Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Research Culture Talk: Corinna Alberg and Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (Library)

Corinna Alberg and Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (Library).

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 09 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The Krakencoder: a multi-modal connectome fusion tool for brain-behavior mapping

Prof. Amy Kuceyeski.

Online.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

A fishy study: from ecology to cognition to brains (Adrian Christmas lecture)

Redouan Bshary, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Lightfoot Room, St John's College.

Monday 15 December 2025, 18:30-20:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Machine Learning for Toxicity Prediction Using Chemical Structures: Pillars for Success in the Real World

Srijit Seal.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 15 December 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lessons from integrating Geospatial Foundation Models into environmental journalism methodologies

Anne Alexander, Cambridge Digital Humanities.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 15 December 2025, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How does gradient descent work?

Jeremy Cohen (Flatiron).

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

Friday 12 December 2025, 14:30-15:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Evaluating and Improving Rendered Visual Experiences

Pontus Ebelin.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 11 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

[SIGGRAPH Asia 2025] CameraVDP: Perceptual Display Assessment with Uncertainty Estimation via Camera and Visual Difference Prediction (Yancheng)

Yancheng Cai (University of Cambridge).

GS15, William Gates Building. Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83825823889?pwd=g1Xm2GJrkpadvhgVJY25uHGlbJFl21.1&jst=2.

Wednesday 10 December 2025, 15:30-16:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

[SIGGRAPH Asia 2025] Supra-threshold Contrast Perception in Augmented Reality (Dongyeon)

Dongyeon Kim, University of Cambridge.

GS15, William Gates Building. Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83825823889?pwd=g1Xm2GJrkpadvhgVJY25uHGlbJFl21.1&jst=2.

Wednesday 10 December 2025, 15:00-15:30

ARClub Talks

Semantic Drivers of Gaze in Natural Environments

Associate Professor Caroline Robertson, Dartmouth .

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

Wednesday 10 December 2025, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Expanding the kinome​

Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D.​ - UT Southwestern Medical Center​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 08 December 2025, 15:30-16:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

An Introduction to Psychtoolbox

Celia Foster (CBU).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 08 December 2025, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Building and Understanding Human-scale Language Models

Aaron Mueller (Boston University).

ONLINE ONLY. Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/sbr-mvua-fcc.

Friday 05 December 2025, 15:00-16:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Hugh Robinson, Ion Channels, Electrical Activity and Energy Consumption in Neuroendocrine Cancer Cells

Hugh Robinson, PDN.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 05 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modelling self-organisation: Beyond Turing

Jeremy Green.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 05 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Complex Structure and Dynamics in Brain Networks

Prof. Olaf Sporns, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405, USA.

Online.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Reconnecting with the body: Repairing interoception in physical illness and mental health

Lauren Heathcote (Kings College London) .

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

Thursday 04 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Why don't models generalize?

Prof. Yonatan Bisk (CMU).

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

Thursday 04 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Understanding GPU Performance with NVIDIA Profiling and Debugging Tools

Mozhgan Kabiri chimeh - NVIDIA Developer Relations Manager (UK&I).

Room D, West Hub.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 04 December 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Resource estimation and optimization to accelerate progress towards quantum advantage

Dr Prakash Murali - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 15:05-15:55

ARClub Talks

Minimally Speaking Autistic People Who Understand More than They Can Say: Identification and Targeted Intervention

Matthew Belmonte.

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

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 10:30-11:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Imaging the virosphere: protein architecture for virus assembly and host cell entry

Professor Peter Rosenthal.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 18:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Hard numbers—physicochemical models of a mitotic signalling organelle​

Kevin A. Janes, Ph.D.​ Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Reframing Robots for Care: Bringing Awareness of Informal Care to AI-driven Solutions

Laetitia Tanqueray, Lund University, Sweden.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 15:30-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Tiny & Gigantic Neural Networks

Puria Radmard; Nicolas Anguita.

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

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 13:15-12:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

"No-one knows where to put his hand on any particular specimen he may want...": How women corrected curatorial chaos in Oxford's geological collections, 1813-1914

Grace Exley, University Library, Munby Fellow, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

From Planets to Exoplanets: the search for life, with the James Webb Telescope and others

Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

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

Monday 01 December 2025, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Seeing in three dimensions: how the visual cortex uses motion to parse 3D scenes

Petr Znamenskiy, The Francis Crick Institute London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 01 December 2025, 16:15-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

DOJO: Dojo's Transition from Digital to AI Native

Rob Howes and Alex Price .

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 01 December 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil

Thomas Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 01 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

What does the high heritability of psychological traits mean for psychologists and educators?

Prof Michael Thomas, Birkbeck, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Valid F-screening in linear regression

Daniela Witten (University of Washington).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Nikita Gamper, Peripheral Gate in Somatosensory System

Nikita Gamper, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 28 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Heads or tails? Decoding the regulatory logic of body plan patterning

Vicki Metzis, Imperial College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A computational model of language production

Yuan Gao (University of Cambridge).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn..

Friday 28 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities

Prof. Peter West (University of British Columbia).

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

Thursday 27 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The neurocognition of dance

Guido Orgs (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) .

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

Thursday 27 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Ander Biguri & Dr Josh Kaggie.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control and Adaptation Under Latent Risk and Nonstationary Interactions

Yorie Nakahira, Carnegie Mellon University.

LR10, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Lost software, Polar Research Ships, Antarctica, and Doom: Rescuing 30+ years of raw scientific vessel underway data

Claudette Lopez - British Antarctic Survey.

Room E, West Hub.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Opening the Gate: How Structural Insights into Brain Receptors Could Guide New Therapies

Stephanie Nestorow, Department of Pharmacology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 27 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Physical Inductive Biases for World Models

Dr Ayush Tewari - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - November 2025

Rui Li and Rehan Zuberi.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 11:45-13:00

ARClub Talks

Diversity in Social Communication within and between Autistic and Non-autistic Adults

Prof. Danielle Ropar, University of Nottingham.

