Hills Coffee Talks

Testing the HARPS3 Data Reduction Pipeline with Synthetic Spectra to achieve Earth-Twin RV Precision

Alicia Anderson (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Explainable AI in Neuroscience: From Interpretability to Biomarker Discovery

Mike Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Regression Tree Approach to Missing Data"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81415700586?pwd=7rhWD5jDWlkAq1nuMUPDJGDkhQsMCM.1

Professor Wei-Yin Loh, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Harnessing the Power, Managing the Risk: The Future of AI, Data, and Cybersecurity

Evan Kotsovinos, Vice President Privacy, Safety, Security, Google.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Quantifying individuality in neural circuit representations

Alex Williams (NYU).

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

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

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

No One Left Behind: Building Low-Cost Wearables for Health Equity

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81601045586?pwd=mORnvD0Ur1dNoBGDjAc1trAT1I8rkC.1

Longfei Shangguan, University of Pittsburgh.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foundation AI

Sheaf-Based Diffusion for Multimodal Graph Learning

Mar Gonzàlez i Català (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Type-driven Development with Idris 2

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

RSE Seminars

A Modular OCR Solution for Logographic Scripts: From Labeling to Recognition and User Interface Design

Peichao Qin - Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

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

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Modelling Building Thermal Dynamics – From Data Generation to Transfer Learning

Fabian Raisch, Technical University of Munich.

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Instrumentation and Iteration in Massively Online Live Service Gaming

Mark Kerr, Jagex.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages

Prof. Hila Gonen (University of Biritish Columbia).

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

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The different merger and evolutionary histories of the Milky Way and Andromeda (M31)

Ortwin Gerhard, MPE (Garching).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Completeness Theorems for Variations of Higher-Order Logic

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models

Paul Röttger (Bocconi University).

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 16 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

On Activation and Normalization Layers in Graph Neural Networks

Moshe Eliasof, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Foundation AI

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

Thomas hartigan.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 19 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

Hills Coffee Talks

A 21-cm Cosmologist’s Journey: From Cambridge to North America and Back Again

Dr. Peter Sims (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sunoo Park, NYU.

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

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "AI for the Human Cell Atlas"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/jy1cAVg4SeiEB-grYmQV8Q

Professor Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

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

Cambridge Ellis Unit

A Mixture-based framework for guiding Diffusion models

Alain Oliviero-Durmus - Ecole Polytechnique.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Recreating the Physical Natural World from Images

Dr Elliott Wu - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof Hal Daume III

Prof Hal Daume III (University of Maryland).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

RSE Seminars

Fortitude: A Modern Fortran Linter

Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill, University of York Plasma.

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The effect of binary mass transfer on the late evolution, death, and afterlife of massive stars

Eva laplace, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Sangwoong Yoon (UCL).

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 23 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

AI Meets Economics: The Case of Auction-Assisted AI Systems in Cloud-Edge Continuum

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (MS Teams link to appear below).

Friday 23 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Hills Coffee Talks

JAX-powered Bayesian anomaly detection for supernovae analysis

Samuel Leeney (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Computer Vision: Between Forensics and Biomedical Imaging

Giovanna Maria Dimitri, University of Siena (Italy).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

007: End-to-End Encrypted Audio Calls via Blind Audio Mixing

Emad Heydari Beni & Lode Hoste, Nokia Bell Labs.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning

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

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

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hard and soft equivariance priors via Steerable CNNs

Dr Gabriele Cesa - Qualcomm AI Research, Amsterdam.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Yihang She, 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 29 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Dr. Philippe Laban

Dr. Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research).

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Imaging and Design with Differentiable Physics Models

Benjamin Pope (Macquarie University).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 02 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Cornell University.

Online.

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

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu

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

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

Akeelah Bertram (Cavendish Arts Science Fellow).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun

Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun (Google DeepMind).

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

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

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

What can we learn about a dynamical system from data? – Impossibility results and classifications using adversarial dynamical systems

Matthew Colbrook (DAMTP).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Love Bites: The Deadly Romance of Spider Pulsars

Prof. Rene Breton (University of Manchester).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

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

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

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