Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Advanced polarized light microscopy for mapping molecular orientation

 Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required

Prof Rudolf Oldenbourg, Marine Biological Laboratory, MA.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 09:30-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future.

Professor Tim Minshall, Institutue for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 30 September 2019, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How To - An Evening with Randall Monroe

Randall Munroe.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

What's new in PsychoPy3?

Dr Jon Peirce (U. of Nottingham).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Using narratives to understand human conscious experience

Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sam Livingstone — University College London.

MR12.

Friday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space

Professor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 11 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Dealing with the 3 V's: Bigger, Faster, Weirder

Food provided. Please sign up online at www.gsacapital.com/careers so we can gauge numbers for catering.

Dr Joris Peeters, GSA Capital.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:05-14:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Monday 14 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

Dr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The emotional modulation of memory

Dr Deborah Talmi (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Interactive workshop with Goldman Sachs

Food provided

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:05-15:00

Chaucer Club

The perceptual prediction paradox

Clare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Please note: There will be no Zangwill Talk this week

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 October 2019, 00:00-00:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Peter Orbanz — University College London.

MR12.

Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

James Watt

Dr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

JPMorgan Technology Showcase

Food provided

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A

Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities

Patricia Andrews Fearon.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Methodological Diversity in Design Fixation Research

Dr Nathan Crilly is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Design at the University of Cambridge. .

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Crush Your Code

Food provided

Facebook.

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:15-14:30

Chaucer Club

A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks

Andrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Song Liu — University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

How we remember and how we forget

Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

(1) Understanding flowers and their pollinators: The role of petal texture in the pollination of wild tobaccos; (2) Chasing the bacteria in the river Cam with real-time DNA sequencing

Gabriela Doria and Lara Urban, Wolfson College..

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 25 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder

Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

New horizons for piano: historic women composers who wrote for the keyboard and how to reintroduce their work into piano education

Colin J Hazel, director of music at St Augustine's Church, Cambridge.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S5.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Modern Bootstrap

You may read an overview on 'the Bootstrap model' here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_model

Professor J Cardy FRS, University of California, Berkeley.

TBC.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 19:30-20:30

Chaucer Club

The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making

Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Friday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Second Language Education Group

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development

Professor Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, Dr.Dieuwerke Rutgers, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Collaborative Poetics

Helen Johnson, University of Brighton.

Mary Allan Building, Auditorium, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH .

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments

Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP

Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

100 Years of Universes

Professor John D Barrow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Zangwill Club

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Colloquium - The Statistical Finite Element Method

Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

You Can Achieve Anything - with a Laser

There will be hands-on activities involving Laser Beam equipment.

Dr Ray Davies, Photonics Academy of Wales @ Bangor.

TBC.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Recruitment Fair

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:30-16:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence

Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Recruitment fair

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 November 2019, 11:30-16:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

MR12.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

Professor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 15 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory

Dr Athena Akrami (University College London).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

Henryk Michalewski.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Is equilibrium overrated? Processing of optical materials at finite time scales

The following article is related to the talk: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13265.pdf

Prof. Ursula J. Gibson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

TBC.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Second Language Education Group

Plurilingualism and Assessment (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume)

Dr. Nick Saville, Cambridge English Assessment.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

MR12.

Friday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Conservation and plant diversity (TBC)

Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 22 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of "The Spirit of Inquiry" 200 years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths

Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

Joseph Marks.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Prof. Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain

Anthony Wagner (Stanford University).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Room Change: SS03

Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 29 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

MR12.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Prevention of cancer

Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 29 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Prof Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

TBC.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 19:30-20:30

Zangwill Club

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Globalizing music education and the international music education community

Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

TBC.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, University of Surrey.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Professor Nigel Peake - title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneering genetic therapies for Huntington's disease and its relevance for neurodegeneration

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2020 Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Ann Waterman (aw244@cam.ac.uk).

Professor Tony Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Climate change (TBC)

Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Structures Research Group.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Eske Willerslev - title to be confirmed

Professor Eske Willerslev, Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Copenhagen.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Class, Control and Classical music: Musical practices and white middle-class identities among young people in the south of England

Dr Anna Bull, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor Rebecca Kilner - title to be confirmed

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Professor David Baulcombe FRS- title to be confirmed

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

A Wikipedia article on our speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Kent

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TBC.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Volcanic Behaviour

Dr Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges

Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Rouse Ball Lectures

Undecidability in number theory

Bjorn Poonen, MIT.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Monday 27 April 2020, 12:00-13:00