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

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Inference: An Algorithm-Centric Perspective

Kyurae Kim (University of Pennsylvania).

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

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's a Wonderful Life: the bizarre animals that live in the worlds coldest ocean and their extreme adaptations

Professor Lloyd Peck.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Object Pathos: Writing for Resonance in the English Classroom

Ben Rudd, PhD student, Faculty of Education, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

VIKING: Deep variational inference with stochastic projections

Note unusual room

Samuel Fadel (Technical University of Denmark).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11 (note change of room).

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A Lot of Hot Air: volcanic degassing and its impact on our environment

Professor Marie Edmonds FRS. Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 November 2025, 18:00-19:00

CCAIM Seminar Series

Contexts and Confounders in Clinical Practice, in Wearables, and as a path to novel drug discovery - CCAIM Seminar Series

HYBRID Seminar. Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88521685457

Prof Stephen H Friend.

MR19, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 November 2025, 17:05-18:05

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brainstem peptides: for better for worse, in sickness and in health

Simon Luckman, University of Manchester.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 24 November 2025, 16:15-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Anima Health: Landing a role building the future: being a top 1% hireability candidate

Souradip Mookerjee.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 November 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture

Liz White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Machine learning models guide viral discovery in museum bat collections

Maya M. Juman, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Using machine learning approaches to automate the diagnosis of small intestinal biopsies

Professor Elizabeth Soilleux, MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCPath, PGDipMedEd, SFHEA Professor of Diagnostics and Biomarkers/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 24 November 2025, 12:00-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Cambridge Methods In Cognitive Neuroscience Day

multiple.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 November 2025, 09:00-17:00

Statistics

On the sample complexity of multi-objective learning

Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Helen Walden, Understanding Parkin’s E3 Ligase Activity

Helen Walden, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 21 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

With great power... My journey in Responsible AI

Christos Christodoulopoulos.

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn..

Friday 21 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities

Prof Adam Sanborn, University of Warwick.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 November 2025, 12:00-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Model Merging — A Tale of Two Settings

Donato Crisostomi.

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Friday 21 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr David "Davidad" Dalrymple.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Changing Connectomes: Changes during development as well as changes after brain stimulation interventions to improve cognition

Prof. Marcus Kaiser, University of Nottingham, UK.

Online.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Building efficient & useful knowledge systems

Tali Sharot (University College London) .

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

Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Just asking questions (MIT)

Jacob Andreas (MIT).

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

Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine learning theory

Learning shallow neural networks in high dimensions: SGD dynamics and scaling laws

Denny Wu, Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science, New York University and the Flatiron Institute..

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Automatic differentiation - an RSE's eye view

Matt Graham - ARC, UCL.

Room A, West Hub.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Novel Technologies for Future Broadband Access Networks

Fady El-Nahal.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 20 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

AI for Math: The Future of Collaborative Discovery

Professor Mateja Jamnik - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Operators for Scientific Simulation

Luca Ghafourpour (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From deep time biogeomorphology to geo-evolutionary feedbacks

Professor Neil Davies.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Introducing BoltzGen: Toward Universal Binder Design

This talk is only in presence

Hannes Stärk, PhD student at MIT.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Lazy-rich learning

Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

Computational Neuroscience

Lazy-rich learning

Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Origins of North Korea’s Self-Imposed Isolation at the End of the Cold War

Dr Peter Han, FAMES, Associate member, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Lecture: Biopharmaceutical Development - The Journey from Molecule to Medicine

Professor Nicholas Darton, Associate Director of Biopharmaceutical Development at AstraZeneca, Honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham.

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

Monday 17 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Gearset: A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer at Gearset

Joe Lawry Short.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 November 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Who was Henslow?

Kate Hooper (Independent Researcher).

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

Monday 17 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

How to version control your scientific code using Git and GitHub

Máté Aller (CBU).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Naive Wisdom: Behavioral Evidence from Newborn Chicks

Prof Lucia Regolin, University of Padua.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Causal Effects of Political Incivility in Social Media Discussions

Chris Bail (Duke University).

Online.

Friday 14 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Statistical guarantees for neural operator surrogates

Sven Wang (EPFL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nonsense Mediated Decay in Early Embryonic Development

Claire Senner, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Extrapolating model performance across training horizons

Kris Cao (Cohere).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn.

Friday 14 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

How would I feel tomorrow: Towards a computational understanding of subjective pain experiences

Deborah Talmi (U. of Cambridge) .

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

Thursday 13 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Retrieving and Sampling Diverse Outputs

Prof. Eunsol Choi (NYU).

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

Thursday 13 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Matt Kenzie.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

CSD3: An Introduction to Data Centre Operations at Cambridge

Astrid Scott-Bennett - RCS, University of Cambridge.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Deuterium metabolic imaging at 7 Tesla

Masha Novoselova, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 13 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

From research lab to newsroom: deploying secure whistleblower technology in practice

Dr Daniel Hugenroth and Professor Alastair Beresford - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 15:05-15:55

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline

Prof. Sarah Wiegreffe (University of Maryland).

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

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding life - from genomes to organisms - using AI

Professor Ewan Birney.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 19:00-20:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Two talk double feature: NetFridgeS and The Small World Web of AI

This is a double-header (two talks for the price of one)

Zhukun Wang (University of Oxford) / Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford).

SS03 William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Two talk double feature: NetFridgeS and The Small World Web of AI

NOTE LOCATION/TIME - This is a double-header (two talks for the price of one)

Zhukun Wang (University of Oxford) / Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford).

SS03 William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Robust and conjugate Gaussian processes"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here:https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/oURXKjAISECZrOvFPRw0Mw

François-Xavier Briol, University College London.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine learning theory

To Intrinsic Dimension and Beyond: Efficient Sampling in Diffusion Models

Dr. Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Statistics and Data Science Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural basis of decision making

Guillaume Hennequin ( University of Cambridge); Robert Crossen.

