Cambridge Forum of Science and Humanities


2006-03-07 12:30: Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model (Dr Neil Lawrence, Computer Science, University of Sheffield)

2006-10-05 16:00: Mixture Models and the EM Algorithm (Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2006-10-06 16:30: Intelligence and ageing: contributions from the Scottish Mental Survey follow-up studies (Professor Ian Deary, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh)

2006-10-13 12:00: Multiple Instance Learning for Natural Language Tasks (Mark Craven, University of Cambridge (visiting))

2006-10-13 16:30: Sex differences in intelligence? (Professor Nick Mackintosh, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-19 17:00: Concord, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children (Prof Andrew Radford (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex))

2006-10-20 12:00: Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler (Manny Rayner, Powerset.com/Geneva University)

2006-10-20 16:30: What makes real-world scenes special? Evidence from fMRI (Professor John Henderson, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2006-10-24 13:00: Acquiring Ontological Relationships from Wikipedia Using RMRS (Aurelie Herbelot, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-25 12:30: Subliminal face priming: Evidence from fMRI, EEG and MEG (Rik Henson, MRC-CBU)

2006-10-26 16:00: Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (Ed Snelson, Gatsby Unit, UCL)

2006-10-27 16:30: Migration and fusion of perceptual content – premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction? (Professor Anthony Marcel, University of Cambridge and University of Hertfordshire)

2006-10-31 13:00: Use of Linguistic Information and Reordering Strategies for Ngram- 
based Statistical Machine Translation (Adria de Gispert, TALP Research Centre – Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC),   
Barcelona, Spain)

2006-11-02 16:00: Semantic knowledge and the anterior temporal lobes: why doesn't anyone believe us? (Dr Tim Rogers, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2006-11-02 17:00: Challenges and results of large-scale mapping of contemporary English dialects using online surveys (Dr Bert Vaux (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge))

2006-11-03 12:00: The Weakest Link: Detecting and Correcting Errors in Learner English (Pete Whitelock, Sharp Laboratories)

2006-11-03 16:30: Mood, memory & clinical depression (Professor Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-08 12:30: Hemispheric asymmetetries in viewpoint-dependent and viewpoint-invariant priming (Elias Mouchlianitis, MRC-CBU)

2006-11-08 12:30: Context-dependent representations in human prefrontal cortex (Mark Stokes, MRC-CBU)

2006-11-09 13:00: Machine Learning Reading Group in Engineering Department (Speaker to be confirmed)

2006-11-09 16:00: Causality (Dr Ricardo Silva, Gatsby Unit, UCL)

2006-11-09 16:15: The role of the hippocampus in relational memory: Evidence from amnesia and fMRI (Prof Mieke Verfaellie, University of Boston)

2006-11-10 12:00:  Fuzzy Language Models and Closed Domain Question Answering using Fuzzy Semantics (Richard Bergmair, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-10 16:30: Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations (Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Department of Psychology, Barcelona University, Spain)

2006-11-15 12:30: ERP and fMRI correlates of object and word recognition (Olaf Hauk, MRC-CBU)

2006-11-16 13:00: Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction (Frederik Eaton and Arik Azran)

2006-11-16 16:00: Expectation Propagation (Dr Tom Minka, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2006-11-16 16:15: Neural mechanisms of attention and cognitive control in the human brain: Evidence from TMS (Dr Chris Chambers, University College London)

2006-11-16 17:00: Problems with phonemes (Dr John Coleman (Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford))

2006-11-17 12:00: Evaluating Centering for Information Ordering using Corpora (Nikiforos Karamanis, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-17 16:30: Do familiarity and recollection have different neural bases? Normal, lesion, fMRI, and neophrenology studies (Professor Andrew Mayes, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2006-11-20 13:00: Tracheoesophageal Speech Repair (Arantza Del Pozo, CUED Machine Intelligence Laboratory)

2006-11-21 16:30: The Role of Language in Mathematical Development (Dr Chris Donlan, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London)

2006-11-22 12:30: Morphological structure in visual word recognition (Mirjana Bozic, MRC-CBU)

2006-11-23 13:00: Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) (Blaise Thomson, and Sinead Williamson)

2006-11-23 16:00: Advanced MCMC Methods (Iain Murray, Gatsby Unit, UCL)

2006-11-23 16:15: Do S-cones contribute to the perception of brightness? (Prof Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany and the Visual Center Lab at the Salk Institute in the US.)

2006-11-24 12:00: Generation of Referring Expressions: Evaluating some standard algorithms (Ielka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen)

2006-11-24 16:30: The origins of adult magical beliefs (Professor Bruce Hood, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2006-11-29 12:30: Individual differences in emotional responsivity (Elaine Fox, University of Essex)

2006-11-30 13:00: On Choosing Priors (Prof Zoubin Ghahramani, CUED)

2006-11-30 16:15: Experience-dependent plasticity as revealed by fMRI (Dr Zoe Kourtzi, University of Birmingham)

2006-11-30 17:00: Differentiating  morphology, syntax and meaning in the human brain (Prof Lorraine K Tyler (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2006-12-01 12:00: Generating appropriate referring expressions in news summaries (Advaith Siddharthan, University of Cambridge)

2006-12-06 12:30: Emotion from brain identity (Mitch Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center)

2006-12-07 16:15: Hearing with a cochlear implant: The perception of sound intensity (Prof Colette McKay, Aston University Birmingham)

2007-01-16 13:00: Interpreting Multimodal Communication Scenes (Steve Renals (Edinburgh))

2007-01-18 13:00: Collaborative Filtering (Will Youzhi Zou and David Knowles)

2007-01-18 16:15: Auditory processing, language impairment and developmental dyslexia (Professor Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge)

2007-01-19 16:30: New family forms: Implications for parenting and child development (Professor Susan Golombok, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-01-24 12:30: Beyond the scores: Clues to neurophsychological disorders from the things patients say and do (Karalyn Patterson, MRC-CBU)

2007-01-24 18:00: On possessives in different varieties of Portuguese (Dr Ana Castro, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal/Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

2007-01-24 20:30: Is French a language without accents after all? (Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge))

2007-01-25 16:15: Prefrontal contributions to dynamic cognitive control (Dr Hugh Garavan, Trinity College Dublin)

2007-01-25 17:00: Some aspects of verb morphology and syntax in Modern Aramaic (Prof Geoffrey Khan (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge))

2007-01-26 13:30: Active Learning and Experimental Design (Andreas Vlachos and Bobby Gramacy)

2007-01-26 16:30: Getting to grips with the problem of serial order in memory (Professor Graham Hitch, University of York)

2007-01-30 17:00: "Can you read what I can read?: Case studies of German, Japanese and Urdu learners" (Karen Ashton (Faculty of Education))

2007-01-31 12:30: Parafoveal perception of emotional scenes: Evidence from oculomotor biases and affective priming (Lauri Nummenmaa, MRC-CBU)

2007-02-01 13:00: Non-parametric mixture models (David Knowles and Blaise Thomson)

2007-02-01 16:00: Robot Localisation and Mapping (Dr Paul M Newman, Oxford University)

2007-02-01 16:15: Crossing the divide: Interactions between the processing of regular and irregular past tense words (Professor Elaine Funnell, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2007-02-02 16:30: Reward processing in the addicted brain: Sex, drugs and genes (Dr Jane Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA)

2007-02-06 16:30: Understanding selective attentional and perceptual abnormalities in autism (Dr Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-07 12:30: TBCThe past is another country: The elusiveness of specific emotional memories following psychological trauma (Tim Dalgleish, MRC-CBU)

2007-02-07 20:30: ‘French theories of language in 18th-century Berlin: reception and transformation’ (Avi Lifschitz (Brasenose, Oxford))

2007-02-08 13:00: Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Dirichlet Diffusion Trees (Frederik Eaton and Sinead Williamson)

2007-02-08 16:15: Investigation of the relationship between the BOLD response and cortical oscillatory dynamics using MEG and fMRI (Professor Krish Singh, Cardiff University)

2007-02-08 17:00: Compounding in English and the nature of attribution (Prof Heinz Giegerich (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh))

2007-02-09 16:30: Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex (Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA)

2007-02-13 17:00: Exploring language learning through communication: How far is task repetition repetition? (Dr Martin Bygate (University of Lancaster))

2007-02-15 13:00: Neural Networks (Pedro Ortega and Will Youzhi Zou)

2007-02-16 16:30: Is theory of mind necessary for teaching (Dr Douglas Frye, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

2007-02-21 12:30: A slim grip on reality? The role of anterior prefrontal cortex in source recollection (Jon Simons, Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-21 20:30: The evolution of "constructions" from Latin to French: the evolution of valency patterns and valency reorganisation (Lene Schøsler (Copenhagen))

2007-02-22 13:00: Universal Artificial Intelligence, and Probability Monads (Pedro Ortega and Frederik Eaton)

2007-02-22 16:00: An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian Methods (Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-22 16:15: Clarifying the functional neuro-anatomy of face processing by combining lesion studies and neuroimaging (Dr Bruno Rossion, UCL Belgium)

2007-02-22 17:00: Inference about inference: pragmatics and stylistic analysis (Dr Billy Clark (School of Arts, Middlesex University))

2007-02-23 16:30: Reanalyzing ungrammatical sentences: Evidence from eye movements, speeded grammaticality judgments, and MEG (Professor Fernanda Ferreira, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh)

2007-02-27 16:30: Parietal mechanisms subserving the mental number line (Dr Ed Hubbard, INSERM Cognitive Neuroimaging Service, Orsay, France)

2007-02-28 12:30: Discrete object representation for perception and memory in posterior parietal cortex (Rhodri Cusack, MRC-CBU)

2007-03-01 13:00: Some NIPS papers (Blaise, Katherine, and Zoubin)

2007-03-01 16:00: Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes (Dr Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Unit, UCL)

2007-03-01 16:15: Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in episodic memory and strategy implementation (Dr Mark Baxter, University of Oxford)

2007-03-02 16:30: Neural systems for attention and perceptual decisions (Professor Maurizio Corbetta, Department of Neurology, Washington University in St Louis, USA)

2007-03-06 17:00: Insights into optimal and natural language from deaf and hearing children of deaf parents (Dr Tyron Woolfe (Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University College London))

2007-03-07 12:30: Can approach-avoidance paradigms inform debates about embodied cognition? (Adle Pacini, MRC-CBU)

2007-03-07 12:30: Attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex (Max Garagnani, MRC-CBU)

2007-03-07 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Prof Peter Howell, UCL)

2007-03-07 20:30: Francais d'ailleurs, the pluricentricity of French identities (Edith Esch (University Cambridge))

2007-03-08 13:00: An Introduction to Generalized Ensemble MCMC for Machine Learning (Ulrich Paquet)

2007-03-08 16:15: 11thousand autobiographical memories: Results from the BBC memory survey (Professor Martin Conway, Leeds University)

2007-03-08 17:00: Discourse variation, grammaticalisation, and stuff like that (Prof Jenny Cheshire (Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London))

2007-03-09 16:30: Intuition and affect in decision-making (Dr Marius Usher, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College)

2007-03-14 12:30: Human memory: insights from the past and challenges for the future (Kim Graham, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & MRC-CBU)

2007-03-15 13:00: Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classification (Ryota Tomioka (University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST))

2007-03-15 16:00: Bayesian Ranking (Ralf Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2007-03-15 16:15: Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognition (Professor Neil Macrae, Aberdeen University)

2007-03-21 12:30: The Cognitive Heterogeneity of Parkinson's Disease (Caroline Williams-Gray, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)

2007-03-22 13:00: Topics in Convex Optimisation (Ryota Tomioka, University of Tokyo)

2007-03-29 13:00: GP-LVMs (Joaquin Quiñonero Candela)

2007-04-12 13:00: Change Point Problems in Linear Dynamical Systems (Onno Zoeter, Microsoft)

2007-04-19 13:00: Function Approximation in MDPs (Blaise Thomson, CUED)

2007-04-19 16:15: The effects of learning on the neural representation of natural objects in extrastriate, temporal and prefrontal cortex (Dr Gregor Rainer (Tuebingen))

2007-04-25 12:30: Breaking the silence - brain-computer interfaces for communication in locked-in patients (Andrea Kuebler, Universitaet Tuebingen)

2007-04-26 13:00: Gaussian Approximations for Binary Gaussian Process Classification, and Hidden Topic Markov Models (Hannes Nickisch, Katherine Heller)

2007-04-26 16:15: Psychological factors in the epidemiology of disease (Dr Paul Surtees (Cambridge))

2007-04-27 16:30: Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex (Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA)

2007-05-02 12:30: Why masked priming tells us more about normal perception than unconscious processing (Dennis Norris (MRC-CBU))

2007-05-03 13:00: Optimal Learning (Carl Rasmussen)

2007-05-03 16:15: The thoughts and brain activity of taxi drivers navigating in London (Dr Hugo Spiers (UCL))

2007-05-03 17:00: Why are humans the only species to have language? (Prof Robin Dunbar FBA (University of Liverpool))

2007-05-03 17:30: The Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish Dialectology (Dr David Heap, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada)

2007-05-04 12:00: Term Mining in Biomedicine (Sophia Ananiadou - University of Manchester)

2007-05-04 16:30: The role of action in directing attention (Professor Glyn Humphreys, Behavioural Brain Sciences Group, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2007-05-04 17:00: The South Arabian Origin of Ethiosemitic (Professor Rainer Voigt, Freie Universität, Berlin)

2007-05-08 14:00: Introduction to Chileno Spanish (Dr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich)

2007-05-09 14:00: Comparative grammar of Latin American varieties (Dr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich)

2007-05-10 10:00: Contact phenomena between Chileno and Mapudungun (Dr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich)

2007-05-10 16:15: Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognition (Professor Neil Macrae (Aberdeen))

2007-05-10 17:30: L'invention de la définition en langue dans la "La Logique" de Port-Royal (1662) et le "Dictionnaire de l'Académie" (1694) (Odile Leclercq)

2007-05-11 11:00: Affinity Propagation and Hierarchical Beta Processes (Arik Azran and Frederik Eaton)

2007-05-11 16:30: Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in strategy implementation and episodic memory (Dr Mark Baxter, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2007-05-17 13:00: System Conditioning vs Explicit Bayes Inference, and Collaborative LDA (Pedro Ortega and Sinead Williamson)

2007-05-17 16:15: Can the mirror neuron system infer intentions from observed action? (Dr James Kilner (UCL))

2007-05-17 17:00: “Cannot believe have not realised this before”: subject omission in present-day written English (Prof Liliane Haegeman (Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille III))

2007-05-18 16:30: Timing, memory and choice (Professor John Staddon, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, USA)

2007-05-22 16:30: Neural correlates of number magnitude processing in children & adults: evidence from fMRI (Dr Liane Kaufmann, Clinical Dept. of  General Paediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University)

2007-05-23 12:30: Electrophysiological evidence for the enhanced allocation of spatial attention to threat in anxious individuals (Elaine Fox, University of Essex)

2007-05-24 13:00: What can Gaussian Processes do for Reinforcement Learning? (Marc Deisenroth, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany)

2007-05-24 16:15: Imaging voice-specific responses in auditory areas (Professor Pascal Belin (Glasgow))

2007-05-30 12:30: Language and action: Cross-talk between processing of action words and motor control (Veronique Boulenger (MRC-CBU))

2007-05-31 13:00: Overlapping Clusters and 4th-year Projects (Zoubin Ghahramani and Katherine Heller)

2007-05-31 16:15: The time-course of response inhibition revealed by an examination of movement trajectory (Professor Robin Walker (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2007-06-07 16:15: Fundamental principles of cognition, which might apply across several cognitive domains (Professor Nick Chater (UCL))

2007-06-13 12:30: Functional and neural bases of eye gaze perception (Andy Calder (MRC-CBU))

2007-06-14 13:00: Infinite ICA and Information Retrieval (Will Youzhi Zou and David Knowles)

2007-06-15 15:00: Semi-supervised Training of a Statistical Parser from Unlabeled Partially-bracketed Data (John Carroll - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex)

2007-06-18 11:30: Annotation of Chemical Named Entities (Peter Corbett - University of Cambridge)

2007-06-18 11:30: Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognition (Colin Batchelor - Royal Society of Chemistry)

2007-06-20 12:30: Seeing patterns, reading words: Some preliminary results on the perception of "invisible words" (Doris Eckstein (MRC-CBU))

2007-06-20 14:00: Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics (Diarmuid O'Seaghdha - University of Cambridge)

2007-06-20 16:15: Human memory: new insights and fresh challenges (Dr Kim Graham)

2007-06-21 13:00: Statistical Models for Partial Membership (Katherine Heller)

2007-06-27 12:30: Presentation and progression of memory deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment (Samrah Ahmed (MRC-CBU))

2007-06-27 13:00: Measures of auditory streaming (Sarah Thompson (MRC-CBU))

2007-06-28 15:30: Sensible priors from finite linear models (Ed Snelson and Joaquin Candela)

2007-07-02 11:00: The ILIAD Project: Language Technology Meets Linux Troubleshooting (Timothy Baldwin - University of Melbourne.)

2007-07-05 13:00: Kingman's coalescent, non-parametric Bayesian agglomerative clustering, and ICML 2007 (Yee Whye Teh, Zoubin Ghahramani)

2007-07-10 11:30: Can Robots Learn Language the Way Children Do? (Stephen E. Levinson (University of Illinois))

2007-08-14 11:30: Multidimensional Dialogue Management and Dialogue Act Recognition using Bayesian Networks (Simon Keizer (University of Tilburg))

2007-08-24 11:30: Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition (Thomas Fang Zheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing))

2007-09-04 16:15: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: building bridges or falling between two stools? (Barbara Wilson (MRC-CBU))

2007-09-13 13:00: Covariate Shift Adaptation: Supervised Learning When Training and Test Inputs Have Different Distributions (Masashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technlogy))

2007-09-14 14:00: Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component Analysis (Hao Shen, National ICT Australia and Australian National University, Canberra)

2007-09-19 14:00: Graph Kernels for Data Mining (Karsten Borgwardt, Machine Learning Group @ CUED)

2007-10-03 12:30: The practical impact of FTD: an observational approach (Eneida Mioshi (MRC-CBU))

2007-10-03 14:00: Optimal Spreading Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems; Using CSK as a Case Study (Theodore Papamarkou, University of Warwick)

2007-10-05 16:30: Mental programs and the frontal lobe (Dr John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2007-10-10 12:30: Fronto-temporal dementia not all it seems (John Hodges (MRC-CBU))

2007-10-11 14:00: Autonomous Agents under Operational Closure (Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge))

2007-10-11 16:15: Knowing Me, Knowing You (Neil Macrae (University of Aberdeen))

2007-10-12 12:00: Random Walks on the Click Graph (Martin Szummer, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2007-10-12 15:30: Jump Telegraph Processes and a Volatility Smile (Nikita Ratanov (University of Rosario, Bogota))

2007-10-12 16:30: The psychopharmacology of social and non-social risky choice, and gambling behaviour (Dr Robert Rogers, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2007-10-17 12:30: Listening in a cocktail party with acoustic and electric hearing (Bob Carlyon (MRC-CBU))

2007-10-17 14:00: Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational Learning (Ricardo Silva (Statistical Laboratory))

2007-10-18 16:00: Group Theory and Machine Learning (Imre Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL)

2007-10-18 16:15: Functional interactions of frontal cortex during action selection and attentional selection (Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford))

2007-10-18 17:30: The fascinating first year (Prof David Crystal (School of Linguistics and English Language, University of Wales, Bangor))

2007-10-19 12:00: Analysing biomedical text with the Stanford dependency grammar (Andrew Clegg, Birkbeck, University of London)

2007-10-19 16:30: Stress, Happiness and Health: the Cortisol Connection (Professor Angela Clow, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster)

2007-10-22 17:00: Japanese Language Education and the Impact of Testing ( Dr Tomoko Fujita, Tokai University  and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall)

2007-10-23 20:45: A rather English view of schwa in the clitic pronouns of French (Ros Temple (New College, Oxford))

2007-10-24 16:30: Comparing the sounds of accents of English, past and present (April McMahon (Edinburgh))

2007-10-25 14:00: Sparse Bayesian Linear Models (Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge), Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla)

2007-10-25 16:00: Spectral Clustering (Arik Azran,  Machine Learning Group)

2007-10-25 17:00: A language in the image of the nation: language and national identity in Greece since the eighteenth century (Professor Peter Mackridge (St Cross College, Oxford))

2007-10-26 16:30: Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implantees (Professor Colette McKay, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2007-10-30 16:30: Specialisation in the Human Brain: The Case of Numbers (Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept of Psychology, University College London)

2007-10-31 12:30: Strateies of spatial listening for speech comprehension (Antje Ihlefeld (MRC-CBU))

2007-11-01 14:00: Variational inference and exponential families (Jurgen Van Gael and Frederik Eaton)

2007-11-01 16:00: Prequential Statistics (Philip Dawid, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge)

2007-11-01 16:15: The cognitive neuroscience of the human voice (Pascal Belin (University of Glasgow))

2007-11-01 17:30: Historical sociolinguistics and the transmission of language change (Prof Terttu Nevalainen (Department of Linguistics, University of Helsinki))

2007-11-02 14:00: Quantum randomness and Kolmogorov probability (Patricia Grambsch, University of Minnesota, visiting Cambridge)

2007-11-02 16:30: Androgen and gender development (Professor Melissa Hines, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-05 17:00: Maturational constraints on L2 Acquisition : Do they exist and are they relevant to early L2 instruction ( Professor David Singleton, CLCS, Trinity College, Dublin)

2007-11-06 20:45: On social and phonological level in French: a transnational perspective (Tim Pooley (London Metropolitan))

2007-11-07 11:30: Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process Models (Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge))

2007-11-07 12:30: From emotion in the control of action to emotional meaning - a suggested evolutionary trajectory (Phil Barnard (MRC-CBU))

2007-11-07 14:00: An overview of covariance operators in Hilbert space, and their applications (Arthur Gretton)

2007-11-08 14:00: Transductive and Semi-Supervised Learning (Karsten Borgwardt (University of Cambridge) and Katherine Heller)

2007-11-08 16:15: Computational mechanisms for the generation and regulation of behaviour (Richard Cooper (Birkbeck College, University of London))

2007-11-09 14:00: Prequential Statistics (Phil Dawid (Cambridge))

2007-11-09 16:30: Familiarity and recall in rats: memory for objects and events (Dr Madeline Eacott, Department of Psychology, University of Durham)

2007-11-13 16:30: Event Related Potentials and Maturation of Auditory Memory Function (Dr Oleg Korzyukov. MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2007-11-14 12:30: Putting emotions into context (Dean Mobbs (MRC-CBU))

2007-11-14 16:30: Animacy, definiteness and case in Asia Minor Greek (Mark Janse (Ghent/ All Souls’ Oxford))

2007-11-15 14:00: Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-11-15 16:00: Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language Parsing (Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory)

2007-11-15 16:15: Beyond localization.  What brain imaging can tell us (Dick Passingham (University of Oxford))

2007-11-15 17:30: Inflectional Economy (Dr James Blevins (RCEAL, University of Cambridge))

2007-11-16 12:00: Kernels for graph comparison (Karsten Borgwardt, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-16 14:00: Neither finance nor pharma -- life as an industrial statistician. To be followed by an introduction to the Royal Statistical Society (Philip Jonathan and Yanyun Wu (Shell))

2007-11-16 16:30: Developing cognitive approaches to the assessment of animal emotion (Professor Mike Mendl, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol)

2007-11-19 17:00: Micro-teaching and self-evaluation (Dr Richard Pemberton, University of Nottingham)

2007-11-20 20:45: Une approche glottonomique de la vitalité du cauchois: modèle et méthode (Thierry Bulot (Rennes))

2007-11-21 12:30: Amazing puzzles: a preserved ability in Semantic Dementia? (Hilary Green (MRC-CBU))

2007-11-21 14:00: Clinical data based optimal STI strategies for HIV: a reinforcement learning approach (Dr Guy-Bart Stan (University of Cambridge))

2007-11-21 16:30: Aspects of Definiteness in Ancient Greek (Maria Napoli (Pisa))

2007-11-22 14:00:  Direct and indirect causal effects: a helpful distinction? (Donald B. Rubin (Harvard))

2007-11-22 14:00: Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-11-22 16:00: Error Correcting Codes (David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics)

2007-11-23 12:00: A Rebel Alliance in Babel's Aftermath: Combining rules and probabilities in machine translation (Dan Flickinger, CSLI Stanford University and Cambridge Computer Laboratory)

2007-11-23 14:00: A Life-Time of Stochastic Self-Organisation - 1977 - 2007 (David Probert (VAZA International))

2007-11-23 16:30: Adjusting network dynamics to cognitive demands: dopaminergic control of cortical activity regimes (Dr Daniel Durstewicz, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth)

2007-11-26 15:00: Gene Regulatory Network Inference: A Kernel-Based Learning Approach (Sandy Klemm, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-28 16:30: The Gaulish Inscription of Rom (Deux-Sèvres) (Alderik Blom (Cambridge))

2007-11-29 16:15: Uncertainty and behavioural control: Episodes, actions and habits (Peter Dayan (University College London))

2007-11-29 17:30: When and where does language change? Syntax, phonology, acquisition and diachrony (Dr Patrick Honeybone (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh))

2007-11-30 14:00: Assessing the finite-dimensionality of functional data (Celine Vial (Rennes))

2007-12-05 12:30: Cognition and reward in Parkinsons Disease (James Rowe (MRC-CBU and Addenbrooke's Hospital))

2007-12-06 16:15: Chaucer Club debate: What can functional neuroimaging tell us that is relevant for cognitive psychology? (Mike Page (University of Hertfordshire) vs Tim Shallice (University College London))

2007-12-07 16:30: Grounding knowledge in the brain’s modal systems (Professor Lawrence W Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emory University, USA)

2008-01-16 12:30: Prediction error, causal learning and the delusional state (Paul Fletcher (University of Cambridge Dept of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit))

2008-01-17 14:00: Bayesian Adaptive Inference and Adaptive Training (Rogier van Dalen and Christian Steinruecken)

2008-01-17 16:00: Graphical Models (Christopher M. Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge)

2008-01-17 17:00: 'A fair knowledge of their tongue': Re-evaluating Missionary Linguistics (Dr Marcus Tomalin (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge))

2008-01-18 14:00: A theoretical and methodological discussion of nested sampling (Nicolas Chopin (Bristol))

2008-01-18 16:30: Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why? (Professor Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

2008-01-18 16:30: Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why? (Colin Blakemore (University of Oxford))

2008-01-22 11:00: Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease Mapping (Jarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology)

2008-01-23 12:30: Maturational aspects of auditory ERP (Oleg Korzyukov (MRC-CBU))

2008-01-23 14:00: Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections (David Blei, Computer Science, Princeton University)

2008-01-23 16:30: The Augment in Classical Armenian (Charles de Lamberterie (University of Paris IV, Sorbonne))

2008-01-24 14:00: Active Learning (Andreas Vlachos and Sinead Williamson)

2008-01-24 16:15: The neural architecture of social concepts and values: implications for neuropsychiatry (Roland Zahn (University of Manchester))

2008-01-25 12:00: Annotating Genericity: How Do Humans Decide?- A Case Study in Ontology Extraction (Aurelie Herbelot, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2008-01-25 14:00: Identifying Direct and Indirect effects (Sara Geneletti (Imperial))

2008-01-25 16:30: How antipsychotic medications work - from receptors to response (Professor Shitij Kapur, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)

2008-01-28 17:00: The  other side of Bricklane? Second language proficiency, linguistic vitality and identity construction in the London Benglasdeshi Community ( Sebastian Rasinger, Anglia-Ruskin University)

2008-01-29 16:00: Reinforcement Learning (Peter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL)

2008-01-30 12:30: Does software matter? (Matthew Brett (MRC-CBU))

2008-01-31 14:00: Spectral methods (Ricardo Silva and Arik Azran)

2008-01-31 16:15: Cell recording and fMRI reveal a specialized system for processing faces in the temporal lobe (Doris Tsao (University of Bremen))

2008-01-31 17:00: Tone contrast maintenance driving phonological change in intonation grammars (Prof Carlos Gussenhoven (Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen))

2008-02-01 12:00: Learning to Classify Noun-Noun Semantic Relations (Diarmuid O'Seaghdha, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-01 14:00: Statistical deconvolution problems with Fourier-oscillating error densities (Alexander Meister (Universitat Ulm))

2008-02-01 16:30: Functional MRI studies of memory and ageing (Dr Alexa Morcom, Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh)

2008-02-05 16:30: Children's Tacit and Explicit Knowledge of Object Motion: The First Results (Christine Howe, Joana Taylor Tavares and Amy Devine)

2008-02-05 19:30: The Rhythm of Old French Verse (Thomas Rainsford (Cambridge))

2008-02-06 12:30: Does Spatial attention modulate Mirror Neuron activation? (Karolina Moutsopoulou)

2008-02-06 12:30: Cortical responses to object number during perception and visual short-term memory (Danny Mitchell (MRC-CBU))

2008-02-06 14:00: Stable distribution and data sketching (Ioana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

2008-02-06 16:30: The chronology of Classical Armenian.  Early linguistic splits. (Jos Weitenberg (Leiden))

2008-02-07 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Tao Li)

2008-02-07 16:15: Cognitive processes and molecular mechanisms (Seth Grant (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

2008-02-08 14:00: Adversarial Risk Analysis: A Smallpox Example (David Banks (Duke University))

2008-02-08 16:30: Learned predictiveness and cue processing in human learning (Dr Mike Le Pelley, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2008-02-14 14:00: Probabilistic Matrix Factorization/Deep Belief Nets (Ryan Turner and Phillipp Hennig)

2008-02-14 16:00: Information Retrieval (Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2008-02-14 16:00: Alternative Splicing in Tumors: Detection and Interpretation (Terry Speed (Berkeley))

2008-02-14 16:15: Developmental impairments of attention and working memory: Same of different? (Sue Gathercole (University of York))

2008-02-14 17:00: The role of statistical learning in early generative L2 grammars (Prof Roger Hawkins (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Essex))

2008-02-14 17:00: Why Greek vowels aren't boring (Professor Peter Trudgill (University of East Anglia))

2008-02-15 12:00: Monte Carlo Semantics: Robust Inference and Logical Pattern Processing Based on (Richard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-15 14:00: Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas (Robert Haining (Dept. Geography, University of Cambridge))

2008-02-15 16:30: The role of phasic dopamine signalling in the determination of agency and the discovery of novel actions (Professor Peter Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2008-02-18 11:30: Biomedical Image Search (Alex Ksikes (University of Cambridge))

2008-02-18 17:00: Researching the impact of recent foreign language policy initiatives on provision and practice in schools in England ( Michael Evans, Linda Fisher, Caroline Filmer-Sankey, Ruth Levine, Faculty of Education, Cambridge University)

2008-02-19 19:30: Variable concord in French: prescriptivism and language use (Anna Tristram (Cambridge))

2008-02-20 12:30: The role of dopamine and seratonin in reinforcement-based learning and adaptation. (Roshan Cools)

2008-02-20 14:00: Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear Model (Matthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics))

2008-02-20 16:30: Aspect in Armenian (Daniel Kölligan (Oxford))

2008-02-21 14:00: Model selection and model order adaptation for clustering (Peter Orbanz (ETH Zurich))

2008-02-21 16:00: Statistical Machine Translation (Bill Byrne, Machine Intelligence Laboratory)

2008-02-21 16:15: A cognitive neuropsychological account of antidepressant drug action (Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford))

2008-02-22 14:00: Equivalence of prospective and retrospective likelihood methods in case-control studies (Ana-Maria Staicu (Bristol))

2008-02-22 16:30: Spatial memory: from neurons to learning and behaviour (Professor Neil Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2008-02-27 12:30: Follow your heart?  Investigating the influence of bodily feedback on decision-making and emotion experience (Barney Dunn (MRC-CBU))

2008-02-28 14:00: The Information Bottleneck / Dynamic Kernals for speaker verification (Zoi Roupakia and Sandy Klemm)

2008-02-28 16:00: Inductive Logic Programming (Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London))

2008-02-28 16:15: Learning predictions and actions in the basal ganglia (Ben Seymour (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL & Dept of Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital))

2008-02-28 17:00: Referential intentions and minimal semantics (Prof Emma Borg (Department of Philosophy, University of Reading))

2008-02-29 12:00: Applications of Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Systems (Diane Litmann, University of Edinburgh)

2008-02-29 14:00: Advances in Bayesian Latent Factor Modelling: The Incredible Shrinking Model (Daniel Merl (Duke University))

2008-02-29 16:30: Cancellation in Auditory Scene Analysis (Dr Alain de Cheveigne, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Université Paris Descartes & Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2008-03-03 17:00: Conceptualising On-line Spaces as Communities: Analysis of an Online Italian-speaking community (Marina Mozzon-Mcpherson, University of Hull)

2008-03-04 19:30: New light on an old quarrel? French and the dynamic paradigm (David Hornsby (Cambridge))

2008-03-05 12:30: Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks. (Luca Passamonti (MRC-CBU))

2008-03-05 14:00: Predictive Modeling Approaches to Gene Regulation (Jun Liu (Harvard University))

2008-03-05 16:30: Some interesting manifestations of the subgrouping dilemma in Armenian (Bert Vaux (Cambridge))

2008-03-06 11:00: A Bayesian approach to network modularity: inferring the structure and scale of modular networks (Jake Hofman (Columbia University))

2008-03-06 14:00: 'All of Nonparametric Statistics' (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-03-07 12:00: Computer-generated Cryptic Crossword Clues: exploring creative NLG (David Hardcastle, The Open University)

2008-03-07 14:00: Parameter and Functional Estimation in Semiparametric Models (Yanyuan Ma (Universite de Neuchatel))

2008-03-07 16:30: Processes involved in remembering future intentions: Automatic or controlled? (Dr Lia Kvavilashvili, School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire)

2008-03-10 13:00: Uncertainty and Learning in Spoken Human-Computer Dialogue (Blaise Thomson, CUED MIL)

2008-03-10 16:00: LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK TRAINING (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-03-11 11:30:  Discriminative Methods with Structure (Simon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley))

2008-03-12 12:30: fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants (Alexandra Woolgar)

2008-03-12 12:30: Stems and affixes in Polish non-fluent aphasia (Ola Jelowicka (MRC-CBU))

2008-03-12 13:00: Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energy (Dr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology))

2008-03-13 16:15: Insight, Attention and Error (Ian Robertson (Trinity College, Dublin))

2008-03-13 17:00: What goes wrong when speakers stutter? (Prof Peter Howell (Department of Psychology, UCL))

2008-03-14 14:00: Local and discrete scoring rules (Matt Parry (Cambridge))

2008-03-17 14:00: Learning quantum physics (Dr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering))

2008-04-02 14:00: Beam Sampling for Infinite Hidden Markov Models (Jurgen Van Gael)

2008-04-23 12:30: EEG and MEG Correlates of Recollection, Familiarity, and Priming (Jason Taylor (MRC-CBU))

2008-04-24 16:15: Pragmatic me, pragmatic you: the development of informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspective. (Napoleon Katsos (Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge))

2008-04-25 14:00: Efficient sparse recovery with no assumption on the dictionary (Alexander (Sasha) Tsybakov (CREST et Université Paris))

2008-04-25 16:30: Attentional bias and craving in substance use (Dr Matthew Field, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool)

2008-04-29 16:30: Adult influences on children's informal learning (Professor Andrew Tolmie, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, London)

2008-04-30 12:30: Rhythm perception in musicians and non-musicians: auditory-motor network modulations (Jessica Grahn  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-01 16:15: Adaptive face-coding mechanisms in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder. (Liz Pellicano (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol))

2008-05-02 14:00: On Grobner bases of Elimination and Toric Ideals describing Maximum Entropy models (Ambedkar Dukkipatti (EURANDOM))

2008-05-02 16:30: A role for hippocampal LTP in memory: it’s not all associative! (Dr David Bannerman, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2008-05-06 13:00: Inducing Meaning from Text (Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University))

2008-05-07 12:30: Adaptation of Visual Cues to Social Attention (Rebecca Lawson  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-07 12:30: Response learning contributions to priming and repetition suppression. (Aidan Horner  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-07 16:30: Deciphering Bactrian: from script to syntax (Nicholas Sims-Williams)

2008-05-08 16:00: An Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory (Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL))

2008-05-08 16:15: A Neural Mechanism of Decision Making, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bound. (Michael Shadlen (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle))

2008-05-08 17:00: Immanuel Kant’s Sparrow: High level acoustic communication in songbirds and humans (Dr Lucie Salwiczek, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2008-05-09 12:00: Error-Aware Probabilistic Parsing (Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University)

2008-05-09 14:00:  Latent class models for the causal effect of a treatment (Antonio Forcina (University of Perugia))

2008-05-09 16:30: Joint action: Bodies and Minds Acting Together (Joint presentation of Professor Guenther Knoblich and Dr Natalie Sebanz, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2008-05-12 13:00: Recent work on POMDP-based dialog systems at AT&T (Jason Williams (At&T))

2008-05-13 11:30: Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive Robotics (Dr Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham))

2008-05-13 16:30: Predicting relational and serious physical aggression: The influences of emotions and social cognitive styles in adolescence (Professors Marie S. Tisak & John Tisak, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA)

2008-05-13 17:00: Language Situations in Syria-Palestine between 1500 and 500 B.C.: The Emergence of Northwest Semitic (Professor Holger Gzella, University of Leiden)

2008-05-14 14:00: Modeling Behaviour in Economic Games using Game-Theoretic POMDPs (Debajyoti Ray (Gatsby Unit, UCL))

2008-05-14 16:30: The position of Bactrian amongst the Iranian languages (François de Blois (SOAS))

2008-05-15 16:15: Human evolution and the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. (Robert Foley (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge))

2008-05-15 17:30: Ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese and South American Spanish (Prof. Sonia Cyrino, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp))

2008-05-16 12:00: A maximum entropy approach to preposition and determiner selection (Rachele De Felice, University of Oxford)

2008-05-16 13:00: "Politique et exercice de la langue sous les premiers Bourbons: les conflits de pouvoir et la question de la norme dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle". (Philippe Caron (Université de Poitiers and Churchill College))

2008-05-16 14:00: Flexible Covariance estimation in Gaussian Graphical models (Bala Rajaratnam (Stanford University))

2008-05-16 16:30: Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthography (Professor Kathy Rastle, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2008-05-19 13:00: Vocal Tract Transfer Function Estimation Using Factor Analyzed 
Trajectory Hidden Markov Model (Tomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology))

2008-05-19 17:30: Chance is a Fine Thing (David Spiegelhalter  (Cambridge))

2008-05-20 16:30: Children's intuitive physics in thought and action (Professor Friedrich Wilkening, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2008-05-21 12:30: Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks (Luca Passamonti  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-22 14:00: Continuous Time Bayesian Networks (Jurgen Van Gael)

2008-05-22 16:15: Does Sudoku Require Semantic Memory? (Karalyn Patterson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2008-05-22 17:00: Contributions of phonetic detail to understanding speech processing (Prof Sarah Hawkins (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge))

2008-05-23 14:00: MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions (Iain Murray (University of Toronto))

2008-05-23 16:30: Brain and Decisions: Unitary or Dual Systems? (Professor Aldo Rustichini, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)

2008-05-27 13:00: Spoken Dialogue Systems for Space and Lunar Exploration (Jim Hieronymus (NASA Ames Research Center))

2008-05-27 14:00: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory))

2008-05-28 12:30: Interactions between memory, perception and semantics: Insights from amnesia and semantic dementia (Morgan Barense  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-28 14:00: H-Infinity Clustering (Prof. Sam Roweis (Toronto))

2008-05-29 14:00: Stochastic integration and Ito's lemma (Frederik Eaton (University of Cambridge))

2008-05-30 11:00: Identification of dynamical subpopulations, optimal experiment design and more (Alberto Giovanni Busetto, ETH Zurich)

2008-05-30 14:00: Testing lack-of-fit in inverse regression models (Gerda Claeskens (K.U.Leuven))

2008-06-02 13:00: Extended HVS Parser (Filip Jurcicek (Pilsen))

2008-06-03 16:30: Do undergraduates' motivations change as they progress through their degrees? (Dr Richard Remedios, School of Education, Durham University)

2008-06-04 12:30: Parkinson's Disease, dopamine and spatial span (Sean Fallon  (MRC-CBU))

2008-06-04 12:30: Examining morphological processing in word recognition using MEG (Caroline Whiting  (MRC-CBU))

2008-06-05 16:15: Binding temporary information in working memory: A role for an episodic buffer? (Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York))

2008-06-05 17:00: How to learn and use a language (Prof Richard Hudson (Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL))

2008-06-06 12:00: Multiword Expressions: Evaluation of Extraction Methods and their Impact on Grammar Engineering (Valia Kordoni (LT-Lab DFKI GmbH and Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany))

2008-06-06 14:00: Estimation of the relative risk and risk difference (Thomas Richardson (University of Washington))

2008-06-10 17:00: Language as a Window Into Human Nature (Professor Steven Pinker, Dept of Psychology Harvard)

2008-06-11 12:30: Associations and dissociations in prefrontal cortex (John Duncan  (MRC-CBU))

2008-06-12 14:00: Assessing high-dimensional latent variable models (Dr Iain Murray (Toronto))

2008-06-12 16:15: Spatial Representations in Numerical Cognition (Martin Fischer (School of Psychology, University of Dundee))

2008-06-16 14:00: Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processes (Dr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London))

2008-06-20 12:00: Fuzzy Logic: Fading Hype or Technology of the Future? (Dr. Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University, Austria)

2008-06-25 15:00: Bayesian analysis of complex biological systems (Dr Edo Airoldi (Princeton))

2008-06-26 12:00: A Comparison of VTLN and Gender-Dependent Models (Thomas Schaaf (Multimodal Technologies, Inc))

2008-06-26 14:00: Variational Bayesian Mixtures of Gaussians (Milica Gasic)

2008-07-04 12:00: Nobody Writes Letters Anymore: Helping people make sense of historically significant email collections (Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA)

2008-07-10 13:00: Error Approximation and Minimum Bayes Risk Acoustic Model Estimation (Matt Gibson  (University of Sheffield))

2008-07-15 11:30: Message-passing inference on graphical models (Simon Byrne (Cambridge))

2008-07-15 14:00: Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Dynamical Systems (Emily Fox (MIT))

2008-07-16 14:00: Double Feature: Optimal Precoding for MIMO and Divergence Estimation for Continuous Distributions (Dr Fernando Perez-Cruz (Princeton))

2008-09-09 14:00: Matrix Factorization and Relational Learning (Ajit Paul Singh (CMU))

2008-09-10 14:00: Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priors (Dr Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge))

2008-09-11 14:00: The War on Loops (Frederik Eaton (CUED))

2008-09-15 14:00: Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learning (Jo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California))

2008-09-17 14:00: Nonparametric Bayesian Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Hierarchical, Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language Model (Dr Frank Wood (UCL))

2008-09-18 14:00: Levy Processes (Katherine Heller (CUED Machine Learning))

2008-09-23 14:00: Learning Bigrams from Unigrams (Andrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison))

2008-09-25 16:15: Resting-state functional connectivity: Principles and applications in cognitive neuroscience (Michael Greicius (Stanford University School of Medicine))

2008-09-26 15:00: A Bayesian approach to language learning (Dr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh))

2008-09-29 11:00: Spoken Dialogue Management (Sebastien Bratieres)

2008-10-02 14:00: Condition Monitoring (Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge))

2008-10-02 16:15: Conflict, competition and cognitive control (Nick Yeung (University of Oxford))

2008-10-08 12:30: Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU))

2008-10-08 13:30: Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor Processes (Dr Erik Sudderth (UC Berkeley))

2008-10-09 14:00: CANCELLED (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-09 16:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge))

2008-10-09 16:15: Imaging the relationship between structure, function and behaviour in the human brain (Heidi Johansen-Berg  (University of Oxford))

2008-10-10 16:30: The spatial foundations of the conceptual system (Professor Jean Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA)

2008-10-15 12:30: Episodes, actions and abstractions in lexical learning (Matt Davis (MRC CBSU)	)

2008-10-15 16:30: Greek relative clauses: Homer and his speakers (Dr Philomen Probert, Wolfson College, Oxford)

2008-10-16 14:00: To Naive Bayes or to Logistically Regress: That is the Question (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge))

2008-10-16 16:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge))

2008-10-16 16:15: Perception and production of speech - a view from functional imaging (Sophie Scott  (University College London))

2008-10-17 12:00: CANCELLED- NLIP SEMINAR 17th OCTOBER (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-17 16:00: The Gaussian Semiparametric Partial Linear Model Asymptotic Theory and a Useful Difference-Based Estimator and Tests (Professor Larry Brown (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylavnia))

2008-10-17 16:30: Comparative cognitive development in chimpanzees (Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa)

2008-10-20 13:00: A tractable hybrid DDN-POMDP approach to affective dialogue modeling for probabilistic frame-based dialogue systems (Trung Bui (Twente))

2008-10-20 14:00: Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators (Evarist Gine (University of Conneticut))

2008-10-21 15:00: Context in human robot interaction (Thomas Kollar (MIT))

2008-10-22 12:30: Reduced top-down modulation in autism: The role of prior knowledge in spontaneous attention, memory, and social perception (Eva Loth (BCNI, Cambridge))

2008-10-22 13:00: Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's Coalescent (Dr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL))

2008-10-22 16:30: 'So, well then, I therefore argue.....'. Text structuring devices in Ancient Greek (Prof. Gerry Wakker, University of Groningen)

2008-10-23 14:00: Approximating the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Between GMMs (Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge))

2008-10-23 16:15: Remapping attention (Patrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes))

2008-10-24 12:00: Statistical anaphora resolution in biomedical texts (Caroline Gasperin, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2008-10-24 16:00: Simultaneous Confidence Band and Hypothesis Test in Generalised Varying-Coefficient Models (Wenyang Zhang (University of Bath))

2008-10-24 16:30: Impulsive antisocial sensation seeking in healthy subjects: Effects on cognitive processes (Professor Alan Pickering, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London)

2008-10-28 11:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge))

2008-10-28 20:45: Une approche glottonomique de la vitalité du cauchois: modèle et méthode (Professor Thierry Bulot (Rennes 2))

2008-10-29 13:00: Which are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification? (Andreas Vlachos (Computer Laboratory))

2008-10-30 14:00: Knows What It Knows: A Framework For Self-Aware Learning (Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge))

2008-10-30 16:15: Causal functional interactions between cortical areas (Wim Vanduffel  (Catholic University of Leuven))

2008-10-30 17:00: Understanding the minds of others: A psycholinguistic approach to Theory of Mind (Dr Heather Ferguson, Department of Linguistics, University College London)

2008-10-31 12:15: Infinite Hidden Markov Models and Applications in NLP (Jurgen van Gael, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2008-10-31 16:00: Theoretical properties of Cook's Principal Fitted Components algorithm (Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol))

2008-10-31 16:30: The unbearable sameness of being: Categorical cognition, autobiographical recollection and emotional disorder (Dr Tim Dalgleish, Co-Director of the Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2008-11-04 16:30: Activity theory: methodological and analytical resources for researching learning for interprofessional work ( Professor Harry Daniels, University of Bath)

2008-11-05 12:30: Neurocognitive mechanisms supporting fear conditioning: effects of anxiety (Sonia Bishop (MRC CBSU))

2008-11-05 13:00: Cheap and Fast - But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks ( Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Computer Laboratory))

2008-11-06 14:30: Point Process Intensity Estimation with GP's (Yunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge))

2008-11-06 16:15: Neural mechanisms of sequence learning (Bruno Averbeck (University College London))

2008-11-07 16:00: Bayesian Model Determination for Multivariate Ordinal and Binary Data (Jon Forster (University of Southampton))

2008-11-07 16:30: Rules, associations and inhibitory control: fMRI, patient and oculomotor studies of the frontal lobe (Dr Tim Hodgson, School of Psychology, University of Exeter)

2008-11-11 16:30: Vygotsky & Piaget, as seen from Neuchatel today (Professor Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Geneva)

2008-11-12 12:30: Dissociations in brain structure and function in incipient Alzheimer's disease? (Peter Nestor (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge))

2008-11-12 13:00: Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankings (Dr Marina Meila (University of Washington))

2008-11-12 13:00: Modeling Semantic Containment and Exclusion in Natural Language Inference (Øistein Andersen, Computer Laboratory)

2008-11-12 16:30: Cycles of negation (Dr David Willis, Cambridge)

2008-11-13 14:00: Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models (Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge))

2008-11-13 16:15: Cerebral signature for pain perception and its modulation in health and disease (Irene Tracey (University of Oxford))

2008-11-13 17:00: From morphology to syntax or the other way around: Re-thinking the directionality of change in historical syntax (Dr Chris Reintges (CNRS-Université Paris 7 and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics))

2008-11-14 12:00: Adapting a WSJ-trained Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to New Domains (Laura Rimell, Oxford University)

2008-11-14 16:00: Sampling bias in logistic models (Peter McCullagh (University of Chicago))

2008-11-14 16:30: What is smart thing like number doing in the dumb parietal cortex? (Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, University College London)

2008-11-19 12:30: The effect of lexical ambiguity on spoken word recognition using homographs and homophones: Behavioural and neural evidence (Jack Rogers (MRC CBSU))

2008-11-19 13:00: Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition (Aurelie Herbelot (Computer Laboratory))

2008-11-19 16:30: Grammatical vs. concrete use of cases in ancient Indo-European languages (Prof Heinrich Hettrich, Würzburg)

2008-11-19 17:00: Estimation and variable selection with Lasso and Dantzig Selector in the high-dimensional regression model (Karim Lounici, Université Paris 7)

2008-11-20 14:00: Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Rank Data (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge))

2008-11-20 16:15: Mirror-touch: A remarkable form of synaesthesia (Jamie Ward (University of Sussex))

2008-11-21 12:15: Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and Generation (Francois Mairesse, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-21 16:00: Evaluating survey designs for inference of Plasmodium falciparum malaria prevalence (Anand Patil (University of Oxford))

2008-11-21 16:30: Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Rational Thought (Professor Vinod Goel, Department of Psychology, University of Hull)

2008-11-25 14:00: Hardness Ratios (Yue Wu)

2008-11-25 20:45: Endangered language maintenance and revitalisation: issues of ‘authenticity and ‘correctness’ (with reference to varieties of French). (Dr. Julia Sallabank (Endangered Languages Programme, SOAS))

2008-11-26 12:30: Animacy properties of words and expectation modulate ERP components (Elisabeth Fonteneau (MRC CBSU))

2008-11-26 13:00: The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge (Richard Bergmair (Computer Laboratory))

2008-11-27 14:00: Bayesian Reinforcement Learning in Continuous POMDPs (Milica Gasic (University of Cambridge)

2008-11-27 16:00: Deep Networks for Vision (Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto))

2008-11-27 16:15: Reward and choice (Ray Dolan (University College London))

2008-11-27 17:00: Variation in British Sign Language (Dr Rachel Sutton-Spence, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol)

2008-11-28 16:00: Projective Limits of Bayes Equations (Peter Orbanz (Dept. Engineering, Cambridge))

2008-11-28 16:30: The cortico-cerebellar system: Anatomy, evolution and function (Dr Narender Ramnani, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2008-12-03 12:30: The frontal lobes and voluntary action: how we choose when young, old or parkinsonian (James Rowe (MRC CBSU))

2008-12-03 13:00: A Fluid Knowledge Representation for Understanding and Generating Creative Metaphors (Ekaterina Shutova (Computer Laboratory))

2008-12-03 16:30: Do the preterite and the perfect mean the same? Some remarks on the Vilamovicean verbal system from a grammaticalization perspective (Alexander Andrason, University of Iceland)

2008-12-04 14:00: An Introduction to Relational Learning (Ricardo Silva (UCL Statistics))

2008-12-04 16:15: Top-down influences on visual processing studied with TMS and fMRI (Christian Ruff (University College London))

2008-12-05 14:00: Mondrian Processes (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL))

2008-12-05 16:00: Simple Methods to Improve MCMC Efficiency in Random Effect Models (Bill Brown (University of Bristol))

2008-12-11 13:00: NIPS Offline Conference (Machine Learning Across Cambridge)

2009-01-12 12:30: Frustratingly easy domain adaptation (Lin Sun (Computer Laboratory))

2009-01-13 14:00: HMMs for Protein Sequencing from Mass Spectrometry Data (Dr Bernd Fischer (EBI))

2009-01-13 16:30: The hierarchical model of achievement motivation: Conceptual and applied issues (Andrew Elliot, Professor of Psychology, University of Rochester, USA)

2009-01-14 12:30: Behavioural and imaging investigations of spatial exploration or awareness in patients with unilateral neglect (Margarita Sarri (MRC CBU))

2009-01-15 14:00: Probabalistic Inference for solving (PO)MDPs (Finale Doshi (University of Cambridge))

2009-01-15 16:15: Back to the future: memories for making predictions and decisions (Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge))

2009-01-15 17:00: "Reslicing the Clitic/Affix Distinction" (Andrew Nevins (Harvard University))

2009-01-16 16:00:  Building and fitting a stochastic phylogentic model for Dollo traits, and its application to reconstructing the diversification of the Indo-European languages (Geoff Nicholls, Oxford)

2009-01-16 16:30: Why genetic association studies have been so unsuccessful in psychiatry (Professor Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)

2009-01-19 12:30: A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Computer Laboratory))

2009-01-19 14:00: Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging Software (Laura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken))

2009-01-21 12:30: MEG in older controls: counterparts of 1) semantic & episodic memory & 2) speech perception (Lisa Brindley (MRC CBU))

2009-01-21 12:30: The structure of the parietal VSTM representation   features, objects and space (Alejandro Vicente Grabovetsky (MRC CBU))

2009-01-21 13:00: The Block Diagonal Infinite Hidden Markov Model (Tom Stepleton (CMU))

2009-01-21 16:30: Gallia Graeca: mapping the linguistic landscape of Southern Gaul (Alex Mullen, Cambridge)

2009-01-22 14:00: A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model based on Pitman-Yor Processes (Matt Shannon (University of Cambridge))

2009-01-22 16:15: Decoding the listening brain with human neuroimaging and machine learning (Elia Formisano  (Maastricht University))

2009-01-22 17:00: New wine in old bottles? Change and continuity in form-function relationships (John Charles Smith (Department of French, University of Oxford))

2009-01-23 16:30: What the "Renewal Effect" is, is not, and the status of current explanations (Professor James Byron Nelson, University of the Basque Country, Spain)

2009-01-26 12:30: On the nature of syntactic variation (Lu Gram (Computer Laboratory))

2009-01-26 13:00: Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis (Heiga Zen (Toshiba))

2009-01-27 16:00: Stochastic Financial Models - Optional Economics Brief (Elie Bassouls)

2009-01-27 20:45: Spoken French Corpora (Dr. Kate Beeching (University of the West of England))

2009-01-28 12:30: Pitch matching between acoustic and electric hearing: what cochlear implant scientists can learn from Christopher Poulton (Olivier Macherey (MRC CBU))

2009-01-29 14:00: Distributed Computing for Machine Learning (Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge))

2009-01-29 16:15: An a priori model of biased perceptual choice (Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford))

2009-01-30 12:00: Almost-unsupervised multilingual sentiment analysis (John Carroll - University of Sussex)

2009-01-30 13:00: Extending the Affinity Propagation Model (Inmar Givoni (University of Toronto))

2009-01-30 16:00:  Stepwise Searching for Feature Variables in High-Dimensional Linear Regression ( Qiwei Yao, LSE)

2009-01-30 16:30: Problem gambling, near-misses, and the brain reward system (Dr Luke Clark, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-04 12:30: Memory rehabilitation using SenseCam (Georgina Browne (Neuropsychology Department, Addenbrooke's))

2009-02-04 16:30: Between tradition and linguistic reality: the riddle of Macedonian (Wojciech Sowa, Krakow)

2009-02-05 14:00: Divergence measures and message passing - CANCELLED (David Knowles (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-05 16:15: The role of human prefrontal cortex in hierarchical decision making (John O’Doherty  (Trinity College Dublin))

2009-02-05 17:00: Quantifying dialect similarity by comparison of the lexical distribution of phonemes (Dr. Warren Maguire (School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh))

2009-02-06 12:00: ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks (Brian Harrington, University of Oxford)

2009-02-06 13:00: La correspondance familière et l'emploi des temps du passé à l'indicatif: vers la disparition du passé simple. Comment, pourquoi? Méthode d'enquête et questions en suspens. (Philippe Caron (Université de Poitiers & French Government Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge))

2009-02-06 16:00: Nonparametric inference for networks of queues (Cornelia Wichelhaus, Universität Heidelberg)

2009-02-06 16:30: Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge (Dr Zoltan Dienes, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2009-02-09 12:30: Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback (Stuart Moore (Computer Laboratory))

2009-02-11 12:30: Recurrent activity supports the construction of meaningful object (Alex Clarke  (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology))

2009-02-11 17:00: Optimization over violable constraints in linguistic performance (Prof. Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University))

2009-02-12 14:00: Hybrid of Generative and Discriminative Models (Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-13 16:00: Diffusions limits of the Random Walk Metropolis Algorithm in High Dimensions: ( Natesh Pillai, Warwick)

2009-02-13 16:15: Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality (Stanislas Dehaene (INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Paris))

2009-02-13 16:30: Signatures of conscious access:  Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality (Professor Stanislas Dehaene, Director of INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France)

2009-02-16 12:30: Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-17 14:00: Stochastic control as an inference problem (Prof. Bert Kappen (University of Nijmegen))

2009-02-18 16:30: Absolute on the rocks?: Participial concord in Roman Egypt (Patrick James, Cambridge)

2009-02-19 14:00: Large Margin Training of Hidden Markov Models (Anton Ragni)

2009-02-19 16:15: Prefrontal cortex and top-down control: ablation studies (David Gaffan  (University of Oxford))

2009-02-19 17:00: Constructions, functional heads and unbounded dependencies (Prof Bob Borsley (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex))

2009-02-20 11:00: Generalization in Learning (Yevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University))

2009-02-20 12:00: Dialogue Act Prediction Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammar Induction (Jeroen Geertzen, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-20 16:00: A generalization of Fisher's exact test: rock-paper-scissors and friendly ghosts ( Robin Hankin)

2009-02-20 16:30: From perception to conception: object processing in the ventral stream (Professor Lorraine K Tyler, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-23 12:30: Scope underspecification with tree descriptions: Theory and practice (Richard Bergmair (Computer Laboratory))

2009-02-24 16:30: Games, learning and the brain's reward system (Dr Paul Howard-Jones, Co-ordinator, Centre for Psychology & Learning in Context, University of Bristol)

2009-02-24 20:45: Ethics and grammar: some problems in the analysis of French clitics (Mr J.C. Smith (St Catherine's College, Oxford))

2009-02-25 12:30: Early linguistic access: rapid, parallel and automatic? (Yury Shtyrov (MRC CBU))

2009-02-26 14:00: Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models (Cont) (Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-26 16:00: An Introduction to Transcriptomics (Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto))

2009-02-26 16:15: What are illusions and why do we see them? (Beau Lotto  (University College London))

2009-02-27 12:00: A Tale of Two Parsers: investigating and combining graph-based and transition-based dependency parsing using beam-search (Yue Zhang, University of Oxford)

2009-02-27 16:00: Discrete Statistical Modeling using Chain Event Graphs (Jim Smith, Warwick)

2009-02-27 16:30: Adaptive coding mechanisms in children with autism: lessons from development (Dr Liz Pellicano, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2009-03-02 12:30: Predicting Strong Associations on the Basis of Corpus Data (Colin Kelly (Computer Laboratory))

2009-03-04 12:30: Prefrontal cortex and representation of task relevant information (Natasha Sigala (MRC CBU)	)

2009-03-05 14:00: The Convex Concave Procedure (Frederik Eaton (University of Cambridge))

2009-03-05 16:00: Do New Roads Generate Traffic? (Charlene Rohr, RAND Europe)

2009-03-05 16:15: Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology (Robert Rogers (University of Oxford))

2009-03-05 17:00: Eye tracking and syntactic processing in children with Williams Syndrome (Dr Diane Nelson (Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds))

2009-03-06 12:00: Disambiguation of Biomedical Text (Mark Stevenson - Sheffield University)

2009-03-06 15:00: Quasi-linear Sensor Management (Marco Huber (University of Karlsruhe))

2009-03-06 16:30: How does early brain organization promote language acquisition in humans? (Dr Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France)

2009-03-09 12:30: The Puzzle of Ambiguity (Mohan Ganesalingam (Computer Laboratory))

2009-03-10 15:00: Shrinkage regression for multivariate inference with missing   data, with an application to portfolio balancing (Robert B. Gramacy (University of Cambridge))

2009-03-10 17:00: Francophone and Anglophone Primary school teachers’ representations of language and linguistic policies in Cameroon (Edith Esch , Senior Research Fellow in Language Education)

