Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Global well-posedness of the stochastic Abelian-Higgs equations in two dimensions.

Bjoern Bringmann (Princeton University).

MR13.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

High-arity PAC learning

Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago).

MR13, CMS.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Sample completion, Netflix Prize Competition and k-dependence

Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago).

MR13, CMS.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

High-arity learning frameworks, an overview

Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago).

MR13, CMS.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism through the lens of Otto Warburg

Prof Christian Frezza CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

Online only via Zoom.

Thursday 08 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How does gradient descent work?

Jeremy Cohen (Flatiron).

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

Prof Rahul Roychoudhuri, Dept of Pathology.

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

Thursday 11 December 2025, 09:30-10:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Cluster varieties and mirror symmetry for toric del Pezzo surfaces

Inés Chung-Halpern (Imperial/LSGNT).

MR13.

Friday 05 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Integrating Formal and Informal Reasoning

Chase Norman (Carnegie Mellon University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Large Sum-free sets via L^1-estimates

Benjamin Bedert (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Testing and Verification for Quantum Learning

Matthias Caro, Warwick.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR3.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 14:15-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

Professor Sir Steve Jackson, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Seminar Rooms 1+2 School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Information Constraints in Human Decision-Making: From Theory to Computation

Dr Stefan Bucher, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Quadratic Chabauty for Atkin-Lehner quotients of modular curves via weakly holomorphic modular forms.

Isabel Rendell (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Stochastic heat equation and directed polymers in dimension d=2

Quentin Berger (Paris 13).

MR12.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Tiny & Gigantic Neural Networks

Puria Radmard; Nicolas Anguita.

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Fine-tuning foundation models of materials interatomic potentials with frozen transfer learning

Mariia Radova, University of Warwick, UK.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 01 December 2025, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Thermal Conductivity of Complex Materials from Atomistic Simulations

Prof. Davide Donadio, UC Davis, USA.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 01 December 2025, 14:00-14:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Morse theory and rigidity for the Monge—Ampère equation

Andrè Guerra (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

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

CQIF Seminar

Locality, non-locality and relativized observables in QFT

Professor Kasia Rejzner (University of York).

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR3.

Monday 01 December 2025, 14:00-15:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Tropical curves and the balancing condition

Emily Dodwell (Cambridge).

MR13.

Friday 28 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Valid F-screening in linear regression

Daniela Witten (University of Washington).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Combining Two Representations of Matrices for a Formalization of the Perron-Frobenius Theorem

René Thiemann (University of Innsbruck).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The Multicolour Size Ramsey Number of a Path

Csongor Beke (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology & Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

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

Thursday 27 November 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

City House, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1RY.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

On the Lie algebra structure of derivations on finite group algebras

Markus Linckelmann, City St. Georges London.

MR12.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 16:30-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Moduli of Representations of Quivers with Multiplicities

Joshua Jackson, Cambridge/St John's.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Optimal Quantization for Matrix Multiplication

Or Ordentlich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Polynomial bounds for Chowla's cosine problem

Benjamin Bedert (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Inference: An Algorithm-Centric Perspective

Kyurae Kim (University of Pennsylvania).

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

Tensor product functoriality for self-dual GL(2) x GL(n)

Zachary Feng (University of Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Spectral laws of sparse iid matrices

Julian Sahasrabudhe (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

VIKING: Deep variational inference with stochastic projections

Note unusual room

Samuel Fadel (Technical University of Denmark).

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Search for superconducting ternary hydrides at moderate and low pressures with EDDP

Dr Maelie Causse, University of Cambridge, UK.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 24 November 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Mean curvature flows of higher codimension

Stephen Lynch (King's College London).

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

Monday 24 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Teaching oxidation states to neural networks

Dr Cristiano Malica, University of Bremen, Germany.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 24 November 2025, 14:00-14:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Deformation Theory and Nilpotent Algebras

Sofía Marlasca Aparicio, University of Oxford.

MR13.

Friday 21 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

On the sample complexity of multi-objective learning

Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Topological and  Algebraic Aspects of Virtual Artin Groups

Federica Gavazzi, Heriot-Watt.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 21 November 2025, 13:45-14:45

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Human oriented tools for theorem proving in Lean

Jovan Gerbsheid (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Euclidean Ramsey sets and the block sets conjecture

Maria Ivan (Stanford).

MR12.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Machine learning theory

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

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

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Hypoxia, HIFs and cancer

Prof Margaret Ashcroft, Department of Medicine .

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

Thursday 20 November 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Symplectic groups and Cobordism categories

Fabian Hebestreit (Bielefeld).

MR13.

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

A Hopf index for isotropic sections of bundles with quadratic forms

Richard Thomas, Imperial College London..

MR13.

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Operators for Scientific Simulation

Luca Ghafourpour (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Introducing BoltzGen: Toward Universal Binder Design

This talk is only in presence

Hannes Stärk, PhD student at MIT.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Unirationality of conic bundles over finite fields

Elyes Boughattas (University of Rennes 1).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

The Markov property for \varphi^4_3 on cylinders

Trishen Gunaratnam (TIFR Mumbai and ICTS Bangalore).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Lazy-rich learning

Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Lazy-rich learning

Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Phonon Screening of Excitons in Semiconductors and Insulators

Prof. Marina Filip, University of Oxford, UK.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 17 November 2025, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Insights into the activity and stability of bimetallic catalysts

Prof. Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 17 November 2025, 14:00-14:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Formation of Multiple Black Holes from Cauchy Data

Jingbo Wan (Sorbonne University).

