NLIP Seminar Series

Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language

Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

MR12.

Friday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL CLUB TALK THIS WEEK

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

The role of medium of instruction for multilingual children: a study of primary school children in India".

Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Statistical methods for the study of heterogeneity in cognitive decline: applications to French and UK cohorts

Anaïs Rouanet (MRC Biostatistics Unit) .

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

Double accusatives in Ancient Greek: διδάσκω between traditional and modern approaches

Tea served from 4.15

Marina Benedetti .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language

Pasquale Minervini, University College London.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Interference and memory capacity limitations

Ansgar Endress (City University).

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

Thursday 25 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers

Kostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

MR12.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences

Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks

Kamila Jozwik (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Patagonian Afrikaans: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Friday 02 November 2018, 14:30-16:00

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

Yuting Wei, Stanford University.

MR12.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Sleep for Systems Consolidation

Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor, The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada

Dr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University.

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

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise

Tobias Goehring (MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

PIE alignment change and the emergence of the thematic conjugation: Two sides of the same diachronic coin?

Tea served from 4.15

Roland Pooth, Ghent.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Languages, speakers and history: Romance and Greek in Southern Italy

Cristina Guardiano.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 18:15-19:00

Chaucer Club

Cognition in corvids and kids

Nicky Clayton (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Laurent Massoulié, INRIA.

MR12.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Social timing in autism spectrum disorders

Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load

John Duncan (MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusion

Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow).

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Pierre Alquier, ENSAE.

MR12.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Making sense of time in the Human mind

Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?

Dr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds.

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

Monday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches

Romy Lorenz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek. A reconsideration

Tea served from 4.15

Klaas Bentein, Ghent.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Children's Literature

North American Girls' Literature

Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Truman State University.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

On the impact of debasilectalization in language documentation: insights from the "missing Spanish creoles"

Danae Perez, University of Zurich.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 18:15-19:00

Chaucer Club

A Bayesian approach to internal models

Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Paula Czarnowska & Chris Davis, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

MR12.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know

Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Children's Literature

FEAST: Consuming Children - A roundtable discussion on food in children's literature

FEAST journal contributors.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Rahia Mashoodh (Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control

Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Centre for the Future of Intelligence / Faculty of Philosophy.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

Dr. Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading .

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Children's Literature

Giving Comics Back to Children

Professor Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

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

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00