NLIP Seminar Series

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM

Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq

Dr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Visual nonlinearities

Alyse Brown (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Intersubjectivity, Place and Embodied Cognition in Children’s Literature Translation Studies

Beata Piecychna, University of Bialystok, Poland.

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin).

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

Thursday 30 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Prof. Anita Mehta (University of Oxford).

English Faculty Building, SR-24 (second floor).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

Roger Koenker, University College London.

MR12.

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Collaborative Poetics

Reserve your space at http://collaborativepoetics.eventbrite.com

Helen Johnson, University of Brighton.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS5.

Monday 03 June 2019, 14:00-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement

Giacomo Bignardi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12.

Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

MR12.

Friday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Nexus Analysis: A Natural Fit for Linguistic Ethnography

N.A. Wendte (Tulane University).

Faculty of English, Board Room.

Monday 10 June 2019, 10:00-11:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception

Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

South Pole Large Meeting Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur in Children's Literature

Elly McCausland, University of Oslo..

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

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens

Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York).

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

Thursday 13 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

Felix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

Jon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

MR12.

Monday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Beck, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00