Cavendish HEP Seminars

LHCb Upgrade II - Flavour Physics at HL-LHC

Dan Thompson: University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ethnography after Genocide: Working with Ezidi Women in Iraq

Dr. Richard Latham Lechowick, Research Associate & Teaching Fellow, Global History Lab (CRASSH) .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Kintsugi: A Decentralized E2EE Key Recovery Protocol

Emilie Ma.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The Porous Medium Equation: Multiscale Analysis of a Zero-Range Process, Integrability Estimate and Large Deviations

Daniel Heydecker (Imperial College).

MR12.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Cocktail Effects in Superconductivity: High-Entropy Approach to Antimonide Compounds

Professor Daigorou Hirai, Nagoya University.

RDC Seminar East.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Sums along binary cubic forms.

Mayank Pandey (Princeton).

MR13.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

General solution to gauged U(1) anomaly equations

Ben Allanach (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The myth of the naïve empiricist

Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The SIREN study at five years: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory infections in UK healthcare workers since 2020

Victoria Hall, UK Health Security Agency.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The SIREN study at five years: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory infections in UK healthcare workers since 2020

Victoria Hall, UK Health Security Agency.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Information Theory Seminar

Graph Data Compression: Practical Methods and Information-Theoretic Limits

Prof. Justin Coon, University of Oxford.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar - Dr Antti Lahdenpera and Dr Sona Krajcovicova

Dr Antti Lahdenpera and Dr Sona Krajcovicova.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Reconstructing wintertime seawater pCO2 on the data-barren shelf of the western Weddell Sea based on summertime bottom water measurements

Elise Droste (University of East Anglia).

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Excitations with a Twist

Professor Bartomeu Monserrat, University of Cambridge .

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The TPTP World - Infrastructure for Automated Reasoning

Dr Geoff Sutcliffe - Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, USA.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Importance of Distinguishing Between Misinformation and Disinformation

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Decoding genomic chaos - a pancancer compendium of chromosomal instability

Professor Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Rouse Ball Lectures

Causality-Inspired Machine Learning: A Path to More Robust AI Systems

Prof Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Autonomous Robots That Operate in Human Environments

Fethiye Irmak Dogan (University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Nikos Nikiforakis (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, RDC.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

The human sense of smell: From hunter-gatherers to wine experts

Asifa Majid (U. of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Can we design fatigue-resistant alloys?

Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Causal Representation Learning

Prof. Ali Tajer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ​.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Doing your own patient activist research

Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Imaging the Immune System in Tissue Repair”

Professor Paul Kubes, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Yang (Imperial College, London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 09 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Robbie Hennigar, Durham University.

MR9/Zoom.

Friday 09 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A variational structure underpinning higher-order homogenization

Manon Thbaut, Ecole Polytechnique .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ali Abbas, University of East London.

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

Friday 09 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

The Magmatic Origin of the North Atlantic V-Shaped Ridges and Fractured Crust

Callum Pearman.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Resummation of Non-Global Logarithms

Nicolas Schalch (Oxford U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Project Sound – research on a fully active car suspension

Dr Ole Nielsen, Bose/CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Metastability Properties of the Earth's Climate: a Multiscale Viewpoint

Prof Valerio Lucarini, University of Leicester.

MR2.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The Functions of Episodic Memory

Ali Boyle.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Normalisation, adaptation, and the balance of excitation and inhibition

Yashar Ahmadian, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 12 May 2025, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

Professor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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

Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Single charge pion production cross-sections at MicroBooNE

Philip Detje: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

Alicia Anderson (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Government intervention in linguistic heritage projects in Belfast

Seamus Branch.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marco Badran (ETH Zurich).

MR13.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Jori Merikoski (Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Einstein-Maxwell instantons, complex structures, and the Geroch group

Bernardo Araneda (Edinburgh).

CMS MR14.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sven Friedemann - University of Bristol.

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

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Precision and active knowledge: measuring the fundamental physical constants, 1967–2018

Teru Miyake (NTU Singapore).

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

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Samuel Coles, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

Online.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Type-driven Development with Idris 2

Dr Edwin Brady - School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Spacetime Singularities and Black Holes

Professor Gary Horowitz - University of California, Santa Barbara.

MR3.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Claudio Llosa Isenrich (KIT).

CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Invitation to Leavitt path algebras

Roozbeh Hazrat, University of Western Sydney.

