Chris Davis' list

The case for formal methodology in scientific reform

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

User Dr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho..

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

House Online on google meets.

Cognitive switches and functional reprogramming of sensory cortex

User Abhishek Banerjee, Newcastle University.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

User Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

House Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 16 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Culture, language and cognition: a methodological and theoretical exploration with reference to spatial concepts

Please register for this talk by NOON on Oct 15th

User Chris Sinha (University of Hunan, University of East Anglia).

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

Twins: White-Glove Approach for BFT Testing

User Shehar Bano, Novi (Facebook).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Flexible redistribution in the language network

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

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

Is there solid-on-solid contact in a sphere-wall collision in a viscous fluid?

User Dr Sumit Birwa, Goldstein Lab, DAMTP.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:10-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

TNG Technology Consulting: Deepfakes 2.0 - How Neural Networks Are Changing Our World

User Thomas Endres, Martin Förtsch and Jonas Mayer.

House Virtual.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:05-13:55

Social risk taking in adolescence

chair: Prof Tamsin Ford

User Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge .

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

House https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Quantum Field Theory (in a Nutshell)

Annual Maxwell Talk (in collaboration with the Archimedeans)

User Prof. Anthony Zee, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Online (ask organizers for link).

Phosphine and Photochemistry on Venus

User Dr Paul Rimmer.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Ice cores and interglacials

User Professor Eric Wolff FRS, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Is the COVID-19 pandemic really causing mental illness?

User Professor Paul Fletcher.

House Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Stochastic treatment interventions in causal survival analysis'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

User Dr Lan Wen, Harvard University .

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Philosophy, Fiction, and Videogames

User Prof Derek Matravers .

House Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks

User Ilia Shumailov.

House Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Electronics on the brain

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

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

User Catarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

House Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

Please pre-register for this event by noon on Thursday October 8th : https://forms.gle/QsDW2EdTzjNC2d6i7

User Professor Robyn Carston, UCL.

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

Bias in AI

User Derek McAuley.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Adolescent brain development as a window of social-affective opportunities

User Eveline Crone (Leiden University).

Thursday 08 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

User Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Soft matter quasicrystals: when can they exist and when will we observe them?

User Dr Priya Subramanian, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 19:00-20:30

House Venue to be confirmed.

Title to be confirmed

User Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

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

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and David Liu.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

Autoimmune psychosis; is it a thing?

chair: Dr Golam Khandaker

User Professor Alasdair Coles, University of Cambridge.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 01 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

User Professor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley .

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Tuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00

Characterizing and forecasting tumour evolution

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 25 September to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Dr Robert Noble from City, University of London.

Monday 28 September 2020, 10:30-11:30

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Assumption-lean inference for generalised linear model parameters'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

User Prof Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University .

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 24 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

What should we do to prevent dementia?

chair: Prof John O'Brien

User Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, University College London .

Thursday 24 September 2020, 12:30-13:30

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session III

User Statistics Clinic team.

Wednesday 23 September 2020, 16:30-18:00

Scaling AI Systems with Optical I/O

User Manya Ghobadi, MIT.

Thursday 10 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Smart Cities with Privacy Assurance

User Sid Chau, ANU.

Thursday 03 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Sirius: A Flat Datacenter Network with Nanosecond Optical Switching

User Hitesh Ballani, MSR.

Thursday 20 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session II

User Statistics Clinic team.

Wednesday 12 August 2020, 16:30-18:00

Systematic Rateless Coding for Efficient Data Transport in Data Centres

User Mohammed Alasmar, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex.

Thursday 06 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems

User Professor Ed Boyden, MIT.

Tuesday 04 August 2020, 15:00-17:00

Caching with Delayed Hits

User Nirav Atre, CMU.

House Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link).

Thursday 30 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities

User Andrey Malinin, Yandex Research.

Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Understanding regulatory systems and mechanisms of genetic interactions: from yeast to pediatric cancer

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Dr Patrick Kemmeren from Princess Maxima Center in Utrecht, Netherlands .

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Monday 20 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Driving and Mental Health

chair: Dr Jonathan Wood

User Dr Eliott King, DVLA Doctor .

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 16 July 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Virtual Zoom meeting.

Iteratively Reweighted FGMRES and FLSQR for sparse reconstruction

User Silvia Gazzola.

Wednesday 15 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom (contact mri.admin@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk for attendance details).