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

Monday 17 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

The Langlands Program, Motives, and l-independence

Suvir Rathore, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

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

Statistics

Statistical guarantees for neural operator surrogates

Sven Wang (EPFL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Spectral gaps for stable commutator length via angle structures

Alexis Marchand, IMPAN.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 14 November 2025, 13:45-14:45

Combinatorics Seminar

The Ramsey numbers R(3,k)

Matthew Jenssen (King's College London).

MR12.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

The Ramsey numbers R(3,k)

Matthew Jenssen (King's College London).

MR12.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Identification: Variations on a Classic Theme in Quantum Information

Pau Colomer and Johannes Rosenberger.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 14:15-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 13 November 2025, 09:30-10:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Analogue of the Galois Theory for normal fields and B-extensions (characteristic free approach)

Vladimir Bavula, University of Sheffield.

MR12.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 16:30-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On proper splinters in positive characteristic

Charles Vial, Universität Bielefeld.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Reinforcement Learning

Yuxin Chen, University of Pennsylvania.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Primes of the form p^2 + nq^2

Note: This talk will unusually take place on a Tuesday.

Mehtaab Sawhney (Columbia University).

MR2, CMS.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Cohomology of p-adic Chevalley groups

Andrea Dotto (King's College London).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Spectral gaps of random hyperbolic surfaces

Will Hide (Oxford).

MR12.

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

Machine learning theory

To Intrinsic Dimension and Beyond: Efficient Sampling in Diffusion Models

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural basis of decision making

Guillaume Hennequin ( University of Cambridge); Robert Crossen.

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Title to be confirmed

Dr Iryna Zaporozhets, Free University Berlin, Germany.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 10 November 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Minimizing the area of the Gauss map of surfaces in S3

Gerard Orriols, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI..

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Uncovering Fluctuations in Water through Data-Driven Chemical Physics

Prof. Ali Hassanali, ICTP, Italy.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 10 November 2025, 14:00-14:30

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

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

Prof. Andrew Thangaraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 07 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

The manifold hypothesis in science & AI

Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Linearity criteria for automorphism groups of hyperbolic groups

Mark Pengitore, IMPAN.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 07 November 2025, 13:45-14:45

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Lambda-Superposition for Successful Hammering

Jasmin Blanchette (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Powers of 2 in high-dimensional lattice walks

Nikolai Beluhov (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Powers of 2 in high-dimensional lattice walks

Nikolai Beluhov (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

A framework for spin-adapted quantum chemistry on quantum computers

Nathan Fitzpatrick, Quantinuum.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Potter Room.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:15-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 2: cell biology

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 06 November 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Set Theory Seminar

The Axiom of Extendable Choice

Part of STUK 17: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dbl25/STUK/17/

Calliope Ryan-Smith.

Bevin Room, Churchill College.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 15:10-16:10

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

It’s supported on P1, how complicated could it be?

Parth Shimpi, University of Glasgow.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Zero-Error Communications over Modulo-Additive Noise Channels with Assistance

Prof. Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zurich.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Set Theory Seminar

On the Quantifier Depth of Logical Formulas to Canonise Graphs

Part of STUK 17: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dbl25/STUK/17/

Sandra Kiefer (Exeter College, Oxford).

Bevin Room, Churchill College.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 13:40-14:40

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Spectral expansion in random regular graphs

Ewan Cassidy (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 13:30-14:30

Set Theory Seminar

The equivalence of real determinacy and real Blackwell determinacy

Part of STUK 17: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dbl25/STUK/17/

Daisuke Ikegami (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China).

Bevin Room, Churchill College.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML

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

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

Derived Hecke action for weight one modular forms via classicality

Gyujin Oh (Columbia University).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Games on trees

Omer Angel (UBC).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Mapping Synthetic Accessibility in Inorganic Materials Discovery

Matthew McDermott, Newfound Materials, USA.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 03 November 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Vortex layer cascades and finite time singularities for incompressible fluids

Diego Cordoba, ICMAT.

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

Monday 03 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Models for atomistic simulations: beyond interatomic potentials

Filippo Bigi, EPFL, Switzerland.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 03 November 2025, 14:00-14:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Cohomology of Toric varieties

Sae Koyama (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

Friday 31 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks

Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

A Lean Tactic to Automatically Generalize Proofs

Anshula Gandhi (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 30 October 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Modular Graph Colourings

Gaia Carenini (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Modular Graph Colourings

Gaia Carenini (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 1: genes and genetic instability

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 30 October 2025, 09:30-10:30

Computational Neuroscience

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

Kabir Dabholkar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Polarizations and torsors of abelian varieties

Jef Laga, Cambridge/St John's College.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Language Models

Julianna Piskorz (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

On Ihara's lemma for definite unitary groups

Xiangqian Yang (Peking University).

MR13.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Mixing time of random walk on the small-world network

Andjela Sarkovic (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

NOTE unusual place (FW11)

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

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Complex Wetting and Interfacial Flow Dynamics

Prof Halim Kusumaatmaja, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Lecture Theatre 5, Department of Engineering; https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 27 October 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Rigidity in the Ginzburg–Landau equation from S2 to S2

Matilde Gianocca, ETH.

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

Monday 27 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Accurate and Efficient Strategies for Simulating 2D Electronic Spectroscopy in the Condensed Phase

Joseph Kelly, Standford University, USA.

