Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

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

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

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Helsing: Simulating a System of Systems

Matei David.

FW26, William Gates Building.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The place to be? At the nexus of psychology and geography

Friedrich Goetz (University of British Columbia).

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

Monday 17 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Alex Joyner, Sloan Kettering Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Could stratospheric aerosol injection produce meaningful global cooling without novel aircraft?

Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Njk5ZjBhMmUtMmIwMS00YjNkLWE4N2QtOTYwN2EyZGRhMzI5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

Alistair Duffey PhD Student at University College London, Earth Sciences.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alice Hutchings (University of Cambridge).

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Distinct Elements in Streams and the Klee's Measure Problem

Sourav Chakraborty (ISI).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

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

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Health & Wellbeing: A Multisensory Perspective

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88117681760?pwd=MpUgaRUgGn0HyeYdPEZpymVFj0mLfs.1

Marianna Obrist, UCL.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India

Dr Aditi Malik (College of the Holy Cross).

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images

Ruth Sargent-Noyes (National Museum of Denmark).

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

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Progress is plural because science is social

Oscar Westerblad (University of Iceland).

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

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Which Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Colleges and Universities

Professor Frank Dobbin - Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:05-14:55

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

RSE Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Miles Cranmer - DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges

Professor Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford .

Department of Engineering - LT1.

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

Chaucer Club

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Paul Liang

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Alessandro Bonetti (Director of Neuroscience, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Kevin Weeks (PI, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA).

Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-19:00

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Towards Global Maps of Anthropogenic Threats to Biodiversity and Their Contributions to Species Extinctions

Emilio Luz-Ricca, University of Cambridge.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-13:55

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Number of quantifiers in 3-variable logic on linear orders

Lauri Hella (Univeristy of Tampere).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonmonotonic flow curves and shear banding in granular flows

Dr Christopher Ness, University of Edinburgh.

MR2.

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

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Connects Us All? From Fibres to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Multi-Agent System for Mathematical Discovery

Daattavya Aggarwal, Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge.

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

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

DAMTP BioLunch

Mechanically-Grown Morphogenesis of Voronoi-Type Materials

Zahra Hooshmand Ahoor (University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Jean Martina, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

TBC

Dario Stein (Radboud University).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Mitigating the Risks of Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

Aleksey Charapko, University of New Hampshire.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (Teams link will appear before the talk).

Friday 28 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

A super-linear lower bound for the iteration number of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm

Moritz Lichter (RWTH, Aachen).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 01 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Onkar Gulati, University of Cambridge.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 04 April 2025, 13:00-13:55

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Guy Goldberg (Weizmann Institute).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

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

compiler socials

User-extensible and Productive Programming of Specialized Hardware

Yuka Ikarashi (MIT CSAIL).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW11.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Towards Global-scale Species Distribution Modelling

Oisin Mac Aodha, University of Edinburgh.

Main Seminar Room at the David Attenborough Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 11 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Daniel Tennant, University of Birmingham, UK.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Dr. Adam Cawte (University of Oxford, UK), Dr. Isaia Barbieri (University of Turin, IT).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 April 2025, 17:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meritxell Huch, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge).

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

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

DAMTP BioLunch

Accurate Diffusion Estimation From Simulation and the Impacts on Temperature Dependent Modelling

Dr Andrew McCluskey (University of Bristol).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Case for Decentralized Scheduling in Modern Datacenters

Smita Vijayakumar, Systems Research Group, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

FW11.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 02 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Pianos, guitars and double decays

Prof. Jim Woodhouse, Emeritus, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

Professor Hugo Spiers.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Longfei Shangguan, University of Pittsburgh.

Online.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

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

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Yang (Imperial College, London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Revisiting strain-gradient theory in the light of two-scale expansions

Manon Thbaut, Ecole polytechnique .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

A topological proof of the H-colouring dichotomy

Jakub Oprsal (University of Birmingham).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

Zangwill Club

The Functions of Episodic Memory

Ali Boyle.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The transformative power of empathy for education: reflection and realisation for teaching and learning

Dr Helen Demetriou, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

Online.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

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

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Anna Wredenberg, Karolinska Institute, Finland.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dan Bompa, University of Surrey, UK.

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alice Cicirello, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

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

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Swinburne, UC Berkeley.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

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

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alex Glyn-Davies, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Friday 30 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

TBC

Peter Godfrey Smith.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

TBC

Peter Godfrey Smith.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

TBC

Professor David Sancho Madrid, Spanish Center for Cardiovascular Research.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, The Francis Crick Institute.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Santer, Imperial College London, UK.

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

Friday 10 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Filipe Cabreiro, University of Cologne, Germany.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

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