Cambridge talks

Chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to studying visual memory

User Mark Eldridge, Newcastle University.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Monday 26 January 2026, 16:15-18:00

The Hidden Universe of The Human Microbiome and Its Role In Health and Disease: How DNA sequencing approaches can help us understand the hidden dark matter of the human microbiome

User Dr. Alexandre Almeida, School of the Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 26 January 2026, 19:30-21:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Uri Berger

User Uri Berger (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne).

House GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

A dataflow programming framework for linear optical distributed quantum computing

User Lia Yeh, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:00-11:50

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - January 2026

User Ida Häggström, Associate Professor, Unit of Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:45-13:00

House FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Competence, Pain and the Geometry of Intelligence: Three Perspectives on Learning and Representation

User Prof Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 12:00-13:00

Foundation Models for Structured Data

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88514183232?pwd=paFmBh7F64OIKIOFoBjQu7Fut65qB6.1

User Xiyuan Zhang, Amazon Web Services.

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Ultra-tough metals via high strain-hardening

User Professor Thomas Pardoen, UCLouvain and WEL Research Institute.

House Department of Engineering - LR4.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

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

AI and the Democratic Information Environment

User Helen Margetts (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

What is HoTT?

User Professor Steve Awodey - Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University .

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 15:05-15:55

RO-Crate: Packaging research outputs with their metadata for reproducibility across domains

User Eli Chadwick, Senior Research Software Engineer - eScience Lab, University of Manchester.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Correcting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy sources with reinforcement learning

User Stefano Palminteri, Ecole Normale Superieure.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Aristotle, an AI theorem prover using Lean

User Alex J Best (Harmonic).

House Clifford Allbutt Building Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 17:00-18:00

hkb32's list

Degrading Proteins in the Brain: Can we get there and how can we make it work?

User Will Farnaby, University of Dundee Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation.

Friday 30 January 2026, 11:30-12:30

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

Geospatial foundation models enable efficient tree species mapping in heterogeneous montane forests

User James Ball, University of Cambridge.

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Evangelia Petsalaki, From data towards Digital Twins of biological systems: Network-based approaches to study context-specific cell signalling

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes

User Patrick Cai, University of Manchester.

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

The Geometry of Random Neural Networks

User Domenico Marinucci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata).

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 30 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Analysis of Long-Term Degradation of Electric Heavy Goods Vehicle Traction Batteries Using In-Service Data

User Harry Durham, PhD student, CUED.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Has springy-ness come to the North Atlantic?

User Yueng-Djern Lenn, Bangor University.

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Efficient fMRI design for activations and patterns

User Rik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK..

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Roku: Reinventing the Living‑Room UI: Roku's New Home Screen

User Salman Khan, Software Engineer.

House FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:05-13:55

Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep

User Helen Barron, University of Oxford.

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Monday 02 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Title to be confirmed

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

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

UBiKuity: Trying to get RSE right on the first try

User Thomas Daggitt - British Antarctic Survey.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Exploring high-level cognition through large language models

User Ariel Goldstein, U. of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Roser Vento-Torno

User Dr Roser Vento-Torno, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

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

PILA: Physics-Informed Low Rank Augmentation for Interpretable Earth Observation

User Yihang She, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Clare Bryant, Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in infection and sterile inflammation

User Professor Clare Bryant.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters

User Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Nonparametric Bayesian intensity estimation for covariate-driven point processes

User Matteo Giordano (Università degli Studi di Torino).

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Nonlinear Structural Mechanics

User Dr Alberto Pirrera, University of Bristol.

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

Friday 06 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

House ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug

User Jing Huang (Stanford University).

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modelling tyre-belt vibrations at acoustic frequencies

User Dr Will Graham, CUED.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

On the dynamics of fast rotating stars

User Michel Rietuord, University of Toulouse.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness

User Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Complexity in the Era of AI and Data-Driven Computing

User Lance Fortnow (Illinois Institute of Technology).

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW26.

Monday 09 February 2026, 10:00-11:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Leveraging large-scale datasets in boutique MEG studies

User Chetan Gohil, University of Oxford, UK..

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Ab Initio: Data Governance, Metadata Management and Why You Should Care

User James Wyper and Özge Küçükakça.

House FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:05-13:55

Learning to perceive what is important: An olfactory optimisation story

User Jamie Johnston, University of Leeds.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Monday 09 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design

User Prof Bill O’Neill FREng, FInstP, FLIA, FIAPLE, Director of the Centre for Industrial Photonics, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A synthesised global database of dimethylsulfide concentration in the marine atmosphere

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzIyNGNhYzEtNzg5Zi00MDYzLWFmMDMtMzgwZjEzNDM0ODBi%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

User George Manville, University of Exeter.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Spacetime Spins: Statistical mechanics for error correction with stabilizer circuits

User Cory Aitchison, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-11:50

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Turning Start-ups into Reality with Chemical Engineering

User Rulande Rogers - Chief Technology Officer, Thermulon Ltd..

House Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 13:30-14:45

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

Title to be confirmed

User Lorraine Whitmarsh (University of Bath).

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Gabriele Gradoni - Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Making Gravity SWIFTer: GPU offloads for gravity in the SWIFT cosmology code

User Sarah Johnston - Durham University.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Understanding, predicting and reducing dementia risk: insights from the heart and brain

User Sana Suri, U. of Oxford.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

HoTTLean: Semantics of HoTT in Lean

User Steve Awodey (Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at Cambridge CST).

Thursday 12 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on

User Marcus Munafò, University of Bath.

Friday 13 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

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

Can Agentic AI Accelerate IUCN Red List Assessments?

User Shane Weisz, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Ron, How is Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Recognised?

User Professor David Ron.

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D/4D static recrystallisation and grain growth behaviour in magnesium alloys

User Dr Dikai Guan, University of Southampton.

House Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Towards multi-purpose locally differentially-private synthetic data release via plug-in estimation

User Botond Szabo (Bocconi University).

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Friday 13 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Lightweight Structures: Integrating Engineering and Architecture

User Dr Joshua Schultz, Gonzaga University.

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

Friday 13 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

House ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Atticus Geiger (Goodfire) .

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Technology choice for road freight electrification

User Dr Parth Deshpande, CUED.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Singular inertial waves

User Stephane Le Dizes, IRPHE.

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

TITLE: Evaluating machine learning models for prediction of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among autistic individuals using genetic data

User Niran Okewole, Department of Psychiatry.

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

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:00-12:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Woman Can Do? Weaponised Attachment and the Invisible Abuser

User Mags Lesiak, Institute of Criminology.

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

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex

User Samira M. Epp, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Research Culture: Professor Yeun Joon Kim, Culture Creation and Change in Medical Institutions: Stage 1 Findings at IMS-MRL

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 16 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre.

Brainwide sequences of neural activity

User Matteo Carandini, University College London.

Monday 16 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The search for life beyond the solar system

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzMxOWYyNjAtYWFjNS00ZGNlLTliOTYtZjY2MTM2YWE4OGI2%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

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

Large Language Models, Model Collapse, and the Conservation of Information

LT1

User George Montanez.

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Nicholas Wright (University College London).

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Geometric Gaussian Processes

User Dr Viacheslav Borovitskiy - School of Informatics Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh .

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr HaDi MaBouDi

User Dr HaDi MaBouDi, University of Sheffield.

House Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Certifying Synthetic Mathematics in Lean

User Wojciech Nawrocki (Carnegie Mellon University).

Thursday 19 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

House FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

Friday 20 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Jianbo Qi, Beijing Normal University .

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Shorthouse, AI (and robots!) for Accelerated Discovery in Pharmaceutical Science

User Professor David Shorthouse.

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Pratheek Shanthraj, UKAEA.

House Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Minimax rate for multivariate data under componentwise local differential privacy constraints

User Chiara Amorino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Mario Visconte, PhD student, University of Calabria, UNICAL.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Postdoc Talks

User Postdocs.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine

User Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops

User Livia de Hoz, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

The Energy Efficient Cities initiative: TBC

User Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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

Monday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Climate scientists as analysts, advisors, advocates, or activists: what’s the difference and does it matter?

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDJlNDNiMGItY2YxZS00MjRiLTk5NjgtZWZkYjM2MjI3ZTQx%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

User Prof Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

House Computer Lab, FW11 and Online.

AI for Future Healthcare

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89579877801?pwd=7OZ116Hh9XwJeEy6ZDMbbYF63ViN13.1

User Bjoern Eskofier, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Boosting local biomanufacturing in the global south to impact health and sustainability

User Dr Jenny Molloy - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 13:30-14:45

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The Cybersecurity Awareness Experience: A Masterclass in Social Engineering, Behavioral Psychology, and Digital Self-Defense

User Paul Draper.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Algorithm-mediated social learning

User William Brady (Northwestern University).

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Talk by Mor Geva

User Mor Geva (Tel Aviv University, Google Research).

House https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3674017464325?p=04vmZBjTtuQwz5Rqvk.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

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

Translational psychological science for youth mental health

User Tim Dalgleish, U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User Emma Mitchell (NEB, sponsor), Magdalena Crossley (PI, CRUK, Cambridge, UK).

Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:30-18:30

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User Emma Mitchell (NEB, sponsor), Magdalena Crossley (PI, CRUK, Cambridge, UK).

Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:30-18:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

From synthetic to analytic geometry, overview of the GeoCoq/Rocq library.

User Julien Narboux (UFR Informatique, University Paris Cité).

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics

User Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL).

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

House FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute).

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Yifang Ban, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Elle McDonagh, Variant interpretation at scale for safer and more effective disease treatment

User Dr Elle McDonagh.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

To divide or differentiate, that is the question

User Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Rainfall, volatility and roughness: an intriguing story across scales

User Marc Hoffmann (Université Paris-Dauphine).

