NLIP Seminar Series

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM

Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Something ate my fossil: from anecdote to testing hypotheses

Dr Elizabeth Harper, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 24 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Video Contest

CCIMI Members.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 14:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Thomas Burger (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq

Dr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Visual nonlinearities

Alyse Brown (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face

Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

The Principle of Least Cognitive Action

Professor Marco Gori.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 16:15-17:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Intersubjectivity, Place and Embodied Cognition in Children’s Literature Translation Studies

Beata Piecychna, University of Bialystok, Poland.

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin).

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

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Prof. Anita Mehta (University of Oxford).

English Faculty Building, SR-24 (second floor).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

Roger Koenker, University College London.

MR12.

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?

Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Collaborative Poetics

Reserve your space at http://collaborativepoetics.eventbrite.com

Helen Johnson, University of Brighton.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS5.

Monday 03 June 2019, 14:00-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

This is a joint ACA–CCIMI seminar

Ilse Ipsen (NCSU).

MR 14.

Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement

Giacomo Bignardi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Role of Social Media in Health Prediction and Prevention: Digital Methods in Public Health and Behavior Change

Dr Sophie Lohmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

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

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12.

Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

MR12.

Friday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Nexus Analysis: A Natural Fit for Linguistic Ethnography

N.A. Wendte (Tulane University).

Faculty of English, Board Room.

Monday 10 June 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception

Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

South Pole Large Meeting Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Digitally Distracted

Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL).

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

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur in Children's Literature

Elly McCausland, University of Oslo..

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens

Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York).

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

Thursday 13 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Photons in the cloud: communicating and storing data

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 John H Marsh, University of Glasgow.

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

Thursday 13 June 2019, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

Felix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Historical demography, public health and evolutionary biology.

Dr Romola Davenport, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 14 June 2019, 17:45-19:10

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Dr Heejung Kim & Dr David Sherman

Speaker to be confirmed.

TBC, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

Jon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

MR12.

Monday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovative engineering: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the Square Kilometer Array

Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 24 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Beck, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Professor Serena Best - title to be confirmed

Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Maths of Whole 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 Philosophical Society

Dr Susannah Gibson - title to be confirmed

Dr Susannah Gibson, Affiliated Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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