2009-03-11 12:30: Understanding speech with an ageing brain: perception, cognition, and compensation (Jonathan Peelle (MRC CBU))

2009-03-11 16:30: The Greek Alphabet on the Edges:  Geographic and Cultic (Roger D Woodard, Buffalo New York)

2009-03-12 14:00: Bregman Divergences and Machine Learning (Shakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge))

2009-03-12 16:15: From a face to its category via a few information states in the brain (Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow))

2009-03-12 17:00: Asymmetries in the intonation system of the Maastricht dialect of Limburgian (Prof Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University, Nijmegen))

2009-03-13 16:00: Bayes and empirical-Bayes multiplicity adjustment in the variable-selection problem (James Scott, Duke University)

2009-03-25 11:00: Learning from Measurements in Exponential Families (Percy Liang (University of California, Berkeley))

2009-04-23 14:00: Hilbert space embedding of probability distributions (Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics))

2009-04-23 17:00: Eliza in America (Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) (Lissa Paul of Brock University, Canada)

2009-04-24 16:00: Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe (Carlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

2009-04-24 16:30: Are imitation and the 'mirror system' products of associative learning? (Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College, University of Oxford)

2009-04-27 13:00: Active Learning Literature Survey (Andreas Vlachos (Computer Laboratory))

2009-04-28 16:30: Thinking Together in culturally diverse classrooms in the Netherlands (Ed Elbers, Professor of Communication, Cognition and Culture, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

2009-04-29 12:30: Lateral prefrontal cortex and the representation of task relevant information (Natasha Sigala (MRC-CBU))

2009-04-29 14:00: Applying Psychology in multiple learning contexts: the role of an Educational Psychologist (Frank Murphy, Senior Educational Psychologist, Cambridgeshire LA)

2009-04-30 14:00: Parsing Images the UCLA Way (Tom Stepleton (CMU))

2009-04-30 16:15: Lateralisation of brain functions: what and why? (Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford))

2009-04-30 17:00: Dealing with disasters: the problem of polysemy (Prof Jean Aitchison (Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford))

2009-05-01 16:30: The dark side of impulsivity: neural and psychological mechanisms of pre-disposition to stimulant addiction (Dr Jeff Dalley, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-04 13:00: Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation Using Spectral Clustering (Lin Sun (Computer Laboratory))

2009-05-06 12:30: Temporal grouping effect in verbal short term memory (Kristjan Kalm (MRC-CBU))

2009-05-06 12:30: The neural basis of frustration: an fMRI study (Jacky Yu (MRC-CBU))

2009-05-06 17:15: The evolution of clitics in the history of Spanish (Dr Miriam Bouzouita, Universitat de les Illes Balears)

2009-05-07 14:00: The IBM approach to speech separation (Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge))

2009-05-07 16:00:  Default priors and model parametrization (Nancy Reid, University of Toronto)

2009-05-07 16:15: Auditory processing in singing and walking crickets (Berthold Hedwig (University of Cambridge))

2009-05-08 12:00: BioNLP 2009 event detection task (Andreas Vlachos, Cambridge University)

2009-05-08 16:00:  Likelihood p-values ancillaries and the vector quantile function (Don Fraser, University of Toronto)

2009-05-08 16:30: Who Lost the Cog in Cognitive Science?—Mentalism in an Era of Anti-Cognitivism (Professor Josef Perner, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria)

2009-05-11 13:00: A Study on Similarity and Relatedness Using Distributional and WordNet-based Approaches (Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory))

2009-05-13 12:30: Emotion effects on memory and conceptual priming (Cristina Ramponi (MRC-CBU))

2009-05-14 14:00: Divergence measures and message passing (David Knowles (University of Cambridge))

2009-05-14 16:15: Dissociating timing from temporal attention with fMRI (Jenny Coull (University of Provence))

2009-05-14 17:00: Loan Word Typology (Prof Bernard Comrie (Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology))

2009-05-15 16:00: Particle Learning (Nicholas Polson University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

2009-05-15 16:30: How we come to experience that we own our body (Dr Henrik Ehrsson, Department of Neuroscience & Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

2009-05-18 13:00: A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Computer Laboratory))

2009-05-18 17:00: Contact-induced change and bilingualism in Paraguay (Prof. Haralambos Symeonidis, University of Kentucky)

2009-05-19 16:30: What can neuroeducational research tell us about student motivation? (Sung-il Kim, Professor of Educational Psychology and Director, Brain & Motivational Research Institute (bMRI), Korea University)

2009-05-19 18:00: Language Attitudes and Identity: Two Different Perspectives (Stephen Leonard, Exeter College, Oxford)

2009-05-20 12:30: DTI tractography of frontotemporal white matter pathways and language comprehension (John Griffiths (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology))

2009-05-21 12:00: Towards automated understanding of scientific papers (Maria Liakata)

2009-05-21 14:00: Technical Writing (Finale Doshi (University of Cambridge))

2009-05-21 16:15: The humble rat has a cognitive moment: coordinating limbic-cortical networks in cognition, sleep and disease (Matthew Jones (University of Bristol))

2009-05-21 17:00: Modern South Arabian (Janet Watson, University of Salford)

2009-05-22 12:00: Processing Geographic Language (Dr. Inderjeet Mani)

2009-05-22 16:00:  Second Generation Wavelets and Astrophysics ( Gerard Kerkyacharian Paris 10 and LPMA)

2009-05-26 13:00: Using gradient descent for optimization and learning (Nicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research))

2009-05-26 17:00: Equality before the law, irrespective of language and culture? (Ann Corsellis OBE.JP, Vice-President, Chartered Institute of Linguists)

2009-05-27 12:30: Sometimes angry, but always afraid: Differential effects of anxiety on the neural response to facial signals of threat (Michael Ewbank (MRC-CBU))

2009-05-28 12:00: Cycling to Enrich and Enhance Dictionary Glosses (Roberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza")

2009-05-28 16:15: Motivation and executive control in human prefrontal cortex (Etienne Koechlin (INSERM-ENS, Paris))

2009-05-28 17:00: The pragmatic bases of musical meaning (Dr Ian Cross and Ghofur Woodruff (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge))

2009-05-29 12:00:  Mildly non-projective dependency parsing: algorithms and applications (Carlos Gómez - University of Corunna)

2009-05-29 16:00: Graphical Gaussian Models with Edge and Vertex Symmetries (Steffen Lauritzen University of Oxford)

2009-06-04 16:00: Bayesian Inference of Transmission Fidelity Rates of DNA Methylation Patterns (Audrey Fu (University of Cambridge Systems Biology Center))

2009-06-04 16:15: Cognitive neuroscience of attention: insights from developmental disorder (Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford))

2009-06-05 12:00: Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent Discourse (Eva Banik, Open University)

2009-06-08 17:00: Innovation and Reform in Language Teaching: Legacies from the Past (Dr Richard Smith, University of Warwick)

2009-06-09 16:30: Learnable Intelligence (Michael E. Martinez, Professor of Education, University of California, Irvine)

2009-06-10 12:30: The effect of attention on illusory vowel perception and sound onset: an fMRI study (Antje Heinrich (Department of Linguistics))

2009-06-11 14:00: Slice Sampling (Yue Wu (University of Cambridge))

2009-06-11 16:15: The social brain (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London))

2009-06-11 17:00: Phonetic and phonological aspects of gemination in Lebanese Arabic (Dr Ghada Khattab (School of Education Communication and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle))

2009-06-12 16:00: Working with over-parameterized models (David Firth, University of Warwick)

2009-06-15 13:00: Special RG Meeting: NAACL-HLT-09 Reports (Various Presenters)

2009-06-18 15:00: Message Passing (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge))

2009-06-22 17:00: Visual Texts (Lawrence Sipe (University of Pennsylvania, USA))

2009-06-24 12:00: Portuguese Text Simplification for Digital Inclusion and Accessibility (Caroline Gasperin)

2009-07-02 14:00: Hessian-based Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms (Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd))

2009-07-09 16:00: Visual Texts (Lawrence Sipe (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Margaret Mackey (University of Alberta, Canada))

2009-07-10 12:00: A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTE (Richard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2009-07-10 12:45: Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation (Laura Rimell, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2009-07-28 14:00: Computable Probability Theory (Daniel Roy (MIT))

2009-08-13 12:00: Clitic Pregroups: in search for a uniform pattern of clitic movement in natural languages (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Oxford University Computing Laboratory)

2009-08-27 11:00: Convex Variational Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Generalized Linear Models (Hannes Nickisch)

2009-09-01 11:00: Factors Affecting ASR Model Self-Training (Scott Novotney (HLTCOE and BBN Technologies))

2009-09-03 10:30: Should the public trust national assessments? (Andrew Watts (Cambridge Assessment consultant))

2009-09-04 13:00: Bayesian Learning Approaches for Speech Recognition (Professor Jen-Tzung Chien (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan))

2009-09-10 17:00: What is children's poetry for?: towards a new, but child-specific, 'Apologie for Poetrie' [Sir Philip Sidney, 1595] (MICHAEL ROSEN)

2009-09-15 16:00: Multi-view Learning of Speech Feature Spaces (Karen Livescu (TTI-Chicago))

2009-09-18 10:00: CANCELLED (Prof. Eric Xing (CMU))

2009-09-28 16:30: Mediating Meaning Making: The rationale for dialogic inquiry (Professor Gordon Wells, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2009-09-29 14:00: Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learning (Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge))

2009-10-01 14:00: Technical Writing II (Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-07 12:00: Born Criminals? Social and ethical implications of research into biomarkers, development and criminality (Ilina Singh (LSE BIOS Centre))

2009-10-08 14:00: Structured prediction using energy-based models (Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-08 15:30: The contribution of structural imaging to the understanding of language networks (Prof Cathy Price (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL))

2009-10-09 13:00: Motor Skills Learning for Robotics (Jan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen)

2009-10-09 16:00: Total variation and curves (Arne Kovac (Univ. Bristol))

2009-10-09 16:30: Licking & liking in rodents (Dr Dominic Dwyer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2009-10-12 12:00: Reading Group Special Edition: ACL/EMNLP Review (NLIP Group Members)

2009-10-14 12:30: Hierarchical modularity in functional fMRI networks (David Meunier (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge))

2009-10-14 16:30: Women's names in Greek and Latin (Prof. Karin Stüber (Zurich))

2009-10-15 14:00: Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning (Alex Ksikes (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-15 19:00: Against PP extraposition in nominals (Prof. David Adger, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London)

2009-10-16 12:00: Ontology Learning for Portuguese (Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

2009-10-16 16:00: Choosing a good histogram (Yannick Baraud (Univ.  Nice))

2009-10-16 16:30: Wobbles, warbles and fish - the physiology of dyslexia (Professor John Stein, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

2009-10-19 12:30: Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-20 15:00: Forward Smoothing using Sequential Monte Carlo with Application to    Recursive Parameter Estimation (Arnaud Doucet  (Univ. of British Columbia and ISM Tokyo))

2009-10-21 12:30: Spoken word priming and its role in subsequent recollection and familiarity (Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-10-21 16:00: Probabilistic Expert Systems for Handling Artifacts in Complex DNA Mixtures (Julia  Mortera (University of  Roma Tre))

2009-10-21 16:30: The Syntax of Celtic Place Names (Dr Oliver Padel (Cambridge and Lower Newton))

2009-10-22 14:00: High-dimensional variable selection via sure independence screening (Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-22 15:30: Syntax in the human brain (Prof Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany))

2009-10-22 18:00: The transmission of French in pre-modern England: bilingualism, contact and death (Dr Richard P. Ingham,   Birmingham City University)

2009-10-23 12:00: Bayesian non-parametric models for parsing and translation (Trevor Cohn, University of Sheffield)

2009-10-23 16:00: Bayesian Methods in Cosmology (Mike Hobson (Cambridge))

2009-10-23 16:30: The neurodynamics of cognitive integration (Professor Murray Shanahan, Department of Computing, Imperial College London)

2009-10-26 12:30: Bayesian Word Sense Induction (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-26 17:30: Empathetic Creativity: The Product of Empathetic Attunement (Dr. Frederick Seddon)

2009-10-28 11:00: Information theoretic model selection in clustering (Joachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich)

2009-10-28 17:00: The Ghosted Adolescent: Denying and disguising ‘Deviant’ Desire (Lydia Kokkola,Adjunct Professor of Children's Literature in English at Åbo Akademi University.)

2009-10-29 14:00: Speed Reviewing (All Participants)

2009-10-29 15:30: The ways in which context and knowledge can assist speech comprehension, especially in challenging conditions (Prof Ingrid Johnsrude (Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada))

2009-10-29 17:00: See, say and remember: Motion events in witness interviews,  translation and memory (Dr Luna Filipovic, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-30 16:00:  Risk Hull Methods for Inverse Problems (Laurent Cavalier (Marseille))

2009-10-30 16:30: Neurobiological basis of music and dance skills (Professor Lawerence Parsons, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2009-11-02 12:30: Coupling Semi-Supervised Learning of Categories and Relations (Stuart Moore (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-03 16:00: Adolescence in Today's Society: The brain, cognition and social development (*Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Royal Soc. University Research Fellow & Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience,  and  *Dr John Coleman, Director, Trust for the Study of Adolescence & Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford)

2009-11-04 12:30: Recognition of realistic auditory-visual objects: animal sounds are special (Clara Suied (Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-04 16:30: Numerals and personal names in Ancient Italy (Prof. Paolo Poccetti (Roma - Tor Vergata))

2009-11-05 14:00: Filtering of Noisy Time-Series Data (Henrik Ohlsson, Marc Deisenroth, Hugo Vincent)

2009-11-05 15:30: Brain mechanisms for ultra-rapid visual categorisation (Prof Simon Thorpe (Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse, France))

2009-11-05 18:00: Back from the future :  The second chance in the past of aller + infinitive (Dr Emmanuelle Labeau, Aston University)

2009-11-06 16:00: Soap film smoothing (Simon Wood (Bath))

2009-11-06 16:30: Risks, Emotions & Decisions (Professor Peter Ayton, Department of Psychology, City University London)

2009-11-08 14:00: Machine Learning RCC - Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents, Teh, Daumé and Roy, NIPS 2007 (Sinead Williamson)

2009-11-09 12:30: Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing (Ted Briscoe and Steve Clark)

2009-11-09 17:00: The English Profile Programme (1): Delivering descriptions of reference levels for English as a second language (Nick Saville (Cambridge ESOL))

2009-11-10 11:00: KL control theory and decision making under uncertainty (Bert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands))

2009-11-11 12:30: The future of scientific publishing - Ideas for an open, transparent, independent system (Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-11-11 16:30: How does one teach creativity? (Professor Keith Sawyer, Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.)

2009-11-11 16:30: Sabrina in the Thorns: place names as evidence for language in sub-Roman Britain (Dr David Parsons (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic studies, Aberystwyth))

2009-11-12 14:00: Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents (Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-12 15:30: Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey and computational models (Dr Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-11-12 17:00: Towards Understanding the Brain Basis of Developmental Dyslexia: A Cross-Language Approach (Prof. Usha Goswami, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-13 12:00: Fine-grained sentiment analysis in text and multi-party conversation (Theresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh)

2009-11-13 16:00: Statistical estimation of a multifractal function (Marc Hoffmann (Paris))

2009-11-13 16:30: Why speaking louder might not make you understood - supra-threshold deficits in hearing impairment (Dr Kathryn Hopkins, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-16 12:30: Automatic Humour Detection (Ekaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-17 16:30: Taking Executive Functions to School (Dr Michelle Ellefson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-18 12:30: Inverse mapping the neuronal substrates of face categorizations (Marie Smith (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-11-18 17:00: But is it poetry?: Comparing children’s poetry and adult poetry through the work of Charles Causley. (Debbie Pullinger)

2009-11-19 14:00: Gaussian Processes for Active Data Selection, Faults, Changepoints and Sensor Selection (Prof. Stephen Roberts (Oxford))

2009-11-19 15:30: Change detection in auditory cortex: beyond the MMN paradigm (Dr Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL))

2009-11-19 16:00: Empirical support for DNA match probabilities (James Curran (Auckland))

2009-11-20 12:00: Semiring Parsing without Parsing (Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh)

2009-11-20 14:00: Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law Behaviour (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL))

2009-11-20 16:30: Evaluating the costs and benefits of future rewards: neuropsychological and neurochemical investigations in frontal and dopaminergic circuits (Dr Mark Walton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2009-11-23 10:30: Creativity and English: Exploring possibilities (Pam Burnard: Cambridge University, Situating creativity in the arts and education; Janet Maybin: The Open University, Analysing children's creative use of talk)

2009-11-23 12:30: Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns (Colin Kelly (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-23 14:30: A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues (Carmen Armero,	University of Valencia)

2009-11-23 17:00: The English Profile (2): Identifying criterial features in learner languages (Henriëtte Hendriks, University of Cambridge, RCEAL)

2009-11-25 12:30: Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation (Chris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-25 17:00: The construction of the obese child in children's literature. (Prof. Jean Webb, University of Worcester)

2009-11-26 14:00: Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics (Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam))

2009-11-26 15:30: Navigating in a 3-d world (Prof Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL))

2009-11-26 17:00: Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences (Prof. Marcel den Dikken, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York)

2009-11-26 17:00: Making Computer Science more Social: Speed Dating and the History of Science (Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University)

2009-11-27 12:00: Inducing Synchronous Grammars for Machine Translation (Phil Blunsom, University of Oxford)

2009-11-27 15:30: To be confirmed (Prof. José Luis García Ramón (Cologne))

2009-11-27 16:00: Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors (Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam))

2009-11-27 16:30: Studying the relation between neural oscillations and human behaviour with Magnetoencephalography (Professor Joachim Gross, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2009-11-30 12:30: TransType2: The Last Word (Nikiforos Karamanis)

2009-11-30 17:00: Creativity: So, what is it? (Professor Keith Sawyer , Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

2009-12-02 11:00: Joint imputation and estimation of haplotype transition probabilities (Wolfgang Lehrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2009-12-02 12:30: Diffusion MRI and tractography (Eleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-12-02 16:30: Formalising the role of Collaborative Talk in Drama Research (Dr Julie Dunn)

2009-12-03 14:00: Unbounded-depth hierarchical Pitman-Yor processes (Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge))

2009-12-03 15:30: Decoding memories in the human hippocampus (Prof Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL))

2009-12-04 11:00: Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotation (Sean Moran (Edinburgh))

2009-12-04 12:00: Learning to Follow Orders: Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions (Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Edinburgh)

2009-12-04 16:00: Conditional Predictive Inference Post-Model Selection (Hannes Leeb (Univ. Vienna))

2009-12-07 12:30: Learning the scope of hedge cues in biomedical texts (Andrew MacKinlay)

2009-12-10 15:30: Action and Language (Prof Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy))

2009-12-17 15:30: Analysing and communicating uncertainty (Prof David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge))

2010-01-06 16:30: Why and how to use Drama in Nursing Education in Sweden and in Jordan (Professor Margret Lepp from University of Gothenberg, Sweden)

2010-01-08 11:00: Modeling of MEG and EEG: from Surface Mapping to Multimodal Imaging (Prof Matti S. Hämäläinen (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA))

2010-01-11 12:30: Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections (Marek Rei and Helen Yannakoudakis)

2010-01-11 16:30: Becoming Symbol-Minded (Professor Judy DeLoache, University of Virginia)

2010-01-11 17:00: LANGUAGES IN THE CURRICULUM - REMOVING THE MONOCULTURAL STRAIT JACKET (Dr Lid King, National Director for Languages)

2010-01-13 12:30: Tuuut...   Puff.  Tuuut...   Puff. Unconscious patients learn to respond after tuut (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU))

2010-01-14 10:00: Machine Learning Course (4F13) (Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge))

2010-01-14 14:00: RCC Planning Meeting (All)

2010-01-14 15:30: Cognitive and Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories (Dr Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-01-15 16:30: Mis-wired: Studying the link between brain network development and functional deficits (Dr Marcus Kaiser, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University)

2010-01-18 10:00: Visuospatial Reasoning (Stephanie Chan (MIT))

2010-01-18 12:30: A Gibbs Sampler for Phrasal Synchronous Grammar Induction (Juan Pino (University of Cambridge))

2010-01-18 17:00: Adolescence: rhetoric, representations, realities discussion (1) Lost Youth in the Global City: Class, Culture and the Urban Imaginary (Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough)

2010-01-19 11:00: CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human Sensing (Dr Fernando de la Torre (CMU))

2010-01-20 10:00: Machine Learning Course (4F13) (Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge))

2010-01-20 12:30: Multivariate pattern approaches to gaze perception (Johan Carlin (MRC CBSU))

2010-01-20 12:30: Bored & frustrated? Your ego might be depleted (Theresa Dahm (MRC CBSU))

2010-01-21 10:30: Purposes: What is the point of public systems of assessment? (Andrew Watts (Cambridge Assessment consultant))

2010-01-21 14:00: (Canceled) A Causal Calculus for Statistical Research (Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge))

2010-01-21 15:30: Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology (Prof Robert Rogers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford))

2010-01-21 17:00: Accent of birth? Linking phonological variation to attitudes and identities on the Scottish/English border (Dr Dominic Watt, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York)

2010-01-22 12:00: A Bottom-up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization (Danushka Bollegala - University of Tokyo)

2010-01-22 15:30: On the Distribution of the Adaptive LASSO Estimator (Ulrike Schneider (University of Goettingen))

2010-01-22 16:30: The cognitive basis of perspective-taking: Evidence from adults and  implications for studies of infants and non-human animals (Dr Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2010-01-25 12:30: Dependency grammar and dependency parsing (Laura Rimell and Andreas Vlachos)

2010-01-27 12:30: EEG evidence for successful voluntary suppression of conscious recollection (Zara Bergström (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology))

2010-01-27 16:30: The curse of creativity: Applied music research in CIRCLE (David Hargreaves, Centre for International Research in Creativity and Leaning in Education Roehampton University)

2010-01-28 14:00: The Fractional Belief Propagation menace (Frederik Eaton)

2010-01-28 15:30: Fetal testosterone in mind (Prof Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge))

2010-01-29 12:00: The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds' Syntax and Semantics (Preslav Nakov - National University of Singapore)

2010-01-29 15:30: Thick-pen transformation for time series (Piotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Economics))

2010-01-29 16:30: Single cell responses in the human medial temporal lobe (Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester)

2010-01-29 17:30: Identity, aspirations and motivation in musicians (Dr. Don Lebler, Queensland Conservatorium,Griffith University, Brisbane, Rosie Burt-Perkins, Royal College of Music, London, Prof. Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, University of London, Dr. Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, University of London,)

2010-02-01 13:00: Towards Tree-to-Tree Translation (David Chiang (University of Southern California))

2010-02-01 17:00: The Great Wall of China is Moving away: the Social Construction of Ideas about English in China (Jin He , Faculty of Education, Cambridge)

2010-02-02 11:00: Mind Reading by Machine Learning: Optimal Experimental Design (Neil Houlsby (CUED))

2010-02-02 12:30: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation (Tom Lippincott)

2010-02-02 16:30: Specifying brain function involved in number processing. Insights from interindividual differences (Dr Anja K. Ischebeck, Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University Graz, Austria)

2010-02-03 12:30: Task modulation in visual word recognition: a parametric EEG/MEG and fMRI study (Yuanyuan Chen (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-03 12:30: Investigating object and feature processing in human audition (Annika Linke (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-03 15:30: Footprints in the secret garden – Awarding Bodies’ engagement with the curriculum (Tim Oates (Group Director, Assessment Research and Development, Cambridge Assessment))

2010-02-03 16:00: "De-Disneyfying the Fairy-Tale Film" (Professor Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota, USA)

2010-02-04 14:00: Variational inference in graphical models: The view from the marginal polytope (David Knowles and Richard Turner (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-04 15:30: V1: Predicting the near future on the basis of the recent past (Dr Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology))

2010-02-05 12:00: Learnable representations for natural language (Alexander Clark - Royal Holloway University of London)

2010-02-05 15:30: Compressed sensing in infinite dimensions (Anders Hansen (Cambridge))

2010-02-05 16:30: Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear (Dr Daniel Freeman, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London)

2010-02-08 12:30: Using Citations to Generate surveys of Scientific Paradigms (Jimme Jardine (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-08 17:00: Adolescence: rhetoric, representations, realities discussion  (2) (Professor Maria Nikolajeva)

2010-02-10 12:30: Functional specialisation within rostral prefrontal cortex (Roland Benoit (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-10 18:30: Creating an electronic dictionary for an endangered language: Linguistic and extralinguistic implications (Dr Marina Chumakina, University of Surrey)

2010-02-11 14:00: Semi supervised learning (Sinead Williamson and Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-11 15:30: Inferotemporal cortex and face recognition learning (Prof Keith Kendrick (Babraham Institute, Cambridge))

2010-02-11 17:00: Influence of r-resonance information on speech intelligibility for native and non-native English speakers of different ages (Dr Antje Heinrich, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-11 17:15: Music and Creativity II: Elaborate displays (Edward Jessen, Royal College of Music)

2010-02-12 12:00: Making the World's Scientific Information (More) Organized, Accessible, and Usable (Ted Briscoe - University of Cambridge)

2010-02-12 15:30: Case-Control Studies when Cases are Extreme Values of a Continuous Variable (David Steinberg (Tel Aviv University))

2010-02-12 16:30: Mapping the parts of higher level cortex (Professor Marty Sereno, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London)

2010-02-15 12:30: Reliable methods for plain text information hiding (Ching-Yun Chang)

2010-02-17 12:30: The syntactic mismatch negativity (sMMN) in second language speakers and potential behavioural correlates (Jeff Hanna (RCEAL))

2010-02-17 12:30: Processing lexical complexity in Polish (Zanna Szlachta (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-17 17:00: "It didn't feel like schoolwork at all": Learning English through picturebooks (Anna Birketveit (Bergen University College, Norway))

2010-02-18 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Pedro Ortega and Dan Braun)

2010-02-18 15:30: FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language (Dr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford))

2010-02-18 17:00: Eye get it! What eye-movements can tell us about language processing in autism spectrum disorder (Dr Courtenay Norbury, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2010-02-18 18:00: The standardisation of Corsican: the polynomic model and speaker attitudes (Dr. Robert Blackwood (Liverpool))

2010-02-19 12:00: Subjectivity Recognition on Word Senses (Katja Markert - University of Leeds)

2010-02-19 14:00: On combinatorial testing problems (Gabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona))

2010-02-19 15:30: A Backward Particle Interpretation of Feynman-Kac Formulae ( Pierre Del Moral  (INRIA Bordeaux))

2010-02-19 16:30: Deficits in processing sensory context in schizophrenia (Dr Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London)

2010-02-22 12:30: Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions (Lin Sun)

2010-02-22 17:00: Negotiating varied proficiency levels in Lingua Franca English (Dr Anne Ife,  Department of English, Communication, Film and Media,  Anglia Ruskin University)

2010-02-24 12:30: What the heck is priming and what's a shoebox got to do with it? (Aidan Horner (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-24 17:00: The ‘Outer Limits’: “Thresholds” of picturebooks series. (Ghada Al-Yaqout (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge))

2010-02-25 14:00: Cancelled (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-02-25 17:15: Music and Creativity III: Composing in the age of diversity (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-02-26 15:30: What's the right complexity measure for inferring causal relations? (Dominik Janzing (Max Planck Institute Tuebingen))

2010-02-26 16:30: Human cerebral cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, segregation of function and transmitter receptors (Professor Karl Zilles, Director of the Institute for Neuroscience & Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany)

2010-02-26 16:30: Human Cerebral Cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, Segregation of Function and Transmitter Receptors (Prof Karl Zilles (Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University of Dusseldorf, Germany))

2010-03-01 12:30: Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining (Awais Athar (University of Cambridge))

2010-03-01 17:00: Adolescence: rhetoric, representations, realities discussion (3) (Dr Colleen McLaughlin)

2010-03-01 18:30: Fieldwork on Semitic Languages (Prof Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge)

2010-03-03 10:30: Learning: Does assessment damage learning? (Andrew Watts - Cambridge Assessment Consultant)

2010-03-03 12:30: Differentiating lexical complexity in fronto-temporal language networks (Mirjana Bozic (MRC CBSU))

2010-03-03 17:00: "Three takes on Hamlet for children" (Martin Salisbury (Anglia Ruskin School of Art), Abigail Rokison, Maria Nikolajeva;)

2010-03-04 14:00: Cancelled (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-03-04 15:30: Morpho-phonological Processing in the Human Brain (Prof Carsten Eulitz (Neurolinguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany))

2010-03-04 17:00: Keeping (eye)track(s) of multiple worlds (Prof. Gerry Altmann, Department of Psychology, University of York)

2010-03-05 12:00: Metaphor in language, thought, and communication (Gerard Steen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

2010-03-05 15:30: Smoothed absolute loadings principal components analysis (Bernie Silverman (Oxford))

2010-03-05 16:30: Glutamate, GABA and the neurobiology of reward conditioning (Professor David Stephens, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2010-03-06 09:00: Questions of voice:Dialogue and change in music education.‘A communal venturing forth’ (Jean Rudduck) (Julia Flutter (University of Cambridge), John Finney (University of Cambridge), Felicity Laurence (University of Newcastle))

2010-03-08 12:30: Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2010-03-08 16:00: Stochastic Outlier Selection (Jeroen Janssens (Tilburg University  / University of Cambridge))

2010-03-09 11:00: Bayesian Inference in Networks of Queues (Dr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh))

2010-03-09 16:30: CANCELLED EVENT: Social, educational and new media engagement in adolescents with a history of Specific Language Impairment (Professor Kevin Durkin, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde)

2010-03-10 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Alex Davies (ANU))

2010-03-10 11:30: Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Coding (Azadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto))

2010-03-10 12:30: Does motor cortex necessarily contribute to speech perception? (Gayaneh Szenkovits (MRC CBSU))

2010-03-10 12:30: Recursive CRFs for Scalable Vision (David Duvenaud (UBC))

2010-03-11 11:00: Making Sense of Data - A Research Agenda (Prof Bob Williamson (ANU and Scientific Director of NICTA))

2010-03-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Eric Xing)

2010-03-11 14:00: Dynamic Network Tomography: Model, Algorithm, Theory, and Application (Prof. Eric Xing (CMU))

2010-03-11 15:30: Fronto-amygdala mechanisms underlying emotion regulation (Prof Angela Roberts (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge))

2010-03-12 12:00: Latent TAG Derivations for Semantic Role Labeling (Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University)

2010-03-12 15:30: Asymptotic equivalence and sufficiency for volatility estimation under microstructure noise (Markus Reiss (Humboldt University Berlin))

2010-03-16 11:00: Slice sampling with latent Gaussian models (Dr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh))

2010-03-16 17:30: Moral Knowledge, Moral Sensitivity and Moral Education (Dr Roger Marples, Principal Lecturer)

2010-03-17 15:00: Language and Identity in the Romeyka-speaking communities of Pontus (Dr. Ioanna Sitaridou (Queens' College, Cambridge))

2010-03-17 16:00: 'Title case’  The Use of 'Tools' for Nurturing and Assessing Creativity (Dr Kevin Bryon)

2010-03-18 14:00: Sparsification for Gaussian Processes for Regression (Milica Gasic and Anton Ragni)

2010-03-18 15:30: Does prefrontal cortex contain a variety of  subsystems with separable functions: the neuropsychological perspective ? (Prof Tim Shallice (SISSA Trieste and ICN, UCL, London ))

2010-03-23 14:00: Mobile Learning, Creativity and Schools - a New Zealand  perspective (John Eyles. Research and Alliances Leader at Telecom New Zealand, Visiting Fellow at AUT University and Chair of the EON Foundation.)

2010-04-21 12:30: Modulation of emotion: A computational and real-time functional MRI approach (Su Li	(MRC CBSU))

2010-04-21 17:00: Our Home on Native Land: Adapting and Readapting Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie (Benjamin Lefebvre (University of Worcester))

2010-04-22 14:00: Bundle methods and its application in machine learning (Eric(Yongqiang) Wang  and Rory Waite)

2010-04-22 15:30: Reviewing the impact of changes in the assessment of GCSEs (Clara Kenyon (Qualifications Division, OCR) and Merrick Smith (14-19 Division, OCR))

2010-04-22 15:30: Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language (Prof Riitta Salmelin (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland))

2010-04-23 16:00: Stochastic Volatility Models Including Open, Close, High and Low Prices - NOW CANCELLED (Enrique ter Horst (Euromed School of Management))

2010-04-23 16:30: Measuring consciousness: From behaviour to neurophysiology (Dr Anil Seth, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex)

2010-04-26 12:30: Learning to Tell Tales: A Data-driven Approach to Story Generation (Ekaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge))

2010-04-26 17:00: Adolescence: rhetoric, representations, realities discussion (4) (Dr Pam Hirsch)

2010-04-28 12:30: Measuring axon diameters with diffusion MRI and other tales (John Griffiths (CSLB))

2010-04-28 12:30: Learning to read an artificial orthography and adaptations for fMRI (Jo Taylor (MRC CBSU))

2010-04-29 10:30: What is the point of public systems of assessment? (Andrew Watts, Cambridge Assessment consultant)

2010-04-29 14:00: Numerical Linear Algebra (Peter Orbanz and John Cunningham (University of Cambridge))

2010-04-29 15:30: What can brain imaging tell us about developmental disorders of speech and language? (Dr Kate Watkins (Centre for Functional Magnetic Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford))

2010-04-29 17:00: Ethnolinguistic identities and language revitalisation in small society: the case of the Faeroe Isles (Dr Stephen Leonard, University of Cambridge)

2010-04-30 16:00: Distilled Sensing: Adaptive Sequential Experimental Designs for Large-Scale Multiple Hypothesis Testing (Rob Nowak (University of Wisconsin-Madison))

2010-04-30 16:30:  How do we read other people's mind? Insights from neuropsychology (Dr Dana Samson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham)

2010-05-05 12:30: Taskplan hierarchy and the prefrontal cortex (Ausaf Farooqui (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-05 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Lisa Brindley (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-05 16:30: Runic Germanic: A reading seminar (Torsten Meissner)

2010-05-05 19:00: A proposed research project on the Occitan language movement (Dr Tim Jenkins (Cambridge))

2010-05-05 19:00: A proposed research project on the Occitan language movement (Dr. Tim Jenkins (Cambridge))

2010-05-06 10:30: Is assessing an art or a science? (Andrew Watts (Cambridge Assessment consultant))

2010-05-06 14:00: Information Retrieval (Jurgen Van Gael and Ed Snelson)

2010-05-06 15:30: Comprehension of human action in a hierarchical framework for mirroring and mentalising (Dr Antonia Hamilton (School of Psychology, University of Nottingham))

2010-05-06 17:00: Why _morning páper_, but _júry selection_? The variability of compound stress in English (Prof. Ingo Plag, Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Siegen)

2010-05-07 16:00: Sparse NonGaussian Component Analysis (Vladimir Spokoiny (Weierstrass Institute))

2010-05-07 16:30: Brain imaging studies of memory for when events occurred (Dr Ed Wilding, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2010-05-10 10:00: EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium 2010: Motivation to Learn in Social Contexts (10th-14th May) (David Whitebread, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-10 14:00: Grammaticalization as analogically driven change (Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam / ACLC))

2010-05-10 14:45: Recent changes in the modal system of English (Joanne Close (University of Leeds))

2010-05-10 16:00: The history of English phrase-level syllabification (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester))

2010-05-12 12:30: Investigating the assembly of task sets (Apoorva Bhandari (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-12 12:30: Connectivity in face processing (Daniel Wakeman (MRC CBSU)	)

2010-05-12 16:00: PNE Book Launch Event (Professor Christine Howe, Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-13 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Yunus Saatchi and Andrew Wilson)

2010-05-13 15:30: When all the songs sound the same: Characterising congenital amusia (Dr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London))

2010-05-14 16:00: Postulating monotonicity in nonparametric Bayesian regression (Elja Arjas (University of Helsinki))

2010-05-14 16:30: Making Decisions without Values (Professor Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University College London)

2010-05-17 12:00: Enhancing NLP with Knowledge: Ontology-Based Information Retrieval for Handwritten Text (Marcus Eichenberger-Liwicki, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)

2010-05-17 12:30: Combinatory Categorial Grammar (Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory))

2010-05-17 17:00: Adolescence: rhetoric, representations, realities discussion (5) (Dr Morag Morrison)

2010-05-18 16:30: The cognitive underpinnings of different mathematical skills (Dr Fiona Simmons, School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University)

2010-05-18 18:00: "Who has the linguistic advantage? The case of Native Spanish vs. Non-native Spanish in Los Angeles, California" (Prof. Michael Vermy (Buffalo State, State University of New York))

2010-05-19 12:30: Autism Spectrum characteristics and their relationship to brain structure and function in the typical population 	 (Elisabeth von dem Hagen (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-20 14:00: Topics in Statistical Machine Translation (Matt Shannon and Sebastien Bratieres)

2010-05-20 15:30: Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces (Dr Sara Gonzalez Andino (Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Geneva University Hospital))

2010-05-20 18:00: The Discourse of Language Endangerment (Professor Nikolai Vakhtin (European University of St. Petersburg))

2010-05-21 16:30: Brain-Based Values (Professor Patricia Churchland, Philosophy Department, University of California San Diego, USA)

2010-05-24 12:30: Improving Grammaticality in Statistical Sentence Generation (Yue Zhang)

2010-05-26 12:30: Gaining control: The effects of cognitive training on emotion regulation (Susanne Schweizer (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-26 12:30: The neural basis of human moral decision-making:  A look into the disparity between the idealised and actual moral self (Oriel Feldmanhall (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-26 16:00: Approximation by Log-Concave Distributions ( Lutz Dumbgen (University of Bern))

2010-05-27 12:00: Linguistic Steganography using Automatically Generated Paraphrases (Ching-Yun (Frannie) Chang, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-27 12:30: Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task (Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-27 14:00: Redirected to Rob Nowak, LR12 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-05-27 17:00: Evolution, sex/gender and sociolinguistics (Prof. Deborah Cameron, Faculty of English, University of Oxford)

2010-05-28 16:00: A Look at Partial Projections for Regression onto Text (Matt Taddy (University of Chicago))

2010-06-01 16:30: The psychology of number: developmental, evolutionary and cognitive-neuroscientific considerations (Dr Claudia Uller, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-06-02 12:30: Discreteness: The essence of language?	 (Friedmann Pulvermuller (MRC CBSU))

2010-06-03 14:00: Conditional Random Fields : Theory and Application (Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge))

2010-06-03 15:30: Hemispheric lateralisation for auditory processing – does the brainstem play a role? (Dr Katrin Krumbholtz (MRC Institute of Hearing Research))

2010-06-03 16:00: An Introduction to High-Dimensional Problems, Sparsity and Oracle Inequalities (Karim  Lounici (Cambridge))

2010-06-03 17:00: Sparse Recovery in Linear Spans and Convex Hulls of Infinite Dictionaries ( Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech))

2010-06-03 17:00: Interpretative research in education: an invitation to an open discussion (Professors Paul Smeyers (KU Leuven and University of Ghent) , Nick Burbules (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigne , Morwenna Griffiths (University of Edinburgh) , and David Bridges (University of Cambridge Faculty of Education))

2010-06-04 16:00: Introduction to adaptive estimation (Oleg Lepski  (Universite de Provence))

2010-06-09 12:30: The face isn't everything: examining the influence of visual and auditory cues in emotion perception (Raliza Stoyanova (MRC CBSU))

2010-06-09 12:30: Emotional self regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder (Davy Evans (MRC CBSU))

2010-06-09 14:00: Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack Dimension (Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania))

2010-06-10 11:30: Structured Prediction Cascades (Dr. Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania))

2010-06-10 14:00: Structured Learning and Structural SVMs (S-X. Austin Zhang and Juan Pino)

2010-06-10 15:30: Flashbacks and flash-forwards: Imagery and emotion in psychopathology (Dr Emily Holmes  (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford))

2010-06-11 11:00: Message Passing In Centralized Database (Konstantina Palla (Edinburgh))

2010-06-11 14:00: Using topic models to help cure cancer (Prof Quaid Morris (Toronto))

2010-06-14 17:00: Identity Problems (Professor David Block, Institute of Education, London)

2010-06-15 11:00: Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological Problems (Barbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago))

2010-06-15 16:30: Psychometric versus Dynamic Assessment for identification of dual exceptional learners (Dr Anies Al-Hroub, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Education, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon)

2010-06-16 11:00: Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational Bayes (Dr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland))

2010-06-17 15:30: Language processing in the musician brain (Dr Mireille Besson (CNRS Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience))

2010-06-21 12:00: Log-linear models with hidden features for label and link prediction (Charles Elkan, University of California, San Diego)

2010-06-24 14:00: Raising Languages from the Dead: Recent Efforts to Revitalize Australian Aboriginal Languages (Dr Michael Walsh (Sydney))

2010-06-24 15:30: A new paradigm to uncover regions involved in parsing language into constituent structure (Dr Christophe Pallier (CNRS INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit))

2010-06-25 12:00: Natural mathematical language for the computer (Arnold Neumaier, University of Vienna)

2010-06-25 12:00: Combining Manual Rules and Supervised Learning for Hedge Cue and Scope Detection (Marek Rei, University of Cambridge)

2010-06-28 12:30: Latent Variable Models of Selectional Preference (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge)

2010-07-01 10:30: Validity: How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications? (Andrew Watts, Cambridge Assessment consultant)

2010-07-07 11:00: Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design (Andreas Krause (Caltech))

2010-07-08 12:00: Models of Metaphor in NLP (Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge)

2010-07-12 11:30: Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian Processes (Dr Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid))

2010-07-14 15:30: The validation of general qualifications (Victoria Crisp, Assessment Research & Development Division, Cambridge Assessment and Stuart Shaw, Assessment Services Division, University of Cambridge International Examinations)

2010-07-20 14:00: Scalable Parallel Computing with CUDA (James Balfour (NVIDIA))

2010-07-21 11:00: Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus / Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic Models (Dr. Tomoharu Iwata (NTT))

2010-07-21 16:00: Children as Cultural Creators - An Australian Perspective (Clare McFadden)

2010-07-26 15:00: Efficient Bayesian analysis of multiple changepoint models (Prof Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster))

2010-07-28 12:00: Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies (Laura Rimell - University of Cambridge)

2010-07-28 14:00: Creating structured and flexible models: some  open problems (Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University))

2010-07-29 16:30: Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politics (Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University))

2010-08-25 14:00: On the Equivalence of Graph Cuts and Max-product Belief Propagation (Danny Tarlow (University of Toronto))

2010-09-02 10:30: Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Andrew Watts, Cambridge Assessment consultant)

2010-09-03 10:00: The Emergent Adult: Adolescent Literature and Culture (Professor Shirley Brice Heath, Brown University, USA ; Meg Rosoff, author, UK ; Jo-Anne Dillabough, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-09-06 12:00: Semantics, Text, and Biomedical Knowledge Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities (Karin Verspoor - University of Colorado Denver)

2010-09-20 11:00: Bayesian Inference with Kernels (Dr Arthur Gretton (UCL))

2010-09-28 16:45: Successful Educational Actions (SEA): guaranteeing educational success for all in Europe (Rocío Garcia Carrion (University of Barcelona))

2010-09-30 11:00: Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages (Gjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research, Cambridge))

2010-10-01 12:00: Practical Linguistic Steganography using Contextual Synonym Substitution and Vertex Colour Coding (Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-01 12:30: A Fast Decoder for Joint Word Segmentation and POS-Tagging using a Single Discriminative Model (Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-06 12:30: Introducing Zebra Speech: from bleep-blop streaming to concurrent speech segregation (Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-10-07 14:00: Unsupervised Grammar Induction (Juan Pino (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-07 15:30: Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language (Ritta Salmelin (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland))

2010-10-08 16:30: Science and government policy: current oxymoron future opportunity? (Professor David Nutt, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2010-10-11 12:30: Report-back on ACL2010 (Marek Rei & Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-12 17:15: (Dis)owning Culture but Preserving Access: Reflections on Field Methods from the World Oral Literature Project (Dr. Mark Turin (Cambridge))

2010-10-13 12:30: Learning-dependent plasticity: evidence from fMRI multi-voxel patterns (Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-10-14 14:00: Advanced Scientific Programming in Python (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-14 15:30: Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces (Sarah Gonzales-Andino (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland))

2010-10-15 12:00: Open Problems for Literary Text Generation in the WASP System (Pablo Gervas - Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

2010-10-15 16:30: How the brain makes decisions (Professor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org))

2010-10-18 09:00: El contacto del arabe con el iberorromance. Los arabismos en la historia del español. (Prof. María Teresa García Godoy (Universidad de Granada))

2010-10-18 10:00: El voseo en español: situacion actual y historia. (Prof. Miguel Calderón Campos (Universidad de Granada))

2010-10-18 12:30: Overview of: Measuring the non-compositionality of multiword expressions. [best paper award at COLING] (Laura Rimell (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-19 16:30: In what way is literacy ‘parasitic upon language’? The roles of speech and language in literacy development. (Dr Julia Carroll, University of Warwick)

2010-10-19 18:00: Attitudes towards French and English in Montreal: implications for language policy and planning (Dr Ruth Kircher (SOAS))

2010-10-20 12:30: If you're conscious and you know it, squeeze your hand: detecting awareness in the vegetative state (Damian Cruise (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-10-20 17:00: 'Play out the play':  an active storytelling approach to Shakespeare with the under 12's (Sarah Gordon, Artistic Director, Young Shakespeare Company)

2010-10-21 14:00: Herding or a '3rd way to learn' (Simon Lacoste-Julien and Ferenc Huszar)

2010-10-21 15:30: Predicting pain and pain modulation from fMRI activity (Tor Wager (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA))

2010-10-21 17:00: The Case of Giorgione: Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Non Truth-Conditional Meaning (Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham))

2010-10-21 18:00: A new grammar of Spanish. Unity and variation. (Professor Ignacio Bosque)

2010-10-22 12:00: Patent Search: a challenging problem for IR and NL (John Tait - The Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna)

2010-10-22 16:00: Control variates for reversible MCMC samplers (Petros Dellaportas (Athens University))

2010-10-22 16:30: Human speech and language: Separable neurobiological substrates (Professor William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-25 12:30: Extracting social networks from literary fiction... (Ekaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-26 11:00: Festival of Ideas - Faculty of Education Event (Events run by: Dr Claudia Uller; Dr Michelle Ellefson; Amy Devine & Alison Nobes)

2010-10-26 17:15: The last days of Armenian in Jerusalem (Dr Bert Vaux (Cambridge))

2010-10-27 12:00: BioCaster 2.0: Online text analysis for early alerting of disease outbreaks (Nigel Collier - National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo)

2010-10-27 12:30: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and pattern separation in the hippocampus (Pedro Bekinschtein (Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Experimental Psychology))

2010-10-27 17:00: Narrative energy in children's literature (Betsie van Westhuizen,North-West University, South Africa)

2010-10-28 14:00: Cancelled: No RCC (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-10-28 15:30: Incomprehensible? Inexpressible? Inconceivable? The very idea of inter-subject comparability (Dr Paul Newton (Cambridge Assessment Network Division, Cambridge Assessment))

2010-10-28 15:30: Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech perception and production (Anne-Lise Giraud (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France))

2010-10-29 16:00: Sparsity pattern aggregation for convex stochastic optimization. (Phillipe Rigollet (Princeton University))

2010-10-29 16:30: Epigenetics, brain development and behaviour (Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-01 12:30: Conditional Random Fields (Thomas Lippincott (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-01 17:00: Learning French from ages 5, 7 and 11: an investigation into starting ages, rates and routes of learning amongst early foreign language learners (Florence Myles and Rosamond Mitchell)

2010-11-03 12:30: Analysing neuronal networks using communicating automata (Su Li (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-11-03 16:30: Writing in Late Bronze Age Cyprus (Dr Philippa Steele)

2010-11-04 13:00: ACS project presentations (Various NLP researchers, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-04 14:00: An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics (Sonia Petrone (Università Bocconi))

2010-11-04 15:30: Memory consolidation: the impact of novelty and prior knowledge (Richard Morris (Edinburgh University))

2010-11-04 17:00: Morphosyntactic conditioning in phonology: the case of pronominal clitics in European Portuguese (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester))

2010-11-05 13:30: Short talks: Mixed Cumulative Distribution Networks; Nonparametric Bayesian community discovery in social networks; Expectation Propagation for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models (Charles Blundell, Lloyd Elliot and Vinayak Rao, Gatsby Unit, UCL)

2010-11-05 16:00: Applications of Bernstein polynomials in Statistics (Sonia Petrone (University Bocconi Milan))

2010-11-05 16:30: Neuroimaging of ADHD and related disorders (Professor Katya Rubia, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)

2010-11-08 12:30: Term Weighting Schemes for Latent Dirichlet Allocation (James Jardine, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge)

2010-11-09 16:30: Cognitive control and brain function in children and adolescents (Professor Eveline Crone, Leiden University)

2010-11-09 17:15: Northwest Amazonian multi-lingualism: the past, present and future of a unique system (Dr. Stephen Hugh-Jones (Cambridge))

2010-11-10 12:30: What did you just say? Cognitive processing while falling asleep (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-11-10 15:30: Linking assessments to international frameworks of language proficiency (Dr Hanan Khalifa and Dr Neil Jones (Research and Validation, University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations))

2010-11-11 11:00: CANCELLED (Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP))

2010-11-11 14:00: Convex Optimisation (Dave Knowles and David Duvenaud)

2010-11-11 15:30: 'Why Eyes' (Vicki Bruce (Newcastle University))

2010-11-12 12:00: Event Extraction from Biomedical Texts by Trimming Dependency Graphs (Ekaterina Buyko - JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

2010-11-12 16:00: Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Bandit Problems (Steffen Grunewalder (University College London))

2010-11-12 16:30: Natural Geometry (Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA)

2010-11-15 12:30: Unsupervised Modeling  of Twitter Conversations (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-15 12:45: A Language for Mathematics (Mohan Ganesalingam (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-16 17:00: Genocide and the ridiculous: Frances Hardinge, Gullstruck Island, and writing the horrific for children. (Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex University)

2010-11-16 18:00: Is there a Regional French of Normandy? (Dr Damien Hall (York))

2010-11-17 12:30: Effects of disfluencies in speech on listeners (Lucy McGregor  (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-11-17 14:00: New Thinking about Statistical Inference and its Application to Climate Prediction (Arthur  Dempster (Harvard))

2010-11-17 16:30: Exploring young people's artistic worlds (Professor Susan O'Neill, Simon fraser University, Vancouver Canada)

2010-11-17 16:30: The IE Influence on Modern Semitic Languages (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-11-18 11:00: Crowdsourcing data modelling (Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle))

2010-11-18 13:00: ‘Life and works of Roald Dahl’ An informal talk by Jane Branfield, archivist for the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (Mrs Jane Branfield, Archivist of the Roald Dahl museum)

2010-11-18 14:00: Poisson Processes (Andrew Wilson and Yue Wu)

2010-11-18 17:00: Language change and language evolution in the lab (Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh))

2010-11-19 12:00: Two robust semi-supervised learning algorithms for natural language processing (Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen)

2010-11-19 16:00: On adaptive nonparametric inference (Richard Nickl (Cambridge))

2010-11-19 16:30: Illusions in the real world (Dr Peter Thompson, Department of Psychology, University of York)

2010-11-22 12:45: A Simple Unsupervised Learner for POS Disambiguation Rules Given Only a Minimal Lexicon. (Yue Zhang)

2010-11-22 17:00: Gender Construction and its Negotiation in the Course of Second Language Learning (Huajing Zhao, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-23 16:30: The Pedagogical Use of the Long Past of Science: Positivism, Historicism, and Beyond (Professor Lewis Pyenson, Western Michigan University)

2010-11-23 17:15: Bardi Documentation for Preservation and Revitalisation (Dr Claire Bowern (Yale))

2010-11-24 12:30: Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation (Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-11-24 17:00: Construction of the obese child in literature and media (Jean Webb, University of Worcester)

2010-11-25 14:00: NIPS Highlight Session (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-11-25 15:30: Attention, Distraction and Cognitive Control under Load (Nilli Lavie (University College London))

2010-11-26 11:00: Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy Data (Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2010-11-26 12:00: Towards a Stochastic Model of Linguistic Competence (Shalom Lappin - King's College, London)

2010-11-26 16:00: Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations ( Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7))

2010-11-26 16:30: The Evolution of shopping lists (Professor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-29 12:30: Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns (Frannie Chang)

2010-11-30 11:00: Learning item trees for collaborative filtering with implicit feedback (Dr Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Unit, UCL))

2010-12-01 12:30: Individual object representations in individual people (Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-12-01 12:30: Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation (Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-12-01 16:30: Images and letters: the colourful world of painted Greek vase-inscriptions (Mr Georg Gerleigner)

2010-12-02 14:00: Submodularity for Machine Learning (Ed Snelson and Rich Turner)

2010-12-02 15:30: Tracking memory retrieval using multivariate pattern analysis (Ken Norman (Princeton University))

2010-12-02 17:00: Is linguistics useful?: From Wittgenstein to meaning, brain, and questions about how to treat language-impaired stroke patients (Friedemann Pulvermuller (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge))

2011-01-11 13:00: STATISTICAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS (Heiga Zen (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.))

2011-01-13 11:00: Novi Quadrianto (Novi Quadrianto, Australian National University)

2011-01-17 11:00: Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED) (Dr Florian Markowetz (CRUK)  - lab visit)

2011-01-17 12:30: Improving Multiclass Text Classification with Error-Correcting Output Coding and Sub-class Partitions (Stuart Moore)

2011-01-17 14:00: Testing reflexivity and logophoricity in Latin (Marius Jøhndal (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-17 14:40: Preterite/periphrasis interchange in Old English (Morgan Macleod (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-17 15:40: Tying up syntactic loose ends: hwæt/huat-clauses in Old English and Old Saxon (George Walkden (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-17 16:20: Converging methods in the study of language change (Joel Wallenberg (University of Iceland))

2011-01-18 11:00: Universal Bayesian Agents: Theory and Applications (Prof. Marcus Hutter (ANU))

2011-01-19 16:00: Neurosemantics and Neuropragmatics Reading Group (Week ONE) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-01-20 10:30: What is the point of public assessments? (Andrew Watts, Consultant for Cambridge Assessment)

2011-01-20 14:00: Completely Random Measures (Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-20 15:30: Face to Face, Brain to Brain: Exploring the Mechanisms of Dyadic Social Interactions (Uri Hasson (Dept of Psychology, Princeton, USA))

2011-01-20 17:00: On historical language dictionaries and language boundaries (Dr Laura Wright (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-21 16:30: The Bayesian brain, surprise and free-energy (Professor Karl Friston, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London)

2011-01-24 17:00: Comparing language learning and proficiency across Europe (Karen Ashton, Project Manager, European Survey on Language Competences, Cambridge ESOL, Cambridge Assessment)

2011-01-25 11:00: Mining viral datasets (Dr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-25 17:15: Bushmen of the Southern Kalahari: the puzzle of what is real (Dr Hugh Brody (Fraser Valley))

2011-01-26 12:30: Individual differences in visual short term memory (Michele Veldsman (CBSU))

2011-01-26 12:30: Cognitive training in a healthy older population (preliminary results) (Sinéad  Hynes(CBSU))

2011-01-26 13:00: Modelling trajectories in statistical speech synthesis (Matt Shannon (Cambridge) and Heiga Zen (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.))

2011-01-26 17:00: My place: Exploring children’s place-related identities through reading and writing (Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Pam Pointon & Emma Charlton)

2011-01-26 18:00: Polynomia - A new approach to variation in language planning (Elena Pala (Cambridge))

2011-01-27 12:00: Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization (Helen Yannakoudakis)

2011-01-27 14:00: Infinite multiple relational models for complex networks (Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge))

2011-01-27 15:30: Which mental functions get their own private patch of cortex? (Nancy Kanwisher (Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA))

2011-01-28 16:00: Simultaneous local and global adaptivity of Bayesian wavelet  estimators in nonparametric regression (Natalia Bochkina (Edinburgh))

2011-01-28 16:30: Hippocampal function: Re-considering configural memory (Dr Mark Good, University of Cardiff)

2011-02-01 11:00: Differential Geometric MCMC Methods (Prof. Mark Girolami (UCL))

2011-02-02 12:30: The effect of consolidation on the learning of novel spoken words: an MEG study (Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU))

2011-02-02 15:30: The effects of modular GCSE examinations on students’ outcomes, motivation and workload (Dr Carmen Vidal Rodeiro, Sylvia Green and Tim Oates (Assessment Research & Development Division, Cambridge Assessment))

2011-02-02 16:00: Neurosemantics/Neuropragmatics Reading Group II (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-02-03 12:00: Identifying Non-Explicit Citing Sentences for Citation-Based Summarization (Awais Athar (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-03 14:00: Machine Learning techniques in computer vision applications (Peter Chan (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-03 15:30: Timing attention in the human brain (Kia Nobre (Dept Psychology, Oxford))

2011-02-03 17:00: Interpreting Early Middle English Spelling: Anachronism and historical orthography (Roger Lass (University of Edinburgh))

2011-02-04 16:00: Bayesian semiparametrics with Gaussian process priors (Ismael Castillo (CNRS and Paris 6))

2011-02-04 16:30: The Neuroscience of moral judgement (Professor Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)

2011-02-08 17:15: Languages in contact and isolation: mature phenomena and societies of intimates. (Professor Peter Trudgill)

2011-02-09 12:30: Articulatory contributions to speech perception (Matt Davis (CBSU))

2011-02-09 13:00: New and emerging applications of 'adaptive' speech synthesis' (Junichi Yamagishi, Centre for Speech  Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh)

2011-02-09 16:30: Scripting social interaction: Improvisation, performance, and Western 'art' music (Professor Nicholas Cook, Faculty of Music)

2011-02-09 17:00: Learning to Read in a Complex World (Margaret Mackey,   Professor of Education and Librarianship, University of Alberta)

2011-02-10 12:00: Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification (Yue Zhang ())

2011-02-10 14:00: Kernel Methods (Yunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge), Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-10 15:30: The role of early visual areas in high-level visual cognition (Frank Tong (Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt Uiveristy, USA))

2011-02-11 16:30: Do birds believe in magic (Dr Nathan Emery, Queen Mary,  University of  London)

2011-02-14 16:30: Creative Identity in Music Teaching and Learning (Clint Randles, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida School of Music)

2011-02-16 12:15: “Agency in adolescence: young people constructing their own adolescence” (Professor John Coleman, University of Oxford)

2011-02-16 12:30: Improving the definition of multiple demand cortex (Ben Crittenden (CBSU))

2011-02-16 12:30: Crossmodal perceptual enhancement of degraded speech: a pathway to long-term learning? (Ediz Sohoglu (CBSU))

2011-02-16 16:00: Neurosemantics/Neuropragmatics Reading Group III (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-02-16 17:00: The Fairy-tales of Science: facts and fancy in Victorian children's literature (Melenie Keene, Fellow Homerton College)

2011-02-17 12:00: Something a little different... (Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory))

2011-02-17 14:00: Optimal weighted nearest neighbour classifiers (Dr Richard Samworth)

2011-02-17 15:30: Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas Project (Russ Poldrack (University of Texas at Austin), USA)

2011-02-17 17:00: Phases and semantics (Wolfram Hinzen (University of Durham))

2011-02-18 12:00: Automatic speech act identification in business emails (Rachele de Felice - University of Nottingham)

2011-02-18 16:00: Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian (Simon Lacoste-Julien (Cambridge))

2011-02-18 16:30: Perceptual Learning and Face Recognition (Professor Ian McLaren, University of Exeter)

2011-02-22 17:15: Endangered Ancestors: Language Shift and the Loss of Theodiversity in Tribal India (Dr. Piers Vitebsky (Cambridge))

2011-02-23 12:30: Individual object representation in individual people (Ian Charest (CBSU))

2011-02-23 17:00: The Mirror Staged: Pictures of Babies in Baby Books (Perry Nodelman, Professor Emeritus, University of Winnipeg)

2011-02-24 12:00: An Introduction to Random Indexing (Jimme Jardine (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-24 14:00: Post-NIPS Highlight session (MLG Members)

2011-02-24 15:30: fMRI brain activity patterns in real-time: From basic  research to clinical applications (Rainer Goebel (Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht), The Netherlands)

2011-02-25 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL))

2011-02-25 12:00: Categorical Compositionality for Distributional Semantics, Without Tears (Edward Grefenstette, University of Oxford)

2011-02-25 16:00: Markov chain Monte Carlo on Riemann manifolds (Mark Girolami  (UCL))

2011-02-25 16:30: That old feeling: Age-related changes in conversation (Professor Trevor Harley, University of Dundee)

2011-03-02 12:30: Informational masking of speech produced by speech-like sounds without linguistic content (Jing Chen (Dept of Experimental Psychology))

2011-03-02 13:00: Speech Production Mechanism And Vocoding Technique In Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis (Ranniery (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.) and Yannis (Google))

2011-03-02 16:00: Neurosemantics and Neuropragmatics Group IV (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-03-02 18:00: Phonological Variation, Perceptual Salience and Identity: The Regional French of Béarn (Damien Mooney (Oxford))

2011-03-03 12:00: The automated assessment of texts produced by learners of English (Helen Yannakoudakis (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-03 14:00: The effect of normalization -- a case study in speech synthesis (Matt Shannon (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-03 15:30: Parsing the stream of behaviour (Jeff Zacks (Washington University, St Louis, USA))

2011-03-03 17:00: The semantics of numerical classifiers in Indonesian (Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford))

2011-03-04 10:30: Probabilistic matrix factorization for reconstruction of missing data (Dr Alexander Ilin (Aalto University))

2011-03-04 11:30: Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab Priors (Dr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid))

2011-03-04 12:00: Surprisingly Efficient Parsing for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalised-Grammar Parser (Stephen Clark and Yue Zhang - University of Cambridge)

2011-03-04 15:30: Musical Learning as Social Reconstruction. Music and Origin in the Eyes of Immigrant Parents (Ylva Hofvander Trulsson, Academy of Music, Lund University, Sweden)

2011-03-04 16:00: Detecting Change Points in Multidimensional Functional Data (John Aston, Warwick)

2011-03-04 16:30: Speech perception in older listeners: Contributions of changes in audition and cognition (Dr Christian Fullgrabe, University of Nottingham)

2011-03-07 16:30: Raving in the classroom: DJing, MCing and the value of the 'dex' for low-achieving and disaffected boys (Pete Dale, University of Newcastle)

2011-03-07 16:30: Using metaphorical representations to discern young learners’ beliefs about foreign language learning (Linda Fisher, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2011-03-07 17:00: Communicative competence and eighteenth-century English norms of correctness (Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, University of Leiden and Clare Hall, Cambridge)

2011-03-08 16:30: Reflections  on the concept and potentials  of Developmental Education (open talk) (Bert van Oers, Prof. Cultural-Historical Theory of Education, VU University Amsterdam)

2011-03-08 17:15: East of Andes: resonances and continuities in 500 years of Uwa self-defence (Dr. Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages))

2011-03-09 12:30: Quantity and quality of visual object representations during memory and perception (Daniel Mitchell (CBSU))

2011-03-10 10:30: How can assessment support learning? (Andrew Watts, Consultant for Cambridge Assessment)

2011-03-10 12:00: Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigm (Prof. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State))

2011-03-10 14:30: Deep Belief Networks for Phone Recongition (Rory Waite  and Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-10 15:30: A novel developmental model of episodic-like memory in laboratory rodents (Rosamund Langston (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee))

2011-03-11 12:00: Relational-Realizational Syntax: An Architecture for Describing and Parsing Rich Morphosyntactic Descriptions (Reut Tsarfaty - Uppsala University)

2011-03-11 16:00: M-estimation strategies for the ranking problem (Nicolas Vayatis, ENS Cachan)

2011-03-11 16:30: Thinking of things unseen: exploratory behaviour in chimpanzees and children (Dr Amanda Seed, University of  St Andrews)

2011-03-14 16:30: Class Remobility- the Reconstruction of Capital Through Musical Fostering (Ylva Hofvander Trulsson, Academy of Music, Lund University, Sweden)

2011-03-15 11:00: Exponential Conditional Volatility Models (Prof Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge))

2011-03-16 12:30: Frontal deficits in Parkinson’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia (Laura Hughes (CBSU))

2011-03-16 12:30: Context modelling in HMM based speech synthesis (Kai Yu (Cambridge University))

2011-03-17 14:00: Exchangeability (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-17 15:30: The role of experience in shaping category selectivity in human ventral visual cortex (Kalanit Grill-Spector (Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA))

2011-03-18 16:30: Soul Dust: the magic of consciousness (Dr Nicholas Humphrey)

2011-03-21 11:00: Nonlinear Dynamics of Learning (Prof. Max Welling (UC Irvine))

2011-03-24 10:30: How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications? (Andrew Watts, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment)

2011-03-31 16:30: Reviewing England’s National Curriculum (Mary James, Dominic Wyse, and John Bangs)

2011-04-06 15:30: Comparability of examination standards (Tom Bramley and Gill Elliott (Assessment Research & Development Division, Cambridge Assessment))

2011-04-11 11:00: Characterization of the Ewens-Pitman family of random partitions by a deletion property and a de Finetti-type theorem for exchangeable hierarchies (Chris Haulk (UC Berkeley))

2011-04-11 13:00: Engineering Advances in Measuring and Using Speech Production Information ( Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California)

2011-04-13 13:00: Text analysis for speech synthesis (Sabine Buchholz (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.))

