Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

How the Usefulness of Statistical Evidence Depends on the Relevant Legal Criteria in Civil Cases in the U.S.

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

Joseph Gastwirth (George Washington University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Functional theory of the occupied spectral density and solution of its dynamical Euler-Lagrange equations

Prof. Andrea Ferretti.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Something for everyone: Stories from the vault of an optoelectronic materials group.

Professor Eli Zysman-Colman, Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control of Lumped-Distributed Control Systems

Richard Vinter, Imperial College.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering..

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Chronic nation: the politics of experts, health and making modern Indian citizens (1940–70s)

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Update on Swift Conservation in the UK

Dick Newell.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

AMET seminars

Why Water’s Worth Weighing: The Missing Molecule in Materials of the Future

Ben Davey (Xylem).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Friday 20 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Shorthouse, AI (and robots!) for Accelerated Discovery in Pharmaceutical Science

Professor David Shorthouse.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructurally informed material modelling workflows for fusion engineering applications

Dr. Pratheek Shanthraj, UKAEA.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modal Identification via Computer Vision

Mario Visconte, PhD student, University of Calabria, UNICAL.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Top-Yukawa- and light-quark-induced electroweak corrections to Higgs-Pair Production via Gluon Fusion

Arunima Bhattacharya (Valencia U., IFIC).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine

Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900

Dr Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Considerations and counterfactuals for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands

Tom Reershemius, Newcastle University .

MR3, CMS.

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature

Hilbrand Wouters (University of Konstanz).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The limiting case of the fractional Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension one

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Mariel Saez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Overdetermined problems and higher order mean curvatures: symmetry and stability results (a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Nunzia Gavitone (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops

Livia de Hoz, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Finding common ground

Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Towards the discovery of 0vbb: first results from LEGEND

William Quinn (University College London).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Climate scientists as analysts, advisors, advocates, or activists: what’s the difference and does it matter?

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDJlNDNiMGItY2YxZS00MjRiLTk5NjgtZWZkYjM2MjI3ZTQx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Prof Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

A new legacy of Cavendish radio astronomy: high dynamic range imaging of 3CRR

Dr. Vijay Mahatma (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:15-12:00

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fluorescence-Lifetime Super-Resolution Microscopy

Prof Jörg Enderlein, Georg August University, Göttingen.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge

Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reading your DNA

Sir Shankar Balasubramanian.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Boosting local biomanufacturing in the global south to impact health and sustainability

Dr Jenny Molloy - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 13:30-14:45

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

A rule that’s made to be broken? Reframing the Arrhenius law and the calculation of activation energies for ion transport in solid electrolytes.

Dr Vanessa Ward, Durham University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Algorithm-mediated social learning

William Brady (Northwestern University).

Online.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tbc

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Rupert Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exciton Self-Trapping, Frozen Disorder, and Morphotropic Phase Boundaries in Halide Perovskites

Prof. Julia Wiktor (Chalmers).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Translational psychological science for youth mental health

Tim Dalgleish, U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Felix Voigtlaender (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The effect of damage on the mechanical response and sensitiveness of energetic composites

Kieran Heal, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room North, Room A0.019, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

AI, automation, and the problem of error in science

Stephan Guttinger (University of Exeter).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Novel quantum dynamics with superconducting qubits

Pedram Roushan (Google Quantum AI).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ladybirds in the UK: more diverse than you may think!

Peter Brown.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Zangwill Club

A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics

Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Elle McDonagh, Variant interpretation at scale for safer and more effective disease treatment

Dr Elle McDonagh.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

To divide or differentiate, that is the question

Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Fractional Multiscale Many-Body Quantum Materials: From Phase Transitions to Causality

Lincoln Carr (Colorado School of Mines).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Friday 27 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design Optimisation of Locally Resonant Metamaterials under Uncertainty

Niccolo Klinger, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology

Professor Conny Aerts, KU Leuven.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 09:15-09:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organisers' Welcome

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Thomas Richardson (University of Washington), Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 09:20-09:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Learning and exploiting graphical structure to support valid inference for causal effects