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

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How Artificial Intelligence is deepening the digital language divide

Dr Giulia Occhini, Cambridge Language Services.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Putting the “S” into mechanics

Professor Keith Seffen. Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 November 2025, 18:00-19:00

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Statistical Investigations into the Unseen: Missing Mass for Markov Samples and Natural Distribution Estimation

Prof. Andrew Thangaraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

Monday 10 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Goldman Sachs: Beyond the Curriculum: Building Enterprise Grade Software

Hoshil Sejpal, Technology Fellow, Goldman Sachs.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 10 November 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Viral ghosts and specimen hosts: pathogen detection in natural history museum collections

Maya Juman (Department of Veterinary Medicine).

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

Monday 10 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language

Prof Kate Watkins, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Behavioral research on climate change mitigation

Kristian Steensen Nielsen; Copenhagen Business School.

Online.

Friday 07 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

The manifold hypothesis in science & AI

Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Uncovering how the genome directs development

Julie Ahringer.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Helen Ray-Jones

Dr Helen Ray-Jones, .

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Causal Discovery and Network Inference for Biological and Biomedical Data

Prof. Hervé Isambert, Institut Curie.

Online.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Specializing Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Database Systems

Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania).

Online.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

A meeting of minds: Modulating mentalizing in autism

Sarah White (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Featurespace.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Communities, capabilities, and collaboration: How the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) supports digital research in the Arts and Humanities

Oscar Seip - SSI and University of Manchester.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Bumblebees and honeybees in shared landscapes

Nynke Blömer, Department of Zoology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Variational Inference for Lévy Process-Driven SDEs via Neural Tilting

Dr Yaman Kindap, University of Cambridge.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 06 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML

Szilvia Ujvary, Arik Reuter, Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

21-cm Cosmology: First Stars and Beyond

Professor Anastasia Fialkov.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Less is Better - Determining key barriers and levers for reducing meat consumption in Cambridge colleges, and developing behaviour-led intervention approaches

Siggi Martinsson, MPhil student, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 13:10-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Predictive resampling for scalable Bayes"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/gELlOqxOT3imWtS8MRVYRw

Edwin Fong, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science

Professor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum.

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

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Fast and Accurate Flow Mining in High-Speed Networks with Sketches

Please note unusual SRG/NETOS time / location.

Weihe Li, University of Edinburgh.

FW11 William Gates Building.

Monday 03 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Jane Street: How to monitor systems that trade billions of dollars a day

Pedro, Jane Street Software Engineer.

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 03 November 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation

Nathan Cornish (University of Southampton).

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

Monday 03 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Trust in “Moral” Machines

Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Do Contemporary Psychological Inoculation Interventions Psychologically Inoculate against Misinformation?

Dan Loughnan; Radboud University.

Psychology Classroom, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Friday 31 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks

Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Natalie Krahmer, Elucidating the Cell Architecture of Metabolic Liver Disease via Spatial Proteomics

Natalie Krahmer, Helmholtz Diabetes Center .

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 31 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A novel RASopathy caused by hyperactive Wnt signalling

Dr. Ian Mcgough, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 31 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Stephen-John Sammut.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

Thursday 30 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Portable AI software with PyTorch and Lightning

Karl Harrison - Dawn/RCS, University of Cambridge.

Room D, West Hub.

Thursday 30 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Unseen Architects of Cancer's Destruction: Fibroblasts and Cachexia

Debasmita Mukherjee, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - October 2025

Dr Shangqi Gao and Dr Shuncong Wang.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Thursday 30 October 2025, 11:45-13:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 30 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

From Data to Models to Understanding: Evaluating Neural Latents and Finding Decision Boundaries in Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)

Kabir Dabholkar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Dr Greg Lavender - Former CTO of Intel and VMware Trustee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Language Models

Julianna Piskorz (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

C-H Amination for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry: Reaction Development and Validation of Nitrene Intermediacy

Professor Sukbok Chang.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

From Scarcity to Sovereignty: Media of Abundance at Taiwan Indigenous Television

Dr Eliana Ritts, CRASSH, Associate member, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Is it even possible to defend AI agents against attacks in practice?

NOTE unusual place (FW11)

Ilia Shumailov (AI Sequrity Company, Ex DeepMind, Ex Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11 (note change of room).

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Emergence of Linear Representations in LMs (NYU)

Dr. Shauli Ravfogel (NYU).

GR03, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies

Professor Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 October 2025, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Conscious visual perception, perceptual organization and how to restore it in blindness

Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 27 October 2025, 16:15-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

GSA Capital: Technology at GSA

Junhui Yang.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 27 October 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Practical environmental narratives: managing land in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

Bronte Evans Rayward (Department of Geography).

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

Monday 27 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Chi Wang.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

Monday 27 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

The Denario Project: Multi-Agent Systems for Autonomous Scientific Discovery

Boris Bolliet, Department of Physics.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 27 October 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

From Code to the Lab: Applying Transfer Learning to Discover New Antibacterials

Sergio Bacallado de Lara, Department of Pure Maths and Mathematical Statistics.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 27 October 2025, 12:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Revisiting Hebb and the Hippocampal Index in Humans: Toward a Neurotechnology of Memory

Prof Simon Hanslmayr, University of Glasgow.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Universal Copulas

Gery Geenens (University of New South Wales).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: David Hodson, Interrogating GPCRs from the Single Molecule to the Whole Animal

David Hodson, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 24 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regeneration at your fingertips

Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge).

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluation with LLMs - Theoretical and Practical insights

Eyal Kolman (Microsoft).

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn.

Friday 24 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr José Davila Velderrain

Dr José Davila Velderrain, Research Group Leader, Human Technopole, Italy.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Reading Between the Lines: Using Language Models to Amplify Human Data in Robot Learning (MIT)

Andreea Bobu (MIT).

