Computational Neuroscience

How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and deceleration

Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

A local weak limit approach to the study of graphical data

Prof. Venkat Anantharam, University of California, Berkeley.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gibbs Ensembles of Partitions: from limit shapes to hydrodynamic limits

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Ibrahim Fatkullin (University of Arizona).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Gibbs Ensembles of Partitions: from limit shapes to hydrodynamic limits

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Ibrahim Fatkullin (University of Arizona).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Not a jet all the way: discovery prospects using substructure

Deepak Kar (University of Witwatersrand).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Twistor fishnets

Tim Adamo (Imperial College London).

MR11.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture: Optimality of Algorithms for Approximation/Computation

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Ronald DeVore (Texas A&M University ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture: Optimality of Algorithms for Approximation/Computation

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Ronald DeVore (Texas A&M University ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Habitual Sophia? Retaining one’s ability to learn from within aach lay-professional encounter

Professor Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Biophysical Seminars

Protein phase transition: from biology towards new protein materials

Paolo Arosio, Dept of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Awareness in sight: Self and other appraisals of disability in acquired brain injury Talk 2. The regulation of intrusive autobiographical memories

Andrea Kusec & Giulia Barsuola (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Does science progress?

Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Chemical Modifications and Passivation Approaches in Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Dr. Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi, Wolfson College Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Directions for Random Search

Professor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Is the child the father of the political man?

Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London.

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

3D Organoid Cultures to Study Tissue Development and Diseases

Dr. Roberta Azzarelli (MRC) & Dr. Laura Pellegrini (LMB).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

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

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Introduction

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Robustness and Geometry of Deep Neural Networks

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Alhussein Fawzi (Google DeepMind Technologies Limited).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:20-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Robustness and Geometry of Deep Neural Networks

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Alhussein Fawzi (Google DeepMind Technologies Limited).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:20-11:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

3D nanostructures for biosensing in living tissues

Dr. Francesco De Angelis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia .

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fundamental Limitations on Adversarial Robustness

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Hamza Fawzi (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 11:20-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Fundamental Limitations on Adversarial Robustness

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Hamza Fawzi (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 11:20-12:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

The Ultrastructure of Retinal Circuitry in Health and Disease

Bryan Jones - University of Utah.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Ethics of Algorithmic Decision Making

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Jennifer Boon (Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:00-12:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Ethics of Algorithmic Decision Making

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Jennifer Boon (Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:00-12:40

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Primary and Secondary Prevention of Dementia: can we PROTECT our Cognitive Health?

Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-related Diseases, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On Instabilities of Deep Learning in Image Reconstruction - Part I

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Vegard Antun (University of Oslo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 13:40-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On Instabilities of Deep Learning in Image Reconstruction - Part I

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Vegard Antun (University of Oslo).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 13:40-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

Prof. Dr. Sven Schneider (Georg-August-Universität).

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Limits of precision in stochastic cell biology

Glenn Vinnicombe, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On Instabilities of Deep Learning in Image Reconstruction - Part II

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Matthew Colbrook (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-14:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On Instabilities of Deep Learning in Image Reconstruction - Part II

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Matthew Colbrook (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-14:20

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems

Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Stable Learning Framework

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Laura Thesing (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:20-14:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Stable Learning Framework

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Laura Thesing (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:20-14:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: A Human Imperative?

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Thomas Strohmer (University of California, Davis).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:40-15:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: A Human Imperative?

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Thomas Strohmer (University of California, Davis).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:40-15:20

Chaucer Club

The emergence of cognitive ability in childhood

Rogier Kievit, MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Meta Modelling and Deploying Machine Learning Software

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Neil Lawrence (Amazon).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:40-16:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Meta Modelling and Deploying Machine Learning Software

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Neil Lawrence (Amazon).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:40-16:20

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Colloids in confinement: From two-dimensional melting to membrane transport

Alice Thorneywork, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Real-Time Monitoring to Inform the Construction of Large-Diameter Caissons

Dr. Brian Sheil, RAEng Research Fellow, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The Higgs width in the SMEFT

Tyler Corbett (NBI Copenhagen).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Moorfields - DeepMind Collaboration - Reinventing the Eye Exam using Deep Learning

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Pearse Keane (Moorfields Eye Hospital).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:20-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Moorfields - DeepMind Collaboration - Reinventing the Eye Exam using Deep Learning

OFBW46 - The Mathematics of Deep Learning and Data Science

Pearse Keane (Moorfields Eye Hospital).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:20-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Driving a wedge between communication and language learning in autism

There will be a coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Mikhail Kissine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).

Faculty of Divinity, Lecture Room 2.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The Language of Julia Donaldson: Rhetoric, style and cognition

Michael Burke , Utrecht University .

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening

Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Strain gradient plasticity: Numerical modeling of size-effects in porous metals

Prof Christian F. Niordson, DTU.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Effect of bond in the development length of CFRP pretensioned beams

Dr Eleni Toumpanaki, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 24 May 2019, 15:00-15:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A boundary element formulation for stress concentration problems in the context of couple-stress elasticity

Dr Gabriel Hattori, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 24 May 2019, 15:30-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Embedding experimental data in vibro-acoustic experimental models: laboratory and industry case studies

Dr Arnau Clot Razquin, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Something ate my fossil: from anecdote to testing hypotheses

Dr Elizabeth Harper, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 24 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Applied and Computational Analysis

The rigidity problem for perimeter inequalities under symmetrization

This is a joint ACA-GAPDE seminar

Filippo Cagnetti (University of Sussex).

