Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Irreducible restrictions of representations of symmetric and alternating groups

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Lucia Morotti (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record

Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Optoelectronics Group

Molecular strategies to increase robustness of organic semiconductor thin films for application in photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices

Kevin Sivula EPFL.

Raleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Holographic Uhlmann Holonomy and the Entanglement Wedge Symplectic Form

Josh Kirklin (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for lepton flavour violation in B decays with the LHCb experiment

Alison Tully (EPFL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

A Journey into Rap Studies: from London’s hip-hop scenes to grimey Englishness

Dr Richard Bramwell, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:45-19:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Structure searching and longitudinal-transverse mode coupling in sulfur

Jack Whaley-Baldwin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Variational Hodge conjecture and Hodge loci

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

Hossein Movasati (IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:15-12:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back Propagation

Uwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf website.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization β-Amyloid, Membranes and the Magic Angle

Prof. Robert G. Griffin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals

Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Sampling and Representation of Stiff ODEs in Large Dimension

Omar Knio, KAUST.

MR 14.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Intersection Theory and Feynman Integrals

Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Automorphism orbits of groups and the Monster

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Michael Giudici (University of Western Australia).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular chaperones in protein folding and quality control

Prof. Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl ( Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Biophysical Seminars

Functional amyloid in bacteria

Professor Daniel E. Otzen, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

From differential equations to deep learning for image processing

Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Wind & Bridges: Aerodynamic Force Models

Dr Igor Kavrakov, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computing Green functions in small characteristics

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Meinolf Josef Geck (Universität Stuttgart).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 January 2020, 10:10-11:00

ARClub Talks

The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology

Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 27 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Constructing subgroups of exceptional algebraic groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

David Craven (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 January 2020, 11:30-12:20

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

The ocean boundary layer beneath a melting Antarctic ice shelf: stratification, tides and turbulence

Cat Vregdenhil, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Constructive recognition of matrix groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Heiko Dietrich (Monash University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:45-14:35

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Base sizes of permutation groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Joanna Fawcett (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 January 2020, 14:45-15:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract to be advised

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

Masha Vlasenko (Polish Academy of Sciences).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Base sizes for permutation groups: an encore

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Melissa Lee (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 January 2020, 16:05-16:35

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits

Host: Sue Jones

Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 27 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Connections between Group related Databases in GAP

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Thomas Breuer (RWTH Aachen University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 27 January 2020, 16:40-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Nicolas Thiery (Université Paris Saclay).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 09:10-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computing Brauer character tables of groups of Lie type in defining characteristic

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Frank Lübeck (RWTH Aachen University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 10:10-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An algorithm to construct dihedral axial algebras

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Madeleine Whybrow (Univerza na Primorskem).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:20

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms

Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The 5-modular Character Table of the Lyons Group

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Klaus Lux (University of Arizona).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:45-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Between the sheets: rigid nilpotent elements in modular Lie algebras

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

David Stewart (University of Newcastle upon Tyne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:45-15:35

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Surface charges for gravity in tetrad variables: some surprises explained

Simone Speziale (Marseille).

MR11.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Anubis

Oleg Brandt (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

10 years of meataxe development.

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Richard Parker (None / Other).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:05-16:55

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

‘“Being an Islander”: art and identity of the large Mediterranean Islands’, or, can museums really contribute to research in social sciences?

Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Assistant Keeper and Cyprus Curator, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computational methods for exceptional groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Adam Thomas (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 09:10-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Constructing Ordinary Representations of Finite Groups via Extension

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Allan Steel (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:10-11:00

ARClub Talks

Voice processing in autism

Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Real forms of complex embeddings of maximal reductive Lie algebras in semisimple Lie algebras

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Willem de Graaf (University of Trento).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 11:30-12:20

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

Justin Crocker, EMBL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

Marta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS - title TBC

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

TBC.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: Elliptic curves associated to two-loop graphs (Feynman diagrams)

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

Nicholas Zair, Cambridge.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Chevalley’s Theorem on constructible images made constructive

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Mohamed Barakat (Universität Siegen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 09:10-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards a nonsolvable Quotient Algorithm

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Alexander Hulpke (Colorado State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 10:10-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rational and p-local motivic homotopy theory

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

Gabriela Guzman (Universität Duisburg-Essen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 11:15-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Conjugacy problems in GL(n,Z)

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Bettina Eick (Technische Universität Braunschweig).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 11:30-12:20

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Minimal models of symplectic quotient singularities

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Ulrich Thiel (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:45-14:35

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2020 Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression

Thomas Schön, Uppsala University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Moire superlattice effects in heterostructures of two-dimensional materials

Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Classifying finite linear groups in prime degree

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Dane Flannery (National University of Ireland Galway).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:45-15:35

Applied and Computational Analysis

On the derivation of the Boltzmann equation : irreversibility and fluctuations

Isabelle Gallagher (ENS-Paris).