Lecture Theatre 5, Department of Engineering; https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 27 October 2025, 14:00-14:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Regularity of Minimal Surfaces

Sidney Stanbury, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 24 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Universal Copulas

Gery Geenens (University of New South Wales).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

The Cohen-Lyndon property, coherence, and immersions

Macarena Arenas (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 24 October 2025, 13:45-14:45

CQIF Seminar

Experimental relativistic zero-knowledge proofs

Claude Crepeau (ÉTS / Inria).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Room TBD.

Friday 24 October 2025, 12:30-13:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Lonely runners and their spectra

Noah Kravitz (Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Lonely runners and their spectra

Noah Kravitz (Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour pathology, structure and nomenclature

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 23 October 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 II

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Geometry and Topology colloquium

An exotic Dehn twist after two stabilizations

Sungkyung Kang (Cambridge).

MR13.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Post-critically finite maps

Thomas Gauthier, Université Paris-Saclay.

MR13.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

De Bruijn's identity and stability in the Entropy Power Inequality without finite variance

Dr Lampros Gavalakis, DPMMS, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

An exponential upper bound on induced Ramsey numbers

Marcelo Campos (IMPA).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Stochastic Interpolants

Professor Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato and Fran Castro.

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

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Refined invariants in tropical geometry

Uriel Sinichkin, Tel Aviv University.

CMS MR14.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 15:15-16:15

Number Theory Seminar

Nonexistence of quadratic points on del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4 over global function fields

Katerina Santicola (University of Bath).

MR13.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Capacity for branching random walks and percolation

Perla Sousi (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Thalamocortical Interactions for Flexible Cognition

Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

NOTE unusual place (LT1)

William Marino (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

On the linear stability of the Kerr solution to gravitational perturbations

Gabriele Benomio, GSSI.

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

Monday 20 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Word Measures and Profinite Rigidity

Liam Hanany, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

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

Statistics

On uncertainty quantification for nonparametric multivariate Hawkes processes

Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Generation-2 proof of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups.

Inna Capdeboscq, Warwick.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 17 October 2025, 13:45-14:45

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Using interactive theorem provers in physics

Joseph Tooby-Smith (University of Bath).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

A resolution of the Aharoni--Korman conjecture

Lawrence Hollom (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A resolution of the Aharoni--Korman conjecture

Lawrence Hollom (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Tutte polynomials of graphs and symplectic duality

Ben Davison, University of Edinburgh.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Statistical Signal Processing for Quantum Error Mitigation

Prof. Dror Baron, North Carolina State University.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Higher Hida theory and a Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for ordinary p-adic Hilbert modular forms

George Boxer (Imperial College London).

MR13.

Tuesday 14 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

On large clusters for the Gaussian free field

Pierre-François Rodriguez (Statslab).

MR12.

Tuesday 14 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Understanding biomolecular condensates across scales from computer simulations

Dr Pin Yu Chew, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 13 October 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

On admissibility criteria for the compressible Euler equations

Simon Markfelder.

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Beyond-quasiparticles spectral functions and transport from electron-phonon coupling

Jae-Mo Lihm, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

An introduction to quantum cohomology

Jingxiang Ma, University of Sheffield.

MR13.

Friday 10 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Geometric extremal graphical models

Jennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

The Road to Formalising 8-Dimensional Sphere Packing in Lean

Sidharth Hariharan (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 09 October 2025, 17:00-18:00

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia

Uniformity in arithmetic dynamics

Holly Krieger (Cambridge) .

CMS MR2.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 19:15-21:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Aspects of the long-time behavior of ideal fluids

Tarek Elgindi, Duke University.

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

Monday 06 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Quantum Interactive Oracle Proofs

Baocheng Sun Weizman Institute.

SS03.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Around Fulton-MacPherson compactifications 

Denis Nesterov, ETH Zurich.

CMS MR9.

Thursday 02 October 2025, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Symplectic pushforwards and Lagrangian classes

Hyeonjun Park, KIAS.

CMS MR11.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Efficient gradient coding for mitigating stragglers within distributed machine learning

Prof. Aditya Ramamoorthy, Iowa State University.

MR9, CMS Pavilion B.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Large Language Models and Graph Neural Networks for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Fan Mo, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Cerebellum Computation

Carl Ashworth; Youjing Yu.

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

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

Information Theory Seminar

Inequalities Revisited

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

James Dyson Building Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

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

Computational Neuroscience

The Fruit Fly Connectome and Beyond

Yijie Yin; Saeyeon Kwon.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

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

Foundation AI

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

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

Guanyuan Peter Pan.

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

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

OGG Colloquium

Michael Bronstein, Oxford.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 August 2025, 11:00-12:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

OGG Colloquium

Marco Linton, ICMAT.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

Wednesday 13 August 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

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

Topology talk

Hopf algebras and Quillen's spectral sequence

Søren Galatius (Columbia).

MR14.

Wednesday 06 August 2025, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

The Hardy-Littlewood maximal inequality for hyperbolic groups

OGG Colloquium

Koji Fujiwara, Kyoto.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

Wednesday 06 August 2025, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

Hierarchical Protein Structure Representation Learning via Topological Deep Learning

Zhiyu Wang.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

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

Foundation AI

Title to be confirmed

Kaiwen Zuo.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

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

Foundation AI

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

Qianru Zhang.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Patenting, translating & commercialising research

Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 24 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Foundation AI

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

Dr Nikolay Savinov (Google DeepMind).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy and Neurosurgery for the oncologist

Dr Raj Jena and Mr Adel Helmy; Cambridge University Hospitals; Departments of Oncology/ Clinical Nuroscience.

