Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org

Food provided

Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

Using maths to clean-up our oceans - Dr Thomas Crawford

Dr Thomas Crawford.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Monday 20 January 2020, 20:30-21:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Abstract Diagrammatic Reasoning with Multiplex Graph Networks

Duo Wang.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars

Sanjeev Gupta.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Optiver: Machine learning in trading: Let’s build a quantitative trading strategy

Food provided

Dennis Fleurbaaij.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Digital Modeling of Reality with Machine Learning

Dr Cengiz Oztireli, Graphics Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 15:05-15:55

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

Mira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Can meaningful hope spring from revealing the depth of our climate failure?

Prof Kevin Anderson (University of Manchester, Uppsala University).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

What is quantum field theory?

Professor Nick Dorey (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Cambridge Design Partnership

Food provided

Jason Mashinchi, Graduate Software Engineer and Tom Vajzovic, Consultant Software Engineer.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, 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 - The Silent Flight of the Owl

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Jacob Deasy.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space

Dave Wealthy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

TBC.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

Nicholas Zair, Cambridge.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

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 Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Anthony J. 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

Chaucer Club

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Hows and Whys of Living in Groups: Perspectives from Birds and Apes

Prof Dora Biro (Oxford).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Doubt thy models: rethinking hypothesis testing in NLP

Rescheduled

Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 31 January 2020, 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 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning

Dr Chandrima Ganguly .

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Dimensional Analysis: How to get something for (nearly) nothing

Prof. Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

Paolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality

Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO

Nicholas Walton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Machine Learning at the Extreme Edge - an Open Platform Approach

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Women@CL Events

What is High-Performance Computing and why does it matter?

Lunch provided

Rosemary Francis (Ellexus).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

How electron cryomicroscopy is revolutionising structural biology

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prof Richard Henderson (MRC LMB).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 07 February 2020, 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 World_link.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Stepping up climate change mitigation

Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

A lot of hot air? The fluid mechanics of building ventilation

Prof. Colm-Cille Caulfield (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Ljiljana Fruk - title to be confirmed

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Biology and Engineering 18.00-19.00.

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

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3..

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past

Gareth Collins.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Ourpath

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Climate, Carbon, and Computer Science

Professor Keshav - Robert Sansom Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

Dr. Claudia Schneider.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Indo-European Seminar

The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic

tea served from 4.15

Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Development of petal nanoscale ridges that scatter light and influence animal behaviour

Director of Cambridge Botanic Garden

Prof Beverley Glover (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Women@CL Events

TBC

Lunch provided

Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Eric Lauga (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Ben Day (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Green Custard Ltd: Innovating at pace in IoT

Food provided

Zoltan Molnar and Gavin Dolling .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

Antonia Ruppel (Oxford).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

From Mars to the Multiverse

Astronomer Royal

Prof Lord Martin Rees.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Vanessa Didelez, University of Bremen.

MR12.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Green's functions: from physics to analysis

Dr Anthony Ashton (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks - Combining ML and Reasoning

James Fletcher, Haikal Pribadi (Grakn).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes

Sarah Bosman.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

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

Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

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

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Renormalisation Group

Prof David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Maria Liakata (University of Warwick/Alan Turing Institute).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

The non-abelian X-ray transform

Prof. Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory - the history of star formation in the Universe

Stephen Eales.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence

Prof Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence

Prof Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

How Statistics is changing the world

Prof. Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 March 2020, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Sounds of Space

Nigel Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Language development in exceptional circumstances: effects of permanent childhood hearing loss

Dr Lorna Halliday (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

Dr David Stillwell.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Gearset - Continuous Delivery in Practice

Food provided

Ben Roberts, Software Engineer and Luke Drury, VP of Engineering.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

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

Juniper Hill, 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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

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

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

Professor Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New tools to understand and protect the biosphere

Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:00