2011-04-26 14:00: An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology (Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute),  Glenn Vinnicombe (Engineering Department), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory))

2011-04-28 13:30: Workshop: Underdetermination in Semantics and Utterance Processing (Professor François Recanati (CNRS))

2011-04-28 17:00: Individual differences in native language attainment (with implications for language acquisition) (Ewa Dabrowska (Northumbria University))

2011-05-03 17:15: Language revitalisation: issues and outcomes (Dr Julia Sallabank (SOAS))

2011-05-04 10:30: Is assessing an art or a science? (Andrew Watts, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment)

2011-05-04 12:30: Now, Sometime, Never?  Equality for Women in Science (Paul Walton (York University))

2011-05-04 16:00: The social side of social attention (Giovanni Galfano, Associate Professor, Cognition and Language Lab, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova)

2011-05-05 15:30: Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future (Professor Morris Moscovitch from the University of Toronto)

2011-05-05 15:30: Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future (Professor Morris Moscovitch, Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging, University of Toronto)

2011-05-06 12:00: Accurate CCG Parsing with Approximate Language Intersection and Task-specific Optimization (Michael Auli)

2011-05-06 16:00: Likelihood Inference and Bayesian MCMC (Don Pierce (Oregon State University))

2011-05-09 10:00: Commandeering language? Linguistic prescriptivism and variation in Quebec today (Leigh Oakes, QMUL)

2011-05-09 10:40: Speaker attitudes to the French language in France and Québec: Purist or moderate? (Olivia Walsh, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 11:30: The development of normative metalanguage in English grammars, 1677-1712. (Thomas Godard, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 12:00: Introducing the Corpus of Dutch English: Background and methodological insights (Alison Edwards, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 12:30: Polynomia in Sardinia and Corsica: A case study (Elena Pala, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-11 12:30: I remember, therefore I forget: bringing memory inhibition to life using the SenseCam (Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU))

2011-05-12 12:00: NLIP reading group: Connecting the Dots Between News Articles (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-12 14:00: Expectation Propagation for POMDP Spoken Dialogue Models (Blaise Thomson, Dialogue Systems Group, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-12 15:30: Neurobiological landscapes for language evolution and variation (William Marslen-Wilson (Dept of Experimental Psychology,  University of Cambridge))

2011-05-12 17:00: Understanding and believing (Deirdre Wilson (UCL))

2011-05-13 12:00: To what extent does the acquisition of conceptual categories depend on language? (Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-13 14:30: Bayesian non-parametric analysis of diffusions ( Gareth Roberts (Warwick))

2011-05-13 16:00: Bernstein - von Mises Theorems for general functionals (Judith Rousseau (Paris Dauphine))

2011-05-13 16:30: Emotions, Intuitions and Morality (Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-16 15:30: Developing a new linear qualification: how difficult can it be? Cambridge Pre-U, a case study (Mark Dowling, Di Palmer and Val Sismey (University of Cambridge International Examinations))

2011-05-17 17:15: Mapping Linguistic Endangerment: The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Professor Christopher Moseley (UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages))

2011-05-18 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Max Garagnani (CBSU))

2011-05-18 16:30: Moving beyond traditional notions of educational processes - the contribution of Charles S. Peirce (Torill Strand, University of Oslo, Norway)

2011-05-19 12:00: NLP reading group - Who should I cite: learning literature search models from citation behavior (Jimme Jardine (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-19 14:00: On Over-fitting in Model Selection and Subsequent Selection Bias in Performance Evaluation (DR. Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Cambridge))

2011-05-19 15:30: Getting a grip on reality: A role for medial prefrontal cortex in source recollection (Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology,  University of Cambridge))

2011-05-20 12:00: Minimum Bayes-Risk Lattice Rescoring Methods for Statistical Machine Translation (Graeme Blackwood, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-20 14:00: Workshop on Post-Gricean Pragmatics and Meaning (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-05-20 16:00: Hawkes process as models for some genomic data (Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (CNRS and Univ. Nice))

2011-05-20 16:30: Memory Deficits associated with selective hippocampal atrophy (Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, UCL Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Child Health)

2011-05-24 11:00: An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning (Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory))

2011-05-24 17:00: Talking Classrooms -Interim findings from a classroom-based enquiry exploring the relationship between input, interaction and spontaneous talk in the primary classroom. (Bernardette Holmes, University of Cambridge Language Centre)

2011-05-25 12:30: Is all stopping the same? Assessing inhibition in action control (Chelan Weaver (CBSU))

2011-05-26 12:00: NLIP reading group - Fully unsupervised core-adjunct argument classification (Laura Rimell (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-26 14:00: Connections between Gaussian Process Regression, Kalman filtering and RTS Smoothing (Simo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland)

2011-05-27 14:30: Simultaneous confidences bands with the volume-of-tube formula and spline estimators (Tatyana Krivobokova (Goettingen))

2011-05-27 16:00: Additive Models for Quantile Regression: Model Selection and Confidence Bandaids (Roger Koenker (Univ. Illinois))

2011-05-30 13:00: Incremental adaptation of speech recognition based on macroscopic time evolution system (Shinji Watanabe (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan))

2011-05-31 13:00: Spectral Moment Features for Robust Speech Recognition (Pirros Tsiakoulis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)))

2011-06-01 12:30: How does the brain learn to read words and name objects? Evidence from artificial language learning and fMRI (Joanne Taylor (CBSU))

2011-06-02 12:00: NLIP reading group: What's great and what's not: learning to classify the scope of negation for improved sentiment analysis (Awais Athar (University of Cambridge))

2011-06-02 15:30: The role of dopamine for the persistence of human long-term memory (Emrah Duzel (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2011-06-03 11:00: Censored Exploration in Dark Pools (Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania))

2011-06-03 12:00: Language in 3D: semantic tensor space (Tim Van de Croys - University of Cambridge)

2011-06-03 16:00: Non-parametric regression with observations at imprecise times: Bayesian radiocarbon calibration (Tim Heaton (Sheffield))

2011-06-05 12:30: Unsupervised Entailment Detection between Dependency Graph Fragments (Marek Rei, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-07 11:00: An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning (Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory))

2011-06-07 17:00: Research and practice in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) (Professor Rick de Graaff, Utrect University, Faculty of Humanities & Centre for Teaching and Learning)

2011-06-08 12:30: Flexible representation of task-relevant information in frontoparietal cortex (Alexandra Woolgar (CBSU))

2011-06-09 12:00: NLP Reading group - Template-Based Information Extraction without the Templates (Saad Aloteibi (University of Cambridge))

2011-06-09 15:30: esfMRI: Signal propagation and studies of connectivity (Nikos Logothetis (Dept of Physiology,  Max Planck Institute))

2011-06-10 12:00: A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts (Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-13 13:00: Lagrangian relaxation for inference in natural language processing (Michael Collins, Columbia University)

2011-06-14 17:00: Children reading iconotexts across cultures (Eva Maagerø (Professor, Vestfold University College), Elise Seip Tønnessen (Professor,University of Agder), Adela Baird (Researcher Emeritus),Janet Laugharne  (Professor, UWIC))

2011-06-15 12:30: Can I have a quick word? The speed of single-word reading determined by behavioural and EMEG data (and maybe a bit of fMRI) (Olaf Hauk (CBSU))

2011-06-15 16:30: Size, numbers and the numerical core system (Professor Avishai Henik, Dept. of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

2011-06-16 15:30: Improving cognition (John Jonides (Dept of Psychology, University of Michigan))

2011-06-21 11:00: Word Recognition in alphabetic and non-alphabetic scripts (Brendan Weekes, University of Hong Kong*)

2011-06-21 13:00: Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Based on Speaker and Language Factorization (Heiga Zen (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.))

2011-06-21 14:30: Bayesian regression and classification with multivariate sparsifying priors (Prof. Tom Heskes (Radboud University Nijmegen))

2011-06-22 14:00: Some new approaches to speech recognition and language modelling (Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto))

2011-07-04 11:00: Graphical Models for Bandit Problems (Kareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania))

2011-07-11 11:00: Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature (Khalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University))

2011-07-13 11:00: Some Practical Reflections on Graphical Models (Dr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh))

2011-07-14 10:30: How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications? (Andrew Watts, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment)

2011-07-18 12:00: A Weakly-supervised Approach to Argumentative Zoning of Scientific Documents (Yufan Guo, University of Cambridge)

2011-07-22 12:00: Graph-Based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration (Gerard de Melo, Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

2011-07-28 11:30: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational Viewpoint (Prof. Matthias Seeger (EPFL))

2011-08-11 15:30: Educational changes under the coalition (John Brenchley (OCR))

2011-09-09 11:00: SHAKESPEARE: SOURCES AND ADAPTATION 9th - 11th September 2011 Cambridge University (Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Rosen, Professor Helen Cooper, Professor Graham Holderness, Professor Stuart Sillars, actress Imogen Stubbs and directors Rupert Goold and Sir Trevor Nunn (subject to other commitments).)

2011-09-14 10:30: Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Andrew Watts, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment)

2011-09-14 10:30: Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Andrew Watts, Consultant for Cambridge Assessment)

2011-09-16 11:00: Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applications (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge))

2011-09-19 15:00: Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems (Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany)

2011-09-26 14:00: Musicians without borders (Laura Hassler, DIRECTOR)

2011-09-27 11:00: Factored Shapes and Appearances for Parts-based Object Understanding AND Transformation Equivariant Boltzmann Machines (Chris Williams, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)

2011-10-03 13:00: Applications of Lexicographic Semirings in Speech and Language Processing (Brian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU))

2011-10-04 17:15: Stop, Revive, Survive! --- Towards a New Discipline: Revival Linguistics (Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Adelaide))

2011-10-05 15:30: Challenges to admissions testing; how arguments for validity, reliability, impact and practicality are relevant to the development, delivery and use of admissions tests scores (Simon Beeston (Cambridge Assessment) and Dr Lynda Taylor (University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations consultant))

2011-10-06 12:00: Learning hard chart constraints for efficient context-free parsing (Brian Roark - Oregon Health and Science University)

2011-10-06 12:30: From “teaching” to “learning”: E-learning has changed the focus of music education. The current situation and the development of digital music education trends in mainland China (Xie Jiaxing, Professor and Director of the Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory)

2011-10-06 15:30: Forgetting fear - the neural mechanism underlying fear memories (Professor Daniella Schiller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York))

2011-10-07 11:00: Machine Learning Markets (Dr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh))

2011-10-07 16:00: Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance (Ingrid van Keilegom, Université catholique de Louvain)

2011-10-07 16:30: Memory Consolidation: Synaptic tagging and mental schemas (Professor Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh)

2011-10-10 12:00: Better Together: Large Monolingual, Bilingual and Multimodal Corpora in NLP (Shane Bergsma - Johns Hopkins University)

2011-10-11 11:30: Bayesian Nonparametrics: Latent Feature and Prediction Models, and Efficient Inference (Piyush Rai (University of Utah))

2011-10-11 13:00: Learning Hierarchical Translation Structure with Linguistic Annotations (Markos Mylonakis,  University of Amsterdam)

2011-10-12 11:00: Not so naive Bayesian classification (Prof. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ))

2011-10-12 12:30: Heart and brain (Francesca Cormack (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-10-12 16:30: Listening not maybe to Virgil, but to the peoples of Italy (Michael Crawford, London)

2011-10-13 12:00: NLIP Reading Group: Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components (Thomas Lippincott (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-13 15:30: Identifying poorly functioning cochlear implant channels (Professor Julie Bierer (University of Washington))

2011-10-13 17:00: The Syntax of Meteorology (John Collins (University of East Anglia))

2011-10-14 12:00: Search-based Structured Prediction applied to Biomedical Event Extraction (Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-14 16:00: Bayesian inference for Markov processes with application to biochemical network dynamics (Darren Wilkinson, University of Newcastle)

2011-10-14 16:30: Dopaminergic modulation of episodic memory in young and older adults (Professor Emrah Düzel, Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Magdeburg, Germany)

2011-10-17 16:30: 'MUSICAL IDENTITIES IN TRANSITION: SOLO-PIANO STUDENTS' ACCOUNTS OF ENTERING THE ACADEMY' (KAREN LITTLETON, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK)

2011-10-17 17:00: Redefining the narrative in contemporary educational discourse (Martin Solly, University of Florence)

2011-10-18 12:00: Biomedical Natural Language Figure Processing (Hong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

2011-10-19 12:30: Using frequency-tagged stimuli and EEG to measure selective attention (Jason Mattingley (University of Queensland, School of Psychology, and MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-10-20 12:00: NLIP reading group: Fast and Robust Joint Models for Biomedical Event Extraction (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-20 14:00: Hyper and structural Markov laws for graphical models (Simon Byrne (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2011-10-20 15:30: Representation of visual features, objects, actions and scenes in the human brain (Professor Jack Gallant (University of California, Berkeley))

2011-10-21 16:00: Focussed Information Criteria for Model Selection and Model Averaging (Nils Hjort, University of Oslo)

2011-10-21 16:30: Visual sensitivity explained (Professor Denis Pelli, Professor of Neural Science,  New York University)

2011-10-25 16:00: Statistical Multiscale Analysis: From Signal Detection to  Nanoscale Photonic Imaging (Axel Munk, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg August University Goettingen and Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry)

2011-10-25 16:30: Communication, Collaboration and Creativity: How Musicians Negotiate a Collective ‘Sound' (Professor Karen Littleton, The Open University)

2011-10-25 17:00: ‘To Perceive Ideas shooting, expanding and maturing’:  The Educational Philosophy of Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) (Lissa Paul, Professor at Brock University in Canada)

2011-10-26 11:00: Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate Models (Dr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox))

2011-10-26 17:15: The Limba Sarda Comuna (LSC) and the Traditional Dialects of Sardinian (Roberto Bolognesi (Amsterdam-Groningen))

2011-10-27 14:00: Proper local scoring rules (Prof. Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory))

2011-10-27 17:00: Resumption and the Design of Grammar (Ash Asudeh (University of Oxford & Carleton University))

2011-10-28 12:00: Unsupervised Word Alignment and Part of Speech Induction with Undirected Models (Chris Dyer, Carnegie Mellon University)

2011-10-28 16:00: On adaptation of false discovery rate (Etienne Roquain, Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie)

2011-10-28 16:30: Pervasive Eye Tracking - Opportunities and Challenges (Dr Andreas Bulling, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-31 17:00: Creativity, criticality and multilingual practices: code- and mode-switching by British Chinese children in complementary schools (Professor Li Wei, Birkbeck Graduate Research School)

2011-11-01 18:00: From Polynomia to Pluricentric Standardisation: Standardising Language (or not) in Southern France (Dr James Costa (ENS, Lyon))

2011-11-02 12:30: Tagging memories using steady-state visually evoked potentials (Maria Wimber (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-03 15:30: Corvid mentality: Implications for the evolution of human intelligence (Professor Nicky Clayton (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-04 16:00: Data-driven calibration of linear estimators with minimal penalties, with an application to multi-task regression (Sylvain Arlot, École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2011-11-04 16:30: Causal models in evidential reasoning (Dr David Lagnado, Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Department, University College London)

2011-11-08 16:30: 'Dialogic Teaching-and-Learning': Educational Implications (Professor Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

2011-11-09 12:30: Minding object category increases category distinctness of response patterns in ventral temporal cortex (Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-09 16:30: South Picene and Sabine (Vincent Martzloff (Paris))

2011-11-09 17:00: From abecedaria to ABC. The history of the illustrated alphabet (Elina Druker (Stockholm University, Sweden))

2011-11-09 17:15: Sustaining Myth: How Languages Get and Lose their Mojo (John E. Joseph (Edinburgh))

2011-11-10 12:00: NLIP reading group: Semi-Supervised Recursive Autoencoders for Predicting Sentiment Distributions (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-10 14:00:  Approximate Inference in Gaussian Process Models (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-11-10 15:30: Reconsidering Papez circuit and memory: Is it all about the anatomy? (Professor John Aggleton (University of Cardiff))

2011-11-10 17:00: The effects of language contact on event construal: insights from language production of L1 and very advanced L2-speakers of German (Barbara Schmiedtová (Universität Heidelberg))

2011-11-11 16:00: Modelling electricity day-ahead prices by multivariate Levy semistationary processes (Almut Veraart, Imperial College London)

2011-11-11 16:30: When experimentation meets limits, but simple correlation is uninformative: modelling developmental influences and other complex phenomena (Professor Mark Haggard, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge)

2011-11-14 17:00: Second language listening comprehension in England: strategy instruction and teacher understanding. (Professor Suzanne Graham from Reading University)

2011-11-14 17:00: ‘Second language listening comprehension in England: strategy instruction and teacher understanding’ (Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University)

2011-11-16 12:30: Investigation of the sequential aspects of concurrent speech perception using Zebra Speech (Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-16 15:00: A Maximum Entropy Perspective on Spectral Dimensionality Reduction (Prof Neil Lawrence (Sheffield))

2011-11-17 12:15: NLIP reading group: Global learning of typed entailment rules (Marek Rei (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-17 15:30: Experimental and neuroimaging studies of memory for trauma and PTSD (Professor Chris Brewin (University College London))

2011-11-18 12:00: Stream-based Statistical Machine Translation (Abby Levenberg, University of Oxford)

2011-11-18 16:00: The aggregation problems in learning theory (Guillaume Lecue,  CNRS, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-vallee)

2011-11-18 16:30: fMRI of color signals in human visual cortex (Professor Alex Wade, Department of Psychology, University of York)

2011-11-21 16:00: Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration (Matt Davis (MRC Cogntiion & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-21 16:00: The pro cycle (Jan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo)

2011-11-22 17:00: Ukrainian, Russian, and Rusyn on the Western Periphery (Professor Michael Moser (University of Vienna; Ukrainian Free University, Munich))

2011-11-23 11:00: Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State Systems (Vinayak Rao (UCL))

2011-11-23 12:30: Does working memory training work? (Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-23 14:15: Automatic Discovery of Patterns in Media Content (Nello Cristianini, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Departments of Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bristol)

2011-11-23 16:30: Official prescriptive texts in Republican Italy : a diaphasic koiné ? (Emmanuel Dupraz (Rouen))

2011-11-24 12:00: NLIP Reading Group: Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification (Awais Athar (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-24 15:30: Executive functions: fractures, fractionation, and repair (Professor Sue Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Braiin Sciences Unit))

2011-11-24 17:00: Phonetics vs. phonology in Huave consonant-vowel interactions (Yuni Kim (University of Manchester))

2011-11-24 17:00: Rabbit Holes, Backwaters, Hidden Treasures, and Locked Doors: the Curious Buisness of Editing Children's Classics. (Peter Hunt)

2011-11-25 12:00: What is meaning? - Formalising the Distributional Hypothesis (Daoud Clarke, University of Hertfordshire)

2011-11-25 16:00: Alias Detection and Spectral Correction for Locally Stationary Time Series (Idris Eckley, Lancaster University)

2011-11-25 16:30: Adult neuropsychological models cannot be generalised to neurodevelopmental disorders (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London)

2011-11-28 11:00: Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and Optimisation (Michael Osborne ( Oxford University))

2011-11-29 14:00: The interplay between non-symbolic number and its continuous visual properties. (Titita Gebuis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

2011-11-30 12:30: Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-30 12:30: White matter pathology in Parkinson’s disease (Charlotte Rae (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-12-01 15:30: Distributed cortical circuits, optimized over development, mediate visual cognition (Professor Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh))

2011-12-01 17:00: The Last Words (Professor Anvita Abbi)

2011-12-01 18:00: Unsupervised Machine Learning and Linguistics (Professor Alex Clark (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2011-12-02 12:00: Probabilistic models of similarity and plausibility in context (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge)

2011-12-02 16:00: Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models (Samuel Kou, Harvard University)

2011-12-07 11:00: Scaling Machine Learning for the Internet (Prof. Alexander Smola (Yahoo!))

2011-12-08 15:30: Cognitive style in Autism: what does 'weak central coherence' explain? (Professor Francesca Happe (Institute of Psychiatry, London))

2011-12-14 15:30: Developing a model for investigating the impact of assessment within educational contexts by a public examination provider (Dr Nick Saville (University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations))

2012-01-06 16:00: Oral Traditions of the Inugguit of North-West Greenland (Dr Stephen Pax Leonard)

2012-01-09 16:30: Collaborating across genre boundaries - the creative process (Robert Davidson, University of Queensland)

2012-01-12 15:30: Information gathering and impulsivity (Professor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health))

2012-01-17 13:00: Colour Categories in Language and Thought (Dr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex)

2012-01-18 12:30: Auditory working memory and long-term memory in humans (Katrin Schulze (UCL Institute of Child Health))

2012-01-18 14:15: Speech Synthesis at Google (Matt Stuttle, Google)

2012-01-19 14:00: Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning (Dr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge))

2012-01-19 15:30: Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic games (Professor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London))

2012-01-19 16:00: Book Launch: Developmental Psychology & Early Childhood Education (David Whitebread, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2012-01-19 17:00: Working memory, language, and classroom learning (Susan Gathercole (MRC CBU/University of York))

2012-01-20 16:00: Random forests (Gérard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

2012-01-20 16:30: Thinking aloud about mental voices (Dr Charles Fernyhough, Department of Psychology, Durham University)

2012-01-23 17:00: Medium of instruction policy and multilingual pupils’ experience of learning to read and write in primary school in Cameroon (Dr Genevoix Nana, Open University)

2012-01-25 12:30: Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-01-25 16:30: Capturing complexity: An interdisciplinary review of movement capture technologies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (Dr Tyler Denmead, University of Lincoln)

2012-01-26 12:00: NLIP reading group: Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2012-01-26 15:00: Information bottleneck (Dr. Richard Turner, DJ Strouse)

2012-01-26 15:30: Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling framework (Professor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2012-01-26 17:00: Which factors influence sentence continuation in children? (Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan Bicocca))

2012-01-27 12:00: Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models (Yee Whye Teh, University College London)

2012-01-27 16:00: Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection (Christian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine and IUF)

2012-01-27 16:30: Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequences (Dr Kate Cain, Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster)

2012-01-31 16:00: Negotiating wages for verbs: The valency approach and argument structure constructions (Prof. Thomas Herbst (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg))

2012-02-01 12:30: Human object-similarity judgments reflect and transcend IT categorical object representations (Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-02-01 15:30: Researching impact in an educational assessment context (Dr Hanan Khalifa and Dr Karen Ashton (University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations))

2012-02-01 16:30: "Progress in Mycenaean Studies" (Dr Jörg Weilhartner, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

2012-02-01 17:00: Poetry under Pressure. Findings from a small-scale research project on poetry teaching . (David Whitley and Debbie Pullinger, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education)

2012-02-02 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-02 15:30: Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisons (Dr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School))

2012-02-02 17:00: Reason, passion and genius in linguistic thought from the Neo-Epicureans to the Saussure brothers (John Joseph (University of Edinburgh))

2012-02-03 16:00: Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data (Wicher Bergsma, London School of Economics and Political Science)

2012-02-03 16:00: Variation in moraicity in Japanese text-setting (Rebecca Starr)

2012-02-03 16:30: Against Qualia (Professor Tim Crane, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-06 16:30: DJs and MCs in the classroom: perhaps a glimpse of justice for disaffected inner-city youth? (Pete Dale, University of Newcastle)

2012-02-06 19:30: Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics (Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-07 16:30: Vital Communities: a longitudinal action research study aiming to measure the impacts of participating in the arts (Susan Potter, MEd, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-08 12:30: Neurophysiology of speech act processing (Natalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-02-08 12:30: Executive function in children with reading difficulties (Shinmin Wang (University of York))

2012-02-08 16:30: Kit Drummers and the Snowball Self: A socio-cultural-psychological perspective on identity and learning realisation (Gareth Dylan Smith, London Institute of Contemporary Music Performance)

2012-02-08 17:00: Talks about his work as an illustrator (Alexis Deacon, distinguished author of Beegu and many other picturebooks)

2012-02-09 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction via Split-Merge Clustering (Laura Rimell (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-09 16:30: Medical discourse and scientific thought-styles: what changes and what remains constant (Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki))

2012-02-10 16:00: Safe Learning: How to Modify Bayesian Inference when All Models are Wrong (Peter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam)

2012-02-10 16:30: Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology Meet (Professor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2012-02-10 16:30: Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer’s disease: Where society and biology meet (Professor Ian Robertson (School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin))

2012-02-15 16:00: Social Event (Social event)

2012-02-15 16:30: "Progress in Mycenaean Studies" (Dr Helena Tomas, University of Zagreb)

2012-02-15 16:30: Children take the Lead. Which way to go? What does it mean? What if I don’t like it or understand? (Ruth Sapsed, Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination)

2012-02-15 17:00: Talks about children talking and drawing in response to paintings and picturebooks (Kate Noble, Fitzwilliam Museum)

2012-02-16 14:00: NLP Reading Group: Collaborative topic modeling for recommending scientific articles (Jimme Jardine (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-16 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Bonnie Schwartz (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen))

2012-02-16 17:00: Formal mathematics and natural language (Koepke, P (Universitt Bonn))

2012-02-17 14:30: Goodness-of-fit tests for noisy directional data (Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Université Paris Sud, Orsay)

2012-02-17 16:00: Nonparametric estimation of the division rate of a size-structured population (Vincent Rivoirard, Université Paris-Dauphine)

2012-02-17 16:30: The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidation (Dr Jonathan Lee, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-02-17 17:30: IBM Watson from Jeopardy! to Healthcare: could a quiz-show winning computer advise your doctor? ( Dr. David Gondek, IBM Watson Research Center)

2012-02-20 17:00: Computer gaming and the art of narrative (Dr. Astrid Ensslin, Bangor University)

2012-02-20 17:00: 忌廉湯 [gei lim tong], 奶油浓汤 (nai you nong tang) and ‘cream soup’: the collection, representation and analysis of multidialectal data for a study of language attitudes in Guangzhou, China (Sihua Liang, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-22 12:30: Mechanisms underlying repetition suppression in the face and body-processing network: all effects are not created equal (Michael Ewbank  (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-02-22 16:30: To do or not do? When ‘what’ and ‘how’ no longer counts (Jan Ferm, Artistic Leader, Teacher and Composer, School of Music, Lulec, University of Sweden)

2012-02-22 17:00: Surrealism and Expressionism in Picture Books:  A Critical Assessment (Mary Galbraith, San Diego University)

2012-02-22 17:15: Manx as a Partial Pidgin and Language Ecology in the Isle of Man (Mark Williams (Oxford))

2012-02-23 12:30: Probabilistic computing: computation as universal stochastic inference, not deterministic calculation (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT))

2012-02-23 15:30: Components of working memory in task control (Professor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York))

2012-02-23 17:00: 'Environmental concern, moral education and our place in nature' (Dr Michael Bonnett, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-24 12:00: Automatically Creating Reading Lists with Topical PageRank (James Jardine, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-24 16:30: The Adolescent Brain (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2012-02-27 17:00:  "'Swift's Parody: the case of *Polite Conversation* and *Directions to Servants" (Dr Valerie Rumbold, Department of English, University of Birmingham)

2012-02-28 16:30: Examining developmental changes in the skills underlying reading development (Dr Laura Shapiro is Lecturer on the Psychology Teaching Programme, Aston University)

2012-02-28 19:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Sylvia Huot, Department of French, Modern & Medieval Languages, Cambridge University)

2012-02-29 12:00: Beyond MaltParser -- Recent Advances in Transition-Based Dependency Parsing (Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University)

2012-02-29 12:30: Alertness Modulates spatial attention: Evidence from EEG Analysis (Corinne Bareham (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-02-29 16:00: Reading Group (Discussion of I. Noveck et al. 2011 'A deflationary account of invited inferences')

2012-02-29 16:30: "Progress in Mycenaean Studies" (Prof. John Bennet, Sheffield)

2012-02-29 17:00: Willed Forgetfulness: The Arts, Education and the Case for Unlearning (Dr John Baldacchino, University College Falmouth)

2012-02-29 17:00: Writing War (Jay Winter (Yale))

2012-03-01 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Large-margin Learning of Submodular Summarization methods (Helen Yannakoudakis (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-01 15:30: Imagining other people (Dr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London))

2012-03-01 17:00: Backward control of adjuncts in Ancient Greek (Dag Haug (University of Oslo))

2012-03-02 16:00: Second-Order Comparison of Functional Data with Applications to DNA Geom (Victor Panaretos, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

2012-03-02 16:30: Basic number representations and their neural basis (Dr Wim Fias, Ghent University, Belgium)

2012-03-05 17:00:  The Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages (Ursula Baumgardt and Marie Lorin (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) and Mixed Research Unit (UMR) CNRS, Language, Languages and Cultures of Black Africa (LLACAN)))

2012-03-06 16:00: The anticipation of the end of the current speaker's turn in conversation (Jan de Ruiter (Bielefeld University))

2012-03-07 12:30: Fast cortical mapping:  a potential mechanism that supports novel word-picture associations in healthy adults (Andrea Greve (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-03-07 17:15: A Historical View on Language Ecology and Language Planning (Nadège Lechevrel (EHESS, NIAS))

2012-03-08 10:30: What is the purpose of public assessments? (Andrew Watts)

2012-03-08 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Measuring Distributional Similarity in Context (Marek Rei (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-08 14:00:  "Symmetry and sufficiency" (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-08 15:30: Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain (Professor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2012-03-08 18:00: Linguistic separatism? Standardisation and nationalism in today’s Quebec (Dr Leigh Oakes (Queen Mary, London))

2012-03-09 16:00: Hilbert Space Embedding of Probability Measures: Theory and Applications (Bharath Sriperumbudur)

2012-03-09 16:30: Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory. (Professor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London)

2012-03-12 17:15: Positive psychology and positive education: Old wine in new bottles? (Professor Kristjan Kristjansson, School of Education, University of Iceland)

2012-03-14 12:30: A novel framework for modelling ERP/ERF data (Nitin Williams (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-03-14 16:00: Reading Group (Discussion of F. Moltmann 2010 'Generalizing detached self-reference and the semantics of generic *one*')

2012-03-15 11:00: Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov Models (Jonathan Huggins (Columbia University))

2012-03-15 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Learning Continuous Phrase Representations and Syntactic Parsing with Recursive Neural Networks (Wenduan Xu)

2012-03-15 14:00: Extended ensemble Monte Carlo (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge))

2012-03-15 17:00: Learning to communicate: The development of reference from 9 months to 5 years. (Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield))

2012-03-16 14:00: Entity-based Models for Discourse Structure (Micha Elsner, University of Edinburgh)

2012-03-22 14:00: Structural Learning of Dynamic Bayesian Networks (Matt Henderson (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-23 11:00: Helping computers talk from experience (Blaise Thomson, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-29 09:30: 2nd Cambridge Colloquium on the 'Histories of the Ibero-Romance languages' - 'Norman MacColl Symposium 2012', Queens' College (Various speakers)

2012-03-29 14:00: Topic Modelling (Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT))

2012-03-30 09:30: 2nd Cambridge Colloquium on the 'Histories of the Ibero-Romance languages' - 'Norman MacColl Symposium 2012', Queens' College (Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon) & various other speakers)

2012-03-31 09:00: 6th EDiSyn 2012, Queens' College, Cambridge (Invited Speaker: David Willis)

2012-04-01 09:30: 2nd Workshop on "Romeyka and Asia Minor Greek", Queens' College, Cambridge (Invited Speaker: Peter Trudgill)

2012-04-04 15:30: Making the most of our assessment data (Nicholas Raikes (Cambridge Assessment))

2012-04-05 09:30: The science of guessing (Joseph Bonneau (Cambridge University))

2012-04-12 14:00: Active Learning (Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics))

2012-04-17 12:00: Automating Second Language Acquisition Research: Integrating Information Visualisation and Machine Learning (Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge)

2012-04-19 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge))

2012-04-19 14:00: Weighted Finite-state Automata (Rogier van Dalen, Engineering Dept, Cambridge University)

2012-04-19 15:30: Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement (Professor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh))

2012-04-20 16:30: Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior (Professor Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada)

2012-04-24 16:00: Understanding acceptability judgments: grammar or processing? (Dr Philip Hofmeister (University of Essex))

2012-04-25 11:00: A Predictive Study of Bayesian Nonparametric Regression Models (Sara Wade, Bocconi University)

2012-04-25 12:30: New directions for neuroimaging genetics studies: a molecular biological perspective (Becky Inkster (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry))

2012-04-26 14:00: Financial Problems tractable to Machine Learning Methods (yue wu (University of Cambridge))

2012-04-26 15:30: How memory guides perception (Professor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford))

2012-04-27 16:00: The distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant (Fadoua Balabdaoui, Université Paris Dauphine)

2012-04-27 16:30: Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits:  Genetic and brain imaging findings (Dr Essi Viding, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London)

2012-05-01 16:30: Applying a sociocultural understanding to inclusive practice in education (Dr. Robert White is Senior Lecturer; Community, Health and Educational Studies Research Centre)

2012-05-01 16:30: Syntactic change and information structure (Prof. Eric Fuss (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/ Universität Stuttgart))

2012-05-02 11:15: Non-parametric Bayesian Method and Maximum-A-Posteriori Inference in Statistical Machine Translation (Tsuyoshi Okita (Dublin City University))

2012-05-02 12:30: Seeing what you want to see: a Bayesian account (Noham Wolpe (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-02 14:30: The Preservation of Fragile Irish Language Speaking Communities as Sustainable Language Communities (Éamon Ó Cuív T.D.)

2012-05-02 15:00: Log-concave distributions: definitions, properties, and consequences (Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington)

2012-05-02 15:30: Vocational assessment – valid and manageable? (Georgina Sear (OCR))

2012-05-03 14:00: "Structured sparsity and convex optimization" (Francis Bach)

2012-05-03 15:30: Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state (Jonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany))

2012-05-03 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge))

2012-05-04 11:15: Past work and future interests: respectively, the scattering of Anyons and Monte Carlo methods (Alexander Matthews)

2012-05-04 12:00: Beyond Shallow Semantics (Martha Palmer, University of Colorado)

2012-05-04 16:00: Large-scale convex optimization for machine learning (Francis Bach, INRIA, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure)

2012-05-04 16:30: Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive control (Dr Tom Verguts, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium)

2012-05-08 11:00: Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimation (Barnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University))

2012-05-08 15:00: Grouping strategies for denoising (Dominique Picard)

2012-05-09 12:30: Brain and behavioural correlates of action-perception deficits in autism (Rachel Moseley (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-09 12:30: Perspective broadening training with depressed individuals in remission (Emma Hill (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-09 16:30: INDO-IRANIAN REFLEXES OF INDO-EUROPEAN STATIVES (Dr Ilya Yakubovitch, Oxford)

2012-05-10 10:30: How can assessment support learning? (Andrew Watts)

2012-05-10 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Andrew Gordon Wilson)

2012-05-10 14:00:  Dirichlet Process Mixture Models and Bayesian Nonparametric Density Estimation (Andrew Gordon Wilson ())

2012-05-10 15:30: Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more (Professor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London))

2012-05-10 17:00: ‘The Gentle Art of Teaching: Camus, Taoism and Education’ (Professor Peter Roberts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

2012-05-11 16:00: From statistical estimation to well localized frames, via heat kernel (Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VI)

2012-05-11 16:30: Imprinted genes, brain and behaviour (Professor Lawrence Wilkinson, Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales)

2012-05-12 10:00: Cambridge Language Sciences launch event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-05-14 17:00: Insights from memory research for maximising exam performance (Jon Simons Department of Experimental Psychology)

2012-05-16 12:30: Biasing experimental settings to maximise empirical phenomena: the good, the bad, and the ugly (John Duncan, Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-16 17:15: The Role of Documenting Semantics and Pragmatics in Understudied Languages (Tyler R.G. Peterson (Leiden))

2012-05-17 14:00: A rough guide to the Aldous-Hoover representation theorem for exchangeable arrays (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge))

2012-05-17 15:30: Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour (Professor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University))

2012-05-17 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-05-17 17:00: ‘Possible Dreams: Paulo Freire and Utopian Education’ (Professor Peter Roberts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

2012-05-18 12:00: Repair and adherence in patient-clinician dialogues (Matthew Purver -- Queen Mary, University of London)

2012-05-18 16:00: Statistical inference for compound regression (Alexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI)

2012-05-18 16:30: The Determination of Memory Course after Retrieval (Dr Kerrie Thomas, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales)

2012-05-19 00:00: Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference (CamCoS) 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-05-22 16:00: The present perfect puzzle revisited (Prof. Wolfgang Klein (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen))

2012-05-22 18:00: 'The Dual A/A-bar Nature of Discourse Triggered Raising-to-Object: Evidence from Romanian' (Prof. Gabriela Alboiu, York University (Canada))

2012-05-23 12:30: The ageing brain and its impact upon the gambling experience (Anna McCarrey (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-23 15:00: LATIN CLITICS AND LATIN WORD ORDER (Dr Giuseppe Pezzini (Oxford); Prof. Peter Kruschwitz (Reading))

2012-05-24 14:00: Poisson Processes: Applications in Machine Learning (Amar Shah (University of Cambridge))

2012-05-24 15:30: Translational cognitive neuroscience of social knowledge and moral motivations: new clues for the understanding of affective disorders (Dr Roland Zahn (Divisions of Psychology & Psychiatry, The University of Manchester))

2012-05-25 12:00: Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection (Awais Athar, University of Cambridge)

2012-05-25 12:30: Modeling coherence in ESOL learner texts (Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge)

2012-05-25 16:00: Modelling Network Data (Patrick Wolfe, University College London)

2012-05-28 15:30: Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition (Professor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition))

2012-05-29 13:00: What is Special about Immigrant Pupils’ Writing in Cyprus? Investigating the Writing Challenges Facing Second Language Learners in Bidialectal Settings (Filio Constantinou, University of Cambridge)

2012-05-30 12:30: Semantic word category processing in degenerative brain diseases (Zubaida Shebani (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-30 12:30: Comparing models of contour in music and speech (Alex Billig (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-31 14:00:  On Data (In-)Dependent Hashing (Novi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge))

2012-06-01 12:00: Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge)

2012-06-01 12:30: Semi-supervised learning for automatic conceptual property extraction (Colin Kelly, University of Cambridge)

2012-06-01 16:00: Likelihood based inference for current status data on a grid: a boundary phenomenon and an adaptive inference procedure (Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan)

2012-06-01 16:30: Script Boxes and Story Boxes: The Material Culture of Oral Narratives in India (Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi))

2012-06-06 12:30: An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data (Hamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity))

2012-06-06 17:00: Don Quijote travels in Europe: children’s adaptations of a world classic (Laura Vinas-Valle, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

2012-06-07 15:30: Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception? (Dr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology))

2012-06-07 16:30: New Media Musicianship: Inspiring practices and implications for music and arts education (Alex Ruthmann, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell)

2012-06-08 16:00: Continuous-time Importance Sampling for Multivariate Diffusions (Paul Fearnhead, Lancaster University)

2012-06-12 16:00: Model and estimator selection for density estimation with L2-loss (Lucien Birgé, Paris VI)

2012-06-12 16:30:  Exploring the potential of a multi-touch classroom to develop adaptive expertise in primary mathematics (Prof. Steve Higgins is Professor of Education at Durham University)

2012-06-12 16:30: Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System ( Professor Robert Goldstone  Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences  Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science)

2012-06-13 12:30: The neural basis of speech intelligibility (Sam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-06-14 12:30: "Musical Kaleidoscope: Soundings of Enquiry" (Inaugural music performances from a variety of traditions, featuring Education Faculty staff and students)

2012-06-14 15:30: Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias (Dr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia))

2012-06-15 12:00: Following Wisdom in Machine Learning (Novi Quadrianto, University of Cambridge)

2012-06-19 11:00: Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant Optimization (Igor Mordatch (University of Washington))

2012-06-19 15:30: Students’ and teachers’ views and experiences of A level unit re-sits (Tim Gill and Dr Irenka Suto, Cambridge Assessment)

2012-06-19 16:30: Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System ( Professor Robert Goldstone  Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences  Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science)

2012-06-20 11:30: GP-BUCB for Spinal Cord Injury Therapy: Batch Active Learning with Applications (Thomas Desautels  (California Institute of Technology))

2012-06-21 11:00: Building the supramodal language brain (Professor Donald Shankweiler, Haskins Laboratories)

2012-06-21 11:00: Dependent normalized random measures (Changyou Chen (College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University))

2012-06-22 12:00: Learning Syntactic Verb Frames Using Graphical Models (Tom Lippincott, University of Cambridge)

2012-06-22 12:30: Fuse Project and Citation Analysis (Dain Kaplan - University of Cambridge)

2012-06-26 00:00: Categories and Gradience: Neural Systems for Speech Communication (Kai Alter (University of Newcastle), Matt Davis (MRC CBU, Cambridge), Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford))

2012-06-29 12:00: Data Mining and Information Extraction for CiteSeerX and Friends (Dr. C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University)

2012-06-29 19:00: Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-07-03 11:00: Structured Prediction using Linear Programming Relaxations (David Sontag (NYU))

2012-07-04 11:00: Non-parametric Bayesian Learning of User Preferences: Elicitation, Sparsification and Beyond (Edwin Bonilla (NICTA/ANU))

2012-07-04 14:00: Fast Gaussian process learning for regression, semi-supervised classification, and multiway analysis (Prof Alan Qi (Purdue U))

2012-07-06 08:45: Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges (Plenaries by Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages) and Tjeerd de Graaf (Frisian Academy))

2012-07-12 10:30: Measurement or judgement: is assessing an art or a science? (Andrew Watts)

2012-07-27 11:00: Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields (Konstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College))

2012-08-03 14:00: Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing Costs (Pedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems))

2012-08-08 14:00: Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures,  and some thoughts on a general framework (Prof. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh))

2012-08-24 11:00: Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learning (Simon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris))

2012-09-06 16:30: How do examiners reach judgements? (Victoria Elliott (Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment and Warwick Institute of Education) and Dr Talia Isaacs (University of Bristol))

2012-09-12 16:00: Efficient Sampling with Kernel Herding (Yutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink)

2012-09-13 10:30: How can we ensure the value of the assessments we create? (Andrew Watts)

2012-09-18 14:00: Engagement in different contexts: What enables or restricts the Artist Teacher? (Neryl Jeanneret & Robert Brown, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne)

2012-09-19 12:20: The transformative capacity of play and the arts for learning and student engagement: implications for pre-service teacher education (Dr Janice K Jones, Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland)

2012-09-19 15:30: Research methods in action: how do researchers use the CRAS (Complexity-Resources-Abstractness and Strategy) framework and Kelly’s Repertory Grid (KRG) technique in assessment research studies? (Martin Johnson, Rita Nádas, and Dr Sanjana Mehta (Cambridge Assessment))

2012-09-24 11:00: Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India))

2012-09-24 14:00: One-to-one pedagogy: exploring supervisory practices in music research training (SCOTT HARRISON,  Queensland Conservatorium,Griffith University, Australia )

2012-09-25 15:00: Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference (Matthias Seeger, EPFL)

2012-09-26 11:00: Compressed Sensing Applications in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Christine Law (Oxford University))

2012-10-03 12:30: Routes to forgetting unwanted memories (and worrying future thoughts) (Roland Benoit  (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-04 15:30: New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulation (Professor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland))

2012-10-05 16:00: Nonparametric regression for locally stationary time series (Michael Vogt, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-05 16:30: Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition. (Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh)

2012-10-10 12:30: Machine learning for auditory neuroscience (Richard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge))

2012-10-11 14:30:  Model selection in a large compositional space  (Roger Grosse (MIT))

2012-10-11 15:30: Person identification and speech recognition in human communication (Dr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany))

2012-10-11 17:00: Neurocognitive universals in types of morphological process? (William Marslen-Wilson (University of Cambridge))

2012-10-12 12:00: A New Twist on Methodologies for ESL Grammatical Error Detection (Joel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service)

2012-10-12 16:30: Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modelling (Dr Sam Gilbert, Royal Society Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2012-10-15 17:00: The European Survey on Language Competences: Aims, Outcomes and Conclusions (Dr Neil Jones, ESOL Cambridge Assessment )

2012-10-16 16:00: Distributed, Real-Time Bayesian Learning in Online Services (Ralf Herbrich (Facebook))

2012-10-17 12:30: Bayesian modelling of the interaction between long- and short-term memory  (Kristjan Kalm  (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-17 16:30: Engaging Educators in the Open Learning Revolution (David Price, O.B.E (speaker, writer, project manager, strategic advisor, educator))

2012-10-18 14:30: Completely Random Measures in Bayesian Nonparametrics (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge), Creighton Heaukulani)

2012-10-18 15:30: Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learning (Professor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2012-10-19 12:00: Handling obsolete information in classification: is there a one-size-fits-all strategy? (Christoforos Anagnostopoulos, Imperial College London)

2012-10-19 16:00: Wavelet-based estimation of the long memory parameter  in Gaussian non-gappy and gappy time series (Peter Craigmile, University of Glasgow)

2012-10-19 16:30: Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gambling (Dr Frederick Verbruggen, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, University of Exeter)

2012-10-22 11:00: Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulations (Jes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen))

2012-10-22 17:00: Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia and social diversity (Professor Adrian Blackledge, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham)

2012-10-24 12:30: Testing orientation information for different category exemplars in the human visual pathway (Hamed Nili (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-24 12:30: Face space in the primate visual system (Jonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-24 15:30: Translanguaging: a dynamic bilingual perspective on pedagogy, assessment and research (Dr W Gwyn Lewis (Bangor University), Stuart Shaw and Helen Imam (University of Cambridge International Examinations))

2012-10-25 14:30: Identification of causal effects (Nevena Lazic)

2012-10-25 15:30: Asymmetric Belief Formation (or why humans discount bad news) (Dr Tali Sharot (University College London))

2012-10-25 17:00: Speed networking event for postgrads and early-career researchers in language sciences (Max Little, MIT; Napoleon Katsos, DTAL)

2012-10-25 17:00: Derogatives: Meaning or Metadata? (Geoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley))

2012-10-25 17:15: The Italian minority in Crimea: linguistic identity and cultural belonging (Dr Paola Bocale (Cambridge))

2012-10-26 12:00: A fast and simple algorithm for training neural probabilistic language models (Andriy Mnih, University College London)

2012-10-26 16:00: Suprema of Chaos Processes and the Restricted Isometry Property (Felix Krahmer (Goettingen))

2012-10-26 16:30: The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in Memory (Professor John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University College London)

2012-10-31 12:30: Subjective experiences and cognition in unresponsive states (Valdas Noreika (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-31 17:00: Character and Childhood in Children's Literature: Case Studies in Classical Reception  (Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, Australia)

2012-11-01 17:00: Discrete bilectalism, multilingualism, and (a)typical language development (Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros (University of Cyprus and Cyprus Acquisition Team))

2012-11-02 12:00: Overview of Speech Technology Research at CUED (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-11-02 16:00: A semiparametric model for heterogeneous panel data with fixed effects (Oliver Linton, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-02 16:30: Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks (Dr Andrew Welchman, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader in Sensory Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-11-07 12:30: Face perception and functional pathways in the temporal lobe (Nick Furl (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-07 17:00: 'Terror and the Teen: YA Dystopian Fiction' (Teri Terry, Author of Slated )

2012-11-08 10:30: Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Andrew Watts)

2012-11-08 13:30: Distributional compositional models of semantics (Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory))

2012-11-08 15:30: Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision making (Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford))

2012-11-09 12:00: Compositionality modelling and non-compositionality detection with distributional semantics (Diana McCarthy, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-09 16:30: Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisions (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-11-13 13:00: Australian Art Orchestra & The Young Wägilak Group Present Crossing Roper Bar : An Interactive Performance & Discussion of Improvisation as Transcultural Process (Tony Hicks, of the Australian Art Orchestra, Samuel Curkpatrick, PhD candidate at Australian National University and Benjamin, David and Daniel Wilfred of the Young Wägilak Group)

2012-11-13 16:30: Australian Art Orchestra & The Young Wägilak Group Present Crossing Roper Bar : An Interactive Performance & Discussion of Improvisation as Transcultural Process (Tony Hicks, of the Australian Art Orchestra, Samuel Curkpatrick, PhD candidate at Australian National University and Benjamin, David and Daniel Wilfred of the Young Wägilak Group)

2012-11-13 17:00: “A Temporal Sojourn in the World” - Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting and Heidegger’s Care (Lisa Sainsbury, Roehampton University)

2012-11-14 12:30: Cortical and subcortical contributions to social cognition (Andrew Bell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-14 17:30: Styling in a Language Learned Later in Life (Professor Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied and Socio-linguistics, King’s College London)

2012-11-15 11:30: Learning of Milky Way Model Parameters Using Matrix-variate Data in a New Gaussian Process-based Method (Dr Dalia Chakrabarty (University of Warwick))

2012-11-15 14:30: Modern Neural Networks: the Hinton Camp (Richard Turner, Mark van der Wilk)

2012-11-15 15:30: Interactions between form and meaning in language processing (Dr Anna Woollams (University of Manchester))

2012-11-16 12:00: Predict, Price and Cut: Column and Row Generation for Structured Prediction ( Sebastian Riedel, University College London)

2012-11-16 16:00: Interim Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Decision Theory, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Stopping (Chris Jennison, University of Bath)

2012-11-16 16:30: ERP evidence of reduced perceptual filtering predicts superior visual search in individuals with high levels of autistic traits. (Dr Elizabeth Milne, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2012-11-19 16:30: The Japanese and Western View of Nature - Beyond Cultural Incommensurability (Dr Manuba Sumida, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, Science Education Department, Faculty of Education, Ehime University, Japan)

2012-11-20 13:00: The combinatorial structure underlying a beta processes is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemes (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-20 16:30: Patterns in student learning and teacher learning: how do they relate? (Jan Vermunt Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education)

2012-11-21 12:30: The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning (Moos Peeters  (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-21 12:30: Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features (Seyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-22 14:30: Spectral Clustering (Mr Roger Grosse (MIT); Alex Matthews)

2012-11-22 15:30: Imaging and stimulating learning and recovery in the human motor system (Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford))

2012-11-22 17:00: The Domain of Content (Hagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London))

2012-11-22 17:00: “Language and music, national identity and Orthodoxy: the ‘Destitute Dervish’ by Alexandros Papadiamantis” (Dr Polina Tambakaki (King’s College London))

2012-11-23 16:00: Random Fraction of a Biased Sample: old models and a new one (Geurt Jongbloed, TU Delft, EURANDOM)

2012-11-23 16:30: A molecular basis of innate and learned behavior (Professor Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular  Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh)

2012-11-26 16:00: Stability (Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley)

2012-11-27 16:30: Individual differences in cognitive development  (Sara Baker )

2012-11-28 12:30: Recent research updates (CBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-28 17:15: Latin influence on the Gaulish language (Prof. Dr. Karin Stüber (Zurich))

2012-11-29 14:30: Bayesian and Gradient Reinforcement Learning (Yanyue (University of Cambridge); Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge); )

2012-11-29 15:30: Representation of motor skills in cortical networks (Dr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London))

2012-11-30 12:00: Machine translation from the user's perspective: what is it good for? (Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield)

2012-11-30 12:30: Efficient Decoding with Generative Score-Spaces Using the Expectation Semiring (Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-30 16:00: Minimax Lower Bounds (Adityanand Guntuboyina, UC Berkeley)

2012-12-05 11:00: Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action (Fred Cummins, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin)

2012-12-06 14:30: NIPS Recap (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-01-10 12:00: What you get is not only what you see! A distributional analysis of semantic features from congenital blind subjects (Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa)

2013-01-11 12:30: Acoustic Factorisation for Robust Speech Recognition (Eric(Yongqiang) Wang (University of Cambridge))

2013-01-16 12:30: Mental health and mental imagery: from experimental psychopathology to treatment innovation  (Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-17 14:30: NIPS Recap (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-01-17 15:30: Volition and Agency (Professor Patrick Haggard, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2013-01-17 15:30: Volition and Agency (Professor Patrick Haggard  (University College London))

2013-01-18 12:00: The dynamics of lexical access during language production: A swinging lexical network account (Prof. Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humboldt University, Berlin))

2013-01-18 14:00: Marvellous Margaret Mahy: A Tribute (Catherine Butler, University of the West of England; Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christchurch University; Elizabeth Hale, University of New England (Australia) ; Alison Waller, University of Roehampton)

2013-01-22 16:30: Social and emotional learning: a critical appraisal (Neil Humphries  Professor of Psychology of Education University of Manchester)

2013-01-23 12:30: Pattern signatures of spatial and object-based attention in the dorsal and ventral visual streams (Johan Carlin (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-23 12:30: Mix & Match, two tools that can help you create better experiments (Maarten van Casteren (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-23 16:30: 'I was born in a cat’s cave.' Working with authorship and imagination in early childhood outdoor learning (Deb Wilenski and Kate Cowan)

2013-01-24 15:00: Advanced Sampling (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge); Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT))

2013-01-24 15:30: Is specific language impairment a procedural learning deficit?  (Professor Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford))

2013-01-24 17:00: Null objects and markedness in L1 acquisition (Ianthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University Thessaloniki/University of Reading))

2013-01-24 17:00: ‘Lost in translation’? Interpreting the language of international and intra-national education policy transfer (Professor David Bridges, Director of Research, Kazakhstan and Mongolia Programmes, Faculty of Education)

2013-01-25 16:00: Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication (Rosemary Bailey, Queen Mary University of London)

2013-01-25 16:30: Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learning (Professor Tom Beckers, Associate Professor, Department of Learning & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven)

2013-01-28 17:00: How the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) works in different European contexts (Barry Jones, Head of Modern Languages, Homerton College, University of Cambridge)

2013-01-29 13:00: Executive functions and linguistic competence: insights from bilingualism (Dr Napoleon Katsos (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge))

2013-01-29 17:00: The "Innocence" of Children's Literature - 1880-1960. How Mainstream Children's Literature Ignored Two World Wars and Other Unpleasantness. Or did it? (Peter Hunt, Visiting Professor at Newcastle University)

2013-01-30 11:00: Structural Expectation Propagation (SEP): Bayesian structure learning for networks with latent variables  (Nevena Lazic (Microsoft Research Cambridge))

2013-01-30 12:30: The consequences of intentional forgetting (Jonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-30 12:30: Depression and training positive future imagery  (Simon Blackwell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-30 17:15: "Once upon a Puppet: Pinocchio and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Culture" (Professor Laura Tosi, University of Venice)

2013-01-31 15:00: Discrete Optimization (Colorado Reed (University of Cambridge))

2013-01-31 15:30: Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation  (Professor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre))

2013-01-31 17:00: Move in the Right Direction: What phonetic variation can tell us about phonological representations (Christian Uffmann (University of Sussex))

2013-02-01 13:00: Paraphrastic Language Models / Structured SVMs for ASR (Andrew Liu, Austin Zhang)

2013-02-01 16:00: When Bayesians Can't Handle the Truth (Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University)

2013-02-01 16:30: Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents (Professor Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology), School of Psychology, University of  Sussex)

2013-02-05 16:30: Children’s understanding of probability: an intervention study (Terezhina Nunes and Peter Bryant, Oxford University )

2013-02-06 12:30: Prior knowledge, expectations and the perception of speech (Ediz Sohoglu (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-02-06 16:30: How many languages were spoken in the ancient world? (James Clackson, Cambridge)

2013-02-06 16:30: Keeping values in sight:Reflection and evaluation tools from an arts organisation’s perspective (Ruth Sapsed, CCI Director )

2013-02-07 15:00: RCC Planning (Colorado Reed (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-08 16:00: Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth (Marc Hallin, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University)

2013-02-08 16:30: Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers (Professor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2013-02-11 13:00: Constructing identity/ies in Georgia's Greek multilingual community of linguistic practice (Concha Hoefler, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)

2013-02-11 13:00: The evolution of human language (Prof. William Marslen-Wilson (Dept. of Psychology))

2013-02-12 17:15: Levantine Iberian script: linguistic and epigraphic contacts in northern Spain and southern Gaul during the second Iron age (Coline Ruiz Darasse)

2013-02-13 12:30: Exploring the relationship between attention and short-term memory (Duncan Astle (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-02-13 17:00: Solveig and the Varangians:  A Boy’s Own… (Kevin Crossley-Holland, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature)

2013-02-13 17:00: A call to action:Planning to mark 100 years of John Dewey's 'Democracy and Education' (Gert Biesta, Ruth Heilbronn and Richard Pring)

2013-02-13 17:00: 'Writing as Translation: Finding Jewish Voices in the Polish Language' Piotr Pazinski (Piotr Pazinski)