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

Thursday 17 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

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

Foundation AI

Title to be confirmed

qrzhang@hku.hk.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

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

Foundation AI

From Score to Sound: Music Generation in the AI Era

Francesco Bardozzo (University of Salerno).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge;  Why the microenvironment matters during pancreatic cancer progression and treatment

Dr Kiran Purushothaman, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT and Dept of Oncology; Dr Gianluca Mucciolo CRUK Cambridge Institute (Biffi Lab).

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

Thursday 10 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Foundation AI

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

Dr. Nicola Palladino, University of Salerno.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

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

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Foundation AI

Artificial Intelligence in Agrifood and Environment

Prof. Antonino Staiano.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

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

ne289's list

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

Elliott (Shangzhe) Wu.

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

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

CQIF Seminar

Partial trace relations

Michael Wolf, TU Munich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Foundation AI

Performance evaluation for learning systems

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

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

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

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

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

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

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

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

Foundation AI

title

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

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

Foundation AI

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

CQIF Seminar

Onset of Superactivation of Quantum Capacity

Marco Parentin, Politecnico di Torino.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 03 July 2025, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology. .

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

Thursday 03 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

The LMS Hardy Lecture

Path induction and the indiscernibility of identicals

Emily Riehl (John Hopkins University, Baltimore) .

The Chapel Churchill College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 30 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Transmissible cancers

Prof Elizabeth Murchison, Department of Veterinary Medicine. .

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

Thursday 26 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Success, sensitivity and unbelievable quality of LLM code generation

Andrei Paleyes (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

A scattering construction for nonlinear wave equations on Kerr-Anti de Sitter spacetimes

Gemma Hood (Leipzig).

MR13.

Monday 23 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14 - note venue change.

Friday 20 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalising the Multigraded Proj Construction in Lean 4

Jujian Zhang (Imperial College London) and Arnaud Mayeux (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 17:00-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Belavkin-Staszewski Quantum Markov Chains

Pablo Costa Rico, Techincal University of Munich.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, Lecture room MR2.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer

Dr Huiqi Yang and Dr Nicola Thompson, Cambridge University Hopitals Trust.

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

Thursday 19 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The structure of curvature in neural networks

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

Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research UK).

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

Modular orbifolds and derived Galois deformation theory

Patrick Allen (McGill).

MR12.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Feedback Forensics: A Toolkit to Measure AI Personality

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Multitasking and compositionality in brain and in neural networks

Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Multiscale modelling of complex magnetic materials

Manuel dos Santos Dias, STFC UKRI.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 June 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Polyhomogeneity and precise asymptotic expansions for quasilinear waves scattering from past to future null infinity, with applications to general relativity

Leonhard Kehrberger (Leipzig).

MR13.

Monday 16 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Leveraging different steps of the electronic structure ladder to understand H2 adsorption

Dr Yasmine Al-Hamdani, University of Naples Federico II.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 June 2025, 14:00-14:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Rigidity theory and symmetry

Alison La Porta, University of Lancaster.

MR19 (note venue change!).

Friday 13 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Detecting Changes in Production Frontier and Beyond

Yining Chen (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Hyperbolic groups and the cops and robbers game

Raphael Appenzeller, Heidelberg.

MR20.

Friday 13 June 2025, 13:45-14:45

Lennard-Jones Centre

The Martian Mindset - A Scarcity-Driven Engineering Paradigm

Prof. Lucio Colombi Ciacchi.

LT6, First floor Baker building, Dept. of Engineering, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning

Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning

Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London).

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

Dr Gill Barnett and Dr Christopher Jones, Cambridge University Hospital & Dept of Oncology .

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

A near-optimal quadratic Goldreich-Levin algorithm

Davi de Castro Silva (University of Cambridge).

MR14, CMS.

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

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

Varun Jain (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

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

Varun Jain (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

Derivatives of Rankin-Selberg L-functions and heights of generalized Heegner cycles

David Lilienfeldt (Leiden).

MR12.

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

Computational Neuroscience

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

Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

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

Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin.

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Out of the Crystalline Comfort Zone: Tackling Working Interfaces with Machine Learning

Karsten Reuter, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 09 June 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Critical norm blow-up rates for the energy supercritical nonlinear heat equation

Tobias Barker (University of Bath).

MR13.

Monday 09 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Simulating Correlated Quasi-2D Materials

Jan Tomczak, King's College London.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 09 June 2025, 14:00-14:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Combinatorics of Expanded Stable Maps

Cat Rust, Queen Mary University of London.

MR2 (note venue and time change!).

Friday 06 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

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

Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Projections, walls and stable cylinders

Davide Spriano, Oxford.

MR20.

Friday 06 June 2025, 13:45-14:45

Combinatorics Seminar

Independent spanning trees in the hypercube

Benedict Randall Shaw (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early cancer trials

Dr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 05 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Number Theory Seminar

Effective and minimal cones of weights for Hilbert modular forms (joint with P. Kassaei)

Fred Diamond (KCL).

MR12.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Discovering reward-guided learning strategies from large-scale datasets

Kimberly Stachenfeld (DeepMind, Columbia).