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

Thursday 23 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The Divided Mind

Prof. Ed Bullmore.

Online.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Grasping the invisible: Multidimensional meanings for abstract concepts

Penny Pexman (Western University, Canada) .

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

Thursday 23 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Max Rogers/ Entrepreneurs First.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Concept-based Interpretable Models for Affective Computing Applications

Xinyu Li, University of Glasgow..

FW011 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 14:00-14:40

RSE Seminars

Building Reproducible Machine Learning Pipelines for inference of Galaxy Properties at Scale

Gurjeet Jagwani - IoA, University of Cambridge.

Room E, West Hub.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Golgi Bodies in Drosophila Somatosensory Neurons

Shubham Kumar, MRC Molecular Biology.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 23 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 II

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2025: Efficiency, Resilience, and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Moshe Vardi - Rice University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 15:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

The Biology and Impact of Sensory Differences in Autism

Nick Puts, King's College London.

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

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Stochastic Interpolants

Professor Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato and Fran Castro.

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

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Machine learning force fields shows extreme generalisation

Professor Gabor Csanyi.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Thalamocortical Interactions for Flexible Cognition

Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai.

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

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 13:15-12:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

From Prison to Cambridge - A Journey of Resilience

Christian Austin.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AIReg-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models That Assess AI Regulation Compliance

NOTE unusual place (LT1)

William Marino (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy

Professor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology.

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

Monday 20 October 2025, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Visual cortex gamma reflects stimulus experience and stimulus reward value

Pascal Fries, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 20 October 2025, 16:15-18:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Reducing Speaker and Temporal Redundancy in Discrete Speech Tokenization

Yiwei Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Hybrid: Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6 or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83363886282?pwd=eCJD8vmmxI29vSZMX92lmQjWWUgZgw.1.

Monday 20 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Bloomberg: Observability in Action: Designing Effective Dashboards

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 20 October 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Making communication common: information architecture, classificatory schemes and reference aids in the repositories of early scientific societies

Ewa Zakrzewska (European University Institute).

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

Monday 20 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins using neural networks

Nicholas Polizzi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 October 2025, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Mental Navigation and the Default Mode Network: From Spatial Maps to Conceptual Knowledge

Dr Deniz Vatansever, Fudan University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On uncertainty quantification for nonparametric multivariate Hawkes processes

Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Sarah Teichmann, Translating the Human Cell Atlas

Sarah Teichmann, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 17 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Sense and Sensibility in Cognition: Unraveling the Neural Basis of Emotional Regulation

Dr Xiao Xiao, Fudan University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 October 2025, 13:00-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Making and breaking tokenizers

Sander Land (Writer) .

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn .

Friday 17 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Implicit Chain-of-Thought: Internalizing Reasoning in Language Models

Yuntian Deng (University of Waterloo).

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

Thursday 16 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Towards realistic and understandable models of human speech processing

Jim Magnuson (U. of Connecticut and BCBL).

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

Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Boris Bolliet.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data as models? A closer look at data-driven control systems

Roy Smith, ETH Zurich.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

SerialKVM - the cheapest Software KVM

Samantha Finnigan - Senior RSE, Durham University Advanced Research Computing.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Looking for hidden messages in our DNA

Ioannis Sarropoulos, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 16 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

The 5th Annual Cambridge Autism Research Lecture: Presented by John Harris

John Harris, journalist, critic, and author.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre - Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 17:00-18:30

Mathematics and Computation

A central limit theorem for partitions involving generalised divisor function

Madhuparna Das, Dept of Mathematics, University of Exeter.

Computer Lab, FW09 and Online (link in abstract).

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Being a Person in the Age of Slop and Super-Tools

Professor Alan Blackwell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, Fellow, Darwin College.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 October 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Chiral Universe

Professor David Tong.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 October 2025, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Plasticity of the Parental Brain

Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 13 October 2025, 16:15-18:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Perplexity AI: Under the Hood of LLM Inference

Nandor Licker.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 13 October 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930–1940

Mika Hyman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 13 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Geometric extremal graphical models

Jennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Tuomas Knowles, Protein Phase Transitions

Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 10 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLIP 2025 Social: Meet New PhD Students

Speaker to be confirmed.

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 10 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Explanations as a Catalyst: Leveraging Large Language Models to Embrace Human Label Variation

Beiduo Chen.

GR03, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Friday 10 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Professor Mark Isalan

Professor Mark Isalan, Professor of Engineering Biology, Imperial College London.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Simplifying Synthesis with Radical Cross-Coupling

Professor Phil S. Baran.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 09 October 2025, 15:00-16:30

Chaucer Club

Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in humans

Biyu He (NYU) .

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

Thursday 09 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Chunked file formats for massive imaging datasets

David Stansby - Engineering, University College London.

Room E, West Hub.

Thursday 09 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Protocols over Implementations

Dominik Moritz (Professor at CMU HCII and Researcher at Apple).

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

Thursday 09 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Examining the promises of chemical plastic recycling

Alex R Epstein (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 09 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 08 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Feedback Forensics: Measuring AI Personality By Comparing Observed Behaviour

If you are interested in attending the talk online, please email the organiser and ask for a Teams invite.

Arduin Findeis, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

Foundation AI

Quantum Interactive Oracle Proofs

Baocheng Sun Weizman Institute.

SS03.

Monday 06 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

ARClub Talks

Uncovering developmental paths to neurodevelopmental conditions: Dynamics over time

Emily Jones, Professor, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

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

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 11:30-12:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Effective Health Technologies Faster? Value-Based, Response Adaptive Learning in Clinical Trials"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/IMAzE11MRtyNkOGZpkv4GA

Professor Stephen Chick, INSEAD.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 30 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - September 2025

Dr Tammar Truzman and Mr Artsiom Hramyka.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 September 2025, 11:45-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cells, Tissues & Organs: assembling the Human Cell Atlas

Professor Sarah Teichmann - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 September 2025, 12:30-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Relating age, brain and cognition: As easy as ABC!