2013-02-13 17:00: Globalization and Music Education  (Dr Jose Luis Arostegui, University of Granada, Spain )

2013-02-14 15:30: Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortex (Professor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris))

2013-02-15 12:00: Linguistic Indicators for Estimating the Quality of Machine Translations (Mariano Felice, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-15 14:30: Efficient implementation of Markov chain Monte Carlo when using an unbiased likelihood estimator (Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford)

2013-02-15 16:00: Strong Oracle Optimality of Folded Concave Penalized Estimation (Jianqing Fan, Princeton University)

2013-02-15 16:30: Experience-related changes in the adult auditory system (Professor Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2013-02-19 13:00: Mixing up archaic and modern: What is the current evidence for Neanderthal and modern human admixture, and what would it mean? (Andrea Mania (Department of Zoology))

2013-02-20 12:30: Decision-making with and without rules (Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-02-20 16:30: Latin as a minority language in late Roman Britain (Paul Russell (ASNAC, Cambridge))

2013-02-20 17:00: The Grimness of Contemporary Fairy Tales (Jack Zipes,Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University)

2013-02-21 15:00: Conditional Density Estimation (Sara Wade ( Bocconi University))

2013-02-21 15:30: Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functions  (Professor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society))

2013-02-21 17:00: Coordinate structures, morphosyntactic representations, and production experiments in Slovenian (Andrew Nevins (UCL))

2013-02-22 11:00: Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes Processes (Charles Blundell (Gatsby Unit, UCL))

2013-02-22 12:00: Distributional Semantics and Kernels (Tamara Polajnar, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-22 16:00: Optimization meets Statistics: Fast global convergence for high-dimensional statistical recovery (Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley)

2013-02-22 16:30: Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autism (Professor Sue Leekam, Chair of Autism, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2013-02-26 17:00: Art, Education and the Built Environment. (Dr. Sylvia Rhor, Associate Professor of Art History at Carlow University )

2013-02-27 11:30: Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxes (Tamara Broderick (UC Berkeley))

2013-02-27 12:30: Things I don't understand about task difficulty and the multiple-demand system (John Duncan (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-02-27 16:30: Greek in Egypt, a heavyweight minority language (Marja Vierros (Helsinki/New York University))

2013-02-27 17:00: Teaching Music to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding and Perspectives (Dr Ryan Hourigan, Ball State University, US )

2013-02-28 15:00: Fragmentation Coagulation (Hong Ge (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-28 15:30: Neurocognitive and social-affective development in adolescence (Professor Eveline Crone (University of Leiden))

2013-03-01 12:00: Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Statistical Interactive Systems (Verena Rieser, Heriot Watt University)

2013-03-01 16:00: Frequentist coverage and adaptation of nonparametric Bayesian credible sets (Harry van Zanten, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

2013-03-01 16:30: All work and no play (Prof. Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren, PhD  Dept. of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience,  Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands)

2013-03-05 16:30: Reading irregular words - the role of word knowledge (Janet Vousden)

2013-03-05 17:30: Class in multilingualism research (Professor David Block, ICREA-Universitat de Lleida)

2013-03-06 12:00: Two Approaches to Grammar Induction: From Plain Text to Semantic Supervision (Omri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem )

2013-03-06 12:30: Flexible coding of object images and words in visual and multiple-demand cortex (Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-03-07 15:00: Machine Learning in Speech Recognition (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-03-07 15:30: Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory  (Professor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA))

2013-03-07 17:00: Distinguishing two routes to silent meaning through hemodynamic and electrophysiological techniques (Matt Husband (University of Oxford))

2013-03-08 11:00: Using Context and Insight for the Analysis of LittleData? (Philipp Moritz (U Cambridge))

2013-03-08 16:00: The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems (Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick)

2013-03-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Mark Johnson, Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London)

2013-03-11 11:30: An application of HDP And IBP for stream-based action recognition and high dimensional data (Ava Bargi : University of Technology, Sydney)

2013-03-11 17:00: Methodological approaches to the ‘classification’ of African languages: ‘good science’ vs ‘bad science’ (Philip Jaggar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

2013-03-13 12:30: Tinnitus and cochlear implants (Phil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-03-13 12:30: Representational geometry modelling (Alex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-03-13 17:00: Interpersonal Dynamics in Learning Across the Lifespan (Dr Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, University of London)

2013-03-14 12:30: Children as investments: Middle-class parents' struggle for class reproduction or reconstruction.  (Dr Ylva Hofvander Trulsson, Sweden, Lund University)

2013-03-14 15:00: Probabilistic Programming (James Lloyd (University of Cambridge))

2013-03-14 15:30: Neuroimaging of ADHD: disorder-specificity and medication effects (Professor Katya Rubia (King's College, London) )

2013-03-14 16:00: Transitive psych-predicates In Chinese (Professor Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Leiden University/LUCL)

2013-03-15 11:30: Introduction to Dialogue Systems (Blaise Thomson (University of Cambridge))

2013-03-15 12:00: Unsupervised Domain Tuning to Improve Word Sense Disambiguation (Judita Preiss, University of Sheffield)

2013-03-20 15:30: Allochthonous languages, Brazilian Zeeuws, and Dummy Auxiliaries (Andrew Nevins (co-authored with Gertjan Postma and Elizana Schaffel-Bremenkamp))

2013-03-21 15:00: Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (Rowan McAllister & Karolina Dziugaite)

2013-03-22 12:00: How to Give a Technical Presentation in Computer Science  (Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge)

2013-03-25 11:00: Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family (James Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience)

2013-03-25 16:00: Up Hill and Down Dale: The trials and triumphs of research and research training in music and music education (Associate Professor Scott Harrison, Australia, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University)

2013-03-28 15:00: An Introduction to Sum Product Networks (José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge))

2013-04-05 12:00: Robust speech recognition / Towards better probabilistic models of speech - a discussion (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-04-08 11:00: Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State Segmentation  (Will Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB))

2013-04-11 15:00: Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric Statistics (Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge))

2013-04-15 11:00: Bayesian nonparametric methods for non-exchangeable data (Nick Foti (Dartmouth College))

2013-04-16 17:00: The Poetics of Teaching Art  (Dr Patricia Cardona, (INBA-CENIDID) (Spanish) )

2013-04-17 15:00: In the Looking Glass of Education:  Music in the School Curriculum—When Two Worlds Meet (Dr. Hildegard Froehlich, USA, University of North Texas)

2013-04-17 17:00: New Methods for Teaching Music Composition (Dr Julio Estrada, Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico (Spanish) )

2013-04-18 09:00: Advanced Literacy Skills: Textual Competences for a New Age (Helene Høyrup, Lydia Kokkola, Maria Nikolajeva, Anna Nordenstam, Björn Sundmark, Astrid Surmatz )

2013-04-18 15:00: Sparsity: Beyond L1 (Amar Shah (University of Cambridge))

2013-04-24 12:30: Globally coherent forms are reflected in global V1 patterns, but fMRI orientation decoding does not require either (Arjen Alink  (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-04-24 17:00: What can Teachers Learn from Popular Musicians  (Dr Lucy Green, Institute of Education, University of London )

2013-04-24 17:30: Comorbidity between Specific Language Impairments and Dyslexia (Maria Teresa Guasti, University of Milano-Bicocca)

2013-04-25 15:30: The role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision-making: A model-based approach (Dr Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam))

2013-04-25 17:00: The role of dynamic pragmatics in negation processing ( Richard Breheny (UCL))

2013-04-26 09:30: Mini-workshop: "Interaction of Modality and Negation in Greek and beyond" (Guest Speaker: Prof. Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago))

2013-04-26 16:00: Approximating Data (Laurie Davies, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen)

2013-04-26 16:30: The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's Disease (Dr Lisa Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-04-30 11:00: Approaches to statistical modeling of network data (Maxim Nazarov (Bocconi University))

2013-04-30 16:30: What is "theory of mind" and can it be measured? (Professor Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, Birmingham University)

2013-05-01 12:30: Activity in the multiple demand network during word and pseudoword reading: Domain general or domain specific? (Joanne Taylor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-05-01 15:00: Deep Gaussian Processes (Prof. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield))

2013-05-01 16:00: 'Painted Words: constructing a picture book' (Gillian McClure, author and illustrator. )

2013-05-02 15:30: The role of the posterior lateral prefrontal cortex in cognitive control: From implementing instructions to cognitive flexibility (Professor Marcel Brass (University of Ghent))

2013-05-03 12:00: ICASSP poster practice session (Various)

2013-05-03 16:00: From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality (Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles)

2013-05-03 16:30: Emotional disorders and mental imagery  (Professor Emily A.  Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,  Cambridge)

2013-05-08 11:30: Between pleasure and pain in conducting a research process. Reflections on a journey of ‘learning by writing’ (Dr Heidi Partti, Finland, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Sibelius Academy)

2013-05-08 12:30: Neurofeedback using real-time fMRI: implementation and results (Tibor Auer (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-05-08 13:00: Standing ‘on our own two feet’: the story of a practitioner based research project with a primary-aged extra-curricular instrumental group ( Kathryn Andrews )

2013-05-08 15:00: Every picture tells a story: Using children’s drawings in educational research (Dr Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, London)

2013-05-08 17:00: Keeping the World in Mind: Cultural Diversity in Music Education  (Dr Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington, US)

2013-05-09 15:30: What can brain imaging tells us about psychology? (Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford))

2013-05-09 16:00: Matrix Concentration Inequalities via the Method of Exchangeable Pairs (Professor Michael I Jordan (UC Berkeley))

2013-05-09 16:00: Constructionalization and constructional changes (Dr Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh University))

2013-05-09 16:00: Constructionalization and constructional changes (Dr Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh)

2013-05-10 12:00: Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A (potential) cross-linguistic measure of syntheticity (Christian Bentz, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-10 15:45: On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data" (Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley)

2013-05-10 16:30: Heterogeneity in Cognitive Aging (Professor Ulman Lindenberger, Director for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)

2013-05-14 14:00: Looking at Language Acquisition XIV (Akira Murakami, Nikola Vukovic, Yan Tao, Amy Fang-Yen Hseih (DTAL))

2013-05-14 17:00: "Containing Chaos: Curating the Historical Children's Books at the Cotsen Children's Library." (Dr Andrea Immel, Curator of the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University)

2013-05-15 12:30: Using Bayes to get the most out of null results (Zoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex))

2013-05-16 15:00: Bayesian Nonparametrics in Real-World Applications: Statistical Machine Translation and Language Modelling on Big Datasets (Yarin Gal (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-16 15:30: Heterogeneity in the biology of developmental disorders (Professor Sarah Durston (University of Utrecht))

2013-05-16 17:00: Dialect syntax as a testbed for models of innovation and change (David Willis (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-17 12:00: Improved Information Structure Analysis of Scientific Documents Through Discourse and Lexical Constraints (Yufan Guo, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-17 16:00: Classification Using Censored Functional Data (Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne)

2013-05-17 16:30: "Bonsai trees in your head: the powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision-making". (Dr Jon Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2013-05-17 17:00: D.H. Green Annual Memorial Lecture: 'Zur Grammatik einer nichtnormalisierten Sprachstufe: Das Mittelhochdeutsche' (Prof. Hans-Joachim Solms (Halle-Wittenberg))

2013-05-22 10:20: Google's Approach to Building Relationships with Universities: Presentation and Talk by Dr David J Harper (Dr David J Harper )

2013-05-22 14:15: Digging into (Historical) Data: Tracking global commodity trading in the nineteenth century (Prof Ewan Klein - University of Edinburgh)

2013-05-22 17:00: EDWARD ULLENDORFF AND THE STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES (Professor Simon Hopkins, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2013-05-23 15:00: Adaptive Hamiltonian-based MCMC samplers (Shakir Mohamed )

2013-05-23 15:30: Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of age-related changes in memory across the adult life span (Professor Lars Nyberg (Umeå Universit))

2013-05-24 12:00: Individual variation and the roles of L1 and proficiency in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemes (Akira Murakami, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-24 16:00: What is the chance that the match is coincidence? (Richard Gill, Leiden University)

2013-05-29 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-05-29 17:00: No Voice? Child Collaborators and the Co-Produced Picture Book (Professor Marah Gubar, University of Pittsburgh)

2013-05-30 15:30: MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases (Dr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-30 16:00: Building abstractions in Language Development (Professor E Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig/School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester))

2013-05-30 17:00: 'The challenges of documenting an endangered dialect group spoken by diaspora communities: The case of Modern Aramaic' (Professor Geoffrey Khan (Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge))

2013-05-31 16:00: Discrete Fourier transform methods in the analysis of nonstationary time series (Suhasini Subba Rao, Texas A&M University)

2013-06-05 12:00: Developing and testing a self-assessment and tutoring system (Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge)

2013-06-05 12:30: Why is work with infants and young children important in translational neuroscience? Attention outside the scanner: individual differences in the micro-dynamics of naturalistic attentional control (Sam Wass (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-06-05 12:30: Representing Abstract and Concrete Concepts - Why and When Features should Feature (Felix Hill, University of Cambridge)

2013-06-05 17:00: ‘After building the roof, what do you put under it? - Building a library in a village school in rural Cambodia ‘ (Faye Dorcas Yung, PhD student)

2013-06-06 13:00: The combinatorial structure of conditionally i.i.d. negative binomial processes directed by a beta process (Creighton Heaukulani (University of Cambridge))

2013-06-06 15:00: Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (Yue Wu (University of Cambridge) and Andrew McHutchon (University of Cambridge))

2013-06-06 15:30: Sources of variation in developmental language disorders: Evidence from eye-tracking studies (Dr Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2013-06-10 17:00: Provocation and imagination: reading Brazilian  Children's literature (Celia Abicalil Belmiro, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil )

2013-06-11 12:00: Dialog state tracking: Open problems, challenge task, and recent work (Jason D. Williams, Microsoft Research)

2013-06-12 12:30: A smörgåsbord of data on the inhibitory control of memory: Connectivity- and meta-analyses (Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) )

2013-06-12 16:00: Curriculum design and assessment practices for measuring contemporary musical learning (Dr Diane Hughes, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

2013-06-13 15:30: Cortical mechanisms of cognition: A view from direct brain recordings (Professor Bob Knight (University of California, Berkeley))

2013-06-17 12:00: Using Grammars in On-line Education: Automatic error correction to improve writing skills (Dan Flickinger, CSLI, Stanford University)

2013-06-18 14:15: Children's construction play complexity and the building blocks of maths (Dr Miles Richardson, University of Derby)

2013-06-19 12:30: Fancy some PIMMS? Or want to stay SLIMM? Memory theories worthy of their acronyms? (Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-06-24 16:00: Is there anyone out there who really is interested in the speaker? (Professor I Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany) )

2013-06-25 12:00: The Effects of Attention and Visual Input on the Representation of Natural Speech in EEG (Dr Ed Lalor, Trinity College Dublin )

2013-06-25 17:00: PLACE Research Group Book Launch (PLACE Research Group Book Launch)

2013-06-26 12:30: The manuscript selection process at SCIENCE (Peter Stern (Senior Editor SCIENCE) )

2013-06-26 16:00: The diachrony of the Romanian particle "să" (Prof. Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick in Saint John))

2013-07-01 11:00: Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies (Dr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute))

2013-07-01 11:00: Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies (Dr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute))

2013-07-03 12:30: Changes in functional and structural connectivity across adult lifespan: implications for neurocognitive ageing (Rogier Kievit (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-07-04 15:00: Random Forests: One tool for all your problems. (Novi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge); Neil Houlsby (University of Cambridge))

2013-07-04 16:00: ‘Mixing It Up: A Blended Approach to Practice-based Research Training in Music’ (Professor Paul Draper, Australia, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University)

2013-07-11 11:30: Recent Work in Acoustic Modelling at Google (Dr Andrew Senior, Google, New York)

2013-07-23 12:00: Apposition Extraction and Named Entity Linking (Will Radford)

2013-07-26 12:00: Spicy adjectives and nominal donkeys: Capturing semantic deviance using compositionality in distributional spaces (Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Trento)

2013-07-31 14:00: Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality (Richard Socher -  Stanford University)

2013-08-02 11:00: Annealing Between Distributions by Averaging Moments (Chris Maddison (U Toronto))

2013-08-02 12:00: Where did it all go wrong? New Tools for Automatic Error Analysis in NLP (Jonathan Kummerfeld)

2013-08-02 12:00: Interspeech practice session (Various)

2013-08-06 11:00: Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency Situations (Hannah Pauline Keiler (Columbia University and DIMACS))

2013-08-08 11:00: Non-Parametric Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision and Image Processing (Jeremy Jancsary (Microsoft Research Cambridge))

2013-08-16 12:00: Chinese CCGbank: Deep derivations and dependencies for Chinese CCG parsing (Daniel Tse, The University of Sydney)

2013-09-06 12:00: POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains (Milica Gasic (University of Cambridge))

2013-09-11 17:00: “The psychological skills of music performance: The missing link in the training of performing artists” (Dr. Jon Skidmore,  Brigham Young University, Utah)

2013-09-13 11:00: Clustering Based on Predictive Variances in Gaussian Process Regression Models (Dr Hyun-Chul Kim )

2013-09-18 17:00: “Transmission and Transformation of Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong:  From School Education to Professional Training” (Dr. Bo Wah Leung, Institute of Education, Hong Kong)

2013-09-25 17:00: “Musical Lifespans And The Complexities of Adult Learning” (Dr. Kari K. Veblen, University of Western Ontario, Canada)

2013-09-27 11:00: CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India))

2013-10-02 17:00: “Motor learning and music teaching” (Claudio Forcada, Studio Forcada, London)

2013-10-07 12:00: Recurrent Continuous Translation Models (Nal Kalchbrenner (University of Oxford))

2013-10-09 12:30: High Resolution fMRI – Is it worth it at 3T? (Marta Correia (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-10-10 11:00: Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationships (Oliver Stegle (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute))

2013-10-10 15:30: Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brains (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) )

2013-10-10 16:30: A role for the e-portfolio in educating the professional musician (not the music teacher) (Diana Blom, University of Western Sydney and Matthew Hitchcock, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University)

2013-10-11 12:00: Nonparametric Bayesian statistics with exchangeable random structures (Daniel Roy)

2013-10-11 16:00: The Geometry of Needlets Excursion Sets (Domenico Marinucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata)

2013-10-11 16:30: Benefits and limitations of hearing aids (Professor Brian Moore, Professor of Auditory Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-16 21:00: DNA and Ancient Scrolls (Prof. Chris Howe)

2013-10-17 15:30: Don't believe everything you read in the papers... (Professor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol)

2013-10-17 17:00: The onset of borrowing: Somali and English (Jeanette Sakel, University of the West of England)

2013-10-18 16:00: Implementing (Multiple) Monte Carlo Tests (Axel Gandy, Imperial College London)

2013-10-18 16:30: Re-contextualizing the hippocampus (Dr Charan Ranganath,Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, USA)

2013-10-21 12:00: Hearing research in Cambridge: the present and future (Richard Turner)

2013-10-22 12:00: Learning of a Formation Principle for the Secondary Phonemic Function of a Syllabic Orthography (Claire Fletcher-Flinn, Associate Professor, University of Otago, NZ)

2013-10-23 12:30: Training amygdala regulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback (Annette Bruhel (BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge))

2013-10-23 16:30: The ab urbe condita construction in Latin - an LFG account (Dag Haug)

2013-10-23 17:00: Hyping the Grimms' Tales (Professor Emeritus Jack Zipes)

2013-10-23 17:30:  In Hobbes's Wake: Theorising Agency and Language in International Politics (Charlotte Epstein, University of Sydney)

2013-10-24 13:00: Chimpanzee communication, cooking, and the evolution of human language (Michael Wilson)

2013-10-24 15:00: Bayesian and Bandit Optimization (Dr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-24 15:30: Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal damage and episodic memory impairment: A causal sequence? (Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Institute of Child Health, London))

2013-10-24 16:00: Learning theory and language change: the evolution of phonological scope (Bert Vaux and Yining Nie, DTAL)

2013-10-24 16:30: Evaluating music creativity through an assessment rubric (Diana Blom, Ian Stevenson and John Encarnacao)

2013-10-25 16:00: Matching Quantiles Estimation (Qiwei Yao, London School of Economics)

2013-10-25 16:30: Economical brain networks (Professor Ed Bullmore, Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Dept Psychiatry, University of Cambridge GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Cambridge Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust)

2013-10-28 10:00: Speech & NLP at Amazon — Unique Challenges, Unique Resources (Jeff Adams (Amazon))

2013-10-30 12:30: PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma (Richard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-10-30 12:30: Physically Situated Spoken Language Interaction: Opportunities and Challenges (Dan Bohus (Microsoft Research, Redmond))

2013-10-30 16:30: 'Formal syntax and language phylogeny (Pino Longobardi)

2013-10-30 16:30: Aesthetic Sensibility & Creativity in Education: through the experience of an arts integrated project (Dr. Carmen Urpi)

2013-10-30 17:00: “Transformative music engagement: Making music learning matter” (Dr. Susan A. O’Neill, Simon Fraser University, Canada)

2013-10-31 15:00:  Herding: Driving Deterministic Dynamics To Learn And Sample Probabilistic Models (Yutian Chen (University of California at Irvine))

2013-10-31 15:30: Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction (Dr Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge  )

2013-10-31 15:45: Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: a case of pragmatic borrowing? (Prof. Carola Trips (Mannheim) & Prof. Achim Stein (Stuttgart) )

2013-10-31 17:00: Sign language in Burma: Yangon Sign language and its relationship with spoken Burmese (Justin Watkins, SOAS)

2013-11-01 12:00: BrainNet: Using Brain (and Corpus) Data to Investigate Conceptual Knowledge  (Massimo Poesio, University of Essex)

2013-11-01 16:00: Nonparametric estimation under shape constraints (Piet Groeneboom, Delft University)

2013-11-01 16:30: Drug addiction: neural mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habits (Professor Barry Everitt, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-05 17:00:  How can you help your students become autonomous learners? One-on-one counselling-based teaching through an autonomous learning model (Professor Akiko Kochiyama, Meisei University )

2013-11-06 12:30: Intellectual disability of known genetic origin - new journeys toward the unexpected (Kate Baker (Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge))

2013-11-06 13:30: Contrastive Learning Using Spectral Methods (James Zou (Harvard))

2013-11-06 16:30: An LFG analysis of the Latin reflexive (Marius Johndahl)

2013-11-06 16:30: Schools as Places of Unselving: an educational pathology? (Dr. Michael Bonnett)

2013-11-06 17:00: “Facing the music: An investigation of musicians’ physical and mental responses” (Dr. Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, London)

2013-11-07 15:00:  Random Projections (David Lopez-Paz, David Duvenaud)

2013-11-07 15:30: Waiting and resting brain states in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton) )

2013-11-07 16:00: Multicultural London English: the rise of a new phonological variety? (Paul Kerswill, University of York)

2013-11-08 12:00: Data Management, Integration and Retrieval in Life Sciences Using Semantic Web Technology (Sarinder Kaur Kashmir-Singh, University of Malaya)

2013-11-08 16:00: Unitary operators, empirical processes and goodness of fit problem in R^d (Estate Khmaladze, Victoria University of Wellington)

2013-11-08 16:30: What We Need to Know about Intelligence but Do Not' (Dr Wendy Johnson, Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh.)

2013-11-08 17:00: The invented identities and multiple creativities of David Bowie (Leah Kardos)

2013-11-11 17:00: Thinking about Improvising, and Thinking Inside Improvising: Classroom Playfulness (Frances Shih, Jennie Francis)

2013-11-12 18:00: The interplay of national and regional language policies in France: a case study of Béarn. (Damien Mooney (University of Oxford))

2013-11-13 12:30: The brain of the beholder – inferior temporal representations of visual objects are individually unique and predict perceived similarity  (Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-13 16:30: Reconstructing phonological change in Latin: reductionist versus structural diachronic explanations (Ranjan Sen)

2013-11-13 17:00: “Changing attitudes and teaching strategies in music education classrooms to bring out the best in our students and teachers” (Dr. Yaroslav Senyshyn,  Simon Fraser University, Canada)

2013-11-13 17:15: Traditional and Contemporary Torres Strait Languages and Dialects (Tanisha Pabai, Stephen Yamashita, Zach Bani, Amelia Mari and Valent Kirk)

2013-11-14 15:00: Spectral Learning ( Maxim Rabinovich, Aman Sinha)

2013-11-14 16:00: From “Music for the Banal” to “The Listening Museum”; An examination of listening through found objects and site-specific work (Vanessa Tomlinson , Associate Professor in Music at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University)

2013-11-14 17:00: Distribution of processing capacities across bilateral and left-lateralised language networks (Mirjana Bozic  Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge )

2013-11-15 12:00: Learning to Generate Natural Source Code (Daniel Tarlow, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2013-11-15 14:30: Statistical Risk Characterization of Penalized Likelihood Procedures: An Information-Theoretic Determination (Andrew Barron, Yale University)

2013-11-15 16:00: The use of survey weights in regression modelling (Chris Skinner, London School of Economics)

2013-11-15 16:30: Risk, uncertainty and feedback: How and what we learn from observing the outcome of our choices (Dr Tim Rakow, Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2013-11-18 17:00: Literacy Instruction and the Bilingual Learner  (Professor Catherine Wallace, Institute of Education, University of London )

2013-11-20 12:30: On the Frequency Following Response, a measure of phase locking in the auditory brainstem (Hedwig Gockel (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-20 16:00:  Three Stories on Aggregated Search (Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam)

2013-11-20 17:00: The miserly adult and the eternal child: an existentialist reading of The Little Prince (Clémentine Beauvais, Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College )

2013-11-21 15:00: The relation between non-symbolic and symbolic number processing (Prof. Bert Reynvoet, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven)

2013-11-21 15:30: Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour (Professor Charan Ranganath (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis))

2013-11-21 16:00: Complexity as L2-difficulty: Implications for syntactic change (George Walkden, University of Manchester)

2013-11-21 17:00: The Case of Gulliver and Alice: the Impossibility of Children’s Literature and the Posthuman. (Zoe Jaques, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-22 16:00: High-dimensional causal inference (Marloes Maathuis, ETH Zürich)

2013-11-22 16:30: The miswired brain – from altered neurodevelopment to psychopathology (Dr Kevin J. Mitchell,  Institutes of Genetics and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin)

2013-11-25 17:00: ‘Intercultural citizenship’ – a purpose for foreign language education? (Professor Mike Byram, University of Durham )

2013-11-27 12:30: Memory control deficits in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ana Catarino (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-27 17:00: “Learning and the development of musical expertise” (Dr. Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, London)

2013-11-27 17:00: Picturebooks in Progress (Sarah Lawrance, Seven Stories)

2013-11-28 15:00: Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) (Sara Wade (University of Cambridge))

2013-11-28 15:30: Using the internet for psychological research and clinical trials (Professor Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University))

2013-11-28 17:00: Language Learning and the brain (Matt Davies, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-29 12:00: A Standard Document Score for Information Retrieval  (Ronan Cummins, University of Greenwich)

2013-11-29 16:00: Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment allocation, without and with missing data (Robin Henderson, Newcastle University)

2013-11-29 16:30: Hermann Lotze and Local Sign (Professor Michael Morgan, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at City University (Optometry) London  and a Max-Planck Senior Fellow at the Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne)

2013-12-04 12:30: Working memory and Specific Language Impairment (Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-12-04 17:15: Probabilistic ergative case in the languages of Manang (Nepal) (Dr. Oliver Bond, University of Surrey)

2013-12-05 15:30: A spectrum of sociability: Discussing social attention, social cognition and social behaviours in Williams syndrome and autism (Dr Debbie Riby (Durham University))

2013-12-06 12:00: Parsing Jazz: Harmonic Analysis of Music Using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (Mark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory)

2013-12-06 16:00: High Dimensional Influence Measure (Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick)

2014-01-10 11:00: Sparse discriminative latent characteristics for predicting cancer drug sensitivity (David Knowles (Stanford University))

2014-01-10 12:00: Inverse reinforcement learning for modeling micro-turn taking (Dongho Kim)

2014-01-14 16:30: Identifying key non-cognitive attributes of Initial Teacher Training candidates (Dr Robert Klassen York University)

2014-01-15 11:00: Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic Programs (Jan-Willem van de Meent (Columbia University))

2014-01-15 12:30: Language, intelligence and the brain - a developmental perspective (Fiona Richardson (Anglia Ruskin) )

2014-01-15 16:30: A Poetry Performance (Jackie Kay, MBE)

2014-01-16 15:00: Information Theory and Method of Types: Channels, Quantizers, and Divergences (Antonio Artés-Rodríguez (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li)

2014-01-16 15:30: Cortical specialisation for language and auditory processing in the congenitally-blind (anophthalmic) brain (Kate Watkins (University of Oxford))

2014-01-17 12:00: GPstruct: Bayesian non-parametric structured prediction model (Novi Quadrianto, Machine Learning, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-17 16:00: Sharp bounds for compressive learning (Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham)

2014-01-17 16:30: Conditioned Nausea: Experimental Analysis and Practical Applications (Professor Geoffrey Hall, University of York, University of New South Wales, and University of Plymouth.)

2014-01-17 17:15: The problem of finding sources for the study of Norn, the Scandinavian language of Caithness and the Northern Isles. (Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands)

2014-01-19 15:00: 跟著音樂動！身體律動與音樂的關聯 & 重庆“唱读讲传”红色活动中参与者的“创造性顺从” (王俐晴（劍橋大學音樂與科學中心的博士生） 梅笑（剑桥大学社会学系博士研究生）)

2014-01-22 12:30: Functional connectivity changes in the ageing brain (Linda Geerligs (MRC CBSU) )

2014-01-22 17:00: The corner house with Aesop over the door: William Godwin's 'Juvenile Library' (Professor Matthew Grenby, Newcastle University)

2014-01-23 15:00: Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge))

2014-01-23 15:30: The neural basis of semantic cognition: Convergence of neuropsychology, fMRI, MEG and TMS (Beth Jefferies (University of York) )

2014-01-23 16:30: Kiezdeutsch: Variation and Change in Contemporary German through Language Contact (Professor Horst Simon, FU Berlin)

2014-01-23 17:00: Which take which? (Richard Holton, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-24 12:00: Spectral Learning and Decoding for Natural Language Parsing (Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh)

2014-01-24 16:00: Uniform Ergodicity of the Iterated Conditional SMC and Geometric Ergodicity of Particle Gibbs samplers (Anthony Lee, University of Warwick)

2014-01-24 16:30: Fairness, trust & reciprocity: insights from decision neuroscience (Professor Alan Sanfey, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior)

2014-01-24 16:30: Comparative diachronic linguistics of German  (Professor Horst Simon)

2014-01-27 17:00:  New times, researcher mobility and multilingual research practice: opportunities, innovation and constraints  (Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones, University of Birmingham )

2014-01-29 12:30: Brain-computer interfaces: applications in communication, mental-state monitoring, and perception (Matthias Treder  (MRC CBSU))

2014-01-30 15:30: Brain control: new developments in neurofeedback and neuromodulation (David Linden (Cardiff University))

2014-01-30 16:00: Parallelingualism.  What can Nordic language policy learn from its past? (Andrew Linn, University of Sheffield)

2014-01-31 12:00: Categorical compositional distributional semantics: state-of-the-art! (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London)

2014-01-31 16:00: Detection of Changepoints in Multiple Channels (David Siegmund, Stanford University)

2014-01-31 16:30: Crossmodal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism & synaesthesia, & their application to multisensory marketing  (Professor Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford & Head of Sensory Marketing, JWT Ad Agency )

2014-02-03 11:00: Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric  Bayesian credible sets (Botond Szabo (Eindhoven University of Technology))

2014-02-05 12:30: The roles of linguistic knowledge and attention in auditory streaming (Alex Billig )

2014-02-05 14:00: Reinventing Education (Anant Agarwal, President, edX,  Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)

2014-02-05 17:00: Virtual Webinar! series 7: The Singing Impresario: The Art of Commissioning Music (Dr. Rebecca Wascoe, Texas Tech University)

2014-02-05 19:30: Whose voice is it anyway? Literary and Legal Translation (Christina Pribichevich-Zorić)

2014-02-06 15:00: An introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo (Thang Bui (University of Cambridge), Jes Frellsen)

2014-02-06 15:30: How do antidepressants work? (Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford) )

2014-02-06 17:00: Towards a model of morphological processing grounded in principles of discriminative learning (Harald Baayen, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebing and University of Alberta)

2014-02-07 12:00: Refinements in Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation (Juan Pino (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-07 14:30: Stein's method, information theory and Bayesian statistics (Christophe Ley, Université libre de Bruxelles)

2014-02-07 16:00: Asymptotics for In-Sample Density Forecasting (Enno Mammen, University of Mannheim)

2014-02-07 16:30: The role of "means selection" and "outcome selection" information in   infants' goal attribution (Dr Szilvia Biro, Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, NL  and  Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition)

2014-02-12 11:00: Probabilistic machine learning for knowledge extraction from videos and text (Kevin Murphy (Google))

2014-02-12 12:30: How things are adding up: The neural dynamics of arithmetic problem solving as revealed by fMRI and EEG-MEG (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC CBSU))

2014-02-12 17:00: Land Under Wave: Reading the Landscapes of Tiffany Aching (Jane Suzanne Carroll, University of Roehampton)

2014-02-13 15:30: Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction (Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-13 16:00: French adjectival liaison: evidence for underlying representations (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester))

2014-02-14 16:30: The role of the motor system in action perception (Dr James Kilner, Senior Lecturer in Human Motor Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London	)

2014-02-17 11:00: Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power Disaggregation (Isabel Valera (University Carlos III in Madrid))

2014-02-17 17:00: Constructing identities in multilingual classrooms: the experiences of immigrant-background children in primary schools in France and England  (Dr. Oakleigh Welply, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-19 12:30: PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma (Richard Meiser-Steadman (MRC CBSU))

2014-02-19 17:00: A unique CACL research seminar involving music,  fine art and storytelling... (James Mayhew)

2014-02-19 17:00: Virtual Webinar! series 7: Ways of Creatively ‘Me-searching’ and ‘Re-searching’ as Practitioner-based and Practice-based Researchers (Dr. Pamela Burnard and research panelists Chrysovalentini Konstantinou, Stephen Fairbanks, Susmita Pujara and Sarah Upjohn, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-20 10:00: Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint Modeling (Changyou Chen (ANU))

2014-02-20 15:30: Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memory (Chris Jarrold (University of Bristol) )

2014-02-20 17:00: The role of semantic and structural constraints in ellipsis (Klaus Abels, UCL)

2014-02-20 18:00: In Africa: Fossil hunting for human ancestors (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar) (Dr Marta Mirazon Lahr (Director of the Duckworth Laboratory) & Professor Robert Foley (Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies). Both speakers are members of the Division of Biological Anthropology, Dept. of Arch. and Anth., C)

2014-02-21 12:00: A Quest Towards Understanding the Challenges of Spoken Content Retrieval  (Gareth Jones, Dublin City University)

2014-02-21 14:00: Particle filters and curse of dimensionality (Patrick Rebeschini (Princeton))

2014-02-21 16:00: The Double Sin of the Skew-Normal: Skew-Symmetric Families of Distributions and Fisher Information (Marc Hallin, Université libre de Bruxelles)

2014-02-21 16:30: Limits to Goal-Directed Action Control - Implications for Psychopathologies (Dr Sanne de Wit, Assistant Professor Dept. of Clinical Psychology University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands )

2014-02-23 15:00: MIGRATION  IN AND OUT OF ASIA (Meng Liang & Yu Qiu, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-24 11:00: Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideas (Yura Perov (Oxford))

2014-02-24 16:30:  Do Teachers See Everything? How Experts and Novices Perceive Classroom Information  (Andreas Gegenfurtner)

2014-02-24 17:00: A Poetry Performance with John Agard (John Agard)

2014-02-25 09:00: Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-02-26 12:30: Descriptive and normative models of working memory limitations (Ronald van den Berg (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge))

2014-02-26 17:00: Virtual Webinar! series 7: Learning, Collaborating and Making Music Online: An Exploration of Possibilities (Dr. Alex Ruthmann, New York University)

2014-02-26 17:15: 'A language to catch birds with': Sami values and world-view as expressed in traditional terminology, art and poetry.  (Prof. Harald Gaski, Universitetet i Tromsø)

2014-02-27 15:30: Hierarchical mechanisms of face processing  (Galit Yovel (Tel Aviv University) )

2014-02-27 16:00: Rethinking Comparative Syntax (Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-28 11:00: Bayesian canonical correlation analysis (Seppo Virtanen (Aalto University))

2014-02-28 12:00: Constructing topical hierarchies for Expertise Mining (Georgeta Bordea, DERI, NUI Galway)

2014-02-28 12:00: Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights. (Prof. Nando de Freitas (Oxford))

2014-02-28 14:00: High-Dimensional Covariance Structure Estimation (Zhao Ren, Yale University)

2014-02-28 16:00: Invariant Coordinate Selection revisited:  Fisher Symmetry and Symmetric Component Analysis (Frank Critchley, Open University)

2014-02-28 16:30: Investigating cognitive mechanisms in major depressive disorder using novel translational animal models  (Dr Emma Robinson, University of Bristol)

2014-03-04 11:00: Bayesian nonparametric dynamic-clustering and genetic imputation (Lloyd Elliott (Gatsby Unit, UCL / Oxford))

2014-03-04 16:00: First Workshop: Student Presentations (TBC)

2014-03-05 12:30: Deconstructing inhibitory control and general intelligence - a functional network perspective on the organisation of human abilities (Adam Hampshire (Imperial) )

2014-03-06 14:00: Spanish and Catalan Linguistics (Prof. Montserrat Batllori (Girona) Prof. Avelina Suñer (Girona) Prof. Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Muenchen))

2014-03-06 15:30: Strategic offloading of prospective memory to the external environment (Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2014-03-06 17:00:  Change, Choice and Functional Ecology: The case of the historical present (Sylvia Adamson, University of Sheffield)

2014-03-07 12:00: The semantics of poetry: a distributional reading (Aurelie Herbelot)

2014-03-07 12:00: Will recurrent neural network language models scale? (Tony Robinson (Cantab Research))

2014-03-07 13:00: Efficient Lattice Rescoring Using Recurrent Neural Network Language Models (Xunying (Andrew) Liu (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-07 16:30: Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Neurocomputation of Value (Dr Benedetto de Martino, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow,  Department of Psychology,  University of Cambridge )

2014-03-07 17:30: Plagues & Metaphor (Dr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-08 15:00: A Poetry Performance with  Isobel Dixon and  Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (Isobel Dixon and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers)

2014-03-11 11:00: Learning to Learn for Structured Sparsity (Nino Shervashidze (INRIA))

2014-03-11 16:30: Everyday physics: New implications for psychological theory and educational practice (Professor Christine Howe, Fcaulty of Education, Cambridge University)

2014-03-12 12:30: Dynamic evolution of injury after traumatic brain injury (Virginia Newcombe (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge))

2014-03-12 17:30: Input Issues and General Bilingualism Effects in the  Grammatical Outcomes of Heritage Speaker Bilinguals (Prof. Jason Rothman, University of Reading)

2014-03-12 17:30: Input Issues and General Bilingualism Effects in the  Grammatical Outcomes of Heritage Speaker Bilinguals: Evidence from Spanish and Portuguese (Prof. Jason Rothman, University of Reading)

2014-03-13 15:30: Subcortical contributions to cognition and behaviour: human imaging and lesion model evidence (Michael Hornberger (University of New South Wales, Australia) )

2014-03-13 16:00: `What on earth’ in Chinese Speakers' L2 English Grammars (Boping Yuang (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-13 16:30: Studies of the human brain during experimental and natural conditions using intracranial recordings and electrical brain stimulation (Professor Josef Parvizi, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University)

2014-03-14 12:00: Exploiting Query Logs to Build Adaptive Domain Models for Search and Navigation (Udo Kruschwitz)

2014-03-14 14:30: Statistical modelling of networks in disease biology (Sach Mukherjee, MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge)

2014-03-14 16:00: Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and Methodologies (Yee Whye Teh, University of Oxford)

2014-03-17 11:30: Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric Optimization (Suvrit Sra (Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and CMU))

2014-03-18 16:30: Didactic Tutoring: a pedagogical proposal for Social Sciences and Humanities  curricula (Daniela Sideri)

2014-03-19 17:00: Virtual Webinar! series 7: Conquer Stage Fright: Perform with confidence (Dr. Jon Skidmore, Brigham Young University School of Music )

2014-03-21 13:00: Exploiting Large Corpora for Parsing (Dominick Ng, University of Sydney)

2014-03-26 12:30: The configural processing hypothesis revisited:  The role of shape and reflectance in familiar face recognition (Stefan R. Schweinberger DFG Research Unit Person Perception Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

2014-03-28 11:00: Policy Evaluation with Temporal Differences (Christoph Dann (Technische Universität Darmstadt))

2014-03-28 12:00: Design decisions in web corpus construction and their impact on distributional semantic models (Felix Bildhauer, Freie Universität Berlin)

2014-04-02 11:00: Machine Learning and Order Book Dynamics (Tristan Fletcher )

2014-04-02 13:30: Probabilistic computing for Bayesian inference (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT))

2014-04-03 12:00: Investigation of multilingual speech-to-text systems for use in spoken term detection (Kate Knill (University of Cambridge) )

2014-04-03 15:00: Loopy belief propagation (Alexander Matthews (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li)

2014-04-04 11:00: Probabilistic computing applications: BayesDB and stochastic digital circuits (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT))

2014-04-04 12:00: Using Semantics to help learn Phonetic Categories (Stella Frank, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)

2014-04-10 15:00: Neural Network Language Modelling (Chunyang Wu (University of Cambridge))

2014-04-11 12:00: Adjective modification in compositional distributional semantics (Eva Maria Vecchi, Computer Lab, Cambridge)

2014-04-14 17:00: Children’s Views about Learning to Write (Dr. Nora Scheuer, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina)

2014-04-23 12:30: Stimulating speech:  tDCS in the healthy brain and as an adjunct to anomia treatment in aphasic stroke patients (Jenny Crinion (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) )

2014-04-24 15:00: The Bernoulli Factory problem and some connections with Computable Analysis (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge))

2014-04-24 15:30: From cortical inhibition and excitation to cognitive enhancement (Roi Cohen Kadosh (University of Oxford))

2014-04-24 17:00: Towards empiricist models of language acquisition (Alexander Clark (King's College London))

2014-04-25 12:00: ICASSP presentations (Various)

2014-04-25 16:00: Limit theorems for nearly unstable Hawkes processes (Mathieu Rosenbaum, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6))

2014-04-25 16:30: Title to be confirmed (To be confirmed)

2014-04-30 12:30: How the brain uses information from face and voice to recognize other people  (Helen Blank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-04-30 17:15: The decipherment of some recently found ostraca from Post-Roman North Africa  (Dr Sabine Ziegler, Saxonian Academy of Sciences at Leipzig /  Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena)

2014-05-01 15:00: Functional Programming (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge))

2014-05-01 15:30: Motor cortex and  perception - from speech to laughter (Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) )

2014-05-01 17:00: Feature sharing in agreement? Evidence from Latin nominalized participles (Dag Haug, University of Oslo)

2014-05-01 18:00: The French of Canada (Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa))

2014-05-02 12:00: Natural Language Parsing -- for what purpose? (Milos Jakubicek)

2014-05-02 16:00: It is hard to be strongly faithful (Caroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

2014-05-02 16:00: Second Workshop: Academic Survival Tips (Dr Alex Kogan, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-02 16:30: The Conscious Phenotype (Professor Geraint Rees, Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London)

2014-05-02 17:00: Growth: Cognitive Linguistics, Psychology, and Adolescent Literature (Prof Roberta Trites, Illinois State University)

2014-05-07 12:30: Joint determinants of prefrontal ageing: Selective frontal grey and white matter differentially mediate age-related changes in fluid intelligence and multitasking (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-05-07 17:00: Virtual Webinar! series 7: Learning to jazz improvise (Dr. Kimberly McCord, Illinois State University)

2014-05-07 17:15: The Dialects of Campania. A Perspective of Linguistic Echology (Rosanna Sornicola, Giovanni Abete, Margherita Di Salvo, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)

2014-05-08 11:00: Stable Poisson-Kingman species sampling priors generated by general ordered size biased generalized gamma mixing distributions  (Prof. Lancelot James (HKUST))

2014-05-08 15:30: Life as we know it (Karl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London))

2014-05-08 17:00: SAMARITAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE AND THE ORAL TRANSMISSION OF THE SAMARITAN TORAH (Professor Stefan Schorch, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

2014-05-09 12:00: Identifying Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Text (Shomir Wilson, University of Edinburgh and Carnegie Mellon University)

2014-05-09 16:00: Information Geometry: From Divergence Functions to Geometric Structures (Jun Zhang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)

2014-05-09 16:30: The integration of sensory cues across development (Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London	)

2014-05-13 11:00: Looking at language acquisition (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-05-13 16:00: Syntaxlab: 'A couple of dollars is like $10,$15, $20': Measure nouns and language change (Johanna Wood (Arhus))

2014-05-13 17:00: RS Peters Memorial Lecture Series - Unsettling knowledge: irony and education  (Professor Richard Smith, University of Durham)

2014-05-14 11:00: Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families (Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge))

2014-05-14 12:30: Understanding fronto-polar function: An intracranial EEG study of flexibility in human decision-making  (Philippe Domenech (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, France))

2014-05-14 14:00: Germanic clause structure and the OV/VO difference (Prof. Sten Vikner)

2014-05-14 16:00: Historical linguistics reading group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-05-14 17:00: Idiot!  by Oscar K. & Dorte Karrebæk (Howard Cotton, Plymouth University)

2014-05-14 17:00: Virtual Webinar! series 7: Garden or desert: the contradictions of policy and practice in school music education (Dr Sarah Hennessy, University of Exeter)

2014-05-15 12:00: Definiteness and Determinacy (Prof. David Beaver, The University of Texas at Austin)

2014-05-15 15:00: Statistical model criticism (James Lloyd (University of Cambridge))

2014-05-15 15:30: Health economic evaluation: what can it do for me? (Sarah Byford)

2014-05-15 16:00: Learning Language, Evolving Languages (Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-16 10:30: Bayesian inference for integer-valued Lévy processes with Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck volatility modelling (Andrea Cremaschi (Kent))

2014-05-16 16:00: Histograms, Graph Limits, and the Asymptotic Behavior of Large Networks (Sofia Olhede, University College London)

2014-05-16 16:30: A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviour (Dr Luke Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-19 15:00: Object clitics across linguistic modules in a crosslinguistic perspective (Prof. Teresa Guasti (Milan-Bicocca))

2014-05-20 11:00: Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt. (Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook))

2014-05-21 12:30: Title to be confirmed (tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-05-22 15:00: Advanced Gaussian Process approximation methods (Dr. Richard Turner, Thang Bui)

2014-05-22 15:30: Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathways (Stephanie Van Goozen)

2014-05-23 12:00: Advanced Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing Approaches and Recent Trends towards Joint Syntactic and Morphologic Disambiguation  (Bernd Bohnet, University of Birmingham)

2014-05-23 14:00: Math anxiety:  who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it (Sian Beilock, PhD. Professor of Psychology. The University of Chicago)

2014-05-23 16:00: The discrete convex least-squares estimator of a probability mass function (Cécile Durot, Université Paris-Sud)

2014-05-27 16:30: 3D Thinking: Primary school children representing ideas and narratives within constructional and pretence play (Dr David Whitebread and Marisol Basilio)

2014-05-28 12:30: Mental imagery in bipolar disorder: experimental psychopathology and early treatment development  (Martina Di Simplicio (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-05-28 16:30: The Challenge to Write – Dangerous and Disruptive Words  (Dr Janice K. Jones, University of Southern Queensland)

2014-05-28 17:00: Faction and Blood: Silencing the 'Inner' City in Veronica Roth's Divergent (Susan Tan)

2014-05-29 15:00: ​​Time-varying dynamic Bayesian network reconstruction with information sharing​ (Frank Dondelinger )

2014-05-29 15:30: Categorizing facial expressions of emotion with and without conscious awareness  (Marie Smith (Birkbeck))

2014-05-29 16:00: Acquiring temporal meanings without tense morphology: the case of L2 Mandarin Chinese (Roumyana Slabakova, University of Southampton and University of Iowa)

2014-05-30 12:00: Robust multilingual syntactic parsing (Ryan McDonald, Google)

2014-05-30 16:00: Adaptive Piecewise Polynomial Estimation via Trend Filtering (Ryan J. Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University)

2014-06-02 11:00: Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence? (Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley))

2014-06-03 11:00: Bayesian monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley))

2014-06-04 12:30: Factors influencing children’s ability to follow spoken instructions (Agnieszka Jaroslawska (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-06-04 17:00: A Cathedral of Trees:  Investigating Christianity and Spirituality in Anne of Green Gables (Ashley Wilson)

2014-06-05 12:00: Grammatical error correction using hybrid systems and type filtering (Mariano Felice, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge)

2014-06-05 12:30: Looking for hyponyms in vector space (Marek Rei, SwiftKey )

2014-06-05 13:00: Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing with a Dependency Model (Wenduan Xu, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-05 15:30: Working Memory: Mechanisms of training and development during childhood (Torkel Klingberg (Karolinksa Insitute, Sweden))

2014-06-06 12:00: Multilingual Models for Distributed Semantics (Karl Moritz Hermann, Oxford University)

2014-06-10 11:00: Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian Processes (Roman Garnett, University of Bonn)

2014-06-11 12:30: Title to be confirmed (tbc  (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) )

2014-06-12 15:00: Unsupervised Representation Learning (Amar Shah (University of Cambridge))

2014-06-13 14:00: Helping 10% of the people to read and write better (Luz Rello, University Pompeu Fabra)

2014-06-24 16:30: The Nature of Intellectual Styles: Challenges, Milestones and Research Agenda (Li-fang Zhang)

2014-07-01 11:00: Scalable Deep Gaussian Processes (James Hensman (University of Sheffield))

2014-07-02 11:00: Implicit Representation Networks (David Barber (University College London))

2014-07-16 11:00: Gaussian process regression on graphs (Peter Sollich (King's College London))

2014-07-18 12:00: Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time Expressions (Jesse Dodge, CMU)

2014-08-01 12:00: Distributional semantics and beyond: Composition, generation and alignment (Georgiana Dinu, University of Trento)

2014-08-11 11:00: On the Bethe approximation (Adrian Weller (Columbia University))

2014-08-15 12:00: Unsupervised learning of rhetorical structure with un-topic models (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge)

2014-08-15 12:30: Detecting Learner Errors in the Choice of Content Words Using Compositional Distributional Semantics (Ekaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge)

2014-08-27 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 8: "Music in the lives of the foetus, neonate and premature infant"			 (Dr Sheila Woodward, Eastern Washington University)

2014-09-10 12:00: Interspeech presentations (Various)

2014-09-10 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 8: "Collaborating in code: Composer learning to communicate within the orchestra" (Dr. Karlin Love, University of Queensland)

2014-09-11 11:00: Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging community (Philipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen))

2014-09-12 11:00: Unsupervised Many-to-many Object Matching (Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT))

2014-09-12 12:00: Language and Demographics on Twitter: Inferring Latent User Attributes from Streaming Communications (Svitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University)

2014-09-17 11:00: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India))

2014-09-18 16:30: Toms, Tom Boys, Girls and Tom Tom  (Mindy Abovitz)

2014-09-24 11:00: A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture models (Maria Lomeli-Garcia (Gatsby Unit, UCL))

2014-09-25 11:00: New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine Learning (Jasper Snoek (Harvard University))

2014-10-03 16:00: Peter Whittle Colloquium (Yuval Peres (MSR Redmond) ,   Bálint Tóth (TU Budapest/U Bristol) ,  Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich) )

2014-10-06 17:00: Live Coding Musicians inaugural seminar (Shelly Knotts)

2014-10-08 12:30: Ageing, memory and altered cortical recruitment (Alexa Morcam (University of Edinburgh))

2014-10-09 15:30: Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language understanding (Fred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London))

2014-10-09 17:00: 1414-2014: Literary Internationalism in the Year of 3 Popes (Professor David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania))

2014-10-10 12:00: Internal Seminar 1 (NLIP Speakers)

2014-10-10 15:00: Thinking about thinking about thought: Neural mechanisms for understanding other minds (Professor Rebecca Saxe, Associate professor of cognitive neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT)

2014-10-10 16:00: Selection and estimation in sparse, high-dimensional models (Maarten Jansen, Université libre de Bruxelles)

2014-10-13 15:00: The Marshmallow Test: Understanding self-control and how to master it (Professor Walter Mischel, Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology, Columbia University, USA)

2014-10-15 12:30: The Memory Maestros study – addressing working memory problems at a population-level in primary schools (Jon Quach (University of Melbourne))

2014-10-15 16:30: Greek disguised as Romance?  Interpreting language  convergence and  divergence in terms of parameter hierarchies (Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge))

2014-10-15 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 8: "Learning to let go: How expert improvisors choose notes subconsciously" (Dr. Martin Norgaard, Georgia State University)

2014-10-16 15:30: Exploring neural correlates of object formation in Auditory Cortex (Jennifer Bizley (Ear Institute, UCL))

2014-10-16 16:30: Morphosyntactic complexity: a typology of lexical splits (Grev Corbett, University of Surrey)

2014-10-17 12:00: Creative Coding in Education (Sam Aaron (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-17 14:30: Semivarying Coefficient Models for Capture--recapture Data: Colony Size Estimation for the Little Penguin (Richard Huggins, University of Melbourne)

2014-10-17 15:00: Dopamine Neuron Regulation and its Disruption in Schizophrenia and Depression (Anthony A. Grace, Ph.D.  Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience,  Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology,  Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh  Pittsburgh, USA)

2014-10-17 16:00: Flexible multiple testing using closed testing and Simes (Jelle Goeman, Radboud University Medical Center)

2014-10-21 14:30: Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective. (Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and UCL London)

2014-10-21 17:00: Writing in South Italy: Adaptation, Exchange and Identity (Dr Katherine McDonald (University of Cambridge) and Dr Nick Zair (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-22 12:30: Top-down visual processing and feature extraction in healthy observers and early psychosis (Christoph Teufel (University of Cambridge) )

2014-10-22 16:30: Greek-Turkish language contacts in the Ottoman Empire: ways of verbal  integration (Mark Janse (Gent/Oxford))

2014-10-22 16:30: MULTIMODAL VIDEO ANALYSIS: Is Play a form of learning? (Dr Michelle Tomlinson, Griffith University, Australia)

2014-10-23 12:00: First Step toward Neural Machine Translation (Kyunghyun Cho, University of Montreal)

2014-10-23 14:00: A Tutorial on Probabilistic Programming (Prof. Frank Wood (Oxford))

2014-10-23 16:00: Phonological domains in morphology and syntax: evidence from Huave (Dr Yuni Kim (University of Manchester))

2014-10-24 15:00: Thinking flexibly and enhancing cognition (Professor Verity Brown, FRSE,  Provost of St Leonard¹s College, University of St Andrews)

2014-10-24 16:00: Adaptive posterior contraction (Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden)

2014-10-24 16:00: Second Language Acquisition of Chinese and Thai Nominal Phrases (Woramon Prawatmuang (FAMES))

2014-10-27 16:30: Multimodality in Education (Dr Michelle Tomlinson, Griffith University, Australia)

2014-10-27 17:00: The 'social' in English language teaching: Situated accomplishments (Professor Constant Leung, King's College London)

2014-10-29 12:30: Prefrontal neuronal activities reflecting capacity constraints and emergent flexibility of cognition in varying-load working memory tasks (Kei Watanabe (University of Oxford))

2014-10-29 16:30: Monolingual bilinguals? Exploring Greek-Latin code switching with Fronto and friends (Alex Mullen (Oxford))

2014-10-29 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 8: "A neuropsychological case study of two chromesthetic musicians" (Dr. Stephen Zdzinski, University of Miami)

2014-10-30 15:00: Kernel Embedding for Distributions (Mark van der Wilk; Felipe Tobar)

2014-10-30 15:30: Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgrounds (Stuart Rosen (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, UCL))

2014-10-30 16:30: Disjunction at prosodic boundaries (Sam Hellmuth, University of York)

2014-10-31 12:00: Internal Seminar 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-10-31 15:00: Neural Systems for Navigation (Dr. Hugo Spiers,  Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2014-10-31 16:00: Aspect Markers in Chinese and Their Behaviours in L2 Chinese Grammars (Yanyu Guo (FAMES))

2014-10-31 16:00: Low rank as a model for quantum and classical estimation problems (David Gross, University of Freiburg)

2014-10-31 16:00: Third Workshop: Scientific Publishing (Chris Surridge, Chief Editor and Associate Publisher at Nature Publishing Group)

2014-11-04 13:00: The case for a Computational Neurolinguistics (Brian Murphy, Queen's University Belfast)

2014-11-04 17:00: Langtoft’s Chronicle: Multilingualism of the Other (Dr Jane Gilbert (University College, London))

2014-11-04 17:45: Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficient (Dr Nick Saville - Director of the Research and Validation Group, Cambridge English Language Assessment)

2014-11-05 12:30: Rebuilding spatial awareness following stroke, can home-based training help? (Polly Peers (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-11-06 15:00: State Space Abstraction for Reinforcement Learning (Rowan McAllister; Thang Bui)

2014-11-06 15:30: The neural mechanisms of top-down control during visual working memory (Eva Feredoes (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading))

2014-11-06 16:00: Informativeness, familiarity and the modulation of perceptual biases  (Professor Charles Chang  (University of Boston and SOAS))

2014-11-06 17:15: Women's names and the shift to Latin in ancient Italy (Nicholas Zair (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-07 12:00: The Theory and Practice of Compositional Distributed Semantics (Stephen Clark)

2014-11-07 15:00: Genes and environment in adolescent attachment: a challenge to the received wisdom? (Professor Pasco Fearon, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London)

2014-11-07 16:00: Ranking from pairwise comparisons using Seriation (Alexandre d'Aspremont, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2014-11-07 16:00: Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Elliptical Constructions (Lulu Zhang (FAMES))

2014-11-10 17:00: Multilingual socialization: Negotiating multiple languages, identities, ideologies, and practices (Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia)

2014-11-12 12:30: Motivated forgetting: Insights from patients with focal brain lesions  (Shanti Shanker (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-11-12 15:00: MASTERCLASS: Case study research in applied linguistics: What can case studies of L2 learners tell us?  (Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia)

2014-11-12 16:30: Types of Greek interference in Latin medical translations (David Langslow (Manchester))

2014-11-12 17:00: Webinar! Series 8: Resonance, dissonance, and a three-pronged connection: Lessons from the arts to qualitative research (Dr Liora Bresler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2014-11-12 17:00: The Stylistics of Memory (Dr Dominic Cheetham,  Sophia University, Tokyo)

2014-11-13 15:00: Automatic Differentiation with Theano (Yarin Gal; Christof Angermueller)

2014-11-13 15:30: The vocal brain: cerebral processing of voice information (Pascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone), Aix-Marseilles Université)

2014-11-13 16:30: I saw, I unsaw, I resaw: how we access and make use of unconscious knowledge about verbal roots (Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London)

2014-11-13 16:30: Humanising Online Pedagogy: technology, attention and education (Dr David Lewin, Liverpool Hope University)

2014-11-14 11:00: Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometers (Prof. Naonori Ueda (Director Machine Learning and Data Science, NTT Labs))

2014-11-14 12:00: Exploratory Search and Trend Detection (Gerhard Heyer, Universität Leipzig)

2014-11-14 15:00: How independent of semantics are phonology and syntax? Evidence from Semantic Dementia (Dr Karalyn Patterson, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and MRC-CBU, Cambridge)

2014-11-14 16:00: Average derivative projection pursuit regression (Frédéric Ferraty, Toulouse)

2014-11-14 16:00: L2 Acquisition of Applicative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese (Yuhsin Huang (FAMES))

2014-11-17 12:00: Modulation spectrum-based approach to high-quality statistical parametric speech synthesis  (Shinnosuke Takamichi (NAIST, Japan))

2014-11-18 16:30: Pre-schooler’s Verbal and Behavioural Responses as Indicators of Scientific Curiosity and Exploration Abilities (Ornit Spektor Levy Bar Ilan University Israel)

2014-11-18 17:00: 'Pots, languages and peoples': exploring movement,  immobilism and multilingualism in ancient western Europe' (Dr Alex Mullen (All Souls College, Oxford))

2014-11-19 12:30: The search for neurophysiological biomarkers of dementia using MEG and  (Laura Hughes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-11-19 16:30: Scribes,  'scribes' and language contact in Greco-Roman Egypt (Martti Leiwo (Helsinki))

2014-11-19 17:30:  Bare nouns in Greek: the view from Spanish and Catalan (Dr Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (University of Cambridge & QMUL))

2014-11-19 18:00: Webinar! Series 8: The curricular imagination (Dr Janet Barrett, University of Illinois )

2014-11-20 15:00: LSTM and Recurrent Neural Networks (Shixiang Gu; Andrey Malinin)

2014-11-20 15:30: Specificity of effects of early parent-infant interactions in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and implications for intervention (Lynne Murray (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading))

2014-11-20 16:00: Presuppositions vs. implicatures: what reaction times really tell us (Dr Jacopo Romoli (University of Ulster))

2014-11-21 12:00: A Polya Urn Document Language Model for Information Retrieval (Ronan Cummins, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-21 13:30: Syllable based keyword search: transducing syllable lattices to word lattices (Jim Hieronymus, ICSI (US))

2014-11-21 15:00: Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty to the public and  policy-makers (Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk )

2014-11-21 16:00: Analysis and Forecasting of Locally Stationary Time Series (Guy Nason, University of Bristol)

2014-11-21 16:00: Chinese sentence final particles and their behaviour in L2 Chinese (Shanshan Yan (FAMES))

2014-11-24 17:00: Examining child language brokering in schools: Developing guidance for good practice (Dr Sarah Crafter, Institute of Education, University of London)

2014-11-26 11:00: Oracle Variational Inference (James McInerney (Columbia University))

2014-11-26 12:30: Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments  (Michael Browning (University of Oxford) )

2014-11-26 16:30: Can Educational Research Ever Justify Imposing Teaching Methods? (Dr Andrew Davis, Durham University; Dr David Aldridge, Oxford Brookes University)

2014-11-26 17:00: Remembering, Rereading, and Reviewing the Canon: the case of The Secret Garden  (Alison Waller, National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, University of Roehampton)

2014-11-27 15:00: PAC Bayes (Alex Matthews; Nikola Mrksic)

2014-11-27 15:30: The role of synchronized and desynchronized oscillations for episodic memory – Association vs information (Simon Hanslmayr (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham))

2014-11-27 16:30: Phylogenetic approaches to language history and diversity (Annemarie Verkerk, University of Reading)

2014-11-27 18:00: Performance and Talk with Joanna MacGregor (Joanna MacGregor, Royal Academy of Music)

2014-11-28 10:30: Machine Translation with LSTMs (Ilya Sutskever (Google))

2014-11-28 12:00: Composed, Distributed Reflections on Semantics and Statistical Machine Translation (Tim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne)

2014-11-28 12:00: Cluster Adaptive Training for Deep Neural Networks (Tian Tan (visitor at CUED))

2014-11-28 15:00: Speech Rhythm and Temporal Structure: A Temporal Sampling Perspective on Phonology and Dyslexia (Professor Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience,  Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-28 16:00: Dynamic functional principal components (Siegfried Hörmann, Université libre de Bruxelles)

2014-11-28 16:00: Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Elliptical Constructions (Part II) (Lulu Zhang (FAMES))

2014-12-01 17:00: Shaping language policy and practice in South Africa : the next twenty years (Professor Robert Balfour, North-West University )

2014-12-02 17:00: Welsh Poetry and English Politics in the Wars of the Roses (Professor Helen Fulton (University of York))

2014-12-03 12:30: The effect of the APOE genotype on brain function  (Nicola Filippini (University of Oxford))

2014-12-03 17:15: Catalan: past, present and future (Dr Víctor Acedo Matellán, University of Cambridge, Queens' College)

2014-12-04 15:00: Deep Probabilistic Models (Wake/Sleep) (Yan Wu; David Barrett)

2014-12-04 15:30: Imagined pleasures: The cognitive psychology of desire (Jackie Andrade (Plymouth University, School of Psychology))

2014-12-04 17:15: Researching the school environment:  Children and school architecture in Denmark 1814-2014 (Professor Ning de Coninck-Smith, Aarhus University)

2014-12-05 10:00: Second Language Acquisition of Chinese and Thai Nominal Phrases (Part II) (Woramon Prawatmuang (FAMES))

2014-12-05 12:00: Mining the Social Web: A series of statistical NLP case studies (Vasileios Lampos)

2014-12-08 14:00: An embodied model of clause syntax (Alistair Knott, Dept of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand)

2014-12-10 12:30: Decision processes and decision deficits: Insights from response time data (Jiaxang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-12-15 10:00: The Blended Paradigm:  A Bayesian Approach to Handling Outliers and Misspecified Models  (Prof. Steven MacEachern (Ohio State University))

2015-01-14 12:30: Threat, or mere distraction? Anxiety-related attentional vigilance to threat distractors  (Susannah Murphy (University of Oxford))

2015-01-15 15:00: Active Learning (Adrian Weller; Mateo Rojas Carulla)

2015-01-15 15:30: Opportunities for Cognitive Neuroimaging at 7T  (David Norris (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen)

2015-01-16 12:00: A New Corpus and Imitation Learning Framework for Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing (Andreas Vlachos, UCL)

2015-01-16 13:30: The Geometry of Machine Translation (Rory Waite (University of Cambridge))

2015-01-16 15:00: The application of psychological theories to clinical practice (Professor Barbara Wilson, OBE, Founder, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropyschological Rehabilitation and Honorary Consultant Psychologist)

2015-01-16 16:00: On the use of non-local priors for joint high-dimensional estimation and selection  (David Rossel, University of Warwick)

2015-01-19 17:00: Self-efficacy in foreign language learning  (Dr Nicole Mills, Harvard University)

2015-01-20 16:30: Play, language and social cognition in children with language and communication impairments (Dr Jenny Gibson , Lecturer in Psychology & Education , University of Cambridge)

2015-01-20 16:30: NOISE SOLUTION - Improving life chances through Dubstep? Prove it! (Simon Glenister, Director, Noise Solution)

2015-01-21 11:30: Relating Native Language Typology to Foreign Language Usage (Yevgeni Berzak)

2015-01-21 12:30: Decoding face exemplar representations across visual cortex: from shape to identity  (Johan Carlin (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-01-21 12:30: Partnerships and collaborations in developing a collection of new songs for children (Peter Hilken OBE)

2015-01-21 17:00: ‘Never a frivolity’: children’s literature, fashion and dress. (Dr Kiera Vaclavic, Queen Mary University of London)

2015-01-22 15:00: Advanced HMC (Nilesh Tripuraneni; Adam Scibior)

2015-01-22 16:00: How do listeners use their past experience to improve access to word meanings? (Jennifer Rodd (Experimental Psychology, UCL) )

2015-01-22 17:00: Negation and negative concord in Greek: evidence for a tripartite 'cycle' for negative indefinites (Geoff Horrocks, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-23 11:00: Experiments with Non-parametric Topic Models (Prof. Wray Buntine (Monash University))

2015-01-23 12:00: Frontiers in Named Entity Recognition and Linking  ( Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield)

2015-01-23 15:00: Upstairs-Downstairs- The Gut Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and Behaviour (Professor John F. Cryan,  Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)

2015-01-27 16:30: Using arts and creativity to generate engagement in a PRU, integrating technology and cross curricular opportunities (Dr Mike Challis)

2015-01-27 17:00: An IDyOM Tutorial: Modelling Auditory Expectations (Dr Marcus Pearce - Queen Mary, University of London.)