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Reaching Mode- and Enantiomer-Selective Catalysis with Polaritonics

Christian Schäfer, TU Vienna.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 02 June 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Overhanging solitary water waves

Miles H. Wheeler (University of Bath).

MR13.

Monday 02 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

How Does Charge Impact Surface Hydrophobicity?

Camille Bilodeau, University of Virginia.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 02 June 2025, 14:00-14:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

The Arnold Conjecture

Adrian Dawid, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 30 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

In-sample calibration yields conformal calibration guarantees

Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Universal Diophantine Equations in Isabelle

Jonas Bayer (University of Cambridge).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Finding a solution to the Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem

Arvin Leung (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Finding a solution to the Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem

Arvin Leung (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Operationalism, Causality, and Quantum Theory: a time symmetric perspective

Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute).

Center for Mathematical Sciences, Lecture room MR2.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

From lab to clinic: an introduction to translational research

Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology .

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

Thursday 29 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Typical hyperbolic surfaces have an optimal spectral gap

Laura Monk (Bristol).

MR13.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Learning Privately in High Dimensions

Prof. Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Correlations of the Möbius function

Joni Teräväinen (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning

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

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Modelling excitons in 2D semiconductors: from charged defects to moiré materials

Imperial College London.

Cluster Seminar Room, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Modularity of certain trianguline Galois representations

James Kiln (Queen Mary).

MR13.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Computer Vision: Between Forensics and Biomedical Imaging

Giovanna Maria Dimitri, University of Siena (Italy).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Dendrites, Synaptic Plasticity and Hippocampal Place Fields​

Carl Ashworth; Saeyeon Kwon.

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

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

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Geometric interpretation of the vanishing Lie Bracket for two-dimensional rough vector fields

Annalaura Rebucci, MPI Leipzig.

MR13.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Rank rigidity via affine maps

David Lenze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

MR13.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Dehn functions of Bestvina—Brady groups

Jerónimo García-Mejía, Oxford.

MR20.

Friday 23 May 2025, 13:45-14:45

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Completeness Theorems for Variations of Higher-Order Logic

CANCELLED

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Multiply Intersecting Families.

Agnijo Banerjee (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncogene-induced senescence and tumour initiation

Prof Masashi Narita, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 22 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Finite Matrix Groups; Cohomology and Stable Elements

Anja Meyer, University of Loughborough.

MR12.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Ellis Unit

A Mixture-based framework for guiding Diffusion models

Alain Oliviero-Durmus - Ecole Polytechnique.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Noether-Lefschetz cycles on the moduli space of abelian varieties

Aitor Iribar Lopez, ETH Zurich.

CMS MR13.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Random multiplicative functions and beyond

Max Xu (Courant Institute, NYU).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models

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

Miri Zilka, Neel Alex, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Foundation AI

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

Thomas Hartigan.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Number Theory Seminar

The Integral Hilbert Property on some degree-2 del Pezzo surfaces

Jessica Alessandri (Bath).

MR13.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Mixing of a random walk on a randomly twisted hypercube

Zsuzsa Baran (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Dirac Lecture

From Einstein’s doubts to quantum technologies: non-locality in action

Professor Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique – Université Paris-Saclay.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Exciton-Phonon Coupling in Emerging Materials: Ab Initio Approaches and Recent Advances

Jonah Haber, Stanford University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre and on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

It’s Not a S(KZ)CAM! Accurate Surface Modeling at Low Cost

Benjamin Shi, Initiative for Computational Catalysis, Flatiron Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre and on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:00-14:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Groups at Infinity and Z-structures

Henrique Souza, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

MR13.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

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

Kosuke Imai (Harvard University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Connectome-based Echo State Networks

James McAllister (Ulster).

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

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

Combinatorics Seminar

The rainbow saturation number

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

The rainbow saturation number

Natalie Behague (Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell; Early Cancer Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Information Theory Seminar

Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

Speaker to be confirmed.

CMS, Room MR2.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 09:00-13:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Invitation to Leavitt path algebras

Roozbeh Hazrat, University of Western Sydney.

MR12.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Profinite rigidity of Kähler groups

Claudio Llosa Isenrich (KIT).

MR13.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

d-elliptic loci and quasi-modular forms

Carl Lian, Tufts University..

CMS MR13.

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

Foundation AI

Sheaf-Based Diffusion for Multimodal Graph Learning

Mar Gonzàlez i Català (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Number Theory Seminar

On primes represented by aX^2+bY^3

Jori Merikoski (Oxford).

MR13.

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

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Harmonic maps to the circle with higher dimensional singular set

Marco Badran (ETH Zurich).

MR13.

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

Probability

Metrics and random walks on 2D critical percolation and CLE

Yizheng Yuan.

MR12.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Quantifying individuality in neural circuit representations

Alex Williams (NYU).

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Explainable AI in Neuroscience: From Interpretability to Biomarker Discovery

Mike Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Foundation AI

Superposition in GNNs

Lukas Pertl.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Foundation AI

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

Physics.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum thermodynamics and semi-definite optimization

Mark M. Wilde (Cornell University).

Center for Mathematical Sciences, Lecture room MR2.

Monday 12 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Data-driven material discovery and synthesis for perovskite optoelectronic materials

Yilei Wu, University of Cambridge.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 12 May 2025, 14:30-15:00

Foundations of Physics seminar

Probing Foundations of Spacetime with Atom Interferometers

Jeremiah Mitchell (Cavendish Laboratory and Queen's College, Cambridge).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 12 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Superdiffusivity for a diffusion in a critically-correlated incompressible random drift

Scott Armstrong, Sorbonne Université.