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 27 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Niccolo Klinger, PhD student, CUED.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

AI weather forecasting: past, present and future

User Richard Turner, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation

User Dan Bendor, University College London.

Monday 02 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI).

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 15:05-15:55

House Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Title to be confirmed

User Dimitris Spathis, Google.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

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

Verbal suggestion and the modulation of perception: Implications for psychological science, psychopathology, and psychedelics

User Devin Terhune, KCL.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Aleksej Zelezniak

User Dr Aleksej Zelezniak, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and King's College London.

House Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

User Anand Rao Tadipatri (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 05 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The complexity of platform power

User Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:30

House FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Mario Giulianelli (UCL).

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Tom Bearpark, Princeton University.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Postdoctoral Research Associate Talks

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila

User Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

The function of the top-down processes in the visual cortex: contextual processing and scene segmentation

User Matthew Self, University of Glasgow.

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Monday 09 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

Space-Time Optimisations for Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

User Sanaa Sharma, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 11:00-11:50

House Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Title to be confirmed

User Ian Tang, Meta.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Manon Revel (Google DeepMind).

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Rika Antonova - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 15:05-15:55

TBC: HPC, GPUs, and Julia

User Mosè Giordano - UCL.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Building Word Meanings from Memories and Predictions

User Jenni Rodd, UCL.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Tal Linzen

User Tal Linzen (NYU).

House https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3674017464325?p=04vmZBjTtuQwz5Rqvk.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

User Gérard Ben Arous (Courant).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

User Christoph Benzmüller (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and Freie Universität Berlin).

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

Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

House ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).

Friday 13 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Illuminating mechanisms of PGC migration in the early mouse embryo

User Kate McDole (LMB).

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University .

House Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Did 1960's structural engineers know more than 2020's structural engineers - unpicking the engineering of Cambridge's iconic Faculty of History

User Eng. Simon Smith.

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

Friday 13 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Data-driven nonlinear spectral modelling of fluid flows

User George Haller, ETH Zurich.

Friday 13 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Emotions as Moral Character Trackers

User Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Friday 13 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Community-Based Participatory Research on Food-Energy-Water Projects

User Dr Vasiliki Karanikola - University of Arizona.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:30-14:45

Targeting AD-related pathophysiology with non-invasive brain stimulation

User Sam Barnes, Imperial College London.

Monday 16 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

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

The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions

User Peter Kok, UCL.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

House FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Representational Geometry of Language Models

User Matthieu Téhénan (University of Cambridge).

Friday 20 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Ben Lehner, Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale

User Professor Ben Lehner.

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Shock-Induced Pore Collapse in PMMA: Deformation Physics and Failure Mechanics

User Professor Guruswami Ravichandran, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology.

House Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 20 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Fluid dynamics of the aqueous humour of the eye

User Jennifer Tweedy, University of Bath.

Friday 20 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning

User Prof Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford.

Friday 20 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User Guillermo Parada Gonzalez (Postdoc, Crick Institute and KCL, London, UK), Eleni Liapi (Postdoc, Aarhus University, DK).

Thursday 26 March 2026, 16:30-18:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 27 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Gopal Sapkota, title tbc

User Professor Gopal Sapkota.

Friday 27 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

"Reinforcement Learning with Exogenous States and Rewards” Professor Thomas G. Dietterich, School of EECS, Oregon State University

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Department of Engineering - LT1.

Wednesday 01 April 2026, 13:30-14:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 03 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 10 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 17 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 24 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: In a post-Ozempic world, have we cured obesity?

User Professor Giles S.H. Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 April 2026, 19:30-21:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

User Ròża Przanowska (Postdoc, UVirginia), Zhipeng Lu (PI, USC).

House Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 April 2026, 16:30-18:30

Title to be confirmed

User Floris van Doorn (University of Bonn).

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

Thursday 30 April 2026, 17:00-18:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 01 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Duncan MacLachlan, Rolls Royce.

House Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Simon Moore - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 08 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex

User Andreas Keller, University of Basel.

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Monday 11 May 2026, 16:15-18:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Cristina David - School of Computer Science, University of Bristol.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 15 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Özlem Durmaz-Incel, University of Twente.

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Tom Stafford - School of Psychology, Universitry of Sheffield.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 22 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Professor David Kotz - Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User Miguel Aracena Velazquez (PhD student, UYork), Pedro Madrigal (Project Leader, EMBL EBI).

Thursday 28 May 2026, 16:30-18:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

User Thomas Powell (University of Bath).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 28 May 2026, 17:00-18:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 29 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Hana Aliee - Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 June 2026, 15:05-15:55

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

User Valeria Ruscio.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 05 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 12 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 19 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User Nida Ali (Postdoc, UCambridge, UK), TBD (Novogene, Sponsor).

Thursday 25 June 2026, 16:30-18:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 26 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 03 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 10 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

User Sung Chul Kwon (PI, UHong Kong), TBD .

House Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 July 2026, 16:30-18:30