2015-01-28 12:30: Cognitive and neurobiological markers of anxiety and treatment success  (Andrea Reinecke (University of Oxford))

2015-01-28 14:00: An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts. (Reinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando  Brandao (Microsoft Research),  Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich))

2015-01-28 17:15: Irish language policy from its beginnings to the 20-year strategy - An assessment (Harold Flohr)

2015-01-29 12:00: Latent Branching Trees (Dr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham))

2015-01-29 15:00: Transfer Learning (Yingzhen Li; Eddy Pei-Hao Su)

2015-01-29 15:30: How the brain exploits binaural hearing: more than just two bites of the cherry  (Alan Palmer (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham) )

2015-01-29 16:00: Language Control in Bilingual Speakers (Professor David Green (UCL))

2015-01-30 12:00: Towards quantum algorithms for natural language processing (Will Zeng, University of Oxford)

2015-01-30 14:30: A novel (pre-)metric for causal graphs (Jonas Peters, ETH Zürich)

2015-01-30 15:00: How and why does an extra sex chromosome affect neurodevelopment? (Professor Dorothy V. M. Bishop. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK)

2015-01-30 16:00: Bayesian nonparametrics with heterogeneous data (Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia)

2015-02-02 17:00: CANCELLED: Task-based language teaching with technology: the EU-Funded CAMELOT  project (Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire)

2015-02-04 12:00: Searching and Re-searching for Practice: An Appetite (Amanda Couch, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham)

2015-02-04 12:30: Development of speech perception in native and non-native listeners  (Matt Davis (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-02-04 17:00: Playing on the Page:  the role of the sketchbook in illustrating books for children (Pam Smy, Anglia Ruskin University)

2015-02-05 15:30: Variability in visual processing between and within individuals (Sam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) )

2015-02-05 17:00: Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda (Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-06 12:00: A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity (out of and in Context) Based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts (Ivan Vulic, KU Leuven)

2015-02-06 13:30: Human-like singing and talking machines: flexible speech synthesis in karaoke, anime, smart phones, video games, digital signage, TV and radio programs, etc. (Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Institute of Technology / Google))

2015-02-06 15:00:  Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual Judgments  (Dr Simone Schnall, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-06 16:00: Algorithmic Approaches to Statistical Estimation under Structural Constraints (Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh)

2015-02-10 16:30: To the letter: Children’s developing trust in the written word (Shiri Einav,  Lecturer  Faculty of Science , University of Nottingham)

2015-02-10 17:00: Cognitive research and South Asian music (Professor Richard Widdess - SOAS South Asia Institute)

2015-02-11 11:00: Orthologous networks in biological systems (Dr Christopher Penfold (Warwick))

2015-02-11 16:30: Talk and Performance followed by a performance at the e-Luminare Festival Official Opening (Kei Miller)

2015-02-11 16:30: From 'RUN' to 'HELP': Anatolian, Core Indo-European and the chronology of a semantic shift (Prof. J. L. García Ramón (Cologne))

2015-02-11 17:00: Webinar for Professional Development Series 9: Music Performance Anxiety and Musical  Improvisation: How Worldview and  Mental Well-Being Influence Music Making (Dr Tawnya D. Smith, University of Illinois)

2015-02-11 17:15: Spanish parasynthetic verbs with prefix des-: A lexical semantic approach (Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo, Universitat de Girona-University of Cambridge)

2015-02-12 15:00: Variance Reduction Techniques and Stochastic Optimisation for Monte Carlo (Matt Hoffman; Yutian Chen)

2015-02-12 15:30: Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory  (Neil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of  Anatomy) )

2015-02-12 16:00: The L1 influences the L2 processing and acquisition of tense/aspect (Professor Leah Roberts (University of York))

2015-02-12 17:00: Maths, Arts and Games for Digital Natives: Paradox Structures, Impossible Forms and Visual Illusions in Experience-Centered Mathematics Education (Dr Kristóf Fenyvesi,  University of Jyväskylä)

2015-02-13 12:00: Interpreting Document Collections Using Topic Models (Nikos Aletras, UCL)

2015-02-13 15:00: The Evolution of Culture (Professor Kevin N. Laland,  School of Biology, University of St Andrews)

2015-02-13 16:00: Some ideas in nonparametric estimation (Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics)

2015-02-16 17:00: Language development, social integration and achievement of recently-arrived EAL children in schools in the East of England (Educational Achievement, Language Education and Disadvantage (EALead) research team at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University)

2015-02-18 12:30: Developmental differences  in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD (Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-02-19 15:30: Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory (Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) )

2015-02-19 17:00: The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 corpora (Florence Myles, University of Essex)

2015-02-20 12:00: Argument Mining from Text for Teaching and Assessing Writing (Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh)

2015-02-20 15:00: Active Sensing and Brain oscillations (Professor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2015-02-20 16:00: Spectral thresholding in quantum state estimation for low rank states (Madalin Guta, University of Nottingham)

2015-02-24 11:00: A* Sampling (Chris Maddison  (U Toronto))

2015-02-24 16:30: '6 Months' (John Oates, a Senior Lecturer in the Child and Youth Studies Group at the Open University, Visiting Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences)

2015-02-24 17:00: Beatrix Potter: Defying the Enemy (Dr Juliet Dusinberre    )

2015-02-25 12:30: Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? Repetition suppression and perceptual expectation in the typical and autistic population  (Michael Ewbank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-02-25 12:30: Arts in and as Research: A Kaleidoscope Series of Arts-Based Research Practices and Installations (Faculty of Education research students and staff)

2015-02-25 17:00: Webinar for Professional Development Series 9: Leisure and the Arts: Smacking of  privilege or an exercise in freedom? (Dr. Roger Mantie, Arizona State University)

2015-02-25 17:15: The Sami  Health Transition - a Success Story in an Indigenous Culture Context (Peter Sköld, Centre for Sami Research, Umeå University)

2015-02-26 15:30: Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity  (Guillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) )

2015-02-26 17:00: Democracy, Education and Humility (Dr Kevin Mott-Thornton)

2015-02-27 15:00: Neural representation of complex space (Professor Kate Jeffery,Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London)

2015-02-27 16:00: Complexity analysis of the Lasso regularization path and an application of sparsity to isoform detection in RNA-seq data (Julien Mairal, INRIA, Grenoble)

2015-03-02 11:00: Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations (Dan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London))

2015-03-03 16:30: Studying the neural mechanisms of attention and memory in childhood (Dr Duncan Astle,Programme Leader Track, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Research Associate St. John’s College, Cambridge)

2015-03-03 16:30: What am I?  The identity of an intercultural arts performer-researcher in the field (Cassandre Balosso-Bardin)

2015-03-03 17:00: An introduction to Pulse-relational Rhythm Theory (Dr Steve Forman from Glasgow conservatiore)

2015-03-04 11:00: Population Inference for Functional Brain Connectivity (Genevera I. Allen (Rice University))

2015-03-04 12:30: Discrimination of visual categories based on behavioural significance in frontoparietal cortex  (Yaara Erez (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-03-04 16:30: On phylogenetic classification (Dr Annemarie Verkerk (Reading))

2015-03-04 17:00: The decolonization of images in contemporary Brazilian picturebooks (Claudia Mendes)

2015-03-05 15:30: Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) (Andrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) )

2015-03-05 16:00: Learning Markov Networks for Mixed Big Data: Applications to Cancer Genomics (Genevera Allen, Rice University)

2015-03-05 16:30: Generating social transformation and impact through successful actions in education (Marta Soler is Director of CREA, Centre for Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, Ramon Flecha is Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, and Doctor Honoris Causa from West University of Timişoara)

2015-03-05 17:00: Scalar Particles as Alternative-Sensitive Expressions (Malte Zimmermann, University of Potsdam)

2015-03-06 12:00: Are you losing Structures in Distributional Vectors? Smoothed Distributed Tree Kernels and the Convolution Conjecture (Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata")

2015-03-06 13:30: Dynamic Topic Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation (Eva Hasler (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-06 15:00: Premembering Perception (Professor Kia Nobre,  Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-03-06 16:00: Sparse CCA: Statistical and Computational Limits (Chao Gao, Yale University)

2015-03-09 16:00: Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation (Quentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology)

2015-03-10 16:30: 'Finding the maths': Empowering parents to support children's out-of-school mathematics learning" (Dr Tim Jay , Reader in Education,Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University. )

2015-03-10 16:30: The roles of arts therapies in secure settings with specific examples from  recent music therapy research studies in prisons and high secure forensic settings in  China and Europe (Dr Helen Odell-Miller, Anglia Ruskin University)

2015-03-10 17:00: Gliding through history (Jiaxi Liu, Centre for Music and Science)

2015-03-11 12:30: The effect of age on brain and cognition: preliminary results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN) (Rik Henson (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-03-11 16:30: "A phylogenetic classification of Bantu languages and its implications for ancient migration" (Dr Rebecca Grollemund (Reading))

2015-03-11 17:00: From unlimited to situated: A reappraisal of children’s ‘potential’ (Dr Rupert Higham, Faculty of Education; Dr Clementine Beauvais, Homerton College)

2015-03-12 11:00: An introduction to the Mondrian Process (Matej Balog (Oxford))

2015-03-12 15:30: Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEG (Jean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) )

2015-03-12 16:00: The phonetic building blocks of speech (Professor Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-13 12:00: Learning Latent Syntactic Representations with Joint Models (Jason Naradowsky, UCL)

2015-03-17 17:00: Manipulating Structure through Digital Notation (Alan Blackwell and Sam Aaron, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory)

2015-03-19 11:00: Evolutionary dynamics in a continuous public goods game (Matthias Bauer )

2015-03-19 15:00: Combinatorial Stochastic Processes in Bayesian Nonparametrics (Creighton Heaukulani)

2015-03-19 16:00: Encounters at a medical ward in Sweden – professionals' experiences explored through applied drama (Prof. Margret Lepp, University of Gothenburg)

2015-03-24 16:30: Designing tools to facilitate teacher-led discussions in the digitalized school. (Dr Ingvill Rasmussen, Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Oslo)

2015-03-26 15:00: Deep Gaussian Processes (Richard Turner, Alex Navarro, Thang Bui)

2015-03-26 17:00: Arts in the National Curriculum:  decisions, tensions and uncertainties (Dr Madonna Stinson, Griffith University, Australia)

2015-04-02 15:00: Informational Geometry (Nilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu)

2015-04-09 12:00: ICASSP presentations (Various)

2015-04-09 12:00: Leveraging a Semantically Annotated Corpus to Disambiguate Prepositional Phrase Attachment (Guy Emerson, University of Cambridge)

2015-04-09 12:40: Hierarchical Statistical Semantic Realization for Minimal Recursion Semantics (Matic Horvat, University of Cambridge)

2015-04-09 16:00: Stable Weights that Balance Covariates for Causal Inference and Estimation with Incomplete Outcome Data (José Zubizarreta, Columbia University)

2015-04-13 14:00: Deep Learning of Natural Language Semantics (Prof Yoshua Bengio - Université de Montréal)

2015-04-15 11:00: Inference for infinite mixture models and Gaussian Process mixtures of experts using simple approximate MAP Inference (Alexis Boukouvalas (Aston University))

2015-04-16 15:00: Gaussian Process Models for Time Series (Roger Frigola, Carl Edward Rasmussen)

2015-04-17 12:00: The Geometry of Machine Translation (Rory Waite, University of Cambridge)

2015-04-17 16:00: A Framework for Elastic Shape Analysis of Objects (Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University)

2015-04-20 16:30: Music education technology in/for the digital era: implications for teacher  training and research  (Professor Lauri Väkevä, University of the Arts, Helsinki)

2015-04-22 12:30: Estimating representational dissimilarity measures  (Alex Walther (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) )

2015-04-22 13:00: Bayesian inference accounts for a novel psychophysical effect in face perception (Jonathan O’Keeffe (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) )

2015-04-23 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Tuan Anh Le (Oxford))

2015-04-23 15:00: Causal Inference (Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Amar Shah)

2015-04-23 15:30: The functional role of local and large-scale synchronization in human cognition (Satu Palva (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki))

2015-04-23 16:30: The Cultural Origins of Structure (Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh)

2015-04-23 18:00: The use of French in Canada (Prof. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa))

2015-04-24 12:00: Statistical modelling of metaphor (Ekatarina Shutova, University of Cambridge)

2015-04-24 15:00: Imaging and Stimulating adaptive brain plasticity  ( Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of  Oxford)

2015-04-24 15:00: Fourth workshop: Research Outreach & Public Engagement  (Prof David Spiegelhalter Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2015-04-24 16:00: Stein estimation of the intensity of a  spatial homogeneous Poisson point process (Marianne Clausel, University of Grenoble)

2015-04-27 19:30: New Developments in Machine Intelligence (Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge)

2015-04-28 16:30: Groundhog or Hound Dog? Is it time for arts impact evaluation to get a bit more rock and roll? (Dr Douglas Lonie (BOP Consulting) and Nick Wilsdon (National Foundation for Youth Music))

2015-04-28 16:30: Teacher interventions in small group work in secondary mathematics and science lessons (Professor Neil Mercer & Dr Riikka Hofmann, University of Cambridge , Faculty of Education)

2015-04-29 12:30: Representational dynamics: object responses in monkey inferior temporal cortex  (Marieke Mur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-04-29 17:00: ALICE, PINOCCHIO, FANTASY, AND INTERNATIONAL STEREOTYPES (Professor Laura Tosi, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice and Professor Peter Hunt, Newcastle University)

2015-04-30 11:00: Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance: A collaboration between the Cambridge Machine Learning Group and Cambridge Capital Management (Creighton Heaukulani, Matt Hoffman, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Andrew Baxter, )

2015-04-30 15:30: Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain  (Zoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2015-05-01 12:00: Modelling implicit language learning with distributional semantics (Dimitris Alikaniotis, DTAL, University of Cambridge)

2015-05-01 12:30: Disfluency detection in spoken learner English (Andrew Caines, DTAL, University of Cambridge)

2015-05-01 15:00: Adult age differences in social cognition (Professor Louise Phillips, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen)

2015-05-01 16:00: Robust Matrix Completion (Olga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest)

2015-05-05 18:00: Dialect Death and the Structured Obsolescence Myth (Dr David Hornsby (Kent))

2015-05-06 11:00: Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural Networks (Mark Rowland (Cambridge))

2015-05-06 12:30: Critical factors that affect measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implant users  (Stefano Cosentino (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-05-07 15:00: Scalable MCMC (Hong Ge, Jes Frellsen)

2015-05-07 15:30: Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruning  (Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) )

2015-05-07 17:00: Cutting, Gluing and Playing House:  The Fun of Making Dolls’ Houses of One’s Own (Dr Nancy Wei-Ning Chen, University College London)

2015-05-08 12:00: Injecting Logical Background Knowledge into Embeddings for Relation Extraction (Tim Rocktäschel, UCL)

2015-05-08 15:00: Impact of Diversity on Social Cohesion: Implications of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact (Professor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-05-08 16:00: General Bayesian updating and model misspecification (Chris Holmes, University of Oxford)

2015-05-12 11:00: Probabilistic numerics: treating numerical computation as learning, or; it's Bayes all the way down (Michael Osborne (Oxford University))

2015-05-12 16:30: Digital-Object Use in Developmental Disorders (Dr Will Farr & Dr Ian Male, Mid-Sussex Child Development Centre, Nightingale Primary Care Centre, Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow)

2015-05-12 16:30: The Art of Desistance: what we know and what we don’t yet know about links between the arts and criminal justice (Profs. Sarah Colvin and Loraine Gelsthorpe,  University of Cambridge)

2015-05-13 12:30: An overview of the not-so-distant future of psychology and cognitive neuroscience: Replication, preregistration, data sharing, open peer review and more (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-05-13 17:15: Language situation and endangerment in Uganda: Facts and perspectives (Dr. Saudah Namyalo)

2015-05-14 15:00: Hessian-free Optimisation for Neural Networks (Adnan Haider, Andrey Malinin)

2015-05-14 15:30: JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tears  (Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam))

2015-05-14 16:00: Language, identity and attainment of EAL students  in schools in the East of England  (Dr Michael Evans (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge))

2015-05-15 12:00: Model Theory and the Semantics of Natural Languages (Stanley Peters, Stanford University)

2015-05-15 15:00: Adjusting accordingly: prefrontal areas updating valuations for objects and actions (Dr Betsy Murray, Chief, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD)

2015-05-15 16:00: Text Mining in Dynamic Networks of Documents  (David Banks, Duke University)

2015-05-15 16:30: A bridge between music education and sustainable development:  An investigation of music-based ESD practices at  Key Stage 3 in England (Yusi Cheng, Brunel University)

2015-05-19 17:00: Grahame, Ruskin and the Medieval Worlds of The Wind in the Willows (Professor Seth Lerer, University of California)

2015-05-20 12:30: The Cambridge Cognitive Neuroscience Research Panel (Sharon Erzinclioglu and guests)

2015-05-21 15:00: Convolutional Neural Networks (Christof Angermueller, Alex Kendall)

2015-05-21 15:30: Temporal dynamics of post-retrieval amnesia for learned fear  (Merel Kindt (Department of Psychology, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam))

2015-05-21 16:30: The neural correlates of intonation (Brechtje Post, University of Cambridge)

2015-05-22 12:00: Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing (Dimitri Kartsaklis,  Queen Mary University of London)

2015-05-22 14:30: Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics (Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

2015-05-22 15:00: Mechanisms of imitation: insights from typical and autistic cognition (Dr Antonia Hamilton, Reader in Social Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2015-05-22 16:00: Third and Fourth Cumulants in Independent Component Analysis (Hannu Oja, University of Turku)

2015-05-27 12:30: Predictive coding in the brain in health and disease - how intracranial EEG helps validate non-invasive in vivo methods  (Holly Phillips (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-05-27 13:00: Social processing in response to autobiographical memories of rejection and inclusion in depression (Julia Gillard (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-05-27 17:15: Laterals in Estonian Swedish (Professor Francis Nolan, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics)

2015-05-28 15:30: Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: Thinking outside of the boxes  (Lisa Saksida (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2015-05-28 16:00: Unmasking Philosophers’ Fiction: First-Person Reference, Monster Operators, and the Indexical/Nonindexical Distinction (Professor Katarzyna Jaszczolt (DTAL, Universtiy of Cambridge))

2015-05-29 12:00: Deep consequences: Why syntax (as we know it) isn't a thing, and other (shocking?) conclusions from modelling language with neural nets. (Felix Hill, Computer Laboratory)

2015-05-29 16:00: A Conditional Dependence Measure with Applications to Undirected Graphical Models (Yang Feng, Columbia University)

2015-06-02 11:00: Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? (Dr Rich Caruana (Microsoft))

2015-06-02 17:00: PLACE and Children's Literature Centre Book Launch (Professor Maria Nikolajeva)

2015-06-03 12:30: Investigation of priming effects on associative memory (Alex Kaula (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-06-03 16:30: Socio-Critical Reflections on the Role of the Arts in Youth Custody  (Dr Caroline Lanskey)

2015-06-03 17:15: Saami in Russia: "Kuess ne poluchaetsja samas, rushas polegche" (David Pineda Dijkerman)

2015-06-04 15:30: Fast transient brain states  (Mark Woolrich (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford) )

2015-06-04 16:00: Long-distance agreement for person: Some new data from Icelandic (Professor Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh))

2015-06-05 12:00: Natural Language Generation from Semantic Web Ontologies (Gerasimos Lampouras, UCL)

2015-06-08 17:00: Mean Field Approaches to Two Sequential Decision Making Problems. (Ramki Gummadi)

2015-06-09 11:00: Structural Markov laws / Geometry and HMC (Dr Simon Byrne)

2015-06-09 16:30: Developing a toolkit for assessing children's spoken language skills in the classroom  (Paul Warwick and Ayesha Ahmed)

2015-06-09 17:00: Curtain call: Investigating the psychophysiology of public performance (Professor Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, London)

2015-06-10 12:30: Why do we jump the gun?  Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans (Valerie Voon (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge))

2015-06-11 15:30: Pitch perception: New approaches to classic questions  (Andrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota))

2015-06-11 16:00: Emergent Syntax: a new (unifying) perspective (Dr Theresa Biberauer (DTAL, University of Cambridge))

2015-06-12 12:00: Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumours in social media (Maria Liakata, University of Warwick)

2015-06-16 11:00: Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable Models (Zhenwen Dai)

2015-06-16 16:30: Some Studies on Desirable Difficulties (Dr Danny Oppenheimer, Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment in the Anderson School of Management and the Department of Psychology)

2015-06-17 16:30: The family tree of Iranian and its problems (Agnes Korn )

2015-06-18 11:00: Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable Models (Zhenwen Dai)

2015-06-19 12:00: Improving & Better Understanding Word Vector Representations (Manaal Faruqui, Carnegie Mellon University)

2015-06-24 11:00: Random Function Classes for Machine Learning (Prof. Alex Smola (CMU))

2015-06-24 14:00: Lesson Study Seminar (Speakers to include a variety of UK and international speakers, Chaired by Professor Jan Vermunt, University of Cambridge )

2015-06-24 16:30: Children's Theatre in China  (Yaqiong Ma, Bejing Normal University)

2015-06-25 11:00: Deep Learning (Professor Geoffrey Hinton FRS (U. Toronto and Google))

2015-06-29 11:00: Deep Gaussian processes and variational propagation of uncertainty (Andreas Damianou - Sheffield University)

2015-06-29 15:00: Explaining Non-Linear Classifier Decisions with application to Deep Learning (Prof Klaus-Robert Müller (TU Berlin))

2015-06-30 11:00: Random Function Classes for Machine Learning (Prof Alexander Smola, Carnegie Mellon University)

2015-07-01 11:00: Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learning (Anna Choromanska (New York University))

2015-07-02 11:00: Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & Recommendation (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India))

2015-07-03 12:30: Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling Regression (Prof Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen))

2015-07-07 15:00: Primary Progressive Aphasia: Language, molecules and the networks in between (Professor Marilu Gorno-Tempini)

2015-07-16 11:00: A new MCMC hybrid scheme for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models (Maria Lomeli-Garcia, UCL)

2015-07-17 11:00: Rich Component Analysis (James Zou (Microsoft Research New England))

2015-07-20 11:00: Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization through reversible learning (Dr David Duvenaud (Harvard))

2015-07-27 15:00: MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences (Alex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto))

2015-07-29 11:00: Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific Discovery (Dr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University)

2015-08-07 12:00: Cross-lingual transfer of a semantic parser via parallel data (Kilian Evang, University of Gronigen)

2015-08-26 17:00: Growing Up Musical:  A Day In The Life Of A Family (Dr Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Ohio State University)

2015-08-27 15:00: The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphs (Dr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge))

2015-09-02 11:00: Interspeech presentations (Various (University of Cambridge))

2015-09-07 11:00: Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality (Pedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania))

2015-09-09 11:00: Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and Perception (Jason Yosinski (Cornell))

2015-09-09 17:00: Building Community Through Diversity in Music Education (Dr Carlos Abril, University of Miami)

2015-09-10 11:00: Belief and Truth in Hypothesised Behaviours (Stefano V. Albrecht -  School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh)

2015-09-11 12:00: Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language Processing (Daniel Beck, University of Sheffield)

2015-09-11 12:30: Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems  (Shawn T-H. Wen, University of Cambridge)

2015-09-11 15:00: Serial Order in Behavior:  Unifying Acoustic Meaning and Rhythm in Audition, Speech, and Music (Stephen Grossberg)

2015-09-14 11:00: Convex Factorization Machines (Mathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie))

2015-09-14 12:00: A-Star Sampling Review (Chris Maddison  (U Toronto))

2015-09-15 10:30: Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped Parameters (Koh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories))

2015-09-16 11:00:  Harmonic Exponential Families and Group-Equivariant Convolution Networks (Taco Cohen (University of Amsterdam))

2015-09-22 12:00: Neural entrainment to higher-level features of speech reflects the discrete nature of perception in the auditory system (Benedikt Zoefel, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, Toulouse, France)

2015-09-25 11:00: Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studies (Francesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute)

2015-09-25 12:00: Joint A* Syntactic and Semantic Parsing for CCG (Mike Lewis, University of Washington)

2015-09-30 17:00: Analysing systems for social justice in music education (Dr Susan Wharton Conkling, Boston University)

2015-10-07 16:00: Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Computational Creativity (Tony Veale, University College Dublin)

2015-10-08 13:00: Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual Semantics (Tony Veale, University College Dublin)

2015-10-09 16:30: The Importance of Feeling Honest : A Candid Take on Moral Motivation (Professor Benoit Monin, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stamford University, USA)

2015-10-13 14:00: Understanding Word Embeddings (Omer Levy, Bar-Ilan University)

2015-10-14 11:00: Efficient Inference and Learning with Intractable Posteriors? Yes, Please. (Diederik P. Kingma (University of Amsterdam))

2015-10-15 11:00: Meta-Bayesian Analysis (Prof. Daniel Roy (University of Toronto))

2015-10-15 15:30: Emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex: functional and anatomical mechanisms (Marco Tamietto, Dept of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy)

2015-10-15 16:30: Phonetics from blog to book (John Wells, UCL)

2015-10-15 17:00: Mothering for Schooling in the Mid Twentieth Century Australian Women’s Weekly (Dr Helen Proctor, University of Sydney)

2015-10-16 16:00: Nonstandard complete class theorems (Daniel Roy (University of Toronto))

2015-10-16 16:30: Creating Solidarity by Making Bodies Alike, but Creating Hierarchy in Physical Dimensions (Professor Alan Fiske, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles USA)

2015-10-21 12:30: News from the CALM Clinic: a dimensional approach to children's problems in Attention, Learning and Memory (Sue Gathercole, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2015-10-21 17:15: Writing vernacular languages online: a case study of writing strategies of Taiwanese on social network sites among young generation (Chi-Cheng Tsai )

2015-10-22 14:30: LP relaxations for MAP inference (Adrian Weller (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-22 15:00: Nonparametric estimation of s-concave and log-concave densities: an alternative to maximum likelihood (Jon Wellner (University of Washington))

2015-10-22 16:00: Perceived Voice Similarity and the Construction of Voice Parades (Dr Kirsty McDougall (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-23 12:00: Internal Seminar  (NLIP Postdocs and PhDs)

2015-10-23 16:00: Second Language Acquisition of Chinese and Thai Nominal Phrases (Woramon Prawatmuang (FAMES))

2015-10-23 16:30: "Where" (Professor Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes, France)

2015-10-27 17:00: The Stranger Within Me (Aidan Chambers)

2015-10-27 17:00: Task-based Language Teaching with Technology: The EU-Funded CAMELOT Project (Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire)

2015-10-28 12:00: Performing Social and Classroom Integration Through Musical Rhythm: Theory, Practice and Improvisation (Eduardo Lopes, University of Evora, Portugal)

2015-10-28 12:30: Evaluating cochlear implants using the STRIPES test (Alan Archer-Boyd, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2015-10-28 17:00: During and Post degree: Life outside of the classroom (Dr Betty Anne Younker, University of Western Ontario, Canada)

2015-10-28 17:00: What can fantasy literature teach us? Relationships of power in magical realms (Malin Alkestrand, Lund University)

2015-10-29 14:30: Bayesian optimization and its applications (Dr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro)

2015-10-29 16:30: Anaphora resolution in young and not-so-young adults: the role of language experience and cognitive skills (Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-30 12:00: Internal Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-10-30 16:00: Highly-Smooth Zero-th Order Online Optimization (Vianney Perchet (INRIA & Paris Diderot))

2015-10-30 16:00: Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Applicative Operations by English-, Spanish, and Korean-speaking Learners (Yuhsin Huang (FAMES))

2015-10-30 16:30: Phonological and Morphological Processes in Reading and Reading Acquisition (Professor Kathy Rastle, Head of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2015-11-02 11:15: Academia vs. Industry (Dr Madelaine Chapman, Careers Adviser for Postdoctoral Researchers in the Physical Sciences and Technology)

2015-11-02 16:00: Icelandic language and culture training application (Branislav Bédi, University of Iceland, CADIA Research Centre)

2015-11-04 12:00: What the DNN heard? Dissecting the machine brain for a better insight. ( Khe Chai Sim, National University of Singapore)

2015-11-04 12:30: CurateScience.org: Facilitating the independent verification of published findings (Etienne LeBel, University of Western Ontario, Canada)

2015-11-05 14:30: Detecting paraphrases using recursive autoencoders (Feynman Liang)

2015-11-05 15:30: Neural systems for navigation (Hugo Spiers, Dept of Experimental Psychology, UCL)

2015-11-05 16:00: Mwani, freely picking and choosing from tone and stress? (Dr Maud Devos (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium))

2015-11-06 12:00: How much linguistics is needed for NLP? (Edward Grefenstette)

2015-11-06 14:30: Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning (Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research NY) )

2015-11-06 16:00: Shape modelling using contours and fields, with applications to image segmentation (Ian Jermyn (Durham))

2015-11-06 16:00: Chinese sentence final particles and their behaviour in L2 Chinese (Shanshan Yan (FAMES))

2015-11-06 16:30: The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre(ARC) Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-11 12:00: Towards Advanced Conversational Systems (G. Wu, Maluuba)

2015-11-11 12:00: Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising model (Dr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton))

2015-11-11 12:30: Theta neurofeedback enhancement of early consolidation of procedural and declarative learning (Daniel Levy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel)

2015-11-11 16:30: PESGB Seminar: Towards a Pedagogy of Expression and of Understanding (Gilberto Scaramuzzo, Rome Tre University)

2015-11-11 19:30: Homerton CIG Series: PLANET BOWIE: Multiple creativities in practice (Leah Kardos, Kingston University)

2015-11-12 13:30: Poster Session I (Various)

2015-11-12 14:00: Statistical Acoustic-Phonetic Historical Linguistics: A short introduction (John Aston (University of Cambridge); John Coleman (University of Oxford))

2015-11-12 14:30: Sunnyside (Dr Laura Wright (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-12 14:30: Connections between kernels, GPs, and NNs (Matthias Bauer (University of Cambridge); Paul Rubenstein)

2015-11-12 15:00: Crowdsourcing big data in English dialectology (Bert Vaux (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge))

2015-11-12 15:30: Understanding generative learning in the individual brain (Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-12 15:30: The integrative self (Glyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford)

2015-11-12 16:00: Poster Session II (Various)

2015-11-12 16:30: Annual open meeting (Cambridge Language Sciences)

2015-11-12 17:00: Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language  (Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen))

2015-11-13 12:00: Motivation and learning in citizen science: The role of automatically generated feedback. (Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen)

2015-11-13 16:00: Chinese aspect markers and their behaviours in L2 Chinese grammars  (Yanyu Guo (FAMES))

2015-11-13 16:30: Studying natural speech processing at the phonemic level using EEG (Dr Edmund Lalor, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin)

2015-11-16 17:00: The ‘Multilingual Turn’ in Languages Education - a future for EAL? (Dr Jean Conteh, School of Education, University of Leeds)

2015-11-17 16:30: Metacognition in speech and language therapy for children with social communication disorders (Jacqueline Gaile, University of Manchester)

2015-11-18 12:30: Gained in translation (Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2015-11-18 17:00: Questioning the relationship between Music and social inclusion: a crucial issue (Dr. Graça Mota, College of Education, Polytechnic Institute Porto)

2015-11-18 17:15: Understanding the function dimension of language endangerment with specific evidence from Runyakitara  (Fridah Katushemererwe, Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills Makerere University)

2015-11-19 14:30: Logic, Theorem Proving, and Probabilistic Programming (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-19 15:30: The Dyslexia Debate (Joe Elliott, Durham)

2015-11-19 16:00: Representation, generalisation, and innovation in the lexicon. (Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford))

2015-11-20 16:00: Fast low-rank estimation by projected gradient descent: Statistical and algorithmic guarantees (Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley))

2015-11-20 16:00: Second Language Acquisition of Chinese ‘bei’ Passive Constructions  (Ruyi Dai (FAMES))

2015-11-20 16:30: Modulating drug taking and drug seeking through TAAR1 activation (Dr Juan J Canales, Reader in Behavioural Neurosciences Department of  Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester)

2015-11-23 17:00: Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy for 21st Century Britain (Bernardette Holmes MBE, Director of Speak To The Future; Bye-Fellow of Downing College)

2015-11-24 17:00: The Romantic Rollercoaster: exploring expectations evoked on hearing a piece of music for the first time using evidence from a prodigious musical savant (Professor Adam Ockelford, School of Education, University of Roehampton)

2015-11-25 12:30: The influence of meaning and memory consolidation in novel word learning (Erin Hawkins, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2015-11-25 17:00: Real Readers Reading Series Two: Stacking stories of classrooms in a virtual world: investigating the complexity of literacies (Professors Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant, Sheffield Hallam University )

2015-11-25 17:15: “Human Towers for Democracy:” The Use of Cultural Performances for Catalan Nation Building and Independence (Mariann Vaczi)

2015-11-26 14:30: Stochastic optimization and adaptive learning rates (Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge); Mark Rowland)

2015-11-26 15:30: Drink, Drugs and Disasters: Disrupting reconsolidation to treat addiction and PTSD (Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-11-26 16:30: Eliminating A/A'-positions (Coppe van Urk, Queen Mary University of London)

2015-11-26 17:00: Rebuilding Britain through Modernist Children's books (Professor Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University)

2015-11-27 12:00: Lacking Integrity: HPSG as a Morphosyntactic Theory (Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-27 16:00: Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion (Paul Jenkins (Warwick))

2015-11-27 16:00: Mandarin Chinese Reflexive 'ziji' in L2 acquisition and L1 Attrition (Liu Manyun (FAMES))

2015-11-27 16:30: Understanding the forgetful and apathetic brain (Professor Masud Husain,  Department of Experimental Psychology & Nuffield Department of  Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)

2015-11-30 16:30: Embodying Historical Consciousness: Teaching History Through Drama (Prof Michael Anderson,  University of Sydney)

2015-12-01 17:00: Time to decide: the process of evaluating a musical performance (George Waddell, Royal College of Music)

2015-12-02 12:30: The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all (Rogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit)

2015-12-04 12:00: Efficient Constrained Inference and Structured Neural Networks for Semantic Role Labeling (Oscar Täckström, Google)

2015-12-04 16:00: Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures (François Caron (Oxford))

2015-12-04 16:30: Grady Nia Project: Assessing and Treating Abused, Suicidal Women (Dr Nadine Kaslow, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University USA                        )

2015-12-07 11:00: Research Collaborations outside of academia (Dr Andrea Kells, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge/)

2015-12-07 16:00: Raising awareness and sisterhood: do we still need 1960s' tools for 21st century social change? (Hanna Naima McCloskey, Founder & CEO of Fearless Futures)

2015-12-11 14:30: Graph-Guided Banding for Covariance Estimation (Jacob Bien (Cornell University))

2015-12-11 16:00: Boosting in the presence of outliers: adaptive classification with non-convex loss functions (Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego))

2015-12-15 17:00: Unattended music, cognition, and the experimental paradigm: the 'background-ness' of background music (Charlotte Lapham)

2015-12-16 11:00: General Reinforcement Learning (Jan Leike (Australian National University))

2015-12-16 12:30: P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think (Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health)

2016-01-13 17:00: Children reading metafiction: Exploring critical and creative thinking on multimodal novels in the primary classroom (Eve Tandoi, University of Cambridge)

2016-01-14 14:30: Stochastic discrete integration (Adrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge))

2016-01-14 15:30: Human brain networks from functional MRI (Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2016-01-14 16:30: On the cartography of the clause in Old Celtic (Joe Eska, Virginia Tech)

2016-01-15 16:30: New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false. (Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2016-01-18 18:00: Having the courage to be creative: making links between creativity, the sharing economy and gender identity (Maria Lusitano Santos)

2016-01-19 18:00: Improvisation as a way of knowing (Dr Andrew Goldman, Columbia University)

2016-01-21 14:30: Deep learning for time series (Christof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge))

2016-01-21 15:30: How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics (Professor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford)

2016-01-21 16:30: Reconceptualising conditionals (Chi-Hé Elder, University of East Anglia)

2016-01-22 16:00: Nonlinear shrinkage of Eigenvalues in Integrated Covolatility Matrix for Portfolio Allocation in High Frequency Data (Clifford Lam (LSE))

2016-01-25 17:00: Marking progression in second language production: EAL pupils’ use of spoken and written English (Dr Michael Evans, University of Cambridge)

2016-01-26 17:00: Bilinguals' experience of emotional meaning in music and language (Miriam Tenderini, Queen Mary University of London)

2016-01-27 17:00: Real Readers Reading Series Two: Engaging with literature through game design (Professor Andrew Burn, Institute of Education, University College, London )

2016-01-27 17:15: Shawi, Quechua and Spanish: a Sea of Languages  (Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Department for Language and Cognition)

2016-01-28 14:30: Random projection ensemble classification (Timothy Cannings)

2016-01-28 15:30: Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language (Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL)

2016-01-28 16:00: Degrees of ergativity in Romance causatives (Dr Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University))

2016-01-29 12:00: Sentence Entailment in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics (Esma Balkır)

2016-01-29 16:00: The data-driven (s,S) policy: why you can have confidence in censored demand data (Gah-Yi Vahn (London School of Business))

2016-01-29 16:30: Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomics  (Professor Morten L. Kringelbach Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark )

2016-02-02 17:00: Psychological effects of interpersonal entrainment  (Gabriela Pavarini, University of Cambridge )

2016-02-03 12:30: Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis (Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-04 15:30: Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption (Prof Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-04 16:30: Language families and language contact: Latin, Sabellian and Greek (James Clackson, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-05 12:00: Multilingual Image Description with Neural Sequence Models (Eva Hasler, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-05 16:00: Statistical algorithms and planted satisfiability problems (Will Perkins (Birmingham))

2016-02-05 16:30: Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again) (Professor Derek Jones, Director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University )

2016-02-08 17:00: Native speaker and learner language data in Applied Linguistics: what's next? (Dr Pascual Pérez-Paredes, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-09 17:00: How Infants Learn Language Using Speech Rhythm and Neuronal Oscillations (Dr Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge )

2016-02-10 16:30: The syntax and semantics of -τος adjectives in Ancient Greek (Rob Crellin (Copenhagen))

2016-02-10 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Music Therapy in Education (Dr Patricia Leonor Sabbatella Riccardi, University of Cadiz)

2016-02-10 17:00: Making Picturebooks: What an Artist Brings (Dr Laura Little, Bath Spa University)

2016-02-11 14:30: Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPs (Yarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-11 15:30: Human neuroscience in the wild (Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial)

2016-02-11 16:00: Bricks and mortars for building meanings (Dr Hugh Rabagliati (University of Edinburgh))

2016-02-12 12:00: Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian Eyes (Yarin Gal, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-12 16:00: Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans (Rui Castro (Eindhoven))

2016-02-12 16:30: A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions. (Professor Melissa Bateson, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution/ Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University)

2016-02-16 13:00: Music as Communication: An Evolutionary Story (Elizabeth Tolbert. Johns Hopkins University & Cambridge Centre for Music and Science)

2016-02-16 17:00: Recognition of intent in infant-directed singing? Another look at music and universality (Dr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London)

2016-02-16 17:00: From Empire to Empire Windrush and Beyond: Publishing and the Black British Child (Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor, Newcastle University)

2016-02-17 12:30: A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in survivors of a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (Darren Dunning, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-02-17 14:00: Communication with Artificial Intelligences (Prof. Ann Copestake - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.)

2016-02-17 16:30: Can the Greek dialects be grouped? A response to Parker and Ringe (Rupert Thompson and Matthew Scarborough  (Cambridge))

2016-02-18 14:30: Natural gradient descent and variational inference (Mark van der Wilk; Alex Matthews )

2016-02-18 16:30: Language variation and change within the individual (Laurel MacKenzie, University of Manchester)

2016-02-19 11:30: A more Automated Statistician (David Janz, Oxford University)

2016-02-19 12:00: What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network Model (Mark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory)

2016-02-19 16:30: How rational are we? (Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London)

2016-02-22 16:30: English as a Lingua Franca: Past, Present, and (Possible) Future (Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Southampton University)

2016-02-23 13:00: Expressions and body movements as communication and implications for language origins theories (Adam Kendon (Australian National University))

2016-02-23 16:30: UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING INTEREST DEVELOPMENT WITHIN FORMAL EDUCATION (Dr Luke Fryer, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education)

2016-02-24 12:30: Can the sort of large-scale automatic language processing that interests engineers tell us anything about human language processing?  (Felix Hill (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-24 15:00: Data Science at The Guardian (Felix Sanchez-Garcia, The Guardian)

2016-02-24 16:30: A diachronic perspective on the temporality of the Greek infinitive (Jerneja Kavčič (Ljubljana))

2016-02-24 17:00: Real Readers Reading Series Two: Re-thinking the teaching of reading: Beyond the 'ph' word (Dr Wayne Tennent, University of East London )

2016-02-24 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Action-research on collaborative composition (Dr Gabriel Rusinek, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

2016-02-24 18:30: Bringing Digital World to life, bringing print to life: telling my story (Dr Kate Stone, CEO of Novalia)

2016-02-25 13:15: Education for Sustainable Development and Health Education in Times of Reform (Katrine Dahl Madsen, The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University)

2016-02-25 14:30: Learning by learning rich generative models (Thang Bui (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-25 15:30: The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons (Dr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge)

2016-02-25 16:00: Why phonology is flat: the role of concatenation and linearity (Dr Tobias Sheer (Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis))

2016-02-26 12:00: Understanding generative learning in the individual brain (Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-26 16:00: Statistically optimal robust estimation of the precision matrix by convex programming (Arnak Dalayan (ENSAE))

2016-02-26 16:30:   New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain (Professor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL)

2016-03-01 17:00: Investigating rhythmic expectation using sound lateralization and auditory averaging tasks (David Greatrex, University of Cambridge )

2016-03-02 12:30: Explaining how similar two faces look, using deep convolutional networks and optimised stimuli (Kate Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-03-02 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Performing interculturality research:  An interactive creative exchange exploring notions of ‘voice’, ‘reflexivity’, ‘power’ and ‘positioning’ (Prof Pam Burnard, James Biddulph, Afrodita Nikolova, & Ana-Marie Mocanu, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-02 17:15: Cantonese: the biggest endangered language? (Cherry Lam (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge) & Ricky Chan (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge))

2016-03-03 14:30: Probabilistic programming (Hong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog)

2016-03-03 15:30: The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies (Professor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne)

2016-03-03 16:30: Rumours, Diseases and Drugs: Tackling Textual Data for Knowledge Discovery in Health (Nigel Collier, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-04 11:00: General-Purpose Representation Learning from Words to Sentences (Felix Hill (University of Cambridge))

2016-03-04 16:00: Information bounds for inverse problems with application to deconvolution and Lévy models (Mathias Trabs (CEREMADE, Paris Dauphine))

2016-03-04 16:30: The typical and atypical development of the social brain (Mark H Johnson, MRC Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London.)

2016-03-08 13:00: Generalized empathy and early steps towards language evolution (Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck, Nijmegen))

2016-03-08 17:00: Understanding generative learning in the individual brain (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, University of Cambridge )

2016-03-09 12:30: The waxing and waning of PIMMS: experimental but not computational support for prediction error driving episodic memory (Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2016-03-09 14:00: The geometry of uncertainty (Fabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University)

2016-03-09 16:30: Word order and the Attic Orators: towards a modern linguistic account of ancient stylistic terminology (Coulter George (Virginia))

2016-03-09 17:00: Real Readers Reading Series Two: PhD research into reading: work in progress (PLACE group students)

2016-03-09 19:30: International Women's Day Celebration 2016 (CIAN Network and guests)

2016-03-10 15:30: The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children: outcomes from an RCT (Dr Mairead MacSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2016-03-10 16:00: Statistical learning of words and syntax: The role of learning context and individual differences (Dr Patrick Rebuschat (University of Lancaster))

2016-03-11 12:00: Tracing concepts through time (Gabriel Recchia (University of Cambridge))

2016-03-11 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series  (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director University of Glasgow)

2016-03-14 12:00: Latent Transition Profile Analysis: A person-centred model of Change (Dr Luke Fryer , Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-16 10:00: It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrine (Tom Dean, Google Research)

2016-03-16 14:00: Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural Assumptions (Jacob Steinhardt (Stanford University))

2016-03-16 17:00: PESGB Seminar Series: An Arendtian perspective on inclusive education: towards a reimagined vocabulary (Morten Timmermann Korsgaard, Aarhus University)

2016-03-18 14:00: Texts Come from People - How Demographic Factors Influence NLP Models (Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen)

2016-03-18 17:00: Play Like A Girl (Mindy Abovitz)

2016-03-24 15:00: Signal Recovery from Scattering Convolutional Neural Networks (Joan Bruna (Berkeley))

2016-03-31 14:30: Fast Fusion of Multi-band Images: A Powerful Tool for Super-resolution (Qi Wei (University of Cambridge))

2016-04-05 11:00: Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming System (Jan-Willem van de Meent (Oxford))

2016-04-07 14:30: Variational Methods and Compressed Sensing (Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge))

2016-04-07 15:30: Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming (Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands)

2016-04-07 15:30: Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming (Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands)

2016-04-08 12:00: Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail Locations (Sandro Bauer (University of Cambridge))

2016-04-13 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Virtual performance on YouTube:  Expanding our concept of “ensemble” (Dr. Christopher Cayari, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2016-04-14 14:30: inference failures in probabilistic programming (Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd))

2016-04-15 12:00: From passive to interactive (multimodal) language learning (Angeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento)

2016-04-18 16:00: Digital Making: Encouraging creativity in the classroom and integrating STEAM project-based learning (Carrie Anne Philbin, Education Pioneer, Raspberry Pi Foundation)

2016-04-19 17:00: How we become musically sophisticated: A gap in the literature and a new research perspective (Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen, Goldsmiths University of London)

2016-04-20 12:30: The role of sleep and circadian rhythmicity in brain health and cognition (Alpar Lazar, Cambridge)

2016-04-21 14:30: Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGo (Shixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah)

2016-04-21 16:30: The language of higher-order uncertainty (Dan Lassiter, Stanford University)

2016-04-22 16:00: The information complexity of sequential resource allocation (Emilie Kaufmann (INRIA LIlle))

2016-04-22 16:30: Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control.   (Professor Tim Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford)

2016-04-26 09:00: Focus on American Children's Literature mini-symposium (Professor Jerry Griswold)

2016-04-26 17:00: Music therapy, depression and frontal brain activity (Professor Jorg Fachner, Anglia Ruskin University )

2016-04-27 12:30: Dysphoria-linked individual differences in emotional mental imagery thought frequency (Julie Ji, MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit)

2016-04-27 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Musical virtual hangouts: Changing policy and strategy for community engagement in a major US Orchestra (Dr. Patrick Schmidt, University of Western Ontario)

2016-04-27 17:15: Morphological complexity in Skolt Saami, an endangered Finno-Ugric language (Tim Feist, University of Surrey)

2016-04-28 14:30: Topics in Expectation Propagation (Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner)

2016-04-28 15:30: Motivated visual cognition: How rewards affect visual attention and memory (Professor Jane Raymond, School of Psychology, Birmingham)

2016-04-28 16:00: How neurophysiological investigations of bilingual processing have shaped my conception of human freedom (Professor Guillaume Thierry (University of Bangor))

2016-04-29 12:00: Maternal Health in Uganda: Listen Intelligently to Local Voices combining Language and Technology (Claudia Abreu Lopes, Africa's Voices)

2016-04-29 16:30: The Invention of Consciousness (Professor Nick Humphrey, Darwin College, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-03 16:30:   The importance of testimony in children’s learning (Kathleen Corriveau)

2016-05-03 17:00: What can the biological study of music show us? (Dr. Daisy Fancourt, Royal College of Music )

2016-05-04 12:30: Intrusive emotional memories: a special form of memory (Alex Lau-Zhu MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2016-05-04 17:15: The Kvens and planning of a minority language (Eira Söderholm, University of Tromsø)

2016-05-05 12:30: Associations and structure: How knowledge drives reasoning (Aiden Feeney Senior Lecturer School of Psychology Queen's University Boston)

2016-05-05 14:30: An introduction to Bayesian nonparametrics: some inference schemes for infinite mixture models (Maria Lomeli)

2016-05-05 15:30: Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula? (Professor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2016-05-06 16:00: Computational Challenges in Sleeping Combinatorial Experts (Varun Kanade (Oxford))

2016-05-06 16:30: An engineering approach to aversive learning. (Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-10 17:00: The Quest to Tune the Guitar Bridge, 1831-1956 (Charles Pardoe, University of Cambridge )

2016-05-11 12:30: Cognitive control in affective contexts (Susanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit)

2016-05-11 14:00: Architecture and Education:  two-footed stories of exploration (Dominic Cullinan, SCABAL; Dr Rosie Parnell, Northumbria University; Dr Pam Woolner, University of Newcastle)

2016-05-11 17:00: Can Layout and Engraving Rules Affect the  Readability of Musical Scores?  (Arild Stenberg, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-12 15:30: Helping the police with their enquiries (Professor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle)

2016-05-12 16:00: A head movement approach to the manner-of-directed-motion parameter (Professor Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster))

2016-05-13 11:00: MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical Models (Kui Tang, Columbia University)

2016-05-13 16:00: Random warping functions for function/curve registration (Karthik Bharath (Nottingham))

2016-05-13 16:30: Measuring rodent affect: Rethinking taste aversion and (some) models of psychiatric disorder." (Dominic M. Dwyer – Cardiff University)

2016-05-18 12:30: Executive functions during abstract problem solving (Nadja Tschentscher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2016-05-18 16:00: Generating Natural-Language Video Descriptions using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks (Raymond Mooney, University of Texas)

2016-05-19 15:30: Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects (Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol)

2016-05-19 16:30: Phonotactics with[awt] rules: the learnability of a simple, unnatural pattern in English (John Harris, UCL (in collaboration with Nick Neasom (UCL) and Kevin Tang (Yale)))

2016-05-19 17:00: Language Contact and the Genesis of Mishnaic Hebrew (Professor Edward Cook, Catholic University, Washington DC)

2016-05-20 12:00: Conversation Trees: A Grammar Model for Topic Structure in Online Forums (Annie Louis, University of Essex)

2016-05-20 16:00: Tail index estimation, concentration, adaptation... (Stéphane Boucheron (Paris Diderot))

2016-05-20 16:30: Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspective (Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience; Wellcome Trust Sernior Research Fellow in Clinical Science Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation T)

2016-05-21 09:00: Horse Tales: Writing the Equine in Children’s Literature (K. M. Peyton, Meg Rosoff, Jane Badger, Susanna Forrest)

2016-05-23 10:45: Dimers Day in Cambridge (Boutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli)

2016-05-24 14:00: Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding via Regularized Kernel Estimation (Ming Yuan (U. of Wisconsin))

2016-05-24 14:00: Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic Modeling (Robert Peharz (TU Graz))

2016-05-24 17:00: Some Reflections on the Evolution and Differentiation of Human Utterance (Professor Adam Kendon, University of Cambridge )

2016-05-26 14:30: Learning polynomials with Neural Networks  (Aldo Pacchiano (Berkeley))

2016-05-26 15:00: Third workshop on ‘Romeyka and the languages of the eastern Black Sea’ (Invited speakers: Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld University, Germany) & Metin Bagriacik (University of Ghent, Belgium))

2016-05-26 16:00: English dialects: Geographical perceptions, language regard, and listener reactions (Dr Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield))

2016-05-27 09:00: Third workshop on ‘Romeyka and the languages of the eastern Black Sea’ (Invited speakers: Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld University, Germany) & Metin Bagriacik (University of Ghent, Belgium))

2016-05-27 11:00: Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech Recognition  (Gabriel Synnaeve)

2016-05-27 12:00: Incremental CCG parsing and its applications (Bharat Ram Ambati, University of Edinburgh/Apple)

2016-05-31 17:00: Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History (Professor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute)

2016-06-01 12:30: High level language processing mechanisms in the human brain (Evelina Fedorenko, MIT)

2016-06-02 09:30: Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in Julia (Hong Ge (University of Cambridge))

2016-06-02 10:30: Novel MCMC and SMC schemes for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models (Maria Lomeli (University of Cambridge))

2016-06-02 11:30: Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximations (Alexander Matthews (University of Cambridge))

2016-06-02 14:30: Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) (Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro)

2016-06-03 14:00: Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal Mathematics (Josef Urban)

2016-06-03 16:00: A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables  (Sarah Filippi (Oxford))

2016-06-06 16:30: Wellbeing in pregnancy and early motherhood: The impact of engagement in arts-based creativities (Dr Rosie Perkins, Research Fellow, Royal College of Music)

2016-06-07 09:30: Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networks  (Teppo Niinimäki (Helsinki))

2016-06-07 10:30: Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical Models (Stephen Pasteris (UCL))

2016-06-07 17:00: Every Body Matters: Using Action Research to Work Towards Injury Prevention and Health Promotion in Young Musicians  (Sarah Upjohn, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge )

2016-06-08 12:30: Large-scale brain networks in cognition and consciousness: focus on the default mode network (Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis (University of Cambridge))

2016-06-09 11:00: Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity (Isabel Valera )

2016-06-09 15:30: The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience   (Professor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford)

2016-06-09 16:00: The granularity of social action ascription in conversational interaction (Professor Michael Haugh (University of Queensland))

2016-06-10 12:00: Strong Structural Priors for Neural Network Architectures (Tim Rocktäschel ( UCL))

2016-06-10 16:00: Chaining and convexity (Ramon van Handel (Princeton))

2016-06-14 10:00: Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learning (Sixin Zhang (NYU))

2016-06-14 11:00: Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task Learning (Yu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology))

2016-06-14 15:00: A modular architecture for Unicode text compression (Adam Gleave (University of Cambridge))

2016-06-14 17:00: Understanding conflicting results in the speech perception literature: methodologies, problems and findings regarding cognitive contributions (Dr Sarah Knight, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham)

2016-06-15 12:30: Developmental disorders of working memory (Erica Bottacin, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2016-06-15 16:00: Art in Mind: Evaluating the impact of participatory arts  on improved mental wellbeing (Emily Bradfield)

2016-06-16 15:30: Explorations in structural and functional compensation: Examples from aphasia and dyslexia (Dr Anna Woollams, University of Manchester)

2016-07-01 12:00: Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners (Menglin Xia (University of Cambridge))

2016-07-04 12:00: Don't multiply lightly: exploring how DNN depth interacts with HMM independence assumptions in hybrid HMM/DNN's used for ASR (Steven Wegmann, Semantic Machines and International Computer Science Institute (ICSI))

2016-07-07 16:30: The Creative Turn: Fostering Creativities in Secondary Schools, an International Study (Dr Anne Harris, Monash University)

2016-07-12 11:00: Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian Inference (Prof. David Blei (Columbia University))

2016-07-13 14:30: Acquisition of perceptual expertise as an inference process - and its failure in the case of the dyslexia (Professor Merav Ahissar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

2016-07-21 11:00: Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series Methodology (Professor Mike West (Statistical Science, Duke University))

2016-07-25 11:00: Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured Data (Prof Le Song (Georgia Tech))

2016-07-29 11:00: Interpretable and interactive machine learning (Dr Been Kim)

2016-08-02 12:45: Policy Mobilities and Education Policy Research (Dr Marcia McKenzie, University of Saskatchewan)

2016-08-08 11:00: Inference as Learning (George Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh))

2016-08-19 12:00: Very deep convolutional neural networks for speech recognition (Tom Sercu, IBM Watson, USA)

2016-09-01 19:00: Structured Queries For Unstructured Data. David Milward, CTO Linguamatics. (David Milward, Linguamatics.)