MR 13.

Monday 27 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

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

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

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Economic Transformation and the Proliferation of Gambling in the Western Pacific

Dr Anthony Pickles, Bye-Fellow, Wolfson College, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

ARClub Talks

Autism and Emotion: Perspectives from Affective Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, and Computer Vision.

Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics using cryo-electron microscopy

Massimiliano Bonomi, Structural Bioinformatics Unit, Institut Pasteur.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Visual nonlinearities

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Cell Mechanics Based Microfluidics for Disease Diagnosis & Therapy: From Bench to Bedside

Prof. Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.

LR6, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using the Energy Landscape to Elucidate Protein-Ligand Interactions

First Year PhD Report

Alasdair Keith, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:15-14:35

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face

Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

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

Beata Piecychna, University of Bialystok, Poland.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

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

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

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

Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Numerical stability in hard and infrared regions in OpenLoops2

Jean-Nicolas Lang (Zurich).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Prof. Anita Mehta (University of Oxford).

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo

Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Atomistically inspired origami

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

Prof Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 31 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Guglielmo Aglietti, University of Surrey.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?

Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Collaborative Poetics

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

Helen Johnson, University of Brighton.

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Thomas Aubry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning

Dr. Bingqing Cheng, Trinity College, the University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 03 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

This is a joint ACA–CCIMI seminar

Ilse Ipsen (NCSU).

MR 14.

Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture: Metamaterials: composite materials with striking properties

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Graeme Milton (University of Utah).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture: Metamaterials: composite materials with striking properties

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Graeme Milton (University of Utah).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On indefinite damping and gyroscopic stabilization

Tobias Damm, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Gavin Salam (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

“Stay in your shell, that will be of use to you:” The miniature shell collection in Petronella Brandt’s dollhouse

Professor Hanneke Grootenboer, University of Oxford.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 17:45-19:15

Biophysical Seminars

Selective inhibition of phosphatases to boost protein quality control : A possible treatment for degenerative diseases

Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement

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

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding the Dynamics of Unentangled Associating Polymers by Means of Molecular Simulations

Professor Jorge Ramírez García, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Role of Social Media in Health Prediction and Prevention: Digital Methods in Public Health and Behavior Change

Dr Sophie Lohmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

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

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

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 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Crossing over OMICS in mitochondrial diseases affecting the optic nerve

Guy Lenaers, University of Angers - France.

IPH large seminar room.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Giordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

TBC

Veronica Kane Dickson.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

TBC

Jeff Calder (University of Minnesota).

MR 14.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

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

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

Chaucer Club

Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge).

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

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Crispin Barnes, Thin-Film Magnetism Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Fabrizio Caloa (Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Additive Manufacturing of Biomechanically Tailored Meshes for Compliant Wearable and Implantable

Dr Sebastian Pattinson, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Poster session

Programme to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Nexus Analysis: A Natural Fit for Linguistic Ethnography

N.A. Wendte (Tulane University).

Faculty of English, Board Room.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit

Leigh Whitehead (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminars

Materials Chemistry to Mimic Living Matter

Prof. Samuel Stupp, Simpson Querrey Institute for Bio-Inspired Science and Technologies Northwestern University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception

Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

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

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Process Systems Engineering (PSE) tools and big data for bio-resource recovery

Prof. Brent Young, University of Auckland.

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

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Rethinking the development of constitutive relations

Prof. Kumbakonam Rajagopal, Texas A&M University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Digitally Distracted

Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL).

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

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

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

Elly McCausland, University of Oslo..

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

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

Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lonely young adults in modern Britain: findings from an epidemiological cohort study

Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

Dr. Wim L. Noorduin (AMOLF).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Helmut Hauser, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

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

Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

David Marzocca (SISSA).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Photons in the cloud: communicating and storing data

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Prof John H Marsh, University of Glasgow.

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

Thursday 13 June 2019, 16:00-17:30

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Prof. Malte Gather, University of St Andrews.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Historical demography, public health and evolutionary biology.

Dr Romola Davenport, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 14 June 2019, 17:45-19:10

Imagers Interest Group

Toward an EEG/MEG spatial resolution atlas

Olaf Hauk, MRC CBU, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 17 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

New ideas on the organization of neural circuitry

Larry Swanson, University of Southern California.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 17 June 2019, 16:30-18:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

The enigmatic pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors

Louis Taillefer - Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 11:00-12:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Dr Heejung Kim & Dr David Sherman

Speaker to be confirmed.

TBC, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The childhood cancer genome

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

Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The clinical effectiveness of sertraline in primary care and the role of depression severity and duration: The PANDA pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Automotive Control Using Non-Linear System Models With Uncertainty

Thomas Steffen, Loughborough University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovative engineering: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the Square Kilometer Array

Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 24 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

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

Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the parent-infant social connection through interpersonal neuroscience

Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

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

Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 04 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan.

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

Monday 08 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Michele Tammaro (University of Cincinnati).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Tuesday 09 July 2019, 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 July 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Andrew Osborne, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

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

Friday 12 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

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 18 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Gabriel Balmus, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 11 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Stephan Roche, ICREA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 21 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Professor Serena Best - title to be confirmed

Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Maths of Whole Universes

Professor John D Barrow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Susannah Gibson - title to be confirmed

Dr Susannah Gibson, Affiliated Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Catalysis of Photochemical Reactions"

Professor Thorsten Bach.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Professor Nigel Peake - title to be confirmed

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Professor David Baulcombe FRS- title to be confirmed

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

Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Volcanic Behaviour

Dr Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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