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Daniel Malinsky (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 09:30-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Model-oriented Graph Distances via Partially Ordered Sets

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Richard Guo (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 10:45-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uncertainty for Causal Discovery

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Y. Samuel Wang (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 11:30-12:15

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Brain age prediction and early neurodegeneration detection using contrastive learning on brain biomechanics

Jakob Träuble, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Establishment of Modern Atlantic Circulation linked to Weakening Iceland Scotland Overflow Water

David Thornally, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Emily Hughes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Addressing an extreme positivity violation to distinguish the causal effects of surgery and anesthesia via a separable effects model

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Caleb Miles (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Matthias Täufer (None / Other).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persuasion

Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 02 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Attribution for Multiple Causes: Methodology and Applications

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Shanshan Luo (Beijing Technology and Business University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 March 2026, 15:30-16:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation

Dan Bendor, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 02 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What is Digital Identity all about?

Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS. Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards a Complete Characterization of Target Law Identification in Missing Data DAG Models

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Razieh Nabi (Emory University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 09:45-10:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Semiconductor-based neutron detector development at QMUL

Adrian John Bevan, Queen Mary University of London.

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Confounding-Robust Fitted-Q-Iteration under Observed Markovian Marginals

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Angela Zhou (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Linbo Wang (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Single Proxy Identifiability of Causal Effects

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Silvan Vollmer (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal Modelling with Stationary Processes

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Sarah Lumpp (Technical University of Munich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal effects conditional on post-treatment variables

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Mats Stensrud (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 16:00-16:45

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning

Cristos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) .

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Glycogen to Ubiquitin and back again

Sir Philip Cohen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

When the Causal Graph is Unknown, Embrace Model Pluralism: Some Ideas and Challenges

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Rohit Bhattacharya (Williams College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 09:15-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal discovery with tiered background knowledge

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Christine Bang (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Root Cause Discovery via Permutations and Cholesky Decomposition

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Jinzhou Li (National University of Singapore).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 11:15-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

MIT bag operator in non-smooth convex domains

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Konstantin Pankrashkin (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal effect interpretation in Mendelian randomization studies

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Eleanor Sanderson (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-14:45

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

SimPoly: Simulation of Polymers with Machine Learning Force Fields Derived from First Principles + the Challenge of Long-Range Interactions (arXiv:2510.13696)

Dr Lixin Sun and Dr Gregor Simm, Microsoft.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Missing data: Mechanisms and Mitigations

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Kate Tilling (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Session

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

.

Foyer.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal Dinner at Sidney Sussex College

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

.

External.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 19:30-22:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Parameter identification in linear non-Gaussian causal models under general confounding

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 09:15-10:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell; Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal discovery through Pearson risk invariance

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Veronica Vinciotti (University of Trento).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Causal invariance and beyond

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Ernst C. Wit (Università della Svizzera italiana).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 11:15-12:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Special Guest Lecture: Professor Bill DeGrado, De Novo Design of Protein Catalysts, Drug-Delivery Vehicles and Nanopores

Professor Bill DeGrado, School of Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Thursday 05 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Natalia Chepiga, TU Delft.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Professor Gwénaël Rapenne

Professor Gwénaël Rapenne - University of Toulouse.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Verbal suggestion and the modulation of perception: Implications for psychological science, psychopathology, and psychedelics

Devin Terhune, KCL.

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

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discrete Causal Representation Learning

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Yuqi Gu (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Deriving complete constraints in discrete hidden variable DAGs: some practical issues

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Erin Gabriel (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:45-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Measuring phonons with the spin of helium atoms

Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science

Eric Winsberg (University of Cambridge & University of South Florida).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Characterizing and identifying separable graphical models

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Christopher Meek (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-16:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2025

Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Imsets, supermodular functions and matroids

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

James Cussens (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 09:15-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Relational Causal Discovery

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Elena Zheleva (University of Illinois at Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 10:30-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Are our DAGs correct? Recent developments in causal discovery evaluation

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Jonas Wahl (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 11:15-12:00

Zangwill Club

The complexity of platform power

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:30

AMET seminars

Plasmas, Plants and Partnerships: Supporting Industrial Decarbonisation through Fusion Energy