2016-09-02 11:00: Data Driven Discrete Time Modeling of Continuous Time Nonlinear Systems: Problems, Challenges, Success Stories (Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

2016-09-08 11:00: Learning with Memory Embeddings (Professor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich))

2016-09-12 11:00: Dynamic Models for Health Data (Professor Katherine A Heller (Duke University))

2016-09-13 11:00: Multiresolution Matrix Factorization (Prof Risi Kondor (U Chicago))

2016-09-21 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 12: Informed Teaching, Boundless Musicianship (Dr Deborah Confredo, Temple University, USA)

2016-09-23 09:30: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Michelle Martin, University of Washington and Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges, University of Cambridge)

2016-09-24 09:30: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Michelle Martin, University of Washington and Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-05 12:30: Open Science at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2016-10-05 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 12: Community Music, the Aging Process, and Lifespan Learning: Directions in Adult Music Participation (Dr Nathan Kruse, Case Western Reserve University)

2016-10-06 11:00: Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCA (Professor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS))

2016-10-06 11:00: Multiword Expressions and Compositionality Detection: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time (Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul))

2016-10-06 15:30: Improving access to treatments for childhood anxiety disorders (Cathy Creswell, University of Reading)

2016-10-07 16:00: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Convergence Rates for Least-Squares Regression (Francis Bach (INRIA))

2016-10-07 16:30: The psychological and neural basis of the individual vulnerability to compulsive disorders: new insights from preclinical studies. (Dr David Belin)

2016-10-11 16:30: Towards a Pedagogy of Integration: Developing multiple competences in Brazilian Higher Music Education (Heloisa Feichas – Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

2016-10-12 12:30: Testing the potential of Modafinil to improve cognition in patients with remitted depression (Muzaffer Kaser, Cambridge University)

2016-10-13 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-10-13 15:30: Adaptive memory and its temporal dynamics (Maria Wimber, Birmingham University)

2016-10-14 12:00: Internal Seminar pt. 1 (NLIP Postdocs and PhDs)

2016-10-14 16:00: Community Detection on the Weighted Stochastic Block Model (Min Xu (U Penn))

2016-10-14 16:30: Visual Attention Without Visual Awareness (Professor Robert Kentridge)

2016-10-19 12:30: Psychopathology and plasticity of the social brain: From emotion regulation to empathy and theory of mind (Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute)

2016-10-19 17:00: Collaborative and dialogic meaning-making: how children engage and immerse in a digital storyworld  (Fiona Maine, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-20 10:00: Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors (Manon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University)

2016-10-20 11:00: Building and using the Finnish Internet Parsebank (Filip Ginter (University of Turku))

2016-10-20 15:30: Single neuron evidence of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning (Steve Kennerley, UCL)

2016-10-20 16:30: The origins of speech and anti-rhythms (Laurence White (Plymouth University))

2016-10-21 12:00: Numerically Grounded Language Models (George Spithourakis (UCL))

2016-10-21 16:00: Minimax adaptive estimation in nonparametric Hidden Markov Models (Yohann de Castro (Paris Sud - Orsay))

2016-10-21 16:30: See what you hear  - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses - (Professor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK)

2016-10-24 15:30: Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines (Marco Baroni (University of Trento/Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research))

2016-10-24 17:00: The Value of Languages: Towards a UK Strategy for Languages (Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-25 09:30: 2016 Cambridge-Africa Day (A range of interesting and high profile presentations about collaborations between Cambridge and African researchers and students)

2016-10-26 16:30: Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and The Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis (Juliette Blevins (Graduate Center, CUNY))

2016-10-26 17:00: Assessment Policy and Music Education: Perspectives from North America (Dr. Glenn Nierman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

2016-10-27 11:00: User-generated content mining: From collective disease rates to individual demographics (Vasileios Lampos (UCL))

2016-10-28 10:00: Advancing Creativities Research: Making Connections across Diverse Settings (BERA Special Interest Group: Creativity In Education)

2016-10-28 16:00: Normal Approximation and Concentration for Functions of Sample Covariance Operators  (Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech))

2016-10-28 16:30: Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations ( Philippe Peigneux, PhD,  Chair Clinical Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ULB Francqui Research Professor 2013-2016  Head of UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Centre de Rec)

2016-10-31 12:00: Investigating the interdependencies between DNN architectures and optimisation methods for Large Vocabulary Speech Continuous Speech Recognition (Adnan Haider, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-01 16:30: Dynamic literacies and agentive learners in static systems (Dr John Potter Department of Culture, Communication and Media University College London Knowledge Lab UCL Institute of Education)

2016-11-02 11:00: Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstration (Dushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute)

2016-11-02 12:30: Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset (Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-11-03 11:00: Biomedical Text Mining: Structuring the Unstructured (David Milward (Linguamatics))

2016-11-03 11:00: Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable Models  (Tomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan)

2016-11-03 13:30: A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah)

2016-11-03 15:30: Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural control (Tim Behrens, Oxford)

2016-11-03 16:30: Creativity and discourse strategies in recent Spanish social protest movements (Manuela Romano Mozo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid))

2016-11-04 16:00: Constrained and Localized Nonparametric Estimation and Optimization (John Lafferty (U of Chicago))

2016-11-04 16:30: Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets?  (Professor Gregor Thut,  Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2016-11-07 11:00: A talk in two parts: (1) AI Neuroscience: How much do deep neural networks understand about the images they classify? (2) Robots that can adapt like animals.  (Prof. Jeff Clune (U Wyoming))

2016-11-07 17:00: Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15 (Dr Mike Scott, Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd.)

2016-11-08 13:15: Amazon Alexa: building AI at scale (David Hardcastle, Senior Manager, Software Development, Amazon)

2016-11-09 12:30: Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia (Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University)

2016-11-09 14:00: Short Course: Lecture 1 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration  (Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech.)

2016-11-09 16:15: Web search in an AI world: small, cute, distributed. (Dr Aurelie Herbelot -  University of Trento)

2016-11-09 16:30: Indo-European and Iranian layers of Armenian vocabulary: the case of month names (Hrach Martirosyan (Vienna))

2016-11-09 17:00: Citizens or Subjects? El Sistema in Critical Perspective (Dr. Geoff Baker, University of London)

2016-11-09 17:30: Researching reading spaces (Faculty of Education doctoral students)

2016-11-10 09:00: Open Source and NLP (Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Aurelie Herbelot (Trento), Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Behrang QasemiZadeh (Düsseldorf), Nandaja Varma, Esther Seyffarth (Düsseldorf), Hrishikesh K.B. (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing))

2016-11-10 11:00: Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning (Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome))

2016-11-10 13:30: Sketching methods (John Bradshaw)

2016-11-10 15:30: Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes (Richard Turner, Cambridge)

2016-11-11 12:00: Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative Zoning (Daniel Duma, University of Edinburgh)

2016-11-11 14:00: Short Course: Lecture 2 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration (Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech.)

2016-11-11 16:30: The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition (Axel Cleeremans,  Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

2016-11-14 17:15: Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing  (Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide)

2016-11-16 12:30: Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory (Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-11-16 16:30: Orthography, <ει>? Spellings in Papyri, Uncials, and Tyndale House’s *The New Testament in its Original Greek* (Patrick James (Cambridge))

2016-11-16 17:00:  Towards a 300 Year History of Horror Literature for Children: A Swedish Survey with European Examples. (Mattias Fyhr, Jönköping University)

2016-11-17 11:00: Industrial NLP Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains (Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters))

2016-11-17 11:00: Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept? (Prof. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick))

2016-11-17 13:30: deep generative models (Dave Janz; James Requeima)

2016-11-17 13:30: Poster session I (Various)

2016-11-17 14:00: Language dynamics: a neurocognitive approach to incremental interpretation (Lorraine K. Tyler)

2016-11-17 15:00: Natural Language Processing and online health reports (or OMG U got flu?) (Nigel Collier & Anna Korhonen)

2016-11-17 15:30: How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech    (Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario)

2016-11-17 15:30: Poster session II (Various)

2016-11-17 16:30: Does natural language understanding have anything to do with understanding natural language? (Ann Copestake)

2016-11-17 17:00: A molecular genetic perspective on speech and language (Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen))

2016-11-18 12:00: Learning to Detect Stance and Represent Emojis (Isabelle Augenstein, University College London)

2016-11-18 16:00: Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data (Ian Dryden (Nottingham))

2016-11-18 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series  (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director,  Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology,  University of Glasgow)

2016-11-21 17:00: Language Development and School Achievement of EAL Students: EALead Project II (EALead Project Team, University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University)

2016-11-22 11:30: Rejection Sampling Variational Inference (Francisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge))

2016-11-22 17:00: A Patterned Past?  Framing and keying in history textbooks (Tina van der Vlies, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

2016-11-22 17:00: Conceptualising, Adapting and Measuring Young People’s Wellbeing in Secondary Schools in Kazakhstan (Dr. Ros McLellan Dr. Liz Winter &  Dr.Eva Brown Hajdukova,Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge,  Dr. Daniel Torrano, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University )

2016-11-22 17:30: A feast of languages: multilingualism in neuro-typical and atypical populations (Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-22 18:00: ‘Arts-based’ and ‘STEAMed’ research approaches: Intersections of interdisciplinary research with visual and performing intercultural arts practices (Professor Pamela Burnard, Faculty of Education)

2016-11-23 12:30: Social rank processing in depression (Jason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-11-23 16:30: Being non-binary: gender assignment in Old High German (Sheila Watts)

2016-11-24 11:00: A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddings (Krzysztof Choromanski, Google NY)

2016-11-24 11:00: Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations (Maria Liakata (Warwick University))

2016-11-24 13:30: Bayesian Optimization (Pawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe)

2016-11-24 15:30: Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus? (David Baguley, University of Nottingham)

2016-11-24 17:15: The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana (Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University)

2016-11-24 17:15: The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana (Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University)

2016-11-25 12:00: On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems (Pei-Hao Su (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-25 16:00: Measuring sample quality with diffusions (Sebastian Vollmer (Oxford))

2016-11-25 16:30: Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity (Professor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2016-11-26 11:00: ‘Diglossia, Bidialectalism, or Bilingualism? Portuguese as a Foreign Language in the Classroom’ (Dr Ioanna Sitaridou, Felipe Schuery, Prof. Stavroula Tsiplakou, Prof. Matilde V. R. Scaramucci, Prof. João Costa, Aretousa Giannakou )

2016-12-01 11:00: Learning with limited supervision (Stefano Ermon, Stanford)

2016-12-01 13:30: Symmetry in Statistical Models (Mark Rowland; Maria Lomeli)

2016-12-01 15:30: On sensing what is not there (Andrew Welchman, Cambridge)

2016-12-01 16:30: Misreading and language change: a foray into cognitive historical linguistics? (Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge))

2016-12-01 17:00: Memory, Miniaturization, and the Transformative Energy of Fairy Tales (Professor Maria Tatar, The John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Harvard University.  )

2016-12-02 12:00: Internal Seminar pt. 2 (PhD students, NLIP group)

2016-12-02 16:00: Gaussian vectors, half-spaces, and convexity (Joe Neeman (UT Austin & Bonn))

2016-12-02 16:30: Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain (Prof. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University)

2016-12-05 17:15: Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting (Bruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ))

2016-12-05 17:15: Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting (Bruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro))

2016-12-09 16:30: Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development (Professor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. )

2016-12-13 11:00: Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models (Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto))

2016-12-14 15:00: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot Collaboration (Elena Corina Grigore (Yale University))

2016-12-15 11:00: Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated models (Daniel Roy (University of Toronto))

2016-12-16 16:30: ‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’ (Dr Rosalind Ridley)

2017-01-12 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-01-16 16:00: Real Readers Reading: Child studies and children's literature in a settler society: Collaborating with Indigenous communities across disciplines in Southern Alberta (Dr Kristine Alexander and Dr Erin Spring, Lethbridge University, Alberta)

2017-01-18 12:30: Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding (Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge))

2017-01-18 12:30: Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding (Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge))

2017-01-18 17:00: Microscopes, telescopes or kaleidoscopes?  Using digital quantitative methods to explore  patterns and textures in a literary corpus (Julie Blake, University of Cambridge)

2017-01-19 11:00: Reflections on Universal Dependencies (Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University))

2017-01-19 13:30: NIPS 2016 papers in 5mins (MLG members)

2017-01-19 16:00: Morphological characteristics of Medieval Code Switching (Dr Mareike Keller (University of Manheim))

2017-01-19 17:00: Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy (Professor Christiane Dalton-Puffer, University of Vienna)

2017-01-20 12:00: Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text (Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy)

2017-01-20 16:30: Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints.  (Professor Fiona Newell, School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.)

2017-01-23 16:00: High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics (Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA))

2017-01-24 11:00: Julia: Introduction and new developments (Dr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing))

2017-01-25 12:30: Unitization effects on memory (Roni Tibon (CBSU))

2017-01-25 15:00: Variational Bayes In Private Settings (Mijung Park, University of Amsterdam)

2017-01-25 18:15: The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges (Dr. Marco Tamburelli, Prifysgol Bangor/Bangor University)

2017-01-26 11:00: Learning to Generate Textual Data (Pontus Stenetorp (UCL))

2017-01-26 15:30: Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury (Alan Carson (Edinburgh))

2017-01-26 15:30: Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury (Alan Carson (Edinburgh))

2017-01-26 16:00: The discriminative nature of human communication (Dr Michael Ramscar (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen))

2017-01-27 16:30: Weaponized Lies: An American neuroscientist speaks on the post-truth era (and what we can do about it) ( Daniel J, Levitin PhD, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and University of California at Berkeley)

2017-01-30 17:00: On the Margins: Slovak Roma Children Negotiating Language and Education in Sheffield (Dr Mark Payne, University of Sheffield)

2017-01-31 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs (Group Discussion)

2017-02-01 12:30: Training working memory is learning to do something new (Sue Gathercole (CBSU))

2017-02-02 15:30: Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex (Matteo Carandini (UCL))

2017-02-02 16:30: Notes on the verbal domain in Meadow Mari (Dr Diane Nelson, University of Leeds)

2017-02-03 16:00: Sleeping Beauty’s Credences (Mark Schervisch (CMU))

2017-02-03 16:30: Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal Cortex (Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London)

2017-02-07 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization (Group Discussion)

2017-02-07 17:00: Sons and Mothers – The Story of Hare, Elephant and their Mothers: A Kristevan Reading (Dr Dominica Dipio, Makerere University, Uganda)

2017-02-08 12:30: Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU (Bob Carlyon (CBSU))

2017-02-08 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Conceptualising Music Education  for Social Inclusion (Dr Oscar Odena, University of Glasgow)

2017-02-09 11:00: Challenges and opportunities in the use of Internet data for insights on medicine (Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research))

2017-02-09 15:30: Confidence and adaptive decision making (Nick Yeung (Oxford))

2017-02-09 16:00: Canonical morphological complexity: a balancing act between lexicon and grammar (Professor Dustan Brown (University of York))

2017-02-10 11:00: Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programs (Valentin Dalibart)

2017-02-10 12:00: Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data (Gerasimos Lampouras, University of Sheffield)

2017-02-10 16:00: Simultaneous multiple change-point and factor analysis for high-dimensional time series (Haeran Cho (Bristol))

2017-02-10 16:30: Learning to learn: lessons from action video games (Professor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva)

2017-02-14 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization (Group Discussion)

2017-02-15 17:00: Using Stories in Speech and Language Therapy for Individuals who have Social Communication Needs (Dr Jenny Gibson, Faculty of Education)

2017-02-16 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Ekaterina Shutova)

2017-02-16 13:30: Probabilistic Numerics (Alessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge))

2017-02-17 16:00: High frequency statistics of semimartingales (Mark Podolskij (Aarhus))

2017-02-17 16:30: Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making? (Professor Mathias Pessiglione, Motivation, Brain & Behavior lab Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France)

2017-02-21 16:00: The summative assessment of individuals’ contributions to collaborative creative processes: Where angels fear to tread?  (Dr Vicki Thorpe, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

2017-02-21 17:00: The Underpass: Urban Experience in Swedish Young Adult Literature 1890–2010 (Lydia Wistisen, Stockholm University)

2017-02-22 12:30: We need to talk about social reward: Associations between psychopathic traits and social reward (Lucy Foulkes (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2017-02-22 18:15: The revival of Italo-Greek: language ideologies and folklorization (Maria Olimpia Squillaci (University of Cambridge) and Manuela Pellegrino (Brunel University))

2017-02-23 11:00: Computational approaches for deciphering the regulation of cancer genomes  (Shamith Samarajiwa)

2017-02-23 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks (Group Discussion)

2017-02-23 15:00: Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning (Dylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley)

2017-02-23 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Hedde Jeijlstra  (University of Göttingen) )

2017-02-24 12:00: EACL potpourri (NLIP PhDs and postdocs)

2017-02-24 16:30: Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise (Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino)

2017-02-27 12:00: Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems and the Challenges for Machine Learning (Professor Steve Young, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2017-02-27 17:00:     Cross-linguistic Transfer of Learning Strategies between First and Foreign Language Classroom Contexts: Making a Case for a Multilingual Approach to Writing Pedagogy (Dr Karen Forbes, University of Cambridge)

2017-02-28 16:00: Assessing complexity: A cultural historical activity theory analysis. (Dr Vicki Thorpe, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

2017-03-01 12:30: Effect of prospective motion correction on fMRI data/ Task-positive activity in the task-negative default-mode network (Pei Huang and Verity Smith (CBSU))

2017-03-02 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets (Group Discussion)

2017-03-02 15:30: Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it? (Essi Viding (UCL))

2017-03-02 15:30: Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it? (Essi Viding (UCL))

2017-03-02 16:30: The (socio)linguistics of Cypriot Greek as a heritage language in present-day London (Dr Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster)

2017-03-03 12:00: Learning Hierarchical Word and Sentence Representations (Dani Yogatama, DeepMind)

2017-03-03 16:30: Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise (Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, City, University of London)

2017-03-07 16:30: Epistemic Cognition - conceptions of knowledge in action (Professor Kirsti Lonka, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)

2017-03-08 12:30: New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression (Caitlin Hitchcock (CBSU))

2017-03-08 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Challenges and Responsibilities in Popular Music Education: Pedagogies, Ethics and Authenticities (Gareth Dylan Smith, Institute of Contemporary Music Performance)

2017-03-09 11:00: Knowledge Base Population from Text and Graphs (Lucas Sterckx (University of  Ghent))

2017-03-09 13:30: Differential Privacy (John Bradshaw; Alex Matthews)

2017-03-09 13:30: Differential Privacy Tutorial (Alex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-09 15:30: Social brain development in adolescence (Sarah Jane Blakemore (UCL))

2017-03-09 16:00: English dialects: geographical perceptions, language regard and listener reactions (Dr Chris Montgomery  (University of Sheffield) )

2017-03-10 10:00: Children as Observational Filmmakers Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children’s Perspectives (Professor David MacDougall, Australian National University)

2017-03-10 11:00: Control, inference and learning (Prof. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen))

2017-03-10 12:00: Neural Variational Inference for NLP (Yishu Miao, University of Oxford)

2017-03-10 16:00: Discrete structures and prediction in Bayesian Nonparametrics (Igor Pruenster (Universita' Bocconi))

2017-03-10 16:30: Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making (Professor Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2017-03-13 17:15: The Arbëresh linguistic archipelago: a natural laboratory of contact-induced variation and change (Borana Lushaj (Leiden University))

2017-03-14 11:00: Differentially Private Bayesian Learning (Dr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki)

2017-03-14 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks (Group Discussion)

2017-03-15 11:00: Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic Programs (Tom Rainforth, University of Oxford)

2017-03-15 12:30:  Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks (Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) )

2017-03-16 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-03-16 13:30: Kernel Mean Embeddings (Jiri Hron; Adam Scibior)

2017-03-16 15:30: Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction (Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires))

2017-03-16 15:30: Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction (Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires))

2017-03-16 16:30: A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian vernacular (Prof Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow)

2017-03-17 09:00: 3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature (Professor Karen Coats (Illinois State University), Professor Rosalind Ridley (University of Cambridge))

2017-03-17 16:30:  Observations from the Edge of Beauty (Mr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-18 09:00: 3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature (Professor Karen Coats (Illinois State University), Professor Rosalind Ridley (University of Cambridge))

2017-03-21 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNs (Group Discussion)

2017-03-22 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Articulated formation of the music teacher: Aspects related to sustainability (Dr Alda de Jesús Oliveira, Florida State University)

2017-03-24 09:00: New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING (Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse)

2017-03-28 11:00: Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application (Prof. Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology))

2017-04-04 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders (Group Discussion)

2017-04-11 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning (Group Discussion)

2017-04-12 12:30: Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry (Dr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain )

2017-04-13 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-04-20 11:00: Semantic (Vector) Representations  of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities  and their Applications (Jose Camacho-Collados (Sapienza University of Rome))

2017-04-25 13:00: Finding Signals in Twitter with ML/NLP at Bloomberg (Minjie Xu - Bloomberg Software Engineer, Social Media Analytics)

2017-04-26 12:00: Fake News (Ella McPherson, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge; John Naughton, Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, OU)

2017-04-26 12:30: Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry (Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham))

2017-04-26 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Promoting Pedagogic Change and Cultivating Imagination: Demonstrating how Mediated Learning Environments Support Student Engagement in the Music Classroom (Dr Adena Portowitz, Givat Washington Academic College, Israel)

2017-04-27 11:00: Cross-lingual Learning 2.0 (Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen))

2017-04-27 15:00: Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems (Zhou Yu, CMU, US)

2017-04-27 15:30: Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interaction (Antonia Hamilton (UCL))

2017-04-27 17:00: Participatory Creativity in Education: unpacking and problematising the whole process (Dr. Carlos Lage Gómez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

2017-04-28 16:00: Geometric aspects of Statistical Learning Theory (Shahar Mendelson (ANU))

2017-04-28 16:30: Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction (Professor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria)

2017-05-03 12:30: Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process? (Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-03 18:15: VO-OV alternations and information structure in North Sami (Kristine Bentzen, University of Tromsø)

2017-05-04 15:30: I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains. (Jennifer Lau (KCL))

2017-05-04 16:30:  Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects (Adrian Leemann (Lancaster University))

2017-05-05 16:00: The Bouncy Particle Sampler (Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC))

2017-05-05 16:30: Do we control language or does language control us? (Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales.)

2017-05-08 13:00: The Effects of multi-language experience on cognitive development from early infancy to old age: a developmental approach (Dr Roberto Fillipi, UCL)

2017-05-08 14:00: Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome (Susan Holmes (Stanford))

2017-05-09 16:30:  Argumentation for learning: What we know and what we need to know (Dr Christa Asterhan, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  )

2017-05-09 17:00: Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books (Philip Nel, Kansas State University)

2017-05-10 12:30: The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention (Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-10 16:00: A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex (Professor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento)

2017-05-10 17:15: Norwegian Romani - the 'languageness' of a Para-Romani variety (Jakob Wiedner, University of Oslo)

2017-05-11 11:00: Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces (Eva Maria Vecchi)

2017-05-11 15:30: CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind? (Mark Stokes (Oxford))

2017-05-11 16:30: Thinking about what might have been: the development of children's counterfactual thinking (Sarah Beck Reader in Cognitive Development, University of Birmingham)

2017-05-12 12:00: Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Semantically Specialised Vector Spaces (Nikola Mrskic, University of Cambridge)

2017-05-12 16:00: Constrained low-rank matrix estimation (Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT))

2017-05-12 16:30: The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour. (Professor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2017-05-17 12:30: Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation (Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-17 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13:  Psychological health of professors:  Transforming university culture (Dr Valerie Peters, Université Laval, Quebec)

2017-05-18 11:00: Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations (Sebastian Riedel (UCL))

2017-05-18 15:30: Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity (Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford))

2017-05-18 17:00: 2017 Ullendorff Semitic Philology Lecture: Modern South Arabian and Comparative Semitics (Prof. Aaron Rubin, Penn State University)

2017-05-19 12:00:  Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling (Marek Rei, University of Cambridge)

2017-05-19 13:00: DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysis (Professor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University)

2017-05-19 16:00: Robust ranking, constrained ranking and rank aggregation via eigenvector and semidefinite programming synchronization (Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford))

2017-05-19 16:30: Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system (Dr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands))

2017-05-23 16:30: Modelling the impact of cognitive abilities on science learning (Professor Andy Tolmie, UCL Institute of Education)

2017-05-24 12:30: Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI (Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-25 11:00: Location Resolution in Language Processing (Milan Gritta (University of Cambridge))

2017-05-25 11:00: On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks (Martin Arjovsky)

2017-05-25 15:30: Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy  (Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham))

2017-05-25 16:30: Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks  (Shalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London))

2017-05-26 12:00: Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed? (Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield)

2017-05-26 16:00: Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing (Guang Cheng (Purdue))

2017-05-30 17:30: Book Launch: From Tongue To Text (Dr Debbie Pullinger)

2017-05-31 12:30: A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain (Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-31 17:15: A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece (Dr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge)

2017-06-01 11:00: Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London))

2017-06-02 12:00: Sentence-level Topic Models (Kris Cao (University of Cambridge))

2017-06-07 12:00: NLP, the perfect social (media) science? (Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen)

2017-06-07 12:30: Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating (Laura Forde and Shraddha Kaur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-06-08 15:30: Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications (Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin))

2017-06-08 16:00: Mastering the time in music performance (and elsewhere): Reconnecting with the past, feeling the future and enjoying the present  (Dr László Stachó, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest & Faculty of Music, University of Szeged)

2017-06-08 16:30: How children break into language and become interesting talkers within 3 years.  (Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield))

2017-06-09 12:00: Functional Distributional Semantics (Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge))

2017-06-09 15:00: Variable clustering: optimal bounds and a convex approach (Nicolas Verzelen (INRA))

2017-06-12 11:00: Vanishing laws of semantic change - studying semantic change using distributional word representations and proper control condition (Haim Dubossarsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem))

2017-06-13 14:00: Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks (Jan Buys, University of Oxford)

2017-06-14 12:30: Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000) (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-06-14 17:00: The influence of fairy tale on contemporary Australian fantasy fiction for young people (Sophie Masson)

2017-06-15 11:00: Linguists-defined and Machine-induced Natural Language Structures to Executable Logical Forms (Siva Reddy (Stanford University))

2017-06-15 15:30: The typical and atypical development of the human social brain (Mark Johnson (UoC))

2017-06-16 15:00: Deep NLP in language tutoring (Francis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

2017-06-16 16:00: Decoding from Pooled Data: Information-Theoretic bounds and a Message-Passing Algorithm (Ahmed El Alaoui (UC Berkeley))

2017-06-20 17:00: Characters in Comics: Some Medium-Specific Qualities (Dr Kai Mikkonen (University of  Helsinki))

2017-06-21 12:30: How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations? (Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-06-22 15:30: Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition (Kate Jeffrey (UCL))

2017-06-23 13:00: Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst) (Sophia Ananiadou, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester)

2017-07-03 11:00: Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks (Francesco Caravelli (LANL))

2017-07-03 11:00: Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks (Francesco Caravelli (LANL))

2017-07-05 12:30: Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain (Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire)

2017-07-06 11:00: A simple neural network module for relational reasoning (David Barrett, DeepMind)

2017-07-15 14:00: Children in Distress: past precedents and current experience (Sir Tim Brighouse, Dr Carl Emery (University of Manchester), Dr Carrie Herbert MBE (Red Balloon Learner Centre Group), Caroline Peet (Queens’ Federation) and Alison Roy (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist))

2017-07-20 14:00: Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions (Pang Wei Koh, Stanford University)

2017-08-10 13:00: How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer?  (Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2017-08-31 11:00: Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations (Naoya Inoue (Tohoku University, Japan))

2017-09-08 10:00: An Exchange about Doctoral Study and Didactic Research (Johan Ohman and the Graduate School, Orebro University)

2017-09-08 11:00: Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation (Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) )

2017-09-08 11:00: Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image Inpainting (Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) )

2017-09-08 11:00: Deep learning for autonomous driving  (Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) )

2017-09-12 11:00:  The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness (Dr Matt Kusner)

2017-09-14 11:00: Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices (Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton)

2017-09-19 14:00: Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data (Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan))

2017-09-22 12:00: Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language (Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki)

2017-09-26 15:00: A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care  (Dr Cheng Zhang)

2017-10-03 11:00: Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents (Aleksi Vesanto (University of Turku))

2017-10-04 12:30: Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events (Andrea Greve (MRC CBU))

2017-10-04 16:00: CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization (Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond))

2017-10-05 15:30: Differentiation, compensation and cognitive reserve in ageing (Rik Henson (MRC CBU))

2017-10-06 12:00: Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation (Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh)

2017-10-06 16:30: Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering  (Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-10 13:00: Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch  (Simon Hengchen (Université libre de Bruxelles))

2017-10-10 17:00: Academic Speed Dating (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-10-11 12:30: Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory (Sebastian Scheegans (U. of Cambridge))

2017-10-11 18:10: Endangered languages in contact: Domari in its ethnographic and cultural context (Yaron Matras (University of Manchester))

2017-10-12 11:00: Internal LTL Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-10-12 15:30: Perspective taking during communication (Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York))

2017-10-12 17:00: The Influence of Multilingual Identity on Foreign Language Learning (AHRC MEITS Project Team, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-13 12:00: Neural Models for Information Retrieval (Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2017-10-13 14:00: Transfer Learning for NLP (Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre)

2017-10-13 16:30: The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status (Dr Pranjal Mehta,  University College London)

2017-10-18 12:30: Large scale network interactions in consciousness (Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-18 17:15: Culture-based literacy: improving access to Lakota texts at Standing Rock (Elliot Bannister (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe))

2017-10-19 11:00: Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning (Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen)

2017-10-19 11:00: Internal LTL Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-10-19 13:30: Infer.NET (John F. Bronskill)

2017-10-19 15:30: How memory guides value-based decisions (Daphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia))

2017-10-20 12:00: Towards More Robust and Interpretable Models for Structured Prediction and Language Generation (Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind)

2017-10-20 16:00: Analysis of regularized inversion of data corrupted by white Gaussian noise (Hanne Kekonnen)

2017-10-20 16:30: How Power Affects Those Who Possess it:  Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation (Dr Ana Guinote,  University College London)

2017-10-24 17:00: Aina & Alemayehu: the ‘Difficult Birth’ of Inclusive Fantasy Fiction for Youth (Zetta Elliott, Author)

2017-10-25 12:30: Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity (Anne-Laura Van Harmelen (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-26 13:30: Cooperative Inverse RL (Robert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso)

2017-10-26 15:30: Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health (Pierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie))

2017-10-27 12:00: Grounded language learning in simulated worlds (Felix Hill,  DeepMind)

2017-10-27 16:00: Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data (Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris))

2017-10-27 16:30: An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory (Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich)

2017-10-30 17:00: Vocabulary: Principles and Practice (Professor Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham)

2017-11-01 11:00: Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-making (Joshua Kroll)

2017-11-01 12:30: Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions (Marieke Mur (MRC CBU))

2017-11-02 11:00: Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions (Ryohei Sasano (Nagoya University))

2017-11-02 13:30: Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting Recognition (Juan Murillo Fuentes)

2017-11-02 15:30: Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications  (Dominique deQuervain (U. of Basel))

2017-11-02 16:30: Grammar, pragmatics and referential interpretation in English (Julia Kolkmann (University of York))

2017-11-03 16:30: Touch: The sensory scaffold of development? (Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London)

2017-11-04 09:00: A BUG’S LIFE: Creeping and Crawling through Children’s Literature (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-11-08 12:30: High-risk strategies, suicidality and the meaning of p (Peter Jones (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-08 17:00: Multilingualism in foreign language learning: students' and teachers' perspectives in the Norwegian context (Dr. Åsta Haukås, University of Bergen)

2017-11-09 11:00: What can online collaborative dictionaries tell us about language and social dynamics? (Barbara McGillivray (The Alan Turing Institute/University of Cambridge))

2017-11-09 13:30: Interpretability in Machine Learning (Adrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham)

2017-11-09 15:30: The brain isn't porridge  (Dick Passingham (U. of Oxford))

2017-11-10 12:00: Labelling Topics Using Neural Networks (Nikolaos Aletras, Amazon Research Cambridge)

2017-11-10 16:00: Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting (Patrick Rebeschini (Oxford))

2017-11-10 16:30: Information networks, truth and value.  (Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London)

2017-11-15 12:30: Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech  (Matt Davis (MRC CBU))

2017-11-15 17:00: Porridge, Peas, and Pizzas:   An Exploration of Food in Fairy Tales (Dr Rose Williamson, Anglia Ruskin University)

2017-11-15 18:10: Whistled Speech and Language Discrimination (Mary Ann Walter (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus) )

2017-11-16 13:30: WGAN and Optimal Transport (Mark Rowland; Wenbo Gong)

2017-11-16 15:30: Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease (Dennis Chan (U. of Cambridge))

2017-11-17 11:00: Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization (Dr Frank Hutter)

2017-11-17 12:00: Internal seminar - new PhD students (New NLIP PhDs)

2017-11-17 16:00: Learning from MOM's principles  (Guillaume Lecué (ENSAE))

2017-11-17 16:30:  Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia  (Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences  Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience  King’s College London)

2017-11-21 13:30: The Use of Deep Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems (Steve Young (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-21 14:30: Individualised Language in the Big Data Era (Paula Buttery (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-21 15:00: Poster slam (Various)

2017-11-21 15:30: Poster session (Various)

2017-11-21 16:15: Using Social Media to Investigate Linguistic Variation and Change (David Willis (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-21 16:45: Linguistic Yardsticks: Evaluating Language Technology Using Insights from Linguistic Theory (Laura Rimell (DeepMind))

2017-11-21 17:15: Powered by Cambridge: Devices, data and interDisciplinarity (Saul Nassé (Cambridge Assessment))

2017-11-22 12:30: Learning and plasticity in adolescence (Delia Fuhrmann (UCL))

2017-11-23 11:00:  Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling (Kazuya Kawakami (DeepMind))

2017-11-23 13:30: Learning to Learn (Siddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt)

2017-11-23 15:30: The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory (Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam) )

2017-11-23 16:30: Twitter evolution: Birdsong, speech and language (Johan Bolhuis (Utrecht University))

2017-11-24 11:00: Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent (Yutian Chen, DeepMind)

2017-11-24 12:00: Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking (Dr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield)

2017-11-24 14:00: Optimal Sup-norm Rates and Uniform Inference on Nonlinear  Functionals of Nonparametric IV Regression (Xiaohong Chen (Yale))

2017-11-24 15:30: From linear programming to statistics: Fast algorithms for sampling based on interior point methods (Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley))

2017-11-24 16:30: Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control    (Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2017-11-27 11:00: Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation. (Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto))

2017-11-27 16:30: Reorientating learning for career relevance: Leadership development and professional identities (Dr Jennifer Rowley, University of Sydney)

2017-11-30 11:00: Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas (David Barber (University College London))

2017-11-30 13:30: Hardware Efficient Machine Learning (Robert Peharz; Marton Havasi)

2017-11-30 15:30: Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retention (David Shanks (UCL))

2017-12-01 11:00: AI for Inclusive Finance (Alan Qi and Le Song)

2017-12-01 16:30: Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory (Dr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton)

2017-12-13 11:00: Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks (Professor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University)

2017-12-13 13:30: Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priors (Manfred Opper, TU Berlin)

2017-12-14 13:30: NIPS 2017 Highlights (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-01-11 11:00: Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution (Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI))

2018-01-11 13:30: Machine Learning for Sounds (Akisato Kimura)

2018-01-17 12:30: Role of primate amygdala neurons in economic decision-making (Fabian Grabenhorst (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Physiology, Development and  Neuroscience))

2018-01-18 11:00: Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics (Stephen McGregor (TCIDA, Goldsmiths))

2018-01-18 16:00: Languages adapt to minute differences in their speakers’ ecology (Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven))

2018-01-19 15:00: BOOK LAUNCH: The Edinburgh Companion  to Children's Literature (Juliet Dusinberre, Alison Waller, Eve Tandoi, Andrew Burn, Eugene Giddens, Zoe Jaques, Clementine Beauvais and Maria Nikolajeva)

2018-01-19 16:30: Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and Expertise (Dr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2018-01-24 12:30: Functional MRI across the lifespan: challenges and perspectives (Kamen Tsvetanov (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology) )

2018-01-25 11:00: Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines (Petar Milin (Sheffield))

2018-01-25 13:30: Minimum Description Length (Carl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus)

2018-01-25 15:30: Towards large-scale analyses of genes, brains and language (Prof Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen))

2018-01-25 16:30: Grammar as a Maturationally Controlled Behavior: Minimality in language Development and Impairment (Maria Garraffa (Heriot-Watt University))

2018-01-26 16:00: Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes (Judith Rousseau (Oxford))

2018-01-26 16:30: Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening (Dr Antje Heinrich, Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester)

2018-01-29 17:00: Multilingual practices and attitudes among university students in Europe and the US: implications for the teaching of languages (Professor Anne Pauwels, School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), University of London)

2018-01-31 12:30: Remapping the cognitive and neural profiles of children who struggle at school (Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-01-31 16:30: On creative learning: researching in children's homes using arts-based methods (Dr James Biddulph )

2018-02-01 13:30: Deep Generative Models (Jonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews)

2018-02-01 15:30: Imaging in an era of multi-scale neuroscience: challenges and opportunities  (Karla Miller (U. of Oxford))

2018-02-01 16:00: Using quantile regression and dynamic survival analysis to study the time course of the lexical processing of complex words (Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen))

2018-02-02 17:00: A conversation on his life and work with Prof David Spiegelhalter (Prof Baruch Fishhoff, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University )

2018-02-05 16:30: Just As Quare As You Wanna Be:  On Afrofuturism as Cultural Aesthetic and Method for Liberating Black Bodies (Charlena M. Wynn)

2018-02-06 17:00: Changing languages in European Higher Education: from official policies to unofficial classroom practices (Dr. Emma Dafouz, Complutense University)

2018-02-07 12:30: Value generalization during human avoidance learning (Agnes Nobury (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering))

2018-02-08 11:00: Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling (Ivan Titov (Edinburgh))

2018-02-08 15:30: Attentional episodes and cognitive control (John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-02-08 16:30: Third language acquisition at the initial stages: An event-related potential study probing for transfer (Jason Rothman, David Miller and Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading / UiT the Arctic University of Norway))

2018-02-09 12:00: Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks (Edoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-09 16:30: Using narratives to understand human conscious experience (Dr Lorina Naci, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2018-02-14 17:00: “Soap cost a dollar”: Jostling with minds in economic contexts (Astrid Van den Bossche, University of Oxford)

2018-02-15 11:00: Predicting Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (Nikos Aletras (Sheffield))

2018-02-15 13:30: Statistical Learning Theory (Maria Lomeli)

2018-02-15 15:30: How language variation contributes to reading difficulties and “achievement gaps” (Mark Seidenberg (U. of Wisconsin-Madison))

2018-02-15 16:00: The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic language: Towards a comprehensive radical contextualist account (Dr. Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-16 11:00: Lipschitz Global Optimization (Professor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria)

2018-02-16 12:00: Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisation (Dr Milica Gasic, Dept. Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-16 16:30: From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis. (Prof Elia Formisano Maastricht-Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands )

2018-02-19 12:00: Structured Deep Learning for Dialogue Management (Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

2018-02-21 12:30: MRI in large animals: a new imaging model (Arsene Ella (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-02-21 16:30: A Bourdiesian analysis of songwriting habitus (Leandro Maia, Federal University of Pelotas)

2018-02-21 18:15: Speak white, speak black, speak American (Darryl G Barthe Jr (Universiteit van Amsterdam))

2018-02-22 15:30: Finding meaning in English writing (Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway))

2018-02-23 12:00: Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documents (Johannes Welbl, University College London)

2018-02-23 16:00: Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem (Azadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster))

2018-02-23 16:30: : Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties (Prof. Roland W. Fleming, PhD  Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology,  Justus-Leibig University Giessen     )

2018-02-26 12:00: How to track the impact of your publications (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-02-28 12:30: Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing (Claire O’Callaghan (U. of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences))

2018-02-28 16:30: Putting Feminist New Materialism to work through affective methodologies in early childhood research (Professor Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University)

2018-03-01 11:00: NLP in the clinical domain - data, approaches and considerations (Sumithra Velupillai (King's College))

2018-03-01 13:30: Information Theory, Codes, and Compression (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge))

2018-03-01 15:30: CANCELLED: The cognitive neuroscience of antidepressant drug action (Catherine Harmer (U. of Oxford))

2018-03-01 16:00:  Sources of Variability in Language Activation and Control in Spanish/English bilinguals and L2 learners (Teresa Bajo, Center for Mind, Brain and Behaviour, University of Granada)

2018-03-02 12:00: Jointly Learning Syntax and Semantics (Jean Maillard, NLIP, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-02 14:00: On the gap between local recovery guarantees in structured compressed sensing and oracle estimates (Claire Boyer (UPMC))

2018-03-02 16:30: How is visual perception biased (Dr Floris de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2018-03-06 11:00: Structure in tensor-variate data: a trivial byproduct of simpler phenomena? (John P. Cunningham)

2018-03-06 17:00: Multilingual Identities and Heterogeneous Language Ideologies in the New Latino Diaspora (Professor Stanton Wortham, Boston College)

2018-03-07 12:30: UK 7T travelling-head study: pilot results (Catarina Rua (U. of Cambridge, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre))

2018-03-08 13:30: Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing (Matej Balog (University of Cambridge))

2018-03-08 15:30: The persistence and transience of memory (Paul Frankland (U. of Toronto))

2018-03-09 12:00: Louisiana  Creole - a creole at the periphery (Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg))

2018-03-09 12:00: Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery (Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg))

2018-03-09 16:30: Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communication (Professor Nick Chater, University of Warwick)

2018-03-09 16:30: What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception? (Prof Leon Deouell, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2018-03-14 12:30: All-resolutions inference for brain imaging (Wouter Weeda (Leiden University))

2018-03-15 15:30: Neurodevelopment disorders of genetic origin – what can we learn?  (Kate Baker (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-03-16 16:30: Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology (Prof Asifa Majid, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University)

2018-03-20 11:00: Moving Experiences:  Children's Literate Lives in a Mobile Ecology  (Professor Margaret Mackay, University of Alberta)

2018-03-20 13:00: EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND VALUES THROUGH ARCHITECTURE: Revisiting radical pasts to make space for broader visions of education (Dominic Cullinan (SCABAL), Helen Taylor (Scott Brownrigg), Crawford Wright (Department for Education), Michele Zini (ZPZ Partners))

2018-03-20 15:00: Beats Matter: Educational, Therapeutic and Cross-Cultural Applications of Hip Hop Beat Making and Culture (Dr Elliot Gann, Today’s Future Sound)

2018-03-22 11:00: Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and the Wisdom of Crowds (Daisuke Kawahara (Kyoto University))

2018-03-22 16:30: CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language (Prof Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge))

2018-03-23 12:00: ** cancelled ** (Julian Perez, Naver Labs Europe)

2018-03-26 16:00: Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory (Prof. Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz))

2018-04-15 11:00: Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks (Ana Stoica, Columbia University)

2018-04-17 11:00: A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGD (Dr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain)

2018-04-25 12:30: Personality Neuroscience: looking for the neurological roots of individual differences in behavioural traits (Dr Luca Passamonti (U. of Cambridge, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience))

2018-04-26 16:00: Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency? (Prof Richard 'Dick' Hudson)

2018-04-27 12:00: Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings (Ivan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge)

2018-04-27 16:00: Orbit recovery from invariants (Jonathan Weed (MIT))

2018-05-01 17:00: The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Kathryn Aalto)

2018-05-02 12:30: No WLTS on 2 May - Talk has been postponed until 20 June  (Talk has been postponed until 20 June)

2018-05-02 16:30: Putting Feminist New Materialism to work through affective methodologies in early childhood research (Professor Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University)

2018-05-02 18:00: An extinct coastal Sami musical tradition – How, when and why? (Ola Graff, University of Tromsø)

2018-05-03 11:00: Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling (Ehsan Shareghi)

2018-05-03 12:00: Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning (Andrey Malinin (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-03 15:30: What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?  (Gareth Gaskell (U. of York))

2018-05-03 16:30: Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages (Dr James Kirby (University of Edinburgh))

2018-05-04 12:00: Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning (Andrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge)

2018-05-04 16:30: Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex (Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science,  Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience,  Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London)

2018-05-09 11:00: Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks (Ana Stoica, Columbia University)

2018-05-09 12:30: Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy  cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study) (Sophia Borgeest (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-05-10 15:30: Title TBC (Speaker TBC)

2018-05-11 12:00: Emergent Communication through Negotiation (Kris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge)

2018-05-11 13:00: EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND VALUES THROUGH ARCHITECTURE: Revisiting radical pasts to make space for broader visions of education (Adrian Leaman (Usable Buildings Trust), Katharina Sütterlin & Susanne Wagner  (Bauereignis Sütterlin Wagner))

2018-05-11 16:00: Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics  (Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg))

2018-05-11 16:30: Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking    (Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2018-05-15 16:30: METAGEOGRAPHY OR PLAY-SPACE-IMAGE-ACTION: A VISUAL ARTS PRACTICE BASED RESEARCH (Dr Idit Nathan)

2018-05-15 18:00: French in Canada: Ontario and Quebec compared (Prof. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa))

2018-05-16 12:30: Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds  (Frank Hezemans (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-05-16 13:00: Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Scientific enquiry, perception preparedness and problem solving by magic! (Dr Antonia Symeonidou, Academy of Science and Magic)

2018-05-16 18:00: Elfdalian, a divergent Nordic dialect now and throughout the ages (Guus Kroonen, University of Copenhagen/Leiden University)

2018-05-17 15:30: Remembering complex events (Chris Bird (U. of Sussex))

2018-05-18 12:00: The potential of synthetic data for more informative evaluation in Visual Question Answering (Alexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge)

2018-05-18 16:00: Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model (Kolyan Ray (King's College London))

2018-05-18 16:30: Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms (Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London)

2018-05-21 16:00: On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization (Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India))

2018-05-23 11:30: Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect Features (Julius von Kugelgen)

2018-05-23 12:30: Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system (Moataz Assem (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-05-23 13:00: Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Cubist Poetic Portraiture: Un/Making the Self-Portrait of the Young Offender as an Artist as a Human (Afrodita Nikolova)

2018-05-24 15:30: Why are we so bad at face recognition? (Mike Burton (U. of York))

2018-05-24 16:30: Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English (David Hall (Queen Mary, University of London))

2018-05-25 12:00: NAACL practice talks (Simon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge)

2018-05-25 16:30: Metacognition of internally-generated processes (Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

2018-05-30 12:30: Re-thinking cognitive training research (Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-05-30 13:00: Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Mediating ARTefacts: using visual methods to facilitate teacher reflection (Sophia D'Angelo)

2018-05-30 17:00: The Childist Turn in Children’s Literature Studies (Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Anglia Ruskin University and University of Wroclaw )

2018-05-31 11:00: Imitation learning for language generation (Gerasimos Lampouras (Sheffield))

2018-05-31 15:30: The structure and function of visual working memory  (Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology))

2018-05-31 16:00: Syntactic Change in Postcolonial Englishes: Substrates and Input (Prof Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London))

2018-06-01 12:00: Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs (Alexander Clark, King's College London)

2018-06-01 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC))

2018-06-01 16:30: Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations (Professor Rafael Malach,  Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

2018-06-06 12:30: Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it? (Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience))

2018-06-06 13:00: Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Rigour versus agility: Where does the self end in practice-led research? (Portia Ungley, Director of Learning and Teaching, Critical Studies and Creative Industries)

2018-06-06 17:00: Autism in Children's Fiction (Dr Shalini Vohra, Sheffield Hallam University)

2018-06-07 11:00: Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essentially Contested Concepts (Paul Nulty (CRASSH-Cambridge))

2018-06-07 12:00: Want to be an academic? Learn How to track your Impact! (Research Support Librarian)

2018-06-07 15:30: The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients (Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) )

2018-06-07 16:00: What is the dimension of a stochastic process? (Victor Panaretos (EPFL))

2018-06-08 12:00: Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated Corpus (Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge)

2018-06-11 12:00: Time Management (Polly Brown, University Counselling Service)

2018-06-13 12:30: The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline (James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney))

2018-06-13 13:00: Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Storying music-making experiences in the classroom: An autoethnographic framework (Matthew Yanko, University of British Columbia)

2018-06-14 11:00: Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages (Serge Sharoff (Leeds))

2018-06-14 11:00: Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness (Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania))

2018-06-14 15:30: Concept learning as compression (Bradley Love (UCL))

2018-06-18 15:30: Embracing the Mosaic: Crafting Collaborative Arts-based Research for Critical Resilience (Dr Helen Johnson, University of Brighton)

2018-06-18 16:00: Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage (Joel Tropp (Caltech))

2018-06-19 13:00: EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND VALUES THROUGH ARCHITECTURE: Revisiting radical pasts to make space for broader visions of education (Steve Higgins (University of Durham), Ola Uduku (Manchester School of Architecture), Bob Wallbridge (Hampshire CC))

2018-06-20 12:30: Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach (Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) )

2018-06-20 13:00: Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Applying theory and methodology in the 'real world': Discussing the practitioner-led development of a bespoke social media platform incorporating mixed-method evidence capture by a third sector arts organisation (Simon Glenister, Noise Solution)

2018-06-21 11:00: Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond (Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam))

2018-06-27 16:30: Let Your Hands Do the Thinking! A Humble Practitioner's Approach to Lego® Serious Play™ in Business Education (Dr Allègre L Hadida, University of Cambridge Judge Business School)

2018-07-04 11:00: Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models (George Tucker, Google Brain)

2018-07-16 11:00: Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models (Emtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo)

2018-07-31 12:00: General teacher-student learning for automatic speech recognition (Jeremy Wong, University of Cambridge)

2018-08-24 11:00: Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD) (Biwei Huang, CMU)

2018-09-10 11:00: Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answers (Been Kim, Google Brain)

2018-09-20 17:00: Process Drama as Creative Pedagogy - A Workshop in Imagination (Dr Julia Horne, Dr Alison O’Grady, Catherine Smyth & Elizabeth Gillroy, University of Sydney)

2018-10-03 12:30: From cognitive neuroscience to the clinic: Translational concerns for mental health research (Camilla Nord (MRC CBU) )

2018-10-04 15:30: The cognitive, computational and neural bases of semantic representation and its disorders  (Matt Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2018-10-05 12:00: Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking (Andreas Vlachos, NLIP, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-05 16:30: Modelling cortical gain in autism (without neuroimaging) (Dr Rebecca Lawson, Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Affiliated Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-10 12:30: The framework behind the Kymata Atlas: Mapping early sensory processing in the human brain and nervous system (Andrew Thwaites (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) )

2018-10-10 16:30: Introduction to the term’s reading seminar on A. Willi Origins of the Greek Verb  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-10-10 17:00: When Statistics Meets Computing (Professor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania))

2018-10-10 18:15: W(h)ither Language Diversity? The Perspective of Linguanomics (Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, University of Bristol)

2018-10-11 11:00: Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning Algorithms (Mihaela van der Schaar )

2018-10-11 11:00:  LION-LBD: Literature-Based Discovery for Cancer Biology (Simon Baker, LTL)

2018-10-11 15:30: Lifestyle factors and cognitive ageing: From observation to intervention  (Alan Gow (Heriot-Watt University))

2018-10-11 16:00: Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications (Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania)

2018-10-12 12:00: Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and Transfer (Pranava Madhyastha, Imperial College London)

2018-10-12 16:00: Uniform rates of Glivenko-Cantelli convergence and their use in Bayesian inference (Emanuele Dolera, Università degli Studi di Pavia)

2018-10-12 16:30: How Paranoia Affects Social Cognition and Behaviour (Prof Nichola Raihani Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London)

2018-10-16 17:00: Christianity and Children’s Literature  (Carl F. Miller, Palm Beach Atlantic University )

2018-10-17 12:30: What cognitive mechanisms underlie multi-target search organisation in children and adults?  (Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU) )

2018-10-18 11:00: Practical Approaches to Conversational AI (Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su, PolyAI)

2018-10-18 15:30: Processing Multi-Constituent Units during Reading: Non-alphabetic languages, word segmentation, and serialism and parallelism in oculomotor control (Simon Liversedge (University of Central Lancashire))

2018-10-19 12:00: Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language (Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind)

2018-10-19 16:00: Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery (Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden)

2018-10-19 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-10-20 13:00: CANCELLED: Doctoral and Masters Student Symposium: Arts-Based Research Praxis and the Role of Theory (Dr Liz Mackinlay (University of Queensland), Dr Rebecca Heaton (University of Northampton), Professor Pam Burnard (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-22 17:00: The role of medium of instruction for multilingual children: a study of primary school children in India".  (Professor Ianthi Tsimpli,  University of Cambridge)

2018-10-24 12:30: Statistical methods for the study of heterogeneity in cognitive decline: applications to French and UK cohorts (Anaïs Rouanet (MRC Biostatistics Unit) )

2018-10-24 16:30: Double accusatives in Ancient Greek: διδάσκω between traditional and modern approaches (Marina Benedetti )

2018-10-24 16:30: Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods: Generative Entanglements (Professor Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University)

2018-10-25 11:00: Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language (Pasquale Minervini, University College London)

2018-10-25 15:30: Interference and memory capacity limitations (Ansgar Endress (City University))

2018-10-26 12:00: Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers (Kostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-26 16:00: Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data (Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center)

2018-10-26 16:30: Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences  (Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany)

2018-10-30 12:00: Kōrero Māori - indigenous language revitalisation powered by machine learning (Keoni Mahelona & Peter-Lucas Jones)

2018-10-31 12:30: Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks (Kamila Jozwik (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) )

2018-10-31 14:00: Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference (Robert Pinsler, Calvin Kao)

2018-11-01 11:00: On KL divergence and beyond (Yingzhen Li, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2018-11-01 14:00: Language Evolution in Spatial Domains, and Statistical Physics (James Burridge, University of Portsmouth)

2018-11-02 14:30: Patagonian Afrikaans: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan))

2018-11-02 16:00: Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms (Yuting Wei, Stanford University)

2018-11-02 16:30: Sleep for Systems Consolidation (Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor,  The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science   Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands)

2018-11-05 17:30: Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada (Dr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University)

2018-11-07 12:30: Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise (Tobias Goehring (MRC CBU) )

2018-11-07 14:00: Defending Against Adversarial Attacks (Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-07 16:30: PIE alignment change and the emergence of the thematic conjugation: Two sides of the same diachronic coin? (Roland Pooth, Ghent)

2018-11-07 18:30: Languages, speakers and history: Romance and Greek in Southern Italy (Cristina Guardiano)

2018-11-08 11:00: Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes (Ivan Vulić, LTL, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-08 15:30: 'The architecture of the semantic network' and 'From pixels to semantics - machine learning as a key to understanding the dynamic computations along the human ventral stream' (Becky Jackson and Tim Kietzmann (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2018-11-08 17:00: The push to pool: Testing the effects of matched and mismatched reference populations in forensic voice comparison (Dr Dominic Watt (The University of York))

2018-11-09 12:00: Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale (Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon)

2018-11-09 16:00: Phase transitions on community detectability for various types of stochastic block models (Laurent Massoulié, INRIA)

2018-11-09 16:30: Social timing in autism spectrum disorders (Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich)

2018-11-14 12:30: Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load (John Duncan (MRC CBU) )

2018-11-14 14:00: Graph Neural Networks (Matej Balog (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-14 16:30: Academic self-concept in inclusive secondary settings: Why it matters (Dr Geraldine Townend, Griffith University, Australia)

2018-11-15 11:00: Learning with Explanations (Tim Rocktäschel, Facebook AI Research)

2018-11-15 15:30: Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via     EEG-fMRI fusion (Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow))

2018-11-15 17:00: Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing (Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca))

2018-11-16 12:00: The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology (Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-16 16:00: Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations (Pierre Alquier, ENSAE)

2018-11-16 16:30: Making sense of time in the Human mind (Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France )

2018-11-19 13:05: How search uses Machine Learning (Fabrizio Silvestri, Facebook)

2018-11-19 17:00: EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English? (Dr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds)

2018-11-21 12:30: Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches (Romy Lorenz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, MRC CBU))

2018-11-21 14:00: Natural gradient in deep neural networks (Alberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-21 16:30: The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek. A reconsideration (Klaas Bentein, Ghent)

2018-11-21 16:30: Innovative pathways to impact: Exploring IPOW’s hybrid approaches to research and practice in the field of art and peace building (Ruth Daniel and Teresa Ó Brádaigh Bean, In Place of War)

2018-11-21 17:00: North American Girls' Literature (Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Truman State University)

2018-11-21 18:30: On the impact of debasilectalization in language documentation: insights from the "missing Spanish creoles" (Danae Perez, University of Zurich)

2018-11-22 11:00: Emergence of (linguistic) communication through multi-agent interactions (Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind)

2018-11-22 15:30: A Bayesian approach to internal models (Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge))

2018-11-23 16:00: Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles (Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden)

2018-11-23 16:30: Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know (Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel)

2018-11-27 17:00: FEAST: Consuming Children - A roundtable discussion on food in children's literature (FEAST journal contributors)

2018-11-28 12:30: CANCELLED Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment (Rahia Mashoodh (Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) )

2018-11-28 14:00: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-29 11:00: Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions (Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Essex))

2018-11-29 15:30: Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control (Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2018-11-30 12:00: Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering  (Daniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt)

2018-12-03 16:00: Literacies, Literature and Learning: reading classrooms differently (Professor Karin Murris, University of Cape Town)

2018-12-05 16:30: Creative Impact: children and young people using the arts to make measurable social and environmental impact themselves (Ben Sandbrook, Director of World Pencil)

2018-12-18 10:30: Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models (Martin Tegner)

2019-01-16 12:30: Anterior cingulate cortex signals the need to control intrusive thoughts during motivated forgetting (Maite Crespo-Garcia (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-01-16 16:30: Disrupting Time and Place: Artists’ perceptions of creative practice with children in nature (Dr Elsa Lee, Nicola Walshe and Ruth Sapsed)

2019-01-17 11:00: Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms (Hoda Heidari)

2019-01-17 13:00: Interpreting definite and bare plurals across different contexts: experimental evidence from adult mono- and bilingual Greek speakers (Dr Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Post-doctoral Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/University of Cambridge)

2019-01-17 13:00: Linguistic intuitions beyond grammatical correctness: evidence from untutored L2 learners (Dr Teresa Parodi, University Lecturer, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages)

2019-01-17 16:00: The Cambridge NeuralNET”: Investigating origins of brain and mental health (David Rowitch (Dept of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge))

2019-01-18 12:00: What makes psychotherapy work? Using deep learning to quantify the relationship between therapy content and outcomes (Ronan Cummins & Michael Ewbank, Ieso Digital Health)

2019-01-18 16:00: On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms (Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol)

2019-01-18 16:30: Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life (Prof. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona))

2019-01-23 12:30: Time course of memory updating in running span (Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-01-23 16:30: Hieroglyphic Luwian masterclass (Willemijn Waal, Leiden)

2019-01-24 11:00: Learning and testing compositionality (Elia Bruni, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain))

2019-01-24 13:00: How to see, measure and capture the arts experience (Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University)

2019-01-24 15:30: Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques? (John Rothwell (UCL))

2019-01-24 16:00: Fantasy and the Anthropocene (Prof Brian Attebery, University of Glasgow)

2019-01-25 11:00: Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems (Tom Everitt (DeepMind))

2019-01-25 12:00: **CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories (Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge)

2019-01-25 16:00: Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems (Alexandros Beskos, University College London )