MR13.

Monday 12 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Bright Insights: Decoding Nickel(II) Luminescence with Theory and Experiment

Dr. Oskar Weser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 12 May 2025, 14:00-14:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Counting planar curves using tropical geometry

Sae Koyama, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Algebraic Geometry in Mathlib

Andrew Yang (Imperial College, London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Multi-indexed Schatten norms and quantum entropies - an introduction to operator spaces in QIT

Jan Kochanowski (Institute Polytechnique de Paris).

MR2.

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

Rouse Ball Lectures

Causality-Inspired Machine Learning: A Path to More Robust AI Systems

Prof Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Decoding genomic chaos - a pancancer compendium of chromosomal instability

Professor Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Information Theory Seminar

Graph Data Compression: Practical Methods and Information-Theoretic Limits

Prof. Justin Coon, University of Oxford.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

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

Puria Radmard; Daniel Kornai.

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

Sums along binary cubic forms.

Mayank Pandey (Princeton).

MR13.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

The Porous Medium Equation: Multiscale Analysis of a Zero-Range Process, Integrability Estimate and Large Deviations

Daniel Heydecker (Imperial College).

MR12.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

The Shrinking Target Problem and Recurrence

Ayesha Bennett, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Normal subgroups of non-torsion multi-EGS groups

Anitha Thillaisundaram, Lund.

MR13.

Friday 02 May 2025, 13:45-14:45

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalizing Fermat: an update

Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

Tim Austin (Warwick).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Targeted Protein Degradation tools for novel therapeutic strategies in cancer

Dr Catherine Lindon, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

Thursday 01 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 I

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Heisenberg algebra of a vector space and Hochschild homology

Timothy Logvinenko, University of Cardiff.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 14:15-15:15

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Convergence for sparse graphs and representations

Tim Austin (University of Warwick).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 13:30-15:00

Foundation AI

Sphere Embedding: The Atom for Explainable and Reliable AI and Machine Reasoning (Part 1). recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfrnwqpKRE

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Infalling charges and electromagnetic radiation

Martin Taylor (Imperial).

MR13.

Monday 28 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

bla bla

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Saturday 26 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

bla bla

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Saturday 26 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Partial Differential Equations: Oxbridge PDE Conference

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR9.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 10:00-17:00

Foundation AI

bla bla

Zeno.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 23 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Computational Neuroscience

In-Context Learning

Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar.

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

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 15:00-16:30

CQIF Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute) .

MR14.

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 14:15-15:15

Foundation AI

blabla

Cassidy.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sunday 13 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach

Roger Sewell.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 19:15-21:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

Thursday 10 April 2025, 09:30-10:30

CQIF Seminar

Dynamical generation of alpha-Rényi entropies (0 < alpha <= 1) in one-dimensional local quantum spin systems

Daniele Toniolo, UCL.

MR14.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

Professor Serena Nik-Zainal.

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

Thursday 03 April 2025, 09:30-10:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications

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

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 02 April 2025, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2) recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCHg-DAnEs

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 31 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Chow Ring of the Moduli Stack of Hyperelliptic Prym Pairs

Alberto landi, Brown University.

CMS MR13.

Friday 28 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Revealing the Unseen: AI's Role in Novel Target Discovery for High Unmet Needs Areas Through Multi-Omics Integrationce for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Research & AI, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

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

Thursday 27 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Information Theory Seminar

Group Testing: Something old, something new, something borrowed

Dr Nikhil Karamchandani, IIT Bombay.

MR13, CMS Pavilion E.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

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

Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1)

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Brill-Noether loci of pencils with prescribed ramification

Sara Torelli, Università degli studi di Torino..

CMS MR13.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Irreducibility of Severi varieties on toric surfaces

Karl Christ, Università degli studi di Torino.

CMS MR13.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 10:00-11:00

Foundation AI

Surgical data using LLMs

Hugo Georgenthum.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Mirror Symmetry and the Canonical Wall Structure

Peter Zaika, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Graphical Approach to State Variable Selection in Off-policy Learning

Joakim Blach Andersen (Statistical Laboratory).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Verified Unsolvability of Temporal Planning

David Wang (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Parent Lindbladians for Matrix Product Density Operators

Yuhan Liu.

MR2.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A Covering Pursuit Game

Ben Gillott (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A Covering Pursuit Game

Ben Gillott (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A Covering Pursuit Game

Ben Gillott (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Lattice Gauge Theory - An Introduction & Approach Based on Fermionic Tensor Networks

Ariel Kelman.

MR2.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and clinical insights from genome-wide association studies of cancer

Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute .

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Entropy comparison inequalities with applications to additive noise channels

Dr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

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

Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

Galois groups of low degree points on curves

Maleeha Khawaja (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals

Louis-Pierre Arguin (Oxford).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1).

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Modelling microbiome-mediated epigenetic inheritance of disease risk

Hybrid

Bobby Ranjan.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Lennard-Jones Centre

Neural DFT: A transformative approach to multiscale modelling

Dr Stephen J Cox (Durham University).

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Chemical reactivity in organic solvents using machine learning interatomic potentials

Dr Julia Yang (Georgia Tech).

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:00-14:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Exponential mixing with random cellular flows via hypocoercivity

Víctor Navarro-Fernández, Imperial College London.

