Computational Neuroscience

Local and global synaptic credit assignment

Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol).

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

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What makes psychotherapy work? Using deep learning to quantify the relationship between therapy content and outcomes

Ronan Cummins & Michael Ewbank, Ieso Digital Health.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Enriched simulations in computational mechanics

John Trevelyan, University of Durham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 18 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An 'Ashby map' for selecting musical strings

Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED Emeritus.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Revisiting Jeffery orbits: the importance of shape for micro-organism transport

Rachel Bearon, University of Liverpool.

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

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

University Museum of Zoology.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Designing Electronics for low-latency Trading Systems

Food provided

Robin Bruce, current Head of the Infrastructure & Data team and former FPGA Systems Tech Lead, Optiver .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:15-14:15

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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

Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Evil on the Internet

Richard Clayton, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection”

Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University .

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Fan Vaults

Professor Jacques Heyman.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3A.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanatory directionality

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational approaches to Immuno-Oncology drug development

Dr Ben Sidders (Astrazeneca).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Imitation learning for structured prediction

Dr Andreas Vlachos.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:15-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner's Series with Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International

Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning and testing compositionality

Elia Bruni, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Title to be confirmed

Alex Chamolly (University of Cambridge).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

From Unikernels to Nabla Containers

Daniel Williams (IBM).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems

Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor).

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Engineering, Production Processes Group Seminars, Institute for Manufacturing

Who is to blame? Capacity fade in Li-ion batteries

Wesley Dose.

Seminar Room 2 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Craik Club

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loops

Roy Smith, ETH Zürich .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Microstructure for continuous and localised intrinsic curvature creation – “strong” micromechanics

Prof Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Transformational Infrastructure

Martin Knight BA(Hons) Dip Arch FRIBA FCIHT FIET FRSA, IABSE Fellow IStructE Companion.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 25 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamic performance of rock lighthouses and other vertical curiosities

Professor James Brownjohn, University of Exeter.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid dynamics of ocean fronts

John Taylor, DAMTP.

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

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

Alexandros Beskos, University College London .

MR12.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies

Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition"

Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

TBC

Professor Luke Bisby, University of Edinburgh.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 28 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational Models—who needs them?

Dennis Norris (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Cambridge Philosophical Society series

Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Trust & Technology Initiative events

Lunchtime Talk: Prof Jon Crowcroft

Jon Crowcroft (Computer Lab).

Cambridge Brew House, 1 King St, Cambridge CB1 1LH.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Keeping authorities honest with verifiable append-only logs, and making backdoored software updates detectable

Mustafa Al Bassam, Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Everything you need to know about Open Research but are afraid to ask!

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everything-you-need-to-know-about-open-research-but-are-afraid-to-ask-tickets-54873991586

Claire Sewell (University of Cambridge).

Johnson Matthey Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain

Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Aga Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Maxwell Centre.

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

Agnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

CCIMI Seminars

Pure Mathematics in Crisis

Professor Kevin Buzzard.

CMS, MR3.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Replacing pathologists with next generation diagnostics: use of artificial intelligence to analyse image and DNA sequencing data

Dr Elizabeth Sollieux (Dept of Pathology), Dr Matt Thorpe (DAMTP) and Oliver Crook (MRC Biostatistics Unit/DAMTP).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

The Magic of Machine Learning and Classifier ensembles

Ludmila Kuncheva,Bangor University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:15-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Continuum Model for Collective Behaviour of Micro-Swimmers

Lloyd Fung (Imperial College London).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools

Freddy Foks (Faculty of History).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

TBD

Marina Riabiz, CUED.

James Dyson Building Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial biogenesis: dynamic complexes for a dynamic organelle

Professor Mike Ryan | Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery

Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Metamorphic architected materials for dynamic application

Dr Stefan Szyniszewski, University of Surrey .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Reinforced concrete design in Arup: slender walls and strut-and-tie models

Ian Feltham and Andy Gardner, Arup.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 01 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc/JRF seminars

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 01 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Matthew de Brett and Luis Andrade, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire

Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Digital Technology & Personalised Medicine

Food provided

Louis Swain and Oliver Abbey, TPP.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 04 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory?

Rik Henson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Trust & Technology Initiative events

Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard University.

Faculty of Law.

Monday 04 February 2019, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Early Science and Medicine

Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine

Hannah Murphy (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Non-literal model interpretations

James Nguyen (UCL).

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

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Olga Corti | ICM, Paris .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Perpetual Computing: Technologies for Banishing Batteries

Joshua R. Smith - Zeutschel Professor, Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:15-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ben Wagner.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

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

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Active Cell Mechanics

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

Professor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 08 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Injection, migration, and pressure dissipation in layered aquifer systems

Chris MacMinn, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Prof Mihaela van der Schaar from Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write good papers

Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Colin Hockings, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Spatial experience: more than mere structure

Peter Epstein (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Dept of Genetics).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A political history of apolitical science

Audra J. Wolfe (Independent Scholar).