Rik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 September 2025, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

In Your Hands – a celebration of artwork created by neurodivergent individuals

Alice Nicholls, artist.

MODO Gallery, 62 Sidney Street, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 September 2025, 18:00-22:00

Foundation AI

Large Language Models and Graph Neural Networks for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Fan Mo, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Meeting ID: 360 910 4394, Passcode: P5F18G), Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03..

Wednesday 24 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

From group psychotherapy to robot-assisted intervention: New therapies for socio-emotional challenges in individuals with autism

Prof Dr Isabel Dziobek, University of Berlin.

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

Wednesday 24 September 2025, 11:30-12:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/M66a6T77T9-0PCylnJfB7g

William Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 23 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/M66a6T77T9-0PCylnJfB7g

William Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 23 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Cerebellum Computation

Carl Ashworth; Youjing Yu.

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

Tuesday 23 September 2025, 13:15-12:45

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Inequalities Revisited

Prof. Raymond W. Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

Friday 19 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

Wednesday 17 September 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

LLM Social Simulation is a Promising Research Method

The talk is available online. Please get in touch to ask for a Teams invite.

Tiancheng Hu (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 17 September 2025, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

The Fruit Fly Connectome and Beyond

Yijie Yin; Saeyeon Kwon.

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

Tuesday 16 September 2025, 13:15-12:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Multi-modal modeling in precision medicine: from data imputation to synthetic data​

Dr. Olivier Gevaert​ -​ Associate Professor, Depts of Medicine & Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University​ ​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Color Appearance and Scission in Transparent Augmented Reality

Michael J. Murdoch Associate Professor and Director of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 11 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Predictive Polygenic Scores: Considerations and an Example"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/2-jzYw6UQ0uzKp5LpplBhg

Allison Meisner, Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 11 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Bayesian prevalence of autism and unmet special education needs in Chile in a sample of three million school-age children

Andres Roman-Urrestarazu MD PhD MBA MFPH, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 11:30-12:30

Chaucer Club

Attention under challenge: Addressing the consequences of modern environments

Anina Rich (Macquarie University, Sydney).

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

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Adaptive Resource Allocation for Low-Latency LLM Serving in Dynamic Environments

Masayuki Usui and Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki (University of Tokyo).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Monday 01 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

Wednesday 27 August 2025, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans.

Rina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tuesday 26 August 2025, 16:00-17:30

Foundation AI

GNN-ACLP: Graph Neural Networks Based Analog Circuit Link Prediction

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XK4HTy4aaC4h2E8t8jgzDUrJrl4jBxKH/view?usp=sharing

Guanyuan Peter Pan.

Zoom (Meeting ID: 873 5011 9733, Passcode: 732177).

Thursday 21 August 2025, 12:45-13:45

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

Wednesday 06 August 2025, 16:30-18:00

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Towards Physical AI: Time-Series Prediction for Intent-Aware Robot Learning

Mukund Mitra, Indian Institute of Science.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 August 2025, 12:00-13:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Perceptually-Inspired Algorithms for Power Optimization in XR Displays

Kenny Chen, New York University.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 31 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Searching for a “Double Empathy Solution”: Mixed-Neurotype Social Interactions in Educational Settings, Empathic Accuracy, and the Role of Disclosing Autism Diagnosis

Dr Yonat Rum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Douglas House and online https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81866331311?pwd=ZoVl1HOEsSNbwRvedQOLKhkcR8hGy3.1.

Wednesday 30 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foundation AI

Hierarchical Protein Structure Representation Learning via Topological Deep Learning

Zhiyu Wang.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 17:15-18:30

Foundation AI

Title to be confirmed

Kaiwen Zuo.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Deep High Dynamic Range Imaging: Reconstruction, Generation and Display

Dr. Chao Wang, Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

AI-Powered Graph Representation Learning for Robust and Efficient Urban and Social Science

Qianru Zhang.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Monday 28 July 2025, 17:00-18:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

From Pixels to Curves: Deep Learning–Based Techniques for Vector Graphic Creation

Ronghuan Wu, City University of Hong Kong.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 24 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Google DeepMind’s Gemini models and the Rise of Long-Context LLMs

Dr Nikolay Savinov (Google DeepMind).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 23 July 2025, 15:00-16:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Gentle introduction to causal inference and estimation of causal effects in the wild

Dr Yordan Raykov, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 21 July 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 16:30-18:00

Foundation AI

Title to be confirmed

qrzhang@hku.hk.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

ARClub Talks

Understanding health and wellbeing during menopause: A longitudinal comparison study between autistic and non-autistic people

Eunhee Kim, Bournemouth University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 11:30-12:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

The Valencia-Bristol low-level vision MindSet

Jesús Malo.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Friday 11 July 2025, 14:30-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Emerging perceptual properties in foundation models: a vision science perspective

Alexandra Gomez-Villa.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Friday 11 July 2025, 14:00-14:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Encoding Angular Information into Computational Imaging

Simeng Qiu, Swansea University.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

From Score to Sound: Music Generation in the AI Era

Francesco Bardozzo (University of Salerno).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 10:50-12:20

Foundation AI

AI Governance and Regulation: Comparing EU, US, and China’s Models and global initiatives

Dr. Nicola Palladino, University of Salerno.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Wednesday 09 July 2025, 09:00-10:30

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 08 July 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Artificial Intelligence in Agrifood and Environment

Prof. Antonino Staiano.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Tuesday 08 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

ne289's list

From Pixels to 3D Motion: Modelling the Physical Natural World from Images

Elliott (Shangzhe) Wu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. For directions see http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions.

