Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Time course of memory updating in running span

Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

Hieroglyphic Luwian masterclass

Tea served from 4.15

Willemijn Waal, Leiden.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning and testing compositionality

Elia Bruni, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques?

John Rothwell (UCL).

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Children's Literature

Fantasy and the Anthropocene

Prof Brian Attebery, University of Glasgow.

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems

Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor).

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

Alexandros Beskos, University College London .

MR12.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mindfulness training for mental health promotion

Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Indo-European Seminar

1st Reading seminar: Harm Pinkster’s Oxford Latin Syntax

Tea served from 4.15

Speaker to be confirmed.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Queering the Art Classroom

Tabitha Millett, IoE, University College London.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery

Adam Zeman (University of Exeter).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sylvain Sardy, Université de Genève.

MR12.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective

Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

Italic religious dedications: between local traditions and Graeco-Roman influences

Tea served from 4.15

Maria José Estaran University of Zaragoza.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

Oliver Mayeux, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

Chaucer Club

Testosterone and human gender development

Melissa Hines (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

MR12.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

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

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection

Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Arts and Creativities Research Group

SILENCE - (Re-)Viewing the concept of silence across multiple perspectives by an interdisciplinary panel of researchers

Satinder Gill, Hilary Cremin, Elizabeth Maber, Toshi Tsuruhara, Pam Burnard, Helen Lees.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing

Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks

Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Botond Szabó, University of Leiden.

MR12.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Animal models of episodic memory

Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Faculty of Education Seminars

Structures of Governance in English Secondary Schooling and their Antecedents: The Cambridgeshire Village College Meets the Academy Trust

Dr Gordon Johnson and Dr Gillian Sutherland.

DMB GS1, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:15-18:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Celebrating Difference- A Whole School Approach to Lgbt+ Inclusion in Schools

Shaun Dellenty.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment

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

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Capturing complexity in improvisation research

Dr Leila Heil, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian

Prof Janet Watson, Leeds University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

Chaucer Club

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR12.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Researching LGBTQ+ Issues: Building Community

Charlotte Allen, Frank Frangeskou, Becky Moses, Lucian Stephenson.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

THE POWER OF CATALYTIC CONVERSATIONS: An unexpected journey and response to the question 'How do we turn STEM into STEAM?

Carole Bent, Creative Catalyst, Advisor and Art Partner .

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Identifying the cognitive dimensions of learning problems in children who have been identified as struggling at school

Joni Holmes (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

Anna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward

Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

Tamar Makin (UCL).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor

Tea served from 4.15

Bill Short University of Exeter .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic: Endangered communities and languages in contact

Prof Eleanor Coghill, Uppsala University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 17:15-18:15

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

MR12.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

MR12.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

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