfessor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Monday 07 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Past work and future interests: respectively, the scattering of Anyons and Monte Carlo methodsAlexander Matthews. Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Friday 04 May 2012, 11:15-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED "Structured sparsity and convex optimization"Francis Bach. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 May 2012, 14:00-15:30 Visuomotor behavior in naturalistic tasks: from receptive fields to value functionsConstantin Rothkopf, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Thursday 03 May 2012, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Non-parametric Bayesian Method and Maximum-A-Posteriori Inference in Statistical Machine TranslationTsuyoshi Okita (Dublin City University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 11:15-12:15 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Optimal encoding and decoding in sensory populationsEero Simoncelli (New York University, HHMI). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Topic Models for Human Activity UnderstandingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Timothy Hospedales, Queen Mary University, London. Tuesday 01 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 "Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised. Eero Simoncelli, New York University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat.Prof. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University. Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 30 April 2012, 16:30-17:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Financial Problems tractable to Machine Learning Methodsyue wu (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 April 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Discovery of Clinically Useful Information from Medical ImagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 26 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Probabilistic Amplitude and Frequency DemodulationDr Richard Turner, Machine Learning Group, CUED. LR10, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 25 April 2012, 14:15-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A Predictive Study of Bayesian Nonparametric Regression ModelsSara Wade, Bocconi University. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rekeyable Ideal Cipher from a Few Random OraclesElena Andreeva, K.U. Leuven. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 23 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verification and Synthesis by SciductionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sanjit Seshia, University of California, Berkeley. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Weighted Finite-state AutomataRogier van Dalen, Engineering Dept, Cambridge University. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Confining the Ghost in the Machine: Using Types to Secure JavaScript SandboxingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 18 April 2012, 10:30-11:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEmil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure CloudThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00-17:00 Stroke Rehabilitation using Electrical Stimulation & Robotics: Open problems in control, identification, sensing and motor learningDr Chris Freeman, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 13 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer Assisted Interventions: Challenges in design, development, validation and deployment of novel techniquesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nassir Navab, Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 13 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active LearningFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 April 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mathematical modelling on remotely-sensed dynamics of marine primary producersThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr. Shovonlal Roy, University of Oxford. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generating Code by LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yi Wei, ETH Zurich. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Representing: a Jointly Optimal ApproachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Xinhua Zhang, University of Alberta. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Building Flexible High-Performance Key-Value SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Amar Phanishayee, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The science of guessingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Joseph Bonneau (Cambridge University). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Machine Learning with High Order and Combinatorial Structureso This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Danny Tarlow. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Krishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 April 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From certified languages to their certified implementationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pierre-Yves Strub. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Empirical evidence in privacy economicsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sören Preibusch. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:35-11:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Networks without Management ComplexityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Networks without Management ComplexityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Active Reading Activities With a Multi-Slate SystemThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nicholas Chen, University of Maryland. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 09:50-10:35 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mementos, Memento Mori, and More: Digital Assets across the Human LifespanThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Massimi, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 09:00-09:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Compositional Inter-Language Relational VerificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Chung-Kil Hur, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 30 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Topic ModellingDr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Communication Complexity and When Dubious Data Structures can be DetectedThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ranganath Kondapally, Dartmouth College. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 29 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Non-Interactive Verifiable ComputationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Bryan Parno, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Division F Financial Modelling Group Quantitative Trading with Bayesian MethodsDr Bluford Putnam, Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Lecture Room 3B, Inglis Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 28 March 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ethnography: Understanding natural interaction with our communication technologiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Karine Lan Hing Ting, Telecom ParisTech. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 27 March 2012, 11:00-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Methods in decision theory for conservation researchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Will Probert, University of Queensland. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 27 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solutions for a sustainable and desirable futureThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ida Kubiszewski. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 March 2012, 10:45-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Searching, Scanning and Smelling - a portfolio presentationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Sweeney, London College of Fashion. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 March 2012, 09:50-10:35 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Structural Learning of Dynamic Bayesian NetworksMatt Henderson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sampling based on local signal analysis: applications to photo-realistic imagery and beyondThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kartic Subr. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 22 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebraic Foundations to Effect-Dependent OptimisationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ohad Kammar, Edinburgh University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 22 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Your Abstractions are Worth^H^H^H^H^HPowerless!Non-Volatile Storage and Computation on Embedded Devices*(*Batteries Not Included)This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kevin Fu, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 21 March 2012, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohannes Hjorth, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A joint part- and pixel-wise approach to human pose estimationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Lubor Ladický, Oxford Brookes University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Approaches to Multiscale Modelling of Complex SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Harold Fellerman, University of Southern Denmark. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machines Learning Human MindsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michal Kosinski, Cambridge University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Krishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Range Querying in Distributed GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sergey Legtchenko, UPMC-LIP6 in Paris. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 19 March 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding variability and temporal trends in biosphere-atmosphere CO2 exchange through integrating models with dataThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr. Trevor Keenan, Harvard University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 19 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smart gridThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alex Rogers, University of Southampton. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smart grido This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Alex Rogers, University of Southampton. Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Extended ensemble Monte CarloDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov ModelsJonathan Huggins (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 15 March 2012, 11:00-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Practical Randomization in Concurrent Data StructuresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dan Alistarh, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 15 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Malleability in Modern CryptographyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Markulf Kohlweiss, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 14 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decision Theory in Conservation Biology, from Systematic Conservation Planning to Scenario-Based policy assessmentsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Piero Visconti, Global Mammal Assessment Program in Rome. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 13 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Short and long-term effects of climate, disturbance, and forest management on regional carbon storage and emissions under current and proposed policy plansThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tara W. Hudiburg, Oregon State University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 12 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED "Symmetry and sufficiency"Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 Entropy and data compression (II)PLEASE NOTE: There will be no lectures during the Easter break (12 March - 9 April). Lectures will resume on 16 April. David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 05 March 2012, 14:30-15:30 Decentralized Optimal Control and Connections to the Human Motor SystemDr Andrew Lamperski, California Institute of Technology. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Population Approach to System DesignMatthew Chalmers, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Population Approach to System DesignMatthew Chalmers, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Modelling Network DataPatrick J Wolfe, Professor of Statistics at University College London. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Sequential Decision Making in Experimental Design and Sustainability via Adaptive SubmodularityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andreas Krause, ETH Zurich. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Exploring Compression and the Aesthetics of CreativityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mark Bedworth. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 27 February 2012, 15:00-16:00 Entropy and data compression (I)David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 27 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 Probabilistic computing: computation as universal stochastic inference, not deterministic calculationVikash K. Mansinghka (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438. Thursday 23 February 2012, 12:30-13:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars On the Equivalence of TCM EncodersFrederik Brannstrom, Assistant Professor at the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 23 February 2012, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Division F Financial Modelling Group High Frequency Trading on the NYSE Liffe PlatformPaul MacGregor (NYSE Liffe). Lecture Room 10, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street. Tuesday 21 February 2012, 11:00-12:00 Introduction to information theoryDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Monday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Evaluating User-Adaptive Systems: Lessons from Experiences with a Personalized Meeting Scheduling AssistantThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut and SRI International. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 February 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Exploiting Variable Impedance for Robotics: Mimic or Optimize?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sethu Vijayakumar, Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Combinatorial Channel Signature Modulation for Wireless ad-hoc NetworksDino Sejdinovic , Postdoctoral Fellow, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 08 February 2012, 14:15-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, Unive). Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Monte Carlo Inference for Alpha-Stable ProcessesTatjana Lemke, Fraunhofer Institute and Signal Processing and COmmunications Laboratory, CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Monday 06 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Covering problems arising in Gamma Knife radiosurgeryThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Leo Liberti, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 03 February 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security in untrusted storageThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Christian Cachin, IBM Research - Zurich. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 30 January 2012, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information bottleneckPlease note the change in time. This RCC will take place at 15:00-16.30pm. Dr. Richard Turner, DJ Strouse. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 January 2012, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Optimal proposal densities for particle filtersPeter Jan van Leeuwen, Prof in Data Assimilation, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 25 January 2012, 14:15-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 January 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Undiscovered Continents of Human PotentialThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jaron Lanier, Microsoft. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 24 January 2012, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Ensemble Methods in Machine LearningDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Abstractions for Dynamic and Parallel SoftwareThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Umut Acar, Max Planck Institute. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 12 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Homomorphic Encryption from Ring Learning with ErrorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Naehrig, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks High-throughput, Multiscale modelling approaches for understanding bacterial signallingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Benjamin Hall, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Rao-Blackwellized Particle Smoothing for Conditionally Linear Gaussian Models (NOTICE CHANGED TIME!)Dr Simo Sarkka, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science Dept, Aalto University, Finland. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Wednesday 14 December 2011, 14:00-14:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Naiad: Iterative and Incremental Data-Parallelism using Differential DataflowThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Derek Murray, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 14 December 2011, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Compressible distributions and Compressed SensingProf Mike Davies, School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Monday 12 December 2011, 14:15-15:00 Scaling Machine Learning for the InternetProf. Alexander Smola (Yahoo!). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Wednesday 07 December 2011, 11:00-12:00 Design and flight testing of nonlinear flight control lawsDr Thomas Lombaerts (German Aerospace Centre DLR). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 02 December 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Closing the gap between weakly and fully supervised methodsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vittorio Ferrari, ETH Zurich. Thursday 01 December 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bound Analysis of Imperative Programs with the Size-change AbstractionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Florian Zuleger, TU Wien. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 December 2011, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars The SUDOKU Coding ProjectDr Jossy Sayir, Signal Processing and Communications Group, CUED. Lecture Theatre LT0, Department of Engineering. Wednesday 30 November 2011, 14:15-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDJ Strouse (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 29 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and OptimisationMichael Osborne ( Oxford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 28 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Modeling a non-linear EPSPs integration site in dendrites and its impact on computational capacitiesRomain Cazé, Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris. Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrency Assertions – Providing the Right Semantics to ASSERT StatementsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 24 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Recursive parameter estimation proceduresDr Teo Sharia, Lecturer in Statistics, Royal Holloway , University of London. LR3, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:15-15:00 Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State SystemsVinayak Rao (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 23 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Monocular 3D Pose EstimationSrimal Jayawardena, PhD Candidate, Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Tuesday 22 November 2011, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Complementing User-Level Coarse-Grain Parallelism with Implicit Speculative ParallelismThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nikolas Ioannou - University of Edinburgh. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Computation Without Tears: Probabilistic Programming and Universal Stochastic InferenceVikash Mansinghka, MIT. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 21 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Hankel structured low rank matrix completionDr Ivan Markovsky (University of Southampton). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Beyond the Piece of Cardboard: Learning to Adjust PhotographsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sylvain Paris, Research Scientist at Adobe. Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Real versus Realistically Rendered Ground Truth: Can we use Computer Graphics for Performance Evaluation?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Kondermann, Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 A Maximum Entropy Perspective on Spectral Dimensionality ReductionProf Neil Lawrence (Sheffield). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with dataThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Emily Lines, PhD Student, Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Plant Sciences, Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 15 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Approximate Inference in Gaussian Process ModelsSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Data sketching for cardinality and entropy estimationDr Ioana Cosma, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CMA-ES – a Stochastic Second-Order Method for Function-Value FreeNumerical OptimizationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nikolaus Hansen, INRIA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and SchemaThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Fabian Suchanek, INRIA. Friday 04 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Marriage of Bisimulations and Kripke Logical RelationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Probabilistic programs and the computability and complexity of Bayesian reasoningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Roy, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Retrieval based Program SynthesisT-yiwei Yi (Jason) Wei, ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-scale Retrieval with Ivory and MapReduceTamer Elsayed, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Centre (CMIC). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 31 October 2011, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Analysing biological information processing with mechanistic modular modelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research Ltd.. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 31 October 2011, 09:00-10:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Proper local scoring rulesProf. Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Local Sequential Monte Carlo MethodsDr Adam Johansen, Statistics Department, University of Warwick. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 26 October 2011, 14:15-15:00 Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate ModelsDr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 26 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Poirot — a concurrency sleuthThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hyper and structural Markov laws for graphical modelsSimon Byrne (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Natural Interactions & Computing for Global Development at MSR IndiaThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ed Cutrell, MSRA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Second- versus fourth-order dynamics in imagingCarola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Wednesday 12 October 2011, 14:15-15:00 Not so naive Bayesian classificationProf. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 11 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applicationso This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Christian Steinruecken. Tuesday 11 October 2011, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian Nonparametrics: Latent Feature and Prediction Models, and Efficient InferencePiyush Rai (University of Utah). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 11 October 2011, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning MarketsDr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 07 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 An internal model principle for consensus in heterogeneous multi-agent systemsProf Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Thursday 06 October 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Structured Prediction Models for High-level Computer Vision TasksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 September 2011, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDJ Strouse (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 27 September 2011, 16:00-17:00 Factored Shapes and Appearances for Parts-based Object Understanding AND Transformation Equivariant Boltzmann MachinesChris Williams, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 27 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Reconciling intuitive and Newtonian physicsAdam Sanborn (University of Warwick). Monday 26 September 2011, 16:00-17:00 Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian SystemsPhilipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 19 September 2011, 15:00-16:00 Robust stability analysis of linear time-varying feedback systemsSei Zhen Khong (University of Melbourne). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 16 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applicationsChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 16 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubBalázs Ujfalussy, CBL. Tuesday 13 September 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Information-Greedy Global OptimisationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Tuesday 13 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Universal laws, architectures, and behaviors of robust, evolvable networksJohn Doyle (Caltech). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Monday 12 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Applications of Image RegistrationProf Mark Pickering, Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of New South Wales, at the Australian Defence Force Academy. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Friday 09 September 2011, 14:15-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Applications of Image RegistrationProf Mark Pickering, Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of New South Wales, at the Australian Defence Force Academy. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Friday 09 September 2011, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abstractions in Satisfiability SolversThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vijay D'Silva, Oxford University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 09 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The IITM Model and its Application to the Analysis of Real-World Security ProtocolThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ralf Küsters, University of Trier. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 08 September 2011, 13:30-14:30 L1 Adaptive Control and Its Transition to PracticeProf Naira Hovakimyan (UIUC). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Monday 05 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SpecNet: Spectrum Sensing Sans Fronti`eresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vishnu, MSR India Navda. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 05 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Mechanism Design without Money via Stable MatchingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ning Chen, Nanyang Technical University. Thursday 01 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Coupled dynamics of traits and populations in response to environmental change".This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Arpat Ozgul, University of Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 31 August 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Vector Commitments with Efficient Protocols for Privacy-preserving Smart Billing ApplicationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alfredo Rial Duran, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 26 August 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Functionals: Choices and Consequences For Medical Image SegmentationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Chris McIntosh, SFU. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Boogie (on the example of VCC)This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michal Moskal, MSR Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 11 August 2011, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Statistical learning for structural neuroimaging dataThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Remi Cuingnet, ICM Paris. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 11 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Egalitarian Gradient Descent": A General Preconditioning Scheme for Deformable Image RegistrationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Darko Zikic, TU Munich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars SocialFusion: Fusing Mobile, Sensor, and Social Computing in the Cloud To Enable Next-Generation Context-Aware ApplicationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder. Tuesday 02 August 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tunable Static Inference for Generic Universe TypesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Werner M Dietl, University of Washington. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 02 August 2011, 11:00-12:00 Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational ViewpointProf. Matthias Seeger (EPFL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 July 2011, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Perception by "Patterns" in the BrainThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mush Okun, Imperial College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 27 July 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stochastic signal encoding strategies in cellsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending James Locke, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 21 July 2011, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Language for Type-Safe Web ProgrammingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Cervesato Iliano, Carnegie Mellon University — Qatar Campus. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probing the basis of neuronal branchingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr. Hermann Cuntz, Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Goethe-University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 15 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Some Practical Reflections on Graphical ModelsDr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Plant Organs Regeneration: Measuring and Modelling Self‐OrganizationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Giovanni Sena Ph.D., New York University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Principles of Humanoid Locomotion ControlThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto. Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14:00-15:00 Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific LiteratureKhalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 11 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Gene Networks to Tissue Engineering: Computational Models of Pattern FormationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dagmar Iber, Computational Biology ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Some recent developments in approximate inference: learning and controlDavid Barber, University College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 06 July 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Search is not only about the Web - An Overview on Printed Document Search and Patent SearchWalid Magdy, Dublin City University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 05 July 2011, 14:30-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Topics on joint source-channel coding and multiuser detectionAdria Tauste Campo, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 05 July 2011, 14:15-15:00 Graphical Models for Bandit ProblemsKareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 04 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling transaction processing through data-oriented execution- This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Ippokratis Pandis, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 July 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to present a poster at an international conferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 01 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rough guide to being an entrepreneurThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jack Lang, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks GadgeteerThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending • Nicolas Villar, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Blue skies to ground truth: Machine learning for Kinect human motion captureThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Fitzgibbon, Microsoft. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 09:30-10:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Hard decisions do not cause a 2dB power lossDr Tobias Koch, CUED. LR3A Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 29 June 2011, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer science as applied philosophyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tony Hoare, MSR Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 29 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Making the most of your PhD; now and in your careerThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tennie Videler, Vitae. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 29 June 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to give a great research talkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 28 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to write a great research paperThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 28 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to force unsupervised neural networks to discover the right representation of imagesGeoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 23 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars How Much Energy Is Required to Send One Bit Reliably over the Poisson Channel with Feedback?Prof Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zurich. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 22 June 2011, 14:15-15:00 Machine Intelligence Lab Seminar Some new approaches to speech recognition and language modellingGeoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2. Wednesday 22 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian regression and classification with multivariate sparsifying priorsProf. Tom Heskes (Radboud University Nijmegen). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 speech synthesis seminar series Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Based on Speaker and Language FactorizationHeiga Zen (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 13:00-14:30 Organization of neuronal population activity in auditory cortex.Kenneth D Harris, Imperial College London. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PEPSI: Privacy-Enhanced Participatory Sensing InfrastructureClaudio Soriente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Co-opetition in network tasksYoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 17:00-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Identifying Peer Effects through Randomized Trials in NetworksSinan Aral, New York University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 16:15-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network cognition and individual behaviourEdoardo Gallo,Oxford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 15:30-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious RiskDavid Easley, Cornell University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 14:15-15:00 Control Challenges in Powertrain, Combustion and Drilling ControlProf Keith Glover (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Friday 17 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Competitive Contagion in NetworksMichael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 13:30-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social networks, institutions, and the process of globalizationFernando Vega-Redondo, European University Institute. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 11:45-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal Communication in TeamsAndreas Galeotti, University of Essex. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 09:45-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social Network, Personality, and PerformanceRonald Burt, University of Chicago. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 09:00-09:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Coming to Grips with Complexity in Computer-Aided VerificationKenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient space-variant deconvolutionStefan Harmeling, Max-Planck Institute. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 June 2011, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 07 June 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing for Development: A New High Impact Research AreaLakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning(rescheduled from May 24th) Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Is my model too complex? Evaluating model formulation using model reductionProfessor Neil Crout, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 06 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Censored Exploration in Dark PoolsProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programmable Self-Assembled DNA-Based Autonomous Molecular DevicesJohn Reif, Duke University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Sigma-Points, Cubatures and Rao-Blackwellization in Recursive Bayesian EstimationSimo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland. LR11, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 01 June 2011, 14:15-15:00 Machine Intelligence Lab Seminar Spectral Moment Features for Robust Speech RecognitionPirros Tsiakoulis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Tuesday 31 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Machine Intelligence Lab Seminar Incremental adaptation of speech recognition based on macroscopic time evolution systemShinji Watanabe (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Monday 30 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Connections between Gaussian Process Regression, Kalman filtering and RTS SmoothingSimo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 May 2011, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr.Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learningRESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 7th Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 24 May 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fences and Stability in Weak Memory ModelsJade Alglave, University of Oxford. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 20 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED On Over-fitting in Model Selection and Subsequent Selection Bias in Performance EvaluationDR. Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Make Ad Hoc Proof Automation Less Ad HocDerek Dreyer. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 17 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a comprehensive assessment of the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the climate systemSoenke Zaehle, Max Planck Institute. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 16 May 2011, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Expectation Propagation for POMDP Spoken Dialogue ModelsBlaise Thomson, Dialogue Systems Group, University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 May 2011, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubMate Lengyel (Engineering Department). Tuesday 10 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active visual category learningSudheendra Vijayanarasimhan. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 09 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 What's under the bonnet? A review of Diesel Engines and their controlPeter Fussey (Ricardo). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 06 May 2011, 14:00-15:00 Navigational guidance systems in the human brainThe host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept. Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bringing Intelligence at the Edges to Accommodate Diversity in the InternetFahad Dogar, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 May 2011, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algorithmic Market Design: Spectrum Sales and BitTorrent CommunitiesIan Kash, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2011, 13:45-14:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Turing and Darwin: Saving the environment by combining computation and human insightGareth Russell, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Coding problems involving values and their positionsDr. Claudio Weidmann, ENSEA, France. LR10, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 21 April 2011, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fuzzy thinking: single neuron variation in RNA state spaceJunhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 April 2011, 11:10-12:10 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Can We Defy Nature’s End?Lucas Joppa, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fifteen Years of Field Robotics in AustraliaProf Hugh Durrant-Whyte FRS. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 15 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Complexity of the Homotopy Method, Equilibrium Selection, and Lemke-Howson SolutionsRahul Savani, University of Liverpool. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and conserving biodiversity in a changing worldRobert Bagchi, Durham University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Politics, Preferences and Permutations: Probabilistic Reasoning with RankingsJonathan Huang. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 speech synthesis seminar series Text analysis for speech synthesisSabine Buchholz (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Language Unit Meeting Room. Wednesday 13 April 2011, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Delay Reduction for Adaptive Scheduling in Wireless Networks and Aggregated Equilibrium for Resource Sharing GamesLoc Bui, Stanford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 13 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Formal Methods in Synthetic BiologyBoyan Yordanov, University of Boston. Tuesday 12 April 2011, 09:20-10:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Data Structures for Nonlinear Video ProcessingJiawen Chen, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Colonic Crypt Model with Realistic, Deformable GeometrySara-Jane Dunn, University of Oxford. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 11:15-12:15 Characterization of the Ewens-Pitman family of random partitions by a deletion property and a de Finetti-type theorem for exchangeable hierarchiesChris Haulk (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 11 April 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling and Evaluating Information Retrieval ResultsEvangelos Kanoulas, University of Sheffield. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 10:40-11:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SSLShader: Cheap SSL Acceleration with Commodity ProcessorsKeon Jang, KAIST. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active visual category learningSudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, University of Texas at Austin. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Molecular evolution of stochastic switchingOrkun S. Soyer, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Molecular evolution of stochastic switchingOrkun S. Soyer, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Spatial Tactile Feedback Support for Mobile Touch-screen DevicesKoji Yatani, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 10:40-11:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks 3D Reconstruction meets GPGPU meets Image AnalysisChristopher Zach. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Title to be confirmedProf Arogyaswami J Paulraj, Stanford University. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 07 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Training Random Forests with Ambiguously Labeled DataChristian Leistner. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 April 2011, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Representing and Querying Large-scale UncertaintyPrithviraj Sen. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Guessing Program Annotations with Probabilistic InferenceAditya Nori, Microsoft Researcher. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 06 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubArmin Lak (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 April 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tracking and Analysis of Animal MovementRobin Freeman, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 05 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming-Language Techniques for Secure CryptographySantiago Zanella Béguelin, IMDEA. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 April 2011, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimization under Uncertainty: Understanding the Correlation GapShipra Agrawal, Stanford. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 A Step Beyond The State Of The Art Robust Model Predictive Control Synthesis MethodsDr Sasa V. Rakovic (University of Oxford). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 01 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks High-level Languages for Low-level SystemsGeoffrey Mainland, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 01 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Title to be confirmedProf Arogyaswami J Paulraj , Stanford University. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 31 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Enforcing topological constraints in energy-based image segmentationChristoph Lampert, IST Austria. Thursday 31 March 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Research of the new Computer Vision and Mulitmodal Computing at MPI SarrbrueckenBernt Schiele, MPI Saarbrueck. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 30 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Executable Knowledge for Molecular Systems BiologyWalter Fontana, Harvard Medical School. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 30 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Longitudinal Evaluation of API Usability and Designing Support for Collaborative Search around the TabletopJens Gerken, University of Konstanz. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars On a first-order primal-dual algorithm with applications to convex problems in computer visionThomas Pock, Graz University of Technology. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning generative models of images by factoring appearance and shapeNicolas Heess. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 09:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks “Otherworld” - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel CrashesAlexandre Depoutovitch, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 28 March 2011, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Software Synthesis using Automated ReasoningRuzika Piskac, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 28 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 22 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for WLAN PositioningTeemu Roos, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Nonlinear Dynamics of LearningProf. Max Welling (UC Irvine). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hidden Markets: Designing Efficient but Simple Electronic MarketsSven Sueken, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimization for Pixel Labeling Problems With Structured LayoutOlga Veksler, the University of Western Ontario. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 March 2011, 13:00-13:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Minimization with Label Costs and Applications in Multi-Model FittingBoykov Yuri, The University of Western Ontario. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED ExchangeabilityPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Parameter Search and Robustness Analysis from Temporal Logic Specifications in Biochemical Reaction NetworksAurélien Rizk. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 17 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed Embedded SystemsProfessor Richard Murray (Caltech). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10. Wednesday 16 March 2011, 15:00-16:00 speech synthesis seminar series Context modelling in HMM based speech synthesisKai Yu (Cambridge University). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Wednesday 16 March 2011, 12:30-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about concurrent stochastic systemsRadu Mardare, Aalborg University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Exponential Conditional Volatility ModelsProf Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Deep Belief Networks for Phone RecongitionRory Waite and Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-16:00 Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigmProf. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 March 2011, 12:00-13:00 Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab PriorsDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 March 2011, 11:30-12:30 Probabilistic matrix factorization for reconstruction of missing dataDr Alexander Ilin (Aalto University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 March 2011, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The effect of normalization -- a case study in speech synthesisMatt Shannon (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frugal Procurement Auction DesignMahyar Salek, University of Southern California. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 03 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 speech synthesis seminar series Speech Production Mechanism And Vocoding Technique In Statistical Parametric Speech SynthesisSandwich will be provided. Ranniery (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.) and Yannis (Google). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2. Wednesday 02 March 2011, 13:00-15:00 Model Predictive Control Design and Implementation for Spacecraft RendezvousEd Hartley (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3. Friday 25 February 2011, 14:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 25 February 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Post-NIPS Highlight sessionMLG Members. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Logic and Probability: The Computational ConnectionAdnan Darwiche, UCLA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 February 2011, 10:00-11:00 Simulation, Modelling and Embedded Deployment of Complex AlgorithmsDave Maclay (Mathworks). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10. Friday 18 February 2011, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Optimal weighted nearest neighbour classifiersDr Richard Samworth. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Extremes of Random Coding Error ExponentsDr. Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, CUED. LR10, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 16 February 2011, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Coordination in NetworksMengel Friederike, Maastricht University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 15 February 2011, 14:00-15:00 Conserved principles of movement generationThe host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept., m.lengyel@eng.cam.ac.uk Mark Churchland, Stanford University. Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Friday 11 February 2011, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kernel MethodsYunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge), Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 February 2011, 14:00-15:30 speech synthesis seminar series New and emerging applications of 'adaptive' speech synthesis'Sandwich will be provided. Junichi Yamagishi, Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Wednesday 09 February 2011, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning techniques in computer vision applicationsPeter Chan (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJohn Patrick Cunningham (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 01 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 Differential Geometric MCMC MethodsProf. Mark Girolami (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 01 February 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Infinite multiple relational models for complex networksMikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 January 2011, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Physical Layer Network coding for Next Generation Wireless Broadband NetworksProf Alister Burr, University of York. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 26 January 2011, 14:15-15:00 speech synthesis seminar series Modelling trajectories in statistical speech synthesisThis is the second talk of the speech synthesis seminar series. Matt Shannon (Cambridge) and Heiga Zen (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2. Wednesday 26 January 2011, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Making OpenCL simple with HaskellBen Gaster, AMD. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 13:00-14:00 Mining viral datasetsDr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Microsoft Research LecturesAlbert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cooperation, Power and ConspiraciesYoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 24 January 2011, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Completely Random MeasuresSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 January 2011, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Flexible Small Cell Green Networks: Breaking the Spectral Efficiency BarrierProf Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 19 January 2011, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Experience and problems with compiling data parallel languagesPaul Cockshott, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 19 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEdward Turnham (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 18 January 2011, 16:00-17:00 Universal Bayesian Agents: Theory and ApplicationsProf. Marcus Hutter (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 18 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED)(note new date) Dr Florian Markowetz (CRUK) - lab visit. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 17 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Novi QuadriantoNovi Quadrianto, Australian National University. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 speech synthesis seminar series STATISTICAL SPEECH SYNTHESISHeiga Zen (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Tuesday 11 January 2011, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Branching vs. Linear Time: Semantical PerspectiveMoshe Vardi, Rice University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 06 January 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computingDerek Murray, University of Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubLaurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 14 December 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Improving the energy model of stereo matching algorithmsMichael Bleyer, TU Vienna. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 14 December 2010, 10:00-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Propagation of Rumour Through a Social NetworkVladimir Barash, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 13 December 2010, 14:30-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Economics seminar / Diffusion and Cascading Behavior in Random NetworksMarc LeLarge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 10 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Automation of Protein NMRBabak Alipanahi. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 10 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How Hard is Competition for Rank?Paul Goldberg, University of Liverpool. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 December 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Software Lock Elision for x86 Machine CodeAmitabha Roy. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Submodularity for Machine LearningEd Snelson and Rich Turner. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 December 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Non-Commutative Logic of Effects,Noam Zeilberger. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Sequential Monte Carlo methods for estimating large scale volatility matrices - CANCELLED (to be rearranged in Lent term)Dr Kostas Triantafyllopoulos, University of Sheffield. LR10, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 01 December 2010, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 30 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Handling temporal variation of unknown characteristics in streaming data analysis.Chris Anagnostopoulos, Cambridge University. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Learning item trees for collaborative filtering with implicit feedbackDr Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Lifted Message Passing: A Step Towards Gaining a 'Big Picture' View on AIKristian Kersting. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy DataDr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 26 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS Highlight SessionSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 25 November 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Realizability and Parametricity in Pure Type Systems: An applicationJean-Philippe Bernardy, University of Gothenburg. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 23 November 2010, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Polynomial Learning of Distribution FamiliesKaushik Sinha. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 23 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Poisson ProcessesAndrew Wilson and Yue Wu. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 November 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verification of Imperative Programs Through Characteristic FormulaeArthur Charguéraud, INRIA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Crowdsourcing data modellingAnthony Goldbloom (Kaggle). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bayesian Alignment of Unlabelled Marked Point Sets Using Random FieldsIan Dryden, University of Nottingham. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Convex OptimisationDave Knowles and David Duvenaud. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:30 CANCELLEDCANCELLED Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Inference with KernelsUCL. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian Inference with KernelsArthur Gretton, UCL. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How can we model complex ecosystems with stochastic interactions between individuals at different spatial and temporal scales? Some case studiesTim Benton, University of Leeds. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modelling ecological systems under environmental change.Matthew Evans, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Three Small Steps ... to Reconceiving Machine LearningProf. Bob Williamson, Australian National University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 08 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using SAT Solvers for Cryptographic ProblemsMate Soos, Pierre and Marie Curie University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 05 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Short talks: Mixed Cumulative Distribution Networks; Nonparametric Bayesian community discovery in social networks; Expectation Propagation for Dirichlet Process Mixture ModelsCharles Blundell, Lloyd Elliot and Vinayak Rao, Gatsby Unit, UCL. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 05 November 2010, 13:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Async in Visual Basic and C# - worth the Await!Mads Torgersen & Lucian Wischik. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 05 November 2010, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Statistical Significance Analysis of Motif DiscoveryPatrick Ng. Friday 05 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Bayesian StatisticsSonia Petrone (Università Bocconi). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A relationship-based approach to the verification of multi-object invariantsStephanie Balzer, ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Online temporally adaptive parameter estimation with applications to streaming data analysis.Cristoforos Anagnostopoulos, Statistics Laboratory, University of Cambridge. LR10, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 03 November 2010, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Affective TechnologyRosalind Picard, MIT Media Laboratory. Tuesday 02 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic models for time-series with different underlying dynamics regimes with application to robot imitation learningSilvia Chiappa. Monday 01 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Joint Algorithm/Architecture Design of Communication SystemsProf. Emmanuel Boutillon, Universite Bretagne-Sud. Oatley Meeting Room 1, Engineering, Department of. Friday 29 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Cancelled: No RCCCancelled Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Improving ARMA-GARCH ForecastingProf Petros Dellaportas, Athens University. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 27 October 2010, 14:15-15:15 On the structural controllability of networks of linear systemsLachlan Blackhall. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Friday 22 October 2010, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Herding or a '3rd way to learn'Simon Lacoste-Julien and Ferenc Huszar. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:00-15:30 Parallel dendritic processing and hippocampal spatial representationsBalazs Ujfalussy, Dept. Biophysics, KFKI RIPNP, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 How the brain makes decisionsTea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm Professor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org). Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology. Friday 15 October 2010, 16:30-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering Genetic CircuitsChris J. Myers, University of Utah. Friday 15 October 2010, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Advanced Scientific Programming in PythonCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 October 2010, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Adaptive Monte Carlo on multivariate binary sampling spacesProf Nicolas Chopin, ENSAE. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 12 October 2010, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Unsupervised Grammar InductionJuan Pino (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubCristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web PagesGjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research, Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Food Webs, and how they got that wayStuart Pimm, Duke University (Nicholas School of the Environment). Friday 24 September 2010, 13:00-14:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Adaptive Networks and Bio-Inspired CognitionProf A. H. Sayed, Electrical Engineering, UCLA. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 23 September 2010, 14:00-15:30 Optimality among optimals: decision making from neurobiological ‘noisy’ signals within the cortico-basal-ganglia systemJavier A. Caballero, Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield. Tuesday 21 September 2010, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian Inference with KernelsDr Arthur Gretton (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SSH: A Case Study of Cryptography in Theory and PracticeKenny Paterson, Royal Holloway University of London. Monday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Testing and fault localization in constraint programsLazaar Nadjib, IRISA. Wednesday 15 September 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Systematic Design of Enterprise NetworksSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 15 September 2010, 10:30-11:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Continuous control of brain computer interfaces based on a covert spatial attention paradigmAli Bahramisharif (Radboud University Nijmegen). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 14 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Noise and the two-thirds power lawElon Portuglay, MS Microsoft. Monday 13 September 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Golden-i, a head-mounted computerChris Parkinson, Kopin Corporation. Friday 10 September 2010, 15:00-16:00 Translational biomedical informatics research in a clinical neurosurgery environmentXiao Hu, University of California, Los Angeles. University Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences Seminar Room, Level 2, B Spur. Thursday 09 September 2010, 13:15-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Diderot: A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image AnalysisProfessor John Reppy, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Chicago. Monday 06 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 On the Equivalence of Graph Cuts and Max-product Belief PropagationDanny Tarlow (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frugality in set-system auctionsEdith Elkind, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Speaker to be confirmed. Thursday 19 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Little Engine(s) that could: Scaling Online Social NetworksJosep M. Pujol. Monday 16 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 The Weiss conjecture for infinite dimensional control systemsDr Andrew Wynn (Imperial College). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR11. Friday 13 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Search methods based on Monte-Carlo simulationMartin Müller, University of Alberta. Thursday 05 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes BankProf Michael Mitzenmacher - Computer Science, Harvard. Tuesday 03 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politicsgeneral audience talk (non-technical) -- NOTE change of room to LR4! Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University). Thursday 29 July 2010, 16:30-17:30 Creating structured and flexible models: some open problemsProf Andrew Gelman (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Efficient Bayesian analysis of multiple changepoint modelsProf Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 26 July 2010, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Sensor Networks for the Sake of Security - NOW FRIDAY 23rd JULYDr Fredrik Gustafsson, Linkoping University. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Friday 23 July 2010, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrency and Communication: Lessons from the SHIM ProjectProf. Stephen Edwards, Columbia University. Friday 23 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus / Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic ModelsDr. Tomoharu Iwata (NTT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Post-Silicon Validation: New Frontiers for Formal Verification ResearchAlan Hu, University of British Columbia. Wednesday 21 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Scalable Parallel Computing with CUDAJames Balfour (NVIDIA). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 20 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks GPU programming: bugs, pitfalls and the importance of correctness in biomedical and scientific applicationsProfessor Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University. Monday 19 July 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesSpeaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesSpeaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesDr Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 12 July 2010, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Functional methods for the design of shiftable and steerable wavelet transformsMichael Unser, Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Monday 12 July 2010, 11:30-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How can we use digital pens in a collaborative environment?Michael Haller - Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. Friday 09 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental DesignAndreas Krause (Caltech). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Local Action Traces and Abstract Concurrent Separation LogicSteve Brookes, CMU. Wednesday 07 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frameworks for segmentation, classification, and nonstationary image processing with applications to disease assessmentAlbert Montillo, University of Pennsylvania. Tuesday 06 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks International Workshop on Tractability; 5-6 July 2010Speaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 06 July 2010, 09:00-17:30 Performance limitations of networked systems with information constraintsProfessor Yoshito Ohta (Kyoto University). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 02 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Symbolic Techniques in Propositional Satisfiability SolvingMoshe Y Vardi, Rice University. Friday 02 July 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Computer science (Cancelled)Cancelled Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research). Friday 02 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Cloud computing for researchFabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Research). Friday 02 July 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School To infinity and beyond with nonparametric Bayesian methodsJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Thursday 01 July 2010, 17:25-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Acquiring syntactic and semantic transformations in question answeringMichael Kaisser (Microsoft). Thursday 01 July 2010, 17:05-17:25 Microsoft Research Summer School Tracking and localisation for speech and roboticsMaurice Fallon (MIT). Thursday 01 July 2010, 16:45-17:05 Microsoft Research Summer School Communications, Travel and Social Networks since 1840: A Study Using Agent-based ModelsLynne Hamill (University of Surrey). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:55-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Static contract checking for HaskellDana N. Xu (INRIA). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:35-15:55 Microsoft Research Summer School From program analysis research to industrial programming language developmentAndy Maule (Microsoft). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:15-15:35 Microsoft Research Summer School From driving to trafficking: the developing view of the user in computer systems designRichard Harper (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 3Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Thursday 01 July 2010, 12:30-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Simulation and data analysis with Windows AzureAustin Donnelly (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Fun with F#: Solving complex problems with simple codeAnton Schwaighofer (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School From data to knowledgeSydney Brenner (Salk Institute). Thursday 01 July 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Infer.NET and probabilistic programmingJohn Winn (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Ten things you don’t know about MicrosoftDerick Campbell (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Molecular programmingLuca Cardelli (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Simulating global carbon-climate feedbackDrew Purves (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 2Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Wednesday 30 June 2010, 12:30-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Presentation skillsKen Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 1Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Tuesday 29 June 2010, 12:30-13:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 29 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuationsDr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley meeting room 1. Monday 28 June 2010, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Information, Networks and MarketsSanjeev Goyal (Economics), Peter Key (Microsoft Research) and Cambridge Networks Forum. Tuesday 22 June 2010, 09:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy as Syntax - an attempt at a thermodynamical framework for combinatorial molecular networksVincent Danos, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Thursday 17 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars CANCELLEDDr Simon Julier, Dept of Computer Science, University College London. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 16 June 2010, 14:15-15:15 Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational BayesDr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological ProblemsBarbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Using topic models to help cure cancerProf Quaid Morris (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 11 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Message Passing In Centralized Databaseshort talk Konstantina Palla (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 11 June 2010, 11:00-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Structured Learning and Structural SVMsS-X. Austin Zhang and Juan Pino. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 June 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Geometry of Synthesis: Semantics-directed hardware compilationDan Ghica, University of Birmingham School of Computer Science. Thursday 10 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Structured Prediction CascadesDr. Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30 Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack DimensionProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 09 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Conditional Random Fields : Theory and ApplicationMatt Seigel (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 June 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Diffuse ProgrammingManuel Serrano - Inria Sophia-Antipolis. Wednesday 02 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Title to be confirmedJohn Aston, University of Warwick. LR3B, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 01 June 2010, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Images as Sets of Locally Weighted FeaturesTeo de Campos, University of Surrey. Tuesday 01 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hermes: Clustering Users in Large-Scale E-mail ServicesChristos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Tuesday 01 June 2010, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical performance models for complex, popular applicationsEno Thereska, Microsoft Research. Friday 28 May 2010, 13:00-13:00 SIMPLY COOPERATIVEProfessor Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12. Friday 28 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Before pixelsStephen Robertson, Microsoft Research. Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Adaptive Sensing and InformationProf Rob Nowak, University of Wisconsin-Madison. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Redirected to Rob Nowak, LR12Redirected Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A proof rule for multi-threaded programsAndrey Rybalchenko, Technische Universität München. Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Prof. Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin; MSR LecturesProf. Robert Nowak - University of Wisconsin. Tuesday 25 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Learning predictive models for visual motion extrapolationPaul Schrater (Depts Psychology & Computer Science, University of Minnesota). Monday 24 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 From tuning curves to behaviourMandana Ahmadi (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL). Monday 24 May 2010, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Topics in Statistical Machine TranslationMatt Shannon and Sebastien Bratieres. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 May 2010, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Exploring ODE model uncertainty via diffusions, with application to physiological processesDr Kostas Kalogeropoulos, London School of Economics. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 19 May 2010, 10:00-11:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 18 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS; Microsoft Research LecturesDerek Dreyer, MPI-SWS. Tuesday 18 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Bayes-Nash implementation of combinatorial auctions: structure and efficiencyProf Bruce Hajek - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Monday 17 May 2010, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedYunus Saatchi and Andrew Wilson. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 May 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abstract Interpretation for Liveness using Metric SpacesAziem Chawdhary - Queen Mary University of London. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Abstract Interpretation for Liveness using Metric SpacesAziem Chawshary, Queen Mary University of London. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 11:30-12:00 Embedded Optimization for Optimal Control of Mechatronic SystemsProfessor Moritz Diehl (K.U. Leuven). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 07 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Information RetrievalRoom changed Jurgen Van Gael and Ed Snelson. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 06 May 2010, 14:00-15:30 Mapping affective decisions in depression using reinforcement learning toolsQuentin Huys (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL). Wednesday 05 May 2010, 16:30-17:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Local scoring rulesDr Matthew Parry, Dept of Plant Sciences and Statisitcal Laboratory, DPMMS. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 05 May 2010, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubProfessor Daniel Wolpert ( Department of Engineering). Tuesday 04 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Optimal experiment design for open and closed loop identificationProfessor Michel Gevers (Université catholique de Louvain). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Tuesday 04 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Visual Computing for Next-Generation Display and ImagingProf. Oliver Bimber - Institute of Computer Graphics, Johannes Kepler University Linz. Friday 30 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Numerical Linear AlgebraRoom changed Peter Orbanz and John Cunningham (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Verification of Concurrent Programs using Reduction and AbstractionTayfun Elmas - Koc University, Istanbul. Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The State of Secondary Level Computer Science Education in the USAChris Stephenson - Computer Science Teachers Association. Wednesday 28 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep Web Data: Analysis, Extraction, and ModellingProf. Pierre Senellart - Telecom Paris Tech. Monday 26 April 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On the stability of flow-aware CSMAProf. Thomas Bonald - Telecom Paris Tech. Monday 26 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Modelling and Verification of the PCI Express Transaction and Data-Link LayersPeter Boehm - University of Oxford. Friday 23 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bundle methods and its application in machine learningEric(Yongqiang) Wang and Rory Waite. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A comparison of some recent task-centric parallel programming modelsMats Brorsson - KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Swedish Insitute of Computer Science (SICS). Thursday 22 April 2010, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bayesian inference for exponential random graphs - POSTPONED DUE TO TRAVEL DIFFICULTIESNial Friel, Associate Professor of Statistics, University College Dublin. Oatley Meeting Room, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 21 April 2010, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK). Tuesday 20 April 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Secrets of the Microsoft SQL Server Query OptimizerConor Cunningham - SQL Server Group, Microsoft. Monday 19 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Matrix Inequalities with Matrix UnknownsProfessor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, UC San Diego). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Friday 16 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Building Algorithms for FPGAsRene Mueller - ETHZ. Thursday 15 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning, Planning and Representing Knowledge from Primitive ExperienceDavid Silver - UCL. Tuesday 13 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Submodularity and Valued Constraint Satisfaction ProblemsStanislav Zivny - University of Oxford. Monday 12 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 06 April 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Towards physical basis for Ambient Intelligence – a critical driver for the future of printed electronics and optoelectronics – ‘It’s not the materials, it’s the effects talking’Dr Raymond Oliver FREng, FIChemE, CEng - Senior Research Fellow, Royal College of Art. Thursday 01 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Regional Climate Change Impact Assessments, Knowledge Action Networks, and the Cambridge/UCSD Global Water InitiativeProf Charlie Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California, San Diego. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 31 March 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Opportunistic Spectrum Access with Multiple Users: Learning under CompetitionAnima Anandkumar - MIT. Wednesday 31 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sparse Model Recovery via Iterative AlgorithmsProf. Devavrat Shah - MIT. Tuesday 30 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proactive Resilience Revisited: Resisting Intrusions means more than Byzantine Fault TolerancePaulo Verissimo - University of Lisbon. Friday 26 March 2010, 13:30-14:30 Collaborating Swarms, Multi-network Topologies and Constrained Coalitional GamesProfessor John Baras (University of Maryland). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Thursday 25 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Modelling and Verification of the PCI Express Transaction and Data-Link LayersPeter Boehm - University of Oxford. Tuesday 23 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Networks in Crisishttp://www.gold.ac.uk/design/ Speaker to be confirmed. Monday 22 March 2010, 11:00-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Itakura-Saito nonnegative factorizations of the power spectrogram for music signal decompositionDr Cedric Fevotte, CNRS - TELECOM ParisTech. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 18 March 2010, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sparsification for Gaussian Processes for RegressionMilica Gasic and Anton Ragni. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 March 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abandoning Prenex Clausal Normal Form in QBF SolvingMartina Seidl - Vienna University of Technology. Thursday 18 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Slice sampling with latent Gaussian modelsDr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Michael Weber, University of Twente; Microsoft Research LecturesMichael Weber - University of Twente. Monday 15 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Datalog+/- : A Framework for Tractable Query Answering over OntologiesPr. Georg Gottlob - Oxford University. Monday 15 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Dynamic Network Tomography: Model, Algorithm, Theory, and ApplicationProf. Eric Xing (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedEric Xing. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 March 2010, 14:00-15:30 Making Sense of Data - A Research AgendaProf Bob Williamson (ANU and Scientific Director of NICTA). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Thursday 11 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Recursive CRFs for Scalable Visionshort talk David Duvenaud (UBC). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Title to be confirmedshort talk Owen Lewis (U Colorado @ Boulder). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:00-12:30 Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Codingshort talk Azadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 11:30-12:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Title to be confirmedShort talk Alex Davies (ANU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 11:00-11:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubNeil Housby (Cambridge University). Tuesday 09 March 2010, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian Inference in Networks of QueuesDr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 09 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Stochastic Outlier SelectionJeroen Janssens (Tilburg University / University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 08 March 2010, 16:00-16:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CancelledCancelled Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CancelledCanceled Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRichard Turner (University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room 2. Tuesday 23 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 Event-triggered sampling for state estimationMaben Rabi. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedPedro Ortega and Dan Braun. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Estimation of Noisy DiffusionsProf Sofia Olhede, Dept of Statisitcs, University College London. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 17 February 2010, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stationary Subspace AnalysisFrank Meinecke, TU Berlin. Tuesday 16 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Literacy and ICT: Social Constructions in the Lives of Low-literate Youth in Ethiopia & MalawiMarije Geldof, Royal Holloway, University of London. Monday 15 February 2010, 14:00-14:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Semi supervised learningSinead Williamson and Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 February 2010, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEdward Turnham (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 09 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TOOLS USING SUM OF SQUARESDr Antonis Papachristodoulou (University of Oxford). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6. Tuesday 09 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 Energy Flow in Interconnected SystemsProfessor Jan Willems (K.U. Leuven). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 05 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks You are not a gadgetJaron Lanier, Microsoft. Thursday 04 February 2010, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational inference in graphical models: The view from the marginal polytopeDavid Knowles and Richard Turner (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 February 2010, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Adaptive MCMC and Bayesian time-frequency analysisRichard Everitt, Dept of Statistics, University of Bristol. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 03 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 Mind Reading by Machine Learning: Optimal Experimental DesignShort talk Neil Houlsby (CUED). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 02 February 2010, 11:00-11:30 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Towards Tree-to-Tree TranslationDavid Chiang (University of Southern California). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Monday 01 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 Performance Improvement in Paper Making using Model Predictive ControlDr Paul Austin. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Friday 29 January 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks L_p-Spherically Symmetric and L_p-nested Distributions for Patches of Natural ImagesFabian Sinz, Max Planck Institute Tübingen. Friday 29 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Fractional Belief Propagation menaceFrederik Eaton. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 January 2010, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDaniel Braun (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 26 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Bayesian Model Comparison with Differential Equations: a Population MCMC Approach via the Thermodynamic IntegralBen Calderhead, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 26 January 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Efficient Bayesian Model Comparison with Differential Equations: a Population MCMC Approach via the Thermodynamic IntegralBen Calderhead, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 26 January 2010, 14:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED (Canceled) A Causal Calculus for Statistical ResearchCanceled Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte CarloMark Girolami. Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Inferring Signaling Pathway Topologies from Multiple Perturbation Measurements of Specific Biochemical Species : A model-based approachMark Girolami, University of Glasgow. Thursday 21 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Course (4F13)4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street). Wednesday 20 January 2010, 10:00-11:00 CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human SensingCANCELLED Dr Fernando de la Torre (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Visuospatial ReasoningShort Talk Stephanie Chan (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 18 January 2010, 10:00-10:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED RCC Planning MeetingAll. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 January 2010, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Course (4F13)4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street). Thursday 14 January 2010, 10:00-11:00 Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum PrincipleProfessor Sean Meyn (Director, Decision & Control Lab, CSL ECE UIUC). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6. Wednesday 13 January 2010, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubHugo Vincent (University of Cambridge). Monday 11 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotationshort talk Sean Moran (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 04 December 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Unbounded-depth hierarchical Pitman-Yor processesRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 03 December 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Predicting biological functions at different spatial scales: From molecules to ecosystemsDr Peer Bork - European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Thursday 03 December 2009, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Marginal and joint space representations within ABC, and the issue of biasMark Briers, Qinetiq. LT0, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 02 December 2009, 14:15-15:15 Joint imputation and estimation of haplotype transition probabilitiesWolfgang Lehrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Wednesday 02 December 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubIan Howard (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 01 December 2009, 16:00-17:00 Stochastic Model Predictive Control: Tractability and constraint satisfactionProfessor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Tuesday 01 December 2009, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Experimental and computational approaches to implicit learning of musical structureMartin Rohrmeier, University of Cambridge. Monday 30 November 2009, 11:30-12:00 Verifying stability of approximate explicit MPCProfessor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2. Friday 27 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametricsAad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 November 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Lookahead in Sequential Monte CarloProf Rong Chen, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 25 November 2009, 14:30-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA (MUM 2009)please see website details. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cambridge. Sunday 22 November 2009, 09:00-18:00 Teaching control using legoDr Glenn Vinnicombe, Control Group, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0. Friday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law BehaviourYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Gaussian Processes for Active Data Selection, Faults, Changepoints and Sensor SelectionProf. Stephen Roberts (Oxford). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Massively Parallel Advanced Monte Carlo Methods on Many-Core ProcessorsAnthony Lee, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 18 November 2009, 14:15-15:15 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Recent results on Bayesian image recoveryProf Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University. LR3A, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 18 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDavid Franklin (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 Fault-tolerant control - is it possible?Professor Jan Maciejowski (CUED Control Group). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2. Friday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with CoalescentsSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30 KL control theory and decision making under uncertaintyBert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 10 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving the Correctness of Abstract Concurrency Control and RecoveryEliot Moss - University of Massachusetts Amherst. Monday 09 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Nesting Transactions: Why and What Do We Need?Eliot Moss - University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Monday 09 November 2009, 10:30-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning RCC - Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents, Teh, Daumé and Roy, NIPS 2007Sinead Williamson. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Sunday 08 November 2009, 14:00-15:30 Recent Theoretical Developments in Optimal ControlProfessor Richard Vinter (Imperial College London). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2. Friday 06 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Filtering of Noisy Time-Series DataHenrik Ohlsson, Marc Deisenroth, Hugo Vincent. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 November 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars An Adaptive Sequential Monte Carlo Algorithm For Bayesian Mixture AnalysisBen Taylor, Dept of Maths & Statistics, Lancaster University. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 04 November 2009, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 03 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience “Modeling synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales”.Wulfram Gerstner EPFL.. Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Monday 02 November 2009, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Value Ordering Heuristics for Quantified Constraint SatisfactionDavid Stynes, University College Cork. Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-14:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Speed ReviewingAll Participants. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Information theoretic model selection in clusteringJoachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED High-dimensional variable selection via sure independence screeningRichard Samworth (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Optimal scaling of the random walk MetropolisChristopher Sherlock, Dept of Maths & Statistics, Lancaster University. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 21 October 2009, 14:15-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Statistical network analysis in computational genomicsFlorian Markowetz - Cancer Research UK. Wednesday 21 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK). Tuesday 20 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Ensemble Methods in Machine LearningAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Motor Skills Learning for RoboticsJan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Structured prediction using energy-based modelsSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Rare Event Simulation for Processes with Light Tailed IncrementsDr Thomas A Dean, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, CUED. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 07 October 2009, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJames Ingram (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 06 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 -Dr Najl Valeyev (St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London School of Medicine). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11. Friday 02 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Technical Writing IIRyan Turner (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Generalized, Efficient Array Decision proceduresNikolaj Bjorner - Microsoft Research. Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data redundancy and maintenance in peer-to-peer file backup systemsAlessandro Duminuco - Institut Eurécom. Thursday 01 October 2009, 11:30-12:00 Reduced cortical neuron models: Experiment and theoryMagnus Richardson, Warwick University. Tuesday 29 September 2009, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Rare Event Simulation for Processes with Light Tailed IncrementsSpeaker to be confirmed. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 29 September 2009, 14:15-15:15 Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learningAndrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 29 September 2009, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK). Tuesday 22 September 2009, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Use phase signals to promote lifetime extension for desktop PCsStewart Hickey - University of Limerick. Tuesday 22 September 2009, 11:00-11:30 Capacity of Spiking Neural NetworksPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 21 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 CANCELLEDCancelled Prof. Eric Xing (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 18 September 2009, 10:00-11:00 Mobile Wireless Networked Controlled Systems: Control IssuesProfessor Anthony Tzes (University of Patras, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11. Thursday 17 September 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Multi-view Learning of Speech Feature SpacesKaren Livescu (TTI-Chicago). LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Tuesday 15 September 2009, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Testing for Local Stationarity in Acoustic Signals: Parametric and Nonparametric ApproachesDaniel G. Rudoy, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Monday 14 September 2009, 11:15-12:15 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Bayesian Learning Approaches for Speech RecognitionProfessor Jen-Tzung Chien (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Friday 04 September 2009, 13:00-14:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation Systems with Quantized Soft-Out DemodulatorsClemens Novak, Vienna University of Technology. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Friday 04 September 2009, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Network Coding for the Multiple Access ChannelDanail Traskov, TU Munich. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Friday 04 September 2009, 10:00-11:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Factors Affecting ASR Model Self-TrainingScott Novotney (HLTCOE and BBN Technologies). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Tuesday 01 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 Convex Variational Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Generalized Linear ModelsHannes Nickisch. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 August 2009, 11:00-12:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Toward Sparse and Structured Projections for Compressed SensingProf Hayder Radha, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan State University. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 30 July 2009, 14:15-15:15 Computable Probability TheoryDaniel Roy (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 28 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Machine Learning Reveals the Genetic Code Controlling SplicingBrendan Frey - Microsoft Research. Tuesday 14 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards focusing research and innovations on local needs: If wireless technologies are to connect the wireless continentDr Idris A. Rai - Makerere University. Tuesday 14 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks From Verification to SynthesisMoshe Y. Vardi - Rice University. Thursday 09 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning Deep ArchitecturesYoshua Bengio, University of Montreal. Tuesday 07 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cops, Crops and Mobile Phones: Machine Learning in AfricaJohn Quinn - Makerere University, Uganda. Monday 06 July 2009, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Sustainable energy without the hot airDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Friday 03 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Giving a good presentationKen Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques). Friday 03 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Internships uncovered...New time Peter Key (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 16:15-16:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Introduction to intellectual propertyJohn Mulgrew (Microsoft). Thursday 02 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hessian-based Markov-Chain Monte Carlo AlgorithmsTom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 July 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Enabling intelligent management of the environmentDrew Purves (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Forza, Halo, Xbox Live: The magic of research in productsRalf Herbrich (Microsoft Research Ltd.). Thursday 02 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Sparse Approximation and Atomic Decomposition: Considering Atom Interactions in Evaluating and Building Signal RepresentationsBob Sturm, Chateaubriand Fellow post-doctoral researcher at UPMC - Paris 06 with Professor Laurent Daudet. LR11, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 02 July 2009, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Systems and networking research at MSR CambridgeTim Harris (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School New hardware enabling new user experiencesJames Scott (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to manage your supervisorTennie Videler (Vitae). Thursday 02 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Scientific computing on .NETNew time and day Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 16:40-17:00 Microsoft Research Summer School WorldWide Telescope - A computational science innovationNew time Yan Xu (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 16:15-16:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Tools and services for data intensive researchRoger Barga (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School The executable pathway to biological networksJasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Principles and applications of refinement typesAndy Gordon (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Hitchhikers guide to machine learningChristopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School EU opportunities for young researchersCarlos Morais-Pires (European Commission, DG INFSO). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 17:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Challenges in refactoringNew time Mathieu Verbaere (University of Oxford). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 16:20-16:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Interactive mattingNew time Christoph Rhemann (Vienna University of Technology). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 16:00-16:20 Microsoft Research Summer School Generative face models for image understandingNew time Brian Amberg (University of Basel). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:40-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Scalable display architecturesNew time Alban Rrustemi (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:20-15:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Hybrids of generative and discriminative modelsJulia Lasserre (University of Cambridge/Max Planck Institute). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:00-15:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Network Measurement ScienceDon Towsley, UMass. Tuesday 30 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School New kinds of software for new kinds of scienceAlexander Brändle (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 09:30-10:30 Load balancing by network curvature controlProfessor Edmond Jonckheere (Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Friday 26 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Refactoring with GenericsKathleen Dollard. Thursday 18 June 2009, 19:00-21:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Message PassingNote unusual time Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 June 2009, 15:00-16:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Routing and Network Coding on Lines, Stars, and RingsGerhard Kramer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 18 June 2009, 14:15-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubGergo Orban (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 16 June 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Analyzing the effect of noise on various models of Circadian Clock and Cell Cycle couplingAlessandro Romanel, CoSBi. Tuesday 16 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Synchronverters: Inverters that mimic synchronous generatorsDr. Qing-Chang Zhong (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, The University of Liverpool). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theater 2. Friday 12 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Slice SamplingYue Wu (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Factor Analysis with a Mixture of Gaussian Factors, with Application to Separation of the Cosmic Microwave BackgroundProf Simon Wilson, School of Computer Science and Statistics, University College, Dublin. LR11, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 14:15-15:15 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Topological keystone species: network analysis in modern systems ecologyFerenc Jordán, CoSBi. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Workshop on Networks, Auctions and Pricing - 1 Dayhttp://naapworkshop.eventbrite.com/. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 09:00-17:30 Is the homunculus `aware' of sensory adaptation?Peggy Seriès (The University of Edinburgh). Tuesday 09 June 2009, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Towards disposable healthcare devices: a paradigm shiftProf. Chris Toumazou FRS, Imperial College. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 15:00-16:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents: A Formal Languages and a Game Theory ApproachMatteo Cavaliere, CoSBi. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Domain Knowledge Driven Program AnalysisDaniel Ratiu - TU Munich. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Semantic Image Segmentation and Web-Supervised Visual LearningFlorian Schroff, University of Oxford. Monday 08 June 2009, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Robot Scientists and the automated scientific laboratoryAmanda Clare - Dept of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University. Friday 05 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 From microscopic to macroscopic descriptions of cell migration on growing domainsDr Ruth Baker, University of Oxford. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 17:10-18:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubArne Nagengast (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 02 June 2009, 17:00-18:00 Informed matter: The confluence of information processes and material scienceDr Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 16:20-17:10 Visual search and mining of large scale image collectionsProf. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 15:10-16:00 Progress on development of a microfluidic robot scientistProf. Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 14:00-15:10 Using gradient descent for optimization and learningNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 26 May 2009, 13:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Research Challenges in Cognitive Radio NetworksVijay Bhargava, University of British Columbia. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 21 May 2009, 14:15-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Technical WritingFinale Doshi (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 May 2009, 14:00-15:30 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Study disease-causing genes based on protein-protein interaction networksPhuong Nguyen, CoSBi. Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubEdward Turnham (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 19 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systemsSean Sedwards, CoSBi. Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Divergence measures and message passingDavid Knowles (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:00-15:30 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Model Abstraction Methodology for Temporal Behavior Analysis of Multiscale Biological SystemsHiroyuki Kuwahara, CoSBi. Wednesday 13 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Chemotaxis. Do we understand it all?Orkun Soyer, CoSBi. Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The IBM approach to speech separationMikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDaniel Braun (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Approximate Sparsity Recovery from Noisy Compressed SensingMichael Gastpar, UC Berkeley. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 05 May 2009, 14:15-15:00 Gradient systems: overview and recent resultsDr Pierre-Antoine Absil (Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 01 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Parsing Images the UCLA WayTom Stepleton (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 April 2009, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hilbert space embedding of probability distributionsFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 April 2009, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks TBCBen Fry (http://benfry.com/). Thursday 23 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Dynamics of cell cycle transitionsAttila Csikasz-Nagy, CoSBi. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubRainer Engelken (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 April 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Exploiting non-Markovian Bio-Processes within BlenXDavide Prandi, CoSBi. Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 ROBUST PRACTICAL OUTPUT TRACKING FOR HIGHLY NONLINEAR SYSTEMSProfessor Hiroshi Inaba (School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Guest Professor, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of the West of England). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Monday 20 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 Feedback and Robustness in Population DynamicsProfessor Stuart Townley (School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Friday 03 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series A parallel perspective of the dynamics of biological reactive systemsTommaso Mazza, CoSBi. Wednesday 01 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series KInfer and BetaWB: tools for supporting the modeling workflow of Biological SystemsAlida Palmisano, CoSBi. Tuesday 31 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Algorithms for Understanding Motor Cortical Processing and Neural Prosthetic SystemsJohn Cunningham (Stanford University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 31 March 2009, 10:00-11:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Classification and Dimensionality Reduction using Convex Class ModelsBill Triggs, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann and CNRS. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Monday 30 March 2009, 14:15-15:00 Overview of Control Systems Research at the Rolls-Royce Control and Systems University Technology Centre.Professor Haydn Thompson (Programme Manager, Rolls-Royce UTC in Control Systems; Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 27 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Coding with envelopes, receptive fields and plasticityAndré Longtin, University of Ottawa. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Learning from Measurements in Exponential FamiliesPercy Liang (University of California, Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series A Framework study of the NF-kB signalling pathwayAdaoha Ihekwaba, CoSBi. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPetra Vertes (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series On the deduction of chemical reaction rate constants from measurements of time series of concentrationPaola Lecca, CoSBi. Tuesday 24 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPeter Latham, Gatsby, UCL. Tuesday 17 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bregman Divergences and Machine LearningShakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 March 2009, 14:00-15:30 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Evolutionary computation: optimization and inferenceMichele Forlin, CoSBi. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubProfessor Daniel Wolpert ( Department of Engineering). Tuesday 10 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Shrinkage regression for multivariate inference with missing data, with an application to portfolio balancingRobert B. Gramacy (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 15:00-16:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Visual systems biology: design, understand, organizeLorenzo Dematté, CoSBi. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Quasi-linear Sensor ManagementMarco Huber (University of Karlsruhe). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 06 March 2009, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Convex Concave ProcedureFrederik Eaton (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 March 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Learning transformational invariants from natural moviesBruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 04 March 2009, 14:15-15:15 An Introduction to TranscriptomicsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models (Cont)Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Filter Design with Secrecy ConstraintsDr Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, University of Porto. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Mind reading by machine learning: an ideal observer based analysis of cognitive scientific experimentsFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Collegium Budapest). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 10:00-11:00 Analytical solutions, duality and symmetry in constrained control and estimationDr Jose De Dona (The University of Newcastle, Australia--on study leave during 2008/2009 at Ecole des Mines de Paris, France). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 20 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 Generalization in LearningYevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 20 February 2009, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Large Margin Training of Hidden Markov ModelsAnton Ragni. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 19 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Visual Signal Processing Algorithms in Post ProductionDr Anil Kokaram, Trinity College Dublin and Simon Robinson, Chief Engineer, The Foundry. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 18 February 2009, 14:15-15:15 Stochastic control as an inference problemProf. Bert Kappen (University of Nijmegen). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5. Tuesday 17 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 R&D in Control & Optimization in ABB Corporate ResearchDr Alf Isaksson (ABB Corporate Research). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 13 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hybrid of Generative and Discriminative ModelsSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Hydrodynamic simulation of multicellular embryo invagination and its biological predictionsPhilippe-Alexandre Pouille, Institut Curie, Paris. Wednesday 11 February 2009, 11:30-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubPhilip Sterne (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Control systems for Maglev and active railway suspensionsProfessor Roger Goodall (Head of Systems Research Division, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 06 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Divergence measures and message passing - CANCELLEDCanceled David Knowles (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 05 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Compressed sensing: some theory, algorithms and applicationsProf Mike Davies, University of Edinburgh. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 04 February 2009, 14:15-15:15 Extending the Affinity Propagation ModelInmar Givoni (University of Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 30 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Distributed Computing for Machine LearningSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubArjun Bharioke, Cambridge University. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Statistical Parametric Speech SynthesisHeiga Zen (Toshiba). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Monday 26 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model based on Pitman-Yor ProcessesMatt Shannon (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 January 2009, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Markov Random Fields for Classification in High Dimensional Spaces with Application to fMRI AnalysisDr Avishy Carmi, CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:15-15:15 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series On Automatic Quantitative Verification of Biological SystemsTime changed Paolo Ballarini, CoSBi. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 The Block Diagonal Infinite Hidden Markov ModelTom Stepleton (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series BlenX, a language based approach for modelling biological systemsRoberto Larcher, CoSBi. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00 Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging SoftwareLaura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 19 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 Modularity, polyrhythms, and what robotics and control may yet learn from the brainProfessor Jean-Jacques Slotine (Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, MIT). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 16 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabalistic Inference for solving (PO)MDPsFinale Doshi (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 January 2009, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubNikon Rasumov (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 13 January 2009, 17:00-18:00 HMMs for Protein Sequencing from Mass Spectrometry DataDr Bernd Fischer (EBI). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 13 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Navigation and collision avoidance for aircraft and carsFredrik Gustaffson, Linkoping University. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 08 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Model-based EM Source Separation and Localization in Reverberant MixturesMichael Mandel, Columbia University. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Monday 15 December 2008, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED NIPS Offline ConferenceMachine Learning Across Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 December 2008, 13:00-14:30 Mobile Content-Sharing ApplicationsDaniele Quercia, University College London. Wednesday 10 December 2008, 11:00-11:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Relational LearningRicardo Silva (UCL Statistics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:30 Deep Networks for VisionMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4. Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Reinforcement Learning in Continuous POMDPsMilica Gasic (University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 27 November 2008, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars From Medical Images to Virtual Physiological HumansProf. Nicolas Ayache, INRIA. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubIan Howard (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Rank DataPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:00-15:30 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Exactness and Approximation of the Stochastic Simulation AlgorithmIvan Mura, CoSBi. Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Colonies of Synchronizing Agents: Computability and RobustnessRadu Mardare, CoSBi. Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Stochasticity and bistability in the lac operonDr Nicholas Ross (CUED). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 14 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gaussian Process Latent Variable ModelsMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 13 November 2008, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bayesians turn to experts for advice!Dr Steven de Rooij, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 14:15-15:15 Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankingsDr Marina Meila (University of Washington). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Machine learning based approaches for decision & control under uncertainties (in electric power systems)Professor Louis Wehenkel (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liege). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubJulijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 Optimal Control behind the Passive Dynamic Walking?Dr Kentaro Hirata (Nara Institude of Science and Technology, visiting scholar at CUED). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 07 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Point Process Intensity Estimation with GP'sYunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-15:30 Input-Output Controllability Analysis and Control Structure SelectionProfessor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 31 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Knows What It Knows: A Framework For Self-Aware LearningPedro Ortega (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 30 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Power allocation in delay-limited wireless channelsDr Albert Guillen i Fabregas, CUED. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 29 October 2008, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Aldo Faisal (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 28 October 2008, 17:00-18:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 28 October 2008, 11:00-13:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Approximating the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Between GMMsRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 23 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars What makes cellular decisions irreversible?Prof. Béla Novák, University of Oxford. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's CoalescentNote unusual time Dr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 Context in human robot interactionThomas Kollar (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Computational analysis of the connection between cell cycle and circadian rhythmJudit Zámborszky, CoSBi. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars A tractable hybrid DDN-POMDP approach to affective dialogue modeling for probabilistic frame-based dialogue systemsTrung Bui (Twente). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Monday 20 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 Learning to ControlDr Carl Edward Rasmussen (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 17 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED To Naive Bayes or to Logistically Regress: That is the QuestionJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 16 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Mate Lengyel (Cambridge University, UK). Tuesday 14 October 2008, 17:00-18:00 Stabilisability via time-delayed feedback: an eigenvalue optimisation approachDr Henri Huijberts (School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2. Friday 10 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I)Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED CANCELLEDCANCELLED Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 09 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor ProcessesDr Erik Sudderth (UC Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 08 October 2008, 13:30-14:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Condition MonitoringRyan Turner (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 02 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars From calcium imaging to spikes, using sequential Monte Carlo methodsJoshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-12:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubDr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge). Tuesday 30 September 2008, 17:00-18:00 Spoken Dialogue ManagementSebastien Bratieres. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 29 September 2008, 11:00-12:00 A Bayesian approach to language learningDr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 26 September 2008, 15:00-16:00 Learning Bigrams from UnigramsAndrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Performance and Implementation Aspects of Nonlinear FilteringDr Gustav Hendeby, Linkoping University, Sweden. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Friday 19 September 2008, 14:15-15:15 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Levy ProcessesKatherine Heller (CUED Machine Learning). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 18 September 2008, 14:00-15:30 Nonparametric Bayesian Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Hierarchical, Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language ModelDr Frank Wood (UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 17 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Hierarchical Bayesian models for audio and music processingA. Taylan Cemgil, CUED Signal Processing Lab.. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 16 September 2008, 14:15-15:15 Computational Neuroscience Journal ClubComputational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering. Tuesday 16 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learningJo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 15 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The War on LoopsFrederik Eaton (CUED). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 11 September 2008, 14:00-15:30 Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priorsDr Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 10 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Matrix Factorization and Relational LearningAjit Paul Singh (CMU). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 09 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 Assessing the effects of statistical dependencies on neural population coding in the visual pathwayJonathan Pillow (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL). Wednesday 03 September 2008, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Bayesian Inference for Diffusions using Data Augmentation MCMCDr Kostas Kalogeropoulos, CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 26 August 2008, 14:15-15:15 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars A Bayesian Wavelet-Based Multidimensional Deconvolution With Sub-Band EmphasisYingsong Zhang, CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 12 August 2008, 14:45-15:15 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Tracking ground based targets in aerial video with dual-tree wavelet polar matching and particle filteringJames Nelson, CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 12 August 2008, 14:15-14:45 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Information Fusion for Remote Sensing Satellite NetworksJohn Richards, The Australian National University. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 29 July 2008, 14:15-15:15 Double Feature: Optimal Precoding for MIMO and Divergence Estimation for Continuous DistributionsDr Fernando Perez-Cruz (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 16 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Dynamical SystemsEmily Fox (MIT). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Message-passing inference on graphical modelsSimon Byrne (Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 15 July 2008, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Enzymatic computingKlaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 15:00-16:00 A systems-scale dynamic analysis of complex biology systemsFeng He (Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Friday 11 July 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Take control or how to manage your supervisorTristram Hooley, UK GRAD Programme. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 4Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School In search of the holy grailWouter Spek, European Science Foundation. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How does the Internet work?Richard Black, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Grand challenges in computingTony Hoare, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Error Approximation and Minimum Bayes Risk Acoustic Model EstimationMatt Gibson (University of Sheffield). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Thursday 10 July 2008, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang, University of Cambridge. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 3Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks The Geometry of the Space of ShapesHosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research) Prof. David Mumford (Brown University). Queen's Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College, CB2 3AP http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/conferences/maps/. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Mind-reading machinesPeter Robinson, University of Cambridge. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 2Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 1Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Towards control and design of pulse-based systemsDr Ali Belabbas (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Friday 27 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational Bayesian Mixtures of GaussiansMilica Gasic. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 26 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars A Comparison of VTLN and Gender-Dependent ModelsThomas Schaaf (Multimodal Technologies, Inc). LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Thursday 26 June 2008, 12:00-13:00 Bayesian analysis of complex biological systemsDr Edo Airoldi (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 25 June 2008, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Making Machines ListenParis Smaragdis, Adobe. LR3, Engineering Department, Inglis Building. Wednesday 25 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Modelling and simulation of biological systems with COPASIProf. Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 25 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars MIMO Systems: Myths & RealitiesProfessor Ralf Müller. LR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building. Tuesday 24 June 2008, 15:00-16:00 Subdiagonal pivot structures and associated canonical forms under state isometriesProfessor Bernard Hanzon (School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Tuesday 17 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processesDr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 16 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Convex Matrix Inequalities vs Linear Matrix InequalitiesProfessor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, University of California San Diego). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Monday 16 June 2008, 11:30-12:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series Seeing Patterns in Randomness: Irrational Superstition or Adaptive Behavior?Dr Angela Yu (Princeton). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Monte Carlo PHD FilteringNick Whiteley, CUED Signal Processing Lab,. LR12, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 12 June 2008, 15:00-16:00 Assessing high-dimensional latent variable modelsDr Iain Murray (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 12 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Dynamics of Chemical Reaction NetworksDr David Angeli (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Friday 06 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Extended HVS ParserFilip Jurcicek (Pilsen). LR12, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Monday 02 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 Feedback Control and the Arrow of TimeProfessor Malcolm Smith (Cambridge University Engineering Department). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Friday 30 May 2008, 11:00-12:00 Identification of dynamical subpopulations, optimal experiment design and moreAlberto Giovanni Busetto, ETH Zurich. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Friday 30 May 2008, 11:00-12:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Stochastic integration and Ito's lemmaFrederik Eaton (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 29 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 H-Infinity ClusteringProf. Sam Roweis (Toronto). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Structural analysis of cellular networksProf. Jörg Stelling, ETH Zürich. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Sustainable Energy - without the hot airDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Tuesday 27 May 2008, 14:00-16:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Spoken Dialogue Systems for Space and Lunar ExplorationJim Hieronymus (NASA Ames Research Center). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Tuesday 27 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Continuous Time Bayesian NetworksJurgen Van Gael. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Blind sparsity constrained inverse problems in volumetric imagingAl Hero, University of Michigan. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Monday 19 May 2008, 14:15-15:15 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Vocal Tract Transfer Function Estimation Using Factor Analyzed Trajectory Hidden Markov ModelTomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Monday 19 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 Modeling Behaviour in Economic Games using Game-Theoretic POMDPsDebajyoti Ray (Gatsby Unit, UCL). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 14 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive RoboticsDr Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 13 May 2008, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Dynamic Group TrackingS. K. Pang. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Monday 12 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Recent work on POMDP-based dialog systems at AT&TJason Williams (At&T). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Monday 12 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 Stability analysis for hybrid dynamical systemsProfessor Andrew R. Teel (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Monday 12 May 2008, 11:00-12:00 Eulerian and Lagrangian Observability of Point Vortex FlowsProfessor Arthur J. Krener (Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Friday 09 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 An Introduction to Statistical Learning TheoryMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Inducing Meaning from TextDan Jurafsky (Stanford University). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Tuesday 06 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 Price Mechanisms for Distributed Control SynthesisProfessor Anders Rantzer (Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12. Friday 02 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug designHiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Lattice Decoding for Digital Communications: Where Minkowski Meets ShannonSpeaker to be confirmed. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Monday 21 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Signal/Image Reconstruction from Sparse Measurements: Theory, Algorithms and ApplicationsSignal Processing Laboratory Seminar Dr Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 17 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 Some Applications of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Rate in Hidden Markov ModelsDr. M. Vidyasagar (Executive Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6. Wednesday 09 April 2008, 11:30-12:30 Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic ControlProfessor Sanjay Lall (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Monday 07 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 Beam Sampling for Infinite Hidden Markov ModelsJurgen Van Gael. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 02 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Molecular arms race between host and parasite leads to evolution of robustness against gene loss in signaling networksDr Orkun Soyer, CoSBi. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 26 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 Learning quantum physicsDr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 17 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 Systems and control challenges in model-based reservoir engineeringProfessor Paul Van den Hof (Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 14 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energyDr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00 Discriminative Methods with StructureSimon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 11 March 2008, 11:30-12:30 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Uncertainty and Learning in Spoken Human-Computer DialogueBlaise Thomson, CUED MIL. LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Monday 10 March 2008, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED 'All of Nonparametric Statistics'Speaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 March 2008, 14:00-15:30 A Bayesian approach to network modularity: inferring the structure and scale of modular networksJake Hofman (Columbia University). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 06 March 2008, 11:00-12:00 Information Flows in Cooperative Networked Control SystemsDr Girish Nair (University of Melbourne, Australia). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4. Tuesday 04 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 A behavioural approach to play in mechanical networksDr Frank Scheibe. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 29 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Inductive Logic ProgrammingMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London). LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED The Information Bottleneck / Dynamic Kernals for speaker verificationZoi Roupakia and Sandy Klemm. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 28 February 2008, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Spatial point process modelling and its applications in ecologyDr. Janine B. Illian, University of St. Andrews. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Statistical Machine TranslationMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Bill Byrne, Machine Intelligence Laboratory. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 Model selection and model order adaptation for clusteringPeter Orbanz (ETH Zurich). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 21 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear ModelMatthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Biomedical Image SearchAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 18 February 2008, 11:30-12:30 Information RetrievalMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Probabilistic Matrix Factorization/Deep Belief NetsRyan Turner and Phillipp Hennig. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 14 February 2008, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Title to be confirmedTao Li. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 07 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Stable distribution and data sketchingIoana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Spectral methodsRicardo Silva and Arik Azran. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 31 January 2008, 14:00-15:30 Reinforcement LearningMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture (Note unusual day) Peter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 29 January 2008, 16:00-18:00 Towards applied nonlinear adaptive controlProfessor Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College, London). Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B. Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active LearningAndreas Vlachos and Sinead Williamson. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 24 January 2008, 14:00-15:30 Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document CollectionsDavid Blei, Computer Science, Princeton University. Wednesday 23 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease MappingJarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Tuesday 22 January 2008, 11:00-12:00 Graphical ModelsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Christopher M. Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Adaptive Inference and Adaptive TrainingRogier van Dalen and Christian Steinruecken. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 17 January 2008, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Random-Set Theory and its Applications to Wireless CommunicationsProfessor Ezio Biglieri. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Monday 14 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 Gene Regulatory Network Inference: A Kernel-Based Learning ApproachSandy Klemm, University of Cambridge. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Monday 26 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Color Image Processing: Basic Foundation and Interesting ProblemsJoel Trussell, North Carolina State University. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Monday 26 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Error Correcting CodesMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Hierarchical Dirichlet ProcessesSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:00-15:30 Clinical data based optimal STI strategies for HIV: a reinforcement learning approachDr Guy-Bart Stan (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 21 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language ParsingMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Bayesian Reinforcement LearningSpeaker to be confirmed. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 15 November 2007, 14:00-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Transductive and Semi-Supervised LearningKarsten Borgwardt (University of Cambridge) and Katherine Heller. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 08 November 2007, 14:00-15:30 An overview of covariance operators in Hilbert space, and their applicationsArthur Gretton. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process ModelsMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge). Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars New Applications of the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet TransformMark Pickering, Australian Defence Forces Academy in Canberra. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Friday 02 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 Prequential StatisticsMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Philip Dawid, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Variational inference and exponential familiesJurgen Van Gael and Frederik Eaton. Engineering Department, CBL Room 438. Thursday 01 November 2007, 14:00-15:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars A Guide to Using GPUs for General Signal ProcessingRich Wareham (University of Cambridge). LR6, Engineering, Department of. Monday 29 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Spectral ClusteringMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Arik Azran, Machine Learning Group. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sparse Bayesian Linear ModelsMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge), Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla. LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 25 October 2007, 14:00-15:30 Group Theory and Machine LearningMachine Learning Tutorial Lecture Imre Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Statistical mechanics of large optimisation problemsProf. Giorgio Parisi, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational LearningRicardo Silva (Statistical Laboratory). LR6, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 17 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Autonomous Agents under Operational ClosurePedro Ortega (University of Cambridge). LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Thursday 11 October 2007, 14:00-15:30 Optimal Spreading Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems; Using CSK as a Case StudyTheodore Papamarkou, University of Warwick. LR5, Engineering, Department of.. Wednesday 03 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Graph Kernels for Data MiningKarsten Borgwardt, Machine Learning Group @ CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 19 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component AnalysisHao Shen, National ICT Australia and Australian National University, Canberra. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Friday 14 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 Covariate Shift Adaptation: Supervised Learning When Training and Test Inputs Have Different DistributionsMasashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technlogy). LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 13 September 2007, 13:00-14:30 Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series A new mathematical framework for optimal choice of actionsEmo Todorov, UCSD. LR5, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 12 September 2007, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Physics-Based Human Motion Models for Animation and TrackingAaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto. Tuesday 11 September 2007, 15:00-16:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Dialectal Chinese Speech RecognitionThomas Fang Zheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Friday 24 August 2007, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Filtering and Smoothing in Non-linear Dynamical Systems using Quadrature Expectation Propagation (EP)Onno Zoeter, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 21 August 2007, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian network structure learning from uncertain interventionsKevin Murphy, University of British Columbia. Tuesday 14 August 2007, 15:00-16:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Multidimensional Dialogue Management and Dialogue Act Recognition using Bayesian NetworksSimon Keizer (University of Tilburg). LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Tuesday 14 August 2007, 11:30-12:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION and FEATURE SELECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONJoel Trussell, North Carolina State University. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 09 August 2007, 13:00-14:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Efficient stochastic optimal control for navigation and motor planningBert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 11 July 2007, 11:00-12:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Can Robots Learn Language the Way Children Do?Stephen E. Levinson (University of Illinois). LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Tuesday 10 July 2007, 11:30-12:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Kingman's coalescent, non-parametric Bayesian agglomerative clustering, and ICML 2007Yee Whye Teh, Zoubin Ghahramani. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 05 July 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Sensible priors from finite linear modelsNote unusual time Ed Snelson and Joaquin Candela. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 28 June 2007, 15:30-17:30 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Subspace-based Fundamental Frequency EstimationMads Græsbøll Christensen, Aalborg University, Denmark. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 28 June 2007, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Generative models for audio and music processingTaylan Cemgil, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 26 June 2007, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Statistical Models for Partial MembershipKatherine Heller. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 21 June 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Infinite ICA and Information RetrievalWill Youzhi Zou and David Knowles. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 14 June 2007, 13:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Methods for the Periodically Correlated Random Processes: Estimation, Decomposition, ModellingNote unusual time and room Ihor Isayev, Karpenko Physico-mechanical Institute of NAS of Ukraine. Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor. Friday 08 June 2007, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars identity variables for face recognition: from distance based methods to probabilistic inferenceSimon Prince, University College London. Tuesday 05 June 2007, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Overlapping Clusters and 4th-year ProjectsZoubin Ghahramani and Katherine Heller. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 31 May 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED What can Gaussian Processes do for Reinforcement Learning?Marc Deisenroth, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 24 May 2007, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Accelerating Discovery: A Grand Challenge for HCIProfessor Ben Shneiderman. Monday 21 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED System Conditioning vs Explicit Bayes Inference, and Collaborative LDAPedro Ortega and Sinead Williamson. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 17 May 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Affinity Propagation and Hierarchical Beta ProcessesRoom changed, Note unusual time Arik Azran and Frederik Eaton. Room 422b, 4th floor, Engineering Department (Zoubin's office). Friday 11 May 2007, 11:00-13:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Modeling Natural Sounds with Modulation Cascade ProcessesRichard Turner, Gatsby Neuroscience Unit, UCL. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 10 May 2007, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Optimal LearningCarl Rasmussen. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 03 May 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Gaussian Approximations for Binary Gaussian Process Classification, and Hidden Topic Markov ModelsHannes Nickisch, Katherine Heller. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 26 April 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Function Approximation in MDPsBlaise Thomson, CUED. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 19 April 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Change Point Problems in Linear Dynamical SystemsPostponed (originally April 5) Onno Zoeter, Microsoft. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 12 April 2007, 13:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Hyperanalytic DenoisingSofia Olhede, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 12 April 2007, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars A Bayesian model that links microarray mRNA measurements to mass spectrometry protein measurementsAnitha Kannan, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2007, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Analysis of Channel Coding for Redundant SourcesJoseph Boutros, ENST Paris. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 03 April 2007, 13:00-14:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Estimating entropy rates with confidence intervalsMatt Kennel, UC San Diego. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 29 March 2007, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED GP-LVMsJoaquin Quiñonero Candela. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 29 March 2007, 13:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Reduced kernel rules for classificationFrederic Desobry, Sigproc. Lab. CUED. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 29 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Topics in Convex OptimisationRyota Tomioka, University of Tokyo. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 22 March 2007, 13:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Title to be confirmedPostponed Simon Godsill. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 22 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Motion TrackingFabian Wauthier, University of Edinburgh. Friday 16 March 2007, 10:00-11:00 Bayesian RankingAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ralf Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 March 2007, 16:00-18:00 Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classificationNote different room and time Ryota Tomioka (University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST). LT1 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Complex Wavelets: What are they and what can they do?Nick Kingsbury. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 15 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars A complete set of rotationally and translationally invariant features based on a generalization of the bispectrum to non-commutative groupsImre Risi Kondor, Columbia University. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Reverse Engineering the Human Visual System with Networks of Spiking NeuronsSimon Thorpe, Brain and Cognition Research Centre, Toulouse France. Tuesday 13 March 2007, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED An Introduction to Generalized Ensemble MCMC for Machine LearningUlrich Paquet. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 08 March 2007, 13:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Sustainability Informatics, present situation, challenges, visionCharlie Kennel, Scripps Institute, San Diego. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 08 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Audio signal indexing : Application to drum signal separation and transcriptionNote unusual time and room Gaël RICHARD, ENST (Télécom Paris). LR10, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 06 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet ProcessesAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Some NIPS papersBlaise, Katherine, and Zoubin. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 01 March 2007, 13:00-15:00 An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian MethodsRoom changed this week! Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Universal Artificial Intelligence, and Probability MonadsPedro Ortega and Frederik Eaton. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 22 February 2007, 13:00-15:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Gaussian Particle Implementations of Probability Hypothesis Density FiltersDaniel Clark. LR6, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 22 February 2007, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Neural NetworksPedro Ortega and Will Youzhi Zou. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 15 February 2007, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Margin- and Evidence-Based Approaches for EEG Signal ClassificationN. Jeremy Hill, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Friday 09 February 2007, 15:00-16:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Dirichlet Diffusion TreesFrederik Eaton and Sinead Williamson. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 08 February 2007, 13:00-15:00 Robot Localisation and MappingAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Paul M Newman, Oxford University. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 01 February 2007, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Non-parametric mixture modelsDavid Knowles and Blaise Thomson. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 01 February 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Active Learning and Experimental DesignNote unusual time Andreas Vlachos and Bobby Gramacy. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Friday 26 January 2007, 13:30-15:30 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Collaborative FilteringWill Youzhi Zou and David Knowles. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 18 January 2007, 13:00-15:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Interpreting Multimodal Communication ScenesSteve Renals (Edinburgh). LR3, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Tuesday 16 January 2007, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Computer Go Research in the University of Alberta GAMES GroupMartin Müller, University of Alberta. Jasmine meeting room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 02 January 2007, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Statistical Applications of the Cross-Entropy MethodNicolas Chopin. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Wednesday 13 December 2006, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Where’s my rocket? – Stochastic simulations of rocket flight pathsSimon Box, Microsoft Research. Tuesday 12 December 2006, 15:00-16:00 Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars Geometry of Sparse RepresentationsRoom changed Mark Plumbley, Center for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London. LR5, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 12 December 2006, 13:00-14:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED On Choosing PriorsProf Zoubin Ghahramani, CUED. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 30 November 2006, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Learning Conditional Random Fields with Hierarchical Features: Application to the Game of GoScott Sanner, University of Toronto. Wednesday 29 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Constraint Programming Techniques for Virtual Camera ControlMarc Christie, Nantes University. Tuesday 28 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Advanced MCMC MethodsAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Iain Murray, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)Blaise Thomson, and Sinead Williamson. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 23 November 2006, 13:00-15:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Tracheoesophageal Speech RepairArantza Del Pozo, CUED Machine Intelligence Laboratory. LR6, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Monday 20 November 2006, 13:00-14:00 Expectation PropagationAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Dr Tom Minka, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Nonlinear Dimensionality ReductionFrederik Eaton and Arik Azran. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 16 November 2006, 13:00-15:00 CausalityAdvanced Tutorial Lecture Series on Machine Learning Dr Ricardo Silva, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-18:00 Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED Machine Learning Reading Group in Engineering DepartmentSpeaker to be confirmed. 5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department. Thursday 09 November 2006, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Learning microRNA regulatory networks from genomic sequence and expression dataJim Huang, University of Toronto. Tuesday 07 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars Use of Linguistic Information and Reordering Strategies for Ngram- based Statistical Machine TranslationAdria de Gispert, TALP Research Centre – Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. LR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building. Tuesday 31 October 2006, 13:00-14:00 Gaussian Processes for Machine LearningAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Ed Snelson, Gatsby Unit, UCL. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-18:00 Mixture Models and the EM AlgorithmAdvanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge. LR4, Engineering, Department of. Thursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-18:00 Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable ModelDr Neil Lawrence, Computer Science, University of Sheffield. LR10, Engineering, Department of. Tuesday 07 March 2006, 12:30-13:30 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
Other listsDarwin College Lecture Series Introduction to Fractional Calculus 'Women in Medicine' - Cambridge MedSoc TalksOther talksThe role of myosin VI in connexin 43 gap junction accretion Perfect toposes and infinitesimal weak generation CANCELLED IN SYMPATHY WITH STRIKE Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech Thermodynamics de-mystified? /Thermodynamics without Ansätze? Atiyah Floer conjecture Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain An approach to the four colour theorem via Donaldson- Floer theory Genomic Approaches to Cancer "Vectorbuilder: Revolutionising Vector Design & Custom Cloning" (25 min seminar) followed by "Advanced Technologies For Rapid Generation Of Custom Designed Animal Models" (25 min seminar) |