Tuesday 08 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Performance evaluation for learning systems

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Foundation AI

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 04 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

Vicky Metzis.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Role of Voting Advice Applications in Combatting Misinformation

Clifton van der Linden (University of Oxford and McMaster University).

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

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - June 2025

Pascal Wodtke and Alexander Nicholas Shepherd.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 11:45-13:00

ARClub Talks

How can insights from autistic doctors, including autistic psychiatrists, contribute to improving understanding of autism and outcomes for autistic people?

Mary Doherty, Consultant Anaesthetist, Autism Researcher, and Founder of Autistic Doctors International .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Mathematics and Computation

Colored Jones polynomials and the volume conjecture

Prof Vishnu Jejjala, School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online (link in abstract).

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Success, sensitivity and unbelievable quality of LLM code generation

Andrei Paleyes (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing

Dr Nick Souter, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 23 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation

Tony Southall.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs, Implicit Bayesian inference and compositional Generalization

Szilvia Ujvary (University of Cambridge).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 20 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Value Reasoning and Test-Time Verification for Trustworthy LLMs

Prof. Lu Wang (University of Michigan).

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

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology

Mary-Ellen Lynall (U. of Cambridge, Psychiatry Dept.) .

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

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Structure, Kinetics, and the Identification of Integrated Control in Neuronal Excitability

Shimon Marom, Technion.

LT6, Baker Building, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Towards the Development of a National Autism Suicide Prevention Resource Hub

Darren Hedley, La Trobe University.

Adrian House Seminar Room (Trinity College).

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 17:00-18:00

ARClub Talks

Decomposing heterogeneity in the AUTISMS

Mike Lombardo, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

ARClub Talks

Decomposing heterogeneity in the AUTISMS

Michael Lombardo, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The structure of curvature in neural networks

Teams 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.

Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research UK).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Feedback Forensics: A Toolkit to Measure AI Personality

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Multitasking and compositionality in brain and in neural networks

Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

Monday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Detecting Changes in Production Frontier and Beyond

Yining Chen (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

MultiBLiMP: A Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs

Jaap Jumelet (University of Groningen).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 13 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients enable flexible control of cortex-wide network dynamics during cognition

Dr Seán Froudist-Walsh.

Online.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities

Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun (Google DeepMind).

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: How sensory deprivation improved our vision on brain function

Emiliano Ricciardi (U. of Pisa.

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Probabilistically Robust Decision Making for Uncertain Dynamical Systems

Venkatraman Renganathan, Cranfield University.

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning

Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning

Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2.

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

Teams 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.

Varun Jain (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

Teams 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.

Varun Jain (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Latent Concepts in Large Language Models

Prof. Pradeep Ravikumar, Carnegie Mellon University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making

Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin.

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

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making

Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin.

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

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Climate beliefs across borders: National patterns and digital interventions

Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland).

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

Monday 09 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones?

Chris Preston.

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

Monday 09 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Robust and replicable effects of ageing on resting state brain electrophysiology measured with MEG

Dr. Andrew Quinn, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

When is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 350 Languages

Catherine Arnett and Tyler Chang (EleutherAI and UC San Diego).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 06 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Complexity of sampling truncated log-concave measures, and the role of stochastic localization

Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Interactive and Grounded Learning

Prof. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu (University of California, San Diego).

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

Thursday 05 June 2025, 17:00-18:00

Rausing Lecture

But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

From anatomy to systems: Charting the language connectome

Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute).

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

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Symbolic Regression for Model Discovery in Python and Julia

Miles Cranmer - DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Advancing precision health in neurodevelopmental conditions

Evdokia Anagnostou, University of Toronto.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Discovering reward-guided learning strategies from large-scale datasets

Kimberly Stachenfeld (DeepMind, Columbia).

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

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala

Christian Stenz (Heidelberg University).

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

Monday 02 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Brain Digital Twins for Neurological Disorders

Dr. Nitin Williams, Department of Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

"Animal Consciousness: Evidence, Models, and Clues”

Peter Godfrey Smith.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 30 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

In-sample calibration yields conformal calibration guarantees

Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Mathematics and Computation

Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part V)

Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online (link in abstract).

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Unveiling the Secret Sauce: A Causal Look at Data Memorisation and Tokenisation in Language Models

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 30 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

On Interacting and Writing with LLMs

Dr. Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research).

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

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Understanding the drivers of antimicrobial resistance evolution

Claudia Igler, University of Manchester.

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

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Streaming of rendered content with adaptive frame rate and resolution

Yaru Liu, University of Cambridge.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Perceptual quality metric and loss function for 3D and temporal consistency

Fei Yin, University of Cambridge.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ethnolinguistic vitality of the Hemshin language

Gulay Akin (Cambridge).

Davidson Room, Peterhouse.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hard and soft equivariance priors via Steerable CNNs

Dr Gabriele Cesa - Qualcomm AI Research, Amsterdam.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Long-Term Effectiveness of Gamified Inoculation: Mapping Decay, Booster Interventions, and Diffusion Messages

Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Mathematics and Computation

Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part IV)

Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online (link in abstract).

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - May 2025

Dr Timothy Rittman, Senior Clinical Research Associate, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:45-13:00

ARClub Talks

Sleep, Touch and the Making of the Human Brain

Professor Topun Austin, Consultant Neonatologist in Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Neurophotonics at University College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning

Eugene Wong(UC Berkeley and Clare Hall, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Why we should stop talking about ‘Christians’ in connection with the New Testament

Dr Julia Snyder, Faculty of Divinity and Bye Fellow of Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Computer Vision: Between Forensics and Biomedical Imaging

Giovanna Maria Dimitri, University of Siena (Italy).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Dendrites, Synaptic Plasticity and Hippocampal Place Fields​

Carl Ashworth; Saeyeon Kwon.

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

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:45

Mathematics and Computation

Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part III)

Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online (link in abstract).

