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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Toward chiral fermions on the lattice

Ioanna Kourkoulou, University of Cambridge.

MR9.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

How common are misaligned accretion disks around black holes?

Matthew Liska (Georgia Tech).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

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

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Dynamical Formation of Regular Black Holes

Robbie Hennigar, Durham University.

MR9/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87869493842?pwd=vGeCJJgQZa8PwZOhk1kpE0nbj6DgpJ.1.

Friday 09 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Counting planar curves using tropical geometry

Sae Koyama, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Resummation of Non-Global Logarithms

Nicolas Schalch (Oxford U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Metastability Properties of the Earth's Climate: a Multiscale Viewpoint

Prof Valerio Lucarini, University of Leicester.

MR2.

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

Cosmology Lunch

DESI DR2: Survey overview and cosmological constraints from DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation measurements

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86165819179?pwd=uITeMzHyCpzVlUmVufdGEJXudF0dsy.1

Arnaud de Mattia (IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay).

SPECIAL LOCATION - CMS, MR5, Pav A basement.

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

On the role of magnetic fluctuations in low magnetic Prandtl number plasmas

Maarit Korpi-Lagg [Helsinki/Espoo].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

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

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum thermodynamics and semi-definite optimization

Mark M. Wilde (Cornell University).

MR2.

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Jori Merikoski (Oxford).

MR13.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Einstein-Maxwell instantons, complex structures, and the Geroch group

Bernardo Araneda (Edinburgh).

CMS MR14.

Tuesday 13 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

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Spacetime Singularities and Black Holes

Professor Gary Horowitz - University of California, Santa Barbara.

MR3.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Profinite rigidity of Kähler groups

Claudio Llosa Isenrich (KIT).

CMS, MR15.

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

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Pieter Bomans, Oxford University.

MR15.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

New Insights on High Wave Scattering by Multiple Open Arcs: Exponentially Convergent Methods and Shape Holomorphy

Carlos Jerez Hanckes (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Completeness Theorems for Variations of Higher-Order Logic

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Benjamin Elder, Imperial College London.

MR20/Zoom.

Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Henrique Souza, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

MR13.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Tyler Corbett (Vienna U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Can AI weather and climate emulators predict out-of-distribution gray swan extreme events?

Prof Pedram Hassanzedeh, University of Chicago.

MR2.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Morgan Williams [Imperial College London].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 19 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

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Adrien La Posta (University of Oxford).

SPECIAL LOCATION - CMS, MR12, Pav. D basement.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Jessica Alessandri (Bath).

MR13.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Max Xu (Courant Institute, NYU).

MR4, CMS.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Bjarne Bergh, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Anja Meyer, University of Loughborough.

MR12.

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Hamza Fawzi, University of Cambridge.

MR9.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jerónimo García-Mejía, Oxford.

MR20.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

David Lenze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

MR13.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From Wall-Climbing Active Colloids to self-assembly of Magnetotactic Bacteria

Prof Cottin-Bizonne, Université Lyon.

MR2.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Annalaura Rebucci, MPI Leipzig.

MR13.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

David Melon-Fuksman [MPIA Heidelberg].

MR4 DAMTP and online.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

James Kiln (Queen Mary).

MR13.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Mariusz Mirek (Rutgers University).

MR4, CMS.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

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

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Laura Monk (Bristol).

CMS, MR15.

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Rafael porto, DESY.

MR13.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Martin Pessah [NBIA Copenhagen].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

TBC

Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute).

MR14.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Alberto Paganini (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational Wave Signatures of Dark Matter in Neutron Star Mergers

Violetta Sagun, University of Southampton.

MR9/Zoom.

Friday 30 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Eleonora Di Valentino (University of Sheffield).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Vijay Balasubramanian.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Florence Marcotte [Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Miles H. Wheeler (University of Bath).

MR13.

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

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Fred Diamond (KCL).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Sameer Murthy, KCL.

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jonathan Squire [Otago, New Zealand].

MR20 DAMTP and online.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sergio Blanes (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A Spacetime Interpretation of the Confluent Heun Functions in Black Hole Perturbation Theory

Marica Minucci, Bohr Inst., Copenhagen.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 06 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Davide Spriano, Oxford.

MR20.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Cat Rust, Queen Mary University of London.

MR19 (note venue change!).

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Kay Schönwald (Zurich U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

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

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Gianmassimo Tasinato (Swansea University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Tobias Barker (University of Bath).

MR13.

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

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

David Lilienfeldt (Leiden).

MR13.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nejc Čeplak, Trinity College Dublin.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 12 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Leonardo Tolomeo (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Panos Giannadakis, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Raphael Appenzeller, Heidelberg.

MR20.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yining Chen (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alison La Porta, University of Lancaster.

MR19 (note venue change!).

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

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

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Hendrik Hildebrandt (Ruhr University Bochum).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 16 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Gavin Coleman [Queen Mary University London].

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Patrick Allen (McGill).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Maximo Bañados, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Well-posed initial value formulation of general effective field theories of gravity

Aron Kovacs, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14 - note venue change.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 23 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Liying Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Jianbo Cui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

George Efstathiou.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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

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

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Etienne Camphuis (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 06 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Parton showers beyond leading colour

Jeffrey R. Forshaw (Manchester U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

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

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00