Ben Evans (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Postdoctoral Research Associate Talks, Shanlin Rao | Dalila Boi

Dr Shanlin RaoD, Dr Dalila Boi, Department of Pharmacology.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila

Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Interference: Past, Present, Future

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

M. Elizabeth Halloran (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:30-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Strict Manipulation-Based Conception of Causality, and its Implications

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

Fredrik Savje (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 14:15-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel

CIFW02 - Causal identification and discovery

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 March 2026, 15:30-16:15

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Benefits and Challenges of using Nonlinear Vibration Absorbers in Cyclic Structures

Tobias Weidemann, PhD student, University of Stuttgart.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948

Professor Issa Boulos, University of Chicago.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Antarctic ice-ocean interactions: lessons from paleo-records

Svetlana Radionovskaya, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections

Kimberley Glassman (Fitzwilliam Museum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimization of the lowest Robin eigenvalue in exterior domains of the hyperbolic plane

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Vladimir Lotoreichik (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 09 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The function of the top-down processes in the visual cortex: contextual processing and scene segmentation

Matthew Self, University of Glasgow.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 09 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Millimetre-wave antenna designs for future wireless communications and radar sensor applications

Dr James Henderson, Plextek Services Limited.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 09 March 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title TBC: (ATLAS ITk)

Dr. Bart Hommels (University of Cambridge).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Early Science and Medicine

Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770–1800)

Maria Florutau (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Resolving the Ediacaran enigma: Unravelling the fossil record of early animal evolution

Professor Alex Liu.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Commutativity properties of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Romain Speciel (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Daniel Grieser (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Excitons in Motion: Quantum Dynamics and 2D Electronic Spectroscopy of Exciton Diffusion in Organic Semiconductors

Meeting ID: 814 3136 4340 Passcode: 914502

Professor Irene Burghardt, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Zoom Meeting https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81431364340?pwd=YcyJI6g17sM8JqiLjajuc8mgvKMR0S.1 .

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Manon Revel (Google DeepMind).

Online.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

George Booth (King's College London).

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:15-17:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Targeted Protein Degradation tools for novel therapeutic strategies in cancer

Dr Catherine Lindon, Dept of Pharmacology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Henrik Dreyer (Quantinuum).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:15

Chaucer Club

Building Word Meanings from Memories and Predictions

Jenni Rodd, UCL.

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

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Marcus Webb (University of Manchester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: The Ocean of Numbers: How India Shaped the Way We Calculate

Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, NZ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seed Testing, its History and Links with Cambridge

Pam Butler.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Coffee with Scientists

Research on research

Steven Wooding (Head of Research on Research, Research Strategy Office).

Board Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 13 March 2026, 11:00-12:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Research Culture: Professor Yeun Joon Kim, Culture Creation and Change in Medical Institutions: Stage 1 Findings at IMS-MRL

Professor Yeun Joon Kim, JBS.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Illuminating mechanisms of PGC migration in the early mouse embryo

Kate McDole (LMB).

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Did 1960's structural engineers know more than 2020's structural engineers - unpicking the engineering of Cambridge's iconic Faculty of History

Eng. Simon Smith.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Emotions as Moral Character Trackers

Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song

Richard Morrison, The Times.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 13 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Title to be confirmed (Topic: Iron delivery to the Southern Ocean and the Biological Pump)

Lavenia Ratnarajah, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection

Alice Wickenden (Faculty of English).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Pedro Freitas (University of Lisbon).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Catalytic Transfer Reactions of Non-Stabilized Carbenes

Purdue University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:30-16:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Targeting AD-related pathophysiology with non-invasive brain stimulation

Sam Barnes, Imperial College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 16 March 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Peer review, past, present… and future

Professor Aileen Fyfe FRSE, FRHistS, FHEA, University of St Andrews.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title TBC: (Accelerator Development at the Cockroft Institute)

Peter Ratoff (University of Lancaster).

Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002 .

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

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Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The birth of scientific anti-racism

Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are Airborne Ultrafine Particles the Next Frontier in Air Pollution Research?