MR12.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell; Early Cancer Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Vertical mixing and associated biogeochemical fluxes via radium isotopes

Tristan McKenzie, Uni of Gothenberg.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Creation of Chemical Complexity via Controlled Functionalization of Organoboron Compounds

Prof Hong Geun Lee (Seoul National University).

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Dissecting the neural control of skilled movements

Katja Kornysheva (U. of Birmingham) .

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

Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Prediction and its application to mechanical properties

Peter Gould.

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

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

New Insights on High Wave Scattering by Multiple Open Arcs: Exponentially Convergent Methods and Shape Holomorphy

Carlos Jerez Hanckes (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The emergence of metascience: risks and opportunities

Felipe Romero (University of Groningen).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Prof. Jonathan Wilson Yewdell, Senior Investigator Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section, NIAID/DIR

Prof. Jonathan W Yewdell, Senior Investigator Cellular Biology Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Completeness Theorems for Variations of Higher-Order Logic

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Paul Röttger (Bocconi University).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 16 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Motility and matrix remodelling coupling drive early avian morphogenesis

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Benjamin Elder, Imperial College London.

MR20/Zoom.

Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title TBC - Prof. Anat Milo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Dan V Nicolau, McGill University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.

Kosuke Imai (Harvard University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Anna Wredenberg, Karolinska Institute, Finland.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Friday 16 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dan Bompa, University of Surrey, UK.

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

Friday 16 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Tyler Corbett (Vienna U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Maxwell’s tape measure

Jamie Clarkson, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Isabel Papanagnou.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Can AI weather and climate emulators predict out-of-distribution gray swan extreme events?

Prof Pedram Hassanzedeh, University of Chicago.

MR2.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Blueprints of Life: Understanding the Sex Chromosomes

James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94132066038?pwd=OF2EjwrvRQxl0XgpGK0N5L4bDNaayi.1.

Monday 19 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30

Dirac Lecture

From Einstein’s doubts to quantum technologies: non-locality in action

Professor Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique – Université Paris-Saclay.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

A general approach to quantum integration of cross sections in high-energy physics

Ifan Williams: Quantinuum.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

A 21-cm Cosmologist’s Journey: From Cambridge to North America and Back Again

Dr. Peter Sims (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Woe is Me!: Spatial Logic and Memory in the OIMOI Inscriptions of Selinous

Campbell Rosener.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sunoo Park, NYU.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Jessica Alessandri (Bath).

MR13.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

Dr. Claire Barlow - Emeritus Faculty, Engineering Dept, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The role of diagrams in Euclidean geometry

Chiara Martini (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Max Xu (Courant Institute, NYU).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Bjarne Bergh, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Elisavet Baltas, University of Cambridge.

BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

CO2 Hydration at the Air-Water Interface: A Surface-Mediated ‘In and Out’ Mechanism

Samuel Brookes, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Flaviano Della Pia, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:00-15:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Recreating the Physical Natural World from Images

Dr Elliott Wu - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Anja Meyer, University of Loughborough.

MR12.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncogene-induced senescence and tumour initiation

Prof Masashi Narita, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 22 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Prof Ljiljana Fruk ( Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology).

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Walter Kohn: the theoretical physicist who created DFT and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Prof. Sir David Clary, FRS (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry

Lilian Weber (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story

John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Prof. Vincenzo Bronte, Universita di Verona, Italy

Prof. Vincenzo Bronte, Universita di Verona, Italy.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pinosaur redux: whose lives count in histories of extinction?

Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Paul Donlin-Asp (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK), Dr. Aikaterini Gatsiou (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Sangwoong Yoon (UCL).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 23 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch Signal

Sarah Bray.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 23 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Joint ChemBio and Synthesis RIG Seminar - Chemical Biology Tools for Measuring Drug Delivery

Joshua Kritzer (Tufts University).

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 23 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alice Cicirello, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Friday 23 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Jake Stuchbury- Wass, PhD student, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Average physical structure of cratonic lithosphere, from thermodynamic inversion of global surface-wave data

Sergei Lebedev ( University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From Wall-Climbing Active Colloids to self-assembly of Magnetotactic Bacteria

Prof Cottin-Bizonne, Université Lyon.

MR2.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Swinburne, UC Berkeley.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Simon Jolly: University College London.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

JAX-powered Bayesian anomaly detection for supernovae analysis

Samuel Leeney (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Emad Heydari Beni & Lode Hoste, Nokia Bell Labs.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

James Kiln (Queen Mary).

