NLIP Seminar Series

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

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD Students' talks

Speakers listed in abstract in due course.

MR3.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-17:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Aeneas: Rust Verification by Functional Translation

Son Ho (Azure Research team).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

Mathematics and Computation

Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part V)

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

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

TheCultureLab

Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Clare Hall & HPS, Cambridge) and Anatolii Kozlov (Science & Technology Studies, UCL).

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

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Statistical Finite Elements via Interacting Particle Langevin Dynamics

Alex Glyn-Davies, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Perfect modelling of linear and nonlinear vibration

Dr Hugh Goyder, Cranfield/ AWE.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Zangwill Club

"Animal Consciousness: Evidence, Models, and Clues”

Peter Godfrey Smith.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Brain Digital Twins for Neurological Disorders

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

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Christian Stenz (Heidelberg University).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

More ARMs than arms: From Sunk to Silicon Supremacy

Dave Jaggar.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

All-atom Diffusion Transformers: Unified generative modelling of molecules and materials

In-person and virtual (link coming soon) - and will be recorded.

Chaitanya Joshi.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Safer (cyber)spaces: Reconfiguring Digital Security Towards Solidarity

Dr Julia Slupska, Ofcom.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Computational wireless sensing for Health

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82442600092?pwd=DfDLE12p2Kmnh532rSMVB8mOn7uLDa.1

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Cornell University.

Online.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Michael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

RSE Seminars

Symbolic Regression for Model Discovery in Python and Julia

Miles Cranmer - DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Chaucer Club

From anatomy to systems: Charting the language connectome

Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute).

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

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

compiler socials

Translation Validation for LLVM's AArch64 Backend

John Regehr - University of Utah.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Interactive and Grounded Learning

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

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanobiology-Inspired Antithrombotic Strategies and Point-of-Care Microtechnologies

Professor Arnold Lining Ju, University of Sydney.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

A unified treatment of commuting tensor products

Nicola Gambino ( University of Manchester).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

When is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 350 Languages

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

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Unconventional nonlinear dynamics of carbon-based structures

Dr Pierpaolo Belardnelli, Universita Politecnica delle Marche.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Numerical simulations of multiphase flows with various complexities

Prof Omar Matar, Imperial College London.

https://cassyni.com/s/fmws.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

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

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

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Chris Preston.

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

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland).

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Global modelling of ice-nucleating particles and their impact on cirrus clouds and the climate system

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmUxMWIxYTgtZDM3OS00MTYzLTg1NGQtYzEzNWZhZDRhNDlh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr. Christof Beer.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

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

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Latent Concepts in Large Language Models

Prof. Pradeep Ravikumar, Carnegie Mellon University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

But what is 'performativity of science'?

Jakob Ortmann (Leibniz University, Hannover).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities

Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun (Google DeepMind).

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

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

Chaucer Club

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

Emiliano Ricciardi (U. of Pisa.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jaap Jumelet (University of Groningen).

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Peter C. Collins, Iowa State University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yining Chen (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Amila Jayasinghe, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

Science advice under uncertainty

Amy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Friday 13 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Zack X Conti, Alan Turing Institute.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Thermal vortex rings: the vortex dynamics

Dr Jun-Ichi Yano, University of Reading.

MR2.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Michael A. Specter, Georgia Tech.

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

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The APGAR score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments

Rebecca L. Jackson (Durham University).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Metabolic control of myeloid cell function

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

ARClub Talks

Towards the Development of a National Autism Suicide Prevention Resource Hub

Darren Hedley, La Trobe University.

Adrian House Seminar Room (Trinity College).

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Lu Wang

Prof. Lu Wang (University of Michigan).

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

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

Chaucer Club

Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology

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

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK), TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Szilvia Ujvary (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation

Tony Southall.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Keith Seffen, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 20 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Maxwell and The Geometry of Equilibrium

Allan McRobie, Professor of Structural Engineering, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing

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

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Andrei Paleyes (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The statistical challenges in tackling persistent climate model uncertainty through model-observation comparisons.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OWJjY2ViNjktOWZjMS00NGJmLWI5MTUtNTYxM2E5MTgyMTQ1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr Jill S Johnson; School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Tom Ratsakatika, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Thursday 26 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

Vicky Metzis.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

ARClub Talks

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

Eunhee Kim, Bournemouth University.

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

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Julia Gschwind ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Thursday 17 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Dr. Arash Latifkar (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA), TBA.

Online (Zoom).

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

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 - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London.

Department of Engineering - tbc.

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

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jelena Ninic, University of Birmingham.

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

Friday 17 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

Valeria Ruscio.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 17:00-17:45

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 2036, 11:00-12:30