2019-01-25 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

2019-01-28 14:00: Stein Discrepancy (Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge))

2019-01-28 17:00: Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text (Dr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University)

2019-01-30 12:30: Mindfulness training for mental health promotion (Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge))

2019-01-30 16:30: 1st Reading seminar: Harm Pinkster’s Oxford Latin Syntax (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-01-30 16:30: Queering the Art Classroom (Tabitha Millett, IoE, University College London)

2019-01-31 13:30: Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds (Taco Cohen)

2019-01-31 15:30: The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery (Adam Zeman (University of Exeter))

2019-02-01 12:00: Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization (Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google)

2019-02-01 12:30: High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay (Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford)

2019-02-01 16:00: Model selection with Lasso-Zero and a robust extension with an application to the problem of missing covariates (Sylvain Sardy, Université de Genève)

2019-02-01 16:30: Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology (Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York)

2019-02-05 13:00: Quick intro to building and analysing distributed representation of graphs (Paul Scherer)

2019-02-06 12:30: Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective (Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-02-06 16:30: Italic religious dedications: between local traditions and Graeco-Roman influences (Maria José Estaran 	University of Zaragoza)

2019-02-06 17:00: Giving Comics Back to Children (Professor Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow)

2019-02-06 18:30: What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole (Oliver Mayeux, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-06 18:30: What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole (Oliver Mayeux *Cambridge))

2019-02-07 11:00: Probabilistic Typology (Ryan Cotterell ( University of Cambridge))

2019-02-07 15:30: Shattered lives: Understanding and treating post traumatic stress in children and adolescents (Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBU, U.of Cambridge))

2019-02-07 16:30: The Evolutionary Typology of Verbal Person-Number Indexes (Dr Ilja Seržant (University of Leipzig))

2019-02-08 12:00: Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions) (Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind)

2019-02-08 16:00: Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves (Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven )

2019-02-08 16:30: Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity (Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo)

2019-02-11 17:00: The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes    (Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading)

2019-02-12 18:00: Language and Artificial Intelligence (Professor Ann Copestake)

2019-02-13 12:30: The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection (Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-02-13 13:45: Logical Uncertainty (Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-13 16:30: SILENCE - (Re-)Viewing  the concept of silence across multiple perspectives by an interdisciplinary  panel of researchers  (Satinder Gill, Hilary Cremin, Elizabeth Maber, Toshi Tsuruhara, Pam Burnard, Helen Lees)

2019-02-14 11:00: Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know? (Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-14 11:00: Online Meta-Learning (Massimiliano Pontil, University College London)

2019-02-14 15:30: Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing  (Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL))

2019-02-14 16:30: Getting the gist: experience and expectation in the interpretation of novel compound nouns (Dr Melaine Bell (Anglia Ruskin University) )

2019-02-15 12:00: Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks (Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research)

2019-02-15 16:00: On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation (Botond Szabó, University of Leiden)

2019-02-15 16:30: Animal models of episodic memory (Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University)

2019-02-18 16:15: Structures of Governance in English Secondary Schooling and their Antecedents: The Cambridgeshire Village College Meets the Academy Trust (Dr Gordon Johnson and Dr Gillian Sutherland)

2019-02-19 13:00: Dilated DenseNets for Relational Reasoning (Agnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-19 16:30: Celebrating Difference- A Whole School Approach to LGBT+ Inclusion (Shaun Dellenty)

2019-02-20 12:30: CANCELLED: Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment (Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge))

2019-02-20 12:30: Meeting PIERRE BOURDIEU with EDITH ESCH (Dr Edith Esch)

2019-02-20 13:45: Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks (Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind))

2019-02-20 16:30: Capturing Complexity in Improvisation Research: The Influence of Precondition (Dr Leila Heil, University of Colorado, Boulder)

2019-02-20 18:30: Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian (Prof Janet Watson, Leeds University)

2019-02-21 11:00: Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward (Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research)

2019-02-21 15:30: Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics (Thalia Eley (Kings College London))

2019-02-21 16:30: Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children (Dr Margaret Kehoe (University of Geneva) )

2019-02-22 12:00: Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media (Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute)

2019-02-22 16:00: High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution (Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2019-02-22 16:30: In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry (Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes)

2019-02-25 16:30: Researching LGBTQ+ Issues: Building Community (Charlotte Allen, Frank Frangeskou, Becky Moses, Lucian Stephenson)

2019-02-26 16:30: THE POWER OF CATALYTIC CONVERSATIONS: An unexpected journey and response to the question 'How do we turn STEM into STEAM? (Carole Bent, Creative Catalyst, Advisor and Art Partner )

2019-02-27 12:30: You literally cannot pay me to look at poop: The astounding lack of habituation to disgust as measured through oculomotor avoidance (Dr Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-02-27 13:45: Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning (Chaochao Lu (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-27 16:30: Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger (Anna Chahoud 	Trinity College, Dublin)

2019-02-28 13:00: Institutional multilingualism: theories, policies and practices of language and law in the EU (Javier Moreno-Rivero (PhD student, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-28 13:00: Challenging monolingual histories: Multilingual evidence from the Dutch-German borderlands in the long nineteenth century (Dr Andreas Krogull (MEITS postdoctoral research associate, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-28 15:30: The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs (Tamar Makin (UCL))

2019-02-28 17:00: Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children (Prof Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading))

2019-03-01 12:00: Learning multi-domain dialogues (Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-01 16:00: Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model (Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick)

2019-03-01 16:30: From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices. (Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy)

2019-03-04 17:00: The Professor in Children's Literature: A Corpus Based Analysis of Expertise in Books Marketed to a Young Audience (Professor Melissa Terras, University of Edinburgh)

2019-03-06 12:30: An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population (Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge))

2019-03-06 13:45: Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and Approaches (Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge))

2019-03-06 16:30: A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor (Bill Short 			University of Exeter )

2019-03-07 11:00: Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks (Gamal Crichton, Language Technology Lab)

2019-03-07 13:00: How to see, measure and capture the arts experience (Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University)

2019-03-07 15:30: Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed? (Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) )

2019-03-07 17:00: How can AI be used for Social Good? Lessons from Africa’s Voices Foundation (Sharath Srinivasan; Luke Church )

2019-03-07 18:00: TBC ( Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge))

2019-03-08 12:00: K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionals (Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark)

2019-03-08 16:00: Explicit stabilised Runge-Kutta methods and their application to Bayesian inverse problems  (Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh)

2019-03-08 16:30: Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception (Heleen A. Slagter, PhD,  Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam)

2019-03-11 16:30: Arts Education in Singapore and Hong Kong - a Cultural Management Perspective (Benny Lim, University of Hong Kong)

2019-03-13 12:30: The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations (Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-03-13 13:45: Implicit Variational Inference (Andrew Foong (University of Cambridge))

2019-03-13 16:30: Exploring female arts students’ transitions from studying to working in the arts and how students can help eradicate abuse in the arts (Jennifer Tuckett and Titilola Dawudu, University Women in the Arts)

2019-03-13 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Cao Wenxuan, Peking University)

2019-03-13 17:00: The Professor in Children's Literature: A Corpus Based Analysis of Expertise in Books Marketed to a Young Audience (Professor Melissa Terras, University of Edinburgh)

2019-03-14 11:00: Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation (Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex))

2019-03-14 14:00: The K-FAC method for neural network optimization (James Martens, Google Deep Mind)

2019-03-14 15:30: Far beyond the back of the brain (Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) )

2019-03-19 14:00: How can speech technologies support learners to improve their skills of speaking, listen-ing, conversation and more? (Nobuaki MINEMATSU )

2019-03-20 16:30: Architecture & Education: Methodologies for investigating loose ends and ongoing stories (Dominic Cullinan, Eva Zepp, Tom Bellfield and Karolina Szynalska)

2019-03-27 11:00: Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care (David Sontag, MIT)

2019-03-28 16:00: Educational Research Collaboration with Cambridge University Press (Niall Curry, Cambridge University Press)

2019-04-03 13:45: Sampling as Optimization (Eric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge)

2019-04-04 11:00: Finding translations in unordered text using multilingual sentence representations (Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku)

2019-04-04 16:00: Global model explainability via aggregation (Umang Bhatt, CMU)

2019-04-05 11:00: Attention modifies the weights of competing stimulus sources during integrated visual decision making (Professor Jason Mattingley)

2019-04-08 11:00: NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs (Abir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

2019-04-24 12:30: Seeking the protective shield in the brain: the role of inhibitory control in regulating unwanted memories and actions (Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian & Daisy Follett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-04-24 14:00: An Overview of Normalizing Flows (Robert Pinsler)

2019-04-25 15:30: Learning to read words: from novice to expert (Kate Nation (University of Oxford))

2019-04-25 16:30: The interaction between simplicity and naturalness in nominal word order typology (Dr Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh))

2019-04-26 12:00: Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese (Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan)

2019-04-26 12:00: Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making (Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2019-04-26 16:00: Nuisance parameters (Heather Battey, Imperial College London)

2019-04-30 13:00: Interpretable Deep Learning (Botty Dimanov)

2019-05-01 12:30: Neural competition accounts for differences in recognising and learning spoken words and pseudoword (Carol Wang (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-01 13:00: Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations (Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University)

2019-05-01 14:00: Generalisation in neural networks (Marton Havasi)

2019-05-01 16:30: Juggling School-Research partnerships: funding, methodologies, accountability and impact.  (Associate Professor Madonna Stinson,  School of Education and Professional Studies Griffith University, Australia)

2019-05-02 13:00: Challenging monolingual histories: Multilingual evidence from the Dutch-German borderlands in the long nineteenth century (Dr Andreas Krogull, MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate)

2019-05-02 13:00: Autism and Bilingualism: A review of theory, policy and practice to inform evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy services (Melanie Greaux, PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-02 15:30: Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain (Matt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London))

2019-05-03 12:00:  Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality (Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-07 11:00: Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees (Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech)

2019-05-07 16:30: What else does researching with  Haraway’s successor science make possible in childhood studies? (Dr Jayne Osgood, Professor of Education, Middlesex University)

2019-05-08 12:30: Mechanisms of working memory training: not plasticity, but routines and fine-tuning (Sue Gathercole (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-08 14:00: [Special Statslab Seminar]  Scalable stochastic optimization and large-scale data (Michael W. Mahoney (ICSI and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley))

2019-05-08 14:00: Stochastic Differential Equations (David Burt)

2019-05-09 11:00: How to Pay Attention: Learning to Transfer Knowledge between Sentences and Tokens (Marek Rei ( University of Cambridge))

2019-05-09 15:30: Getting the gist: memory confusability in young and older people  (Alexa Morcom )

2019-05-09 17:00: Motivations for speaker intervention in phonetic implementation: Meanings and forms ( Professor Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University))

2019-05-10 11:00: Robust speech processing on multi-talker mixed speech (Yanmin Qian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

2019-05-10 12:00: Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice. (Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-10 12:00: Factorising AMR generation through syntax (Kris Cao, DeepMind)

2019-05-10 14:00: [Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation (Milan Vojnovic (LSE))

2019-05-10 16:00: On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values (Julie Josse, École Polytechnique)

2019-05-13 17:00: How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education? ( Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA )

2019-05-14 10:00: Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy   (Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA)

2019-05-15 12:30: Talk 1. Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance     Talk 2. Multivariate approaches to understanding the brain-behaviour relationships in cognitive ability (Alexander Quent & Ivan Simpson Kent (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-15 14:00: Particle MCMC (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-15 16:00: An introduction to the COSMOS application: An online social-media analytic tool for collecting, analysing and visualising Twitter data (Dr Mohamed Mostafa, Cardiff University)

2019-05-15 17:00: Sense and Sensibility in Child Literature: Disinformation, Affect and the Literary Imagination (Katharine Jones Sullivan, Committee Research Office, Canberra, Australia)

2019-05-16 15:30: Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory (Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex))

2019-05-16 17:00: On the multidimensionality of natural language semantics and the myth of conventional implicature (Dr. Yasutada Sudo (University College London))

2019-05-17 11:00: Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence? (Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths)

2019-05-17 12:00: AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI (Karina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-17 12:00: Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project (Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-17 16:00: On distributed Bayesian computation (Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam)

2019-05-22 12:30: Talk 1. Awareness in sight: Self and other appraisals of disability in acquired brain injury   Talk 2. The regulation of intrusive autobiographical memories (Andrea Kusec & Giulia Barsuola (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-23 11:00: Predicting and Analysing Online User Behaviour with Natural Language Processing (Nikolaos Aletras (University of Sheffield))

2019-05-23 13:00: Language attitudes in Ningbo, China (Hui (Annette) Zhao, MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-23 13:00: The acquisition of caused motion by Uyghur-Chinese early successive bilinguals (Alimujiang Tusun, MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-23 15:30: The emergence of cognitive ability in childhood (Rogier Kievit, MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-23 16:30: Driving a wedge between communication and language learning in autism (Prof Mikhail Kissine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium))

2019-05-23 17:00: The Language of Julia Donaldson: Rhetoric, style and cognition (Michael Burke , Utrecht University )

2019-05-24 12:00: Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages (Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-24 16:00: MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors (Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex)

2019-05-24 16:30: Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows (Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK)

2019-05-28 17:30: Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq (Dr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-29 12:30: Visual nonlinearities (Alyse Brown (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-29 14:00: Communication in the presence of sparsity (Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge))

2019-05-29 17:00:  Intersubjectivity, Place and Embodied Cognition in Children’s Literature Translation Studies (Beata Piecychna,  University of Bialystok, Poland)

2019-05-30 11:00: Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-30 15:30: Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning (Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin))

2019-05-30 16:30: Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it (Prof. Anita Mehta (University of Oxford))

2019-05-31 12:00: Towards secure and efficient DNNs (Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-31 16:00: Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients (Roger Koenker, University College London)

2019-06-03 14:00: Collaborative Poetics (Helen Johnson, University of Brighton)

2019-06-05 12:30: Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement (Giacomo Bignardi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-06-06 11:00: Relational knowledge in vector spaces (Luis Espinosa-Anke (University of Cardiff))

2019-06-06 15:30: Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning (Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge))

2019-06-07 12:00: Continuous feature structures: Can we learn structured representations with neural networks? (Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge)

2019-06-07 14:00: Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models (Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan)

2019-06-07 16:00: Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy (Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg)

2019-06-10 10:00: Nexus Analysis: A Natural Fit for Linguistic Ethnography (N.A. Wendte (Tulane University))

2019-06-11 15:00: Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and Divisiveness (Reza Babaei)

2019-06-12 12:30: Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception (Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL))

2019-06-12 17:00: Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur in Children's Literature (Elly McCausland,  University of Oslo.)

2019-06-13 15:30: Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens (Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York))

2019-06-14 12:00: An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation (Felix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge)

2019-06-19 15:00: Duolingo: Improving Language Learning and Assessment with A.I. (Burr Settles, Duolingo)

2019-06-19 17:00: Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact (Catherine Travis (The Australian National University))

2019-06-20 11:00: Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local Competition (Konstantinos P. Panousis)

2019-06-24 14:00: Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain (Jon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard))

2019-06-26 11:00: Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational Inference (Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia)

2019-07-05 12:00: Natural Language Generation in the Wild (Daniel Beck, University of Melbourne)

2019-07-12 11:00: Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks (Amos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)

2019-07-17 14:00: Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks (Matthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute)

2019-08-23 11:00: Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep Learning (Wesley Maddox (New York University))

2019-09-04 11:00: Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA (Rajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt)

2019-09-13 14:00: Promoting multilingual literacy and reader identity:Global Storybooks and open technology (Bonny Norton , FRSC, Professor and University Scholar , Department of Language & Literacy Education, UBC, Canada)

2019-09-18 12:00: ‘Profit factory’ and ‘bathroom break’: How to analyse compounds and how to predict their emergence (Lonneke van der Plas (University of Malta))

2019-09-23 13:00: A human-oriented term rewriting system (Ed Ayers (University of Cambridge))

2019-09-24 10:00: Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles (Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project)

2019-10-04 16:30: The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseases (Professor Mauro Maccarrone, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome, Italy)

2019-10-07 12:30: The Creative Translator: An Ethnographic study of Creativity in the Practice of Translation (Emily Rokobauer,  University of Newcastle, Australia.)

2019-10-09 12:30: What's new in PsychoPy3? (Dr Jon Peirce (U. of Nottingham))

2019-10-10 11:00: Latent Variable Models for Text Generation (Xiaoyu Shen, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute)

2019-10-10 15:30: Using narratives to understand human conscious experience (Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin))

2019-10-11 14:00: On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms (Sam Livingstone — University College London)

2019-10-11 16:30: Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space (Professor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel    )

2019-10-14 16:30: Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation  (Elchanan Mossel (MIT))

2019-10-15 13:00: Verifiable robustness of neural networks in autonomous vehicles. (Edward Ayers (Department of Mathematics))

2019-10-15 16:00: Distributed Statistics à la Economics (Elchanan Mossel  (MIT))

2019-10-16 12:30: The emotional modulation of memory (Dr Deborah Talmi (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2019-10-16 17:30: Working with communities on language revitalisation: Some Australian experiences (Prof Peter Austin (SOAS, University of London))

2019-10-17 11:00: Tensor product representations for RNNs / Revisiting post-processing for word embeddings (Shuai Tang, University of California, San Diego)

2019-10-17 15:30: The perceptual prediction paradox (Clare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences))

2019-10-18 00:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-18 12:00: Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough (Lucia Specia (Imperial College London))

2019-10-18 14:00: Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages (Peter Orbanz — University College London)

2019-10-22 13:00: Quantile QT-Opt for Risk-Aware Vision-Based Robotic Grasping (Cristian Bodnar)

2019-10-23 12:30: The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A (Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College))

2019-10-23 14:00: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical Models (Vidhi Lalchand)

2019-10-23 14:30: Neural networks to model probability densities in quantum chromodynamics (Zahari Kassabov (High Energy Physics group, Cavendish))

2019-10-23 16:30: Methodological Diversity in Design Fixation Research (Dr Nathan Crilly is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Design at the University of Cambridge. )

2019-10-24 11:00: Unsupervised Question Answering (Patrick Lewis, UCL)

2019-10-24 15:30: A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks (Andrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) )

2019-10-24 16:00:  Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from  Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish (Dr. Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL))

2019-10-24 16:30: Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from  Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish (Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL))

2019-10-25 11:00: Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations (Oana Camburu, University of Oxford)

2019-10-25 12:00: Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings (Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge))

2019-10-25 14:00: On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models (Song Liu — University of Bristol)

2019-10-25 16:30: How we remember and how we forget ( Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York)

2019-10-28 11:00: Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time series (Vincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich)

2019-10-29 13:00: Question Answering in Realistic Visual Environments: Challenges and Approaches (Catalina Cangea)

2019-10-30 10:00: Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and Efficiency (Haitham Ammar, Huawei)

2019-10-30 12:30: Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder (Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2019-10-30 14:00: Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn" (John Bronskill, Marton Havasi)

2019-10-30 16:30: New horizons for piano: historic women composers who wrote for the keyboard and how to reintroduce their work into piano education  (Colin J Hazel, director of music at St Augustine's Church, Cambridge)

2019-10-31 11:00: Learning region based representations of categories (Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University)

2019-10-31 13:00: Intelligibility in Vietnamese L2 accents of English and the influence of intelligibility on social evaluations towards the speaker (Trang Nguyen, Postgraduate Researcher, Anglia Ruskin University.)

2019-10-31 13:00: Investment in symmetrical multilingualism: researching successful white South African learners of African languages in the post-apartheid era (Michael James, 2nd year PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2019-10-31 15:30: The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making (Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam))

2019-11-01 12:00: A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning (Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind))

2019-11-01 12:00: Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity (Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium )

2019-11-01 14:00: Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces (Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham)

2019-11-04 17:00: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development  (Professor Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, Dr.Dieuwerke Rutgers, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-05 13:00: Machine Learning Systems Design (Prof Neil Lawrence)

2019-11-05 16:30: Collaborative Poetics (Helen Johnson, University of Brighton)

2019-11-06 12:30: Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments (Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London))

2019-11-06 14:00: Hyperparameter Optimisation (Ross Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp)

2019-11-06 17:00: Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities (Ebany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale"))

2019-11-07 15:30: Frontotemporal dementia – challenges, opportunities, progress (James Rowe (U.of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2019-11-07 16:30: Musical Thinking: A Multi-Dimensional Model and Taxonomy ( Dr Daniel Johnson, University of North Carolina)

2019-11-08 14:00: Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis (Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics)

2019-11-08 16:00: Rule extraction from deep neural nets (Urska Matjasec (University of Ljubljana))

2019-11-08 16:30: Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression (Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading)

2019-11-11 17:00: Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019  Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP (Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia)

2019-11-12 11:00: Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes (William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland)

2019-11-12 12:00: Speech Recognition:  What’s Left? (Dr Michael Picheny)

2019-11-12 13:00: Matrix Means for Signed and Multilayer Graph Clustering (Pedro Mercado (University of Tübingen))

2019-11-12 16:30: Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way (Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)

2019-11-13 12:30: A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2019-11-13 14:00: Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs (James Allingham, Omer Sella)

2019-11-14 11:00: BioNLP Research at Google (Ryan McDonald, Google)

2019-11-14 13:00: Leveraging non-expert semantic intuitions to support multilingual NLP (Olga Majewska, PhD student in Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics)

2019-11-14 13:00: Heritage language learners on the move: The transnational process of managing and learning Chinese in a Mandarin community school  (Lini Xiao, PhD student, Faculty of Education)

2019-11-14 15:30: Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence (Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg))

2019-11-14 16:30: Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation  (Prof. Federico Federici (University College London))

2019-11-15 12:00: Ethical considerations for responsible design (Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-15 14:00: Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART (Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago)

2019-11-15 16:30: The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight (Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))

2019-11-19 10:00: CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations (Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh))

2019-11-19 12:00: Finding an Analogy (Aaron Stockdill)

2019-11-20 12:30: When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory (Dr Athena Akrami (University College London))

2019-11-20 14:00: Neural Attention (Elre Oldewage, George Hron)

2019-11-20 17:00: Children’s Literature at the Crossroads of Genre, Nation and Empire: Alice, Pinocchio, and adventure stories (Laura Tosi is Full Professor of English Literature at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice. )

2019-11-21 11:00: Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation (Marco Damonte, the University of Edinburgh)

2019-11-21 15:30: Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work (Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour))

2019-11-21 17:00: Plurilingualism and Assessment  (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume) (Dr. Nick Saville, Cambridge English Assessment)

2019-11-22 12:00: Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning (Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind))

2019-11-22 12:00: Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines (Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

2019-11-22 14:00:  Optimal Transport for Machine Learning (Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure)

2019-11-26 13:00: Model extraction for clinical decision support systems (Zohreh Shams)

2019-11-27 12:30: Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths (Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-11-27 13:00: AI, Data Science & Mechanism Design in Sub-Saharan Africa (Daniel Mutembesa (Makerere University))

2019-11-27 14:00:  Probabilistic Programming (Hong Ge and John Bronskill)

2019-11-28 15:30: Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain (Anthony Wagner (Stanford University))

2019-11-29 14:00: On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other  irreversible MCMC methods (Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan)

2019-11-29 16:30: Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.  (Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2019-12-03 13:00: Work in progress: Diving deeper into building distributed representations graphs (Paul Scherer)

2019-12-04 14:00: Scalable Gaussian Processes (David Burt, Andrew Foong)

2019-12-05 16:30: t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability (Danielle Turton (Lancaster University))

2019-12-06 12:00: Long Form Question Answering (Angela Fan (Facebook))

2019-12-06 16:30: Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors (Gaia Scerif,  Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2019-12-10 13:00: MARLeME: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Model Extraction Library (Dmitry Kazhdan)

2019-12-11 12:30: The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales (Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) )

2019-12-11 12:30: The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales (Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) )

2020-01-13 13:00: A Geometrical Perspective on Deep Neural Networks (Stanislav Fort (Stanford University; formerly Google Research))

2020-01-15 12:30: Functional preferences of domain-general brain regions during executive function tasks (Moataz Assem (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-01-15 16:30: Globalizing music education and the international music education community (Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany)

2020-01-16 11:00: Correlations Between Word Vector Sets (Aleksandar Savkov, Babylon)

2020-01-16 12:30: The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment (Dr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel  )

2020-01-16 15:30:  What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs? (Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison))

2020-01-17 11:00: Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG? (Rory Waite (Emotif.ai))

2020-01-17 12:00: Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2020-01-17 14:00: Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions (Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2020-01-21 13:00: Abstract Diagrammatic Reasoning with Multiplex Graph Networks (Duo Wang)

2020-01-22 12:30: The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration (Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-01-23 11:00: Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them (Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy)

2020-01-23 15:30: Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences (Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf))

2020-01-24 11:00: Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift (Zack Lipton, CMU)

2020-01-24 14:00: Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers (Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge)

2020-01-24 16:30: Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease (Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2020-01-27 17:00: Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations (Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,  Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey)

2020-01-28 13:00: Flexible deep learning for heterogeneous clinical time series (Jacob Deasy)

2020-01-29 12:30: Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning  (Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford))

2020-01-29 16:30: 'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling (Nicholas Zair, Cambridge)

2020-01-30 11:00: Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications (Dr Barbara McGillivray (University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute))

2020-01-30 14:00: Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2019-2020) (Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick)

2020-01-30 15:30: Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields (Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London))

2020-01-30 16:30: Conveying quantity pragmatically (Dr Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh))

2020-01-31 14:00: Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems (Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh)

2020-01-31 16:30: Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression (Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading)

2020-02-03 13:00: Amazon Alexa Tech Talk (Paolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge))

2020-02-04 13:00: Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality (Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College))

2020-02-05 12:30: Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination (Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2020-02-06 11:00: Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability (Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg)

2020-02-06 15:30: Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits (Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL))

2020-02-07 12:00: Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models (Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-07 14:00: On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data (Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics)

2020-02-07 16:30: Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.  (Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2020-02-11 13:00: Machine learning for network inference (Ljupco Todorovski (University of Ljubljana))

2020-02-11 15:00: KRAB zinc fingers, transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulatory networks (Michael Imbeault (Department of Genetics, Cambridge Univ))

2020-02-11 17:00: Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice (Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.)

2020-02-11 17:00: Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice (Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.)

2020-02-11 18:00: Natural Language Processing for Health (Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab)

2020-02-12 11:00: Neural Tangent Kernel (Adria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober)

2020-02-12 12:30: Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment (Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge))

2020-02-12 16:30: Class, Control and Classical music: Musical practices and white middle-class identities among young people in the south of England (Dr Anna Bull, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth)

2020-02-12 16:30: The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic (Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) )

2020-02-13 11:00: Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing (Rafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London)

2020-02-13 15:30: How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry (Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL))

2020-02-14 12:00: Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment (Molly J Crockett,  Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University)

2020-02-14 12:00: Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading Comprehension (Max Bartolo (UCL))

2020-02-14 14:00: Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems (Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus)

2020-02-17 17:00: The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching (Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck)

2020-02-18 13:00: Some ideas on neural network modulation (Ben Day (Department of Computer Science and Technology))

2020-02-19 11:00: Kernel Mean Embeddings (Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-19 16:30: Causatives in Sanskrit (Antonia Ruppel (Oxford))

2020-02-19 18:00: North-eastern Neo-Aramaic narrative techniques and their areal parallels (Kurdish and Arabic) (Prof Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University, Sweden))

2020-02-21 12:00: Shaping Recommendations in a Marketplace via User & Content Understanding (Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify))

2020-02-21 14:00: The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses (Vanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany)

2020-02-25 13:00: Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks - Combining ML and Reasoning (James Fletcher, Haikal Pribadi (Grakn))

2020-02-26 11:00: Self-Supervised Representation Learning  (Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-26 12:30: Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science (Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) )

2020-02-27 11:00: Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models (Dr. Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind))

2020-02-27 13:00: Motivational profiles of simultaneous language learners: A latent profile analysis of English major students in China (Meng Liu, PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-27 13:00: Opening the Pandora Box of the “E” in EMI: A quest for standardization, ELF, or something more? (Sin-Yi Chang, PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-27 15:30: The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval (Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York))

2020-02-27 16:30: Mechanisms in non-native speech perception (Dr Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris))

2020-02-28 12:00: Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL))

2020-02-28 14:00: Selection bias, missing data and causal inference (Kate Tilling, University of Bristol)

2020-02-28 16:30: Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry (Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

2020-03-03 13:15: Deep Graph Mapper: Seeing Graphs through the Neural Lens (Cristian Bodnar and Cătălina Cangea)

2020-03-04 12:30: Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them? (Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2020-03-05 11:00: Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play (wellman@umich.edu)

2020-03-05 15:30: Translating basic science on autobiographical memory to improved clinical practice  (Caitlin Hitchcock (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-03-06 12:00: Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs (Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-06 15:00: Network change point detection (Yi Yu, University of Warwick)

2020-03-06 16:30: Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake) (Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

2020-03-10 13:15: Learning evolving node and community representations on dynamic graphs (Simeon Spasov)

2020-03-11 11:00: Federated Learning (Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-11 12:30: Exploiting neural nonlinearity and temporal smoothing to measure the brain’s response to electrical stimulation (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-03-11 16:30: Left dislocation (Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki))

2020-03-11 17:00: Cancelled: I know what you don't know: egophoricity and Jejuan morphosyntax (Dr Soung-u Kim (SOAS, University of London))

2020-03-12 15:30: Predictive oscillations in speech perception  (Matt Davis (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-03-12 16:30: Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges (Juniper Hill, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg)

2020-03-13 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)

2020-03-18 11:00: World Models (Dr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-18 12:30: An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts (Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) )

2020-04-01 11:00: Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing Flows (Vincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg)

2020-04-02 16:30: CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution (Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University))

2020-04-08 11:00: Machine Learning on Sets ( (University of Cambridge))

2020-04-15 11:00: Strategic Classification (Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge))

2020-04-22 11:00: Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning (Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop)

2020-04-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting))

2020-04-23 16:30: CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence of variability (Prof Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent))

2020-04-24 14:00: Langevin Monte Carlo for Degenerately Convex Potentials (Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto)

2020-04-29 11:00: Differentiable Planning (Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler)

2020-04-30 16:30: [Online talk] L2 phonological learning in adults: The role of language background, age of acquisition, and exposure  (Dr Job Schepens (TU Dortmund))

2020-05-01 12:00: Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem (Danielle Saunders (University of Cambridge))

2020-05-01 14:00: Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance (Hyunseung Kang, University of Wisconsin)

2020-05-06 11:00: Best of ICLR 2020 ( (University of Cambridge))

2020-05-07 17:00: [Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics (Dr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge))

2020-05-08 14:00: Neyman-Pearson Classification  (Xin Tong, University of Southern California)

2020-05-15 14:00: Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions (Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University)

2020-05-19 13:15: Temporal Pointwise Convolutional Networks for Length of Stay Prediction in the Intensive Care Unit (Emma Rocheteau (University of Cambridge))

2020-05-21 16:30: CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC (Dr Marijke De Belder (Oldenburg University))

2020-05-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting))

2020-05-22 14:00: Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning (Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California)

2020-05-26 13:15: Graph Representation Learning under Uncertainty (WIP) (Catalina Cangea and Ben Day (University of Cambridge))

2020-05-28 16:30: CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC (Prof Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong))

2020-05-28 16:30: [Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition (Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge))

2020-05-29 12:00: Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content (Maria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute))

2020-05-29 14:00: Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery (Varun Kanade, University of Oxford)

2020-05-29 16:30: The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic  representation and its disorders (Professor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2020-06-02 13:15: Developing a Concept-Oriented Search Engine for Isabelle Based on Natural Language : Technical Challenges (Yiannos Stathopoulos and Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki)

2020-06-04 12:30: [Online talk] - Monosyllabic Salience in Cantonese: Facilitation of transference of monosyllabic English words (MEWs) into Hong Kong Cantonese-English mixed code (Prof David Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University))

2020-06-04 16:30: CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC ( Dr Alexandra Perovic (UCL))

2020-06-05 16:30: Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement  (Brian D. Earp,  Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and  Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.)

2020-06-09 13:15: Adversarial Explanations - You Shouldn't Trust Me: Learning Models Which Conceal Unfairness From Multiple Explanation Methods (Botty Dimanov (University of Cambridge))

2020-06-11 15:00: [Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human? (Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University))

2020-06-12 12:30: Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs (Johannes Welbl (UCL))

2020-06-17 11:00: Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs (Gergely Flamich and  Alexandru Cioba)

2020-06-18 16:30: [Online talk] - Iconic Plurals (Prof Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS / New York University))

2020-06-19 12:00: Towards explainable fact checking (Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen))

2020-06-23 13:15: A Weighting Based Adversarial Approach to Fairness in Machine Learning (Mladen Nikolić, University of Belgrade)

2020-06-24 11:00: Active Learning (Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger  (University of Cambridge))

2020-06-30 13:15: Emergent Multi-Agent Communication: The story so far (Agnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge))

2020-07-22 11:00: Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities (Andrey Malinin, Yandex Research)

2020-10-06 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute))

2020-10-08 14:00: Adolescent brain development as a window of social-affective opportunities (Eveline Crone (Leiden University))

2020-10-08 16:30: Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions (Professor Robyn Carston, UCL)

2020-10-13 13:15: Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks (Ilia Shumailov)

2020-10-15 14:00: Flexible redistribution in the language network (Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences))

2020-10-15 16:30: Culture, language and cognition: a methodological and theoretical exploration with reference to spatial concepts (Chris Sinha (University of Hunan, University of East Anglia))

2020-10-16 12:00: What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics? (Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge))

2020-10-16 16:30: The case for formal methodology in scientific reform (Dr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho.)

2020-10-20 13:15: Predicting Mortality and Length of Stay with Patient Graph Representation Learning (Emma Rocheteau)

2020-10-21 16:00: How is Human Social Cognition Special? (Professor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2020-10-22 14:00: How do our brains form maps of the world? (Alexandra Constantinescu (University College London))

2020-10-22 16:30: Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages (Dr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge))

2020-10-23 12:00: Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them (Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University))

2020-10-23 16:30: This talk happens earlier this week. in a shared event between Zangwill and SPSS  (.)

2020-10-23 17:00: Revitalizing Louisiana Creole (Various)

2020-10-27 13:15: Constraining Variational Inference with Geometric Jensen-Shannon Divergence (Jacob Deasy)

2020-10-29 16:30: The pronoun interpretation problem in bilingual Dutch-German children (Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen))

2020-10-30 16:00: Model selection for estimation of causal parameters (Dominik Rothenhaeusler (Stanford University))

2020-10-30 16:30: Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Professor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA.)

2020-11-03 13:15: Modulated Bayesian Optimisation (Carl Henrik Ek)

2020-11-04 11:00: Best Papers from ICML 2020 (Reading group participants)

2020-11-05 14:00: Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental origins (Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) )

2020-11-06 15:00: How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense? (Nasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek))

2020-11-06 16:00: Minimax estimation of smooth densities in Wasserstein distance (Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute))

2020-11-06 16:30: Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodents (Professor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires)

2020-11-10 13:15: Second Order Behaviour in Augmented Neural ODEs (Alexander Norcliffe)

2020-11-11 11:05: Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimisation (Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-12 14:00: Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listening  (Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University))

2020-11-12 14:00: Semiparametric Language Models (Dani Yogatama)

2020-11-12 16:30: The crucial role of truth-compatible interferences (Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University))

2020-11-13 12:00: Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions (Sian Gooding (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-13 16:00: Provable representation learning in deep learning (Jason Lee (Princeton University))

2020-11-13 16:30: Understanding Fallism (Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town)

2020-11-16 16:00: English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe (Mark Levy, John Simpson, Ann Veitch (British Council))

2020-11-17 13:15: What is Next for the Efficient Machine Learning Revolution?  (Nicholas Lane)

2020-11-18 11:00: Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning (Robert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-19 14:00: Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the    Adolescent Cognition Brain Development Study (Damien Fair (University of Minnesota))

2020-11-19 16:00: Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language (Muhao Chen)

2020-11-19 16:30: Bilingual Brains (Professor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU))

2020-11-25 11:00: Large-scale sequential experimentation (Wessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-25 15:00: Graph Neural Networks for Biomedical Data (Marinka Zitnik, Harvard University)

2020-11-26 11:00: From Sparse Modeling to Sparse Communication (André F. T. Martins)

2020-11-26 14:00: The interpersonal function of emotional expressions (Julie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles))

2020-11-26 16:30: Voice-Prosody and Technologies to Give Voice to Endangered Languages: an Irish Perspective (Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin))

2020-11-27 12:00: Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations (Elizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University))

2020-11-27 16:00: Generalized Kernel Two-Sample Tests (Hao Chen (University of California, Davis))

2020-11-27 16:30: Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation (Professor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland)

2020-11-30 15:00: Transformer: the 3rd generation neural network acoustic models for ASR and its application at Facebook (Yongqiang Wang, Facebook)

2020-12-01 13:15: Wasserstein Natural Gradients for Reinforcement Learning (Ferenc Huszár)

2020-12-02 11:00: Neural Processes (Andrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge))

2020-12-03 11:00: Pitfalls in Evaluation of Multilingual Text Representations (Goran Glavaš)

2020-12-03 14:00: Working Memory 2.0 (Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2020-12-03 16:30: Focus Association with ONLY (Dr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge))

2020-12-04 12:00: Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing (Weiwei Sun (University of Cambridge))

2020-12-04 16:30: Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism   (Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy)

2020-12-08 13:15: Improving the Aggregation in Graph Networks: can nodes understand their neighbourhood? (Gabriele Corso)

2020-12-11 16:30: [NEW DATE:11th of December]  Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development (Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London )

2020-12-16 11:00: Best of NeurIPS (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-01-12 13:15: Predicting material properties with the help of machine learning (Bingqing Cheng)

2021-01-13 11:00: Meta-reinforcement learning (Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge))

2021-01-15 16:30: - Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness (Prof Hakwan Lau)

2021-01-18 15:00: Translanguaging: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Claims (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy (2020-2021) (Professor Jim Cummins, University of Toronto)

2021-01-19 13:15: Debugging Machine Learning Code (Svet Penkov, Efemarai)

2021-01-20 11:00: Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits (Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research))

2021-01-21 11:00: Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation (Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser, CIS, LMU Munich)

2021-01-21 14:00: Early adversity, brain development, and risk/resilience for mental health across development (Deanna Barch (Washington University, St. Louis))

2021-01-22 12:00: Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification (Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield))

2021-01-22 16:00: A precise high-dimensional asymptotic theory for Adaboost (Pragya Sur (Harvard University))

2021-01-22 16:30: Social Minds in Joint Action (Professor Natalie Sebanz)

2021-01-26 12:00: Selection of Talks from Interspeech 2020 (Yiting 'Edie' Lu, Vyas Raina, Qingyun Dou, Cambridge University Speech Research Group)

2021-01-26 13:15: Latent Action Space for Offline Reinforcement Learning (Wenxuan Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University (USA))

2021-01-28 11:00: Towards explainable fact checking (Prof. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen)

2021-01-28 16:00: Pushing the boundaries of episodic memory: Representation and segmentation of naturalistic events by cortico-hippocampal networks (Charan Ranganath (University of California, Davis))

2021-01-28 16:30: Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender (Professor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology))

2021-01-29 12:00: Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction (Zhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge))

2021-01-29 16:30: The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism (Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK)

2021-02-01 17:00: Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities (Dr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-02 13:15: Learning under model misspecification (Andrés R. Masegosa, Universidad de Almería (Spain))

2021-02-04 11:00: From Translation Divergences to Structure-aware Neural Machine Translation (Omri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2021-02-04 14:00: The human language system in the mind and brain (Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2021-02-04 16:30: Language change in bilingual returnee children: mutual effects of bilingual experience and cognition (Maki Kubota (UiT The Arctic University of Norway))

2021-02-05 13:00: A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit (Amrith Krishna (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-05 16:00: Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets (Stephen Bates, University of California Berkeley)

2021-02-09 12:00: Tackling Multispeaker Conversation Processing based on Speaker Diarization and Multispeaker Speech Recognition (Prof Shinji Watanabe, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA)

2021-02-10 11:00: Variational Bayes as Surrogate Regression (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-11 11:00: Adapters in Transformers. A New Paradigm for Transfer Learning…? (Jonas Pfeiffer, Technical University of Darmstadt)

2021-02-11 14:00: A data-driven approach to advancing cognitive neuroscience (Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota))

2021-02-12 12:00: Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic (Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU))

2021-02-12 16:30: Being an I: Cognitive and Neurobiological processes of “Self” models (Dr. Roy Salomon)

2021-02-16 12:00: Should Ensemble Members Be Calibrated? (Dr Xixin Wu, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2021-02-16 13:15: Neural ODE Processes (Cris Bodnar, Alex Norcliffe, Ben Day, Jacob Moss )

2021-02-17 11:00: Fairness in AI (Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-18 11:00: Efficient sentence encoders for Conversational AI in the industry (Inigo Casanueva, PolyAI)

2021-02-19 12:00: The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia (Miriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation))

2021-02-19 16:00: Optimal rates for independence testing via U-statistic permutation tests (Tom Berrett, University of Warwick)

2021-02-19 16:30:  Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences? (Dr. ValdasNoreika, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary University of London)

2021-02-23 12:00: Semi-supervised Learning for Low-resource Multilingual and Multimodal Speech Processing with Machine Speech Chain (Prof Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan)

2021-02-23 13:15: Machine Learning and String theory (Challenger Mishra)

2021-02-24 11:00: Inference in Stochastic Processes (Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-25 11:00: Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models (Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind)

2021-02-25 14:00: Imaginative reinforcement learning (Sam Gershman (Harvard University))

2021-02-25 16:30: The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production (Dr Claire Nance (Lancaster University))

2021-02-26 12:00: Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers (Robert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code))

2021-02-26 16:00: Seminar Cancelled (Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago))

2021-02-26 16:30: An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity (Emily BJ Coffey, PhD  )

2021-03-01 17:00: Language Teacher Wellbeing: Dispelling Myths, Complexifying Constructs, and Setting an Agenda (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2020-2021) (Professor Sara Mercer, University of Graz)

2021-03-02 12:00: Interpretable representation learning for speech and audio signals (Dr Purvi Agrawal, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Microsoft India)

2021-03-02 13:15: Landscape and Gaps in Open Source Fairness Toolkits (Michelle Lee)

2021-03-03 11:00: Long-Range Transformers (Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-04 16:00: Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depression (Michelle Craske (UCLA))

2021-03-04 16:30: Multiethnolects as contact languages: the case for the Jamaican influence in London (Paul Kerswill (University of York))

2021-03-04 17:00: Rethinking Benchmarking in AI (Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research)

2021-03-05 12:00: [RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP (Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University))

2021-03-05 16:00: Functional Models for Time Varying Random Objects (Paromita Dubey, Stanford University)

2021-03-05 17:00: The Future of Louisiana Creole (Various)

2021-03-09 12:00: Natural Language Interpretation in Dialogue Systems (Dr Svetlana Stoyanchev, Speech Technology Group, Toshiba CRL)

2021-03-09 13:15: Computational foundations of morphogenomics (Bianca Dumitrascu)

2021-03-10 11:00: Causal Representation Learning (Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-11 11:00: Achieving Universality in Machine Translation: M4 - Massively Multilingual, Massive MT Models for the Next 1000 Languages (Orhan Firat, Google Research)

2021-03-11 14:00: Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortex (Dora Hermes (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota))

2021-03-11 16:00: Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval (Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research))

2021-03-11 16:45: Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system (Dr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-12 12:00: 🎈🎈🎈🥳 NLP Social Hour 🥳🎈🎈🎈 (-)

2021-03-12 16:30: Rethinking food reward (Dr Dana Small   Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center)

2021-03-16 12:00: Combination of Deep Speaker Embeddings for Diarisation and Discriminative Neural Clustering for Speaker Diarisation (Brian Sun, Quija Li, Florian Kreyssig, Cambridge University Speech Research Group)

2021-03-16 13:15: Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning (Qingbiao Li)

2021-03-17 11:00: Gaussian Processes I have Known (Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield)

2021-03-18 11:00: Learning language by observing the world and learning about the world from language (Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind)

2021-03-18 14:00: The role of content-free pointers in online visual memory (Ed Awh (University of Chicago))

2021-03-18 16:30: On the phonetics and phonology of English H* and L+H* pitch accents (Amalia Arvaniti (Radboud University))

2021-03-24 11:00: Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks (Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University)

2021-03-31 11:00: Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof (Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind)

2021-04-07 11:00: Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning (James Allingham (University of Cambridge))

2021-04-14 11:00: Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation (Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge))

2021-04-16 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning (Andrew Gordon Wilson)

2021-04-20 14:00: Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes (Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin))

2021-04-21 11:00: An Introduction to PAC-Bayes (Andrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge))

2021-04-22 17:00: Transcending Dependencies (Martha Palmer, University of Colorado)

2021-04-27 13:15: Predicting outcome for psychotic disorders, using brain connectivity and transcribed speech data (Sarah Morgan)

2021-04-29 11:00: Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain (Eyal Ben-David, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

2021-04-29 12:00: Physiology and pathology of the higher brain function: insights from intracranial EEG recordings (Riki Matsumoto (Kobe University) )

2021-04-29 16:30: Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian (Adnana Boioc Apintei, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest))

2021-04-30 12:00: Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes (Maria Liakata (University of Warwick))

2021-04-30 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep Learning (Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London)

2021-04-30 16:00: Recent progress on the KLS conjecture and Eldan’s stochastic localization scheme (Yuansi Chen, Duke University)

2021-05-04 13:15: Towards Robust and Reliable Model Explanations (Hima Lakkaraju, Harvard University )

2021-05-06 11:00: CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models (Amir Feder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

2021-05-06 14:00: The geometry of neural representations in artificial and biological neural networks (Stefano Fusi (Columbia University))

2021-05-07 12:00: Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology (Ryan McDonald (ASAPP))

2021-05-07 16:30: Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors (Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D, University of Miami)

2021-05-11 12:00: Automatic Assessment Systems for the Spoken CALL Shared Tasks (Mengjie Qian, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2021-05-11 13:15: Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Topological: Message Passing Simplicial Networks (Fabrizio Frasca, Yu Guang and Cris Bodnar)

2021-05-12 11:00: Best of ICLR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-05-13 14:00: Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticity (Silvia Bunge (UC Berkeley))

2021-05-13 15:00: NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages (Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University)

2021-05-13 16:30:  Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change (Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh))

2021-05-14 12:00: Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks ( Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge))

2021-05-14 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers (Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind)

2021-05-14 16:00: Correlated randomly growing graphs (Miklos Racz, Princeton University)

2021-05-14 16:30: Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge (Marie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin)

2021-05-18 12:00: Audio-Visual Learning: Challenges and New Approaches (Dr Jie Pu, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2021-05-18 13:15: Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Graphs, Groups, Geodesics, and Gauges (Petar Veličković)

2021-05-18 17:30: Revitalising Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk) (Various)

2021-05-20 14:00: How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention (Mariam Aly (Columbia University))

2021-05-20 15:00: Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP (Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech)

2021-05-21 12:00: Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP (Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University))

2021-05-21 16:00: Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests (Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania)

2021-05-21 16:30: Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership ( Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2021-05-25 12:00: Long Sequence-to-Sequence Summarization: Efficient Transformer Models & Complementary Techniques (Potsawee Manakul, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2021-05-27 11:00: Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing (Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen)

2021-05-27 14:00: Carving the world into useful task representations (Yael Niv (Princeton University))

2021-05-27 16:30: How do stylistic features “work” in news texts about a violent event that took place abroad? A cross-cultural case study. (Ashley Riggs (Université de Genève))

2021-05-28 13:00: Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision (Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University))

2021-05-28 16:00: Distribution-free inference for regression: discrete, continuous, and in between (Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago)

2021-05-28 16:15: Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience (Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal)

2021-06-02 11:00: The Statistical Finite Element Method (Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-03 16:30: Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us? (Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense Madrid))

2021-06-04 14:00: Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True (Philip Resnik (University of Maryland))

2021-06-04 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class. (David Duvenaud, University of Toronto)

2021-06-04 16:30: Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections (Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

2021-06-08 12:00: Time-domain multi-channel speech separation and extraction (Jisi Zhang, University of Sheffield)

2021-06-08 13:15: Structure-aware generation of molecules in protein pockets (Pavol Drotar)

2021-06-09 11:00: Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-10 14:00: A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression (Jonathan Roiser (UCL))

2021-06-10 17:00: Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP (Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill)

2021-06-10 17:30: How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology (Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh))

2021-06-11 13:00: Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems (Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst))

2021-06-11 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez (Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University)

2021-06-15 13:15: Unlocking Deep Learning for Graphs (Dominique Beaini, Valence Discovery, MILA, Canada)

2021-06-17 14:00: Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research? (Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University))

2021-06-17 16:30: Translating the Deaf Self: Translanguaging, interpreting & identities of deaf signers at work (Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh))

2021-06-18 12:00: NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process (Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh))

2021-06-22 12:00: Automatic Speech Recognition in a State-of-Flux (Ralf Schlüter, RWTH Aachen)

2021-06-29 12:00: Low-resource expressive text-to-speech using data augmentation (Dr Thomas Merritt, Amazon)

2021-07-02 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal Pfister (Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)

2021-07-06 12:00: Prosody transfer evaluation and temporal prosody control in speech synthesis (Papercup)

2021-07-09 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina Savin (Cristina Savin, New York University)

2021-09-24 14:00: Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models (Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt)

2021-10-07 14:00: The function of spontaneous brain activity (Maurizio Corbetta (University of Padua))

2021-10-08 16:00: Global testing for dependent Bernoullis  (Sumit Mukherjee (Columbia University))

2021-10-11 12:00: Generative Speech Separation based on Pitch Information (Dr Xiang Li, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2021-10-12 13:15: 3D Pre-training improves GNNs for Molecular Property Prediction (Hannes Stark, TU Munich)

2021-10-14 14:00: Unlikelihood-training and Back-training for robust natural language understanding (Siva Reddy, McGill University)

2021-10-15 12:00: Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners (Ryo Nagata (Konan University))

2021-10-15 16:00: Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning (Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research))

2021-10-15 16:15: Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect (David Bannerman (University of Oxford))

2021-10-20 11:00: Planning Meeting + PI Presentations (CBL and Computer Lab PIs)

2021-10-21 14:00: Neural dynamics of working memory (Tim Buschman (Princeton University))

2021-10-21 15:00: Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers (Tal Linzen, New York University)

2021-10-21 16:30: Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English (Dr. Péter Rácz (Central European University, Budapest University of Technology, University of Canterbury).)

2021-10-22 12:00: Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems (Marjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute))

2021-10-22 16:15: Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking (Richard Holton (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-25 12:00: Machines that can read lips (Pingchuan Ma (Imperial College London))

2021-10-27 11:00:  Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning ( Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research))

2021-10-27 17:00: Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing (Prof. Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt))

2021-10-28 11:00: Measuring Factuality in Text Generation: When Language Models Are Twisting the Facts (Roee Aharoni, Google Research)

2021-10-28 16:30: Morphophonological issues in the development of Huave language revitalisation materials (Dr. Yuni Kim (University of Essex))

2021-10-29 16:00: MARS via LASSO (Aditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley))

2021-11-03 11:00: Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML (Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-04 14:00: Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms (Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham))

2021-11-04 15:30: Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective (Yixin Wang)

2021-11-04 16:30: Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope (Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh))

2021-11-05 12:00: Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing (Yevgeni Berzak (Technion))

2021-11-05 16:00: New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes (Lan Wang (University of Miami))

2021-11-05 16:15: Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour (Dominik Bach (University College London))

2021-11-08 12:00: Cross-corpora experiments of automatic proficiency assessment and error detection for spoken English (Stefano Bannò (University of Trento))

2021-11-08 17:00: Motivational persistence in multiple language learning: Identities, vision, and goal self-concordance (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2021-2022) (Professor Alastair Henry, University West)

2021-11-09 13:15: Gaussian Processes on Graphs via Spectral Kernel Learning (Yin-Cong Zhi, Oxford Man Institute)

2021-11-09 16:30: Ideophone patterns across Kiranti languages (Eastern Nepal), (Dr Aimée Lahaussois (Université Paris 7))

2021-11-10 11:00: Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-11-11 11:00: Document Summarisation: Modelling, Datasets and Verification of Content (Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh)

2021-11-11 14:00: The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought (Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University))

2021-11-11 16:30: Vulnerable Left Periphery: Why there is no other alternative to change (Prof. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam))

2021-11-12 12:00: How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines (Roger Levy (MIT))

2021-11-12 16:00: Random Graph Asymptotics for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference (Shuangning Li (Stanford University))

2021-11-12 16:15: Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies (Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) )

2021-11-16 13:15: Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Cellular: CW Networks (Cristian Bodnar (University of Cambridge) and Fabrizio Frasca (Imperial College, Twitter))

2021-11-16 17:00: Revitalising Jèrriais: The Norman Language of Jersey (L'Office du Jèrriais)

2021-11-17 11:00: Deep Kernels (Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-18 14:00: Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories (Lila Davachi (Columbia University))

2021-11-18 15:00: Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web (Suraj Nair, Stanford University)

2021-11-18 17:00: The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations (Dr. John Beavers (University of Texas))

2021-11-19 12:00: Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points (Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh))

2021-11-19 14:00: Variable elimination and graph reduction: towards an efficient g-formula for causal DAGs (Richard Guo (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-19 16:15: Time perception as accumulation of salient events (Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex))

2021-11-23 13:15: Learning on Graphs with Missing Node Features (Emanuele Rossi, Twitter & Imperial College)

2021-11-25 14:00: Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation (Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford))

2021-11-25 15:00: Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness (Mohamed Abdalla, University of Toronto)

2021-11-25 16:30: Dynamics of multilingualism in language revitalisation and activism: Applied linguistic insights from Oaxaca, Mexico (Dr. Haley de Korne (University of Oslo))

2021-11-26 12:00: Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints (Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam))

2021-11-26 14:00: CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity (Heather Battey (Imperial College London))

2021-11-26 16:15: What does magic tell us about free will?  (Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2021-11-29 15:00: Unsupervised Speech Disentanglement for Speech Style Transfer (Kaizhi Qian (IBM))

2021-11-30 13:15: An Introduction to Federated Learning and its Applications in Medicine (Blaise Thomson, Bitfount)

2021-12-01 11:00: Energy-Based Models (Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge))

2021-12-02 11:00: Zero-shot learning and out-of-distribution generalization: two sides of the same coin (Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University)

2021-12-02 14:00: New models of human hearing via machine learning (Josh McDermott (MIT))

2021-12-03 12:00: CANCELLED (Lotty Brand (University of Sheffield) )

2021-12-03 14:45: The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations (Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology))

2021-12-09 14:00: How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience (Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex))

2021-12-15 11:00: [Cancelled] Best of Neurips (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-01-12 11:00: AI Safety (Neel Alex)

2022-01-19 11:00: Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models (Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-20 14:00: Neural dynamics of working memory  (Timothy Buschman (Princeton University) )

2022-01-21 12:00: Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP (Nedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-21 13:30: Two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients via complementary sketching (Tengyao Wang (LSE))

2022-01-21 16:30: Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research (Irene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova))

2022-01-25 13:15: Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI (Alex Davies and Petar Velickovic (DeepMind))

2022-01-27 14:00: The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought  (Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) )

2022-01-28 13:00: Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP (Prof. He He (New York Univeristy))

2022-01-28 16:30: Reading Scenes:  A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments (Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt))

2022-02-01 13:15: Brain charts for the human lifespan (Richard Bethlehem, Autism Research Centre & Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-01 16:00: How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention  (Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-02 11:00: Learned Compression (Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-03 11:00: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search (Nils Reimers, HuggingFace)

2022-02-03 14:00: Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models (Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham)   )

2022-02-03 16:30: The development of Old English conjunct clauses: How syntactic changes interact  (Dr Richard Zimmermann (University of Manchester))

2022-02-04 12:00: When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexicon (Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra))

2022-02-04 16:30: Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior (Professor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus))

2022-02-08 13:15: Adaptive Gaussian Processes on Graphs via Spectral Graph Wavelets (Felix Opolka)

2022-02-09 11:00: Optimal Transport Metrics (Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-10 14:00: Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity (Carolyn McGettigan (UCL) )

2022-02-10 15:00: Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data (Zachary Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University)

2022-02-11 13:00: Robust inference for intractable likelihood models using kernel divergences (Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL))

2022-02-15 13:15: Neural Sheaf Diffusion: A Topological Perspective on Heterophily and Oversmoothing in GNNs (Cris Bodnar)

2022-02-16 11:00: Circuits and Interpretability (Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge))

2022-02-16 16:30: V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian (Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language), and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University))

2022-02-17 11:00: Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages (Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University)

2022-02-17 16:30: Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice (Prof. Anne Charity Hudley (Stanford University))

2022-02-18 12:00: [POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases (Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL))

2022-02-18 16:30: Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields (John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University))

2022-02-21 15:00: Seeking Education for All through Multilingual Mother Tongue Education (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2021-2022) (Professor Wayne Wright, Purdue University)

2022-02-22 13:15: POSTPONED till next week!!!! Work in progress: Making efficient use of language models for theorem proving (Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-23 11:00: Retrieval Augmented NLP (Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-24 11:00: Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification (Prof. Yulan He, University of Warwick)

2022-02-24 16:00: Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors (Lucina Uddin (UCLA) )

2022-02-24 16:30: Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde (Dr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool)

2022-02-25 12:00: Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators (Shashi Narayan (Google Research))

2022-02-25 14:00: Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals  (Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London))

2022-02-25 16:30: Covid and Cognition (Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) )

2022-03-03 14:00: Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms  (Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) )

2022-03-03 15:00: Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training (Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago)

2022-03-03 16:30: Exploring Multicultural London English across Offline and Online space (Dr Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh))

2022-03-04 12:00: Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis (Caroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge))

2022-03-04 14:00: Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble (Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University))

2022-03-04 16:30:  A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird. (Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania))

2022-03-08 13:15: Work in progress: Making efficient use of language models for theorem proving (Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge))

2022-03-09 11:00: Introduction to differential privacy (Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge))

2022-03-10 11:00: IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages (Emanuele Bugliarello, University of Copenhagen)

2022-03-10 16:30: 'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'  (Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University))

2022-03-11 12:00: Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate (Nate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir  (HuggingFace))

2022-03-11 16:15: Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition  (Professor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL))

2022-03-14 12:00: SpeechBrain: Unifying Speech Technologies and Deep Learning With an Open Source Toolkit (Titouan Parcollet (Avignon University))

2022-03-15 13:15: Machine learning as an assay for high-dimensional biology (Sara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA)

2022-03-16 11:00: The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI (Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project)

2022-03-17 11:00: Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU (Milan Gritta, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab)

2022-03-17 14:00: Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory (Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University))

2022-03-17 16:30: TBC (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-17 17:00: Demystifying Deep Learning (Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin))

2022-03-18 12:00: Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking (Nicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface))

2022-03-18 16:30: Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19  (Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) )

2022-03-23 11:00: An Overview of AI Alignment (Neel Alex, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-24 16:30: [Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya' (Christopher Heffer (Cardiff University))

2022-03-25 16:30: Thinking the right thoughts (Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University))

2022-03-30 11:00: Autoregressive Diffusion Models (Emiel Hoogeboom)

2022-04-04 12:00: SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec (Neil Zeghidour (Google))

2022-04-20 11:00: Machine Learning with Quantum Computers (Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld)

2022-04-21 11:00: Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination (University of Cambridge)

2022-04-28 16:00: Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time (Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) )

2022-04-29 12:00:  Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarization (Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University))

2022-04-29 16:00: On the Two-fold Role of Logic Constraints in Deep Learning (Dr Gabriele Ciravegna, Inria – Université Côte d'Azur)

2022-04-29 16:30: Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development (Professor Pasco Fearon)

2022-05-04 11:00: Bests of ICLR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-05 14:00: Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS) (Cathy Price (UCL))

2022-05-05 15:00: The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning (Roger Levy, MIT)

2022-05-06 12:00: Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior (Alon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University))

2022-05-06 14:00: Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent (Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania))

2022-05-06 16:30: Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition (Professor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University))

2022-05-11 11:00: How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences. (David Burt, University of Cambridge)

2022-05-13 11:30: Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks (Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley)

2022-05-13 15:00: Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions (Yihong Wu (Yale University))

2022-05-13 16:30: Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles (Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex))

2022-05-16 16:00: Participative multilingual identity education: Theory, evidence and impact of the ‘We Are Multilingual’ Campaign (MEITS WAM Project Team, University of Cambridge, Linda Fisher, Michael Evans, Karen Forbes, Angela Gayton (Glasgow), Yongcan Liu, Dee Rutgers (Sheffield Hallam))

2022-05-17 12:00: Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding (Lili Mou (University of Alberta))

2022-05-17 13:15: Lifted Relational Neural Networks (Gustav Šir, Czech Technical University in Prague)

2022-05-19 11:00: Can we automatically anonymize text documents? (Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center)

2022-05-19 13:00: Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the Equation (Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen))

2022-05-19 16:30: The grammar of self-talk. What different modes of talking reveal about the language faculty.  (Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra))

2022-05-19 17:00: Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds (Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London))

2022-05-25 11:00: Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-26 14:00: Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings (Joel Voss (University of Chicago) )