MR 14.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya

Sabine Clarke (University of York).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quasi-PDFs as observables

Luigi del Debbio (Edinburgh).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Invariable generation of finite classical groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Eilidh McKemmie (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:05-16:35

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Conveying quantity pragmatically

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computing normalisers of highly intransitive permutation groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Mun See Chang (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:35-17:05

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Growth of class numbers of unipotent groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Tobias Rossmann (National University of Ireland Galway).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 January 2020, 09:10-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Classifying Isomorphism Classes of Algebraic Groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Jay Taylor (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 January 2020, 10:10-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Backtrack Search in Permutation Groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Christopher Jefferson (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 January 2020, 11:30-12:20

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Classical groups, and generating small classical subgroups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:45-14:35

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Hierarchical structuring of micro and nanoparticles for Li-ion battery electrodes

Dr Michael De Volder, IfM, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Deep Learning for Molecular Physics

Professor Frank Noe, Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Computing with conjugacy classes in classical groups

GRAW02 - Computational and algorithmic methods

Martin Liebeck (Imperial College London; Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:45-15:35

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active control of aircraft cabin noise and other topics

Ian Stothers, Ultra Electronics.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning

Dr Chandrima Ganguly .

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Quantifying irreversible mixing in stratified turbulence and breaking internal waves

Chris Howland, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates

Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Host: Mate Lengyel

Athina Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 03 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections

Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Overview of ATLAS jet measurements

Jennifer Roloff (BNL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Conformal geodesics, gravitational instantons, and integrability.

Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Historical fiction as anthropological technique: in the mind of an enslaved Melanesian

Dr Anthony Pickles, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The search for invertebrate consciousness

Jonathan Birch (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multi-billion speedup of glassy dynamics with swap Monte Carlo: equilibrium phase transitions and rugged energy landscapes

Dr Ludovic Berthier, CNRS - Universite de Montpellier.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Zhu Jing (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports

Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems

Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On pluralism in psychiatry

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Chris Edgcombe, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ward Haddadin (University of Cambridge).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Harrold-Odell Country Park

Richard Dowsett.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Ole Nielsen.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands World_link.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Stepping up climate change mitigation

Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Present day anthropogenic climate forcings: The impact of including Earth System interactions

Dr. Fiona O'Connor, Met Office.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Impacts of surface-derived meltwater on ice motion in Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula

Andrew Sole, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 10 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

A phenomenological constitutive theory for polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics based on orientation distribution functions

Dr Martin I. Idiart, Departamento de Aeronáutica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CONICET, Argentina.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write good papers

Michael Anderson (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Daniele Leonori, University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 10 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Host: Wolfram Schultz

Chris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 10 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Ljiljana Fruk - title to be confirmed

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Biology and Engineering 18.00-19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrmions from monopoles and calorons

Josh Cork (Lancaster).

MR11.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Giulio Falcioni (University of Edinburgh).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

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

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The good news about killing people

Bryan W. Roberts (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Engineering advanced neural interfaces

Christopher Proctor Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum topological effects in the transport properties of ionic conductors

Professor Stefano Baroni, SISSA — Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Sudi Avanzati, Trieste.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

Dr. Claudia Schneider.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Class, Control and Classical music: Musical practices and white middle-class identities among young people in the south of England

Dr Anna Bull, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic

tea served from 4.15

Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data links

Michael Cantoni, University of Melbourne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics

Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Modelling energy dissipation at surfaces

Jörg Meyer, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pedro Schwaller (Mainz).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lines in nature and the landscape

Martin Davies.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Zangwill Club

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The mechanical regulation of brain development

Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy: characterisation of elastic and anelastic behaviour of metals, ceramics and functional oxides associated with ferroic, multiferroic and normal-superconductor phase transitions

Prof Michael A. Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Mitochondria and Cancer: Metabolites and Beyond

Christian Frezza, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Models, Uncertainty and Design

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Consciousness

Tristan Bekinschtein, (Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The homology of correspondence spaces and some massless tree amplitude identities

Hadleigh Frost (Oxford).

MR11.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

CMS HGCal upgrade

Samuel Webb (Imperial College London).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume

Dr William Tullett, Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Nuno Reis - title TBC

Dr Nuno Reis, University of Bath.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

Antonia Ruppel (Oxford).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic narrative techniques and their areal parallels

Prof Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University, Sweden).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway

Dr Simon Cook, Babraham Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues

Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The case for modelled democracy

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Peter Newton, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexandre Kabla, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

TBC

Jacob Scott, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Structural dynamics in the construction of the world's tallest modular building

Dr John Hickey.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Imagers Interest Group

The use of multi-parametric maps (MPMs) in ageing research

Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

How mixed is the ocean mixed layer?

Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational Psychiatry of Autism

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Host: Fabian Grabenhorst

Gustavo Deco, Computational Neuroscience Research Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 24 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

Annette Fayet (Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for dark matter with the ATLAS detector

Phillip Gadow (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Tzany Kokalova Wheldon (Birmingham).

MR11.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gendering the City: Partition and post-colonial negotiations in South Asia

Dr Anjali B. Datta, Lecturer in Modern South Asian History, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

ARClub Talks

Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach

Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu .

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice

Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Sum of its Parts: MBE-FCI Theory

Dr Janus Juul Eriksen, University of Bristol.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Evidence for finite dissipation during vortex reconnection

Rober Kerr, University of Warwick.

MR 14.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself

Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Highways and byways in the history of high rate mechanical testing

Stephen Walley, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

Sophia Upton.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

The modern-day blacksmith

Dr Gareth Conduit, Theory of Condensed Matte, Physics, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Multiscale approaches to modelling vascular tumour growth

Helen Byrne, University of Oxford.

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Naoki Onozato, MHI.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Separating the forced atmospheric circulation response to Arctic sea-ice loss from internal variability

Christine McKenna, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation

Dr. Natalie Harvey, University of Reading.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

Matthew Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bigging up behaviour on coral reefs

Sally Keith (Lancaster University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Random surfaces and Liouville quantum gravity

Ewain Gwynne (DPMMS).

MR11.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for new physics with kaons at NA62 and beyond

Prof. Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Affect and empiricism in the early modern Arctic

Anne Goldgar (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Beginnings of Global Opera

Dr Benjamin Walton, Faculty of Music, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from sociological case studies

Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Approaching Exact Quantum Chemistry by Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations

Professor Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s

Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Deep Dictionary Learning Approaches for Image Super-Resolution

Pier Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College London).

MR 14.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Postcolonial blood infrastructures of hepatitis B (a view from West Africa)

Noemi Tousignant (UCL).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Jet substructure and top-taggers for highly boosted tops

Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Mike O'Donnell, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

Mal Faloon.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tailoring nonlinearity for advanced engineering design

Prof Gaëtan Kerschen, University of Liege.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Imagers Interest Group

Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI

David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland ice sheet

Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions

Host: Hugh Robinson

Gilad Silberberg, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 09 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Double Copy of a Point Charge

Ricardo Monteiro (Queen Mary).

MR11.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Raquel Gomez (Durham).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Raquel Gomez (Durham).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Bridging the Gap: writing commentaries on the Dead Sea scrolls in the 21st century

Dr Noam Mizrahi, Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Language development in exceptional circumstances: effects of permanent childhood hearing loss

Dr Lorna Halliday (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Ewa Marek - title TBC

Dr Ewa Marek, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

Dr David Stillwell.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals: Modeling, Analysis, Computations and Experiments

Panayotis Kevrekidis.

MR 14.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

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

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

3D Genomics in development and disease

Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Steven Abel (Durham).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges

Juniper Hill, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bioengineering Conference

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McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 08:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

chair: Dr Muzaffer Kaser

Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seasearch

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Paul Mylrea.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Richard Baird, Department of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A trillion trees?

Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

Professor Jonathan Roiser, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 1

Free Public Exhibition.

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 2

Free Public Exhibition.

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Girls and women on the autism spectrum

Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Zlatko Bačić, New York University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Karyn Le Hur, Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Explosive and Degassing volcanic eruptions: natural analogues with relevance for geoengineering schemes

Professor Jim Haywood, University of Exeter/Met Office.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

DUNE - Precision Neutrino Physics of the Future

Prof. Alfons Weber (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Professor Liam Grover - title TBC

Professor Liam Grover, University of Birmingham.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Leibniz University Hannover.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Henrice Altink (University of York).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

AGM and Presidential Address: Cambridge Dragonflies

AGM and Duncan Mackay.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-20:30

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Predicting catalysis and photochemistry using automated reaction discovery tools

Dr Scott Habershon (University of Warwick).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Axel Gelfert (TU Berlin).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Martin Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Marco Schiro, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Foster Talks

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Integrating Imaging and Computational Modelling to Gain Therapeutic Insights for Cancer

Becky Shipley, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 15 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

Professor Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Neutrino interactions and long-baseline oscillation experiments

Stephen Dolan (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Nicholas Blunt, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Christoph Dellago, University of Vienna.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Elena Boto, University of Nottingham.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Biomedical Physics

TBA

Patrick Forterre, Pasteur Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 05 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Robin Ince, University of Glasgow.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New tools to understand and protect the biosphere

Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 15 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The common link between schizophrenia and diabetes

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 18 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview and latest results

Prof. Peter Bernath - University of Waterloo.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 14 July 2020, 14:00-15:00