Chaucer Club

Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures

Lia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, room to be confirmed.

Friday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Decoding the neural processing of speech

The host for this talk is Usha Goswami

Professor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Engineering enzyme replacement therapies for lysosomal storage diseases using generative AI

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99216883530?pwd=OFRHMkh1KzUzVm5EZzFLS0JLUTlMZz09

Dr Giovanni Stracquadanio, The University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

When language typology meets dementia

Boon Lead Tee (UCSF) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

David Corney (Full Fact).

Computer Lab, room to be confirmed.

Friday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amstersdam).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Efi Tsamoura, Samsung.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view

Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical gradients of functional integration

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

Dr Daniel Margulies .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AbDiffuser: full-atom generation of in- vitro functioning antibodies

Karolis Martinkus (ETH Zurich) & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Representation and computation in visual working memory

Professor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex

Sanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity

The host for this talk is Amy Milton

Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Sara Hooker (Cohere).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multi-Agent Simulation and Learning in TorchRL

Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

Jan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

Computer Lab, room to be confirmed.

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside

Jessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Mathias Müller (University of Zürich).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 17 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

HEALNet – Hybrid Early Fusion for Multi-Modal Biomedical Representations

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy

Quentin Huys (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language

The host for this talk is Kanad Mandke

Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Partha Maji, Tenstorrent.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research

Essi Viding (UCL) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

Computer Lab, room to be confirmed.

Friday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 December 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders

Professor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition

Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:30

Zangwill Club

When Art meets Psychology

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Prof. Clive Wilkins.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical interneurons in health and disease.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:30

Zangwill Club

The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:30-18:00