Chris Davis' list

House Venue to be confirmed.

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

Online Lecture

User Professor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Monday 30 November 2020, 00:00-00:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

PA Consulting: Applications of AR/VR

User Harry Doubleday.

House Virtual.

Monday 30 November 2020, 13:05-13:55

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Transformer: the 3rd generation neural network acoustic models for ASR and its application at Facebook

Please note change of time from original post to 3-4pm

User Yongqiang Wang, Facebook.

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94591123432?pwd=bUJObFZ3UnFYLy9pWENDcS9aYUZqUT09.

Monday 30 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Two brains in action: Neural mechanisms in frontal and paietal cortex of monkeys

Host: Wolfram Schultz. Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link if you wish to attend this seminar.

User Alexandra Battaglia Mayer - SAPIENZA - Università di Roma.

House Online via zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 16:00-17:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel

Please note this panel is on a Monday.

User Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Professor Sander van der Linden.

House Google Meets.

Monday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Wasserstein Natural Gradients for Reinforcement Learning

User Ferenc Huszár.

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:15-14:15

"Climate change is not a game... but what if it was?"

User Dr Michela Leonardi .

House Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:15-14:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Danielle Bassett.

Computational Neuroscience

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Gido van de Jen.

House Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Generation Covid-19: Should the fetus be worried?

User Dr. Topun Austin (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) & Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (Dept. of Psychology) .

House Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future

Last talk of term

User Mr David A. Homfray CEng CPhys FInstP FRAS FBIS, Former Head of Engineering Realisation Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy .

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 18:00-19:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Neural Processes

User Andrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Social and Political Implications of Moral Conviction

User Professor Linda Skitka (University of Illinois at Chicago).

House via zoom .

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session IV

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

User Prof. Elias Kiritsis, Université de Paris, Crete Center for Theoretical Physics.

House TBC, time TBC as well.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 19:00-20:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Embodied Cognition

User Dr Micah Allen, Aarhus University.

Darwin College Sciences Group

Thursday 03 December 2020, 12:30-13:30

Improved ReaxFF for Large-Scale Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations

User David Furman.

House ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

User Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Identification and model reduction of complex network systems

Zoom link to be released

User Dr. Xiaodong Cheng, Eindhoven University of Technology.

House Online (Zoom).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Running NFV Service Chains at the True Speed of the Underlying Hardware

User Dejan Kostic, KTH.

House https://meet.google.com/ehj-dwaz-rea.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Focus Association with ONLY

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/By3XNQtaYLUksF1S9

User Dr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

House Virtual (Details TBC).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Weiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

Friday 04 December 2020, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

User Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy.

House Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Causes and Consequences of Gut Microbiome Variation in Wild Birds

User Dr Gabriella Davidson (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge; Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College).

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Friday 04 December 2020, 18:00-19:00

Improving the Aggregation in Graph Networks: can nodes understand their neighbourhood?

User Gabriele Corso.

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 13:15-14:15

Virtual Seminar: 'PROGRESS in sample size calculations for clinical prediction model research'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

User Professor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University.

House Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Social deprivation, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID-19 era: evidence from preclinical studies

User Dr. David Belin.

House Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computing

User Matthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

House Online on Zoom.

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

[NEW DATE:11th of December] Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

User Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London .

House Zoom meeting.

Friday 11 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: ‘The DURATIONS design: a practical trial design to optimise treatment duration’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

User Dr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL.

House Virtual Seminar .

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Aaron Alexander-Bloch.

Tuesday 15 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Best of NeurIPS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session (Christmas vacation)

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Olaf Sporns.

Tuesday 12 January 2021, 15:00-16:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Meta-reinforcement learning

User Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamics

chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

User Dr Robb Rutledge, Yale University.

Thursday 14 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits

User Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research).

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The Phenotypic Spectrum of Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants

chair: Dr Shahid Zaman

User Dr Kimberly Kendall, Cardiff University .

Thursday 21 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

House Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

TBC

User Flora Vaccarino, Yale University.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

User Pragya Sur (Harvard University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 22 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Alexandra Pitman, University College London .

Thursday 28 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

User Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Financial History Seminar

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation

User Professor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro).

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

User Dr Debora Sijacki. Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 01 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can exposure to green space reduce the risk of anxiety and depression among young people aged 14-24 living in urban settings?

User Dr Issy Bray, UWE Bristol.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 12:30-13:30

House Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up?

User Brian Cox, University of Toronto.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

User Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

The Hunt for Exoplanets

User Professor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

User Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Financial History Seminar

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

'Where's the money coming from?' Manifesto costings and fiscal credibility in British general elections, 1955-2019

User Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Bloodlines of the British

User Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE - title to be confirmed

User Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

House Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation

User Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

User Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Blood villains and heros

User Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Financial History Seminar

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

User William Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Time and venue to be confirmed.

Professor Sadaf Farooqi - title to be confirmed

User Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Department of Medicine.

Monday 01 March 2021, 18:00-19:00