Faster than the speed of BOLD: what can we gain from ultra-fast multiband fMRI?

User Marta Correia ( MRC CBU).

Monday 13 July 2020, 12:30-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

User Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

Thursday 09 July 2020, 12:30-13:30

House https://meetingsemea10.webex.com/meet/sk818 .

Untangling the Web by tracking our trackers

User Nishanth Sastry.

Thursday 02 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychiatric presentations of coronaviruses: past and present

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

User Dr Jonathan Rogers, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Thursday 02 July 2020, 12:30-13:30

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session I

User Statistics Clinic team.

Wednesday 01 July 2020, 16:30-18:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yashar Ahmadian.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

Emergent Multi-Agent Communication: The story so far

User Agnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge).

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Anti-racist praxis in the digital age: Everyday Resistance against the Prison-Industrial Complex (PIC)

User Mayumi Sato.

House Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Anti-racist praxis in the digital age: Everyday Resistance against the Prison-Industrial Complex (PIC)

User Mayumi Sato.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

House https://meetingsemea10.webex.com/meet/sk818 .

Service-Aware Provisioning for Greener & Smarter Cellular Networks

User Li Rongpeng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

The Makings of Love: The Evolution of Non Monogamy

User Ezra Hampikian.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 25 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

User Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

House https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

Active Learning

User Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Remote, online teaching during the COVID-19 lockdown and beyond: the case of the Cambridge University Language Programme (CULP)

User Dr Nebojša Radić, Chair of the SAH Online Teaching Working Group, Director of CULP.

House Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 23 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Weighting Based Adversarial Approach to Fairness in Machine Learning

User Mladen Nikolić, University of Belgrade.

Tuesday 23 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

House Zoom (contact mri.admin@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk for attendance details).

Challenges of building clinical biomarkers from M/EEG: multimodal modeling with missing data and robust regression on power spectra

User Denis Engemann, Parietal, INRIA.

Monday 22 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

House https://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

Towards explainable fact checking

User Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

Friday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

[Online talk] - Iconic Plurals

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 18th of June, 12pm BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=tuYFO -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

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

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

House https://meetingsemea10.webex.com/meet/sk818 .

Battery-Free, Low-Cost Sensing with RFIDs

User Ju Wang, University of Waterloo.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

Scalable, rapid and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 using RT-LAMP for laboratory and home testing

User Max Kellner.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Symptoms of the Schizophrenia Treatment

chair: Dr HIsham Ziauddeen

User Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session III

User Statistics Clinic team.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Addressing Imbalance in Object Detection

User Dr Sinan Kalkan - Assoc. Prof Middle East Technical University and Visiting Researcher, Cambridge University.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Virtual Zoom meeting.

A nonparametric problem for stochastic PDEs

User Randolf Altmeyer.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

User Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand

User Professor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand..

House Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Parameterizing Causal Marginal Models'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

User Prof Robin Evans, University of Oxford.

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tuesday 16 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Living with the seasons – an exemplar of Circadian Design

User Professor Dean Hawkes, Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

House Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 16 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

House Zoom (contact mri.admin@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk for attendance details).

Reconsidering population inference from a prevalence perspective

User Robin Ince, University of Glasgow.

Monday 15 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

House Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83353655589?pwd=N0FSYjhBYmZpUytRbmE0c29xQnVhUT09.

Monitoring on a Shoestring / Comparing Agent-based Control Architectures For Next Generation Telecommunication Network Infrastructures

User Greg Hawkridge and Marco Perez Hernandez (IfM-DIAL, University of Cambridge).

Monday 15 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 12th June to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University .

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Monday 15 June 2020, 10:00-11:15

Sustainability, welfare and political change

User Professor Donald M.Broom (Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge).

House Zoom webinar.

Friday 12 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

CMIH seminar series

Methods for interactive medical imaging

User Dr. Bernhard Kainz.

House Online (Zoom) - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85694493939?pwd=SFdUeSt4U1phTFB2T2E3QTYrMmRaUT09 Meeting ID: 856 9449 3939 Password: 413q88Kb.

Friday 12 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

User Johannes Welbl (UCL).

Friday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

User Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

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

House Webex Meeting number: 140 388 203 Password: ZApmfTb7h56 https://meetingsemea10.webex.com/meetingsemea10/j.php?MTID=mf0c350ff1fab96540218f5767c51d098.

