Lennard-Jones Centre

Getting from the computer to real world materials faster with machine learning

Prof. Heather J. Kulik, MIT.

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Monday 03 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Local Well-posedenss of the Bartnik Static Extension Problem near Schwarzschild spheres

Ahmed Ellithy (Uppsala).

MR13.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Random sampling versus active learning algorithms for machine learning potentials of quantum liquid water

Dr. Nore Stolte, Ruhr University Bochum.

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Monday 03 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Building global resilience to high-impact volcanic eruptions

Lara Mani, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

Cătălina Cangea, ex-Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Probability

Road layout in the KPZ class

Marton Balazs (Bristol).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marti Oller Riera (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Cryptography, quantum computers and analytic number theory

Cédric Pilatte (University of Oxford).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization and Informativeness of Conformal Prediction

Dr Fredrik Hellstrom, UCL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Unipotent representations in the local Langlands correspondence

Beth Romano, King's College London.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Hamiltonian Simulation

Pravav Singh, University of Bath.

MR2.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

Decomposing Latin squares into transversals.

Candida Bowtell (Birmingham).

MR12.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalisation of Combinatorial Optimisation in Isabelle/HOL: Network Flows

Thomas Ammer (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

John R. King (University of Nottingham).

MR13.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Learning Conical Intersections for Excited States Using Smooth Invariants

Dr. Timon S. Gutleb ( University of Leeds).

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Monday 10 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Raymond van Bommel (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:00-15:45

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Amador Martin-Pizarro (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Sampling using Diffusion Processes

Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks.

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knot theory and complex curves

Matthew Hedden (Michigan State University).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Zachary Feng, University of Oxford.

MR12.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner; Dept of Pathology.

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

Thursday 13 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Jan Petr (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

David Angdinata (University College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

On the congruence subgroup property for mapping class groups of surfaces

Henry Wilton, Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jose Luis Narbona Valiente, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Annalaura Rebucci, MPI Leipzig.

MR13.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Boltz-1 Democratizing Biomolecular Interaction Modeling

Gabriele Corso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Monday 17 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Graham (Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 20 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalising Brauer Group and Group Cohomology in Lean4

Jujian Zhang (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Martin Palmer, Leeds.

MR13.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Joseph Malbon, University of Edinburgh.

MR13.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jacek Jendrej.

MR13.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Neural Thermodynamic Integration: Free Energy estimation with ML-potentials

Balint Mate, University of Geneva.

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Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Probability

Branching random walk with non-local competition

Sarah Penington (Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Li Huerta (MPIM).

MR13.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Mike Hochman (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Variations of the Expectation due to Changes in the Measure: Applications to Generalization and Game Theory

Dr Samir Perlaza, INRIA.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Simon Goodwin, University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems immunology and variation in the human immune system

Professor Adrian Liston.

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

Thursday 27 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Francisco Ferreira Ruiz (Royal Holloway, University of London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pablo Sánchez-Peralta, UAM.

MR13.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Kelly Wang, University of Cambridge .

MR13.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Accurate Diffusion Estimation From Simulation and the Impacts on Temperature Dependent Modelling

Dr Andrew McCluskey ( University of Bristol).

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-14:30

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jo Evans, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Title to be confirmed

Chen Lin (University of Oxford).

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

James Grime, Institute of Continuing Education.

Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Monday 03 March 2025, 19:15-21:00

Lattice field theory informal seminars

Title to be confirmed

Niccolò Forzano (Swansea University).

MR15 (GL.02), Pavilion G, CMS.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 10:00-11:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Chris Wuthrich (Nottingham).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Peter Varju (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Gergely Flamich, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Charles Senecal, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 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 06 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jone Lopez de Gamiz Zearra, Bilbao.

MR13.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:45-14:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sam Fischer, University of Oxford.

MR13.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Title to be confirmed

Razvan Radu.

MR13.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Siqi Yang (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Ben Krause (University of Bristol).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formal verification of the 5th Busy Beaver value

Tristan Stérin (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Maja Kądziołka.

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alice Kerr, Bristol.

MR13.

Friday 14 March 2025, 13:45-14:45

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Daniil Mamaev, London School of Geometry and Number Theory.

MR13.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Title to be confirmed

Dr Julia Yang (Georgia Tech).

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:00-14:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Title to be confirmed

Dr Stephen J Cox (University of Durham).

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:30-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Maleeha Khawaja (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Positivity theorems for hyperplane arrangements via intersection theory

Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

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 .

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

David Wang (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Peter Zaika, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Artificial Intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

Dr Namshik Han, Milner Institute and Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine.

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

Thursday 27 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

Professor Serena Nik-Zainal.

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach

Roger Sewell.

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

Thursday 10 April 2025, 19:15-21:30

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Tim Austin (Warwick).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Anitha Thillaisundaram, Lund.

MR13.

Friday 02 May 2025, 13:45-14:45

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Justin Coon, University of Oxford.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

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

Rouse Ball Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Prof Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

TBC.

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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