Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Tabular Data

Arik Reuter and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Discovering mathematical concepts through a multi-agent system

Notice unusual day, time and room

Daattavya Aggarwal (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep-layered machines have a built-in Occam's razor

Notice unusual day, time and room

Thomas Fink (Director, The London Institute for Mathematical Sciences).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Information Theory Seminar

Optimal Estimation in Orthogonally Invariant Generalized Linear Models

Dr Yihan Zhang, University of Bristol .

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Moduli of K3 sufaces and enumerative geometry

Rahul Pandharipande (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich).

MR13.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:15-15:15

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Floer homotopy and bordism

Ivan Smith (Cambridge).

MR13.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Singular Hecke categories and thick KLR diagrammatics

Amit Hazri, University of Leeds.

MR12.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How can the pedagogy of statistics inform the teaching of machine learning?

Paul Fannon, Department of Genetics: Bioinformatics Training Facility.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 19:15-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Targeted Protein Degradation tools for novel therapeutic strategies in cancer

Dr Catherine Lindon, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

Thursday 12 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Group-harmonious labellings of trees

Alexey Pokrovskiy (UCL).

MR13 (EL.05).

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

The role of Random Matrix Theory for the optimization algorithms of Machine Learning

Gérard Ben Arous (Courant).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Faithful Logic Embeddings in HOL: Deep and Shallow, Propositional and Quantified

Christoph Benzmüller (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and Freie Universität Berlin).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

On generalised presentations over topological groups

Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway).

MR13.

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

Scalable causal discovery for statistically efficient causal inference

Sara Magliacane (University of Amsterdam).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Wandering exponent and free energy for the Mézard-Parisi elastic polymer

Gérard Ben Arous (Courant).

MR9.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Superheavy subsets from singular divisors

Elliot Gathercole, University of Lancaster.

MR13.

Friday 13 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song

Richard Morrison, The Times.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 13 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Machine learning for excited state dynamics

Ryan Barrett, Leipzig University.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:00-14:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

TBC

Davide Parise (Imperial College London).

MR13.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

TBC

Loïc Lannelongue, University of Cambridge.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:30-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Johannes Girsch (University of Sheffield).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

On the structure of infinite sumsets in the integers

Florian Richter (EPFL).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Iris Gilabert Manzanares, Universitat Politècnica de València.

MR12.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities.

Dr Daniel Munoz Espin, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Constructions of Turán systems that are tight up to a multiplicative constant

Oleg Pikhurko (Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Paula Pilatus, University of Hamburg.

MR13.

Friday 20 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Expansion, divisibility and parity

Note this talk will take place in MR5.

Harald Helfgott (CNRS--Jussieu).

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 13:30-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and clinical insights from genome-wide association studies of cancer

Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 26 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Foundation AI

to decide

Kartik Tandon.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Friday 03 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

MR2, CMS.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Marcel Goh (McGill University).

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 13:30-14:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Floris van Doorn (University of Bonn).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Hausdorff spectrum of p-adic analytic pro-p groups

Anitha Thillaisundaram (Lund).

MR13.

Friday 01 May 2026, 13:45-14:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Brad Wilson, UCL.

MR13.

Friday 01 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Mihnea Popa (Harvard).

MR13.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 14:15-15:15

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Laura DeMarco (Harvard).

MR13.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

The Inaccessible Game

Professor Neil Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Thomas Powell (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 28 May 2026, 17:00-18:00

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

Valeria Ruscio.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 17:00-17:45

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Johan Öinert (Blekinge).

MR13.

Friday 05 June 2026, 13:45-14:45

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dídac Martinez Granado (Luxemburgh).

MR13.

Friday 12 June 2026, 13:45-14:45