MR13.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Defining Fukaya Categories Geometrically

Daniil Mamaev, London School of Geometry and Number Theory.

MR13.

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

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Short loxodromics in graph products

Alice Kerr, Bristol.

MR13.

Friday 14 March 2025, 13:45-14:45

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Almost toric yoga for stable double surfaces (Part II)

Please note the unusual time and place.

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

CMS, MR15.

Friday 14 March 2025, 10:30-11:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formal verification of the 5th Busy Beaver value

Tristan Stérin (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Maja Kądziołka.

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Causal Inference Reading Group

Estimating the Global Average Treatment Effect under Structured Interference

Shuangning Li (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business).

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Monotone arrays and a multidimensional Ramsey Theorem

Gal Kronenberg (Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Undecidability of the spectral gap in rotationally symmetric Hamiltonians

Laura Castilla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology

Note: unusual date compared to regular AI Seminars

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Almost toric yoga for stable double surfaces (Part I)

Please note the unusual time and place.

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

CMS, MR14.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:15-12:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Why do I write proofs?

NOTE UNUSUAL DAY

Francisco Ferreira Ruiz (Royal Holloway, University of London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Local structure of finite groups and fusion systems

Baoyu Zhang, University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Nonsqueezable Klein bottles

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Entropy in pointwise ergodic theory

Ben Krause (University of Bristol).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

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

Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Siqi Yang (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Sharp threshold for the ballisticity of the random walk on the exclusion process

Daniel Kious (Bath).

MR12.

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Breaking the scaling relation for the Tafel hydrogen evolution step by proximity induced magnetism

Gilberto Teobaldi, STFC UKRI.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

An Onsager theorem in 2D

Razvan Radu (Princeton).

MR13.

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Rapid Exploration of Crystal Chemical Space

Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

3-Manifolds in Division Rings

Sam Fischer, University of Oxford.

MR13.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Discussion on Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments

Martina Scauda (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Virtually free-by-cyclic RFRS groups

Sam Fisher (Oxford).

MR13.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:45-14:45

Foundation AI

On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning

hybrid : meet.google.com/bhz-scdk-unp

Alvaro Arroyo, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

CQIF Seminar

Entanglement of random quantum states: phase transitions

Stanislaw Szarek, Case Western Reserve University & Sorbonne Université.

MR2.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data

NOTE unusual date

Urška Matjašec (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

Dr Daniel Munoz Espin, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 06 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Cell modules for the Temperley—Lieb algebra in mixed characteristic

Charles Senecal, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Ambidextrous homology theories

Jeremy Hahn (Cambridge).

CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Data Compression with Relative Entropy Coding

Gergely Flamich, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Lifting in special linear groups

Péter Varjú (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Influence Functions

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

Adrian Goldwaser, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

The Continual Learning (CL) Theory

Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita.

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

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

Computations of necklaces on elliptic curves

Chris Wuthrich (Nottingham).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

On the geometric Serre weight conjecture for Hilbert modular forms

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

On the geometric Serre weight conjecture for Hilbert modular forms

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

The scaling limit of random planar maps with large faces.

Armand Riera (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

James Grime, Institute of Continuing Education.

Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Monday 03 March 2025, 19:15-21:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Stability and Instability of Relativistic Fluids in Slowly Expanding Spacetimes

Max Ofner (Vienna).

MR13.

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

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Nonequilibrium steady states and subgeometric convergence in a kinetic model of chemotaxis

Jo Evans, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Loop spaces and E_k algebras

Kelly Wang, University of Cambridge .

MR13.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

The strong Atiyah conjecture for graph of groups via universal localizations.

Pablo Sánchez-Peralta, UAM.

MR13.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems immunology and variation in the human immune system

Professor Adrian Liston.

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

Thursday 27 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Foundation AI

Incorporating Flexibility in Antibody-Antigen Interaction Prediction

Sara Joubbi.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

On induced completely prime primitive ideals in enveloping algebras of classical Lie algebras

Simon Goodwin, University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Good moduli spaces of A_r-stable curves

Michele Pernice KTH.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Variations of the Expectation due to Changes in the Measure: Applications to Generalization and Game Theory

Dr Samir Perlaza, INRIA.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Intersections and embeddings of self-similar sets

Mike Hochman (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling with diffusion models

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

Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

Close fields and the local Langlands correspondence

Daniel Li Huerta (MPIM).

MR13.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Branching random walk with non-local competition

Sarah Penington (Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Beyond Interpolation: Extrapolative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks

Niccolò Grillo.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:45-19:15

Foundation AI

Network modelling and Graph Neural Networks for emergency healthcare management

Annamaria Defilippo, PhD Student - Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:00-18:30

Foundation AI

Harnessing Large Language Models for Medical Data Processing: Structured Information Extraction, Disease Classification, and RAG Integration 

Cristian Cosentino (Università della Calabria).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 17:30-20:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Addressing correlated materials with dynamical functionals

Tommaso Chiarotti, Caltech.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Bubble decomposition for the harmonic map heat flow

Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne).

MR13.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Neural Thermodynamic Integration: Free Energy estimation with ML-potentials

Balint Mate, University of Geneva.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Classification of Algebraic Varieties

Joseph Malbon, University of Edinburgh.

MR13.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Vanishing results in the homology of big mapping class groups and Thompson-like groups

Martin Palmer, Leeds.