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Open Source Quantum Computing

Mathew Treinish (IBM).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan

Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Engineering, Production Processes Group Seminars, Institute for Manufacturing

Printed Mesh Materials with Locally Tailored Elasticity for Compliant Wearable and Implantable Devices

Sebastian Pattinson.

Seminar Room 2 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 15 February 2019, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks

Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Phase field modelling of crack propagation

Dr Emilio Martinez-Paneda, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE

Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

General theory of the Kanzaki force field: static and dynamic models of dislocations and other extended defects

Dr Benat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

TBC

Miriam Dall’Igna, Foster & Partners .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 15 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Fabiana Perocchi | Gene Centre, Munich .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 15 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Sam Groth, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Viscosity of dilute bacterial suspensions

Alexander Morozov, University of Edinburgh.

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

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century

Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jian Kai Zhang, Cambridge University and Lanzhou University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Trust & Technology Initiative events

Lunchtime Talk: Prof Diane Coyle

Diane Coyle.

Cambridge Brew House, 1 King St, Cambridge CB1 1LH.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

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

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrew Firth (Dept of Pathology).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bio-inspired Photonics: from nature to applications

Dr Silvia Vignolini ( Department of Chemistry).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Advances in machine learning for molecules

José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Department of Engineering (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”

Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Thomas Ploetz (Georgia Tech).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Exploratory models and exploratory modelling in science

Axel Gelfert (Technical University of Berlin).

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hyperplasticity

Prof. G.T. Houlsby, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

A domain theory for statistical probabilistic programming

Ohad Kammar, Edinburgh.

FW26.

Friday 22 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Gareth Wyn Jones, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

Oatley Meeting Room.

Friday 22 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Maximising urban freight: Does size matter?

Chris Eddy, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Tidal flows in planets and stars

Adrian Barker, University of Leeds.

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

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

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

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Using Chemican and Biological Data for Drug Design

Dr Andreas Bender (Dept of Chemistry).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward

Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory

Paolo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

A Framework for Data Collection and Management for IoT

Maribel Fernandez (KCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s

Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

Dr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Atmospheric dispersion in cities

Stephen Belcher, Met Office.

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

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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

Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor

Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chemical regulation of functional RNAs

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides, Eric Miska & Cambridge RNA Club

Yunsun Nam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Trust & Technology Initiative events

Lunchtime Talk: Dr Amanda Prorok

Amanda Prorok (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge Brew House, 1 King St, Cambridge CB1 1LH.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction

Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Oscar Rueda (CRUK - CI).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

V-Dem: measuring democracy

Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Engineering, Production Processes Group Seminars, Institute for Manufacturing

Roll-to-roll processing of pressure responsive cellulosic photonic

Hsin-Ling Liang.

Seminar Room 2 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 08 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Pasquali, Rice University, Huston Texas.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Professor Ashwin Seshia, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bio-inspired control of pressure fluctuations and trailing edge noise

William Devenport, Virginia Tech.

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

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

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

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write a Fellowship proposal

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

“Doing more” to keep children safe online – why the tech sector can only do so much

Andy Phippen, University of Plymouth.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexandra Rutz, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics

Maarten Steenhagen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards the high-level sequence code of gene regulation

Dr Aleksandr Sahakyan (MRC WIMM, Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

A 'proton ratchet' couples the membrane potential to protein secretion (and perhaps also mitochondrial protein import)

Professor Ian Collinson | University of Bristol .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Craik Club

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Justin Cormack.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system

Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Trust & Technology Initiative events

The Public Sphere in the Age of the Algorithm (Cambridge Science Festival)

Dr Jennifer Cobbe.

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 19:30-20:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Electricity in liquid foams

Anne-Laure Biance, ILM Lyon.

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

Friday 15 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Mobile Systems group research

Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 13:15-13:45

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

http://www.newcastle-mitochondria.com/joanna-elson/

Dr Joanna Elson | Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Newcastle University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

http://www.newcastle-mitochondria.com/joanna-elson/

Dr Joanna Elson | Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Newcastle University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Network Science and Telecommunications

Piet Van Mieghem (TU Delft).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Chunaram Choudhary | University of Copenhagen .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Chunaram Choudhary | University of Copenhagen .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Amir Shaikhha, Oxford.

FW26.

Friday 12 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jakob Bardram (DTU).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

Janet Rossant, University of Toronto, Canada.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Henrice Altink (University of York).

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

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Coralia Cartis.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, NY, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Phil Zegerman

Philip Ingham, Imperial College London-Nanyang Technological University, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

CMS, MR14.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor José López Barneo | Instituto de biomedicina de Sevilla .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

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

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Tobias Dansen | UMC Utrecht .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anna Obenauf from Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Steve Jackson

Arturo Londoño-Vallejo, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Maria Falkenberg | University of Gothenburg .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Maria Falkenberg | University of Gothenburg .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 15:00-16:00