Building Enzian: a research computer

User Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Nonlinear resonance and excitability in interconnected systems

User Ilario Cirillo, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cell biology of hereditary spastic paraplegias

User Eliska Zlamalova.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Integrating physical and mental health care in children's services

chair: Prof Tamsin Ford

User Professor Isobel Heyman, Psychological Medicine Team, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

DIAL New Starters Seminar Series 4

User Jie, Manu, Zhengyang.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Thursday 11 June 2020, 11:00-12:00

Adversarial Explanations - You Shouldn't Trust Me: Learning Models Which Conceal Unfairness From Multiple Explanation Methods

User Botty Dimanov (University of Cambridge).

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Memory and Masculinity in the Work of Ocean Vuong

User Darryl Peers, Darwin College.

House Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Why can't I get rid of this belief?

User Dr Anabela Pinto.

Friday 05 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement

Topic: Zangwill Zoom Meeting _Brian Earp Time: Jun 5, 2020 04:00 PM London 4-430pm social with Brian pre-Zangwill 430 to 6pm Talk + discussion.

User Brian D. Earp, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford..

Friday 05 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

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

User Dr Alexandra Perovic (UCL).

Thursday 04 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Webex Meeting number: 140 388 203 Password: ZApmfTb7h56 https://meetingsemea10.webex.com/meetingsemea10/j.php?MTID=mf0c350ff1fab96540218f5767c51d098.

Latency-driven Performance in Data Centres

User Diana Popescu, Computer Lab.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department.

System Identification of Neuronal Behaviors

User Thiago Burghi, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

[Online talk] - Monosyllabic Salience in Cantonese: Facilitation of transference of monosyllabic English words (MEWs) into Hong Kong Cantonese-English mixed code

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 4th of June, 10am BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=NLNKu -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

User Prof David Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

The Truth about Suicide: the effect the death of a patient by suicide has on the clinician

chair: Dr Judy Rubinsztein

User Dr Rachel Gibbons, Director of Therapies for the Priory Group.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session II

User Statistics Clinic team.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.

User Professor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus..

House Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department).

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Developing a Concept-Oriented Search Engine for Isabelle Based on Natural Language : Technical Challenges

User Yiannos Stathopoulos and Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki.

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Diving into the Black Atlantic: Reappropriating Water as a Racialized Space

User Jeff Gu, Musicology.

House Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

User Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

House Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

“Focus on the Individual; The importance of chromosome-specific biology in generating aneuploidy patterns in cancer”

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London .

Monday 01 June 2020, 13:00-14:15

House Zoom (contact mri.admin@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk for attendance details).

Multi-channel MEG measurements with a wearable OPM system

User Elena Boto, University of Nottingham.

Monday 01 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Working in research through the COVID-19 crisis

User Professor Gordon Dougan (Department of Medicine, Univeristy of Cambridge).

Friday 29 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

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

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

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery

User Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

Friday 29 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

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

Rescheduled

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

Friday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

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

User Prof Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

House TBC.

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

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

User Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

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

House Webex Meeting number: 140 388 203 Password: ZApmfTb7h56 https://meetingsemea10.webex.com/meetingsemea10/j.php?MTID=mf0c350ff1fab96540218f5767c51d098.

All for One and One for All: Decoupling IP in the Connection from the Endhost Communication.

User Marwan Fayed, Cloudflare Research.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department..

On feedback control of switches and oscillators based on dominance theory

User Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Integration Strategies for Ultra Low Power Flexible Electronics

User Professor Arokia Nathan.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:10-14:00

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Graham Murray

User Professor Jonathan Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

User Professor Phil Baran, Scripps Research.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Graph Representation Learning under Uncertainty (WIP)

User Catalina Cangea and Ben Day (University of Cambridge).

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

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

If we build it, will they come? The role of amenities in attracting migrants to Chinese cities

User Evelyn Fok.

House Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 13:15-14:00

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning

User Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California.

Friday 22 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

We will have a Tea and coffee informal gathering from 1pm to 1.30pm and the talk will start at 130.pm followed by questions and discussion at 230pm.

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

Friday 22 May 2020, 13:30-14:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

Postponed due to COVID-19

User Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

House Department of Engineering - LT1.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

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

User Dr Marijke De Belder (Oldenburg University).

