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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof, H Andrew Schwartz

Prof, H Andrew Schwartz (State University of New York at Stony Brook).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

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

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

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

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

Foundation AI

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Lukas pertl.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Exploring the interplay between Ricci Flow, the Fisher Information Matrix and Gradient Descent in Neural Networks

Physics.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Explainable AI in Neuroscience: From Interpretability to Biomarker Discovery

Mike Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

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

RSE Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Peichao Qin - Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Hila Gonen

Prof. Hila Gonen (University of Biritish Columbia).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

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

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

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

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

On Activation and Normalization Layers in Graph Neural Networks

Moshe Eliasof, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Ellis Unit

A Mixture-based framework for guiding Diffusion models

Alain Oliviero-Durmus - Ecole Polytechnique.

CBL Seminar Room.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof Hal Daume III

Prof Hal Daume III (University of Maryland).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

RSE Seminars

Fortitude: A Modern Fortran Linter

Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill, University of York Plasma.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Giovanna Maria Dimitri, University of Siena (Italy).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Dr. Philippe Laban

Dr. Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD Students' talks

Speakers listed in abstract in due course.

MR3.

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

RSE Seminars

Symbolic Regression for Model Discovery in Python and Julia

Miles Cranmer - DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu

Prof. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu (University of California, San Diego).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 17:00-18:00

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

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun

Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun (Google DeepMind).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

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

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

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Lu Wang

Prof. Lu Wang (University of Michigan).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

Vicky Metzis.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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