Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP

Iryna Gurevych.

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

TBC (Statistics and CCIMI seminar)

Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

What kind of network is the brain?

John Mollon (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

Sam Power (University of Bristol).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Plastic brains for flexible decisions

Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

Min Xu (Rutgers University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes

The host for this talk is Simon Baron-Cohen (sb205@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

TBC

Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder

Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation

Professor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing

Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Disruption of Information in Working Memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

TBC

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The measurement of difficult things: From psychophysics to psycho-oncology

Professor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

Peter John (King's College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

The host for this talk is David Belin

Dr David Dupret (Oxford University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causality

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

The Neuroscience of Reading: Tracing words from the page through the brain

Dr Geoffrey M. Boynton (University of Washington).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention

The hosts for this talk are Tristan Bekinschtein and Andrés Canales-Johnson

Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Choice under Computational Complexity

The host for this talk is Sander van der Linden

Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

The DNA revolution and psychology

Professor Robert Plomin (King's College, London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:30-18:00