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

House Webex Meeting number: 140 388 203 Password: ZApmfTb7h56 https://meetingsemea10.webex.com/meetingsemea10/j.php?MTID=mf0c350ff1fab96540218f5767c51d098.

Spatio-Temporal Data Collection and Analysis for Developing Transport related Services

User Rohit Verma (Computer Lab).

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department..

Geometric Thinking in Engineering and Applied Sciences

User Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

chair: Prof Tim Dalgleish

User Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Virtual Seminar: “Delayed-acceptance Sequential Monte Carlo”

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

User Joshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 10:00-11:00

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session I

User Statistics Clinic team.

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Wheeler Lecture 2020: The Future of Microprocessors

User Dr Sophie Wilson.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 14:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Temporal Pointwise Convolutional Networks for Length of Stay Prediction in the Intensive Care Unit

User Emma Rocheteau (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

CSAR online webinar. Science-led Policy: From Global Pandemics to Climate Change

User Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

How to Breed Better Politicians

User Dr Joel Peck (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

House Zoom webinar.

Friday 15 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions

User Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University.

Friday 15 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

User Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Tradeoffs in biological optimisation

User Dhruva Raman, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Virtual Zoom meeting.

Path to Perceptual Realism

User Fangcheng Zhong (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Role of Inflammation in Depression: exciting therapeutic opportunity or fake news?

chair: Dr Graham Murray

User Dr Golam Khandaker, Lead, Inflammation and Psychiatry Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 14 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Sharing the blame for the Great Depression: The Federal Advisory Council, 1918-36.

User Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, Judge Business School.

Monday 11 May 2020, 17:00-18:30

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Neyman-Pearson Classification

User Xin Tong, University of Southern California.

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

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

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

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

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

User Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Webex Meeting number: 140 388 203 Password: ZApmfTb7h56.

HovercRaft: Achieving Scalability and Fault-tolerance for microsecond-scale Datacenter Services

User Marios Kogias.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Title to be confirmed

Postponed due to COVID-19

User Prof Mustafa Khammash.

House Department of Engineering - LT1.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Hierarchical Robust Performance Analysis of Uncertain Large Scale Systems

User Khaled Laib, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

User Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

House https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

Best of ICLR 2020

User (University of Cambridge).

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

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

CSAR online webinar. Dieselgate: The Inside Story

User John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

User Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute in London.

Monday 04 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98898559684?pwd=MTZ2Q1dvUUZucDdwUXZVVUp1VjhsQT09 Meeting ID: 988 9855 9684 Password: likelihood.

Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance

User Hyunseung Kang, University of Wisconsin.

Friday 01 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt.

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

Online Seminar

User Danielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Dr Job Schepens (TU Dortmund).

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

User Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

End-to-End Congestion Control via Endpoint-Centric, Wireless Physical-Layer Capacity Measurements

User Kyle Jamieson (Princeton).

House Webex.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 15:00-16:00

House https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

Differentiable Planning

User Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. From Medicine to Hamburgers. Cell and tissue culture applied to sustainable production of food meat.

User Professor Mark Post, Maastricht University..

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 27 April 2020, 19:30-21:00

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

User Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

User Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Talk will be postponed

User Dr Anabela Pinto.

Friday 24 April 2020, 17:45-19:00

House Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96976140978 Meeting ID: 969 7614 0978 Password: likelihood.

Langevin Monte Carlo for Degenerately Convex Potentials

User Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto.

Friday 24 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

House English Faculty Building, ground floor, GR06/07.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence of variability

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

User Prof Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent).

Thursday 23 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

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

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

House https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq.

Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning

User Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

CANCELLED: Girls and women on the autism spectrum

User Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Title to be confirmed

User Shruti Tople (MSR).

Thursday 16 April 2020, 15:00-16:00

Virtual Seminar: “Including expert knowledge in genomic selection through intuitive tree-based joint priors”

User Ingeborg Hem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Thursday 16 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

Strategic Classification

User Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

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

House https://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

Machine Learning on Sets

User (University of Cambridge).

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

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Tuesday 07 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Blind, Naked, and Feeling No Pain: The Neurobiology of the Naked Mole-Ra

User Prof. Thomas Park, UIC.

House Thomas Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Biochemistry (Sanger).

Friday 03 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

House English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

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

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

User Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

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

Statistics Clinic - Skype session

User Statistics Clinic team.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing Flows

User Vincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

User Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

Monday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Cryo-EM structures of patient-derived alpha-synuclein fibrils - CANCELLED

User Manuel Schweighauser - LMB.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - Easter Vacation: CANCELLED

User CANCELLED.