Professor Roy Harrison.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Nathanael Berestycki (Universität Wien).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Community-Based Participatory Research on Food-Energy-Water Projects

Dr Vasiliki Karanikola - University of Arizona.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:30-14:45

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Nikolai Filonov (St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities.

Dr Daniel Munoz Espin, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

SCLW02 - Reinforcement Learning for Science: Discovery and Automation

Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research - Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reinforcement learning in fluid mechanical environments

SCLW02 - Reinforcement Learning for Science: Discovery and Automation

Shruti Mishra (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fractional Chern and topological insulators

Prof. Titus Mangham-Neupert (Zurich).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Professor Maxie M. Roessler

Professor Maxie M. Roessler.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions

Peter Kok, UCL.

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

SCLW02 - Reinforcement Learning for Science: Discovery and Automation

Xin Guo (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Enrique Zuazua (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

SCLW02 - Reinforcement Learning for Science: Discovery and Automation

Natasa Tagasovska (Roche Pharmaceuticals).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2026

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

The President and Officers.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 18:30-18:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Natural History: Contributions from some Cambridge scientific giants of the 19th century

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

CNHS President and a former President of Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

SCLW02 - Reinforcement Learning for Science: Discovery and Automation

Andreas Krause (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 20 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Panel Discussion

SCLW02 - Reinforcement Learning for Science: Discovery and Automation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 20 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

AMET seminars

Sustainable Battery Design & Supply Chain

Lukas Gazda (BMZ).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Friday 20 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Ben Lehner, Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale

Professor Ben Lehner.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Aneuploidy and its impact on human embryo development

Marta Shahbazi.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Shock-Induced Pore Collapse in PMMA: Deformation Physics and Failure Mechanics

Professor Guruswami Ravichandran, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 20 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

SCLW02 - Reinforcement Learning for Science: Discovery and Automation

Brendan Tracey (Google DeepMind Technologies Limited).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 20 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

AI for Materials Discovery in Practice: Effect of low data on RL approaches

SCLW02 - Reinforcement Learning for Science: Discovery and Automation

Joonatan Laulainen (Altrove).

No Room Required.

Friday 20 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Zangwill Club

Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning

Prof Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Oragniser's Welcome

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 10:05-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Alberto Enciso (ICMAT).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Bruno Colbois (Université de Neuchâtel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Alexandre Girouard (Université Laval).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Neumann heat kernels and spectral zeta: mirror coupling on spherical caps and hyperbolic disks

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Richard Laugesen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 23 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Giada Franz (Université Gustave Eiffel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Daniel Stern (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Antoine Song (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Romain Petrides (Université Paris Cité).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

David Sher (DePaul University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Jean Lagacé (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Cristina Trombetti (University of Naples Federico II).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Luigi Provenzano (Sapienza Università di Roma).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and clinical insights from genome-wide association studies of cancer

Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Dorin Bucur (Université de Savoie).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Minimization of the first eigenvalue of the elasticity operator

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Antoine Henrot (Université de Lorraine).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the torsion function and its gradient

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Michiel van den Berg (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Yuncheng Mao (Aix-Marseille Université).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 26 March 2026, 14:00-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Simone Brugiapaglia (SISSA).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenvalue inequalities for Schrödinger operators with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Jonathan Rohleder (Stockholm University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

David MacKay: Energy and Information

One-Day Meeting.

Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Friday 27 March 2026, 09:00-17:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Alessandro Savo (Sapienza Università di Roma).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 27 March 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

Katie Gittins (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 27 March 2026, 11:45-12:45

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Gopal Sapkota, Induced-proximity approaches for targeted protein degradation and dephosphorylation

Professor Gopal Sapkota.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 27 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW02 - Geometry of eigenvalues

David Tewodrose (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 27 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 31 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 31 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Reinforcement Learning with Exogenous States and Rewards

Professor Thomas G. Dietterich, School of EECS, Oregon State University.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Wednesday 01 April 2026, 13:30-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 01 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Careers in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Teams link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eeb7b90f-e364-4b6d-9712-829d1bf78de7@49a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9

Adnan Iqbal, CEO at Luma Health and Deborah Grubbe, operations consultant and retired multinational executive.

