Computational Neuroscience

Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks

Omri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

BioNLP Research at Google

Ryan MacDonald, Google.

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

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Recruitment Fair

Recruitment Fair.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

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

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Leveraging non-expert semantic intuitions to support multilingual NLP

Olga Majewska, PhD student in Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Heritage language learners on the move: The transnational process of managing and learning Chinese in a Mandarin community school

Lini Xiao, PhD student, Faculty of Education.

Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Engaging Indigenous Communities in Malaysia: Snapshots of Culture, Genomics and Health

Maude E Phipps, Monash University Malaysia.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof. Federico Federici (University College London).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Looking ahead in the world of science

1973 Nobel Prize in Physics

Prof Brian Josephson (Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Recruitment Fair

Recruitment Fair.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

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 - The Lee Hall.

Friday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Finding an Analogy

Aaron Stockdill.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Exozodiacal clouds - the local environment of habitable planets

Professor Mark Wyatt.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Roku: Engineering Smart TVs for fun and profit

Food provided

Tim Granger.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

Henryk Michalewski.

CMS, MR14.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London.

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Earphones: The Next Significant Platform after Smartphones

Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:05-15:55

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Children’s Literature at the Crossroads of Genre, Nation and Empire: Alice, Pinocchio, and adventure stories

Laura Tosi is Full Professor of English Literature at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice. .

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Women@CL Events

Urban Driving with Conditional Imitation Learning

Corina Gurau, Researcher, Wayve.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

Lucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Photonic-chip-based soliton microcombs

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

Tobias Kippenberg: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

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

Friday 22 November 2019, 10:30-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

LT1, 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

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

MR12.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Conservation and plant diversity

Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

The Limits of Symmetric Computation

Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 22 November 2019, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (Newton International Fellow, British Academy and University College London).

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

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Mathworks: MATLAB and NVIDIA Docker: A Complete AI Solution, Where You Need It, in an Instant

Food provided

Dr. Jos Martin, Senior Engineering Manager - Parallel Computing.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Zohreh Shams.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

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.

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

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Building with DNA: From understanding to redesign of molecular machines

Prof. Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

women@CL Coffee and Cake

Women@CL Coffee & Cakes

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Sexual Health, Risk and Migration: Challenging exclusionary constructions of migrant men who have sex with men

Arthur Davis - Centre for Gender Studies.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Virtual reality to facilitate multi-sensory molecular simulation and design: from quantum chemistry to ligand-protein binding

Dr David Glowacki (University of Bristol).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.

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

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The periodic table: foundations and elaborations

Prof Peter Atkins (Oxford).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

One

Dr Andrew Szydlo.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Mendeleev's Gift to Everyone (including you and me)

Sir Martyn Poliakoff (University of Nottingham).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Saturday 30 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

(Periodic) Table Talk — the beginnings of the Periodic Table

Dr Peter Wothers (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Saturday 30 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: the life sciences on film and radio

Max Long (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Some elements of algebraic geometry

Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 December 2019, 19:00-20:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Paul Scherer.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Polluted White Dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets

Laura Rogers.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Decoding the mysteries of quantum physics

Professor Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

Anna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The theory-led hunt for extreme materials

Professor Chris Pickard (University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Angela Fan (Facebook).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Ben Day.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Duo Wang.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

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

TBC.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Professor 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

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

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Tina Potter, Cavendish.

TBC.

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

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

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

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