House CANCELLED.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

CANCELLED: CATCh-uS as we fall: transition between child and adult services for young people with ADHD

User Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Infectious diseases in Africa

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

User Professor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge).

Friday 20 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

Meeting has been cancelled

User Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEM

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and Wolfson Explores ✱BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

User Professor Jane Clarke (FRS, President of Wolfson College).

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

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

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

User Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

World Models

User Dr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology- CANCELLED

User Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University .

Monday 16 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - Frontiers for Life in Antarctica

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festivaand and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

User Professor Lloyd Peck.

Friday 13 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

User Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges

User Juniper Hill, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

3D Genomics in development and disease

User Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Predictive oscillations in speech perception

User Matt Davis (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Systematic Rateless Coding for Efficient Data Transport in Data Centres

User Mohammed Alasmar (University of Sussex).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

User Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Cancelled: I know what you don't know: egophoricity and Jejuan morphosyntax

User Dr Soung-u Kim (SOAS, University of London).

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 17:00-18:00

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

User Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

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

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Nick Mackintosh Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

User Dr David Stillwell.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Exploiting neural nonlinearity and temporal smoothing to measure the brain’s response to electrical stimulation

User Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Federated Learning

User Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sounds of Space

User Nigel Meredith.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

User Professor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Xizi Li (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning evolving node and community representations on dynamic graphs

User Simeon Spasov.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

English Royal Representation in Colonial Contexts

User Joanna Smith.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Let food be thy medicine.

User Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

User Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

User James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

User Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU).

Monday 09 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

CANCELLED

User J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI

User David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.

Monday 09 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Visual Exploration of Longitudinal Oncology Data - CANCELLED

User Professor Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School .

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Monday 09 March 2020, 10:00-11:00

The only ways is upstream — The NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urge need for systems change

all are welcome! This event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society and the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows.

User Prof Martin White, MD FFPH.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

Network change point detection

User Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

User Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

User Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Translating basic science on autobiographical memory to improved clinical practice

User Caitlin Hitchcock (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Owl: OCaml Scientific and Engineering Computing

User Jianxin Zhao (Computer Lab).

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

A Quest for the Perfect Picture: Challenges and Research Opportunities

User Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 14:15-15:00

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

User Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

chair: Prof Tamsin Ford

User Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play

User wellman@umich.edu.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

User Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

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

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

User Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory - the history of star formation in the Universe

User Stephen Eales.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

User Professor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

“Squeezing the most out of ridge”

User Professor Mark van de Wiel, Amsterdam University Medical Center.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep Graph Mapper: Seeing Graphs through the Neural Lens

User Cristian Bodnar and Cătălina Cangea.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

A New Approach to Campbell's Experimental Designs: From Research Designs to Design Elements

User Jo Chih Soh.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

User Matthew Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU).

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

CANCELLED

User Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Electronics on the Brain

User George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

User Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

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

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

User Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

User Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

User Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

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

Mechanisms in non-native speech perception

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

User Dr Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris).

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

User Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

User Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Trip Report - CCC

User Richard Mortier (Computer Lab).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

An overview of Research and Robotics at Google Deepmind

User Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Motivational profiles of simultaneous language learners: A latent profile analysis of English major students in China

User Meng Liu, PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

House Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MMLL, Sidgwick Site, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Opening the Pandora Box of the “E” in EMI: A quest for standardization, ELF, or something more?

User Sin-Yi Chang, PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

House Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MMLL, Sidgwick Site, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Distributed distributional codes for learning successor features in partially observable environments

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Eszter Vértes, Gatsby Unit, University College London.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

User Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

User Dr. Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

User Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

User Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp

User Professor Sir Michael Edwards OBE.

House Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

User Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

User Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

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

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach

User Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes

User Sarah Bosman.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Like the Back of Your Hand

User Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted?

User Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Geographies of Sexual Risk: Rethinking the Ontology of Migration through a Case Study of Epidemiological Research

User Arthur Davis.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks - Combining ML and Reasoning

User James Fletcher, Haikal Pribadi (Grakn).