MR13.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning

Eugene Wong(UC Berkeley and Clare Hall, Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning

Eugene Wong(UC Berkeley and Clare Hall, Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Paul Goddard - University of Warwick.

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The pragmatic vindication of warranted belief

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Mariusz Mirek (Rutgers University).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Chiara Leadbeater, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hard and soft equivariance priors via Steerable CNNs

Dr Gabriele Cesa - Qualcomm AI Research, Amsterdam.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Laura Monk (Bristol).

CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

From lab to clinic: an introduction to translational research

Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology .

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

Thursday 29 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Alberto Paganini (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Mobilizing medicine

Eram Alam (Harvard University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar - TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 30 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational Wave Signatures of Dark Matter in Neutron Star Mergers

Violetta Sagun, University of Southampton.

MR9/Zoom.

Friday 30 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD Students' talks

Speakers listed in abstract in due course.

MR3.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alex Glyn-Davies, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Friday 30 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Coffee with Scientists

The Culture Lab

Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Clare Hall & HPS, Cambridge) and Anatolii Kozlov (Science & Technology Studies, UCL).

Board Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 30 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Perfect modelling of linear and nonlinear vibration

Dr Hugh Goyder, Cranfield/ AWE.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 30 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Animal Consciousness: Evidence Models and Clues

Peter Godfrey Smith.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 30 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Naomi Cooke: University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Fred Diamond (KCL).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ahmad Elabbar (Darwin College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Gabriele Gradoni - Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey and visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 15:05-15:55

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar June 2025 - Focus on cardiovascular research

Namshik Han, CardiaTec Biosciences and Milner Therapeutics Institute and Sanjay Sinha, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre.

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early cancer trials

Dr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 05 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Optimization of deep ocean meridional circulation by turbulent mixing

Ali Mashayek (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Chris Hooley (Coventry).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Materials RIG Seminar: Professor Sally Brooker

Prof. Sally Brooker, University of Otago.

Dept. of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute).

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

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sergio Blanes (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Rausing Lecture

But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr Ewan Harrison, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Dr Ewan Harrison, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A Spacetime Interpretation of the Confluent Heun Functions in Black Hole Perturbation Theory

Marica Minucci, Bohr Inst., Copenhagen.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 06 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanobiology-Inspired Antithrombotic Strategies and Point-of-Care Microtechnologies

Professor Arnold Lining Ju, University of Sydney.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

When is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 350 Languages

Catherine Arnett and Tyler Chang (EleutherAI and UC San Diego).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 06 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Unconventional nonlinear dynamics of carbon-based structures

Dr Pierpaolo Belardnelli, Universita Politecnica delle Marche.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Kay Schönwald (Zurich U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Grain-scale models of transient diffusion creep

John Rudge.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Numerical simulations of multiphase flows with various complexities

Prof Omar Matar, Imperial College London.

https://cassyni.com/s/fmws.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Patrick Dunne: Imperial College London.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

Akeelah Bertram (Cavendish Arts Science Fellow).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

David Lilienfeldt (Leiden).

MR13.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Michael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

Dr Gill Barnett and Dr Christopher Jones, Cambridge University Hospital & Dept of Oncology .

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Quentin Kriaa, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marina Filip (Oxford).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: How sensory deprivation improved our vision on brain function

Emiliano Ricciardi (U. of Pisa.

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Leonardo Tolomeo (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Professor Thomas Bowden, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford

Professor Thomas Bowden, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jaap Jumelet (University of Groningen).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 13 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Panos Giannadakis, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 13 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Peter C. Collins, Iowa State University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yining Chen (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Adrian Rumson, Dalhousie University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Coffee with Scientists

Science advice under uncertainty

Amy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Board Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 13 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Zack X Conti, Alan Turing Institute.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Thermal vortex rings: the vortex dynamics

Dr Jun-Ichi Yano, University of Reading.

MR2.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

The splendours of Isfahan, Iran, enabled by Late Quaternary earthquake faulting and drainage reversal

James Jackson.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

Monday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Love Bites: The Deadly Romance of Spider Pulsars

Prof. Rene Breton (University of Manchester).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Michael A. Specter, Georgia Tech.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Patrick Allen (McGill).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The APGAR score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments

Rebecca L. Jackson (Durham University).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

TBC

Professor David Sancho Madrid, Spanish Center for Cardiovascular Research.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title TBC: lung cancer

Dr Huiqi Yang and Dr Nicola Thompson, Cambridge University Hopitals Trust.