Online via Teams.

Thursday 02 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 07 April 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 107th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Natural World

Free Public Exhibition.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Saturday 11 April 2026, 11:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Director's Briefing

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 April 2026, 10:00-10:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Organiser's Welcome

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 April 2026, 10:05-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Marco Marletta (Cardiff University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 April 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

.

Foyer.

Monday 13 April 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Mark Embree (Virginia Tech).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 April 2026, 11:45-12:45

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Whole-brain causal discovery using fMRI

Yujie Liu, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 13 April 2026, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scattering Resonances: Computation, High-Performance Algorithms, and Applications to Target Identification and Transient Scattering

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Oscar Bruno (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

.

Foyer.

Monday 13 April 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Katya Krupchyk (University of California, Irvine).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 13 April 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Session

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

.

Foyer.

Monday 13 April 2026, 16:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome Drinks Reception

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

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Foyer.

Monday 13 April 2026, 17:00-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry-conforming discretizations of fractal domains

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

David Hewett (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

.

Foyer.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Daniele Boffi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Simon Chandler-Wilde (University of Reading).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

.

Foyer.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Jeffrey Ovall (Portland State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 14 April 2026, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Trapped modes in electromagnetic waveguides

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Lucas Chesnel (INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 15 April 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

.

Foyer.

Wednesday 15 April 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia (ENSTA ParisTech).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 15 April 2026, 11:45-12:45

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 15 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Javier Gómez-Serrano (Brown University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 15 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal Dinner at Sidney Sussex College

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

.

External.

Wednesday 15 April 2026, 19:30-22:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Justin Solomon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

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Foyer.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenvalues in electromagnetic inverse scattering

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Peter Monk (University of Delaware).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 11:45-12:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Amanda Prorok (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Houssem Haddar (INRIA).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Michael Woodley (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

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Foyer.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Denis Grebenkov (École Polytechnique).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

What Can Be Computed in Infinite-Dimensional Spectral Problems?

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Matthew Colbrook (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 17 April 2026, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morning Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

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Foyer.

Friday 17 April 2026, 11:15-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Jeffrey Galkowski (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 17 April 2026, 11:45-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Title TBC

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

Braxton Osting (University of Utah).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 17 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Afternoon Break

GSTW03 - Interactions of geometric spectral theory with numerical methods and applications

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Foyer.

Friday 17 April 2026, 15:00-15:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

RSC Organic Chemistry Community South & East Regional Meeting 2026

Speaker to be confirmed.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 April 2026, 10:00-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Behnam Hashemi (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 23 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: In a post-Ozempic world, have we cured obesity?

Professor Giles S.H. Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2026, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

MR2, CMS.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 16:30-17:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Eva González Noya, Rocasolano Institute of Physical Chemistry, Madrid.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Duncan MacLachlan, Rolls Royce.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 05 May 2026, 16:30-17:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Corentin Coulais (University of Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 07 May 2026, 14:00-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Bigger Picture Talk: Developing future marine engines running on ammonia and other green fuels

Johan Hult - Everllence.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Friday 08 May 2026, 13:30-14:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex

Andreas Keller, University of Basel.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 11 May 2026, 16:15-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 12 May 2026, 16:30-17:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Connor Box, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Raul Perea-Causin (Stockholm).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 14 May 2026, 14:00-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Scientific Steering Committee meeting

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 May 2026, 12:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Public Lecture: Title TBC

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

Jens Marklof (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 16:30-17:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 15:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Semina

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 May 2026, 16:30-17:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Basile Curchod, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Emil J. Bergholtz (Stockholm).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 28 May 2026, 14:00-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 02 June 2026, 16:30-17:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Catherine Powell (University of Manchester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 09 June 2026, 16:30-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Tomáš Bzdušek (UZH).

Seminar Room 3, RDC..

Thursday 11 June 2026, 14:00-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Online Causal Inference Seminar

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

.

Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 23 June 2026, 16:30-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Teuta Pilizota (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 02 July 2026, 14:00-15:30