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

User Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

Computational Psychiatry of Autism

User Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Monday 24 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

User Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

User Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

User James Kent.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

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

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

User Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

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

The use of multi-parametric maps (MPMs) in ageing research

User Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Shaping Recommendations in a Marketplace via User & Content Understanding

User Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

House FW11 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Pre-processing of HDR video in the YCbCr color space, luma and chroma adjustment

User Jacob Strom, Ericsson Research.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Exploiting Sparsity in Semidefinite and Sum of Squares Programming

User Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

The living dead: cellular functions of pseudoenzymes

User Iain Hay, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

House Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

(Nobel Laureate Lecture - CUAS & CUPS Joint Talk): The Exoplanet Revolution

User Prof. Didier Queloz.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic narrative techniques and their areal parallels (Kurdish and Arabic)

User Prof Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University, Sweden).

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

User Antonia Ruppel (Oxford).

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

Soft Aerial Robotics for Digital Infrastructure Systems

User Dr Mirko Kovac - Director, Aerial Robotics Laboratory, Imperial College.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

The Cycle of Statistical Research

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Computer Science and technology, Lecture Theatre 2.

Soft Aerial Robotics for Digital Infrastructure Systems

User Mirko Kovac, Imperial College.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Cryo-EM structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils

User Janin Lautenschläger.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Green Custard Ltd: Innovating at pace in IoT

Food provided

User Zoltan Molnar and Gavin Dolling .

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Kernel Mean Embeddings

User Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

User Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

House James Dyson Building, Seminar Room.

Development of sensors for soft material structures

User Frank Clemens, EMPA, Switzerland.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Want to stop fake news? Become a fake news tycoon!

User Jon Roozenbeek.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Some ideas on neural network modulation

User Ben Day (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

House GS15, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

User Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

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

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

Consciousness

User Tristan Bekinschtein, (Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

User Chris Manias (King's College London).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

User Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Monday 17 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

"Why are so many hearing aids sitting in a drawer?"

User Prof Brian Moore, PFBSA, FMedSci, FRS, Dr. h.c..

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

User Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

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

Science Visualisation

User Jason Riley.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The mechanical regulation of brain development

User Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

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

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

User Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

User Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Intellectual Debt and the Death of the Programmer

User Prof Neil Lawrence.

House Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading Comprehension

User Max Bartolo (UCL).

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

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

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

User Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Securing IoT with Azure Sphere

User James Scott (MSR).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data links

User Michael Cantoni, University of Melbourne.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Brain organoids to study development and function

User Dr Laura Pellegrini, Division of Cell Biology, MRC-LMB.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

User Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing

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

User Rafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

User Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Class, Control and Classical music: Musical practices and white middle-class identities among young people in the south of England

User Dr Anna Bull, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

tea served from 4.15

User Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

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

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

User Dr. Claudia Schneider.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Climate, Carbon, and Computer Science

User Professor Keshav - Robert Sansom Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Computer-aided worst-case analyses and design of first-order methods for convex optimization

User Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

User Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Neural Tangent Kernel

User Adria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past

User Gareth Collins.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Natural Language Processing for Health

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

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

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

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

User Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

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

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

User Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

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

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

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Wayne Soo (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

KRAB zinc fingers, transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulatory networks

User Michael Imbeault (Department of Genetics, Cambridge Univ).

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

User Dr Frédéric-Guillaume Schneider.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Machine learning for network inference

User Ljupco Todorovski (University of Ljubljana).

House LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding, West Cambridge site.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Sankie: Using Data to Build Better Systems and Services

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Microsoft Research-India.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

User Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

User Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Where does value come from?

Host: Wolfram Schultz

User Chris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Monday 10 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

How to write good papers

User Michael Anderson (MRC CBU).

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Stepping up climate change mitigation

User Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

User Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

User Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

User Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

User Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

User Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

The SPHERE project

User Ian Craddock (University of Bristol).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports

User Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

User Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

User Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability

User Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Understanding and exploiting self-assembly in liquid crystals on multiple length scales

User Dr Mamatha Nagaraj, University of Leeds Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Machine Learning at the Extreme Edge - an Open Platform Approach

User Prof. Dr. Luca Benini, ETH Zürich.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

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

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

User Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO

User Nicholas Walton.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

User Professor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

"Whatever they (weigh) will be given to him in plenty”: Commemorative Objects as Expression of Mercantile Religious Identities in the Ancient Near East

User Dr Nancy Highcock.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality

User Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College).

House LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population

User Professor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Study of sensory "prior distributions" in rodent models of working memory and decision making

Host: Mate Lengyel

User Athina Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

Monday 03 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

How to make good scientific figures

User Matthew Davis (MRC CBU).