Monday 26 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900

Katherine Enright (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 26 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

AI Meets Economics: The Case of Auction-Assisted AI Systems in Cloud-Edge Continuum

Prof. Lei Jiao.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (MS Teams link below).

Friday 23 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Mathematics and Computation

Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part II)

Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online (link in abstract).

Friday 23 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch Signal

Sarah Bray.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 23 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Robust Alignment of Large Language Models

Dr. Sangwoong Yoon (UCL).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 23 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

What If We Succeed?

Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 23 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

It is not all in your genes - epigenetic regulation of human lung repair

Dr Renata Jurkowska, Cardiff University.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry

Lilian Weber (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Classical and Quantum Density Functional Theory for Materials Science

Angus Lockhart <angus@secqai.com>.

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Engineering Genetic Controllers to Accelerate Adaptation and Attenuate Cellular Noise

Maurice Filo, ETH Zurich.

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

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Fortitude: A Modern Fortran Linter

Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill, University of York Plasma.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hydrogen airplanes and why they need Heat Exchangers

Kilian Bartsch, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

AI Interacting with People (through Language)

Prof Hal Daume III (University of Maryland).

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Recreating the Physical Natural World from Images

Dr Elliott Wu - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge Ellis Unit

A Mixture-based framework for guiding Diffusion models

Alain Oliviero-Durmus - Ecole Polytechnique.

CBL Seminar Room.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Mathematics and Computation

Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part I)

Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

The Computer Laboratory, FW26 and Online: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6590822098?pwd=VTBuUXRXN29qMDF4TGpaaEhFaytQQT09.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

ARClub Talks

Autism in Midlife and Older Age

Dr Gavin R. Stewart, King’s College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models

Teams 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, Neel Alex, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Deep Learning Approaches for Label-Free Tumour Image Segmentation Spectroscopy in Cancer Diagnosis

Thomas Hartigan.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "AI for the Human Cell Atlas"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/jy1cAVg4SeiEB-grYmQV8Q

Professor Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Woe is Me!: Spatial Logic and Memory in the OIMOI Inscriptions of Selinous

Campbell Rosener.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Vere, Lady Lynch (1647–1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica

Eleanor Stephenson (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 19 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

On Activation and Normalization Layers in Graph Neural Networks

Moshe Eliasof, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.

Kosuke Imai (Harvard University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Connectome-based Echo State Networks

James McAllister (Ulster).

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

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-14:45

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Motility and matrix remodelling coupling drive early avian morphogenesis

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models

Paul Röttger (Bocconi University).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 16 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages

Prof. Hila Gonen (University of Biritish Columbia).

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

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

From nuclear swelling to chemoattractant production during tissue damage

Dr Balázs Enyedi - Semmelweis University, Budapest.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Comprehensive profiling of anaesthetised brain dynamics across phylogeny

Dr Andrea Luppi.

Online.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Dissecting the neural control of skilled movements

Katja Kornysheva (U. of Birmingham) .

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

Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Instrumentation and Iteration in Massively Online Live Service Gaming

Mark Kerr, Jagex.

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

Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

A Modular OCR Solution for Logographic Scripts: From Labeling to Recognition and User Interface Design

Peichao Qin - Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Transposable elements: From DNA parasites to Darwin's best friends

Pío Sierra, Department of Genetics.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Type-driven Development with Idris 2

Dr Edwin Brady - School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Strategic Climate Change Communication: The Questions Few are Asking

Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

Online.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Structural characterisation of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

Ivan Campeotto, Assistant Professor in Microbial Biotechnology.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

Masking: the fine line between fitting in and exhaustion

Andrew Whitehouse, SEND Network .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 11:30-13:00

Foundation AI

Sheaf-Based Diffusion for Multimodal Graph Learning

Mar Gonzàlez i Català (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 16:00-16:45

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Regression Tree Approach to Missing Data"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81415700586?pwd=7rhWD5jDWlkAq1nuMUPDJGDkhQsMCM.1

Professor Wei-Yin Loh, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Quantifying individuality in neural circuit representations

Alex Williams (NYU).

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

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Government intervention in linguistic heritage projects in Belfast

Seamus Branch.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Explainable AI in Neuroscience: From Interpretability to Biomarker Discovery

Mike Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

Professor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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

Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

Foundation AI

Superposition in GNNs

Lukas Pertl.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Exploring the interplay between Ricci Flow, the Fisher Information Matrix and Gradient Descent in Neural Networks

Physics.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Normalisation, adaptation, and the balance of excitation and inhibition

Yashar Ahmadian, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 12 May 2025, 16:15-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska

Ben Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute).

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

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The Functions of Episodic Memory

Ali Boyle.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Research Progress in Mechanistic Interpretability

Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 09 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

Potassium channel activators - a possible anti-seizure treatment.

Prof Frederik Elinder - Linköping University, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Causal Representation Learning

Prof. Ali Tajer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ​.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Human-Centered AI: Addressing the Ecological Fallacy in LLMs

Prof, H Andrew Schwartz (State University of New York at Stony Brook).

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The human sense of smell: From hunter-gatherers to wine experts

Asifa Majid (U. of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Krasovskii Passivity Based Approaches to Control Design of Power Systems

Yu Kawano, Hiroshima University.

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Autonomous Robots That Operate in Human Environments

Fethiye Irmak Dogan (University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Importance of Distinguishing Between Misinformation and Disinformation

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The TPTP World - Infrastructure for Automated Reasoning

Dr Geoff Sutcliffe - Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, USA.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Computational Neuroscience

The successor representation, its neural substrate, and behavioural consequences.

Puria Radmard; Daniel Kornai.

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

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ethnography after Genocide: Working with Ezidi Women in Iraq

Dr. Richard Latham Lechowick, Research Associate & Teaching Fellow, Global History Lab (CRASSH) .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Zangwill Club

How the Built Environment Affects Spatial Behavior, Brain Activity and Aesthetics

Professor Hugo Spiers.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coordination of Protrusions in Migrating Immune Cells

Michael Sixt.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Asymmetry in Supposedly Equivalent Facts: Pre-training Bias in Large Language Models

Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 02 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Biologically Inspired Soft Robotics

Michael T. Tolley UC San Diego.