2022-05-31 13:15: Multi-fidelity machine learning models for improved high-throughput screening predictions (David Buterez)

2022-06-01 11:00: Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models (Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui)

2022-06-01 15:00: Deciphering speech: a top-down approach to zero-resource speech recognition (Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh))

2022-06-01 17:00: Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions (Yanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University))

2022-06-02 11:00: A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation (Yixuan Su, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-03 14:00: A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions (Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit))

2022-06-06 12:00: Confidence estimation for attention-based encoder-decoder models for speech recognition (Qiujia Li (University of Cambridge))

2022-06-08 11:00: Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-06-09 14:00: Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control (Sven Bestmann (UCL))

2022-06-09 15:00: Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation (Junjie Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2022-06-10 12:00: An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam (Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna))

2022-06-13 12:00: (Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology (Zeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University))

2022-06-14 16:00: Neural Sequence Models for Mathematical Reasoning (Yuhuai(Tony) Wu, Stanford University & Google)

2022-06-15 11:00: Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-06-16 11:00: Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information (Yftah Ziser, University of Edinburgh)

2022-06-16 11:00: Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study (Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

2022-06-17 12:00: Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures (Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen))

2022-06-17 14:00: (CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects (Ricardo Silva (UCL))

2022-06-20 17:00: Neighbourhood matching creates realistic surrogate temporal networks (Antonio Longa, FBK)

2022-06-22 11:00: Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance (Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-28 11:00: Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data (Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki)

2022-06-29 11:00: The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification (Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain)

2022-06-29 12:30: Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains (Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario))

2022-06-30 14:00: Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies (Karen Campbell (Brock University))

2022-07-04 17:00: The Problem of Size Generalization in Graph Neural Networks (Davide Buffelli , Universita' di Padova)

2022-07-06 11:00: The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning (Greg Yang, Microsoft Research)

2022-07-12 14:00: Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction (Martin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology ))

2022-07-18 11:00: What are the unsolved problems in Conversation Design? (Cathy Pearl, Google)

2022-09-02 16:00: Learning Backward Compatible Embeddings (Weihua Hu, Stanford University and Google)

2022-09-28 11:00: Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk (Roman Novak, Google Brain)

2022-09-29 11:00: Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP (Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt)

2022-10-04 13:15: Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience. (Danielle Belgrave, DeepMind)

2022-10-06 14:00: Tidying up working memory (Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin))

2022-10-07 12:00: The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD) (Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University))

2022-10-07 16:00: Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning (Victor Chernozhukov (MIT))

2022-10-07 16:30: What kind of network is the brain? (John Mollon (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-11 15:00: Multi-Head State Space Model for Sequence Modeling (Yassir Fathullah, Speech Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2022-10-12 11:00: Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward (Michael Cohen, University of Oxford)

2022-10-13 11:00: Quantifying Linguistic Variation (Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen)

2022-10-13 14:00: Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning (Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford))

2022-10-13 16:30: Complement clause section as a (non-)local relation (Dr Anna Roussou (University of Patras))

2022-10-14 14:00: Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC (Sam Power (University of Bristol))

2022-10-14 16:30: Plastic brains for flexible decisions (Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-18 13:00: Query-based Hard-Image Retrieval for Object Detection at Test Time (Ed Ayers, Five AI)

2022-10-20 14:00: Neurocomputational basis of anxiety (Oliver Robinson (UCL))

2022-10-20 15:00: Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics (Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin)

2022-10-21 12:00: A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text (Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-21 14:00: Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks (Min Xu (Rutgers University))

2022-10-21 16:30: Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes (Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-25 13:00: ACMP: Allen-Cahn Message Passing with Attractive and Repulsive Forces for Graph Neural Networks (Yu Guang Wang)

2022-10-26 11:00: Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning (Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge)

2022-10-27 17:00: Resampling methods for networks (Liza Levina (Michigan))

2022-10-27 17:00: Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing (Prof Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt))

2022-10-28 12:00: Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts (Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich))

2022-10-28 14:00: Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure (Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan))

2022-10-28 16:30: Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder (Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich))

2022-11-01 13:00: AI for Science: An Oral Report from a Recent Dagstuhl Workshop (Neil Lawrence)

2022-11-03 11:00: Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning (Antoine Miech, DeepMind)

2022-11-03 14:00: Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits (Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris))

2022-11-04 14:00: Local Independence Graphs (Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen))

2022-11-04 16:30: Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation (Professor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2022-11-07 11:00: NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges (Tom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem))

2022-11-08 13:00: Graph Neural Networks for Geometric Graphs (Chaitanya K. Joshi, Simon V. Mathis)

2022-11-09 11:00: A tutorial on diffusion models (Emile, Sasha from CBL)

2022-11-10 11:00: Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models (Ignacio Iacobacci, Huawei )

2022-11-10 14:00: Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition (Steve Fleming (UCL))

2022-11-10 17:00: Sentiment analysis: methods and applications (Dr Antonio Moreno Ortiz (Universidad de Málaga))

2022-11-11 12:00: Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT (Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam))

2022-11-11 14:00: Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference (Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center))

2022-11-11 16:30: Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing (Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington))

2022-11-14 13:00: Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement  (Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations)

2022-11-15 13:00: Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs (Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-16 11:00: Predicting generalization of ML models. (Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy)

2022-11-17 11:00: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction  (Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh)

2022-11-17 11:00: End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding (Aishwarya Kamath, New York University)

2022-11-17 14:00: Talk title tbc (Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research))

2022-11-18 12:00: Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain))

2022-11-18 14:00: Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds (Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology))

2022-11-18 16:30: Disruption of Information in Working Memory (Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin))

2022-11-22 11:00: Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport (Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile)

2022-11-22 13:00: Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers (Yoli Shavit, Huawei TRC and Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

2022-11-23 11:00: Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent (Andy Lin, MLG)

2022-11-24 11:30: Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances (Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland )

2022-11-24 14:00: The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity (Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC))

2022-11-24 17:00: Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks (Harrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge)

2022-11-25 12:00: CANCELLED (Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS))

2022-11-25 15:00: Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities (John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit))

2022-11-25 15:00: The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks (Han Xuanyuan, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-25 16:30: Brain charts for the human lifespan. (Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge))

2022-11-25 17:00: Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts (Steve Azzolin)

2022-11-30 17:00: Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution (Kai Yi, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney)

2022-12-01 11:00: Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning (Mikel Artetxe, Meta)

2022-12-01 14:00: A Distance Function based Cascaded Neural Network for accurate Polyps Segmentation and Classification ( Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

2022-12-01 16:00: Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss (Tamar Makin (MRC CBU))

2022-12-02 12:00: Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline (Kris Cao (DeepMind))

2022-12-15 11:00: Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs (David Duvenaud (University of Toronto))

2022-12-15 11:00: Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs (David Duvenaud (University of Toronto))

2023-01-19 14:00: Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex (Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge))

2023-01-20 12:00: Exploring and Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-Playing  (Paul Röttger (Oxford University))

2023-01-20 14:00: Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference (Alastair Young (Imperial College, London))

2023-01-20 16:30: Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet? (Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge))

2023-01-24 13:00: Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-off (Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge))

2023-01-26 11:00: SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems (Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University)

2023-01-26 14:00: Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being (Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford))

2023-01-26 15:30: Getting Passive by Extending Classes: A Novel Verb-Learning Study with Adults and Children (Dr Emma Nguyen (Newcastle University))

2023-01-27 12:00: GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP (Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS))

2023-01-27 14:00: Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems (Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge))

2023-01-27 16:30: Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy (Peter John (King's College London))

2023-01-30 11:00: Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle (Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual)

2023-01-31 13:00: When Vision Transformers Meet Cooperative Perception (Runsheng Xu, UCLA (USA))

2023-02-02 11:00: Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views (Pinelopi (Nelly) Papalampidi, DeepMind)

2023-02-02 14:00: Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines (Kelsey Allen (Deep Mind))

2023-02-03 12:00:  Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction (Shiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-03 14:00: Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED) (Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics))

2023-02-03 16:30: Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction (Dr David Dupret (Oxford University))

2023-02-08 11:00: {PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints (Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,)

2023-02-09 11:00: Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages (Sebastian Ruder, Google)

2023-02-09 14:00: Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice (Helen Barron (U. of Oxford))

2023-02-10 12:00: Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causality (Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge))

2023-02-10 16:00: The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality (Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam))

2023-02-14 13:00: Composite Feature Selection using Deep Ensembles (Alex Norcliffe - University of Cambridge)

2023-02-15 11:00: Offline Reinforcement Learning (Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh))

2023-02-15 14:00: Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication (Luca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome)

2023-02-17 12:00: Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views (Pinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind))

2023-02-17 14:00: Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models (Robin Evans (University of Oxford))

2023-02-21 13:00: Neural Networks for High-Dimensional Tabular Biomedical Datasets (Andrei Margeloiu (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-22 11:00: Bayesian Neural Networks (James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-23 11:00: One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs (Fangyu LIU (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-23 14:00: Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand (Ken Valyear (Bangor University))

2023-02-24 12:00: Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning (Jonas Pfeiffer (Google Research))

2023-02-24 14:00: Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects (Ricardo Silva (UCL))

2023-02-24 16:30: The Neuroscience of Reading:  Tracing words from the page through the brain (Dr Geoffrey M. Boynton (University of Washington))

2023-02-28 13:00: Structure-based Drug Design and Molecular Optimisation with Diffusion Models (Charlie Harris, University of Cambridge)

2023-03-01 11:00: An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning (Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-02 11:00: Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling (Piotr Nawrot, University of Edinburgh)

2023-03-02 14:00: Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex (Henry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) )

2023-03-03 12:00: An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough (Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University))

2023-03-03 14:00: Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective (Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics))

2023-03-03 16:30: Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations (Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow))

2023-03-08 11:00: Random Features for Kernel Approximation (Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-09 16:00: Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk (Mona Diab, Meta AI)

2023-03-10 12:00: Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages (Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR))

2023-03-10 16:00: Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data (Hongyu Zhao (Yale University))

2023-03-10 16:30: Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention (Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience))

2023-03-15 11:00: User Manipulation in Recommender Systems (Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley))

2023-03-16 11:00: Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot. (Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow)

2023-03-16 15:30: “The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action” (Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley)  )

2023-03-17 16:30: Choice under Computational Complexity (Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge))

2023-03-22 11:00: Causal Machine Learning (Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-23 14:00: Somatosensory participation in human motor learning (David Ostry (McGill University) )

2023-03-29 11:00: Physics-informed machine learning (Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-30 14:00: Attention Forcing: Improving attention-based sequence-to-sequence models (Qingyun Dou, University of Cambridge)

2023-04-05 11:00: Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis (Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge))

2023-04-12 11:00: No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning (Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge))

2023-04-19 11:00: Neural Tangent Kernel (Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) )

2023-04-27 14:00: Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from     working memory (Marie Banich (U, of Colorado Boulde))

2023-04-27 16:30: The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking (Prof Stefan Hinterwimmer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal))

2023-04-28 12:00: Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference  (Joe Stacey (Imperial College London))

2023-04-28 14:00: Fundamental limits of generative AI (Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich)

2023-04-28 16:30: What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versa (Professor Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, New York)

2023-05-03 11:00: Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification (Burigede Liu)

2023-05-04 14:00: Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of life     (Joseph Ledoux (New York University) )

2023-05-04 15:00: Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology (Dallas Card, University of Michigan)

2023-05-04 17:00: Saving the language of William the Conqueror: The Revitalisation of Sark's Norman tongue (Martin Neudörfl (Charles University, Prague))

2023-05-05 14:00: Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis (Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft))

2023-05-05 16:30: The DNA revolution and psychology (Professor Robert Plomin (King's College, London))

2023-05-10 11:00: Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field (Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-11 11:00: Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry (Sam Power, University of Bristol)

2023-05-11 14:00: The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviour (Martina Di Simplicio (Imperial College London))

2023-05-11 16:30: Moving up and down parameter hierarchies: markedness, third factors and diachrony (Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-12 14:00: A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis  (Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University))

2023-05-12 16:00: Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models (Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia))

2023-05-12 16:30: Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts (Professor Josep Call, University of St Andrews)

2023-05-16 13:00: Dimensionality Reduction via Probabilistic Inference (Aditya Ravuri (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-18 11:00: Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy (Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki)

2023-05-18 14:00: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgetting  (Lili Sahakyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign))

2023-05-19 12:00: Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic (Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg))

2023-05-19 14:00: Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains (Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan))

2023-05-19 16:30: Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction (Dr David Dupret (Oxford University))

2023-05-19 17:00: Integrating Radiomics and Explainable Methods: Paving the Way for Transparent and Interpretable Medical Imaging Analysis (Francesco Prinzi, University of Palermo)

2023-05-23 13:00: Relative Entropy Coding for Learned Data Compression (Greg Flamich, Engineering Department (Cambridge))

2023-05-23 17:30: Improving learning with noisy labels in two possibile scenarios. (Maria Sofia Bucarelli, La Sapienza University)

2023-05-24 11:00: Reward Modelling (Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-25 11:00: Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles (Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh)

2023-05-25 14:00: Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts  (Mike Anderson (MRC CBU))

2023-05-25 16:30: Quantity implicature and perspective-taking: insights from a novel task (Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-26 12:00: Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering (Zhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-26 14:00: Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities (Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University))

2023-05-29 16:30: Unveiling Bounded Confidence Dynamics in Sheaf Neural Networks (Olga Zaghen, University of Trento)

2023-05-29 18:00: MaRF: Representing Mars as Neural Radiance Fields (Lorenzo Giusti, Universita' La Sapienza)

2023-05-30 13:00: Hypergraph Factorisation for Multi-Tissue Gene Expression Imputation (Ramon Vinas Torne)

2023-05-31 11:00: On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge)

2023-06-01 16:00: Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions (Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago)

2023-06-02 12:00: Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP (Dustin Wright (University of Copenhagen))

2023-06-02 14:00: Simultaneous Directional Inference (Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University))

2023-06-06 13:00: Information Spreading on Networks (Charlotte Out)

2023-06-07 11:00: Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification (Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford)

2023-06-07 16:00: Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks (Lovro Vrcek, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR)

2023-06-08 14:00: Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophrenia (Dan Bush (UCL)	)

2023-06-08 16:00: Mind the Data (Noah Smith, University of Washington )

2023-06-09 12:00: Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference (Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University))

2023-06-09 14:00: Bayesian Inference using Generative Models (John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University))

2023-06-13 13:00: POSTPONED: Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning (Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge))

2023-06-14 11:00: The LLM Tidal Wave (Katie Collins, University of Cambridge)

2023-06-14 11:00: The LLM Tidal Wave (Katie Collins, University of Cambridge)

2023-06-15 14:00: Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world (Rhiannon Turner (Queen's University Belfast))

2023-06-16 00:00: Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations (Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit))

2023-06-16 12:00: Knowledge Issues and Language Models  (James Thorne (KAIST))

2023-06-20 13:00: Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning (Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge))

2023-06-20 17:00: Protein generation and fitness optimization (Jason Yim, EECS, MIT)

2023-06-21 11:00: Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs  (Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy)

2023-06-22 14:00: Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapy (Dorothee Saur (Max Planck Institute/ U. of Leipzig) )

2023-06-27 13:00: Is ChatGPT adequate for decision-making? (Victor O.K. Li, University of Hong Kong)

2023-06-28 11:00: Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks (Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED)

2023-07-14 11:00: Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent (Jeremy Bernstein, MIT)

2023-07-18 17:00: Sphere Neural-Network for Higher-level Cognition (Tiansi Dong)

2023-07-21 17:00: Scattering Networks and Singular Values Decomposition: different methods to remove background in Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy image (Lisa Cuneo, University of Genova and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia )

2023-07-21 18:00: Sediment core analysis using artificial intelligence (Gianluca Carlini)

2023-08-22 14:00: Ethical and legal aspects of AI training in healthcare (Chiara Gallese, University of Turin)

2023-08-28 17:00: Subgraphs (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-09-08 14:00: Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing (Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University)

2023-09-14 15:00: Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence" (Jay McClelland, Stanford University )

2023-10-05 14:00: Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures (Lia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) )

2023-10-06 12:00: Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs? (Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind))

2023-10-06 14:00: Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts (Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study))

2023-10-06 16:30: Decoding the neural processing of speech (Professor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg))

2023-10-12 14:00: When language typology meets dementia (Boon Lead Tee (UCSF) )

2023-10-13 12:00: Fighting Bad Information with AI (David Corney (Full Fact))

2023-10-13 14:00: Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes (Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University))

2023-10-13 16:30: Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope (Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam))

2023-10-17 13:00: On Learning Latent Models with Multi-Instance Weak Supervision (Efi Tsamoura (Samsung AI, Cambridge))

2023-10-18 11:00: Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling (Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-18 16:30: A new coefficient of correlation  (Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) )

2023-10-18 17:30: Spectral Graph Neural Network: Polynomial Approximation and Optimization (Keke Huang, National University of Singapore)

2023-10-19 11:00: Learning disentangled representation for interpretable language model. / Interactive Narrative Understanding. (Lin Gui and Runcong Zhao, King's College London)

2023-10-19 14:00: How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view (Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College))

2023-10-20 12:00: Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks (Leshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem))

2023-10-20 14:00: Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification  (Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London))

2023-10-20 16:30: Cortical gradients of functional integration (Dr Daniel Margulies )

2023-10-24 13:00: AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies (Karolis Martinkus & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche))

2023-10-24 17:00: Revolutionizing Biosensing Technologies: Plug and Play Devices in Medical and Agricultural Diagnostics  (Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI), Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW 2800)

2023-10-25 11:00: Learning linear models in-context with transformers (Spencer Frei, UC Davis)

2023-10-26 11:00: ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-10-27 12:00: Representation and computation in visual working memory (Professor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2023-10-27 12:00: Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis (Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google))

2023-10-27 14:00: Adaptive two-sample testing (Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL))

2023-11-01 11:00: Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction (Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge)

2023-11-02 11:00: Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI (Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University in Milan, Italy))

2023-11-02 14:00: A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex  (Sanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford))

2023-11-03 12:00: Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity  (Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex)

2023-11-03 14:00: Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views (Stefano Favaro (University of Turin))

2023-11-03 15:00: Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moon (Sara Hooker (Cohere For AI))

2023-11-07 13:00: Multi-Agent Simulation and Learning in TorchRL (Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-08 11:00: Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization (Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge)

2023-11-08 17:00: Multi-Agent Graph Learning-Based Optimization and its Applications to Computer Networks (Guillermo Bernárdez Gil, UPC Barcelona)

2023-11-09 11:00: One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone (Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan)

2023-11-09 14:00: Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control (Jan Wessel (U. of Iowa)   (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) )

2023-11-10 12:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge)

2023-11-10 12:00: Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing (Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield))

2023-11-10 14:00: Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs (Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin))

2023-11-13 12:00: Questioning Ideas in Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning (Guoxuan Xia (Imperial College London))

2023-11-14 13:00: RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges (Arne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL))

2023-11-15 11:00: A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo (Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge)

2023-11-16 11:00: Language Understanding for the Political Sciences (Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim)

2023-11-16 14:00: Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside (Jessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School))

2023-11-17 12:00: Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation (Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL))

2023-11-17 14:00: Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms (Kengo Kato (Cornell University))

2023-11-21 13:00: Hybrid Multi-Modal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data (Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-21 17:00: Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions (Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology))

2023-11-22 11:00: Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems (Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge)

2023-11-23 11:00: A sanity check on emergent properties (Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen)

2023-11-23 14:00: Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy (Quentin Huys (UCL))

2023-11-24 12:00: Efficiency by Construction (Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-24 14:00: Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science (Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore))

2023-11-24 16:30: How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language (Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig))

2023-11-28 11:00: Modern Bayesian Experimental Design (Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford)

2023-11-29 11:00: Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between (Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG))

2023-11-30 14:00: Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research (Essi Viding (UCL) )

2023-11-30 15:00: Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models (David Jurgens, University of Michigan)

2023-12-01 11:00: Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics (Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2023-12-01 12:00: Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP (Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere))

2023-12-07 14:00: Challenges and future directions in cochlear implants (Ruth Litovsky (U. of Wisconsin – Madison))

2023-12-11 12:00: The applications of discrete speech tokens for robust and context-aware text-to-speech synthesis (Chenpeng Du)

2023-12-12 12:45: The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and loved  (Michael Inzlicht (U. of Toronto))

2023-12-12 14:00: The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition (Dr Luiz Pessoa (U. of Maryland))

2024-01-16 13:00: Vibe checks and red teaming: why ML researchers are increasingly reverting to manual evaluation (Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge))

2024-01-18 14:00: Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in children (Torsten Baldeweg (UCL))

2024-01-18 15:00: Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness? (He He, New York University)

2024-01-18 15:00: Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness? (He He, New York University)

2024-01-19 12:00: Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning (Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge))

2024-01-19 14:00: Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test (Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon))

2024-01-23 13:00: Accelerating Generative AI on Custom Hardware Accelerators - Challenges and Opportunities (Partha Maji (Tenstorrent))

2024-01-24 19:00: Personalising Crutch Geometries through Bayesian Optimisation (Riccardo Conci, University of Cambridge)

2024-01-25 14:00: The finger of blame in depression and the brain (Roland Zahn (KCL))

2024-01-25 16:00: Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models. (Tatsunori Hashimoto)

2024-01-26 12:00: What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition (Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge))

2024-01-26 12:00: Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths (Tiago Pimentel)

2024-01-26 14:00: Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations (Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge))

2024-01-29 12:00: “End-to-end multi-speaker neural TTS with LLM-based prosody prediction” (Penny Karanasou, Amazon R&D)

2024-01-30 13:00: Text-and-audio methods (Catalina Cangea (Google DeepMind))

2024-02-01 11:00: Geographically Grounded Language Models (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-02-01 14:00: Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problems (Anna Moore (UoC, Dept of Psychiatry) )

2024-02-02 12:00: This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP (Lisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam)

2024-02-02 14:00: M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy (Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University))

2024-02-02 16:30: When Art meets Psychology ( Prof. Clive Wilkins)

2024-02-06 13:00: Towards Learning-Powered Networked Systems (Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem))

2024-02-07 11:00: Bayesian coresets (Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-08 14:00: Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developments (Cath Harmer (U. of Oxford) )

2024-02-08 16:00: Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings. (Swabha Swayamdipta, University of Southern California)

2024-02-09 12:00: Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators (Clara Meister, ETH Zurich)

2024-02-09 14:00: Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation. (Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis))

2024-02-09 16:30: Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts (Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh)

2024-02-13 13:00: Learning to Receive Help: Intervention-Aware Concept Embedding Models (Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge))

2024-02-14 11:00: GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas) (Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-15 11:00: Prosocial Language Models (Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College)

2024-02-16 12:00: Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages (Priyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind)

2024-02-16 14:00: Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform (Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova))

2024-02-16 17:00: Opinion dynamics inspired sheaf neural networks. (Ferran Hernandez Caralt)

2024-02-19 12:00: End-to-end contextual speech recognition with Tree-constrained pointer generator (Brian Sun, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2024-02-21 11:00: Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks (James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec  )

2024-02-22 11:00: Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements. (Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich)

2024-02-22 14:00: Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitations (Gustav Kuhn (U. of Plymouth))

2024-02-22 17:00: Towards Machine Learning-enhanced Monitoring (Andrea Brunello and Nicola Saccomanno, University of Udine)

2024-02-23 12:00: Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models (Pasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh)

2024-02-23 13:00: Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings (David Burt, MIT)

2024-02-23 16:30: Cortical interneurons in health and disease. (Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London)

2024-02-28 11:00: An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes (Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu)

2024-02-29 11:00: What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out? (Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University)

2024-02-29 14:00: Consolidation of memory and model-based planning  (Neil Burgess (UCL)

2024-03-01 12:00: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation (Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-01 12:00: LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has Changed (Emma Strubell, CMU)

2024-03-01 14:00: Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs (Anna Calissano (Imperial College))

2024-03-05 13:00: POSTPONED (Prof. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL))

2024-03-07 14:00: Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfaces (Jaimie Henderson (Stanford University))

2024-03-07 14:00: Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges (Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University)

2024-03-08 12:00: Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers (Alexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig )

2024-03-08 16:30: Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults. (Dr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2024-03-12 13:00: TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics (Zhe Wang (DeepMind))

2024-03-12 14:00: Concentration and Free Probability (Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich))

2024-03-13 11:00: An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method (Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-14 14:00: Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and production (Kate Watkins (U. of Oxford) )

2024-03-14 14:00: Inverting Language Models (Alexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face)

2024-03-15 12:00: Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it? (Mevan Babakar, Google )

2024-03-15 16:30: The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory (Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva)

2024-03-18 12:00: Speaker Retrieval in the Wild: Challenges, Effectiveness and Robustness (Erfan Loweimi, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2024-03-20 11:00: Neural likelihood-free inference (Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge)

2024-04-17 11:00: AI Control (Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge)

2024-04-19 14:00: Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure (George Degliannidis, University of Oxford)

2024-04-22 12:00: Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning for Audio and Speech Processing (Umberto Cappellazzo, University of Trento)

2024-04-24 11:00: Discussing the Stanford AI Report (Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen)

2024-04-24 11:00: Discussing the Stanford AI Report (Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge)

2024-04-25 14:00: Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation (Elsa Fouragnan (U. of Plymouth))

2024-04-25 16:00: Large language models for enabling constructive online conversations (Kristina Gligorić, Stanford University)

2024-04-26 12:00: Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers" (Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University))

2024-04-26 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-04-26 14:00: Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference (Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida)

2024-04-30 13:00: The UK AI Safety Institute (Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge & UK AI Safety Institute))

2024-05-01 11:00: Mean Field Theory of NNs (Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-02 11:00: Language modelling for the sake of language modelling (Nikos Aletras, University of Sheffield)

2024-05-02 14:00: Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust (Dan Freeman (U. of Oxford))

2024-05-03 14:00: Rates of convergence for tensor denoising (Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich)

2024-05-03 16:30: Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts (Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh)

2024-05-09 11:00: "What it can create, it may not understand" Studying the Limits of Transformers. (Nouha Dziri, Allen Institute for AI)

2024-05-09 14:00: Learning and memory in developmental amnesia  (Rachael Elward (London South Bank University))

2024-05-10 13:00: Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models (Dominik Stammbach, ETH Zurich)

2024-05-10 16:30: Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders (Professor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2024-05-13 10:00: Effect of room acoustics on speech intelligibility under noise between native and non-native listeners (Dr Yusuke Hioka, University of Auckland)

2024-05-16 14:00: Sleep to forget unwanted memories (Scott Cairney (U. of York))

2024-05-16 14:00: Data Selection for Pre-training and Instruction-tuning of LLMs (Danqi Chen, Princeton University)

2024-05-17 12:00: The intersection of Interpretability and Fairness (Giuseppe Attanasio, Milan NLP)

2024-05-17 14:00: On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios (Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam)

2024-05-17 16:30: The Cognitive Biology of Language (Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University)

2024-05-23 11:00: Incremental Accumulation of Linguistic Context in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks (Refael Tikochinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2024-05-23 14:00: How does the human brain recognize faces? (Bruno Rossion (U. of Lorraine))

2024-05-24 12:00: Open-Endedness and General Intelligence (Tim Rocktäschel, University College London )

2024-05-24 12:00: Leveraging AI for Breakthroughs in Genomic Research (Mike Sikic, Genome Institute of Singapore )

2024-05-24 14:00: On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm (Andre Wibisono, Yale University)

2024-05-24 17:15: Unveiling Causal Drivers of Non-Communicable Diseases with Interpretable Models (Sheresh Zahoor)

2024-05-29 11:00: A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis (Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-30 11:00: Practical and Specialised NLP Solutions: The Case of Social Media (Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University)

2024-05-30 14:00: The problem with mental health awareness (Lucy Foulkes (U. of Oxford))

2024-05-31 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-05-31 14:00: Learning with latent symmetries (Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore)

2024-06-03 15:00: The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain (Bill Jagust (UC Berkeley))

2024-06-06 14:00: The role of reward in language learning (Saloni Krishnan (Royal Holloway))

2024-06-06 15:00: Generative AI for Science (James Zou, Stanford University)

2024-06-07 14:00: Evaluating Large Language Models as Model Systems for Language (Carina Kauf, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences)

2024-06-07 14:00: Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA (Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin)

2024-06-07 17:00: How deep can LLMs reason? Benchmarking GPT and Llama models on nested mathematical formulas (Flavio Petruzzellis, Universita' di Padova)

2024-06-13 11:00: Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs? (Shiwei Liu, University of Oxford)

2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

2024-06-14 14:00: Nonparametric classification with missing data (Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh)

2024-06-14 16:00: The tradeoff governing efficient language model architectures (Sabri Eyuboglu, Stanford University)

2024-06-24 12:00: Towards understanding the performance of individuals within automatic speaker recognition systems (Vincent Hughes, University of York)

2024-06-26 11:00: Task Alignment (Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge)

2024-07-16 15:00: Navigating Privacy Risks in Language Models (Peter Kairouz -- Google)

2024-07-18 16:30: Reinforcement Learning and Learning-guided Search for Generalizability for Multi-agent Mobility Systems (Cathy Wu, MIT)

2024-08-06 12:00: Towards Improving End-to-End Neural Diarization (Dr Federico Landini, Brno University of Technology)

2024-08-19 12:00: Controlling and Muting Whisper: Universal Acoustic Adversarial Attacks on Speech Foundation Models (Vyas Raina)

2024-08-23 17:00: Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data (Luke Braithwaite (University of Cambridge, Cambridge))

2024-09-23 14:00: Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium (Stefan Wager (Stanford University))

2024-09-26 17:00: Enhancing Climate Prediction with Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning Models (Simone Monaco, Politecnico if Torino)

2024-09-27 17:00: Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data (Luke Braithwaite)

2024-10-10 11:00: Ten Years of Universal Dependencies (Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE)

2024-10-10 14:00: Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control (Tim Rogers (Madison-Wisconsin/ MRC CBU) )

2024-10-11 12:00: NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students (Suchir Salhan (University of Cambridge), Matthieu Moulec (University of Cambridge), Paul Siewart (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-11 14:00: Distributional learning: from methodology to applications (Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich))

2024-10-11 16:30: Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering (Dr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada)

2024-10-17 14:00: The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events (Adrian Horner (U. of York) )

2024-10-17 14:00: Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning (Greg Durrett, UT Austin)

2024-10-18 12:00: Truth conditions at scale, and beyond (Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-18 14:00: On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms (Mats Stensrud (EPFL))

2024-10-18 16:30: Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics. (Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2024-10-21 12:00: SummaryMixing: A Linear-Time Attention Alternative (Shucong Zhang, Samsung AI Center)

2024-10-24 14:00: Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition (Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience))

2024-10-24 16:00: LLM Generalization in Social Context (Diyi Yang, Stanford University)

2024-10-25 12:00: Language Modelling with Phonemes (Zebulon Youra Goriely (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-25 14:00: Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing (Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna))

2024-10-25 16:30: Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights (Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

2024-10-30 11:00: Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers (Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-31 14:00: Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions (Tim Denison (U. of Oxford))

2024-10-31 17:00: Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Natasha Jaques, University of Washington)

2024-11-01 12:00: Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models (Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Edinburgh))

2024-11-01 14:00: Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm (Sam Livingstone (UCL))

2024-11-01 16:30: The Atomic Human (Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-05 13:00: Paying Attention to Efficiency: LLM Deployment on Mobile and Edge Devices (Stefanos Laskaridis, Brave Software)

2024-11-06 11:00: Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them (Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-07 14:00: Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity (Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University))

2024-11-07 16:00: Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness (Daniel Khashabi, Johns Hopkins University)

2024-11-08 12:00: 10 Slides on Human Feedback (Max Bartolo (Cohere))

2024-11-08 14:00: Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models (Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-08 16:30: Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions (Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway)

2024-11-11 12:00: Vector Quantization in Deep Neural Networks for Speech and Image Processing (Mohammad Vali, Aalto  University, Finland)

2024-11-12 13:00: Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them (Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-13 11:00: Are we making progress in unlearning?  (Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind))

2024-11-14 14:00: Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust (Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol))

2024-11-15 12:00: Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models. (Janet B. Pierrehumbert,  University of Oxford)

2024-11-15 14:00: Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity (Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University))

2024-11-19 13:00: Bias Mitigation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities (Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-20 11:00: Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms (Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford))

2024-11-21 14:00: Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present (Avital Hahamy (University College London)	)

2024-11-21 15:30: Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (Heng Ji, UIUC)

2024-11-22 12:00: Scansion-based Lyric Generation (Yiwen Chen (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-22 14:00: Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation (Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham))

2024-11-22 16:30: Deconstruction of the social brain (Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)

2024-11-26 13:00: Controlling Behavioral Diversity in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-26 17:20: Expanding the borders of Multimodal Graph Learning with Sheaf Neural Networks (Mar Gonzàlez i Català)

2024-11-27 11:00: An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers (Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-27 16:00: LLMs and Low-Resource Languages (Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU))

2024-11-28 11:00: Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation (Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich)

2024-11-28 14:00: Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today (Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews) )

2024-11-29 12:00: The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization (Benjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge))

2024-11-29 14:00: Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation (Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London))

2024-11-29 16:30: From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination (Professor Peter Ulric Tse,  Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA)

2024-11-29 17:00: Constrained Neural Flows (Chandan Gupta)

2024-12-04 11:00: Learning curve prediction for AutoML (Andy Lin)

2024-12-04 11:00: Learning curve prediction for AutoML (Andy Lin)

2024-12-05 14:00: Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex (Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford) )

2024-12-05 14:00: Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation (Ziyu Yao, George Mason University)

2024-12-06 16:30: Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies (Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London)

2025-01-16 14:00: Cognitive-Motor Borderlands (Sam McDougle (Yale University))

2025-01-17 15:00: Multi-Head Explainer: A General Framework to Improve Explainability in CNNs and Transformers (Bohang Sun(Bob) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

2025-01-22 11:00: Foundation Models in Robotics (Liyou Zhou (Cambridge))

2025-01-23 14:00: Cognitive influences on speech perception in noisy environments (Emma Holmes (UCL))

2025-01-23 15:00: Linear Transformers for Efficient Sequence Modeling (Prof Yoon Kim, MIT)

2025-01-24 12:00: Analysing Memorisation in Classification and Translation through Localisation and Cartography (Verna Dankers (University of Edinburgh) )

2025-01-28 13:00: SynFlowNet: Design of Synthesisable Molecules with GFlowNets (Miruna Cretu (University of Cambridge))

2025-01-29 11:00: An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge))

2025-01-29 11:00: An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge))

2025-01-30 11:00: Between the Lines: Contextual Understanding and Bias in LLMs (Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield)

2025-01-30 14:00: Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy (Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool))

2025-01-31 12:00: Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models (James Thorne (KAIST))

2025-01-31 14:00: Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models (Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh))

2025-01-31 16:30: Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs (Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie.)

2025-02-04 13:00: Text-and-audio methods (Cătălina Cangea, ex-Google DeepMind)

2025-02-05 11:00: Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality (Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-05 17:00: Sontinuity: Judeo-Spanish Transmission and Cultural Sonicity (Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge))

2025-02-06 14:00: Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving (John Duncan (MRC CBU))

2025-02-06 16:00: Behavioral machine learning (Dr. Keyon Vafa, Harvard Data Science Initiative)

2025-02-07 12:00: LLMs as supersloppers and other metaphors (Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-07 14:00: Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models (Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich))

2025-02-12 11:00: Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction (Mingtian Zhang, University College London)

2025-02-13 14:00: Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue (Tessa Dekker (UCL))

2025-02-13 15:00: Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs (Prof. Anne Lauscher, Hamburg)

2025-02-14 12:00: Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training (Jeremy Bernstein (MIT))

2025-02-14 14:00: Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation (Peter Orbanz (UCL))

2025-02-14 16:30: Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains. (Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain )

2025-02-19 11:00: Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design (Zixing Song)

2025-02-20 11:00: What’s not an Autoregressive LLM? (Prof. Lingpeng Kong, HKU)

2025-02-20 17:00: From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning -- Why Machine Learning Cannot Reach the Rigour of Logical Reasoning? recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x38GySbuGJg  (Tiansi Dong)

2025-02-20 20:45: Compiling a Glossary of Insular Norman: Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands! (Professor Mari Jones (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-20 20:45: Compiling a Glossary of Insular Norman: Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands! (Professor Mari Jones (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-21 11:00: Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP (Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg))

2025-02-21 14:00: A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments (Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University))

2025-02-24 17:30: Harnessing Large Language Models for Medical Data Processing: Structured Information Extraction, Disease Classification, and RAG Integration  (Cristian Cosentino (Università della Calabria))

2025-02-24 18:00: Network modelling and Graph Neural Networks for emergency healthcare management (Annamaria Defilippo, PhD Student - Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro)

2025-02-24 18:45: Beyond Interpolation: Extrapolative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks (Niccolò Grillo)

2025-02-26 11:00: Sampling with diffusion models (Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-26 17:00: Preserving What Was Lost: Endangered Languages of Yazd’s Religious Minorities Zoroastrians and Jews and Their Vernacular Heritage (Professor Saloumeh Gholami (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge))

2025-02-26 17:30: Incorporating Flexibility in Antibody-Antigen Interaction Prediction (Sara Joubbi)

2025-02-27 14:00: Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample (Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge))

2025-02-28 12:00: Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts (Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK)

2025-03-05 11:00: Influence Functions (Adrian Goldwaser, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge)

2025-03-06 13:00: RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data (Urška Matjašec (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-06 14:00: Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice? (Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) )

2025-03-06 16:00: Grammar, reasoning, learning: Three short stories on comparative & rational analysis of language model capabilities (Dr. Andrew Lampinen (Deepmind))

2025-03-06 17:00: On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning (Alvaro Arroyo, University of Oxford)

2025-03-07 12:00: Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward (Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University))

2025-03-07 16:30:  What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic (Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth)

2025-03-12 11:00: ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge)

2025-03-12 16:00: Natural Language meets Control Theory (Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University))

2025-03-13 11:00: Discourse models with language models (Prof. Jessy Li)

2025-03-13 13:00: Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology (Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-13 14:00: A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain (Nadine Dijkstra (UCL))

2025-03-13 16:30: Algorithmic stability for regression and classification (Rina Foygel Barber  (Chicago))

2025-03-14 12:00: : Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention (Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK)

2025-03-14 12:00: Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape (Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña))

2025-03-14 14:00: Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons (Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago))

2025-03-17 17:00: From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1).  (Tiansi Dong)

2025-03-17 17:00: Modelling microbiome-mediated epigenetic inheritance of disease risk (Bobby Ranjan)

2025-03-18 13:00: Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction (Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-19 11:00: An Introduction to In-Context Learning (Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge)

2025-03-20 14:00: Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices (Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London))

2025-03-20 14:00: New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning (Prof. Paul Liang (MIT))

2025-03-21 17:00: Surgical data using LLMs (Hugo Georgenthum)

2025-03-25 17:00: From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1) (Tiansi Dong)

2025-03-26 11:00: Learning to See the World in 3D (Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-31 17:00: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2) recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCHg-DAnEs (Tiansi Dong)

2025-04-02 11:00: Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications (Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge)

2025-04-13 17:00: blabla  (Cassidy)

2025-04-23 17:00: bla bla (Zeno)

2025-04-26 17:00: bla bla (Tiansi Dong)

2025-04-26 17:00: bla bla (Tiansi Dong)

2025-04-29 17:00: Sphere Embedding: The Atom for Explainable and Reliable AI and Machine Reasoning (Part 1). recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfrnwqpKRE (Tiansi Dong)

2025-05-01 14:00: From survival in the wild to music enjoyment - how the human brain discovers structure in sound sequences (Maria Chait (UCL))

2025-05-02 12:00: Asymmetry in Supposedly Equivalent Facts: Pre-training Bias in Large Language Models (Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge))

2025-05-02 14:00: Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median (Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California))

2025-05-02 16:30: How the Built Environment Affects Spatial Behavior, Brain Activity and Aesthetics (Professor Hugo Spiers)

2025-05-08 14:00: The human sense of smell: From hunter-gatherers to wine experts (Asifa Majid (U. of Oxford) )

2025-05-08 15:00: Human-Centered AI: Addressing the Ecological Fallacy in LLMs (Prof, H Andrew Schwartz (State University of New York at Stony Brook))

2025-05-09 12:00: Research Progress in Mechanistic Interpretability (Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind))

2025-05-09 14:00: Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning (Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich))

2025-05-09 16:30: The Functions of Episodic Memory (Ali Boyle)

2025-05-12 17:00: Superposition in GNNs (Lukas Pertl)

2025-05-12 17:00: Exploring the interplay between Ricci Flow, the Fisher Information Matrix and Gradient Descent in Neural Networks (Physics)

2025-05-13 13:00: Explainable AI in Neuroscience: From Interpretability to Biomarker Discovery (Mike Mamalakis (University of Cambridge))

2025-05-13 16:00: Sheaf-Based Diffusion for Multimodal Graph Learning (Mar Gonzàlez i Català (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya))

2025-05-15 14:00: Dissecting the neural control of skilled movements (Katja Kornysheva (U. of Birmingham) )

2025-05-15 16:00: Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages (Prof. Hila Gonen (University of Biritish Columbia))

2025-05-16 12:00: Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models (Paul Röttger (Bocconi University))

2025-05-16 14:00: Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies. (Kosuke Imai (Harvard University))

2025-05-16 16:30: How do (and don't) we take other perspectives? (Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. )

2025-05-20 17:00: Deep Learning Approaches for Label-Free Tumour Image Segmentation Spectroscopy in Cancer Diagnosis (Thomas Hartigan)

2025-05-21 11:00: Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models (Miri Zilka, Neel Alex, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Cambridge)

2025-05-22 11:00: AI Interacting with People (through Language) (Prof Hal Daume III (University of Maryland))

2025-05-22 14:00: A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry (Lilian Weber (U. of Oxford))

2025-05-23 12:00: Robust Alignment of Large Language Models (Dr. Sangwoong Yoon (UCL))

2025-05-23 16:30: Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will (Professor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place  Davis, CA )

2025-05-27 13:00: Computer Vision: Between Forensics and Biomedical Imaging (Giovanna Maria Dimitri, University of Siena (Italy))

2025-05-28 11:00: Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning (Eugene Wong(UC Berkeley and Clare Hall, Cambridge))

2025-05-28 17:00: Ethnolinguistic vitality of the Hemshin language (Gulay Akin (Cambridge))

2025-05-29 14:00: On Interacting and Writing with LLMs (Dr. Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research))

2025-05-30 12:00: Unveiling the Secret Sauce: A Causal Look at Data Memorisation and Tokenisation in Language Models (Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge))

2025-05-30 14:00: In-sample calibration yields conformal calibration guarantees (Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich))

2025-05-30 16:30: "Animal Consciousness: Evidence, Models, and Clues” (Peter Godfrey Smith)

2025-06-05 14:00: From anatomy to systems: Charting the language connectome (Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute))

2025-06-05 17:00: Interactive and Grounded Learning (Prof. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu (University of California, San Diego))

2025-06-06 14:00: Complexity of sampling truncated log-concave measures, and the role of stochastic localization (Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich))

2025-06-06 15:00: When is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 350 Languages (Catherine Arnett and Tyler Chang (EleutherAI and UC San Diego))

2025-06-11 11:00: Vision-language models (VLMs) (Varun Jain (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-11 11:00: Vision-language models (VLMs) (Varun Jain (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-12 11:00: Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning (Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London))

2025-06-12 11:00: Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning (Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London))

2025-06-12 14:00: Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities (Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun (Google DeepMind))

2025-06-12 14:00: Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: How sensory deprivation improved our vision on brain function (Emiliano Ricciardi (U. of Pisa)

2025-06-13 12:00: MultiBLiMP: A Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs (Jaap Jumelet (University of Groningen))

2025-06-13 14:00: Detecting Changes in Production Frontier and Beyond (Yining Chen (LSE))

2025-06-17 13:00: Feedback Forensics: A Toolkit to Measure AI Personality (Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-18 11:00: The structure of curvature in neural networks (Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research UK))

2025-06-19 14:00: Value Reasoning and Test-Time Verification for Trustworthy LLMs (Prof. Lu Wang (University of Michigan))

2025-06-19 14:00: Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology (Mary-Ellen Lynall (U. of Cambridge, Psychiatry Dept.)  )

2025-06-20 12:00: LLMs, Implicit Bayesian inference and compositional Generalization (Szilvia Ujvary (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-24 13:00: Success, sensitivity and unbelievable quality of LLM code generation (Andrei Paleyes (University of Cambridge))

2025-07-04 15:50: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-07-07 15:50: Performance evaluation for learning systems (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-07-07 15:50: title (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-07-07 15:50: title (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-07-07 15:50: title (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-07-07 15:50: title (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-07-08 15:50: Artificial Intelligence in Agrifood and  Environment  (Prof. Antonino Staiano)

2025-07-08 17:00: title (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-07-09 09:00: AI Governance and Regulation: Comparing EU, US, and China’s Models and global initiatives (Dr. Nicola Palladino, University of Salerno)

2025-07-10 10:50: From Score to Sound: Music Generation in the AI Era (Francesco Bardozzo (University of Salerno))

2025-07-16 15:50: Title to be confirmed (qrzhang@hku.hk)

2025-07-23 15:00: Google DeepMind’s Gemini models and the Rise of Long-Context LLMs (Dr Nikolay Savinov (Google DeepMind))

2025-07-28 17:00: AI-Powered Graph Representation Learning for Robust and Efficient Urban and Social Science (Qianru Zhang)

2025-07-29 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Kaiwen Zuo)

2025-07-29 17:15: Hierarchical Protein Structure Representation Learning via Topological Deep Learning (Zhiyu Wang)

2025-08-06 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-08-21 12:45: GNN-ACLP: Graph Neural Networks Based Analog Circuit Link Prediction (Guanyuan Peter Pan)

2025-08-26 16:00: Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans. (Rina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School)

2025-09-02 14:00: Attention under challenge: Addressing the consequences of modern environments (Anina Rich (Macquarie University, Sydney))

2025-09-24 13:00: Large Language Models and Graph Neural Networks for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (Fan Mo, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-06 10:00: Quantum Interactive Oracle Proofs (Baocheng Sun Weizman Institute)

2025-10-09 13:00: Protocols over Implementations (Dominik Moritz (Professor at CMU HCII and Researcher at Apple))

2025-10-09 14:00: Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in     humans (Biyu He (NYU) )

2025-10-10 11:00: Explanations as a Catalyst: Leveraging Large Language Models to Embrace Human Label Variation (Beiduo Chen)

2025-10-10 12:00: NLIP 2025 Social: Meet New PhD Students (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-10-10 14:00: Geometric extremal graphical models (Jennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster))

2025-10-16 14:00: Towards realistic and understandable models of human speech processing (Jim Magnuson (U. of Connecticut and BCBL))

2025-10-16 16:00: Implicit Chain-of-Thought: Internalizing Reasoning in Language Models  (Yuntian Deng (University of Waterloo))

2025-10-17 12:00: Making and breaking tokenizers (Sander Land (Writer) )

2025-10-17 13:00: Sense and Sensibility in Cognition: Unraveling the Neural Basis of Emotional Regulation (Dr Xiao Xiao, Fudan University)

2025-10-17 14:00: On uncertainty quantification for nonparametric multivariate Hawkes processes (Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine))

2025-10-17 16:30: Mental Navigation and the Default Mode Network: From Spatial Maps to Conceptual Knowledge (Dr Deniz Vatansever, Fudan University)

2025-10-20 16:00: Reducing Speaker and Temporal Redundancy in Discrete Speech Tokenization (Yiwei Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University)

2025-10-21 13:00: AIReg-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models That Assess AI Regulation Compliance (William Marino (University of Cambridge))

2025-10-22 11:00: An Introduction to Stochastic Interpolants (Professor Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato and Fran Castro)

2025-10-23 14:00: Grasping the invisible: Multidimensional meanings for abstract concepts (Penny Pexman (Western University, Canada) )

2025-10-23 15:00: Reading Between the Lines: Using Language Models to Amplify Human Data in Robot Learning (MIT) (Andreea Bobu (MIT))

2025-10-24 12:00: Evaluation with LLMs - Theoretical and Practical insights (Eyal Kolman (Microsoft))

2025-10-24 14:00: Universal Copulas (Gery Geenens (University of New South Wales))

2025-10-24 16:30: Revisiting Hebb and the Hippocampal Index in Humans: Toward a Neurotechnology of Memory (Prof Simon Hanslmayr, University of Glasgow)

2025-10-28 11:00: Emergence of Linear Representations in LMs (NYU) (Dr. Shauli Ravfogel (NYU))

2025-10-28 13:00: Is it even possible to defend AI agents against attacks in practice? (Ilia Shumailov (AI Sequrity Company, Ex DeepMind, Ex Cambridge))

2025-10-29 11:00: Diffusion Language Models (Julianna Piskorz (University of Cambridge))

2025-10-31 14:00: Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks (Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université))

2025-10-31 16:30: Trust in “Moral” Machines (Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent)

2025-11-05 11:00: A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML (Szilvia Ujvary, Arik Reuter, Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-06 14:00: A meeting of minds: Modulating mentalizing in autism (Sarah White (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2025-11-07 14:00: The manifold hypothesis in science & AI (Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh))

2025-11-07 16:30: Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language (Prof Kate Watkins, University of Oxford)

2025-11-11 14:00: To Intrinsic Dimension and Beyond: Efficient Sampling in Diffusion Models (Dr. Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Statistics and Data Science Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

2025-11-12 15:00: Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline (Prof. Sarah Wiegreffe (University of Maryland))

2025-11-13 14:00: How would I feel tomorrow: Towards a computational understanding of subjective pain    experiences (Deborah Talmi (U. of Cambridge) )

2025-11-13 14:00: Retrieving and Sampling Diverse Outputs (Prof. Eunsol Choi (NYU))

2025-11-14 12:00: Extrapolating model performance across training horizons (Kris Cao (Cohere))

2025-11-14 14:00: Statistical guarantees for neural operator surrogates (Sven Wang (EPFL))

2025-11-14 16:30: Naive Wisdom: Behavioral Evidence from Newborn Chicks (Prof Lucia Regolin, University of Padua)

2025-11-18 15:00:  Introducing BoltzGen: Toward Universal Binder Design (Hannes Stärk, PhD student at MIT)

2025-11-19 11:00: Neural Operators for Scientific Simulation (Luca Ghafourpour (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-20 14:00: Building efficient & useful knowledge systems (Tali Sharot (University College London)	)

2025-11-20 14:00: Just asking questions (MIT) (Jacob Andreas (MIT))

2025-11-20 14:00:  Learning shallow neural networks in high dimensions: SGD dynamics and scaling laws (Denny Wu, Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science, New York University and the Flatiron Institute.)

2025-11-21 11:00: Model Merging — A Tale of Two Settings (Donato Crisostomi)

2025-11-21 12:00: With great power... My journey in Responsible AI (Christos Christodoulopoulos)

2025-11-21 12:00: Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities (Prof Adam Sanborn, University of Warwick)

2025-11-21 14:00: On the sample complexity of multi-objective learning (Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich))

2025-11-25 13:00: VIKING: Deep variational inference with stochastic projections (Samuel Fadel (Technical University of Denmark))

2025-11-26 11:00: Variational Inference: An Algorithm-Centric Perspective (Kyurae Kim (University of Pennsylvania))

2025-11-27 14:00: The neurocognition of dance (Guido Orgs (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) )

2025-11-27 16:00: Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities (Prof. Peter West (University of British Columbia))

2025-11-28 12:00: A computational model of language production (Yuan Gao (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-28 14:00: Valid F-screening in linear regression (Daniela Witten (University of Washington))

2025-11-28 16:30: What does the high heritability of psychological traits mean for psychologists and educators? (Prof Michael Thomas, Birkbeck, University of London)

2025-12-04 14:00: Reconnecting with the body: Repairing interoception in physical illness and mental health (Lauren Heathcote (Kings College London) )

2025-12-04 14:00: Why don't models generalize? (Prof. Yonatan Bisk (CMU))

2025-12-05 15:00: Building and Understanding Human-scale Language Models (Aaron Mueller (Boston University))

2025-12-12 14:30: How does gradient descent work? (Jeremy Cohen (Flatiron))

2026-01-16 16:30: Earth, Brain and Mental Health: Uncovering How the Environment Shapes the Mind (Gunter Schumann, Fudan University Shanghai, and Charité University Medicine, Berlin)

2026-01-22 14:00:  Scales of injustice: Why a balance metaphor can be misleading when weighing evidence (David Lagnado, UCL)

2026-01-23 11:00: Cultural Biases in LLMs: From Behavioural analysis to Internal Representations (Siddhesh Pawar (University of Copenhagen))

2026-01-23 16:30: Individual differences in mathematical cognition: A Bert’s eye view (Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven)

2026-01-27 11:00: Talk by Uri Berger: Multimodality and Human Alignment in Vision-Language Models (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (Uri Berger (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem))

2026-01-27 12:00: Competence, Pain and the Geometry of Intelligence: Three Perspectives on Learning and Representation (Prof Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf))

2026-01-28 17:00: Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Self-Supervised Learning in the Foundation Model Era (Yisen Wang)

2026-01-29 14:00: Correcting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy sources with reinforcement learning (Stefano Palminteri, Ecole Normale Superieure)

2026-01-30 14:00: The Geometry of Random Neural Networks (Domenico Marinucci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata))

2026-02-03 14:00: Tackling Label Corruptions: Univariate Polynomial Regression and Generalized Linear Models (Sushrut Karmalkar, Microsoft Research)

2026-02-05 14:00: Exploring high-level cognition through large language models (Ariel Goldstein, U. of Cambridge)

2026-02-06 14:00: Nonparametric Bayesian intensity estimation for covariate-driven point processes (Matteo Giordano (Università degli Studi di Torino))

2026-02-06 16:00: Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug (Jing Huang (Stanford University))

2026-02-06 16:30: BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness  (Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg)

2026-02-12 11:00: Towards Causally Reliable Concept-based Models    (Giovanni De Felice (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Arianna Casanova Flores (University of Liechtenstein), and Francesco De Santis (Politecnico di Torino))

2026-02-12 14:00: Understanding, predicting and reducing dementia risk: insights from the heart and brain (Sana Suri, U. of Oxford)

2026-02-12 16:00: Neural Symbolic Interpretability (Pietro Barbiero (IBM Zurich))

2026-02-12 16:30: You Know It or You Don’t: Categorical Differences in Language Model Behavior (Naomi Saphra (Harvard University & Boston University))

2026-02-13 12:00: Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on (Marcus Munafò, University of Bath)

2026-02-13 14:00: Towards multi-purpose locally differentially-private synthetic data release via plug-in estimation (Botond Szabo (Bocconi University))

2026-02-13 16:00: The emerging causal paradigm in interpretability (Atticus Geiger (Goodfire) )

2026-02-17 15:00: Large Language Models, Model Collapse, and the Conservation of Information (George Montanez)

2026-02-17 16:00: Catastrophic Forgetting and Explainable AI in Large-Scale Models for Neuroscience (Dr. Michail Mamalakis (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-18 14:00: Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory (Prof Marcus Hutter, Google DeepMind, London)

2026-02-20 12:00: Large Language Models' Complicit Responses to Illicit Instructions across Socio-Legal Contexts (Huiyuan Xie (Tsinghua University/Cambridge University))

2026-02-20 14:00: Minimax rate for multivariate data under componentwise local differential privacy constraints (Chiara Amorino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra))

2026-02-20 16:30: Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine (Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-26 11:00: Actionable Interpretability for AI Safety (Prof. Mor Geva (Tel Aviv University))

2026-02-26 14:00: Translational psychological science for youth mental health (Tim Dalgleish, U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)

2026-02-27 12:00: A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics (Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL))

2026-02-27 12:00: What Happens When They're Smarter Than Us? (Dr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute))

2026-02-27 12:00: Using AI to Teach Te Reo Māori Phonemes (Dr Piata Allen, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

2026-02-27 14:00: Rainfall, volatility and roughness: an intriguing story across scales (Marc Hoffmann (Université Paris-Dauphine))

2026-03-03 15:00: Mechanistic and Attributional Interpretability in Neuroscience (Dr. Michail Mamalakis (University of Cambridge))

2026-03-03 16:00: Mechanistic Interpretability - Progress and Limits (Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind))

2026-03-05 14:00: Verbal suggestion and the modulation of perception: Implications for psychological science, psychopathology, and psychedelics (Devin Terhune, KCL)

2026-03-06 12:00: The complexity of platform power  (Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development)

2026-03-06 12:00: Generalised measures of predictive uncertainty in online language processing (Mario Giulianelli (UCL))

2026-03-06 14:00: Meta Flow Maps enable scalable reward alignment (Yee Whye Teh (Oxford/Deepmind))

2026-03-09 16:00: Rethinking aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty (Freddie Bickford Smith (University of Oxford))

2026-03-10 15:00: AI/ML in bioinformatics and CNS drug discovery (Francesco Tuveri)

2026-03-11 11:00: Machine Learning on Tabular Data (Arik Reuter and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge))

2026-03-11 11:00:  Discovering mathematical concepts through a multi-agent system (Daattavya Aggarwal (University of Cambridge))

2026-03-11 12:00: Deep-layered machines have a built-in Occam's razor (Thomas Fink (Director, The London Institute for Mathematical Sciences))

2026-03-12 14:00: Building Word Meanings from Memories and Predictions (Jenni Rodd, UCL)

2026-03-12 15:00: Formal symbolic models for LLMs: pretraining, evaluation and post-training (Prof. Tal Linzen (NYU & Google))

2026-03-12 16:30: The role of Random  Matrix Theory for the optimization algorithms of Machine Learning  (Gérard Ben Arous  (Courant))

2026-03-13 14:00: Scalable causal discovery for statistically efficient causal inference (Sara Magliacane (University of Amsterdam))

2026-03-13 16:30: Emotions as Moral Character Trackers (Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury)

2026-03-17 15:00: Interpretability in the Wild: When Explainability Meets Causality and Clinical Reality (Prof Sonali Parbhoo (Imperial College London))

2026-03-17 15:00: Neural semantic reasoning for interpretable and rigorous logical reasoning (Dr. Tiansi Dong)

2026-03-18 11:00: Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale (Bidipta Sarkar (University of Oxford))

2026-03-18 11:00: Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale (Bidipta Sarkar (University of Oxford))

2026-03-19 11:00: Beyond Surface Matching: Reasoning, Grounding, and Retrieval in Vision-Language Models (Prof. Vicente Ordóñez-Román (Rice University))

2026-03-19 14:00: The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions (Peter Kok, UCL)

2026-03-20 12:00: AI Metrics: Theoretical Foundations, Design, and Selection of Evaluation Metrics Based on Ground Truth (Enrique Amigó (National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain))

2026-03-20 16:30: Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning (Prof Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford)

2026-03-24 15:00: From Stochastic Interpolants to Flow Maps: Foundations, Fast Generation, and Applications to Weather & Climate Modeling (Abbas Mammadov (University of Oxford))

2026-04-03 15:00: Forward Pass as Heat Flow (Kartik Tandon)

2026-04-09 15:00: GraphNeuralRAG: On the Opportunities and Challenges of GNNs for GraphRAG, from Multi-Hop Question Answering to Perturbation Modelling (Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Sapienza University of Rome, ISTI-CNR)

2026-04-24 12:00: Representational Geometry of Language Models (Matthieu Téhénan (University of Cambridge))

2026-04-30 15:00: A Data-Centric Approach to AI Adaptation and Alignment (Prof. Stephen Bach (Brown University))

2026-05-01 12:00: Understanding the Interplay between LLMs' Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge  (Prof Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen))

2026-05-07 15:00: Talk by Aaron Mueller (Boston University) (Aaron Mueller (Boston University))

2026-05-08 12:00: CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Execution-Free Reward Models (Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST))

2026-05-12 18:15: From majority to minority: Heritage language in the diaspora (Li Nguyen, Nanyang Technological University)

2026-05-14 16:00: Talk by Fazl Barez (Oxford) (Fazl Barez (Oxford))

2026-05-15 11:00: Talk by Lotem Peled-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) (Lotem Peled-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology))

2026-05-15 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge))

2026-05-15 12:00: TBC (Mohsen Mosleh, University of Oxford)

2026-05-16 15:00: The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery (Yuri Yuri (Oxford) )

2026-05-16 15:00: The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery (Yuri Yuri (Oxford) )

2026-05-16 15:00: The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery (Yuri Yuri (Oxford) )

2026-05-22 12:00: Using A Function-Centric Lens to Re-consider Regularisation, Representation Transfer and Geometric Properties of Neural Networks    (Israel Mason-Williams (Imperial/KCL))

2026-05-28 14:00: Talk by Aditi Raghunathan (CMU) (Aditi Raghunathan (CMU))

2026-06-04 16:00: Think Before you Speak: Next Gen LLMs with Global Reasoning and External Memory (Prof. Kilian Weinberger (Cornell))

2026-06-04 17:00: Positional encodings in LLMs (Valeria Ruscio)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-11 14:00: Talk by Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University) (Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University))

2026-06-18 16:00: Talk by Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) (Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago))

2026-06-25 10:00: Talk by Robert West (EPFL) (Robert West (EPFL))

 : Comparing language learning and proficiency across Europe (Karen Ashton)