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

What can we see on a high-dynamic range display?

User Minjung Kim (University of Cambridge).

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

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

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

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

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

User Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning

User Dr Chandrima Ganguly .

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Machine Learning Meetup

User Marc Brockschmidt (MSR Cambridge) and Vincent Dutordoir (Prowler).

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

User Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

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

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

User Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

User Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

Conveying quantity pragmatically

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

User Dr Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

User Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Controlling time in networking: from delay-tolerant networking to low-latency networking

User Kyunghan Lee (UNIST).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

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

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

User Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression

User Thomas Schön, Uppsala University.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

User Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

User Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications

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

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

User Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Engineering Safe AI

Engineering Safe AI: Robert Miles

User Robert Miles.

House Pavillion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 2EW.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:00-20:30

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

User Nicholas Zair, Cambridge.

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

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

User Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

User Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Voice processing in autism

User Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space

User Dave Wealthy.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

User Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Topics in Political Philosophy: Luck Egalitarianism & Comparative Fairness

User Ben Jooste-Jennings.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Flexible deep learning for heterogeneous clinical time series

User Jacob Deasy.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

User Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

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

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

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

User Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

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

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits

Host: Sue Jones

User Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience.

Monday 27 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

User John Duncan (MRC CBU).

Monday 27 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

User Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Design Partnership - Think Small: Embedded Software FTW!

Food provided

User Jason Mashinchi, Graduate Software Engineer and Tom Vajzovic, Consultant Software Engineer.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology

User Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania.

Monday 27 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

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

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

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

User Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

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

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

User Zack Lipton, CMU.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

User Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

User Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional Network-Informed Approach

User Anna Maria Mandalari (Imperial College).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Predicting visible flicker in temporally changing images

User Gyorgy Denes, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Networks of Nonsmooth Oscillators & Applications in Neuroscience

User Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

User Mira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

User André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf website.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back Propagation

User Uwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

House GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

User Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

A fusion power plant — why not

User Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Digital Modeling of Reality with Machine Learning

User Dr Cengiz Oztireli, Graphics Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 15:05-15:55

Optiver: Machine learning in trading: Let’s build a quantitative trading strategy

Food provided

User Dennis Fleurbaaij.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

User Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars

User Sanjeev Gupta.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Eye gaze controlled interface design for automotive, aviation and assistive products

User Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science.

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:15-15:00

Tourist taxation and heritage cities

User Dr Guo Ji.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Abstract Diagrammatic Reasoning with Multiplex Graph Networks

User Duo Wang.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Self-Programming Networks: Applications to Financial Trading Systems

User Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford).

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

User Rogier Kievit (MRC CBU).

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org

Food provided

User Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead.

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

User Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Issues in Interpreting Cluster-Based Permutation Tests

User Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt.

Monday 20 January 2020, 12:30-14:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

User Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

CMIH seminar series

Mathematics can make my medical imaging faster and prettier – but should it?

User Mary McLean.

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

House Lecture Theatre 1, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Digital Twins to improve Maintenance and Operations of Buildings

User Professor Mohsen A. Jafari, Rutgers University.

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:30-14:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence

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

User Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

User Rory Waite (Emotif.ai).

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding

User Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs?

User Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison).

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

XOX Fabric: A hybrid approach to blockchain transaction execution

User Christian Gorenflo (University of Waterloo).

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

House JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

On the Stability and the Uniform Propagation of Chaos Properties of Ensemble Kalman-Bucy Filters

User Prof Pierre Del Moral, INRIA.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

From gut to brain: An alpha-synuclein Parkinson’s model

User Katrina Räty (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Global Methane, Project MOYA, and the UK’s Net Zero target

User Prof. Euan Nisbet, Professor of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian

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

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

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

Correlations Between Word Vector Sets

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

User Aleksandar Savkov, Babylon.

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

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Globalizing music education and the international music education community

User Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany.

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

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Neurocomputational basis of social learning and decision-making

User Dr. Patricia Lockwood, MRC Fellow, Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Functional preferences of domain-general brain regions during executive function tasks

User Moataz Assem (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Torp Jensen.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

User Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Geometrical Perspective on Deep Neural Networks

User Stanislav Fort (Stanford University; formerly Google Research).

House LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 13 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making

User Chand Chandrasekaran (Boston University).