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

Thursday 19 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title TBC: lung cancer

Dr Huiqi Yang and Dr Nicola Thompson, Cambridge University Hopitals Trust.

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

Thursday 19 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Nixon Niyonzima, Uganda Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Four Generations of High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials

Prof. Jörg Behler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology

Mary-Ellen Lynall (U. of Cambridge, Psychiatry Dept.) .

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

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK), TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 17:00-19:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Jujian Zhang (Imperial College London) and Arnaud Mayeux (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Szilvia Ujvary (University of Cambridge).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 20 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation

Tony Southall.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Well-posed initial value formulation of general effective field theories of gravity

Aron Kovacs, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 20 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

tbc.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Has the thermal structure of cratonic lithosphere changed through time?

Zachary Sudholz.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 20 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Transmissable cancers

Prof Elizabeth Murchison, Department of Veterinary Medicine. .

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

Thursday 26 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Joachim Frank, Columbia University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94817284457?pwd=6BE30yOK6h4pSm9kS2tZ5wbLbDVk5k.1.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 10:00-11:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Liying Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Jianbo Cui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

Vicky Metzis.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Andy Fire - Stanford University School of Medicine.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93594800418?pwd=cAhtrP8MGG3FclWimSbLLwl9XhIHNX.1.

Monday 30 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology. .

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

Thursday 03 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Marileen Dogterom - TU Delft, Delft University of Technology.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95584842300?pwd=V2DAKEE0bQXA4bbbSUryiRPELlhmzP.1.

Monday 07 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

tbc

Prof. Santanu Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 09 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge;  Why the microenvironment matters during pancreatic cancer progression and treatment

Dr Bristi Basu, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT and Dept of Oncology; Dr Gianluca Mucciolo CRUK Cambridge Institute (Biffi Lab).

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

Thursday 10 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

**Please note new date for this seminar**

Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr. Jakob Zimmermann, Department for Biomedical Research, University of Berne

Jakob Zimmermann, Department for Biomedical Research, University of Berne.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Christian Haass - Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96372751903?pwd=C2hRQ8UF0B03vDp6IHGfWuTlsqzrTi.1.

Monday 14 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

Shuangxi Li; Carmen Santa Cruz Mateos.

in person at Gurdon Institute.

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 16:00-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy and Neurosurgery for the oncologist

Dr Raj Jena and Mr Adel Helmy; Cambridge University Hospitals; Departments of Oncology/ Clinical Nuroscience.

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

Thursday 17 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr John James, Immunology, Warwick Medical School. Warwick Medical School

Dr John James, Immunology, Warwick Medical School. Warwick Medical School.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Dr. Arash Latifkar (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA), TBA.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 July 2025, 17:00-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Patenting, translating & commercialising research

Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 24 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98880219442?pwd=2LiGulNdYohUjaMnbiN88kLpt3r8M9.1.

Monday 08 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Alan Brown, Harvard Medical School.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99625598840?pwd=tiFsd5DQ5nqRyGefhp24MlXakfaa9L.1.

Monday 15 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Nenad Ban - ETH Zurich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97937314535?pwd=SciQzQiuFkLGF3ERwcMiLLTEbryUxV.1.

Wednesday 17 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Professor Ahmed Ahmed, University of Oxford.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Hiroaki Suga - The University of Tokyo.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96488916942?pwd=BpCGRwD8hD8ec89yfaJ0yKPmV3o6lv.1.

Monday 29 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, The Francis Crick Institute.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 19:15-21:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London.

Department of Engineering - tbc.

Friday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Santer, Imperial College London, UK.

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

Friday 10 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99006584805?pwd=yFgF0P1zMvOJEKkOES4eNPpntaUodk.1.

Monday 13 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 14:30-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

Professor Filipe Cabreiro, University of Cologne, Germany.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 15:00-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Steffi Oesterreich, University of Pittsburgh.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host – Antoine Hocher

Dr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jelena Ninic, University of Birmingham.

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

Friday 17 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Felix Flicker (Bristol).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 14:00-15:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

David Klenerman, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94171771196?pwd=LbKuOThopk72DktYw3WJWcjBOGlKgG.1.

Monday 03 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:00-21:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Kim Jelfs, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host – Kate Baker

Professor Benoit Marteyn from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

Dr Germano Cecere from Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

Dr Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Lin Wang

Professor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Dr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Marco Geymonat

Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

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