MR13.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalising Brauer Group and Group Cohomology in Lean4

Jujian Zhang (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning -- Why Machine Learning Cannot Reach the Rigour of Logical Reasoning? recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x38GySbuGJg

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-17:45

Combinatorics Seminar

Some problems in coarse graph theory

Alexander Scott (Oxford) .

MR12.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Quantum advantage for learning periodic neurons with non-uniform data

Laura Lewis, Caltech.

MR2.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Coherence dimension for simplicial rings

Vincenzo di Bartholo, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

ML@CL Seminar Series

Robust and Conjugate Gaussian Process Regression.

Matías Altamirano.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Simplicial volume and aspherical manifolds

Marco Moraschini (Università di Bologna).

CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Categorical Torelli for cyclic covers

Hannah Dell, University of Bonn.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design

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

Zixing Song.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back

Youjing Yu; Tim Lin.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

The exceptional zero conjecture for GL(3)

Andrew Graham (Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Height gap of the planar Brownian motion

Titus Lupu (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Boltz-1 Democratizing Biomolecular Interaction Modeling

Gabriele Corso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

(Cancelled)

Annalaura Rebucci, MPI Leipzig.

MR13.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Ultrafast quantum ionic dynamics to stabilize hidden phases of matter

Lorenzo Monacelli, University of Rome Sapienza.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Simplicial volume and aspherical manifolds

Marco Moraschini (Università di Bologna).

CMS, MR15.

Sunday 16 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Why Should You Symp. for Dehn Twists? (Spoiler: Their Symplectic Charm Is Infinite)

Jose Luis Narbona Valiente, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

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

Causal Inference Reading Group

Discussion on Confidence Intervals for Policy Evaluation in Adaptive Experiments

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

On the congruence subgroup property for mapping class groups of surfaces

Henry Wilton, Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Algebraising foundations of elliptic curves

David Angdinata (University College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Ellis Unit

Machine Learning is Linear Algebra

Andrew Gordon Wilson - New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81897609356?pwd=HqbUQWnASjpBBZdaZo9r43M9Gj4N3Q.1.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Jan Petr (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

TouQan: Towards a useful quantum advantage

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-17:20

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner; Dept of Pathology.

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

Thursday 13 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Tensor product functoriality via p-adic propagation

Zachary Feng, University of Oxford.

MR12.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knot theory and complex curves

Matthew Hedden (Michigan State University).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks.

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Information Theory Seminar

Sampling using Diffusion Processes

Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

A model-theoretic approach to Roth's theorem

Amador Martin-Pizarro (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

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

Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:45-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:00-15:45

Number Theory Seminar

17T7 as a Galois group over Q through Hilbert modular forms

Raymond van Bommel (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

A switching property for percolation of Brownian loops

Wendelin Werner (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

VarBench: variational benchmarks for quantum many-body problems

Dian Wu, Peking University.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Extreme pushed and pulled fronts

John R. King (University of Nottingham).

MR13.

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Learning Conical Intersections for Excited States Using Smooth Invariants

Dr. Timon S. Gutleb ( University of Leeds).

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

An Introduction to the Plateau’s Problem and Area-minimizing Currents

Zhengyi Xiao, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalisation of Combinatorial Optimisation in Isabelle/HOL: Network Flows

Thomas Ammer (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Decomposing Latin squares into transversals.

Candida Bowtell (Birmingham).

MR12.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Hamiltonian Simulation

Pravav Singh, University of Bath.

MR2.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Unipotent representations in the local Langlands correspondence

Beth Romano, King's College London.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization and Informativeness of Conformal Prediction

Dr Fredrik Hellstrom, UCL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Cryptography, quantum computers and analytic number theory

Cédric Pilatte (University of Oxford).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality

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

Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

Squarefree values of discriminant polynomials

Marti Oller Riera (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Road layout in the KPZ class

Marton Balazs (Bristol).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

Cătălina Cangea, ex-Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Building global resilience to high-impact volcanic eruptions

Lara Mani, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 February 2025, 19:00-21:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Random sampling versus active learning algorithms for machine learning potentials of quantum liquid water

Dr. Nore Stolte, Ruhr University Bochum.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Getting from the computer to real world materials faster with machine learning

Prof. Heather J. Kulik, MIT.

zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Local Well-posedenss of the Bartnik Static Extension Problem near Schwarzschild spheres

Ahmed Ellithy (Uppsala).

MR13.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

Maya Youssef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Galois groups and monodromy in algebraic geometry

Matteo Verni, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche.

MR13.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Cannon-Thurston maps for the Morse boundary

Matt Cordes, Heriot-Watt.

MR13.

Friday 31 January 2025, 13:45-14:45

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Prospects for formalizing the theory of weak infinite-dimensional categories

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 17:00-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Conformal unitary circuits and toy quantum gravity

Lluis Masanes, UCL.

MR2.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Expander graphs from Cayley graphs of groups where every generating set works

Oren Becker (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Expander graphs from Cayley graphs of groups where every generating set works

Oren Becker (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Steroid hormone regulation of cancer immunity

Dr Bidesh Mahata, Dept of Pathology.

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

Thursday 30 January 2025, 09:30-10:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Intersection theory on moduli spaces of parabolic bundles

Miguel Moreira, MIT.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 14:15-15:15

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Lower bounds for incidences and Heilbronn's triangle problem

Dmitrii Zakharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

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

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

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

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

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