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Dynamic Compilation and Optimization of Software Network Functions

User Sebastiano Miano(Politecnico di Torino).

Thursday 12 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Cryo-EM structures of Aß amyloid fibrils

User Veronica Kane Dickson (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 12 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis

chair: Dr Nikolett Kabacs

User Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Moonshot Thinking to Unleash Innovation, Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha: MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - Christmas Vacation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

User Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

User Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

MARLeME: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Model Extraction Library

User Dmitry Kazhdan.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

House St John's College Lightfoot Room.

Blood is thicker than water

User Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Monday 09 December 2019, 18:30-20:00

House LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Reliability function near the zero error capacity

User Dr Marco Dalai, University of Brescia.

Monday 09 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

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

Resting-State fMRI Pre-processing and Denoising

User Joff Jones and Rik Henson, MRC CBU; Vasilis Karlaftis, Department of Psychology.

Monday 09 December 2019, 12:30-14:00

House Seminar Room 3, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

DIAL New Starters Seminar Series 3

User Lavindra, Greg, Thiago.

Monday 09 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?

User Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

House James Dyson Building, Teaching Room, main Engineering site.

Neuroevolutionary approaches to generating increasingly intelligent behaviours in virtual creatures / (simulated) robots

User Alastair Channon, University of Keele.

Friday 06 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Long Form Question Answering

User Angela Fan (Facebook).

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

House English Faculty Building, TBC.

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

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

User Danielle Turton (Lancaster University).

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps

User Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

FastFabric: Scaling Hyperledger Fabric to 20,000 Transactions per Second

User Srinivasan Keshav (Computer Lab).

Thursday 05 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (Dyson Centre Department of Engineering).

Information and Decision-Making

User Prof Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire).

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:30-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR 12.

Sliding Modes for Estimation: theory and practice

User Sarah Spurgeon, University College London.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

User Anna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

Food for health - food for thought

chair: Dr Graham Murray

User Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge..

House West Forvie Building Seminar Room, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Decoding the mysteries of quantum physics

User Professor Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 19:30-20:30

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Collaborative Analytics and Education in Data Science

User Martin Spott (HTW Berlin).

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

House LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Lie Group Machine Learning and Natural Gradient from Information Geometry

User Dr Frederic Barbaresco, THALES Land and Air Systems.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Scalable Gaussian Processes

User David Burt, Andrew Foong.

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

CMIH seminar series

Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: Where Does It Stand and Where Is It Going?

User Ronald M. Summers, MD, PhD, FSAR, FAIMBE.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

The Mobile Computing Platform after Smartphones - Prof Romit Roy Choudhury: MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Prof Romit Roy Choudhury, UIUC.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 10:00-11:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Polluted White Dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets

User Laura Rogers.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

User Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Adriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

House LR11, Department of Engineering.

Gradient-based Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo

User Dr Michalis Titsias, DeepMind.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Work in progress: Diving deeper into building distributed representations graphs

User Paul Scherer.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Public perceptions of genetic research and autism

User Deborah Oakley.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale

User Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France.

Monday 02 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Data Science: From System Identification to (Deep) Learning and Big Data

User Lennart Ljung, Linköping University.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

How to give good talks

User Tom Manly.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

House Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.

User Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!

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

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

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

User Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

CANCELLED: Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

User Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Biologically realistic mean-field models of neuronal populations

User Alain Destexhe, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France..

Thursday 28 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain

User Anthony Wagner (Stanford University).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Context in Robots

User Sinan Kalkan.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:15-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

On Nucleic Acid Feedback Controllers

User Nuno Paulino, University of Warwick.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Sexual Health, Risk and Migration: Challenging exclusionary constructions of migrant men who have sex with men

User Arthur Davis - Centre for Gender Studies.

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Building with DNA: From understanding to redesign of molecular machines

User Professor Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

User Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

User Joseph Marks.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Probabilistic Programming

User Hong Ge and John Bronskill.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

AI, Data Science & Mechanism Design in Sub-Saharan Africa

User Daniel Mutembesa (Makerere University).

House LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths

User Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Can the face predict the brain? The association between facial morphology and autism spectrum disorder

User Dr Diana Tan, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

User James Kent.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Mathematics vs Dementia

User Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

User Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

US Cybersecurity in International Relations: the manifold renderings of security

User Alex Grigor.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Model extraction for clinical decision support systems

User Zohreh Shams.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

User Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00