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

Friday 02 May 2025, 10:30-11:30

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

Tim Austin (Warwick).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Case for Decentralized Scheduling in Modern Datacenters

Smita Vijayakumar, Systems Research Group, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (MS Teams link below).

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

From survival in the wild to music enjoyment - how the human brain discovers structure in sound sequences

Maria Chait (UCL).

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

Thursday 01 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Some topics at the intersection of control, dynamics, and learning.

Eduardo Sontag, Northeastern University.

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

Thursday 01 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Opening the Box of Chocolates: a Tasting Introduction to Studies of Cacao and Chocolate

Mika Hyman, History and Philosophy of Science.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Multiscale Organization of Neuronal Activity Unifies Scale-Dependent Theories of Brain Function

Dr Mac Shine, University of Sydney.

Online.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 I

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 16:30-18:00

Foundation AI

Sphere Embedding: The Atom for Explainable and Reliable AI and Machine Reasoning (Part 1). recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfrnwqpKRE

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Investigating complex dependence structures using Bayesian mixture modelling"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/7PLSTFN7QM6iUvdzQaegEw

Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 15:15-16:15

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Common atoms mixture models in some biostatistical inference problems"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/4uUskN5ZQjaJzckpMbxQ1Q

Prof Peter Mueller, University of Texas.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

Dr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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

Monday 28 April 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Building a Virtual Brain: Digital Twin for Precision Glioma Surgery

Queenie Wong, Department of Clinical Neuroscience .

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:00

Foundation AI

bla bla

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Saturday 26 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

bla bla

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Saturday 26 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Echoes of the Embryo: A stem cell model of human gastrulation and post-gastrulation lineage emergence

Jitesh Neupane.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 25 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - April 2025

Daniel Kreuter and Dr Ander Biguri.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 April 2025, 11:45-13:00

Foundation AI

bla bla

Zeno.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 23 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Robust nonnegative matrix factorization with the beta-divergence and applications in imaging

Cédric Févotte, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT).

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Tuesday 22 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Robust nonnegative matrix factorization with the beta-divergence and applications in imaging

Cédric Févotte, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT).

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Tuesday 22 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Marika Rostvall 2) Lovisa Hellsten. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Lovisa Hellsten 2) Marika Rostvall. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Lovisa Hellsten 2) Marika Rostvall. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

In-Context Learning

Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar.

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

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 15:00-16:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Analysing electrophysiology data with osl-ephys

Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK .

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Foundation AI

blabla

Cassidy.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sunday 13 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services;

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Friday 11 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Prevalence, Transitions and Access to Mental Health Services for Young People with Eating Disorders

Prof. Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Shape-shifting Elephants: Multi-modal Transport for Integrated Research Infrastructure

Nik Sultana, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Online (Teams link below).

Friday 04 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications

Teams 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, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 02 April 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2) recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCHg-DAnEs

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 31 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Artefacts in MEG data

Dr Golan Karvat & Dr Olaf Hauk, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Mitigating the Risks of Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

Aleksey Charapko, University of New Hampshire.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (Teams link will appear before the talk).

Friday 28 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Unknown Maxwell

The Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 March 2025, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - March 2025

Dr Michail Mamalakis and Joshua Rothwell.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 11:45-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

Teams 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.

Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1)

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Nonparanormal Approach to Marginal Inference"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click on the link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xwbSLwLITemQeb8b-jk-Fg

Susanne Dandl, University of Zurich.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Principles of intensive human neuroimaging

Dr. Eline Kupers, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Multi-Agent System for Mathematical Discovery

Daattavya Aggarwal, Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Connects Us All? From Fibres to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Surgical data using LLMs

Hugo Georgenthum.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

CUED Control Group Seminars

Participation of Energy Storage in Electricity Markets: Strategic Withholding Behaviors and Equilibrium

Bolun Xu, Columbia University.

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

Friday 21 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces

Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces

Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Reproducible Brain Charts: Accelerating Studies of Brain Development with Open Science

Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania.

Online.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning

Prof. Paul Liang (MIT).

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Stochastic Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, IIT Hyderabad.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges

Professor Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford .

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Which Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Colleges and Universities

Professor Frank Dobbin - Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:05-14:55

ARClub Talks

Sex differences in the placenta and autism

Dr Alex Tsompanidis, University of Cambridge .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

Teams 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.

Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Extreme weather attribution and the evidential grounds for restorative climate justice

Ahmad Elabbar, Adrian Research Fellow.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?

Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Money: a Treasury-centric view

Mario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1).

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Modelling microbiome-mediated epigenetic inheritance of disease risk

Hybrid

Bobby Ranjan.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses

Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The place to be? At the nexus of psychology and geography

Friedrich Goetz (University of British Columbia).

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

Monday 17 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Helsing: Simulating a System of Systems

Matei David.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

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

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Model-free and model-based methods for estimating neural timescales

Roxana Zeraati, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

: Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape

Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats

Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats

Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

East 1/West Hub

Edmund.George & Mei Lin Gan .

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain

Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Biological design with machine learning and limited data.

Diego Oyarzun, University of Edinburgh.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology

Note: unusual date compared to regular AI Seminars

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

Project management by and for RSEs

Sarah Jaffa - RSE, University of Manchester.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer’s Rejuvenation Trap: Turning Cells Young and Fierce

Shanlin Tong.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Discourse models with language models

Prof. Jessy Li.

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language meets Control Theory

Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Teams 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.

Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Black Holes & spin-offs

Prof Katherine Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book of protecting Osiris among those of the Netherworld: An annotated version of the First Hour.

Chike Pilgrim, PhD Student, Department of Archaeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 10 March 2025, 16:15-18:00