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If you have a question about this list, please contact: . If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 22 upcoming talks and 3323 talks in the archive. Cambridge Philosophical Society SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day MeetingCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh. Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre. Friday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15 From precision medicine for autism to precision support for neurodivergent people: Why we need to consider dynamic interactions between brain, body and the social environment to better understand each other.Eva Loth, King's College London. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 . Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:30-12:30 Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblastMiguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00 Clark Lecture 4. On the ‘voice of the poem’Denise Riley. The Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00 Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and productionKate Watkins (U. of Oxford) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Neural Sociometrics: Precision assessment of parent-child brain-behaviour interaction dynamicsProfessor Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 . Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:30-12:30 Clark Lecture 3. ‘Something there is that talks within’Denise Riley. The Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apartCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00 How the Cultural Revolution still shapes ChinaMs Tania Branigan. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 Clark Lecture 2. ‘The impersonal personal’Denise Riley. The Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00 Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfacesJaimie Henderson (Stanford University). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanismsCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London.. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00 ***CANCELLED*** Twenty years of sex influences on the brain: Some perspective on where we were, where we are, and where we are goingLarry Cahill. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 . Wednesday 06 March 2024, 16:00-17:00 Clark Lecture 1. The ‘inhuman’ aspect of lyric poetryDenise Riley. The Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Tuesday 05 March 2024, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.Professor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd.. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00 Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cellsProfessor Nick Lane, University College London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: a developing obesity crisis.Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 Title to be confirmedSusan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 Consolidation of memory and model-based planningNeil Burgess (UCL. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space TelescopeCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00 Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in ArtProfessor Frances Spalding. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitationsGustav Kuhn (U. of Plymouth). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 Autistic Relationships Across the Lifespan: Family, Friends, Lovers and OthersSarah Douglas. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 . Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:30-12:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic DevicesDr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd.. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00 The Exoplanet RevolutionProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of SleepDr Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, RIKEN BDR. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 Increasing access to early diagnosis and assessment of autism via objective and cost-effective eye-tracking-based toolsAmi Klin, PhD, Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine. . https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 . Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate RepairCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00 A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisisDr Iain McGilchrist. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developmentsCath Harmer (U. of Oxford) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 Jason ArdayJason Arday, University of Cambridge. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 . Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:30-12:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBCProfessor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00 Are Revolutions Justified?Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problemsAnna Moore (UoC, Dept of Psychiatry) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 Sensory hypersensitivity and poor sleep - understanding neural mechanisms during early developmentTeodora Gliga, University of East Anglia. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 . Wednesday 31 January 2024, 11:30-12:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardensCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00 The Genetic RevolutionsProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30 The finger of blame in depression and the brainRoland Zahn (KCL). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 New directions in autism early detection, biomarker discovery and understanding heterogeneity using eye tracking and brain imagingDr Karen Pierce, Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego; Co-Director, UCSD Autism Center of Excellence. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Wednesday 24 January 2024, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research . Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00 On the Disappointment of RevolutionsProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30 Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotesBuzz Baum, MRC-LMB. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 18 January 2024, 16:00-17:00 Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in childrenTorsten Baldeweg (UCL). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognitionDr Luiz Pessoa (U. of Maryland). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and lovedMichael Inzlicht (U. of Toronto). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Tuesday 12 December 2023, 12:45-13:45 Human lung organoid models of lung development and diseasealso hybrid, check this space for upcoming Zoom link! Emma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 07 December 2023, 16:00-17:00 Challenges and future directions in cochlear implantsRuth Litovsky (U. of Wisconsin – Madison). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 07 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 ***CANCELLED*** Twenty years of sex influences on the brain: Some perspective on where we were, where we are, and where we are goingLarry Cahill . https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 04 December 2023, 16:00-17:00 Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health researchEssi Viding (UCL) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00 Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosetsKeita Tamura, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 23 November 2023, 16:00-17:00 Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapyQuentin Huys (UCL). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The quiet AI revolution in weather forecastingCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00 Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedsideJessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS ReflectometryDr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00 The Spectrum of Neurodiverse Talent in Banking TechnologyJonathan Scott-Lee, Autism Centre of Excellence and Autism Research Centre; HSBC. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 13 November 2023, 11:30-12:30 Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportionshttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/86076415954?pwd=XTPUrPn3tx4Z1T0ant39Y7HyaVBPtO.1 Alberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 09 November 2023, 16:00-17:00 Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory controlJan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theoryCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00 A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortexSanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Social prescribing - beyond pillsProfessor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00 Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s communication skills or anxiety?Claire Howlin, Trinity College Dublin. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 30 October 2023, 11:30-12:30 Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s communication skills or anxiety?Claire Howlin, Trinity College Dublin. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 30 October 2023, 11:30-12:30 Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s communication skills or anxiety?Trinity college Dublin. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:30-12:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 storyCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00 Good practice in autism educationAnna Kovalova, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 23 October 2023, 11:30-12:30 How does the brain generate movement? A neural population viewJuan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to FabDr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 16 October 2023, 19:30-21:00 When language typology meets dementiaBoon Lead Tee (UCSF) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materialsCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00 Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failuresLia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Autism and the Criminal Justice System: Achieving Best EvidenceKatie Maras, Centre for Applied Autism Research (CAAR), University of Bath. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 31 July 2023, 11:30-12:30 Educational Outcomes of Students with Special Educational Needs in the United KingdomElizabeth Weir (University of Cambridge). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 24 July 2023, 11:30-12:30 Impacts and experiences of psychiatric diagnosis: The case of autismCliódhna O'Connor, University College Dublin. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 17 July 2023, 11:30-12:30 Empathic disequilibrium – a novel conceptualization of the role of empathy in psychopathology and beyondFlorina Uzefovsky, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 10 July 2023, 11:30-12:30 Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapyDorothee Saur (Max Planck Institute/ U. of Leipzig) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 22 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 Increased autism diagnosis in the UKGinny Russell, University of Exeter. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 19 June 2023, 11:30-12:30 Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse worldRhiannon Turner (Queen's University Belfast). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Developments in neuroscience (TBC)Professor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00 Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophreniaDan Bush (UCL) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double HelixProfessor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 29 May 2023, 19:30-21:00 Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughtsMike Anderson (MRC CBU). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Autism Research for Autistic FlourishingLiz Pellicano, University College London. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 22 May 2023, 11:30-12:30 Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgettingLili Sahakyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lensProf. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00 The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviourMartina Di Simplicio (Imperial College London). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Bayesian inference in infinite dimensionsAad van der Vaart (Delft). Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00 Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of lifeJoseph Ledoux (New York University) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from SpaceIan Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 01 May 2023, 19:30-21:00 Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from working memoryMarie Banich (U, of Colorado Boulde). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 A functioning neuroanatomy of autismSofie Valk, Max Planck Institute. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 27 March 2023, 11:30-12:30 Somatosensory participation in human motor learningDavid Ostry (McGill University) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 23 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day MeetingCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Organisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan. Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre. Saturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00 “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”(Please note later start time) Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronicsPlease note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00 Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at playProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our UniversePlease note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The adolescent brainProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00 The Self-Imposed Isolation of North KoreaProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30 Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortexHenry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) . MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00 Are we alone in the Universe?Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteinsHosted by Milka Sarris and Ewa Paluch Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG. Thursday 23 February 2023, 16:00-17:00 Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the handKen Valyear (Bangor University). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00 Isolation and Trapping using Optical TweezersProfessor Philip Jones, University College London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental developmentPlease note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00 Antarctica:Isolated ContinentProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and miceHelen Barron (U. of Oxford). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging ApplicationsProfessor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK.. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00 The Closeting of SecretsProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machinesKelsey Allen (Deep Mind). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 02 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and ParachutesPlease note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00 Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age?Professor Mark Girolami FREng GRSE. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Monday 30 January 2023, 17:30-19:00 The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in AustraliaDr Amy Nethery, Deakin University. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30 Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-beingMiriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00 Ageing on the Autism SpectrumProf Francesca Happe. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 23 January 2023, 11:30-12:30 On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and PearlsProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30 Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortexWolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand lossTamar Makin (MRC CBU). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR.. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00 The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivityTrevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discoveryCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30 Talk title tbcIda Momennejad (Microsoft Research). Via Zoom - See website for details: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/. Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Autism Research: State of the Field and Future DirectionsZachary J. Williams, Vanderbilt University . https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation FutureDr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 14 November 2022, 19:30-21:00 Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognitionSteve Fleming (UCL). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 What have we learned about autism from infants?Tony Charman, King's College London. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:30-13:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under StressCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30 Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuitsCharlie Demene (ESPCI Paris). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The second generation of meta-learning methodsMassimiliano (Max) Patacchiola, University of Cambridge. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing BrainProf. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 31 October 2022, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Cambridge Darwins in ConversationCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow. Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre. Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet AgeCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30 Neurocomputational basis of anxietyOliver Robinson (UCL). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00 Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learningCharlotte Stagg (University of Oxford). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Autistic FriendshipsProf. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10:30-11:30 Autistic FriendshipsProf. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to endCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30 Tidying up working memoryJarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 06 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 SENSORY SUBTYPES IN AUTISM: State of the Evidence & Future DirectionsProfessor Alison Lane, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre School of Psychology & Public Health, La Trobe University . https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12:30-01:30 The neuroscience of resilience: Lessons from autismMayada Elsabbagh, McGill University. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Wednesday 14 September 2022, 12:30-01:30 Taking heterogeneity seriously: Towards new research and support strategies***PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME OF ARCLUB TALKS*** Beatriz Lopez, University of Portsmouth. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Wednesday 20 July 2022, 12:30-01:30 Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for moviesKaren Campbell (Brock University). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domainsJorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:30-13:30 Perception and learning in autismNazia Jassim, PhD candidate, Autism Research Centre. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 27 June 2022, 15:30-16:30 Theory of mind, gender, and human progress | Empathy, psychopathy, and brain structureMarcin Aleksander Radecki. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 20 June 2022, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture: Are we alone?Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00 Neurodevelopmental risk assessment in the COVID-19 Mother Baby Outcomes (COMBO) Initiative at Columbia UniversityDr. Dani Dumitriu, Columbia University Iriving Medical Center. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 13 June 2022, 15:30-16:30 Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement controlSven Bestmann (UCL). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Promoting Psychological Health Among Adolescents and Adults on the Autism SpectrumPlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time Prof. Somer Bishop & Dr. Shuting Zheng, University of California San Francisco. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 06 June 2022, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00 Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findingsJoel Voss (University of Chicago) . Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineeringDr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 23 May 2022, 19:30-21:00 NeuroplacentologyAnna Penn, Columbia University & NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 16 May 2022, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00 The long road of building a nervous system - smooth travels and accidents on the journey to get the shape and size.Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona. Thursday 05 May 2022, 16:00-17:00 Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS)Cathy Price (UCL). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre. Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Learning representations of specifics and generalities over timeAnna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) . Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:00-17:00 Global Views of Mammalian DevelopmentJay Shendure, University of Washington. Wednesday 20 April 2022, 16:00-17:00 Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant functionManohar Bance, University of Cambridge. Thursday 07 April 2022, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving FluidsCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP. Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge. Monday 28 March 2022, 18:30-19:30 Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasionDanijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris. Physiology Lecture theatre (and on Zoom) . Thursday 24 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discoveryProf. Tuomas Knowles, Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, U. of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 21 March 2022, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meetingCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Organised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan. Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre. Friday 18 March 2022, 09:00-17:15 Development of interneurons in visual cortexRenata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memorySeralynne Vann (Cardiff University). Thursday 17 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org Professor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing . Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge. Monday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30 The Political Economy of Conservation and Food SecurityProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30 Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafishMahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai. Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approachLaure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon. Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00 Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the PastProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30 Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanismsPatricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) . Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinicCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-kevin-brindle-tickets-260329090317 Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre. Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge. Monday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30 Novel Digital Health Approaches to Early Autism ScreeningGeraldine Dawson, Duke University School of Medicine. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 28 February 2022, 15:30-16:30 Food and Cultural HistoryDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesityMarcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY. Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of lifeCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-richard-henderson-tickets-260346963777 Professor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) A Cambridge vaccine, targeting SARS-CoV-2 variants and related CoronavirusesProfessor Jonathan Heeney, Lab of Viral Zoonotics, University of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 21 February 2022, 19:30-21:00 Food as ExpressionMr Alex Rushmer, Chef. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Should we Automate?Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-duncan-mcfarlane-tickets-250023506037 Professor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering. Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge. Monday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbcSpeaker to be confirmed. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Sunday 13 February 2022, 18:30-19:30 X-rays and Food SafetyDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarityCarolyn McGettigan (UCL) . Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations.Prof. Giles E. D. Oldroyd, FRS, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 07 February 2022, 19:30-21:00 Dyadic intervention for autism in the prodrome and preschool – developmental effects, mechanisms and service implicationJonathan Green, University of Manchester. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 07 February 2022, 15:30-16:30 Food, Power and SocietyMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics toolsWendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia. Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:00-17:00 Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) modelsHyojin Park (University of Birmingham) . Thursday 03 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 The importance of early diagnosis for improving social communication in children with ASDPlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time Ilan Dinstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 31 January 2022, 15:30-16:30 Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30 The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thoughtJonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) . Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Next-Generation Solar PhotovoltaicsDr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab. Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00 The ADHD polygenic scorePlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck University of London. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 24 January 2022, 15:30-16:30 Food and Climate ChangeProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30 CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasionDanijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris. Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:00 Neural dynamics of working memoryTimothy Buschman (Princeton University) . Thursday 20 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 The ‘autism advantage’ in the workplace: what the latest research tells usPlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time Adam Feinstein. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 17 January 2022, 15:30-16:30 Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord AdrianSpeaker to be confirmed. Thursday 09 December 2021, 16:00-17:00 How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscienceCharlotte Rae (University of Sussex). Thursday 09 December 2021, 14:00-15:00 What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortexRiccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge. Thursday 02 December 2021, 16:00-17:00 New models of human hearing via machine learningJosh McDermott (MIT). Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Early detection of cancer: learning from the oesophagus, or how long is a piece of string?Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Interim Director at the MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 29 November 2021, 19:30-21:00 Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situProf. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin. Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:00-17:00 Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulationChris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford). Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Biology of EatingCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967 Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 22 November 2021, 18:30-19:30 Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axisFiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge. Thursday 18 November 2021, 16:00-17:00 Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memoriesLila Davachi (Columbia University). Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Deep AI Research in Health and Life SciencesDr. Kenji Takeda, Director of Academic Health and AI Partnerships, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 15 November 2021, 19:30-21:00 The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thoughtJonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University). Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic citiesCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-giulia-viggiani-infrastructure-geotechnics-tickets-188169037657 Professor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 08 November 2021, 18:30-19:30 Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanismsPatricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham). Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777 Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Pye Story: The history of one of Cambridge’s iconic technology companies.Dr. Bob Bates, The Pye Foundation. Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 01 November 2021, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded BrainCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-v-hill-lecture-professor-wolfram-schultz-tickets-181588946427 Professor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 25 October 2021, 18:30-19:30 Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision MedicinesDavid Sheppard, Bristol University. Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:00-17:00 Neural dynamics of working memoryTim Buschman (Princeton University). Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Productivity PuzzleProfessor Diane Coyle, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge. Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 18 October 2021, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universeCheck website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/larmor-lecture-professor-chris-budd-tickets-177983973857 Professor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 11 October 2021, 18:30-19:30 The function of spontaneous brain activityMaurizio Corbetta (University of Padua). Thursday 07 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 Brain charts for the human lifespanRichard Bethlehem ( ARC). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Tuesday 27 July 2021, 15:30-16:30 Digital Transformation of Autism PathwayPlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST Dr Venkat Reddy MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRCPCH.. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 26 July 2021, 15:30-16:30 **CANCELLED*** Everyday AutismPlease note that this talk has been cancelled and will be hosted in the 2021-2022 year Liz Pellicano, Macquarie University. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 19 July 2021, 11:00-12:00 Understanding and treating autism: a dual approach based on the Neuroarcheology conceptY Ben-Ari, Neurochlore, BABiomedical and The Ben-Ari Institute of Neuroarcheology (IBEN- Marseille, France). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 12 July 2021, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR Forum - Bridging the GapSpeakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge.. Location: Zoom. See CSAR website for joining information.. Tuesday 06 July 2021, 18:00-19:15 Genetic correlates of phenotypic heterogeneity in autismVarun Warrier, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 05 July 2021, 15:30-16:30 Autism and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - an examination of a co-occurrence of conditionsOfer Golan, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 28 June 2021, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 21 June 2021, 19:30-21:00 The gut microbiome and neurodevelopmental disordersAlejandro Arias Vásquez, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour │ Radboud university medical centre. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 21 June 2021, 15:30-16:30 Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research?Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University). Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00 Immune origins of sex differences in the brainPlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time Margaret M McCarthy, James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 14 June 2021, 15:30-16:30 A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depressionJonathan Roiser (UCL). Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR webinar: Asteroids, comets and impacts: should we worry?Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 07 June 2021, 19:30-21:00 The connection between epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder: pearls from the clinical sidePlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST (due to daylight savings time change) Sarah Spence, Harvard Medical School. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 07 June 2021, 15:30-16:30 Carving the world into useful task representationsYael Niv (Princeton University). Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR webinar: Ice templating for Regenerative Medicine - using ice to define cell-guiding frameworks for healingProfessor Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 24 May 2021, 19:30-21:00 (At least) 10 things we learned from autistic girls and women in the past 10 yearsPlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai, University of Toronto. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 24 May 2021, 15:30-16:30 How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attentionMariam Aly (Columbia University). Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticitySilvia Bunge (UC Berkeley). Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.Professor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00 Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems.Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00 The geometry of neural representations in artificial and biological neural networksStefano Fusi (Columbia University). Thursday 06 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces.Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:00-17:00 Physiology and pathology of the higher brain function: insights from intracranial EEG recordingsRiki Matsumoto (Kobe University) . Thursday 29 April 2021, 12:00-13:00 Health status and health care utilization among transition-age youth and adults on the autism spectrumPlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST (due to daylight savings time change) Lisa Croen, Director Autism Research Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 26 April 2021, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing DevicesProf Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London.. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 19 April 2021, 19:30-21:00 Personalizing interventions in autism: Research considerations that can inform practicePlease note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST (due to daylight savings time change) Connie Kasari; Professor of Human Development and Psychology at UCLA. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 12 April 2021, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR webinar: Innovation - the engine of economic growthLord David Sainsbury, University of Cambridge. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 29 March 2021, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmedYouTube upload date to follow soon Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy. Friday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01 Cambridge Philosophical Society Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemicYouTube upload date to follow soon Dr Peter Forster, (Cambridge). Friday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01 Cambridge Philosophical Society LECTURE - title to be confirmedYouTube upload date to follow soon Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology. Friday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01 Cambridge Philosophical Society Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at FortyYouTube upload date to follow soon Professor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Wednesday 24 March 2021, 00:00-00:01 Family-based study of Autism Spectrum DisordersMaja Bućan, University of Pennsylvania. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 22 March 2021, 15:30-16:30 Family-based study of Autism Spectrum DisordersMaja Bućan, University of Pennsylvania. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 22 March 2021, 15:30-16:30 Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representationsAndre Fenton, New York University. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:00-17:00 The role of content-free pointers in online visual memoryEd Awh (University of Chicago). Thursday 18 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortexDora Hermes (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota). Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR webinar: Space Weather - exploring the science, impacts and challenges posed by space weather.Professor Richard B. Horne, Head of Space Weather and Atmosphere, British Antarctic Survey.. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 08 March 2021, 19:30-21:00 Understanding the substance use of autistic adults: a mixed methods approachElizabeth Weir (University of Cambridge). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 08 March 2021, 15:30-16:30 How cells integrate chemical and mechanical cues during cell migration in vivoRoberto Mayor, UCL. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:00 Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depressionMichelle Craske (UCLA). Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risksYouTube Lecture available online now Professor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7XLjb1S08. Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan SherpasYouTube Lecture available online now Dr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01 Cambridge Philosophical Society Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana FrukYouTube Lecture available online now Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Youtube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw. Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00 Quality of life and mental health in autismBeth Oakley (King's College London). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09. Monday 01 March 2021, 15:30-16:30 Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiationRobb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 Imaginative reinforcement learningSam Gershman (Harvard University). Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR webinar: Driving Insurance Innovation: Data Science and Research at AvivaSimon Warsop, FIA, Life Analytics Director | Partner, Aviva Quantum Data Science and Research at Aviva. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 22 February 2021, 19:30-21:00 Bloodlines of the BritishProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford. Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 Dracula, Vampires and the New WomanProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology. Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 A data-driven approach to advancing cognitive neuroscienceKendrick Kay (University of Minnesota). Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Hunt for ExoplanetsProfessor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.. Monday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00 Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood FlowProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge. Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up?Brian Cox, University of Toronto. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 The human language system in the mind and brainEvelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern EnglandDr Sara Read, Loughborough University. Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30 Pushing the boundaries of episodic memory: Representation and segmentation of naturalistic events by cortico-hippocampal networksCharan Ranganath (University of California, Davis). Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmedONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON Professor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. You tube link to be confirmed. Thursday 28 January 2021, 00:00-00:01 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Hydrogen: Its Role in the UK EconomyProfessor Nigel Brandon, Imperial College London. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 25 January 2021, 19:30-21:00 Lineage tracing through somatic mutations in human developmentFlora Vaccarino, Yale University. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 21 January 2021, 16:00-17:00 Early adversity, brain development, and risk/resilience for mental health across developmentDeanna Barch (Washington University, St. Louis). Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black DeathProfessor John Robb, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 11 January 2021, 19:30-21:00 Working Memory 2.0Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st centuryProfessor Paul Sharpe, King's College London, Head of the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, Dickinson Professor of Craniofacial Biology.. Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.. Monday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00 TBCKevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 The interpersonal function of emotional expressionsJulie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles). Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the Adolescent Cognition Brain Development StudyDamien Fair (University of Minnesota). Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement LGBTQ+ STEM day – a conversation with researchersAmber Cordice, ARU. Jacob Dunn, ARU. Wahaj Mahmood-Brown, ARU. Andrew Smith, ARU. Claudia Wascher, ARU. . Anglia Ruskin University - online. Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Is Dementia Preventable?Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, UCL.. Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.. Monday 16 November 2020, 19:30-21:00 Woofing it Down: Lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friendEleanor Raffan, PDN, Cambridge. Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session. Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listeningBarbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University). Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Are herbal medicines and products safe for consumption?Lata Gautam, Anglia Ruskin University. Anglia Ruskin University - online. Wednesday 11 November 2020, 19:00-20:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement The rural imagination: other knowledges as resistance to monocultures of the mindMarina Velez Vago, Anglia Ruskin University. Anglia Ruskin University - online. Tuesday 10 November 2020, 19:00-20:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement The air we breathe: practices of careMarina Velez, ARU. Sarah Strachan, ARU. Douglas Crawford-Brown, University of North Caroline & University of Cambridge. Paul Linden, University of Cambridge.. Anglia Ruskin University - online. Tuesday 10 November 2020, 14:30-15:30 Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental originsNancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) . Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.Professor Munjed Al Muderis, MB ChB FRACS FAOrthA; Orthopedic Surgeon, School Of Medicine, University Of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney; School of Medicine Macquarie University. Location: Zoom. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.. Monday 02 November 2020, 09:00-10:30 How do our brains form maps of the world?Alexandra Constantinescu (University College London). Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 Flexible redistribution in the language networkDr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences). Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Electronics on the brainProfessor George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.. Monday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00 Adolescent brain development as a window of social-affective opportunitiesEveline Crone (Leiden University). Thursday 08 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Zero cases - the lessons from New ZealandProfessor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.. Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in.. Wednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Attraction explained: The science of how we form relationshipsProf Viren Swami, ARU. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Friday 12 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Sugar and spice and all things nice – a journey into taste sensors in the bodyDr Havovi Chichger, ARU. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Because we are worth it! On new vision of gender roles in advertisingDr Magdalena Zawisza-Riley, ARU. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Wednesday 10 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement The sub 2-hour marathon: What does the future hold?Dr Dan Gordon (ARU). Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Tuesday 09 June 2020, 16:00-17:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Seeing through ‘older age’Dr Helga Hejny, ARU. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Tuesday 09 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Developing artificial minds: Joint attention and roboticsDr Mike Wilby (ARU). Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Monday 08 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Brain Computer Music Interfacing for MeditationSpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Monday 08 June 2020, 09:00-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.Professor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus.. Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in.. Wednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR online webinar. Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ballDr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable. Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in.. Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR online webinar. Science-led Policy: From Global Pandemics to Climate ChangeSir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge. Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in.. Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00 Mechanobiology of cell shape controlEwa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge. Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00 Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryosKathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London. Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR online webinar. Dieselgate: The Inside StoryJohn German, International Council on Clean Transportation. Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.. Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00 The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive mapsFrancesca Cacucci, UCL. Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR online webinar. From Medicine to Hamburgers. Cell and tissue culture applied to sustainable production of food meat.Professor Mark Post, Maastricht University.. Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.. Monday 27 April 2020, 19:30-21:00 CANCELLED: Girls and women on the autism spectrumDr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30 CANCELLED: CATCh-uS as we fall: transition between child and adult services for young people with ADHDProf Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meetingMeeting has been cancelled Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser. Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0. Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15 3D Genomics in development and diseaseStefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany. Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00 Predictive oscillations in speech perceptionMatt Davis (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Let food be thy medicine.Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday ThingsDr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00 Archaeological MysteriesDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist. Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30 Translating basic science on autobiographical memory to improved clinical practiceCaitlin Hitchcock (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00 Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction eventsProfessor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford. Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cellsEvelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK. Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00 The neural basis of flexible semantic retrievalBeth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Distributed distributional codes for learning successor features in partially observable environmentsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eszter Vértes, Gatsby Unit, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00 On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie LippProfessor Sir Michael Edwards OBE. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:00 Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approachDr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu . Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Cancer: From science to benefit.Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00 The Enigmatic Premodern BookProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia. Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 The Enigma of EmotionDr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London. Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometryMaria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sankie: Using Data to Build Better Systems and ServicesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Microsoft Research-India. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children readingAndrew Ashe, onebillion. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our LifeDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00 Alan Turing and the Enigma MachineDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer. Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotencyJohanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland. Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00 Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limitsNilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00 Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera MechanismDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author. Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning MeetupMarc Brockschmidt (MSR Cambridge) and Vincent Dutordoir (Prowler). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-19:30 Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fieldsNir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00 Voice processing in autismDr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the OwlProfessor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00 The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathologyDr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Monday 27 January 2020, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageingSteve Harridge, King's College London. Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00 Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differencesSimon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back PropagationUwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30 Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and foldingXavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia. Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00 What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs?Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Moonshot Thinking to Unleash Innovation, Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha: MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00 Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical mapsGuillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante. Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Mobile Computing Platform after Smartphones - Prof Romit Roy Choudhury: MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof Romit Roy Choudhury, UIUC. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 December 2019, 10:00-11:00 Public perceptions of genetic research and autismDeborah Oakley. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 03 December 2019, 12:30-13:30 Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brainAnthony Wagner (Stanford University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00 Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the moveAll Welcome Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30 Can the face predict the brain? The association between facial morphology and autism spectrum disorderDr Diana Tan, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:30-11:30 Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the moveAll welcome Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern scienceDr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photonic-chip-based soliton microcombs Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tobias Kippenberg: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2019, 13:30-15:00 Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle DifferentiationStefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen. Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00 Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental workRoshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00 Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scalingMichael O'Connor, University of Minnesota. Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00 Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligenceAnna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00 The value of student projects in autism research: Findings from studies of disordered eating, gender identity, and career choiceDr Gareth Richards, School of Psychology, Newcastle University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 13 November 2019, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Next Generation of ChildrenProfessor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society How to Hunt a SubmarineProfessor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00 The amazing world of the GnRH neuronAllan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge. Thursday 07 November 2019, 16:00-17:00 Frontotemporal dementia – challenges, opportunities, progressJames Rowe (U.of Cambridge, MRC CBU). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:30-17:00 The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision makingBirte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 31 October 2019, 15:30-17:00 Wataching Molecules in ActionProfessor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Christ's College. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 17:30-19:00 The Early Start Denver Model in autistic preschoolers: a treatment trialDr Ofer Golan, Associate Professor, Autism Research Lab, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University . Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Artificial Intelligence in OpthalmologyDr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends againProfessor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00 A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networksAndrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 October 2019, 15:30-17:00 Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageingRobin Franklin, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Thursday 17 October 2019, 16:00-17:00 The perceptual prediction paradoxClare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 October 2019, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Big Data PsychometricsDr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00 Using narratives to understand human conscious experienceLorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 October 2019, 15:30-17:00 Autism and the criminal justice systemDr Clare Allely, Reader in Forensic Psychology, University of Salford. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 09 October 2019, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future.Professor Tim Minshall, Institutue for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 30 September 2019, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Advanced polarized light microscopy for mapping molecular orientation Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Prof Rudolf Oldenbourg, Marine Biological Laboratory, MA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 September 2019, 09:30-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Three case studies for coexisting mechanisms in protein-pattern forming systemsFridtjof Brauns, LMU Munich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 September 2019, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling User Experience in Games: Lessons LearnedPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gerogios Yannakakis, University of Malta. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 September 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Physical security and side channel attacks in Arm based SoCs Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Chowdary Yanamadala & Jeremy Dubeuf, ARM. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 09 August 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using reason and evidence to do the most goodEve McCormick - Effective Altruism Cambridge & Olly Crook - University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 31 July 2019, 14:00-15:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series How good is your classifier? Revisiting the role of evaluation metrics in machine learningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Sanmi Koyejo, University of Illinois . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 31 July 2019, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Antennas for light and their applications in classical optics Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dr Rupert Oulton, Imperial College . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PRECOG: PREdiction Conditioned On Goals in Visual Multi-Agent SettingsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rowan McAlister, University of California, Berkeley. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 June 2019, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photons in the cloud: communicating and storing dataPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof John H Marsh, University of Glasgow. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 June 2019, 16:00-17:30 Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teensLisa-Marie Henderson (University of York). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 June 2019, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Photonics for Computing: from Optical Interconnects to Neuromorphic ArchitecturesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 June 2019, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00 Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learningRebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00 Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaningMilena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 May 2019, 15:30-17:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement What is the value of work today?Professor Christopher Land. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Wednesday 29 May 2019, 18:30-19:30 Autism and Emotion: Perspectives from Affective Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, and Computer Vision.Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30 The emergence of cognitive ability in childhoodRogier Kievit, MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:30-17:00 Regulating needs: Exploring the role of insulin-like growth factor-2 in materno-fetal resource allocation and its importance for development, physiology and diseaseAmanda Sferruzzi-Perri. Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00-17:00 Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memorySarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 May 2019, 15:30-17:00 Sex differences and the neural correlates of repetitive behaviourDr. David Evans, Professor of Psychology, Bucknell University, Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Gene eatingDr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Teaching ‘like a girl’? Re-conceptualising gender and care in education settingsProfessor Marie-Pierre Moreau. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Thursday 09 May 2019, 18:30-19:30 Getting the gist: memory confusability in young and older peopleAlexa Morcom . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00 An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculatureChristiana Ruhrberg, University College, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00 Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brainMatt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) “The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived?Mr. Mark Slack, CMR Surgical and University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 29 April 2019, 19:30-21:00 Learning to read words: from novice to expertKate Nation (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. University of Waterloo. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. University of Waterloo. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 April 2019, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 2Please note, this event will be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:30-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 1Please note, this event will be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2019, 10:30-12:00 Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesisElke Ober, University of Copenhagen. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 Longitudinal analysis of intracortical microstructural profiles during adolescent developmentDr Richard Bethlehem, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30 SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviourSteve Wilson, University College, London. Friday 22 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris. Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ. Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15 Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actionsElon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem. Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris. Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ. Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) How do we measure quality in higher education?Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR Cambridge Cloud Talk Series; Structured light: seeing less to see more in optical microscopy Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Professor of Photonics, Mark Neil, Imperial College London . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What difference does one tonne make?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. David Carter, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 Far beyond the back of the brainPeter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Dementia and brain ageing in populationsProfessor Carol Brayne, Cambridge Institute for Public Health. pin Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW. Wednesday 13 March 2019, 18:00-19:00 Open Issues in Build SystemsUlf Adams, Google. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 March 2019, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapersDr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00 Perception of Visual SpaceProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study. Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30 Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00 Computer VisionProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre. Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30 Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasisKate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbsTamar Makin (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Neural Code Comprehension: A Learnable Representation of Code SemanticsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tal Ben-Nun, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Foetal adaptations to adversity and effects on human behaviourProfessor Jonathan Hill. pin Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW. Wednesday 27 February 2019, 18:00-19:00 Experience of Motherhood for Autistic WomenSarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to MindA V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00 Viewing the UniverseDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomicsThalia Eley (Kings College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Cancers and the tumour microenvironmentProf. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Does seeing help you to hear better?Professor Jennifer Bizley, UCL. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW. Monday 18 February 2019, 18:00-19:00 Appearance and Physical RealityProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageingRobin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processingGabriella Vigliocco (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00 Understanding vulnerability and related outcomes in autism using geneticsDr Varun Warrier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 13 February 2019, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society When algebra meets geometryProfessor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 11 February 2019, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Wellcome’s role on global health and scientific policy challengeEd Whiting, Director of Policy and Chief of Staff. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW. Friday 08 February 2019, 18:00-19:00 Vision of Future TechnologyMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs. Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Shattered lives: Understanding and treating post traumatic stress in children and adolescentsTim Dalgleish (MRC CBU, U.of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of LifeA COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES Professor Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Inflamed DepressionProf. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00 Evolution of the EyeProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University. Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formationJames Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00 The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imageryAdam Zeman (University of Exeter). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00 Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.Professor Naomi Lamoreaux - Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History - Yale University. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 30 January 2019, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorderProfessor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00 Colour and VisionProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University. Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement The quest to understand the entrepreneur - Inaugural Lecture of Professor Francisco LiñánProfessor Francisco Liñán. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Thursday 24 January 2019, 18:30-19:30 Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques?John Rothwell (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Learning and memory: a novel insightDr Melanie Stefan. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW. Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) How Science Really Works, and Why It MattersProf. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00 The Cambridge NeuralNET”: Investigating origins of brain and mental healthDavid Rowitch (Dept of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00 Neural progenitors and neural tube defects.Andy Copp, University College, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series What Can Fair ML Learn from Economic Theories of Distributive Justice?Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Hoda Heidari, ETH Zurich . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditionsRachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:30-11:30 Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis.Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 06 December 2018, 16:00-17:00 Sensory Reactivity in Autism Spectrum ConditionsDr Teresa Tavassoli, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00 Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell UsFREE EVENT Dr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00 Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive controlAlexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-17:00 Atypical neurogenesis and E/I precursor imbalance in autism iPSCsDr Dwaipayan Adhya, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scientist, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College, London . Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 28 November 2018, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Idris 2: Type Driven Development of Idris Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Edwin Brady, St Andrews University . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Talk: The Science of ConversationProf. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Epigenetic modificationsDr Magdalena J Koziol, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 26 November 2018, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Early maternal-fetal interactionsDr Roser Vento-Tormo, Wellcome Sanger Institute. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW. Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-19:00 The emotional brain and the neurobiology of uniquenessTara L. White, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, USA. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 A Bayesian approach to internal modelsMate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The combinatorics of spaghetti hoopsProfessor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00 Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusionMarios Philiastides (University of Glasgow). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00 Spectacular Chemistry of CoalDr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London. Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW. Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30 Neuronal connectivity and functional output in cerebral organoids.Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 '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). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Cryo-EM heats upDr Doryen Bubeck, Imperial College, London. Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College Divinity School. Wednesday 07 November 2018, 18:00-19:00 Sensory processing in autism – Core phenotypic status?Dr. Caroline Robertson, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth University, Director of the Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 06 November 2018, 12:00-13:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry setThis lecture has been cancelled Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Energy and matter at the origin of life – and why it mattersProf. Nick Lane, UCL. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 29 October 2018, 19:30-21:00 Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of EquilibriumProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination.Robin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Interference and memory capacity limitationsAnsgar Endress (City University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 October 2018, 15:30-17:00 Elimination of Cervical Cancer by 2050: reality or wishful thinkingProfessor Margaret Stanley OBE. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 24 October 2018, 17:30-19:00 Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum GasesProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 A real-life gift? The practical application of increased perceptual capacity in autism.Dr Anna Remington, Director, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) UCL Institute of Education, University College London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 24 October 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonicsDr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Synthetic biology: host-construct interactionsDr Francesca Ceroni, Imperial College, London. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW. Monday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00 Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical LatticesProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Flux: Elegant Machine Learning with Julia Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Mike Innes, Julia Computing, Inc.. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:00 Processing Multi-Constituent Units during Reading: Non-alphabetic languages, word segmentation, and serialism and parallelism in oculomotor controlSimon Liversedge (University of Central Lancashire). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 18 October 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society The fight against malaria using proteasomesDr Paula da Fonseca, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW. Wednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machineDr. Hannah Fry, UCL. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 15 October 2018, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Nuclear receptors and atherosclerosisDr Ines Pineda Torra, UCL. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW. Monday 15 October 2018, 18:15-19:15 FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortexDr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Lifestyle factors and cognitive ageing: From observation to interventionAlan Gow (Heriot-Watt University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 October 2018, 15:30-17:00 Investigating Sensory Prediction in Autism Spectrum ConditionsJohanna Finnemann, PhD Student, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 10 October 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective storyProfessor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 08 October 2018, 18:00-19:00 The cognitive, computational and neural bases of semantic representation and its disordersMatt Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 October 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Can we slow ageing? Lessons from an EPIC cohortProf. Kay-Tee Khaw, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 01 October 2018, 19:30-21:00 Simulation for Intelligent SystemsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Vladlen Koltun, Intel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 August 2018, 13:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 15:00-16:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Interpretability in Machine Learning: What it means, How we're getting there Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Combating Student Mental Illness with Technology—from the Imagine Cup UK FinalsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Michaela Brady and Shu Ishida, Oxford University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 July 2018, 15:00-16:00 Mechanistic insights from genome-wide association studies of reproductive traitsProfessor Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 11 July 2018, 10:30-11:30 Progressing from gene discovery to the biology of autismDr Stephan Sanders, Associate Professor, Dept. Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 04 July 2018, 14:00-15:00 A longitudinal study on the effect of testosterone and estradiol on empathy and systemizing (EQ-SQ): from amniotic fluid to adolescence.Tess Beking, PhD Student, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 27 June 2018, 10:30-11:30 Self-Other Processes in ASD - the Case of EmpathyDr Idalmis Santiesteban, ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Affiliate Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 20 June 2018, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte-Carlo Estimator Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Jakob Foerster, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Herding Nulls – and other C# stories from the futurePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Mads Torgersen, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 June 2018, 11:00-12:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Health and wellbeing in sexual minority people - Inaugural lecture with Prof Catherine MeadsProf Catherine Meads. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Thursday 14 June 2018, 18:30-19:30 Foster Talk - "Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity"Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 June 2018, 16:00-17:00 Concept learning as compressionBradley Love (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 June 2018, 15:30-17:00 The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patientsDaniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 June 2018, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Windows Insider ProgramPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 04 June 2018, 14:15-15:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Machines made out of words: Inaugural lecture with Professor John GardnerProf John Gardner. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Thursday 31 May 2018, 18:30-19:30 The structure and function of visual working memoryPaul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 31 May 2018, 15:30-17:00 Why are we so bad at face recognition?Mike Burton (U. of York). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 May 2018, 15:30-17:00 Understanding the genetics of autism from the genetics of related traitsVarun Warrier, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Univeristy of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 23 May 2018, 10:30-11:30 TODAY Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiringProfessor Christine Holt. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 Remembering complex eventsChris Bird (U. of Sussex). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 May 2018, 15:30-17:00 Title TBCSpeaker TBC. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cohomology of the moduli space of curvesRahul Pandharipande (ETH). Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00 Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian ClockworkProfessor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?Gareth Gaskell (U. of York). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00 Altered responses to social chemosignals in autism spectrum disorderDr Yaara Shapira, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 02 May 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Understanding Dementia - Master of St John's CollegeProfessor Chris Dobson. Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College. Monday 30 April 2018, 19:00-20:00 Double talk on Autism geneticsDr Gokul Ramaswami and Dr Hyejung Won, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 26 April 2018, 10:30-11:30 fNIRS shines a light on early atypical brain responses in autismDr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Co-Investigator and Lead Psychologist on the Brain Imaging for Global Health Study (BRIGHT); Head of NIRS Lab, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 25 April 2018, 10:30-11:30 Repetitive Behavior and Restricted Interests: Developmental, Genetic, and Neural CorrelatesProfessor David Evans, Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University and Visiting Researcher at the Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 11 April 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETINGONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED Organisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA. Friday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:15 Tracking neurobiological factors of language developmental difficultiesDr. Gesa Schaadt, Research Scientist (Post-Doc) at the Clinic of Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Germany and the Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 21 March 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Metamaterials and the Science of InvisibilityProf. Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 19 March 2018, 19:30-21:00 Foster Talk - TODAY - Professor Ifat Levy, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neurocience, Yale University, USAProfessor Ifat Levy, Yale University, USA. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-17:00 Neurodevelopment disorders of genetic origin – what can we learn?Kate Baker (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 March 2018, 15:30-17:00 Autism Imaging & GeneticsDr Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 14 March 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society New micro-machines, new materialsProfessor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00 Animal MigrationProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Antibodies Vs Alzheimer'sDr Francesco Aprile. Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Thursday 08 March 2018, 19:30-20:30 The persistence and transience of memoryPaul Frankland (U. of Toronto). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 March 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Knotty Maths of MedicineProf. Dorothy Buck, University of Bath, University of Bath. Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA. Monday 05 March 2018, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society BioSoc AGMN/A. Teaching room 2, Old Divinity School, St Johns College. Monday 05 March 2018, 18:30-19:30 TODAY Foster Talk - "Paraspeckles, TDP-43 & alternative polyadenylation: how regulation of a membraneless compartment guides cell fate"Dr Jernej Ule, Francis Crick Institute, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:00-17:00 CANCELLED: The cognitive neuroscience of antidepressant drug actionCatherine Harmer (U. of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 01 March 2018, 15:30-17:00 New Insights in Immunopsychiatry (Provisional Title)Professor Ed Bullmore, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 28 February 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationshipProfessor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 26 February 2018, 18:00-19:00 Finding meaning in English writingKathy Rastle (Royal Holloway). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 February 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Epigenetics - Why DNA Is Not Your DestinyDr Nessa Carey, Imperial College, London. Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA. Monday 19 February 2018, 19:30-21:00 Disease MigrationProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley. Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Structurally unravelling ATP synthaseProfessor John Walker. Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Thursday 15 February 2018, 19:30-20:30 TODAY Foster Talk - Integrin-associated adhesion complexes and their role in mechanotransductionDr Christof Ballestrem, Welcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, University of Manchester. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:00 How language variation contributes to reading difficulties and “achievement gaps”Mark Seidenberg (U. of Wisconsin-Madison). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 February 2018, 15:30-17:00 Behavioural phenotypes of children born preterm: what we know and future research avenuesDr Hilary Wong, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge; Senior Specialty Registrar, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University College London Hospital. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 14 February 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar systemProfessor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 12 February 2018, 18:00-19:00 Refugees and MigrationMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Attentional episodes and cognitive controlJohn Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 February 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraftA COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 07 February 2018, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Enhancing the Brain and Wellbeing in Health and DiseaseProf. Barbara J. Sahakian, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 05 February 2018, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society AI – More than just computersProfessor Lawrence Hunter. Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Saturday 03 February 2018, 16:00-17:00 Art and MigrationProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham. Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Lessons from a plant virusProfessor George Lomonossoff. Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Thursday 01 February 2018, 19:00-20:00 Foster Talk - "Hepatic organoids for the study of liver regeneration and disease"Meritxell Huch, The Gurdon Institute. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 February 2018, 16:00-17:00 Imaging in an era of multi-scale neuroscience: challenges and opportunitiesKarla Miller (U. of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 01 February 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us aliveProfessor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 29 January 2018, 18:00-19:00 Decomposing heterogeneity in the autismsDr Michael Lombardo, Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus; Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Monday 29 January 2018, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge University Biological Society A Sleepy StartProfessor Russell Foster . Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-18:00 Towards large-scale analyses of genes, brains and languageProf Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 January 2018, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Building World Class Life Science Businesses – The Good, The Bad and The UglyDr. Jonathan Milner, Deputy Chairman, Abcam plc. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 22 January 2018, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Herbal ScienceDr Merlin Wilcox. Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building St John’s College. Monday 22 January 2018, 19:00-20:00 Black and British MigrationMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster. Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30 Foster Talk - Dr Rachel Tribe "How to expect the unexpected. Prediction and prevention of preterm birth" Physiology Lecture TheatreDr Rachel Tribe,Kings College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:00 The impact of parental traits on the phenotypes of children with genomic copy number variationsProfessor David Evans, Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University and Visiting Researcher at the Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 17 January 2018, 10:30-11:30 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Optimal algorithms for smooth and strongly convex distributed optimization in networks Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francis Bach, INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 Binocular vision and Autism Spectrum DisorderDr Jan Skerswetat, Lecturer in Vision Science at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Vision and Hearing Science, Anglia Ruskin University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 13 December 2017, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andrew Wilson, Cornell University. Auditorium , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 December 2017, 11:00-12:00 Foster Talk: "Self-assembly of the mammalian embryo in vitro" Professor Magdalena Zernicka-GoetzProfessor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PDN Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 07 December 2017, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Finding medicine where you least expect itProfessor Christina Smolke. Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. Thursday 30 November 2017, 18:00-19:00 Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retentionDavid Shanks (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 November 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) How Democracy Ends: Thinking the UnthinkableProf. David Runciman, University of Cambridge. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 27 November 2017, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Energy and matter at the origin of lifeProfessor Nick Lane. St John's College - Main Lecture Theatre. Monday 27 November 2017, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Hunting MonstersDr Darren Naish. Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Thursday 23 November 2017, 19:00-20:00 Foster Talk: Professor Wolfram Schultz "How my brain is getting me the best reward"Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memoryMerel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-17:00 Neural synchrony through gaze in adult-infant dyadsVictoria Leong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore & Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 22 November 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticityProfessor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 20 November 2017, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society A map in the mindDr Julija Krupic. Lightfoot Room - St John's College. Thursday 16 November 2017, 19:00-20:00 Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s diseaseDennis Chan (U. of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Let’s speed up the Internet, fast! Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof. Ankit Singla - ETH Zürich. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 15 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Will the Antarctic Go Green Again? Lessons from its Fossil HistoryProf. Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 13 November 2017, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking the Quantified Self to make personal data engaging and usefulPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Steve Whittaker, University of California Santa Cruz. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 13 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 Bonfires with a Bang. Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration LectureDr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London. Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW. Thursday 09 November 2017, 19:00-20:30 TODAY: Foster Talk "Evolution of olfactory receptors, circuits and behaviours" Professor Richard BentonProfessor Richard Benton, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 09 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 The brain isn't porridgeDick Passingham (U. of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 November 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society BioSoc Internship EventSpeaker to be confirmed. Cripps Court, Magdalene College, 1-3 Chesterton Road. Monday 06 November 2017, 19:30-23:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicineProfessor Richard Durbin FRS, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 06 November 2017, 18:00-19:00 Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implicationsDominique deQuervain (U. of Basel). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 November 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD Information EveningVarious. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Tuesday 31 October 2017, 19:00-22:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Scientific Challenges of Fusion PowerProf. Steven Cowley, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 30 October 2017, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Of elephants and menCaitlin Black and Derek Murphy. Castlereagh room - St John's College. Monday 30 October 2017, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Science and the worldDr Bruce Alberts. Lecture Theatre - Department of Plant Sciences. Friday 27 October 2017, 19:00-20:00 Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental healthPierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 October 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefactionProfessor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 23 October 2017, 18:00-19:00 How memory guides value-based decisionsDaphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The DNA Revolution Has Arrived in the Behavioural SciencesProf. Robert Plomin, King's College, London. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 16 October 2017, 19:30-21:00 Foster Talks: Professor Bill Harris "Promises of a polychrome retina redux: partial fulfilment with spectrum of fates"Professor Bill Harris, PDN, Cambridge University. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 12 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 Perspective taking during communicationShirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 October 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Stories about lifeDr Tim Weil. Lecture Theatre - Department of Plant Sciences. Tuesday 10 October 2017, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal lifeProfessor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory . Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00 Differentiation, compensation and cognitive reserve in ageingRik Henson (MRC CBU). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 October 2017, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Open Evening for Women in EngineeringChris Bishop. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 September 2017, 17:30-21:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Probabilistic and Deep Models for 3D Reconstruction Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andreas Geiger, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 September 2017, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Manifest Sharing with Session TypesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Coin Betting for Backprop without Learning Rates and More Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francesco Orabona, Stony Brook University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 24 August 2017, 13:00-14:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer? Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 August 2017, 13:00-14:00 Weighing the past against the present: computational approaches to understand learning and uncertainty autismDr Rebecca Lawson, Research Associate, Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 12 July 2017, 10:30-11:30 Insights from oxytocin administration and fMRI studies in high functioning youth with ASDIlanit Gordon, Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Department of Psychology and Gonda Brain Research Center. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 05 July 2017, 10:30-11:30 Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book. Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. Meet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB. Thursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00 Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspectiveProfessor John Montgomery (University of Auckland). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognitionKate Jeffrey (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 June 2017, 15:30-17:00 The impact of personal relevance and person perception on social cognitionDr Paola Ricciardelli, 1) Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy; 2) Milan Centre for Neuroscience, Italy. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 21 June 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Mutational processes in the human genomeDr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. . Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 19 June 2017, 19:30-21:00 The emergence of pluripotency and germline specification in non-rodent mammalsProfessor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 The typical and atypical development of the human social brainMark Johnson (UoC). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 June 2017, 15:30-17:00 Complex dynamics and elliptic curvesLaura DeMarco (Northwestern University). Thursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00 Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applicationsRhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks AI and Healthcare Open Evening at Microsoft ResearchChristopher Bishop. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 07 June 2017, 17:30-19:30 The story of the infinity principles: a link between autism and a person's potentialRhys Jenkins. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 07 June 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "The world in 2050" - Human extinction risksLord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal.. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 05 June 2017, 19:30-21:00 Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repairProfessor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchyUta Noppeney (University of Birmingham). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00 Title to be confirmedSpeaker to be confirmed. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 24 May 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Debate: "This house believes that Artificial Intelligence/Robotics will make us happy"Speaker to be confirmed. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 22 May 2017, 19:30-21:00 Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticityHeidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration LanguagesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 May 2017, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration LanguagesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 May 2017, 10:00-11:00 Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future ElectronicsProf Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED StoryProf Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind?Mark Stokes (Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 May 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd.. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00 I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.Jennifer Lau (KCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Aapo Hyvarinen (University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Removing tumours from within and around the brainDr Thomas Santarius. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 27 April 2017, 16:00-17:00 Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interactionAntonia Hamilton (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft & the Future of Education Technology & Learning Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Ian Fordham, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00 Hypersensitivity to low intensity fearful faces in autism when fixation is constrained to the eyesDr Amandine Lassalle, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MGH / Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 26 April 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Meet the AuthorsTBA. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 24 April 2017, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gabriel Brostow (University College London). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 April 2017, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Gabriel Brostow (University College London). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 April 2017, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security and Privacy in Machine LearningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 March 2017, 13:15-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security and Privacy in Machine LearningPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 31 March 2017, 13:15-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generalizing Convolutions for Deep LearningPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Prof. Max Welling (University of Amsterdam). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 29 March 2017, 13:00-14:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events 'Maths vs Disease'Dr Julia Gog. Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Saturday 25 March 2017, 14:00-15:00 Gaia's first data release: the galactic census begins (Cambridge Science Festival 2017)Professor Gerry Gilmore. Mil Lane Lecture Rooms ML9, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RW. Friday 24 March 2017, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETINGONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse. Lecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge. Friday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00 Genetic connections between neurodevelopment, autism & schizophreniaJeffrey Barrett, Group Leader, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Director, Open Targets. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 22 March 2017, 10:30-11:30 Sex and gender as moderators for the presentation and emergence of autism: Myths and unresolved questionsDr Meng-Chuan Lai, Clinician Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH and O’Brien Scholar within the Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative with CAMH, the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto.. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 21 March 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Towards General Artificial IntelligenceDr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 20 March 2017, 19:30-21:00 Electrophysiology of autocrine and paracrine NMDA receptor signalling in invasive mouse pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour cellsDr Hugh Robinson, PDN, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunctionFacundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunctionFacundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Environmental diversity of ArchitectureProfessor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 13 March 2017, 18:00-19:00 Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growthProfessor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 09 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 Social brain development in adolescenceSarah Jane Blakemore (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Enzyme EngineeringAlan Berry. Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Tuesday 07 March 2017, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviourProf. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 06 March 2017, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Plant cytoskeletonsPatrick Hussey. Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Thursday 02 March 2017, 19:00-20:00 Cell morphogenesis across scales: from molecular processes to cell-scale behaviourProfessor Ewa Paluch, University College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 02 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Disrupting Developer Productivity One Bot At A Time, Margaret-Anne (Peggy) Storey, University of Victoria / Microsoft TSEPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Margaret-Anne Storey - University of Victoria / Microsoft TSE. Small Lecture Room , Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?Essi Viding (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?Essi Viding (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and SustainabilityA COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES Professor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 01 March 2017, 18:00-19:00 Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Cognitive Models of AutismProf Kenneth Richman, Professor of Philosophy and Health Care Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, MCPHS University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 01 March 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacologyProfessor Calum A MacRae, Chief of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, USA. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 27 February 2017, 18:00-19:00 Extreme PoliticsProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent. Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancerProfessor Paul Martin, University of Bristol. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Citizens, Science and Science for CitizensProf. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 20 February 2017, 19:30-21:00 Extremes of the UniverseProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Cancer ResearchProf Richard Gilbertson. Dirac Room, Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Thursday 16 February 2017, 19:00-20:00 In vivo studies of cellular and subcellular mechanisms that build the vertebrate brainProfessor Jon Clarke, King's College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 16 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 In vivo Evidence of Reduced Integrity of the Grey-White Matter Boundary in Autism Spectrum DisorderDerek Andrews, PhD Candidate at The Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 15 February 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War OneDr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 13 February 2017, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society The Science Behind Mental HealthDr Shahid Zaman. Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Thursday 09 February 2017, 19:00-20:00 Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brainProfessor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 Confidence and adaptive decision makingNick Yeung (Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 February 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Black Holes at Workprof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 06 February 2017, 19:30-21:00 Dealing with ExtremismProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge. Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Ieso - digital healthJulian Coe. Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Thursday 02 February 2017, 19:00-20:00 Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortexMatteo Carandini (UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 February 2017, 15:30-17:00 The cross-cultural challenges in the identification and diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: a conceptual frameworkAnne de Leeuw, Researcher at VU Medical Centre Amsterdam and Dr Rosa Hoekstra, Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 01 February 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devicesProfessor Michael Cates FRS FRSE, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 30 January 2017, 18:00-19:00 Extreme Events and How to Live with ThemProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York. Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30 Retinal functomics: What the eye tells the brain, and how it got thereDr Tom Baden, University of Sussex. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 26 January 2017, 16:00-17:00 Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injuryAlan Carson (Edinburgh). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00 Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injuryAlan Carson (Edinburgh). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Symposium: NanomedicineSir Mark Welland and Ruth Cameron. Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Tuesday 24 January 2017, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Creating and erasing memories with epigeneticsProf. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 23 January 2017, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Politics and BiologyDr Julian Huppert. Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Thursday 19 January 2017, 19:00-20:00 Can people with developmental disorders function successfully as bilinguals?Dr Napoleon Katsos, Reader in Experimental Pragmatics & Dr Ozge Ozturk, Postdoc at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 18 January 2017, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovationProf. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 09 January 2017, 19:30-21:00 The Role of Values in Animal Cognition ResearchDr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00 Illuminating mouse cortical activity maps using genetically encoded voltage indicatorsProfessor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:00-17:00 On sensing what is not thereAndrew Welchman, Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Well-founded functions, induction, and extreme predicates in an SMT-based verifierPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 December 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Well-founded functions, induction, and extreme predicates in an SMT-based verifierPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 December 2016, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of HairProf. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00 Stem cells, gene editing, and cellular models of human neurological diseaseDr Florian Merkel, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 24 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus?David Baguley, University of Nottingham. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering the Future: Engineering in Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft Research CambridgeChristopher Bishop. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 23 November 2016, 17:15-19:30 Toddlers with autism and their parents: Lessons learned from an ASD Baby-Sib study about measurement, assessment and clinical judgementDr Greg Pasco, Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 23 November 2016, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Symposium: MicrobiologyProf Kim Hardie and Dr Tom Ellis. Tuesday 22 November 2016, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Climate change and local wildlifeBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 21 November 2016, 18:00-19:00 Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme 'Body politics: the dilemmas of regulating new technologies' - policy roundtable and lectureSeveral. Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College. Friday 18 November 2016, 15:30-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Viral assemblyProf Peter Stockley. Castlereagh Room, Fisher Buidling, St John's College. Thursday 17 November 2016, 18:00-19:00 Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic earProfessor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speechIngrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Big Data in Biology: Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare and ResearchDr Ewan Birney FRS FMedSci, European Bioinformatics Institute. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 14 November 2016, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Beyond the autopsy: Pathology saving lives in bowel cancerDr Nick West. Engineering Dept (LT3), Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1PZ. Friday 11 November 2016, 19:00-20:30 Spatial polarization vision in crustaceansDr Martin How, Bristol University. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 10 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian ProcessesRichard Turner, Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 November 2016, 15:30-17:00 Global Geology and the Tectonics of EmpireProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:30-19:00 Internal Bodily Sensations, Emotion, and Autism Spectrum ConditionsPunit Shah, Researcher in the Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 09 November 2016, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Flexible PaxosPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Heidi Howard, University of Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 November 2016, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Molecular medicines for the lysosomeProfessor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 07 November 2016, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society ATP-sensitive K channels and Neonatal Diabetes - from Molecule to New Therapy and BeyondProf Dame Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre on Tennis Court Road. Friday 04 November 2016, 20:00-21:00 Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural controlTim Behrens, Oxford. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 November 2016, 15:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Unsupervised Cluster Matching for Relational DataPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tomoharu Iwata, NTT Communication Science Laboratories. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Symposium: NeurobiologyProf Ole Paulsen. Tuesday 01 November 2016, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) What shapes the human immune system?Dr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 31 October 2016, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Developing PDE-compartment hybrid frameworks for modelling cell migrationPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Kit Yate, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Developing PDE-compartment hybrid frameworks for modelling cell migrationPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Kit Yate, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Summer Internships EventSpeaker to be confirmed. Friday 28 October 2016, 19:00-20:30 Neural representation of complex spaceProfessor Kate Jeffery, UCL. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 27 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 People with Autism Spectrum Conditions make more consistent decisionsDr George Farmer, Research Associate, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 26 October 2016, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The Impact of Infection on Human Genetic and Cultural EvolutionProf Sir Peter Lachmann. Tuesday 25 October 2016, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufactureProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufactureProf. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW. Monday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Sciencing the Sh*t out of Ape ConservationDr Peter Walsh. Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. Thursday 20 October 2016, 19:00-20:00 Single neuron evidence of model-based and model-free reinforcement learningSteve Kennerley, UCL. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:30-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) OK Computer - teaching machines to write musicEd Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO at Jukedeck. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 17 October 2016, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD eventSpeaker to be confirmed. Friday 14 October 2016, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing In Schools: How Your Skills Can Change LivesPhilip Golden. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Learning flights in bumblebeesDr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Adaptive memory and its temporal dynamicsMaria Wimber, Birmingham University. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 October 2016, 15:30-17:00 Altered senses and excited brains: investigating the neural basis of autismDr Steven Chance, Associate Professor in Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 12 October 2016, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Title to be confirmedDr Chris Lowe, University of Essex. Monday 10 October 2016, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Packing dominoes and other shapesProfessor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 10 October 2016, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Human Curiosities of the Freak Show EraBob Whittaker. Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. Thursday 06 October 2016, 19:00-20:30 Whipple Museum of the History of Science - Private tour - FULLY BOOKEDMuseum staff. Meet at the Whipple Museum, Free School Lane, CB2 3RH. Thursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00 The causes and consequences of cellular circadian rhythmsDr John O'Neill, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 06 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Improving access to treatments for childhood anxiety disordersCathy Creswell, University of Reading. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 October 2016, 15:30-17:00 Facial masculinisation in the autism spectrumDiana Tan, School of Psychology and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 28 September 2016, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Queueing with Redundant Requests: A more realistic model Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Mor Harchol-Balter - CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Womenomics" and Gender-Inclusive Software: What the Software Industry Needs to Know Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Andrey Rybalchenko, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 25 August 2016, 10:30-11:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing Privacy Tradeoffs in the Internet Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required David Naylor - CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 12 August 2016, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reflections on Code-Reuse Attacks and DefensesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 August 2016, 16:00-17:00 Facial masculinisation in the autism spectrumDiana Tan, PhD Student, School of Psychology and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 28 July 2016, 10:30-11:30 Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKEDGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden. Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.. Thursday 21 July 2016, 18:30-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verifying Constant-Time ImplementationsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Francois Dupressoir. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 21 July 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An introduction to program verification with F*Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Santiago Zanella-Beguelin, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 14 July 2016, 10:30-11:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Statically-checked Deterministic ParallelismPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Ryan Newton, Indiana University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 June 2016, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Summer of Science Talks: An Introduction to Discrete Geometry, with application to the Principles of Concurrent Programming Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 June 2016, 10:30-11:45 Testosterone and Autism iPSC-neurons - A Functional Genomics StudyDwaipayan Adhya, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Friday 24 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 Gene duplication and ion channel evolution in weakly electric fishProf Harold Zakon, UT Austin. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Sustainable Engineering and Design for the Built EnvironmentProfessor Max Fordham OBE,RDI,FREng,MA,FCIBSE,Hon FRIBA. The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (Hoyle Building) Madingley Road, CB3 0HA. Monday 20 June 2016, 19:00-21:00 Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKEDDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. Meet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB. Thursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00 Unraveling the role of astroglial perisynaptic nanodomains in synaptic strength and memoryDr Nathalie Rouach, CIRB, College de France, Paris. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 16 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 Explorations in structural and functional compensation: Examples from aphasia and dyslexiaDr Anna Woollams, University of Manchester. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 June 2016, 15:30-16:30 The roles of dopamine in perceptual and economic decision makingDr Armin Lak, UCL. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 09 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscienceProfessor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 June 2016, 15:30-16:30 CANCELLEDDr Florina Uzefovsky, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 09 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Landing on a CometProfessor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 06 June 2016, 19:30-21:00 Neuroinflammation in autismDr John Suckling, Director of MRI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Thursday 02 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruencyProf Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 26 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 CANCELLED - Prenatal estrogens and autism riskAlexa Pohl, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme Julian Huxley’s Reproductive FuturesPlease register your interest at: reprosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk Alison Bashford, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of Jesus College. Bentley Room, The Pitt Building. Monday 23 May 2016, 17:00-18:30 Why Mathematical Proof?Dana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) . Friday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30 Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Resource Allocation for Next Generation of Radio Access Networks: how effective are my schedulers?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending. Bahar Partov Poor, Hamilton Institute Bell Laboratories. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 May 2016, 10:00-11:00 Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effectsProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 May 2016, 15:30-16:30 Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Probing the Polar OceansDr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 16 May 2016, 19:30-21:00 Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here?Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Helping the police with their enquiriesProfessor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 May 2016, 15:30-16:30 CANCELLED The pioneering history of IVF from the PND* Laboratory, Cambridge: 1976-2016, and what we know now!Prof. Simon Fishel, CARE Fertility group. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula?Professor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 May 2016, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Turbocharging Rack-Scale In-Memory Computing with Scale-Out NUMAPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Boris Grot - University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 Motivated visual cognition: How rewards affect visual attention and memoryProfessor Jane Raymond, School of Psychology, Birmingham. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 April 2016, 15:30-16:30 Understanding cellular and molecular pathways of human preterm brain injuryProfessor David Rowitch, Head Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering the Future: an open evening for women in engineeringChristopher Bishop, Microsoft Research, Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research, Matthew Johnson, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 17:00-19:00 Technology and Democracy Events "Social media and political turbulence"Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute). CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Admitting more tenants with tail latency SLOsPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Timothy Zhu, CMU. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 25 April 2016, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PCC: Re-architecting Congestion Control for Consistent High PerformancePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 25 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedProf Michael Strkyer, UCSF. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Policy considerations for the continual advancement of space activity in the XXI centurySpeaker to be confirmed. Winstanley Lecture Hall - Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, United Kingdom. Wednesday 20 April 2016, 17:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness ProblemPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Torsten Sattler, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness ProblemPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Torsten Sattler, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streamingDr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30 Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streamingDr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30 Cultivating Speech in Non-Verbal Children with AutismDr Aaron Ralby, Linguisticator Ltd. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Thursday 07 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Book Event: Meet the AuthorsSpeakers to be confirmed. The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (Hoyle Building) Madingley Road, CB3 0HA. Monday 04 April 2016, 19:00-21:00 Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistryEvent is now fully booked Alissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Pony: Co-Designing a Type System and a RuntimePlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Sylvan Clebsch, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks General-purpose representation learning from words to sentencesPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Felix Hill, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 March 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information-Theoretic Bounded RationalityPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Pedro Ortega, University of Pennsylvania. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 22 March 2016, 10:15-11:15 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Hands-On Maths FairCambridge Science Festival. Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Saturday 19 March 2016, 11:30-16:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETINGONE DAY MEETING Organisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS. Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site. Friday 18 March 2016, 09:00-17:45 Computer-Assisted Training for People with Autism who Lack Communicative Speech: Can Remediating Sensorimotor Dyscontrol Open a `Back Door' to Social Communicative Development?Dr Matthew Belmonte, Reader at Nottingham Trend University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 17 March 2016, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stamping Out Concurrency BugsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Baris Kasikci, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Parallel Inference and Learning with Deep Structured DistributionsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Alexander Schwing, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 March 2016, 10:15-11:15 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Churchill's BombDr Graham Farmelo,Physicist, Author, Historian. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 14 March 2016, 19:30-21:00 Endothelial Cells and HIF transcription factors regulating lung pre-disposition for metastatic eventsDr Cristina Branco, PDN Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 10 March 2016, 16:00-17:00 The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children: outcomes from an RCTDr Mairead MacSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 March 2016, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Into the Mountains: The Extraordinary True Story of Survival in the Andes and its AftermathPedro Algorta. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Towards a cure for Alzheimer's DiseaseProfessor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 07 March 2016, 18:00-19:00 The Game Theory of ConflictDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland. Friday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30 Astrocyte-like glia during visual circuit assembly in DrosophilaIris Salecker. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:00-17:00 The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologiesProfessor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 March 2016, 15:30-16:30 CANCELLEDSpeaker to be confirmed. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Thursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Mind the gap: Science broadcasting and public engagementSpeaker to be confirmed. Lecture Theatre 2, Judge Business School, Cambridge. Wednesday 02 March 2016, 18:00-20:00 Democracy and its DiscontentsProfessor John Shattuck, Central European University. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective storyDr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 29 February 2016, 19:30-21:00 Games Animals PlayProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge. Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 The economic utility signal of dopamine neuronsDr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 February 2016, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Freeform interactions and disrupted displaysPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. David Sweeney, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 23 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its diseaseProfessor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 22 February 2016, 18:00-19:00 Games for the BrainProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge. Friday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Regularized Optimal Transport and ApplicationsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Marco Cuturi, Kyoto University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 19 February 2016, 10:00-11:00 Parietal cortex and action spaceProf. Roberto Caminiti. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00 Is the cingulate cortex a useful biomarker of Autism pathology? Task-free and task-based approaches.Dr Josh Balsters, Neural Control of Movement Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 18 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Protein Folding HomeostasisProfessor David Ron, MD, FMedSci, FRS | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College. Wednesday 17 February 2016, 19:30-20:30 "Losing the New Great Game"Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer. Friday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 Probing the mechanisms of learning and memory at the single-neuron level in humansDr Ueli Rutishauser California Institute of Technology. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:00 Human neuroscience in the wildDr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidenceProfessor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 08 February 2016, 18:00-19:00 Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumptionProf Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 February 2016, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What I Learned From Inventing Scala Macros?Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eugene Burmako, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks What I Learned From Inventing Scala Macros?Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Eguene Burmako, Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 09:30-10:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Depicting the Dead and Verifying the Visage Facial identification:Forensic and Archaeological ApplicationProfessor Caroline Wilkinson, Director, Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 01 February 2016, 19:30-21:00 Wittgenstein's GamesProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities. Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of languageProfessor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 January 2016, 15:30-16:30 Cancer by the NumbersProfessor Simon Tavaré. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugsProfessor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00 The Game of Crime and PunishmentMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 How the sins of your grandparents affect your healthDr Erica Watson PDN, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00 How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamicsProfessor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Challenge and Excitement of Discovering New MedicinesDr Menelas Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, Astra Zeneca. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 18 January 2016, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Opportunistic Storage Maintenance (SOSP’15)Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 January 2016, 14:30-15:30 Personal Principles and the Political GameBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords. Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 Evolution of color and motion visionClaude Desplan- NYU Biology. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:00-17:00 Human brain networks from functional MRIProfessor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 January 2016, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks End-user programmers need first-class software engineering toolsFelienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 January 2016, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verasco, a formally verified C static analyzerPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Jacques Henri Jourdan, INRIA Paris. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 January 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Formalising and Analysing Transactional Consistency ModelsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Andrea Cerone. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 January 2016, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Synthesising Gene Regulatory Networks from Single-Cell Gene Expression DataPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Steven Woodhouse, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 January 2016, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Symbiotic design for machine intelligence systemsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Cecily Morrison, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 04 January 2016, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Decade of ThrillPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Brendan Walker, Middlesex University/University of Nottingham/Aerial. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 14 December 2015, 10:00-11:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events 'Mathematical Modelling': Maths and paper folding workshop for Year 8 studentsFran Watson, NRICH. Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 10 December 2015, 13:30-15:00 CANCELLEDDr Greg Davis, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 10 December 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Model-Based Hand Tracking with Texture, Shading and Self-occlusionsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Martin De La Gorce, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 December 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Constructive Approach to Secure-Channel ProtocolsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Bjorn Tackmann, University of California San Diego. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme 'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity. Prof Robert Putnam (Harvard University) . Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College. Tuesday 08 December 2015, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Technology DevelopmentThe lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil Dr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00 DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant BreedingFree & open to the public Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30 From mesoderm mechanotransductive evolutionary origins to tumourogenic mechanical inductionEmmanuel Farge, Institute Curie, Paris. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 03 December 2015, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society TBCDr Ross Piper. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 02 December 2015, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Activity recognition in naturalistic environmentsPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Nils Yannick Hammerla, Newcastle University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in AsiaThis lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year Professor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00 Circuit adaptations underlying drug addiction: mechanisms and therapeutic implicationsProf Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 Drink, Drugs and Disasters: Disrupting reconsolidation to treat addiction and PTSDAmy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian EyesYarin Gal, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Revolutions that made the earthProfessor Tim Lenton. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 25 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effectsProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 23 November 2015, 18:00-19:00 Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky WayFree & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students. Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 Migration of neuronal and immune cells in forebrain wiringDr Sonia Garel, INSERM, France. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 The Dyslexia DebateJoe Elliott, Durham. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Boolean to Quantitative Methods in Formal VerificationPlease be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Thomas Henzinger, IST Austria. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society TBCDr Julian Huppert. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 18 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World SustainablyThis lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) How to communicate your research to policymakersSpeaker to be confirmed. Newnham College MCR, Cambridge. Monday 16 November 2015, 16:00-19:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) An introduction to science in policymaking: who, what, why and how?Speaker to be confirmed. Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College. Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:30-19:30 The integrative selfGlyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 CALM and collected: A dimensional approach to developmental disorders of attention, learning and memoryProfessor Susan Gathercole, Director of the MRC - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society The evolutionary struggles of giant land animals against gravityProfessor John Hutchinson. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storageA COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES Professor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The human brain - a lesson in green technologyProfessor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00 Digital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist, Practice-oriented Institutional ApproachRasmus Kleis Nielsen, Oxford. Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT. Monday 09 November 2015, 12:00-14:00 Fireworks & Waterworks - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration LectureDr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London). Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW. Thursday 05 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 Concept cellsProf Rodrigo Quiroga, University of Leicester. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 Neural systems for navigationHugo Spiers, Dept of Experimental Psychology, UCL. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Thinking without a brain: Auxin and the self-organisation of plant formProfessor Ottline Leyser, Sainsbury's Laboratory . Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 04 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Maths and the ArtsThe Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams. Professor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physicshttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 The Achilles' heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction systemProfessor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Repetition suppression and face memory in the neurotypical and autistic populationDr Michael Ewbank, MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Summer Internships EventSpeaker to be confirmed. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 28 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyondhttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 PostcapitalismPaul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News. Room GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge. Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphereProfessor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 26 October 2015, 18:00-19:00 Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessmenthttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Future of MedicineSpeaker to be confirmed. Thursday 22 October 2015, 17:00-20:30 Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative StressProfessor Dino Giussani - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking Storage and Networking in Next Generation RacksSergey Legtchenko, Post-doc Researcher, Systems & Networking, Microsoft Research Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 22 October 2015, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Pattern formation and positional information in developmentProfessor Lewis Wolpert. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 21 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and CollaborationJointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas" Professor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Monday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World SustainablyProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds. Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS . Friday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems JudgementJohn Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH. Room B16, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Friday 16 October 2015, 12:30-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Freshers’ SquashN/A. The Eagle, Benet Street, CB2 3QN. Thursday 15 October 2015, 20:00-21:00 CANCELLED: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisionsProf Ranulfo Romo, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex: functional and anatomical mechanismsMarco Tamietto, Dept of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 October 2015, 15:30-16:30 Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic ScaleRefreshments will be served between 3pm and 4pm in the lecture theatre foyer following the lecture Dr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Does testosterone predict autistic traits? Unpacking the assumption of Gaussian noiseAlexa Pohl, PhD Student, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 15 October 2015, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD EventSpeaker to be confirmed. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fateProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biologyJoint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00 Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitionDr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Talking with Reddit: Exploring limitations of recurrent neural network conversational systems.Alexander Gaunt - Trinity College, Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 08 October 2015, 10:00-11:00 Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Zoology - FULLMuseum guide. Meet at entrance to Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ. Thursday 01 October 2015, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: What are the Prospects for Automatic Theorem Proving?Prof Sir Timothy Gowers. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 01 October 2015, 16:30-17:30 Career StoriesDr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Neuroevolution of Reactive and Deliberative 3D AgentsAdam Stanton, Keele University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 30 September 2015, 13:00-14:00 Four Key Words: Making Autism Research Work for WomenDena Gassner. Wednesday 30 September 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Title to be confirmedMaking sense of language: It's okay to countGabe Recchia, University of Cambridge. Indigo 05-27, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 29 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Line Searches for Stochastic Optimisation. Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Maren Mahsereci, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Tübingen). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 21 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The structures of induction and co-induction. Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Paul Downen, University of Oregon.. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 17 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Human factors of software updatesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a timeProfessor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 15 September 2015, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Program Logic for Concurrent Objects under Fair SchedulingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Hongjin Liang, USTC. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 September 2015, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Power of Negations in CryptographySiyao Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Power of Negations in CryptographySiyao Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer-aided Concurrent Programming using Concurrent Trace SetsRoopsha Samanta, IST Austria. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 September 2015, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Cross-fertilization Between Propositional Satisfiability and Data MiningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending LAKHDAR SAÏS, CRIL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 September 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Executable Relational Specifications of Polymorphic Type Systems using PrologThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ki Yung Ahn, Portland State University. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 September 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Protecting the forward edge: Is that light at the end of the tunnel?"Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required. Istvan Haller, Vrije Universiteit . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 August 2015, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Plug into the SupercloudThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendi Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 August 2015, 11:00-12:00 **Out-of-Term Neuroscience Seminar** Cell Biological Insights into Parkinson’s Disease and ADHDProfessor Morgan Sheng, Vice President (Neuroscience & Molecular Biology), Genentech . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 July 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Giorgia Azzurra MarsonSpeaker to be confirmed. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 22 July 2015, 10:00-11:00 Visual perception and heterogeneity in the autism phenotypeDr Elizabeth Milne, Sheffield Autism Research Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 21 July 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solving Second-Order Constraints with Program SynthesisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Cristina David, Oxford University. Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 14 July 2015, 11:00-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Capturing and simulating the interaction of light with the world around us.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Wenzel Jakob, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 13 July 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person’s Experience of Turing’s Impacttalkscam@microsoft.com David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 10 July 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bonsai: Reactive Tools for Data ScienceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Goncalo Lopes, The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @ UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 July 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rendering Eyes for Eye-TrackingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Erroll Wood, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 29 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generative Models for Shape and AppearanceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Neill Campbell, University of Bath. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Latest Research in Autism GeneticsJoseph Buxbaum, Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, and Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Tuesday 23 June 2015, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Asynchronized Concurrency: The Secret to Scaling Concurrent Search Data StructuresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vasileios Trigonakis, EPFL, Switzerland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 19 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour. - Fully Booked!This event is now fully booked Dr Nigel Woodcock. Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ. Thursday 18 June 2015, 18:30-20:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation by Olivia Macleod on her research Prof. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00 Title to be confirmedDr Anna Remington, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University of London. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Monday 15 June 2015, 12:00-13:00 Pitch perception: New approaches to classic questionsAndrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 June 2015, 15:30-16:30 Lunchtime Talk: Collection highlight-Richard Pousette-DartSpeaker to be confirmed. Thursday 11 June 2015, 12:30-13:00 Late Opening & Conversation about DrawingSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 10 June 2015, 18:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks VISC: VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTINGThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vikram Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 June 2015, 10:00-11:00 Title to be confirmedSpeaker to be confirmed. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 09 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Saga of the Miles M-52 Britain’s Wartime Supersonic ProjectPlease note this lecture is different to that previously advertised. It will be preceeded by a short presentation by Vaibhav Bhardwaj on his research "Algae-bacteria symbiosis: Using molecular biology to improve algae cultivation for biofuels" Rod Kirkby, Retired Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 08 June 2015, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Effective policy to address the UK's STEM gap: education, immigration and women in scienceSpeaker to be confirmed. Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre). Monday 08 June 2015, 17:30-19:30 Evening talk & Film screening: savage messiahSpeaker to be confirmed. Saturday 06 June 2015, 18:00-20:00 Fast transient brain statesMark Woolrich (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 June 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Intelligible Machine Learning Models for HealthCareThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Rich Caruana, MSR Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 June 2015, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Finding Patterns in Genes and ProteinsThe Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer” Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00 Extreme Threats - GL Brown Prize Lecture 2015, The Physiological SocietyProfessor Mike Tipton, Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth. Physiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: Thinking outside of the boxesLisa Saksida (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 The emotional modulation of gaze-oriented attention and its influence by autistic-like traitsDr Amandine Lassalle. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 26 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 Temporal dynamics of post-retrieval amnesia for learned fearTALK CANCELLED Merel Kindt (Department of Psychology, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: Toward Causal Machine LearningProf. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 15 May 2015, 16:45-17:45 JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tearsEric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 Evening Talk: Modern Art wrestling and sportSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 13 May 2015, 18:00-20:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Evolution of Dragonfly WingsThe lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials Dr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00 Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruningPeter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 The Biological Basis of Empathy Development: From Genes to Brain and Anything in BetweenDr Florina Uzefovsky, Autism Research Centre. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Tuesday 05 May 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Queues don’t matter when you can Jump them!This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthew P. Grosvenor, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 Making, breaking and directing polarity during neural lumen formation and neurogenesis in the zebrafish embryoProfessor Jon Clarke, King's College London, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 30 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brainZoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:30-16:30 IMFAR Practice TalksDorothea Floris, PhD Student, Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 28 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) New Developments in Machine IntelligenceThis talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Declarative query processing in imperative managed runtimesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 27 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "... and then just encode it to SAT."This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Martin Brain, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 24 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Neuroimmune interactions in early development and the biological embedding of health disparitiesProfessor Staci Bilbo, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, USA. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 The functional role of local and large-scale synchronization in human cognitionSatu Palva (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The Tortoiseshell Cat in the Junk YardNessa Carey. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 22 April 2015, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Enabling Connected Cars through Named Data.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Giovanni Pau, University Pierre at Marie Curie. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 17 April 2015, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probability and Prejudice: Bridging the Gap Between Machine Learning and Programming LanguagesNeil Toronto, University of Maryland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 17 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Formal verification approach to modelling biochemical systemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 14 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The CSAR debate:"This House believes that the Government should fund discovery of new antibiotics and control their distribution and use"For: Drs Nick Brown and Zack Hassan; Against: Drs David Williams and Ewan Harrison. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 13 April 2015, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Dream Documentary Screening and Q&A PanelSara-Jane Dunn, Katja Hofmann, Jasmin Fisher & Sadia Ahmed from Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Efficient Solver for string and regular expression constraintsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Visual Programming Language for building Artificial Biochemistries in HaskellThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Lance R. Williams, University of New Mexico. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 April 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Unveiling the Secrets of High-Performance DatacentersThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 02 April 2015, 10:00-11:00 Homeopathy – science fact or science fiction? (at Cambridge Science Festival)Professor Jayne Lawrence, King's College London. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:00-20:00 Testosterone and the Brain: A molecular study using an autism stem cell modelDwaipayan Adhya, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Pushing the Limits of Localization and Capacity in Today's Wi-Fi NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jie Xiong, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social Media Predictive Analytics: Methods and ApplicationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Svitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Can you convince me why your software works?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Anvesh Komuravelli, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Meet the AuthorsHeld in association with the Cambridge Science Festival Speaker to be confirmed. Mill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. Monday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00 Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Talks BIOSCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Q&A SESSION: A personal perspective about life in the Bioscience Industry.Numbers are limited so please contact the organizer by 6th March if you would like to attend Dr Tim Rink, MD, ScD. Friday 13 March 2015, 17:00-18:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Some essential links between maths and the arts - Cambridge Science Festival (FULLY BOOKED)Professor John D Barrow FRS. Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Thursday 12 March 2015, 17:30-18:30 Visual information processing and its role in fly and cephalopod behaviour.Dr Trevor Wardill, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEGJean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 March 2015, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Title to be confirmedNB Change of date and venue Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Convex low-rank models: from matrices to tensorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ryota Tomioka, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Relational Machine Learning for Knowledge Graphs.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Maximilian Nickel, MIT. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting the Mobile Nomadic User through Projected User InterfacesChridtian Winkler, Mobile HCI Lab, Ulm University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ensembles for Discovery of Compact Structures and Learning Back-propagation Forests.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Madalina Fiterau, Carnegie Mellon University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous materialProfessor Malcolm Bolton FREng, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 09 March 2015, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Content Placement as a Key to Leveraging Geo-Distributed Infrastructureso This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Abhigyan Sharma, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Text To Programs: Automating Computer Tasks from Natural Language DescriptionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nate Kushman, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Technology DevelopmentDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners. Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) International Development - Where is the Evidence?Speaker to be confirmed. Winstanley Lecture Hall Trinity College. Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic differentiation and machine learningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gunes Baydin, Maynooth University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field SensingTobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field SensingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 March 2015, 09:00-10:00 Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary VasoconstrictionProfessor Norbert Weissmann, ECCPS Professur, University of Giessen, Germany. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)Andrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming and Proving with Fine-Grained Concurrent ResourcesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ilya Sergey, IMDEA Software Institute. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 05 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperonesProf. Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 19:00-20:30 The brain of the beholder: Honouring individual representational idiosyncrasies.Ian Charest, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Design and Evaluation of Proxemic-Aware Environments to Support Epistemic ActivitiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Roman Radle, University of Konstanz. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Workshop: Machine Learning in Cambridge 2015This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 09:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Flying 300 underwater Planes and other Oil Industry InnovationsDr Simon Bittleston, Vice President Research, Schlumberger. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 02 March 2015, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Death, Identity, and the Social NetworkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jed Brubaker, University of California. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 March 2015, 10:00-11:00 Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult BrainDr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activityGuillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Structure of the mitochondrial ATPaseProfessor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 25 February 2015, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Considering Tools for Artists, Creative Processes, and Design IdeationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Golembewski, University of Nottingham. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 25 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 The course of developmental health in autism spectrum disorder; the pre-school yearsProfessor Peter Szatmari, Chief, Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at SickKids and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health & Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Beyond acceleration: time, narratives, and the design of multiple worldsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Larissa Pschetz, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisitedProfessor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00 Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable DesignMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture. Friday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Un-Computing: Shaking off the ‘Computer’ BaggageThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sarah Gallacher, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solving QBF by Counterexample-Guided Abstraction RefinementThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mikoláš Janota, INESC-ID, Lisbon. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 Neural Processing of Naturalistic Features by the Hoverfly Visual SystemDr Karin Nordström, Uppsala University, Sweden. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memoryOle Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Protecting encrypted cookies from compression side-channel attacksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Douglas Stebila, Queensland University of Technology. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Context-aware programming languagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Studies of prenatal testosterone and autism-relevant behaviour in non-human animalsDr Gillian Brown, Lecturer, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, UK. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 17 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Full-Stack Security Analysis of Web ApplicationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Antoine Delignat-Lavaud. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Some of my AccidentsProf. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Difficulty of Preventing Code Reuse AttacksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Felix Schuster, University of Bochum. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 Development of Climate ScienceProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office. Friday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling, Quantifying, and Limiting Adversary KnowledgeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Piotr Mardziel, University of Maryland, College Park. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memoryNeil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrent Algorithms for Emerging Hardware PlatformsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Irina Calciu, Brown University . Indigo Meeting room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 12 February 2015, 09:00-10:00 *CANCELLED: TERRY SEJNOWSKI TALK ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 12 FEB*Speaker to be confirmed. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 12 February 2015, 00:00-00:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our healthProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00 Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Hepcidin in Iron HomeostasisDr Carole Peyssonnaux, INSERM, France. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Variability in visual processing between and within individualsSam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-16:30 Lunchtime TalksWill Hill, Deputy Head of School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University. Thursday 05 February 2015, 12:30-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Turing trap. How the universal computer is making the internet less secure.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Will Harwood and Roger Gross, Silicon Safe Ltd. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Meta-Interpretive Learning and Program InductionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Manifold correspondence: a signal processing perspectiveThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Bronstein, USI Switzerland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 Brain hypoconnectivity as a potential endophenotype of autismDr Rachel Moseley & Dr Rolf Ypma, BCNI, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Predictable and Dependable Low-power Wireless NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marco Zimmerling, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula OneProf. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering at Microsoft Research - Open EveningSpeaker to be confirmed. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Laws of Programming with ConcurrencyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture - Laws of Programming with ConcurrencyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30 How the brain exploits binaural hearing: more than just two bites of the cherryAlan Palmer (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Causal Inference and Domain AdaptationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jonas Peters, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society DNA Sequencing and Other Applications of Engineered Protein NanoporesNB Location and time have changed Prof. Hagan Bayley FRS, Department of Chemistry, Oxford. Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Wednesday 28 January 2015, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motorsProfessor Eugene Terentjev, Department of Physics. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 26 January 2015, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cutting tail latency in cloud data stores via adaptive replica selectionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marco Canini, Université catholique de Louvain. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 26 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Genome-wide transcriptional control of blood cell type identityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Felicia Ng, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 26 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Development of an AthleteDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist. Friday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Future of Education: Evidence and Technology in the ClassromSpeaker to be confirmed. McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. Thursday 22 January 2015, 17:15-19:30 How do listeners use their past experience to improve access to word meanings?Jennifer Rodd (Experimental Psychology, UCL) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society HPV vaccines – are they doing their job?Prof. Margaret Stanley OBE, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 21 January 2015, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Innovation in PractiseProf. Andy Hopper, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 19 January 2015, 19:30-21:00 Reprogramming Animal DevelopmentProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge. Friday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Democratizing Electronics: Tools, Examples, and Contexts for Supporting the Construction of Personally-Meaningful Interactive ArtifactsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Mellis, MIT Media Lab. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 January 2015, 10:00-11:00 Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrixDr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 Opportunities for Cognitive Neuroimaging at 7TDavid Norris (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 January 2015, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamic PDP vs. Dynamic POR: Are they really different?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alptekin Kupcu, Koc University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:30-12:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETINGOrganiser: Dr Silvia Vignolini. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Friday 09 January 2015, 09:00-17:05 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Prospects and Obstacles affecting Cell Replacement in HumansProf. Sir John Gurdon, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 15 December 2014, 19:25-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bedrock: A Software Development Ecosystem Inside a Proof AssistantThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Adam Chlipala, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 White matter correlates of visual imagery in synesthesiaDr Kirstie Whitaker, Research Associate Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 09 December 2014, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Checking microarchitectural implementations of weak memoryThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Lustig, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 08 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 "Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Disease: Is It All In Our Head?": Elucidating Mechanisms of Central Metabolic ControlDr Stefan Trapp, UCL, Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 04 December 2014, 16:00-17:00 Imagined pleasures: The cognitive psychology of desireJackie Andrade (Plymouth University, School of Psychology). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 December 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Title to be confirmedDr. Colin Russell (Department of Veterinary Medicine). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning in an Exchange EnvironmentThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending R. Preston McAfee, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Platforms and Applications for "Big and Fast" Data AnalyticsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yanlei Diao, UMass Amherst. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Building a Climate System Laboratory: Modelling the climate system.Prof. Dame Julia Slingo DBE, Chief Scientist, UK Met Office. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 01 December 2014, 19:30-21:00 The role of synchronized and desynchronized oscillations for episodic memory – Association vs informationSimon Hanslmayr (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 27 November 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Coping with the Intractability of Graphical ModelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Justin Domke. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 November 2014, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD Information EventProf. Steve Russell (University of Cambridge), Dr. Tim Weil (University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 26 November 2014, 19:00-20:30 Investigating recollection in autism spectrum disorderRose Cooper, Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Tuesday 25 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcareDr Andrew Flewitt, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 24 November 2014, 18:00-19:00 Self-Organisation of Pluripotent Cells in the Mouse EmbryoProfessor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience & Gurdon Institute. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 20 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 Specificity of effects of early parent-infant interactions in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and implications for interventionLynne Murray (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 20 November 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Could computers understand their own programs?Professor Sir Tony Hoare FRS FREng. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 19 November 2014, 18:00-19:00 Is water H20?Hasok Chang, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science. Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 18 November 2014, 19:45-21:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture Series - Technological Innovation in HealthcareThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Professor The Lord Darzi of Denham PC KBE FRS FMedSci HonFREng. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligenceProf. Nicky Clayton FRS, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge and Clive Wilkins. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 17 November 2014, 19:30-21:00 Fronto-subcortical Circuits in Cognition & Emotion: Modulation by Serotonin, Dopamine and GlutamateDr Hannah Clarke, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 13 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 The vocal brain: cerebral processing of voice informationPascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone), Aix-Marseilles Université. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 November 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Physical WebThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Scott Jenson, Google. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Breast cancer- tackling 10 diseasesProf. Carlos Caldas (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Tuesday 11 November 2014, 19:00-20:30 Title to be confirmedAmber Ruigrok, Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 11 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The changing genome: signatures of mutagenesis in human cellsDr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sangar Institute. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 10 November 2014, 18:00-19:00 As if by Magic...... Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration LectureDr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London). Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW. Thursday 06 November 2014, 19:00-20:15 Cell Migration & Gradient Sensing: Lessons from Zebrafish NeutrophilsDr Milka Sarris, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience / Cambridge Immunology Network. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 06 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 The neural mechanisms of top-down control during visual working memoryEva Feredoes (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 November 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Internship EventSally Todd, Careers Service and student speakers. Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 05 November 2014, 19:00-20:30 The Great War and the British Problem, 1914-2014Professor David Reynolds. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 05 November 2014, 17:30-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Basing One-Way Functions on NP-HardnessThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Christina Brzuska, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 November 2014, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes.Prof. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 03 November 2014, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Taming GPU threads with F# and Alea.GPUThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Daniel Egloff, QuantAlea AG. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling ApproachProfessor Roberto Mayor, UCL, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 30 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgroundsStuart Rosen (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 October 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Active and Passive Immunization against Infectious DiseaseProf. Peter Lachmann (Veterinary Medicine). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 29 October 2014, 19:00-20:30 Emotional and cognitive empathy: from heritability to neurotransmittersFlorina Uzefovsky, Post Doc at the Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 28 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Perception and belief in psychosisProfessor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 27 October 2014, 18:00-19:00 How governing has become harder-- the increasing external, and self-imposed constraints on governmentsThe Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 22 October 2014, 17:30-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about GADT Pattern Matching in HaskellThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending George Karachalias, Ghent University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 22 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Learning to Remember: How should we teach history?Speaker to be confirmed. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 20 October 2014, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society The Spark of Life: the story of ion channelsProf. Frances Ashcroft (University of Oxford). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Monday 20 October 2014, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Robust Distance Queries on Massive NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Milan Vojnovic. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 20 October 2014, 10:45-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Approximate Differentiable RendererThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthew Loper; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 20 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Cyclic Nucleotides and Neural Control of Cardiac Excitability in Cardiovascular DiseaseProfessor David Paterson, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 16 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Exploring neural correlates of object formation in Auditory CortexJennifer Bizley (Ear Institute, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 October 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Informal discussion on "Small and Large Challenges in Engineering the Biosphere"Prof. Andrew Fire (Stanford University School of Medicine). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 15 October 2014, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Digital Agenda for Europe: More Innovative, More Sustainable, More Inclusive?Speaker to be confirmed. Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College, Cambridge. Wednesday 15 October 2014, 17:15-19:30 Search for extra-terrestrial integrity - SETi. A Neuroscientific Study of ‘Theory of Mind’ with a Nonverbal Task Employing Algorithmically Generated Sounds of Varying Dissonance Level.Fernando Bravo, Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Tuesday 14 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational UniverseProfessor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 13 October 2014, 18:00-19:00 Are we star dust or nuclear waste? Astronomy lectureDr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 09 October 2014, 19:00-20:00 A Deadly Game of “Tag”: Insect Aerial Predation as a Model for Sensorimotor ProcessingDr. Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 09 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language understandingFred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 October 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ancient lives, new discoveries: eight mummies, eight lives, eight storiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Daniel Antoine, Curator of Physical Anthropology, British Museum. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Logic programming beyond PrologThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Maarten van Emden, University of Victoria, Canada. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks RDFox — A Modern Materialisation-Based RDF SystemThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Boris Motik, Oxford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Lottery AuctionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nicola Dimitri, Department of Political Economy & Statistics, University of Siena, Ital. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 09 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A link between lambda calculus and mapsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Noam Zeilberger, MSR-INRIA Joint Centre. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 07 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks First-person Hyperlapse VideosThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Johannes Kopf, Microsoft Research . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedProfessor Dr. Thomas Bourgeron, Génétique Humaine et Fonctions Cognitives Institut Pasteur. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road. Monday 06 October 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 03 October 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Discursis: A Computational Methodology for the Analysis of Communication DataThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Daniel Angus, The University of Queensland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 01 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Case for using Trend Filtering over SplinesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM PredictionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 "Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!" How Chemistry Changed the First World WarFree & open to all Dr Michael Freemantle. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 11 September 2014, 19:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Micro-Policies: A Framework for Tag-Based Security MonitorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Benjamin C. Pierce, University of Pennsylvania. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 September 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks End of Internship Talk: F# Type Providers: DBpedia and the Combinator FrameworkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Stevenson, PPT Intern. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 05 September 2014, 10:30-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hedging Against Uncertainty via Multiple Diverse PredictionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dhruv Batra, Virginia Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Beyond Mindless Labeling: *Really* Leveraging Humans to Build Intelligent MachinesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Devi Parikh, Virginia Tech. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Compositional ModelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alan Yuille, UCLA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 04 September 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Representing microbial communities in Earth system modelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Steve Allison, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 September 2014, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Zero Latency Photonic SwitchingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Philip Watss, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computational Video: Methods for Video Segmentation and Video Stabilization, and their Applications.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Systems, Science and FreeBSDThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending George Neville-Neil, Neville-Neil Consulting. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 August 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Integral Image Method for Fisheye ImagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Maria Mikhisor, Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 August 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FsLab: Doing data science with F#This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 August 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Verified Compiler for Probability Density FunctionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tobias Nipkow, Institute of Informatics Technical Institute of Munich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 24 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Alan Turing and the Enigma MachineJames Grime. Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Wednesday 23 July 2014, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Byte Night CambridgeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michelle Lamprecht, MathWorks. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 21 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Image representation for synthesis and recognition using multilinear algebraThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Demetri Terzopoulos, Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 11 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Brave New World of Next-Generation NoSQL Data StoresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Steps toward usable verificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Francesco Logozzo, MSR Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 10 July 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Techniques for Auto-Active VerificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nadia Polikarpova, ETH Zurich. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 09 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FSCL: homogeneous programming and execution for heterogeneous platformsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gabriele Cocco, Biobeats. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Automata in history: the Kinetic Arts of the EnlightenmentSimon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science). Thursday 03 July 2014, 19:00-20:00 The SL(2,R) action on Moduli spaceProfessor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago). Thursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Give a Great Research TalkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 July 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Once and Future InternetJon Crowcroft, Computer Lab. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 July 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Write a Great Research PaperThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Local Temporal ReasoningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Eric Koskinen, New York University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 27 June 2014, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Modular Integration of SAT/SMT Solvers to Coq through Proof WitnessesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Chantal Keller. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Games, Learning and Markets WorkshopThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Speaker to be confirmed. Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 20 June 2014, 09:00-17:30 Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centreTickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book. Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ. Thursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00 Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centreTickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book. Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ. Thursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Noise in audio and electronicsDr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Geo-replicated storage with scalable deferred update replicationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 June 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tips and Tools for Scientific Research SuccessThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Speaker to be Confirmed . Main Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 June 2014, 09:00-16:30 Switching between affect and ratio: The basolateral amygdalaDr David Terburg, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University . Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 13 June 2014, 16:30-17:30 The Reward Prediction Error of Dopamine Neurons: What information does it convey and how is it generated?Dr. Christopher D. Fiorillo - Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST - Daejeon, Korea. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement The beautiful page: a celebration of contemporary illustrated children's booksSpeaker to be confirmed. Cherry Hinton Library, High Street., Cherry Hinton, Cambridge CB1 9HZ. Wednesday 11 June 2014, 19:00-20:30 Autism: what the genes tell usVarun Warrier, MPhil Student at the ARC, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-14:00 Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic GardenMeet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE. Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00 The first heart beat: initiation of cardiac contractile activityDr. Shankar Srinivas - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics - University of Oxford. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-17:00 Working Memory: Mechanisms of training and development during childhoodTorkel Klingberg (Karolinksa Insitute, Sweden). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 June 2014, 15:30-16:30 Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing Astrobiology: the search for life on other worldsLewis Dartnell, University College London. The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB. Wednesday 04 June 2014, 19:20-19:50 Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing Why the origin of life had to be inorganicLee Cronin, University of Glasgow. The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB. Wednesday 04 June 2014, 18:50-19:20 Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing What is Life? A philosophical perspectiveSamir Okasha, University of Bristol. The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB. Wednesday 04 June 2014, 18:20-18:50 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Should We Engineer The Climate? The SPICE ProjectThe listed speaker is not available; Dr Hunt has very kindly agreed to deliver this lecture in his place Dr Hugh Hunt, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 02 June 2014, 19:30-21:00 Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interactionProf. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 GL Brown Lecture: Calcium in the heart: from physiology to diseaseProfessor David Eisner - Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester. Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 29 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Categorizing facial expressions of emotion with and without conscious awarenessCancelled - please accept our apologies Marie Smith (Birkbeck). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio AstronomyFifth Hewish Lecture Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Math anxiety: who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against itOpen talk Sian Beilock, PhD. Professor of Psychology. The University of Chicago. Department of Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Main Building, Downing Site. Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:30 Influence of facial expressions on attention to gaze in autism: Neural correlates and developmentDr Amandine Lassale, Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 23 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebra of Parameterised GraphsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrey Mokhov, Newcastle University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 23 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer Vision for Movie Making and InfographicsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Chris Bregler, NYU & ILM. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 23 May 2014, 10:00-11:00 Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Control in MammalsDr. Duncan Odom - Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute at University of Cambridge.. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathwaysStephanie Van Goozen. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Collapsible Approach to Higher Order VerificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Taste and FlavourProfessor Peter Barham, School of Physics, University of Bristol. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 19 May 2014, 19:30-21:00 2050: Sustainable UK?Dr John Emsley. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 15 May 2014, 19:00-20:00 Health economic evaluation: what can it do for me?Sarah Byford. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matricesThe second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows Dr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 18:30-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran BiotaThe first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows Dr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 18:00-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Thinking for Programmers: Rising Above the CodeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 13 May 2014, 17:30-18:30 The integration of sensory cues across developmentProfessor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London . Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology. Friday 09 May 2014, 16:30-18:00 Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.Professor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Twilight of the Scientific AgeDr Martín López Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands). Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge. Thursday 08 May 2014, 19:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Art of Corporate StorytellingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Steve Clayton, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Hippocampal network dynamics underpinning the emergence and persistence of spatial memoriesDavid Dupret - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Life as we know itKarl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mid-level Likelihoods and Constraints for 3D Scene InterpretationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Fouhey, The Robotics Institute. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 07 May 2014, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Tunnelling Under Cities, Advances in Research and PracticeProfessor Robert Mair, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 05 May 2014, 19:30-21:00 Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiationProfessor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Motor cortex and perception - from speech to laughterSophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 01 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Protecting Programs During Resource RetrievalThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Trent Jaeger, Penn State University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 28 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell statesShahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 From cortical inhibition and excitation to cognitive enhancementRoi Cohen Kadosh (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MPRt Hon Vince Cable, MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade. Wednesday 23 April 2014, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The shadowy life of many webcamsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Robert Pless, Washington University in St. Louis. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 23 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Art of Corporate StorytellingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Steve Clayton, Microsoft. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 17 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Crafting VisualizationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Boris Müller, Fachhochschule Potsdam. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 April 2014, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Self-Assembling Molecular Structures, Novel molecular structures and materialsProfessor Daan Frenkel, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 14 April 2014, 19:30-21:00 Increasing autism awareness and autism service provision in Ethiopia: the HEAT+ projectDr Rosa Hoekstra & Dr Bethlehem Tekola, The Open University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 11 April 2014, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Perception and belief in psychosisSpeaker to be confirmed. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Tuesday 08 April 2014, 18:00-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sustainable IT and IT for SustainabilityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Zhenhua Liu, California Institute of Technology. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 April 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bandits with Switching Costs: T^{2/3} RegretThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 April 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Publish/Subscribe for Large-Scale Social Interaction: Design, Analysis and Resource ProvisioningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vinay Setty, University of Oslo. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 31 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decision Making and Inference under Limited Information and Large DimensionalityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Stefano Ermon, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 28 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Parallel and Distributed SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pramod Bhatotia, MPI-SWS. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 28 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks IC3 Modulo Theories via Implicit Predicate AbstractionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rich semantic representations for detailed visual recognitionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Subhransu Maji, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Globally Optimizing Graph Partitioning Problems Using Message PassingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Elad Mezuman, Hebrew University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Characterizing and Improving Last-Mile Performance Using Home Networking InfrastructureThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Srikanth Sundaresan, College of Computing, Georgia Tech. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 26 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic Differentiation - Part One: A Revisionist History and the State of the ArtThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Barak A. Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Performance Optimizations for Compiler-based Error Detection MethodologiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Konstantina Mitropoulou, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 25 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement The ethics of war in a new era - talk by Lord Rowan WilliamsSpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Monday 24 March 2014, 18:30-20:00 Scientific wine tasting with Luke WebsterPart of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED! Luke Webster. Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge. Friday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling Deep LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Misha Denil, University of Oxford. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 21 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using ConvNets, MALIS and crowd-sourcing to map the retinal connectomeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Srini Turaga, Gatsby Unit & Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 19 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data Driven Student Feedback For MOOCs: Global Scale Education for the 21st centuryThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jonathan Huang, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Part Detection and Species IdentificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Jacobs, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) New Book EveningIn association with the Cambridge Science Festival Profs. Spiegelhalter, Ahmed and Longair. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 17 March 2014, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Performance of Deferred-Acceptance Heuristic AuctionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Paul Duetting, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 17 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all. Dr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde). Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Friday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Trouble-makers: Audio-video distortions as a relational resource in couples’ video callsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sean Rintel, University of Queensland. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 14 March 2014, 09:00-10:00 Regulation of lymphocyte development and activation by RNA binding proteins and non-coding RNADr Martin Turner; Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 13 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 Subcortical contributions to cognition and behaviour: human imaging and lesion model evidenceMichael Hornberger (University of New South Wales, Australia) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 March 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mechanism design for Cloud Computing and CrowdsourcingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Angelina Vidali, Duke University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving the Full Potential of State Machine Replication: High Throughput, Low Latency, Constant AvailabilityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Julian Moraru, Carnegie Mellon University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 13 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society G-quadruplex: the DNA quadruple helixProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS (CRUK and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 12 March 2014, 19:00-20:30 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Women and Writing; The Life You Save May be Your OwnSpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Wednesday 12 March 2014, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Designing Controller Abstractions for Software-Defined NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Joshua Reich, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 12 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Women in Science: A Glass Half Full – Talk by Professor Ottoline LeyserSpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT - Lord Ashcroft Building, LAB006 and LAB003. Tuesday 11 March 2014, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Electric and Hybrid Powered Aircraft – making energy go furtherDr Paul Robertson, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 10 March 2014, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rethinking State-Machine Replication for Multicore ArchitecturesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Parisa Jalili Marandi, University of Lugano. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 10 March 2014, 10:00-11:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement IWD community event with poetry and performancesSpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Saturday 08 March 2014, 18:00-21:00 Shedding Light on the Newborn BrainDr Topun Austin, Consultant Neonatologist, Cambridge Centre for Perinatal Neuroscience. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00 Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticityDr Mala Shah; Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 06 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 Strategic offloading of prospective memory to the external environmentSam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 March 2014, 15:30-16:30 The Nation's Hidden Art College RevealedAndrew Ellis, Director of the Public Catalogue Foundation. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 05 March 2014, 17:30-19:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Chanting for a better life as a Maasai girl in KenyaSpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Wednesday 05 March 2014, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wingsProfessor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 03 March 2014, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Energetic constraints on the evolution of lifeDr Nick Lane (Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Monday 03 March 2014, 19:00-20:30 Plagues & Economic CollapseProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University. Friday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 The peculiarities of the naked mole-rat – what can we learn from them?NOTE THAT EVENT IS ON THURSDAY Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Thursday 27 February 2014, 19:30-20:30 Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibitionProf Trevor Smart; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 27 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Hierarchical mechanisms of face processingGalit Yovel (Tel Aviv University) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 27 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computational foundations of Bayesian inference and probabilistic programmingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Roy, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 27 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Sex and the Brain (in fruit flies)Dr Gregory Jefferis (MRC LMB, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 26 February 2014, 19:00-20:30 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Travels with my Rant - a talk by Murray Grigor OBESpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Wednesday 26 February 2014, 18:00-20:00 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Talking Trans RightsSpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Tuesday 25 February 2014, 18:30-20:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for runningA V HILL LECTURE Professor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 24 February 2014, 18:00-19:00 How do young brains mature? UCHANGE design, techniques and some early resultsProf John Suckling, Director of Research, BCNI. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 21 February 2014, 13:00-14:00 Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variationDr Chris Tyler-Smith - The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 20 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks An Online Allocation Mechanism with Pre-Commitment and its Application to Electric Vehicle ChargingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Valentin Robu, University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 20 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memoryChris Jarrold (University of Bristol) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 20 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Imaging biology in the cancer patientProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci (CRUK and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 19 February 2014, 19:00-20:30 Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement Sexual Self Esteem among HIV+ gay menSpeaker to be confirmed. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Tuesday 18 February 2014, 18:30-20:00 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum “Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry”18:15 for 19:00 start Joanna Kerr and India Weidle. Harker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences. Tuesday 18 February 2014, 18:15-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideasThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yura Perov, Oxford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 18 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Grand Challenges and Accomplishments of Engineering ResearchProfessor Lord Alec Broers, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 17 February 2014, 19:30-21:00 Plagues, Populations & SurvivalProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University. Friday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addictionKaren Ersche, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Biophysical insights into protein aggregationDr Tuomas Knowles (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 12 February 2014, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in actionDr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 10 February 2014, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Topological Data Analysis: potential applications to computer visionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vitaliy Kurlin, Durham University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 10 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 The Nature of PlaguesProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford. Friday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 The Anatomy of ViolenceProf Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania Dept Psychology, Visiting Professor University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 07 February 2014, 13:00-14:00 How do antidepressants work?Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Socio-ecology and Conservation of Asian ApesDr David Chivers (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 05 February 2014, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Can Research Prevent Crime?Professor Lawrence Sherman, Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 03 February 2014, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Declarative Static Program AnalysisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Athens. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks FaRM: Fast Remote MemoryThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aleksandar Dragojevic, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 03 February 2014, 10:00-11:00 Brain control: new developments in neurofeedback and neuromodulationDavid Linden (Cardiff University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 January 2014, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The persistence of structure: Layers, time, and the estimation of optical flowThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael J. Black , Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Water: Commodity or human right?Speaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 29 January 2014, 17:30-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Fluid mechanical processes during geological sequestration of carbon dioxideG I TAYLOR LECTURE Professor John Lister, DAMTP. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 27 January 2014, 18:00-19:00 Plagues & HistoryProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30 Emotion Processing and Intervention in Autism Spectrum ConditionsDr Sarah Cassidy, Research Coordinator, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge,. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 24 January 2014, 13:00-14:00 Dendritic Potassium Channel Regulation by Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP)Dr HyeYoung Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California in San Francisco. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 The neural basis of semantic cognition: Convergence of neuropsychology, fMRI, MEG and TMSBeth Jefferies (University of York) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 23 January 2014, 15:30-16:30 Troubled by Culture: Global Reflections in a World of ChangeProfessor Aida Hernandez, Dr Susan Bayly and Professor Sarah Radcliffe. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 22 January 2014, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performanceProfessor John Gruzelier, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 20 January 2014, 19:30-21:00 Plagues & MedicineProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30 All for one and one for all: single-cell properties in the service of circuit-level computationsDr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 16 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 Cortical specialisation for language and auditory processing in the congenitally-blind (anophthalmic) brainKate Watkins (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 January 2014, 15:30-16:30 The Saga of Alemtuzumab in the treatment of Multiple SclerosisFree entry, open to the public and complimentary drink included Professor Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Wednesday 15 January 2014, 19:30-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society COLOUROne day meeting - free entry and open to all Organised by Professor John Mollon FRS. Lecture Room 0 Department of Engineering. Thursday 09 January 2014, 09:30-17:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Preconditioning of Laplacian Matrices for Computer GraphicsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dilip Krishnan, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 06 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Combinatorial Prediction Market for the US ElectionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sebastien Lahaie, Microsoft Research, New York. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian Machine Learning for Controlling Autonomous SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marc Deisenroth, Imperial College. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 17 December 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Real time control with lots of humans in the loopThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 16 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 The Science of Whisky - A tasting tour of Scotland's finestAlex Woolgar-Toms. Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge. Thursday 12 December 2013, 19:00-21:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Typed functional probabilistic programming: ready for practical use?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tom Nielsen, OpenBrain. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 December 2013, 10:00-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about Eventual ConsistencyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Principles and Techniques of Automatic DifferentiationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Laurent Hascoët, INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 A spectrum of sociability: Discussing social attention, social cognition and social behaviours in Williams syndrome and autismCancelled - please accept our apologies Dr Debbie Riby (Durham University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 December 2013, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hardware Neural Network AcceleratorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Olivier Temam, Inria. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 05 December 2013, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Flawed Dominance of Economics: Engaging more Social Sciences in GovernmentSpeaker to be confirmed. The Keynes Lecture Theatre, Kings College, Cambridge. Wednesday 04 December 2013, 17:15-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming Approximate SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Adrian Sampson, University of Washington. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 04 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 Babraham Institute - Public Engagement Events Epigenetics: Myths, Mysteries and MoleculesSee Abstract. The University Arms Hotel, Cambridge. Tuesday 03 December 2013, 19:00-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Do We Really Need Pandas? The impact of human intervention on natural selectionDr Ken Thompson, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 02 December 2013, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Image Classification Using a Background PriorThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Keren, Department of Computer Science University of Haifa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 02 December 2013, 10:00-11:00 The Role of Empathy in Musical PreferencesDavid Greenberg, PhD Student Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 29 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automatic DifferentiationPart One: A Revisionist History and the State of the ArtThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Barak A. Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 29 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Moving to low carbon energy provision – do we have a choice?Prof Geoffrey Maitland (Imperial College London). Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 28 November 2013, 19:00-20:00 Using the internet for psychological research and clinical trialsProfessor Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 November 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Fat fish are a forest productDr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 27 November 2013, 19:00-20:30 TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments)Dr Lindsay Edwards, GlaxoSmithKline, Director (Metabolism and Systems Biology). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 27 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Depot: from Byzantine fault tolerance to eventual consistency in a single systemThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Allen Clement, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 November 2013, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Randomized tree ensembles: output kernels and variable importancesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pierre Geurts, University of Liège. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencingNote new start time of 6.00pm Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 25 November 2013, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language based web security: the operational semantics approachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language based web security: the operational semantics approachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Internship Information Event[Careers Service and Former Summer Students and Interns]. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Thursday 21 November 2013, 19:00-20:30 Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviourProfessor Charan Ranganath (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 November 2013, 15:30-16:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) The relation between non-symbolic and symbolic number processingProf. Bert Reynvoet, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven. Department of Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Main Building, Downing Site. Thursday 21 November 2013, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Are you your brain?Professor Steven Rose (The Open University). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 20 November 2013, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Notes on Notes: The musicology of performanceThe CSAR AGM will precede this lecture at 19:15 Professor John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 18 November 2013, 19:15-21:00 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: But The Spell Remains: the role of emotions in public policyHilary Cottam, design strategist and founder/ principal partner of Participle. Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 2 Trumpington Street CB2 1AG (map). Monday 18 November 2013, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebraic methods in computer vision and automatic generation of efficient algebraic solversThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Zuzana Kukelova, Center for Machine Perception/Martin Bujnak, Capturing Reality s.r.o.. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Cambridge Maths CircleVolunteer staff and students, Faculty of Mathematics. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA. Saturday 16 November 2013, 10:00-12:30 ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society Watching Single MoleculesProfessor David Klenerman. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Friday 15 November 2013, 20:00-21:00 CANCELLEDSpeaker to be confirmed. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Digital Connectivity in Cities: The Role of PolicySpeaker to be confirmed. McCrum Lecture Theate, Corpus Christi College. Bene’t Street, Cambridge. Thursday 14 November 2013, 17:15-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Communicating risk and scientific uncertaintyProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 13 November 2013, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to ContributeHONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. Wednesday 13 November 2013, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Multimodal Gaze-Supported InteractionSophie Stellmach, Technische Universität Dresden. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 12 November 2013, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?Note new start time of 6.00pm Professor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology . Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 11 November 2013, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Discovering the Structure of Visual Categories from Weak AnnotationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Subhransu Maji, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 08 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 The Science of Fireworks and Explosives – Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration LectureProf Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research Cambridge). Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 07 November 2013, 19:00-20:00 Waiting and resting brain states in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderProfessor Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 November 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD Information Event[Careers Service and current PhD and MPhil students]. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 06 November 2013, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The CSAR DebateSpeakers to be announced. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 04 November 2013, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society How can mice using iPads help cure Alzheimer's disease?Professor Tim Bussey (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 04 November 2013, 19:00-20:30 Leo Kanner 70 years on - A History of AutismAdam Feinstein. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 01 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addictionCANCELLED, please accept our apologies, we will reschedule next term Dr Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 31 October 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Multiprotein assemblies, structural biology and drug discovery: Gaining selectivity through allosteryProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 30 October 2013, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positiveThe ‘Festival of Ideas’ Lecture Dr Gerard Lyons, Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 28 October 2013, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concernsNote new start time of 6.00pm Mr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey . Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 28 October 2013, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Memristors: The Future of Computer Memory and Neuromorphic Circuits?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Panayiotis Georgiou, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 25 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Bigger and Faster Bitcoin: an Analysis of High-Rate Bitcoin Transaction ProcessingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal damage and episodic memory impairment: A causal sequence?Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Institute of Child Health, London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Some challenges in modelling influenzaDr Julia Gog (CCBI and DAMTP, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 23 October 2013, 19:00-20:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Learning of a Formation Principle for the Secondary Phonemic Function of a Syllabic OrthographyClaire Fletcher-Flinn, Associate Professor, University of Otago, NZ. Department of Psychology, Kenneth Craik Seminar Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 22 October 2013, 12:00-13:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Applied and not-yet-appliedProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS. Monday 21 October 2013, 19:30-21:00 Does recurrent ASD risk depend on whether younger siblings were conceived or born before their elder siblings were diagnosed?Prof. Michael Beenstock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 18 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Don't believe everything you read in the papers...Professor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 October 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Teenagers: A Natural HistoryDr David Bainbridge (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge). Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 16 October 2013, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge University Biological Society BioSoc Freshers' SquashJoin BioSoc - light refreshments provided. Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 16 October 2013, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Type Refinement in the AbstractThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Noam Zeilberger, MSR-INRIA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 16 October 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reflection methods for user-friendly submodular optimizationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Francis Bach, ENS Paris, France . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Framework for Automatically Enforcing Privacy PoliciesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jean Yang, MIT. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger EquationLARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm Professor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology, from the Schrodinger Equation.Professor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics. Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road. Monday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00 Practically Making the Philosophers' Stone: Recreating Alchemical ExperimentsDr Jennifer Rampling (Dept of History of Science, Cambridge University). Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 10 October 2013, 19:00-20:00 Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brainsProfessor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 October 2013, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Anomaly Detection in the FieldThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Christian Callegari, University of Pisa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 08 October 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Compositionality in Vision and LanguageThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Siddharth Narayanaswamy, Purdue University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 07 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Human computer interaction in autism researchDr Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Reader in Psychology, Heriot-Watt University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 04 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Five machine learning research topics at Oxford CSThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nando de Freitas, University of British Columbia. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 04 October 2013, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active Pedestrian Safety: from Research to RealityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dariu M. Gavrila, Daimler R&D (Ulm, Germany) and Univ. of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 03 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing the Network with MerlinThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nate Foster, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 02 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Robust Models of Mouse Movement on Dynamic Web Search Results PagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research New York. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 01 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 Music and the Brain - Forming and Connecting MemoriesIttai Shapira. Recital room at the Music Faculty on West Road (11 W Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP). Monday 30 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! StrategiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gerald Tesauro, IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 27 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Inextensibility constraints for 3D reconstruction of deformable objectsSara Vicente, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 24 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Museum of Technology Guided TourTickets £3.50 Museum Guide. Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cheddars Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8LD. Saturday 21 September 2013, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Auctioning based Coordinated TV White Space Spectrum Sharing for Home NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 19 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision CourseThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Babak Falsafi, EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 September 2013, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Disciplined Approximate Computing: From Language to Hardware, and BeyondThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Luis Ceze, University of Washington. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 18 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks QUIC Graphs: Relational Invariant Generation for ContainersThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Arlen Cox, University of Colorado Boulder/ENS Paris. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Is The Rise of Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing and Social Networks a Consequence of a Failed OS (Operating System) Design?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yvo Desmedt, University of Texas. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 13 September 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Want Effective Security Solutions? Let's Re-Think The Design ApproachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Angela Sasse, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 11 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Analysis of Cache Side ChannelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Boris Koepf, IMDEA. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 10 September 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving Equivalences Between Prolog Semantics in CoqThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jael E Kriener, University of Kent. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Foundations of Neuromechanical Systems Biology: Combining engineering, biology, and mathematics to understand how we moveThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Andrew Spence, The Royal Veterinary College. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 06 September 2013, 10:00-11:00 MSt in Sustainability Leadership Chris Huhne - UK Government climate, energy and environmental policyNo need to reserve places, but please arrive by 16.50. Doors will close once the venue's capcity has been reached. Chris Huhne, former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0. Thursday 05 September 2013, 17:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep Gaussian ProcessesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 03 September 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Censorship Circumvention: Staying Ahead in a Cat-and-Mouse GameThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 29 August 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks 3D Reconstruction using Point-Based FusionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Damien Lefloch, Seigen University Germany. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 14:30-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Improving Time-of-Flight Range Data QualityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andreas Kolb, Seigen University Germany. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 14:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Relationship Between Separation Logic and Implicit Dynamic FramesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr Alexander Summers, ETH Zurich. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 21 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Strategies for General RecognitionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Derek Hoiem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 20 August 2013, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fast and Guaranteed Learning of Overlapping Communities via Tensor MethodsAnima Anandkumar, University of California Irvine. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 19 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Datalog for Program Analysis: Beyond the Free LunchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 16 August 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars The cost of principlesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Abigail See , Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge ,UK. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 14 August 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks KAT on a Wire: A Foundation for Network ProgrammingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Walker, Princeton University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 05 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Lifts of Convex Sets and Cone FactorizationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington, Seattle. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 August 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Efficient Multi-dimensional Parametric Mincuts for Constrained MAP InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kyomin Jung, KAIST. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 02 August 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SWAN: Software-driven wide area networkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Validating SAT RefutationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nathan Wetzler, UT Austin. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 July 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data Structures for Efficient Inference and Optimization in Expressive Continuous DomainsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Scott Sanner, NICTA and the Australian National University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 26 July 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bridging the Discrete and the Continuous in Reasoning about ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 25 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks “When is fair sharing optimal?”This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yair Zick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 24 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Mathemagic with a Deck of CardsProfessor Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College, Atlanta. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA. Thursday 18 July 2013, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automated Analysis of Probabilistic ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 18 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Noise estimation by PDE-constrained optimisationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Schönlieb Carola-Bibiane, Cambridge University. Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Very high speed networking in VMs and bare metalThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 09 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 Secrets of AntarcticaAnne Miller. St. Lukes Church, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ. Tuesday 02 July 2013, 19:30-21:30 Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’Please note that this event will take place on Wednesday Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Wednesday 26 June 2013, 19:30-20:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Alan Turing and the Enigma MachineDr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA. Wednesday 26 June 2013, 10:30-11:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) The Effects of Attention and Visual Input on the Representation of Natural Speech in EEGDr Ed Lalor, Trinity College Dublin . Department of Psychology, Kenneth Craik Seminar Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site. Tuesday 25 June 2013, 12:00-13:00 Atypical visual integration in autismCaroline Robertson, Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Monday 24 June 2013, 14:00-15:00 Brain imaging and the nosology of "childhood psychoses"Prof John Suckling, Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 20 June 2013, 13:00-14:00 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Children's construction play complexity and the building blocks of mathsDr Miles Richardson, University of Derby. Department of Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Downing Site. Tuesday 18 June 2013, 14:15-15:30 MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to diseaseDr Stuart Cobb. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00 Cortical mechanisms of cognition: A view from direct brain recordingsProfessor Bob Knight (University of California, Berkeley). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 June 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Building Business in the SunshineStuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar. Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 10 June 2013, 19:00-21:00 Talk has been cancelled!Speaker to be confirmed. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 07 June 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reaping the Benefits of Partial SDN Deployment in Enterprise NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marco Canini, T-Labs. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 07 June 2013, 10:00-11:00 Sources of variation in developmental language disorders: Evidence from eye-tracking studiesDr Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway, University of London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 June 2013, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks NetFPGA: The Flexible Open-Source Networking PlatformThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Moore, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) “The Impact of Impact: The future of science funding”Speaker to be confirmed. Riley Auditorium, Clare College, Cambridge. Thursday 30 May 2013, 17:15-19:00 Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancerProf Paul Martin. School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseasesDr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of PollinationMike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA. Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00 Epac2, from protein to in vivo function: implications for neurodevelopmental disordersDr Deepak Srivastava, Department of Neuroscience and Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 24 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesisProf Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of age-related changes in memory across the adult life spanProfessor Lars Nyberg (Umeå Universit). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics; aka PlasmonicsProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 The mechanical control of CNS development and functioningDr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge. Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 16 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Heterogeneity in the biology of developmental disordersProfessor Sarah Durston (University of Utrecht). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 Energy Efficient Electronics; Searching for the milli-Volt SwitchProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments Electric field induced ferromagnetic phase transition in semiconductors and metalsDr Daichi Chiba, Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo . Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 May 2013, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Organic Electronics: a story of science and technologyProfessor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 13 May 2013, 19:00-21:00 The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar CellsProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley,. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 13 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to IndustryProf Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00 What can brain imaging tells us about psychology?Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 Brain imaging findings in BPDDr Robert Dudas, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 09 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Role of Evidence in PolicyDavid Nutt, Barbara Sahakian and Mark Stokes. McCrum Lecture Theate, Corpus Christi College. Bene’t Street, Cambridge. Tuesday 07 May 2013, 17:15-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR-Lecture: Generative Models of Images of ObjectsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ali Eslami, University of Edinburgh. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 03 May 2013, 10:00-11:00 Sheep Models of Human Neurodegenerative Disease. How, where and why?Prof Jenny Morton. PDN, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 The role of the posterior lateral prefrontal cortex in cognitive control: From implementing instructions to cognitive flexibilityProfessor Marcel Brass (University of Ghent). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Building Better Questionnaires with Probabilistic ModellingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ricardo Silva, UCL. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: A Software Architecture for Quantum ComputingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Dave Wecker, Microsoft Research, Redmond. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 10:00-11:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Volcanology Applied to EmergenciesProfessor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 29 April 2013, 19:00-21:00 Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKEDNote tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited. Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden. Cambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF. Thursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Redefining EqualityPeter Kellner, President YouGov. Howard Lecture Theatre, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ. Thursday 25 April 2013, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Secrets behind the Cambridge Phenomenon: Good fortune or outstanding strategy?Prof. Sir John Bell, Harriet Fear, Chris Green and Derek Jones. McCrum Lecture Theate, Corpus Christi College. Bene’t Street, Cambridge. Thursday 25 April 2013, 17:15-19:00 The role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision-making: A model-based approachDr Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 April 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows Dr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 24 April 2013, 18:30-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plantsThe first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows Dr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 24 April 2013, 18:00-18:30 Overlooked and Undiagnosed: The female expression of the autistic phenotypeAlexandra Head, PhD Candidate at Deakin University, Australia. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Monday 22 April 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modular reasoning for modular concurrencyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aaron Turon, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reconstruction and Applications of Collective Storylines from Web Photo CollectionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gunhee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Theory and Practice of Mix-NetsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Douglas Wikström, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 16 April 2013, 09:00-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cryptoforma: Computer-Aided Cryptographic proofs with EasyCryptThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gilles Barthe. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 April 2013, 13:00-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and Improving the Efficiency of Failure Resilience for Big Data FrameworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Florin Dinu, Rice University. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 15 April 2013, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Bounded to Unbounded Proofs of CorrectnessThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Big Data Analytics with All-or-Nothing Parallel JobsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, University of California. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Intelligent Location-Privacy Preserving MechanismsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Reza Shokri, EPFL . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and Improving Device Access ComplexityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Asim Kadav, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 11 April 2013, 09:45-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Ramifications of Sharing in Data StructuresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jules Villard, University College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MSR-Lecture: Gaussian Processes for Pattern Discovery, Speaker: Andrew WilsonThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Wilson, Cambridge Universtiy. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 10 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Verification for Web Scripting LanguagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ravi Chugh, UC San Diego. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 09 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Graph-Based Reasoning in Separation Logic for Fun and ProfitThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Christoph Haase, LSV at ENS Cachan. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 05 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming The Parallelism ZooThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Geoffrey Mainland (Microsoft Research). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 03 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Algebra-Oriented ProgrammingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Bruno Oliveira, National University of Singapore. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 02 April 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CRASH/SAFE: Clean-slate Co-design of a Secure Host ArchitectureThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Catalin Hritcu, University of Pennsylvania . Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 28 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Austerity in MCM - Land : Cutting the computational BudgetThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Max Welling, University of Amsterdam. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hypervisor Scheduler Enhancement Using OS-Hardware InteractionsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Hwanju Kim, KAIST. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential FamilyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending James Hensman, University of Sheffield. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving Termination of Heap-Manipulating Java ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marc Brockschmidt, RWTH Aachen. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Syntactic Foundations for Machine LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sooraj Bhat, Georgia Institute of Technology. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 26 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Mathematics and SmallpoxCambridge Science Festival free public talk Professor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA. Saturday 23 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Behavioural Economics and Public PolicyProfessor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Cambridge Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 1. Friday 22 March 2013, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Wireless Networking Using Smart RadiosThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aveek Dutta, University of Colorado. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 22 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Trust and Mistrust on the InternetThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pranav Dandekar, Stanford University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 21 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Our Fluid EarthJoint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci. Professor Dan McKenzie. Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge. Wednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mechanism design: dealing with interdependencies among agents.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sofia Ceppi, Politecnico di Milano. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 20 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Privacy and Integrity of Remote Storage and ComputationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Olga Ohrimenko, Brown University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 20 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Semantics\sqcap Scalability\models\bot? Are Semantics and Scalability Incompatible?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Dopaminergic Modulation of Reward Learning in Social ContextsDr Christoph Eisenegger, Department of Psychology. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 15 March 2013, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Finding Patterns in Genes and ProteinsSarah Teichmann [MRC LMB, Cambridge]. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Thursday 14 March 2013, 19:00-20:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events 'Travelling Salesman' - film screeningplus.maths.org/PvsNP. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA. Thursday 14 March 2013, 18:30-20:00 Neuroimaging of ADHD: disorder-specificity and medication effectsProfessor Katya Rubia (King's College, London) . Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 March 2013, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal Payments in Dominant-Strategy MechanismsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Victor Naraditskiy, University of Southampton. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 14 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society A new approach to small-molecule drug developmentProf. Chris Abell [Department of Chemistry, Cambridge]. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 13 March 2013, 19:00-20:30 Making a difference across the globeProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 12 March 2013, 19:30-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Low Carbon Road Freight TransportProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Warped Mixture Models for Meaningful Clustering and Bayesian Manifold LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Duvenaud, University of Cambridge. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving High Data Rates in Distributed MIMO SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Horia Vlad Balan, USC. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 March 2013, 10:00-11:00 Foresight in Ancient MesopotamiaProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley. Friday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structuresProfessor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:00 Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memoryProfessor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 March 2013, 15:30-16:30 Why "shaken but not stirred"?Professor Richard Zare, Stanford University. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 06 March 2013, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR Book EveningDr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00 Steroid Hormones and the Maternal-Placental-Fetal System: Relevance to Autism?Alexa Pohl, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House). Monday 04 March 2013, 13:00-14:00 Foresight and Self-ControlProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University. Friday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 The visual system in autism: what binocular rivalry can tell usJan Freyberg, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 01 March 2013, 13:00-14:00 Mechanisms underlying the developmental origins of health and diseaseDr Sue Ozanne. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Neurocognitive and social-affective development in adolescenceProfessor Eveline Crone (University of Leiden). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 February 2013, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning About Client Side Web ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gareth Smith, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policyProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the futureProfessor Kai Kaila. Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 21 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functionsProfessor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 February 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The Pharma Industry & the Opportunity for Precision MedicineRuth McKernan [VP & CSO of Pfizer Neusentis, MRC Councillor]. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 20 February 2013, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars New probabilistic methods for inference of natural selection on regulatory sequences in the human genomeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Adam Siepel, Cornell University. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 19 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Graphene Future Emerging TechnologyProfessor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Daniel’s Adventures in Computer Vision LandThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Freedman, Microsoft Research – Advanced Technology Labs Israel. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 18 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 Foresight in MusicProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in DrosophilaDr Alex Gould. MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortexProfessor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 February 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Nuclear reprogrammingSir John Gurdon, FRS [Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge]. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 13 February 2013, 19:00-20:30 The Odd Pair of Autism and TranssexualismDr. Annelou de Vries, Department of Paediatrics, VUmc. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 12 February 2013, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East GreenlandDr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 11 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modelling road networks in the AmazonThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sadia Ahmed, Imperial College London. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 11 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Foresight in Scientific MethodProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge. Friday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Space Exploration: Is Manned Space Travel Worth The Cost?Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE). Riley Auditorium, Clare College, Cambridge. Thursday 07 February 2013, 17:15-18:30 The microvasculature - an early marker/driver of CVD risk across the life-courseProfessor Geraldine Clough. University of Southampton. . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 07 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automated Error Diagnosis Using Abductive InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Thomas Dillig, College of William and Mary, Virginia. Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Thursday 07 February 2013, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society What's a brain for? A moving storyDr Daniel Wolpert, FRS [CBL, Cambridge]. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Detecting Sybils without GraphsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ben Zhao, University of California. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How do we model global plant physiology? A case study of leaf phenologyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Silvia Caldararu, University of Edinburgh. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Land use / land cover change and malaria risk in the Amazon regionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Denis Valle, Levine Science Research Center (LSRC). Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 09:00-10:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Shift in the Balance of Economic and Financial Power: what does it really mean?Dr. Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 04 February 2013, 19:00-21:00 Bio-behavioral Synchrony and the Cross-Generation Transmission of Social Adaptation and PsychopathologyDr. Ruth Feldman, Bar Ilan University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 01 February 2013, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stratosphere: Massively parallel dataflow programmingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kostas Tzoumas, Technical University of Berlin. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Friday 01 February 2013, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Evolution of Biological ComplexityRaymond Goldstein [Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Cambridge]. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Thursday 31 January 2013, 19:00-20:30 Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulationProfessor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 31 January 2013, 15:30-16:30 Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent KillerPlease note that the event is on Wednesday and not the usual Tuesday! Haley Frend, Department of Pathology. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 19:30-20:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The day within: circadian clock genes, cells and circuitsDr Michael Hastings, FRS [MRC LMB, Cambridge]. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness NeubergerBaroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue. TBC. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology usefulProfessor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 28 January 2013, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Ethical issues in genomic research and practice: the Sanger Institute Deciphering Developmental Disorders project as a case studyMichael Parker [Ethox Center, Oxford] & Caroline Wright [Sanger Center, Cambridge]. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Thursday 24 January 2013, 19:00-20:30 Pituitary hypoplasia and decreased GnRH neurogenesis in Sox2-deficient MiceDr. Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera. UCL Institute of Child Health. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 24 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 Is specific language impairment a procedural learning deficit?Professor Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 January 2013, 15:30-16:30 “The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”Prof Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 Climate Science in the Media: could it be done better, and how much does it matter?Dr. Rosie Robison, Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.. Tuesday 22 January 2013, 19:30-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?Professor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 21 January 2013, 19:00-21:00 Foresight in Ancient CivilisationsProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge. Friday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30 The human endometrium - dynamics and disordersProfessor Philippa Saunders. University of Ediburgh. . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 Volition and AgencyJoint Chaucer Club/Zangwill Club lecture Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAWOrganised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 11 January 2013, 09:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamic Fair Division of Multiple ResourcesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nisarg Shah, CMU. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 17 December 2012, 11:00-12:00 Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts PicturehouseDr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist. Arts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street. Saturday 15 December 2012, 15:00-17:15 A Scientific Wine Tasting with Dr James Hutchinson (RSC)Dr James Hutchinson (RSC). Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge. Thursday 06 December 2012, 19:30-21:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled actionFred Cummins, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin. MRC CBU, 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 7EF. Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars From motion capture of interacting hands to video based rendering.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Luca Ballan, Institute of Visual Computing in ETH Zurich. Tuesday 04 December 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling wireless servicesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Wenjun Hu, Microsoft Research Asia. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 04 December 2012, 10:30-11:30 How do individuals with autism reason about the physical world?Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Monday 03 December 2012, 13:00-14:00 Autism in DSM-5 (and beyond)Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 30 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Representation of motor skills in cortical networksDr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 29 November 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Handling Multitude of Nash Equilibria in Voting GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Omer Lev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Spectral Edge: Making the Invisible VisibleThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Graham Finlayson, UEA. Tuesday 27 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Lost Soldiers of FromellesProfessor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Automating Separation Logic ReasoningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing and Autism: How a real-world challenge drives a computing research agendaThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Summer Studentships EventFormer Summer Students & Careers Advisor. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Thursday 22 November 2012, 19:00-20:30 An as-if model of economic decision makingDr Ian Krajbich. Department of Economics, University of Zurich . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 Imaging and stimulating learning and recovery in the human motor systemProfessor Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 November 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The RNAi therapeutics roller coasterMr Dirk Haussecker (Author of the RNAi Therapeutics blog). Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 21 November 2012, 19:00-20:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events 'Travelling Salesman' - first UK screeningSpeaker to be confirmed. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 20 November 2012, 18:30-20:45 Cambridge Philosophical Society Sustainable Materials: with both eyes openDr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal kernel choice for kernel hypothesis testingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Arthur Gretton, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Next Wave of Telco´s InnovationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 Embodied MoralityDr Simone Schnall, Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 A histone tail: Pre-messenger RNA splicing and the coordinated control of gene expressionDr Tracy Johnson. UC San Diego.. Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Friday 16 November 2012, 10:00-11:00 The Bioregional Economy: A public talk based on the new book by renowned green economist Molly Scott CatoMolly Scott Cato, Roehampton University. St. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN. Thursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30 The Bioregional Economy: A public talk based on the new book by renowned green economist Molly Scott CatoMolly Scott Cato, Roehampton University. St. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN. Thursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30 The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott CatoMolly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud.. St. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN. Thursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Lord O'DonnellLord O'Donnell, Former Cabinet Secretary. Peterhouse Theatre, Peterhouse, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RD. Thursday 15 November 2012, 18:00-19:30 Combinatorial and Dynamic Control Logic within pathogen-responsive Gene Regulatory NetworksProfessor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego. . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 Interactions between form and meaning in language processingDr Anna Woollams (University of Manchester). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 November 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Evolution of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian DevilsDr Elizabeth Murchison (Junior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge). Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 14 November 2012, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Are We Alone?Dr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 12 November 2012, 19:00-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks TypeScript: JavaScript development at scaleThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mads Torgersen, Microsoft. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 12 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality?Matias Attwel - Director of Social and Mobile Media of Terra Latinoamérica; Nico Perez - Co-founder of Mixcloud; Professor Jon Crowcroft (host) - Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge. Friday 09 November 2012, 17:30-19:00 Clinical characteristics of young adult males with autism spectrum disorders sentenced to prison for violent or sexual offencesDr Björn Hofvander, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 09 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks MIT Media Lab's Information Ecology GroupThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Henry Holtzman, MIT Media Lab. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 09 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Fireworks and Waterworks! Spectacular demonstration lecture.Dr Andy Szydlo, Highgate School, London. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 08 November 2012, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD or no PhD?PhD Students. Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Thursday 08 November 2012, 19:00-20:30 Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision makingProfessor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 November 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A computer-checked proof of the Odd Order theoremThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Georges Gonthier, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Using selfish genes to reduce malariaProf. Charles Godfray (Hope Professor, Oxford and President, British Ecological Society). Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 07 November 2012, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Seeing is believing: how a Century after its discovery, Bragg's Law allows us to peer into molecules that read the information in our genesDr Venki Ramakrishnan FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. Wednesday 07 November 2012, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findingsProfessor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 05 November 2012, 17:30-18:30 Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plantsDr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and DiagnosticsProf. Chris Lowe (Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, Cambridge). Winstanly Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Wednesday 31 October 2012, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Lord Young of GraffhamLord Young of Graffham. Howard Lecture Theatre, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ. Wednesday 31 October 2012, 18:00-19:30 Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) College of Scholar Presentations & Networking EventFree event. Open to all. Prof Alan Heaton. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:30-19:30 'Losing your world while falling asleep'Dr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviourDr Mario de Bono (Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge). Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Tuesday 30 October 2012, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR Green Energy DebateProfessor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Iain Duncan SmithRt Hon Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The Queen's Building Theatre, Emmanuel College, St Andrews Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AP. Thursday 25 October 2012, 18:00-19:30 Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memoryDr Mayank Mehta. UCLA.. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Asymmetric Belief Formation (or why humans discount bad news)Dr Tali Sharot (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 Preventing cancer with vaccines: progress in the global control of cancerDr Mark Kane. Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 24 October 2012, 17:30-19:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Towards ad hoc interactions with robotsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental PatternsProfessor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30 What is evidence-based reproductive medicine and what part did the Physiology Department in Cambridge play historically in its development?Professor Martin Johnson. Cambridge University. . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 18 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learningProfessor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 18 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Leaves, Loops and Leonardo: The Generation of Biological FormsProf. Enrico Coen (JI Professor of Biology, East Anglia). Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Wednesday 17 October 2012, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars From the Information Extraction Pipeline to Global Models, and BackThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sebastian Riedel, UCL. Tuesday 16 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea CoverProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Dynamically Enforcing Knowledge-based Security PoliciesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Michael Hicks, University of Maryland. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 12 October 2012, 10:00-11:00 Food Detectives - Some curious cases with a chemical twistDr Ellen Norman, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL). Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 11 October 2012, 19:00-20:00 The Promises of a Polychrome RetinaProfessor Bill Harris. Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University . Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 11 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Person identification and speech recognition in human communicationDr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical UniverseProfessor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 08 October 2012, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Larmor LectureProfessor Mike Edmunds. Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre. Monday 08 October 2012, 17:30-19:00 New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulationProfessor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling: A Control Theoretic ApproachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Albert Banchs, University Carlos III. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 03 October 2012, 15:00-15:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Latent Tensor FactorisationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Taylan Cemgil, Bogazici University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 01 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A new metric on kernel matrices with applications to matrix meansThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Suvrit Sra, Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen (Germany). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 27 September 2012, 10:00-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian InferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthias Seeger, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 September 2012, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Synthesis of Verification ToolsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrey Rybalchenko, Technische Universität München. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fast and Reliable Online Learning to Rank for Information Retrievalo This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Katja Hofmann, University of Amsterdam. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 24 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scale-Out ProcessorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Boris Grot, EPFL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 21 September 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Playing in the Grey Area of ProofsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Laura Kovács, Technical University of Vienna. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 19 September 2012, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) VisitJason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC. CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ. Thursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Craig InterpretationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 10 September 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Capture of dynamic scene using multiple cameras provides rich spatial-temporal information that can be used for solving challenging computer vision problems.This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tali Basha, Tel-Aviv University. Friday 07 September 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Pose Estimation to Fine Grained Activity RecognitionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Micha Andriluka, Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 06 September 2012, 15:00-16:00 September Swishing with Cambridge Carbon FootprintSpeaker to be confirmed. The Stone Yard Centre, St. Andrews Street Baptist Church (across from Emmanuel College). Saturday 01 September 2012, 13:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Tell Me Where You’ve Lived and What You Want -- I’ll Tell You What You Like and NeedThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich. Thursday 30 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Latent Hough Transform for Object DetectionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nima Razavi, ETH Zurich and Intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Wednesday 29 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Satisfiability: connecting logic and probabilityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending ramdas aaditya, CMU and intern. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 22 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Context sensitive information: Which bits matter in data?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Joachim Buhmann, ETH Zurich. Tuesday 21 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks HyperDex: A Consistent, Fault-tolerant, Searchable NoSQL StoreBernard Wong, University of Waterloo. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 20 August 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verifying Concurrent Programs with Relaxed Conflict DetectionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Serdar Tasiran, Koç University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 August 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrent Data Representation SynthesisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mooly Sagiv, Tel-Aviv University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 14 August 2012, 10:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Achieving High Data Rates in a Distributed MIMO SystemThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Horia Vlad Balan, USC. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 07 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Agent Failures in Totally Balanced Cooperative GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nisarg Shah, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 August 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cube and Conquer: Guiding CDCL SAT Solvers by LookaheadsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marijn Heule, U. of Texas, Austin. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 August 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars SmartDesign: Living with Geometric ComplexityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Niloy Mitra, University College London. Tuesday 31 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Part A: Non-parametric image optimization & Part B: Crowdsourcing gaze data collectionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dan Goldman, Adobe Inc. Tuesday 24 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Causality for Free! Parametricity Implies Causality for Functional Reactive ProgramsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alan Jeffrey, Bell Labs. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 23 July 2012, 14:00-15:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories & Generalized Multiple Kernel Learning with a Million KernelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Manik Varma, Microsoft Research, India. Thursday 19 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Are auditory sensory behaviours associated with ASD a consequence of atypical low-level auditory processing?Dr José Alcántara. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 18 July 2012, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Prediction Strategies without LossThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Rina Panigrahy, Senior Researcher, MSR-Silicon Valley Campus. Friday 13 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to present a poster at an international conferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 06 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Body Part Recognition: Making Kinect RobustThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 July 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks F# TutorialThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks .NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom DevicesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 16:30-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Research Connections and Cloud Computing for ScienceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to give a great research talkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to write a great research paperThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Microsoft Academic SearchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 04 July 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving that programs eventually do something goodThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Byron Cook, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Human Computing and Crowdsourcing in SearchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Predictable Data Centers- Why Johnny can't use the cloud and what can we do about it?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for medical Image AnalysisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Planetary prediction services for societyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Matthew Smith, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Realizing Touchless Interaction in the Operating TheatreThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Helena Mentis, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Functional first programming in an information-rich worldThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research Connections. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 July 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How reciprocity renders networks irrelevant for cooperation in social dilemmasThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Anxo Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 16:30-17:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Aggregators and the News Industry: Charging for Access to ContentThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending James Rutt, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 15:00-15:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Treasure HuntThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Markus Mobius, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 14:00-15:00 Autism and Human Cognitive Diversity, from Physiology to Psychology to PedagogyDr Matthew Belmonte. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 29 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Design and DefenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Marcin Dziubinski, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 12:00-12:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Blotto On Facebook: The Effect of Social Relations On Strategic InteractionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 11:15-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Game theory for Security: Key Algorithmic Principles, Deployed Systems, Lessons LearnedThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Milind Tambe, University of Southern California. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decentralized Auctions for Uniformly Semimodular BiddersThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mahyar Salek, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 29 June 2012, 09:15-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Managing air traffic disruptions through strategic prioritizationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ian Kash, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 16:30-17:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scarce attention and the value of page rank in online searchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Harvesting the Wisdom of CrowdsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 14:15-14:50 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Communication networks in marketsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Edoardo Gallo, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 28 June 2012, 13:30-14:10 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for medical Image AnalysisThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 22 June 2012, 15:15-16:15 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Building the supramodal language brainOpen Talk Professor Donald Shankweiler, Haskins Laboratories. Department of Experimental Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Downing Site. Thursday 21 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The RCUK Digital Economy Theme – A Catalyst for ChangeThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr. John G. Baird, Lead for the RCUK Digital Economy Theme, EPSRC. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 June 2012, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again?Colm O’Shea, Founder, Comac Capital and Jamie MacIntosh, Director of the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies, University College London. TBC. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic Programming and Probabilistic Databases for Large-scale Knowledge-base ConstructionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Debugging in SmartphonesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Food for thought: visceral control of nutritional decisions in DrosophilaDr Irene Miguel-Aliag, Dept of Zoology. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive biasDr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 June 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Web Science: Politics, Demographics and MoreThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ingmar Weber. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 June 2012, 10:00-11:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Alan Turing and the Enigma MachinePlease note - pre-booking is not required for this lecture, but please arrive on time for the start of the talk. Dr James Grime - University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 12 June 2012, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Genetics and Evolution of Transmissible Cancers in Dogs and Tasmanian DevilsDr Elizabeth Murchison, Fellow of Medical Sciences, King's College, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 11 June 2012, 19:30-21:00 When maths and mindreading meet: sex-dependent empathizing/systemizing interactions, and insights into ASC developmentJeffrey Valla. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Monday 11 June 2012, 12:00-13:00 Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic GardenNote tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden. Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance. Thursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00 Sequencing nucleic acids: from chemistry to life sciences and personalised medicineProf. Shankar Balasubramanian, Dept of Chemistry. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 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). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 June 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars The Inverted Multi-IndexThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Victor Lempitsky, Yandex. Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:00-15:00 It's the thought that counts: neural mechanisms of Theory of Mind in typical development and in Autism Spectrum DisordersDr Rebecca Saxe, Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 06 June 2012, 10:30-11:30 Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electronDr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Physics, Department of. Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Bacteria as Active ColloidsProfessor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00 Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognitionTalk Cancelled - Please accept our apologies Professor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Monday 28 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 Mechanism regulating neural differentiationProf. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Translational cognitive neuroscience of social knowledge and moral motivations: new clues for the understanding of affective disordersDr Roland Zahn (Divisions of Psychology & Psychiatry, The University of Manchester). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Spreading in Social NetworksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Flavio Chierichetti. Cambrigde Computer Lab, Lecture Theatre 1. Tuesday 22 May 2012, 13:30-14:30 What makes us happy?Professor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute. Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street. Friday 18 May 2012, 18:30-21:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series 'My Sister Rosalind Franklin', with Jenifer Glynn, AuthorJenifer Glynn, Author. Woodlegh Seminar Room, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 17 May 2012, 18:00-19:00 Origin and properties of adult neural stem cells in the zebrafish brain: role of Notch signalingRoom changed Prof. Laure Bally-Cuif, University of Paris Sud, France. Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviourProfessor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) What are the Chances? Living with Risk and UncertaintyProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00 IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 2Speaker to be confirmed. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 11 May 2012, 12:45-13:45 The Inner Beauty of CrystalsIan Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired). Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series 'Murder and Mystery: the Craft of the Detective Story', with PD JamesPD James, Prize-winning Author. Woodlegh Seminar Room, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 10 May 2012, 18:00-19:00 Epo's impact on exercise performanceProf. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out moreProfessor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - How Intelligence HappensProfessor John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 08 May 2012, 19:30-20:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and PolicyProf Christopher Dobson FRS, and Mr Mark Gorman (as a discussant). Friday 04 May 2012, 17:30-19:00 IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 1Speaker to be confirmed. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 04 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series Calories and Corsets, a history of dieting over 2,000 yearsLouise Foxcroft, Prize-winning Historian and Journalist. Woodlegh Seminar Room, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 03 May 2012, 18:00-19:00 Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disordersDr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming stateJonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 Eco-Renovation Question TimeSpeaker to be confirmed. St Paul’s Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JP. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 19:30-22:30 Computational Environment Design for Online CommunitiesProfessor David Parkes, Harvard University. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 17:30-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Topic Models for Human Activity UnderstandingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Timothy Hospedales, Queen Mary University, London. Tuesday 01 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st CenturyProfessor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series Marianne Majerus Gardens TalkMarianne Majerus, International Garden Photographer of the Year 2010. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 26 April 2012, 18:00-19:00 How much calcium does caffeine release from the endoplasmic reticulum in a large snail neurone?Prof. Roger Thomas, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00 How memory guides perceptionProfessor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 April 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Discovery of Clinically Useful Information from Medical ImagesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 26 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rekeyable Ideal Cipher from a Few Random OraclesElena Andreeva, K.U. Leuven. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 23 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verification and Synthesis by SciductionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sanjit Seshia, University of California, Berkeley. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30 Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievementProfessor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Confining the Ghost in the Machine: Using Types to Secure JavaScript SandboxingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 18 April 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure CloudThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer Assisted Interventions: Challenges in design, development, validation and deployment of novel techniquesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nassir Navab, Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 13 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 The Sharing Economy: An Introduction to Collaborative ConsumptionCamLETS, Zipcar, Lourish, and more. St. Andrew's Hall, St. Andrew's Road. Thursday 12 April 2012, 19:30-21:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mathematical modelling on remotely-sensed dynamics of marine primary producersThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr. Shovonlal Roy, University of Oxford. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Generating Code by LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Yi Wei, ETH Zurich. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Representing: a Jointly Optimal ApproachThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Xinhua Zhang, University of Alberta. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Building Flexible High-Performance Key-Value SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Amar Phanishayee, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The science of guessingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Joseph Bonneau (Cambridge University). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Machine Learning with High Order and Combinatorial Structureso This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Danny Tarlow. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Krishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 April 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From certified languages to their certified implementationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Pierre-Yves Strub. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Empirical evidence in privacy economicsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sören Preibusch. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:35-11:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Networks without Management ComplexityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Networks without Management ComplexityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Supporting Active Reading Activities With a Multi-Slate SystemThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nicholas Chen, University of Maryland. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 09:50-10:35 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mementos, Memento Mori, and More: Digital Assets across the Human LifespanThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Massimi, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 02 April 2012, 09:00-09:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Compositional Inter-Language Relational VerificationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Chung-Kil Hur, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 30 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Communication Complexity and When Dubious Data Structures can be DetectedThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ranganath Kondapally, Dartmouth College. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 29 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society "When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912 Professor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Non-Interactive Verifiable ComputationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Bryan Parno, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 What is Pain and how can we treat it?Prof. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University). Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30 What is Pain and how can we treat it?Prof. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University). Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Ethnography: Understanding natural interaction with our communication technologiesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Karine Lan Hing Ting, Telecom ParisTech. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 27 March 2012, 11:00-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Methods in decision theory for conservation researchThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Will Probert, University of Queensland. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 27 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Solutions for a sustainable and desirable futureThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ida Kubiszewski. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 March 2012, 10:45-11:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Searching, Scanning and Smelling - a portfolio presentationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending David Sweeney, London College of Fashion. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 26 March 2012, 09:50-10:35 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events How Fast Can Usain Bolt Run?Professor John D Barrow FRS. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Saturday 24 March 2012, 12:30-13:30 Exploring the underconnectivity theory of autism using independent component analysisRichard Bethlehem. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic,18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 23 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sampling based on local signal analysis: applications to photo-realistic imagery and beyondThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kartic Subr. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 22 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algebraic Foundations to Effect-Dependent OptimisationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ohad Kammar, Edinburgh University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 22 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Your Abstractions are Worth^H^H^H^H^HPowerless!Non-Volatile Storage and Computation on Embedded Devices*(*Batteries Not Included)This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Kevin Fu, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 21 March 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A joint part- and pixel-wise approach to human pose estimationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Lubor Ladický, Oxford Brookes University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Approaches to Multiscale Modelling of Complex SystemsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Harold Fellerman, University of Southern Denmark. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machines Learning Human MindsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michal Kosinski, Cambridge University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with LearningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Krishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Range Querying in Distributed GamesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sergey Legtchenko, UPMC-LIP6 in Paris. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 19 March 2012, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding variability and temporal trends in biosphere-atmosphere CO2 exchange through integrating models with dataThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr. Trevor Keenan, Harvard University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 19 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smart gridThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alex Rogers, University of Southampton. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smart grido This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Alex Rogers, University of Southampton. Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Asperger's biostratigraphy and the price of fishJon Adams. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic,18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 16 March 2012, 12:00-13:00 Cambridge University Biological Society A 2020 vision of Biology: the present and future of microscopy-based functional genomicsRafael Carazo-Salas. Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Thursday 15 March 2012, 19:00-20:30 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series The development of vaccines and immunotherapies against human papillomaviruses, the cause of cervical cancerProfessor Margaret Stanley, University of Cambridge. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 15 March 2012, 18:00-19:00 A search for a latent genetic variable: Important or out of date?Professor James Leckman. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 15 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Practical Randomization in Concurrent Data StructuresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dan Alistarh, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 15 March 2012, 09:00-10:00 Story of Stuff - The Next ChapterBev Sedley, Trustee CCF. Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane. Wednesday 14 March 2012, 19:30-21:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The Roles of Immunity in Influenza Virus Evolution.John Skehel, NIMR. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 14 March 2012, 19:00-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 The next 40 yearsProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Malleability in Modern CryptographyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Markulf Kohlweiss, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 14 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Breaking Habits & Going For Green: a Carbon Conversations Taster SessionBev Sedley, Trustee CCF & Beejal Parekh, Volunteer CCF. The Octagon, Wesley Methodist Church, Christ's Peices. Tuesday 13 March 2012, 19:00-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Decision Theory in Conservation Biology, from Systematic Conservation Planning to Scenario-Based policy assessmentsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Piero Visconti, Global Mammal Assessment Program in Rome. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 13 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events A Mathematical Look at the OlympicsProfessor John D Barrow (University of Cambridge). Monday 12 March 2012, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?Professor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 12 March 2012, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Short and long-term effects of climate, disturbance, and forest management on regional carbon storage and emissions under current and proposed policy plansThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tara W. Hudiburg, Oregon State University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 12 March 2012, 10:00-11:00 MetadynamicsProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Reprogramming the Genetic CodeJason Chin. Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Thursday 08 March 2012, 19:00-20:30 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series Debra Alcock-Tyler talk for International Women's DayDebra Alcock-Tyler, Directory of Social Change. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 08 March 2012, 18:00-19:00 Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenanceProf. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brainCANCELLED - please accept our apologies Professor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 March 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The earliest tetrapods: What were they, and what are they?Jenny Clack. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 07 March 2012, 19:00-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Making peace with the EarthDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Youthful Spirit of MathematicsProfessor Michael Atiyah FRS. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. Wednesday 07 March 2012, 17:30-18:30 Ab-initio simulation of water and its ionsProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 The role of alexithymia in autismDr. Geoff Bird, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London. Hexagon Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road. Wednesday 07 March 2012, 12:00-13:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem CellsProfessor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00 Colouring the NoiseProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Autobiographical memory in autismDr Kate Plaisted Grant, Department of Experimental Psychology. Dept of Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre. Friday 02 March 2012, 12:30-13:30 Advanced RecyclingMark Buckton, Cambridge City Council. St Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ. Thursday 01 March 2012, 19:30-21:30 Cambridge University Biological Society From Coding the Genome to Algorithms Decoding LifeJasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Thursday 01 March 2012, 19:00-20:30 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series Neuropsychiatry in the 21st Century: Cognitive Enhancement and BiomarkersProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 01 March 2012, 18:00-19:00 Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory developmentProf. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Imagining other peopleDr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 01 March 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Population Approach to System DesignMatthew Chalmers, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Population Approach to System DesignMatthew Chalmers, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 March 2012, 10:30-11:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Abandoning a medical career for sex, conflict, and violenceGeoff Parker, Liverpool. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 19:00-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?Jonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Sequential Decision Making in Experimental Design and Sustainability via Adaptive SubmodularityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andreas Krause, ETH Zurich. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Quantum chemical games of lifeProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 27 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Exploring Compression and the Aesthetics of CreativityThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mark Bedworth. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 27 February 2012, 15:00-16:00 Life and Death of a CellProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Polycomb complexes co-associate with a specific RNA polymerase II variant in ES cellsProf. Ana Pombo, Imperial College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Components of working memory in task controlProfessor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 23 February 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society New Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Neurodegenerative DiseasesChris Dobson. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 22 February 2012, 19:00-20:30 Open your MindDr Hannah Critchlow, The Naked Scientists, University of Cambridge. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 21 February 2012, 19:30-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Science of Well-Being and its Application to PolicyProfessor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00 The Economics of HappinessSpeaker to be confirmed. Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street. Sunday 19 February 2012, 02:30-04:00 IBM Watson from Jeopardy! to Healthcare: could a quiz-show winning computer advise your doctor?Dr. David Gondek, IBM Watson Research Center. Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Cambridge. Friday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Challenges of Regulating the InternetMr Simon Hampton, Director of European Public Policy at Google and Prof Derek McAuley, Professor of Digital Economy and Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham (as a discussant). Friday 17 February 2012, 17:30-19:00 What's special about the female autistic brain?Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Postdoctoral Research ARC. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Evaluating User-Adaptive Systems: Lessons from Experiences with a Personalized Meeting Scheduling AssistantThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut and SRI International. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 February 2012, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Giving proteins addressesKathryn Lilley, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre. Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Thursday 16 February 2012, 19:00-20:30 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series 'Kind of Cruel' Book Launch with Sophie HannahSophie Hannah, Author and Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 16 February 2012, 18:00-19:00 Seminar after "Shakespearean Invention" lecture seriesProf. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London. Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College. Thursday 16 February 2012, 17:00-18:00 Decision-making in animal collectivesDr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Rho GTPase signalling in tumour invasionChris Marshall, ICR. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 15 February 2012, 19:00-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate ChangeDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30 Shakespeare and rhetorical closureProf. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London. Wednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Exploiting Variable Impedance for Robotics: Mimic or Optimize?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sethu Vijayakumar, Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Gilding the lily: understanding angiosperm diversity through petal evolution and developmentDr Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 13 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Life in the Ancient WorldDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer’s disease: Where society and biology meetNote - this is a Joint Chaucer/Zangwill Club talk and will be held at Department of Experimental Psychology Professor Ian Robertson (School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin). Dept of Experimental Psychology. Friday 10 February 2012, 16:30-17:30 Molecular Model SolutionsDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00 A sixth sense: the development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptorsDr Clare Baker, Dept. of PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Research Involving Animals Containing Human MaterialMartin Bobrow, NHS. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 08 February 2012, 19:00-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 The power of markets to protect natureIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30 Shakespeare and the rhetoric of narrativeProf. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London. Wednesday 08 February 2012, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and NeuroethicsProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00 The Spark of LifeProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford. Friday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Autitouch: Supporting autism diagnosis with multitouchFreena Eijffinger, CEO Autitouch. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 03 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Covering problems arising in Gamma Knife radiosurgeryThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Leo Liberti, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique. Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 03 February 2012, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Quantifying Cancer HeterogeneityFlorian Markowetz. Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Thursday 02 February 2012, 19:00-20:30 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series In conversation with...Dame Stella RimingtonDame Stella Rimington. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 02 February 2012, 18:00-19:00 Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisonsDr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 February 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The Evolution of Animal SocietiesTim Clutton-Brock. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 01 February 2012, 19:00-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainable Materials - with both eyes openDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30 War and Peace: The Reality. How and Why Russia Defeated NapoleonProfessor Dominic Lieven FBA. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 01 February 2012, 17:30-19:00 Shakespeare on beginning to speakProf. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London. Wednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Maths in the CityGeneral public, Age range 15+ Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential, please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk Rachel Thomas, University of Cambridge. CMS. Tuesday 31 January 2012, 17:30-18:30 Some Good News About Climate ChangeDanny Chivers. Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane. Monday 30 January 2012, 19:30-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering ApplicationsG I TAYLOR LECTURE Professor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 30 January 2012, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Security in untrusted storageThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Christian Cachin, IBM Research - Zurich. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 30 January 2012, 15:00-16:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series Dr Nicola Mackie - 'The strategic use of Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART)'Dr Nicola Mackie, Imperial College London. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 26 January 2012, 18:00-19:00 Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling frameworkProfessor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 January 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The Early Days of Single Ion Channel Recording: Proof of Concept and SurprisesNobel Laureate Erwin Neher, Germany. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 25 January 2012, 19:00-20:30 The Renaissance theory of rhetorical inventionProf. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London. Wednesday 25 January 2012, 17:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Undiscovered Continents of Human PotentialThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jaron Lanier, Microsoft. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 24 January 2012, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Science and Non-science in Drug PolicyHeld jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society Professor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00 From Genomes to the Diversity of LifeProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge. Friday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30 Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and MedicineDr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series Loyd Grossman talk: 'Our Endangered Heritage: A National Asset at Risk'Loyd Grossman, Heritage Champion. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 19 January 2012, 18:00-19:00 Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic gamesProfessor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 January 2012, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in ScienceOrganised by Professor Jim Woodhouse Professor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Friday 13 January 2012, 09:00-17:30 Information gathering and impulsivityProfessor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 January 2012, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Abstractions for Dynamic and Parallel SoftwareThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Umut Acar, Max Planck Institute. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 12 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Brain control of appetite and body weightDr Lora Heisler, Department of Pharmacology. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 10 January 2012, 19:30-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Homomorphic Encryption from Ring Learning with ErrorsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michael Naehrig, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 10 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks High-throughput, Multiscale modelling approaches for understanding bacterial signallingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Benjamin Hall, UCL. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 January 2012, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Naiad: Iterative and Incremental Data-Parallelism using Differential DataflowThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Derek Murray, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 14 December 2011, 14:00-15:00 The brain basis of insistence of sameness within the Autism spectrumCharlton Cheung. Hexagon Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road. Monday 12 December 2011, 13:00-14:00 Revolutions (and Elephants) in the Library: the Third Arcadia LecturePlease email Michelle Heydon (mh569@cam.ac.uk) if you plan to attend Professor Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan. Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queen's Road. Friday 09 December 2011, 17:30-18:50 Effect of prenatal testosterone exposure on language development in early childhood.Lauren Hollier. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road. Friday 09 December 2011, 13:00-14:00 Cognitive style in Autism: what does 'weak central coherence' explain?Professor Francesca Happe (Institute of Psychiatry, London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 December 2011, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Future of Energy: Views and Approaches by Government and IndustryProf David MacKay, FRS and Christof Rühl. Friday 02 December 2011, 17:30-18:30 Is water H2O?Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc. Prof Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00 Distributed cortical circuits, optimized over development, mediate visual cognitionCANCELLED, to be rearranged for the new year Professor Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 01 December 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Closing the gap between weakly and fully supervised methodsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vittorio Ferrari, ETH Zurich. Thursday 01 December 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bound Analysis of Imperative Programs with the Size-change AbstractionThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Florian Zuleger, TU Wien. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 01 December 2011, 14:00-15:00 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) The interplay between non-symbolic number and its continuous visual properties.Open talk Titita Gebuis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Department of Experimental Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Downing Site. Tuesday 29 November 2011, 14:00-16:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal BiotechnologyProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 28 November 2011, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series The Meaning of Liberal LearningRight Honourable Michael Gove, MP and Secretary of State for Education. LG18, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ. Thursday 24 November 2011, 18:00-19:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series 'The Novel in the Viola - A True Story?' or, why do we want our fiction to be fact?Natasha Solomons, Screenwriter and Author. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU. Thursday 24 November 2011, 18:00-19:00 Executive functions: fractures, fractionation, and repairProfessor Sue Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Braiin Sciences Unit). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 November 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrency Assertions – Providing the Right Semantics to ASSERT StatementsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 24 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Rosemary Randall on ‘Behaviour change: solution or diversion?’ 23 NovemberRosemary Randall. The Octagon, Wesley Methodist Church, Christ's Pieces. Wednesday 23 November 2011, 19:30-21:30 A window on the biology of behaviour: insights from syndromes of genetic originProfessor Tony Holland, Section of Developmental Psychiatry. Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 22 November 2011, 19:30-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Complementing User-Level Coarse-Grain Parallelism with Implicit Speculative ParallelismThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nikolas Ioannou - University of Edinburgh. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glassesProfessor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 21 November 2011, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Computation Without Tears: Probabilistic Programming and Universal Stochastic InferenceVikash Mansinghka, MIT. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 21 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Beyond the Piece of Cardboard: Learning to Adjust PhotographsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sylvain Paris, Research Scientist at Adobe. Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Atypical gaze processing in autism; a neural deficit or difference?Dr. Chris Ashwin, University of Bath. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road. Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Real versus Realistically Rendered Ground Truth: Can we use Computer Graphics for Performance Evaluation?This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Kondermann, Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Internship EventSally Todd and previous interns. Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Thursday 17 November 2011, 19:00-21:00 Experimental and neuroimaging studies of memory for trauma and PTSDProfessor Chris Brewin (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 November 2011, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to avoid.Professor Steve Jones, FRS. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 19:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with dataThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Emily Lines, PhD Student, Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Plant Sciences, Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) How Thorium Could Save the PlanetProfessor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 14 November 2011, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Challenges of Cyber WarfareProf Sir Mark Welland, FRS, Prof Paul Cornish, and David Smart. Friday 11 November 2011, 17:30-19:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series Towards a Silent AircraftProfessor Ann Dowling (Head of the Cambridge University Engineering Department). Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College. Thursday 10 November 2011, 18:00-18:45 Reconsidering Papez circuit and memory: Is it all about the anatomy?Professor John Aggleton (University of Cardiff). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Cells move! But how do they do it?Dr Rob Kay, FRS. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 09 November 2011, 19:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CMA-ES – a Stochastic Second-Order Method for Function-Value FreeNumerical OptimizationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Nikolaus Hansen, INRIA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in PrehistoryProfessor Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 07 November 2011, 17:30-18:30 Mix technology-enhanced learning and behavioral approaches with Nao the robot.Dr. Olivier Joubert, Aldebaran Robotics. Hexagon Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road. Friday 04 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and SchemaThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Fabian Suchanek, INRIA. Friday 04 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series Orthopaedic sports injuries - can humans help horses?Frances Henson, Lecturer in Equine Studies (Surgery), Cambridge University. Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College. Thursday 03 November 2011, 18:00-18:45 The importance of nature (as opposed to nurture) in the development of cortical interneuronsDr Simon Butt, Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetic, University of Oxford. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Corvid mentality: Implications for the evolution of human intelligenceProfessor Nicky Clayton (University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 November 2011, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Branching out!Professor Ottoline Leyser, FRS. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 02 November 2011, 19:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Marriage of Bisimulations and Kripke Logical RelationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Probabilistic programs and the computability and complexity of Bayesian reasoningThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Daniel Roy, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Retrieval based Program SynthesisT-yiwei Yi (Jason) Wei, ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Science and the MediaThe lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society Vivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 31 October 2011, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Large-scale Retrieval with Ivory and MapReduceTamer Elsayed, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Centre (CMIC). Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 31 October 2011, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Analysing biological information processing with mechanistic modular modelsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research Ltd.. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 31 October 2011, 09:00-10:00 The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?Organised by CU ChemSoc, SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section Prof Brian J Ford (President of CSAR). Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD EventPhD students and others. Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Thursday 27 October 2011, 18:30-21:00 The egress mechanism of malaria parasites: surprising active participation of the host red cell membraneDr Virgilio Lew, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Poirot — a concurrency sleuthThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's RobeDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 24 October 2011, 17:30-18:30 Neurodevelopmental basis of social and non-social processing differences in children with autismDr. Joe McCleery, University of Birmingham. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic,18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 21 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society FILM NIGHT - Planet of the Apes (1968)starring Charlton Heston. Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Thursday 20 October 2011, 19:00-21:00 Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series Talking to TerroristsJonathan Powell, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair. McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Cambridge (Behind The Eagle pub). Thursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-19:00 Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is BelievingProf. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Representation of visual features, objects, actions and scenes in the human brainProfessor Jack Gallant (University of California, Berkeley). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 20 October 2011, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society The Intrinsic Lability of DNA, and the continuous DNA repair triggered in this fashionProfessor Tom Lindahl, FRS. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 19 October 2011, 19:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Natural Interactions & Computing for Global Development at MSR IndiaThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ed Cutrell, MSRA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Secret Science of WWIIProfessor Brian J Ford, President of CSAR. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 17 October 2011, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea CoverProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Saturday 15 October 2011, 19:00-21:00 Dynamic aspects of the function and stoichiometry of ion channel complexesNote unusual week day (Friday) Prof. Yoshihiro Kubo, National Institute for Physiological Science, Japan. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Friday 14 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section Dr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge. Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge. Thursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45 Genetic Shaping of Cells and Tissues.Prof. Enrico Coen, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Identifying poorly functioning cochlear implant channelsProfessor Julie Bierer (University of Washington). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 October 2011, 15:30-16:30 Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: the role of genetics, ecology and behaviourArranged in conjunction with the Charles Darwin and Galapagos Islands Fund Professor Rosemary Grant FRS, Princeton University. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 12 October 2011, 18:00-19:30 'NHS rationing, NICE or nasty’ The value of statisticsDr Linda Sharples, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health. B Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 11 October 2011, 19:30-20:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applicationso This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Christian Steinruecken. Tuesday 11 October 2011, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The diversity of extrasolar planetary systems: Clues to planet formation and migrationLARMOR LECTURE LARMOR LECTURE - Professor John Papaloizou, DAMTP. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 10 October 2011, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Larmor LectureThis lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society Professor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 10 October 2011, 17:30-19:00 The ‘social’ brain in ASC: differences in the processing of eye gaze and at restDr. Elisabeth von den Hagen, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 07 October 2011, 12:00-13:00 Forgetting fear - the neural mechanism underlying fear memoriesProfessor Daniella Schiller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 October 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Structured Prediction Models for High-level Computer Vision TasksThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 September 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Information-Greedy Global OptimisationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Tuesday 13 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abstractions in Satisfiability SolversThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vijay D'Silva, Oxford University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 09 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The IITM Model and its Application to the Analysis of Real-World Security ProtocolThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ralf Küsters, University of Trier. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 08 September 2011, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SpecNet: Spectrum Sensing Sans Fronti`eresThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Vishnu, MSR India Navda. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 05 September 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Mechanism Design without Money via Stable MatchingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Ning Chen, Nanyang Technical University. Thursday 01 September 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Coupled dynamics of traits and populations in response to environmental change".This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Arpat Ozgul, University of Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 31 August 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Vector Commitments with Efficient Protocols for Privacy-preserving Smart Billing ApplicationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Alfredo Rial Duran, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 26 August 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Functionals: Choices and Consequences For Medical Image SegmentationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Chris McIntosh, SFU. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical Boogie (on the example of VCC)This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Michal Moskal, MSR Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 11 August 2011, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Statistical learning for structural neuroimaging dataThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Remi Cuingnet, ICM Paris. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 11 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks "Egalitarian Gradient Descent": A General Preconditioning Scheme for Deformable Image RegistrationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Darko Zikic, TU Munich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 August 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars SocialFusion: Fusing Mobile, Sensor, and Social Computing in the Cloud To Enable Next-Generation Context-Aware ApplicationsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder. Tuesday 02 August 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tunable Static Inference for Generic Universe TypesThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Werner M Dietl, University of Washington. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 02 August 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Perception by "Patterns" in the BrainThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Mush Okun, Imperial College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 27 July 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stochastic signal encoding strategies in cellsThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending James Locke, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 21 July 2011, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A Language for Type-Safe Web ProgrammingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Cervesato Iliano, Carnegie Mellon University — Qatar Campus. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 19 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probing the basis of neuronal branchingThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dr. Hermann Cuntz, Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Goethe-University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 15 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Plant Organs Regeneration: Measuring and Modelling Self‐OrganizationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Giovanni Sena Ph.D., New York University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Principles of Humanoid Locomotion ControlThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Aaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto. Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks From Gene Networks to Tissue Engineering: Computational Models of Pattern FormationThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Dagmar Iber, Computational Biology ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Some recent developments in approximate inference: learning and controlDavid Barber, University College London. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 06 July 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Search is not only about the Web - An Overview on Printed Document Search and Patent SearchWalid Magdy, Dublin City University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 05 July 2011, 14:30-15:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Scaling transaction processing through data-oriented execution- This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin Ippokratis Pandis, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 July 2011, 10:00-11:00 The latent structure of the autism phenotypeRachel Grove. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 01 July 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to present a poster at an international conferenceThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 01 July 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Rough guide to being an entrepreneurThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Jack Lang, University of Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks GadgeteerThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending • Nicolas Villar, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Blue skies to ground truth: Machine learning for Kinect human motion captureThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Andrew Fitzgibbon, Microsoft. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 30 June 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computer science as applied philosophyThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tony Hoare, MSR Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 29 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Making the most of your PhD; now and in your careerThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Tennie Videler, Vitae. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 29 June 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to give a great research talkThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 28 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to write a great research paperThis event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending Simon Peyton-Jones, MSRC. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 28 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to force unsupervised neural networks to discover the right representation of imagesGeoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 23 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks PEPSI: Privacy-Enhanced Participatory Sensing InfrastructureClaudio Soriente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Word Recognition in alphabetic and non-alphabetic scriptsBrendan Weekes, University of Hong Kong*. Department of Experimental Psychology, Kenneth Craik Seminar Room, Downing Site. Tuesday 21 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Co-opetition in network tasksYoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 17:00-17:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Identifying Peer Effects through Randomized Trials in NetworksSinan Aral, New York University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 16:15-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network cognition and individual behaviourEdoardo Gallo,Oxford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 15:30-16:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious RiskDavid Easley, Cornell University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 14:15-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Competitive Contagion in NetworksMichael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 13:30-14:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social networks, institutions, and the process of globalizationFernando Vega-Redondo, European University Institute. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 11:45-12:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimal Communication in TeamsAndreas Galeotti, University of Essex. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 09:45-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Social Network, Personality, and PerformanceRonald Burt, University of Chicago. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 June 2011, 09:00-09:45 Improving cognitionJohn Jonides (Dept of Psychology, University of Michigan). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 June 2011, 15:30-16:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Size, numbers and the numerical core systemProfessor Avishai Henik, Dept. of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Department of Experimental Psychology, Kenneth Craik Seminar Room, Downing Site. Wednesday 15 June 2011, 16:30-17:30 Building planets and the ingredients for life between the starsProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15 Learning about learning - a new approach to studying Huntington's DiseaseProfessor Jenny Morton, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology. B Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 14 June 2011, 19:30-20:30 esfMRI: Signal propagation and studies of connectivityNikos Logothetis (Dept of Physiology, Max Planck Institute). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 June 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Coming to Grips with Complexity in Computer-Aided VerificationKenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research Redmond. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient space-variant deconvolutionStefan Harmeling, Max-Planck Institute. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 June 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Computing for Development: A New High Impact Research AreaLakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Controlling the diabetes epidemic. Is screening the way forward?Dr Rebecca Simmons, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 06 June 2011, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Is my model too complex? Evaluating model formulation using model reductionProfessor Neil Crout, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 06 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 You talkin' to me? Processing self-relevant ostensive cues across modalitiesRaliza Stoyanova , Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 03 June 2011, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programmable Self-Assembled DNA-Based Autonomous Molecular DevicesJohn Reif, Duke University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00 The role of dopamine for the persistence of human long-term memoryEmrah Duzel (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 June 2011, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Science in the service of the developing worldThis lecture is now fully booked. Prof. Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for International Development. Judge Business School - Lecture Theatre 3. Friday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:00 Stemming Vision Loss Using Stem Cells - Seeing is BelievingProf Pete Coffey, Inst of Ophthalmology, University College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society BioSoc AGMBioSoc members. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 23 May 2011, 20:00-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Genomes, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery: What Can Academia Contribute?Emeritus Professor Sir Tom Blundell, FRS, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 23 May 2011, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fences and Stability in Weak Memory ModelsJade Alglave, University of Oxford. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 20 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 Beautiful Experiments in ChemistryPhilip Ball, prizewinning science writer. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00 Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiologyDr Brian Billups, Dept of Pharmacology, Univ of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Getting a grip on reality: A role for medial prefrontal cortex in source recollectionJon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 May 2011, 15:30-16:30 "Embodied semantics in autism spectrum conditions"Friedemann Pulvermuller , MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 19 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Zero Degrees of EmpathyProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre. B Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Tuesday 17 May 2011, 19:30-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How to Make Ad Hoc Proof Automation Less Ad HocDerek Dreyer. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 17 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society PostponedProf Sir Martin Evans. Monday 16 May 2011, 20:00-21:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a comprehensive assessment of the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the climate systemSoenke Zaehle, Max Planck Institute. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 16 May 2011, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Botanic Garden visitTour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden). Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00 Calcium channels of vascular remodellingProf David J Beech, Inst of Membrane & Systems Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Univ of Leeds. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Neurobiological landscapes for language evolution and variationWilliam Marslen-Wilson (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 May 2011, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Efficiency, sufficiency, growth: which way to a low carbon society?Talk open to All - Registration required: www.dar.cam.ac.uk/connections Dr Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds. Tuesday 10 May 2011, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Doing Mathematics online, and in the openProfessor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 09 May 2011, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active visual category learningSudheendra Vijayanarasimhan. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 09 May 2011, 10:00-11:00 Loopy Lungs in AlligatorsProf Colleen G. Farmer, Dept of Biology, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and FutureProfessor Morris Moscovitch from the University of Toronto. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 May 2011, 15:30-16:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Director-General of the BBCMark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC. Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 18:30-20:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?Dr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) The social side of social attentionGiovanni Galfano, Associate Professor, Cognition and Language Lab, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova. Department of Experimental Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Downing Site. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bringing Intelligence at the Edges to Accommodate Diversity in the InternetFahad Dogar, Carnegie Mellon University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 03 May 2011, 10:30-11:30 Short presentations of finite groupsAlex Lubotzky. Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Thursday 28 April 2011, 17:00-18:30 Intrinsically irregular spiking in a class of cortical inhibitory interneuronDr Hugh Robinson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00 Why We Resist The TruthClive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra. Michaelhouse, St. Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Camb CB2 1SU. Wednesday 27 April 2011, 19:30-21:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Sir Richard DearloveSir Richard Dearlove. Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College. Wednesday 27 April 2011, 18:30-20:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) DNA Profiling of HorsesPlease note this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday Susan Gurney, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2011, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Algorithmic Market Design: Spectrum Sales and BitTorrent CommunitiesIan Kash, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2011, 13:45-14:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Turing and Darwin: Saving the environment by combining computation and human insightGareth Russell, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fuzzy thinking: single neuron variation in RNA state spaceJunhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 April 2011, 11:10-12:10 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Can We Defy Nature’s End?Lucas Joppa, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 20 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Fifteen Years of Field Robotics in AustraliaProf Hugh Durrant-Whyte FRS. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 15 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Complexity of the Homotopy Method, Equilibrium Selection, and Lemke-Howson SolutionsRahul Savani, University of Liverpool. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Understanding and conserving biodiversity in a changing worldRobert Bagchi, Durham University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Politics, Preferences and Permutations: Probabilistic Reasoning with RankingsJonathan Huang. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 14 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Delay Reduction for Adaptive Scheduling in Wireless Networks and Aggregated Equilibrium for Resource Sharing GamesLoc Bui, Stanford University. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 13 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Formal Methods in Synthetic BiologyBoyan Yordanov, University of Boston. Tuesday 12 April 2011, 09:20-10:20 Referendum DebateVoting YES: Peter Facey, Director of Unlock Democracy. Voting NO: Richard Normington, Former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate.. St. Lukes United Reform Church, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ. Monday 11 April 2011, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Data Structures for Nonlinear Video ProcessingJiawen Chen, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Colonic Crypt Model with Realistic, Deformable GeometrySara-Jane Dunn, University of Oxford. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modeling and Evaluating Information Retrieval ResultsEvangelos Kanoulas, University of Sheffield. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 10:40-11:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SSLShader: Cheap SSL Acceleration with Commodity ProcessorsKeon Jang, KAIST. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Active visual category learningSudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, University of Texas at Austin. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 11 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Molecular evolution of stochastic switchingOrkun S. Soyer, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Molecular evolution of stochastic switchingOrkun S. Soyer, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Spatial Tactile Feedback Support for Mobile Touch-screen DevicesKoji Yatani, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 10:40-11:40 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks 3D Reconstruction meets GPGPU meets Image AnalysisChristopher Zach. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 08 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Training Random Forests with Ambiguously Labeled DataChristian Leistner. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 April 2011, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Representing and Querying Large-scale UncertaintyPrithviraj Sen. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 07 April 2011, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Guessing Program Annotations with Probabilistic InferenceAditya Nori, Microsoft Researcher. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 06 April 2011, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Tracking and Analysis of Animal MovementRobin Freeman, Microsoft Research. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 05 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Programming-Language Techniques for Secure CryptographySantiago Zanella Béguelin, IMDEA. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 April 2011, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimization under Uncertainty: Understanding the Correlation GapShipra Agrawal, Stanford. Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 04 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks High-level Languages for Low-level SystemsGeoffrey Mainland, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 01 April 2011, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Enforcing topological constraints in energy-based image segmentationChristoph Lampert, IST Austria. Thursday 31 March 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Research of the new Computer Vision and Mulitmodal Computing at MPI SarrbrueckenBernt Schiele, MPI Saarbrueck. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 30 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Executable Knowledge for Molecular Systems BiologyWalter Fontana, Harvard Medical School. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 30 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Longitudinal Evaluation of API Usability and Designing Support for Collaborative Search around the TabletopJens Gerken, University of Konstanz. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars On a first-order primal-dual algorithm with applications to convex problems in computer visionThomas Pock, Graz University of Technology. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning generative models of images by factoring appearance and shapeNicolas Heess. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 29 March 2011, 09:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks “Otherworld” - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel CrashesAlexandre Depoutovitch, University of Toronto. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 28 March 2011, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Software Synthesis using Automated ReasoningRuzika Piskac, EPFL. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 28 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Bird tangoProfessor Nicky Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology. Sunday 27 March 2011, 15:00-18:00 You are what you hear: music and the brainDr Harry Witchel, University of Bristol. Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place. Friday 25 March 2011, 18:00-19:00 Changing nature: a view of Britain and CambridgeNorman Maclean, Brian Eversham. Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place. Thursday 24 March 2011, 18:00-19:00 The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancersProfessor Mike Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place. Wednesday 23 March 2011, 19:30-20:30 Is evolution predictable?Professor Simon Conway Morris, Department of Earth Sciences. Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place. Wednesday 23 March 2011, 18:00-19:00 Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate changeDr Bryan Lovell. Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place. Tuesday 22 March 2011, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Machine Learning for WLAN PositioningTeemu Roos, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) High Temperature SuperconductorsVenue back to normal Professor David A Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 21 March 2011, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hidden Markets: Designing Efficient but Simple Electronic MarketsSven Sueken, Harvard University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Optimization for Pixel Labeling Problems With Structured LayoutOlga Veksler, the University of Western Ontario. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 March 2011, 13:00-13:45 The evolution and development of social cognition: lessons from corvids and childrenProfessor N S Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 18 March 2011, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy Minimization with Label Costs and Applications in Multi-Model FittingBoykov Yuri, The University of Western Ontario. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 18 March 2011, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction SectorProf. Jeremy Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Communities & Local Government and Global Research Director of Arup. Thursday 17 March 2011, 17:30-19:00 The role of experience in shaping category selectivity in human ventral visual cortexKalanit Grill-Spector (Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Parameter Search and Robustness Analysis from Temporal Logic Specifications in Biochemical Reaction NetworksAurélien Rizk. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 17 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Decarbonising the transport systemProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Reasoning about concurrent stochastic systemsRadu Mardare, Aalborg University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICSProfessor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 14 March 2011, 17:30-18:30 The Science and Beauty of NebulaeDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Friday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30 Scott Lecture III - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopyProf. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR). Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00 Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneuronsDr Karri Lamsa, Dept of Pharmacology, Univ of Oxford. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 A novel developmental model of episodic-like memory in laboratory rodentsRosamund Langston (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networksProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30 This Time it Will be DifferentSir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:00 Scott Lecture II - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series The Beauty of Data VisualizationDavid McCandless. Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium - Magdalene College. Tuesday 08 March 2011, 18:30-20:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Mathematics of Complex SystemsPLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE Dr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge. The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 07 March 2011, 19:30-21:00 Scott Lecture I - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectivesProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield. Friday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Science in EmergenciesTalk open to All - Registration required for reception Andrew Miller, MP and Chair for the Science and Technology Select Committee. Thursday 03 March 2011, 17:30-19:00 Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets?Dr John Coates, Judge Business School, Univ of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Parsing the stream of behaviourJeff Zacks (Washington University, St Louis, USA). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frugal Procurement Auction DesignMahyar Salek, University of Southern California. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 03 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our TimeDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Driving innovation into application: the passion behind creating a Biotechnology companyProfessor Chris Lowe. Lecture Theatre 2, Engineering Department. Tuesday 01 March 2011, 18:30-20:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Inherit the Wind - Free film screening!BioSoc / TCSS. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Monday 28 February 2011, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society UNDERSTANDING AND CURING CANCER: LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGYProfessor Gerard Evan FRS, Department of Biochemistry. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 28 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectivesProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland. Friday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 fMRI brain activity patterns in real-time: From basic research to clinical applicationsRainer Goebel (Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht), The Netherlands. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 February 2011, 15:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunitiesProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Logic and Probability: The Computational ConnectionAdnan Darwiche, UCLA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 22 February 2011, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Life in the Universe: Chance or Necessity?Dr Nick Lane. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Monday 21 February 2011, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Peanut AllergiesPLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE Dr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust. The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 21 February 2011, 19:30-21:00 Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholderProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University. Friday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Untangling Alzheimer's diseaseMr Graham Fraser, Department of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. B Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge. Thursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-20:30 Physical aspects of collective cell migrationDr Alexandre Kabla, Dept of Engineering, Univ of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas ProjectRuss Poldrack (University of Texas at Austin), USA. Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 February 2011, 15:30-16:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy EmergencyMargareta Wahlstrom, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator. Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College. Wednesday 16 February 2011, 18:30-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning and Coordination in NetworksMengel Friederike, Maastricht University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 15 February 2011, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETSProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 14 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Zero Carbon Britain 2030Godfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer. St Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ. Friday 11 February 2011, 19:30-21:30 The Sound of BeautyDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford. Friday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Infection and Autoimmunity: co‐habitation may be a good thingProf . Anne Cooke, Dept of Pathology, Univ of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 The role of early visual areas in high-level visual cognitionFrank Tong (Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt Uiveristy, USA). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 February 2011, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Icons of evolution and charges of fraudDr Nick Hopwood. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Monday 07 February 2011, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West AntarcticaPLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE Dr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 07 February 2011, 19:30-21:00 Quantum BeautyProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Friday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 The Neuroscience of MoralityUehiro Chair in Practical Ethics and Director of Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford.. Friday 04 February 2011, 16:30-18:30 How form shapes function; from sensory neurones to the organisation of the primate cortexDr Mikko Juusola, Dept of Biomedical Science, Univ of Sheffield. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 Timing attention in the human brainKia Nobre (Dept Psychology, Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 February 2011, 15:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)Professor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30 Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social NetworksProfessor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 02 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Critical illness and the maladaptive forces of modern medicineProf Mervyn Singer. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Monday 31 January 2011, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGSCo-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. A complimentary drinks reception will follow on after the lecture for all attendees. Professor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Monday 31 January 2011, 17:30-18:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Cambridge Maths CircleStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Saturday 29 January 2011, 10:00-12:30 Beauty & The GrotesqueJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid). Friday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30 What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 27 January 2011, 19:00-20:00 Stem Cells and Tissue HomeostasisDr Kim Jensen, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00 Which mental functions get their own private patch of cortex?Nancy Kanwisher (Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 27 January 2011, 15:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Energy Security and UK Energy PolicyProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University). Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Making OpenCL simple with HaskellBen Gaster, AMD. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Microsoft Research LecturesAlbert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Biological Society How I got into the mitochondrionProf Sir John Walker. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 24 January 2011, 20:00-21:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cooperation, Power and ConspiraciesYoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 24 January 2011, 10:00-11:00 Beauty & TruthProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford. Friday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30 Neurons feel the force ‐ Mechanosensitivity in the nervous systemDr Kristian Franze, Dept of Physics & Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ. of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00 Face to Face, Brain to Brain: Exploring the Mechanisms of Dyadic Social InteractionsUri Hasson (Dept of Psychology, Princeton, USA). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 20 January 2011, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Experience and problems with compiling data parallel languagesPaul Cockshott, Glasgow University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 19 January 2011, 11:00-12:00 Getting to know you: The acquisition of new face representations is impaired in autismDr Owen Churches, Department of Psychiatry. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 14 January 2011, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Branching vs. Linear Time: Semantical PerspectiveMoshe Vardi, Rice University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 06 January 2011, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computingDerek Murray, University of Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 17 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Improving the energy model of stereo matching algorithmsMichael Bleyer, TU Vienna. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 14 December 2010, 10:00-10:45 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Propagation of Rumour Through a Social NetworkVladimir Barash, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 13 December 2010, 14:30-15:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Network Economics seminar / Diffusion and Cascading Behavior in Random NetworksMarc LeLarge. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 10 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Automation of Protein NMRBabak Alipanahi. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 10 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How Hard is Competition for Rank?Paul Goldberg, University of Liverpool. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 December 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Software Lock Elision for x86 Machine CodeAmitabha Roy. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 09 December 2010, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORKNOTE CHANGE OF VENUE Speakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 07 December 2010, 09:00-17:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Number PlayLevel Suggested: Primary - 9 - 11, general public. Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential. Please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk Liz Woodham - NRICH, University of Cambridge. CMS. Monday 06 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 On the Role of Nitrogen Oxides in Acclimatization/Adaptation to HypoxiaProf Martin Feelisch, University of Warwick. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00 Tracking memory retrieval using multivariate pattern analysisKen Norman (Princeton University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 December 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Non-Commutative Logic of Effects,Noam Zeilberger. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 02 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Reading the human genome: the reconstruction of the pastProf Sydney Brenner. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 20:00-21:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Handling temporal variation of unknown characteristics in streaming data analysis.Chris Anagnostopoulos, Cambridge University. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Lifted Message Passing: A Step Towards Gaining a 'Big Picture' View on AIKristian Kersting. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Human Contact NetworksDr Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 29 November 2010, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Science in ParliamentThe talk is open to the public. Doors open at 5:15pm Julian Huppert, PhD, Member of Parliament for Cambridge.. Friday 26 November 2010, 17:30-19:00 Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several ActsProf Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Attention, Distraction and Cognitive Control under LoadNilli Lavie (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 November 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Realizability and Parametricity in Pure Type Systems: An applicationJean-Philippe Bernardy, University of Gothenburg. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 23 November 2010, 11:15-12:15 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Polynomial Learning of Distribution FamiliesKaushik Sinha. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 23 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society FROM VAN DER WAALS TO MODELLING PROTEIN CHRYSTALLISATIONProfessor Daan Frenkel FRS, Department of Chemistry. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 22 November 2010, 17:30-18:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series London 2012 Olympic GamesDenis Oswald, Chairman of the IOC's London 2012 Olympic Commission. Friday 19 November 2010, 18:30-20:00 Computing and emotionsProfessor Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 19 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedSpeaker to be confirmed. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Verification of Imperative Programs Through Characteristic FormulaeArthur Charguéraud, INRIA. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Title to be confirmedProf Sir Roy M Anderson. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street. Monday 15 November 2010, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Sustainable Energy in the UKDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy & Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 15 November 2010, 19:30-21:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Hands-on Cambridge Maths Circle workshop: AlgorithmsProfessor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. CMS. Saturday 13 November 2010, 10:15-11:15 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Cambridge Maths CircleStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty. CMS. Saturday 13 November 2010, 10:00-12:30 "Theory of Mind and Peer Relationships in late childhood and adolescence"Dr Claire Hughes, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 12 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Delights of Chemistry - Spectacular demonstration lectureMike Hoyland, University of Leeds. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 11 November 2010, 19:00-20:30 The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regenerationProf Jeremy Brockes, University College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 'Why Eyes'Vicki Bruce (Newcastle University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 November 2010, 15:30-16:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Don't Look Now: Representations of Violence in MediaAnthony Lane, Film Critic, The New Yorker magazine. Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 18:30-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Bayesian Inference with KernelsUCL. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian Inference with KernelsArthur Gretton, UCL. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 DNA and CancerProfessor Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit. Bar Area, Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 19:30-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How can we model complex ecosystems with stochastic interactions between individuals at different spatial and temporal scales? Some case studiesTim Benton, University of Leeds. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Modelling ecological systems under environmental change.Matthew Evans, University of Exeter. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge University Biological Society What have we learned from structures of the ribosome?Prof Venki Ramakrishnan. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 08 November 2010, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society THE ANTIBODY REVOLUTION; FROM SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS TO COMPANIES AND MEDICINESSir Gregory Winter FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 08 November 2010, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Three Small Steps ... to Reconceiving Machine LearningProf. Bob Williamson, Australian National University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Monday 08 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using SAT Solvers for Cryptographic ProblemsMate Soos, Pierre and Marie Curie University. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 05 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Motion processing in autism: atypical bounded integrationCaroline Robertson. Library (first floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Async in Visual Basic and C# - worth the Await!Mads Torgersen & Lucian Wischik. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 05 November 2010, 12:00-13:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Statistical Significance Analysis of Motif DiscoveryPatrick Ng. Friday 05 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Analysis of synaptic connectivity and function in the cerebellum in vivoProf Henrik Jörntell, Lund University, Sweden. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Memory consolidation: the impact of novelty and prior knowledgeRichard Morris (Edinburgh University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 November 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A relationship-based approach to the verification of multi-object invariantsStephanie Balzer, ETH Zurich. Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Tanner Lectures 2010: Respondents' DiscussionKate Barker, Gavin Wood, Marja Elsinga, Matthew Bullock. Robinson College Umney Theatre. Thursday 04 November 2010, 09:30-13:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - CLONING, NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND PROSPECTS FOR CELL REPLACEMENTProfessor Sir John Gurdon FRS. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. Wednesday 03 November 2010, 17:30-18:30 Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?Tickets for this event can be picked up from the Porters' Lodge (32360) Professor Susan Smith FBA, Mistress of Girton College. Wednesday 03 November 2010, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Affective TechnologyRosalind Picard, MIT Media Laboratory. Tuesday 02 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society CANCELLEDDr Julian Hibberd. Monday 01 November 2010, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Molecular Modelling of AnaestheticsThis lecture will be preceded by the society's AGM Dr Pak-Lee Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, Paris. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 01 November 2010, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Probabilistic models for time-series with different underlying dynamics regimes with application to robot imitation learningSilvia Chiappa. Monday 01 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 Motor circuit dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Spinal Muscular AtrophyDr. Wendy Imlach, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech perception and productionAnne-Lise Giraud (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 October 2010, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD or no PhD?PhD Students. Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College. Monday 25 October 2010, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society TENSEGRITY: THE ART AND MATHEMATICS OF PRE-STRESSED STRUCTURESDr Simon Guest, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 25 October 2010, 17:30-18:30 Can we feed 9 billion?Dr John Emsley. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 21 October 2010, 19:00-20:00 Predicting pain and pain modulation from fMRI activityTor Wager (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 October 2010, 15:30-16:30 The effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on imitation ability; implications for individuals with Autism.Anna Moffat, Flinders University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 21 October 2010, 13:00-14:00 'Infections and Cancer - Results and some Perspectives'Professor Harald zur Hausen. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 20 October 2010, 17:30-18:30 'Dementia and an ageing society'Please note a change in day and venue. Professor Carol Brayne, Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Bar Area, Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 19:30-20:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Entrepreneurship Revealed: Building Game Changing BusinessesNiklas Zennström, Co-founder of Skype. Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Physiology of AutumnProfessor Brian J. Ford, President of CSAR. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 18 October 2010, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Engineering Genetic CircuitsChris J. Myers, University of Utah. Friday 15 October 2010, 11:30-12:30 Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfacesSarah Gonzales-Andino (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 October 2010, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society BioSoc Squash!BioSoc Committee. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street. Wednesday 13 October 2010, 19:30-22:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICSNote venue change Professor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP. Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street. Monday 11 October 2010, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) String Theory - A unifying principle in theoretical physicsPlease note that this lecture is not at the usual spacetime coordinates. Professor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAPTP, University of Cambridge. Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site. Monday 11 October 2010, 17:30-19:00 Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of languageRitta Salmelin (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 October 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Food Webs, and how they got that wayStuart Pimm, Duke University (Nicholas School of the Environment). Friday 24 September 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks SSH: A Case Study of Cryptography in Theory and PracticeKenny Paterson, Royal Holloway University of London. Monday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Testing and fault localization in constraint programsLazaar Nadjib, IRISA. Wednesday 15 September 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards Systematic Design of Enterprise NetworksSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 15 September 2010, 10:30-11:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Noise and the two-thirds power lawElon Portuglay, MS Microsoft. Monday 13 September 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Golden-i, a head-mounted computerChris Parkinson, Kopin Corporation. Friday 10 September 2010, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Diderot: A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image AnalysisProfessor John Reppy, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Chicago. Monday 06 September 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frugality in set-system auctionsEdith Elkind, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Speaker to be confirmed. Thursday 19 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The Little Engine(s) that could: Scaling Online Social NetworksJosep M. Pujol. Monday 16 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Search methods based on Monte-Carlo simulationMartin Müller, University of Alberta. Thursday 05 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes BankProf Michael Mitzenmacher - Computer Science, Harvard. Tuesday 03 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Concurrency and Communication: Lessons from the SHIM ProjectProf. Stephen Edwards, Columbia University. Friday 23 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Post-Silicon Validation: New Frontiers for Formal Verification ResearchAlan Hu, University of British Columbia. Wednesday 21 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks GPU programming: bugs, pitfalls and the importance of correctness in biomedical and scientific applicationsProfessor Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University. Monday 19 July 2010, 10:00-11:00 Synthetic Biology: Making Artificial Life?Dr Gos Micklem, Department of Genetics. Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 14 July 2010, 19:30-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesSpeaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian ProcessesSpeaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks How can we use digital pens in a collaborative environment?Michael Haller - Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. Friday 09 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Local Action Traces and Abstract Concurrent Separation LogicSteve Brookes, CMU. Wednesday 07 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Frameworks for segmentation, classification, and nonstationary image processing with applications to disease assessmentAlbert Montillo, University of Pennsylvania. Tuesday 06 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks International Workshop on Tractability; 5-6 July 2010Speaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 06 July 2010, 09:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Symbolic Techniques in Propositional Satisfiability SolvingMoshe Y Vardi, Rice University. Friday 02 July 2010, 14:00-15:30 "White matter abnormalities underlying autism spectrum conditions in women"Amber Ruigrok. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 02 July 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Computer science (Cancelled)Cancelled Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research). Friday 02 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Cloud computing for researchFabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Research). Friday 02 July 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School To infinity and beyond with nonparametric Bayesian methodsJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Thursday 01 July 2010, 17:25-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Acquiring syntactic and semantic transformations in question answeringMichael Kaisser (Microsoft). Thursday 01 July 2010, 17:05-17:25 Microsoft Research Summer School Tracking and localisation for speech and roboticsMaurice Fallon (MIT). Thursday 01 July 2010, 16:45-17:05 Microsoft Research Summer School Communications, Travel and Social Networks since 1840: A Study Using Agent-based ModelsLynne Hamill (University of Surrey). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:55-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Static contract checking for HaskellDana N. Xu (INRIA). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:35-15:55 Microsoft Research Summer School From program analysis research to industrial programming language developmentAndy Maule (Microsoft). Thursday 01 July 2010, 15:15-15:35 Microsoft Research Summer School From driving to trafficking: the developing view of the user in computer systems designRichard Harper (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 3Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Thursday 01 July 2010, 12:30-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Simulation and data analysis with Windows AzureAustin Donnelly (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Fun with F#: Solving complex problems with simple codeAnton Schwaighofer (Microsoft Research). Thursday 01 July 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School From data to knowledgeSydney Brenner (Salk Institute). Thursday 01 July 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Infer.NET and probabilistic programmingJohn Winn (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Ten things you don’t know about MicrosoftDerick Campbell (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 16:45-17:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Molecular programmingLuca Cardelli (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Simulating global carbon-climate feedbackDrew Purves (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 15:15-16:15 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 2Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Wednesday 30 June 2010, 12:30-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Presentation skillsKen Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques). Wednesday 30 June 2010, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 1Several speakers. Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB. Tuesday 29 June 2010, 12:30-13:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 29 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 A new paradigm to uncover regions involved in parsing language into constituent structureDr Christophe Pallier (CNRS INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 24 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Information, Networks and MarketsSanjeev Goyal (Economics), Peter Key (Microsoft Research) and Cambridge Networks Forum. Tuesday 22 June 2010, 09:00-17:30 The specificity of face detection in autismOwen Churches. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 18 June 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Energy as Syntax - an attempt at a thermodynamical framework for combinatorial molecular networksVincent Danos, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Thursday 17 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 Language processing in the musician brainDr Mireille Besson (CNRS Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 Gambling and the brainDr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology. Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 16 June 2010, 19:30-20:30 Predicting progress in PECS use by children with autismDr Greg Pasco. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 11 June 2010, 13:00-14:00 Guided Tour of Cambridge University Botanic GardenTICKETS £7 Guided Tour. Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Thursday 10 June 2010, 18:30-20:30 Flashbacks and flash-forwards: Imagery and emotion in psychopathologyDr Emily Holmes (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Geometry of Synthesis: Semantics-directed hardware compilationDan Ghica, University of Birmingham School of Computer Science. Thursday 10 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and SerendipityProfessor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Genomics, Society and PoliciesDr Ron Zimmern, Director of the Public Health Genetics Unit. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 07 June 2010, 19:30-21:00 Hemispheric lateralisation for auditory processing – does the brainstem play a role?Dr Katrin Krumbholtz (MRC Institute of Hearing Research). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Diffuse ProgrammingManuel Serrano - Inria Sophia-Antipolis. Wednesday 02 June 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Images as Sets of Locally Weighted FeaturesTeo de Campos, University of Surrey. Tuesday 01 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Hermes: Clustering Users in Large-Scale E-mail ServicesChristos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Tuesday 01 June 2010, 11:30-12:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series NATO in the 21st CenturyAdmiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) / Commander, US European Command. TBC. Monday 31 May 2010, 18:30-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Practical performance models for complex, popular applicationsEno Thereska, Microsoft Research. Friday 28 May 2010, 13:00-13:00 "Second life demonstration"Speaker to be confirmed. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 28 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Before pixelsStephen Robertson, Microsoft Research. Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A proof rule for multi-threaded programsAndrey Rybalchenko, Technische Universität München. Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Happy DanesPlease note that this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday Dr Luisa Corrado, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Tuesday 25 May 2010, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Prof. Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin; MSR LecturesProf. Robert Nowak - University of Wisconsin. Tuesday 25 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang ObserverThis lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 The Corpus Christi ClockJohn Taylor. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5. Friday 21 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfacesTALK CANCELLED - Apologies, we will try to reschedule later in the year Dr Sara Gonzalez Andino (Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Geneva University Hospital). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 20 May 2010, 15:30-16:30 EPSRC Presentation - Why "Impact" MattersDr Cora O'Reilly, EPSRC. Thursday 20 May 2010, 15:00-16:00 EPSRC Presentation - Why "Impact" MattersDr. Cora O'Reilly, EPSRC. FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Thursday 20 May 2010, 12:00-13:00 Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit?Dr Giles Yeo, Institute of Metabolic Science. Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 19 May 2010, 19:30-20:30 Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British MuseumNeil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum. Wednesday 19 May 2010, 18:00-20:00 Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein TelescopeThis lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS; Microsoft Research LecturesDerek Dreyer, MPI-SWS. Tuesday 18 May 2010, 14:00-15:00 Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the UniverseThis lecture is for a general audience. Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On Bayes-Nash implementation of combinatorial auctions: structure and efficiencyProf Bruce Hajek - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Monday 17 May 2010, 10:00-11:00 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) Evidence based policy making: How can government be an intelligent user of science?Dr. Mils Parker. Friday 14 May 2010, 17:30-19:00 When all the songs sound the same: Characterising congenital amusiaDr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 May 2010, 15:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April) Professor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30 MERCURY - WINDOW ON THE INVISIBLEDr Andrea Sella, UCL. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 19:00-21:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global ProsperityProfessor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford. Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 18:30-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abstract Interpretation for Liveness using Metric SpacesAziem Chawdhary - Queen Mary University of London. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Abstract Interpretation for Liveness using Metric SpacesAziem Chawshary, Queen Mary University of London. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 11:30-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Holographic TechnologiesDr T D Wilkinson, Reader in Photonic Engineering, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 10 May 2010, 19:30-21:00 Comprehension of human action in a hierarchical framework for mirroring and mentalisingDr Antonia Hamilton (School of Psychology, University of Nottingham). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 May 2010, 15:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratoryProfessor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Cloning, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: The World After DollyProfessor Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 04 May 2010, 18:00-19:30 The Social Life of Digital Libraries: the Second Arcadia LectureProfessor Daniel Cohen. Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queen's Road. Friday 30 April 2010, 18:00-19:15 Is it possible to extent the E-S theory for explaining the individual differences in cognition in general population? : Evidence from children and university studentsProf Dr Akio Wakabayashi, Department of Psychology, Chiba University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 30 April 2010, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Visual Computing for Next-Generation Display and ImagingProf. Oliver Bimber - Institute of Computer Graphics, Johannes Kepler University Linz. Friday 30 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking EventFREE & OPEN TO ALL Claire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-19:00 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). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 29 April 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Static Verification of Concurrent Programs using Reduction and AbstractionTayfun Elmas - Koc University, Istanbul. Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Ape Research in Indonesia - Marrying Science with ConservationDr Susan Cheyne, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford. Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 28 April 2010, 19:30-20:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Science - facts and frictionsDr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications. Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College. Wednesday 28 April 2010, 18:30-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks The State of Secondary Level Computer Science Education in the USAChris Stephenson - Computer Science Teachers Association. Wednesday 28 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Brood ParasitismDr Clair Spottiswoode, Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 26 April 2010, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Deep Web Data: Analysis, Extraction, and ModellingProf. Pierre Senellart - Telecom Paris Tech. Monday 26 April 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks On the stability of flow-aware CSMAProf. Thomas Bonald - Telecom Paris Tech. Monday 26 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Modelling and Verification of the PCI Express Transaction and Data-Link LayersPeter Boehm - University of Oxford. Friday 23 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of languageCancelled due to travel disruption - Apologies and we hope to reschedule in the autumn! Prof Riitta Salmelin (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 April 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks A comparison of some recent task-centric parallel programming modelsMats Brorsson - KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Swedish Insitute of Computer Science (SICS). Thursday 22 April 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Secrets of the Microsoft SQL Server Query OptimizerConor Cunningham - SQL Server Group, Microsoft. Monday 19 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Building Algorithms for FPGAsRene Mueller - ETHZ. Thursday 15 April 2010, 10:00-11:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning, Planning and Representing Knowledge from Primitive ExperienceDavid Silver - UCL. Tuesday 13 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Submodularity and Valued Constraint Satisfaction ProblemsStanislav Zivny - University of Oxford. Monday 12 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Towards physical basis for Ambient Intelligence – a critical driver for the future of printed electronics and optoelectronics – ‘It’s not the materials, it’s the effects talking’Dr Raymond Oliver FREng, FIChemE, CEng - Senior Research Fellow, Royal College of Art. Thursday 01 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Opportunistic Spectrum Access with Multiple Users: Learning under CompetitionAnima Anandkumar - MIT. Wednesday 31 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Sparse Model Recovery via Iterative AlgorithmsProf. Devavrat Shah - MIT. Tuesday 30 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proactive Resilience Revisited: Resisting Intrusions means more than Byzantine Fault TolerancePaulo Verissimo - University of Lisbon. Friday 26 March 2010, 13:30-14:30 Jumping to Delusions - how the brain takes dangerous shortcutsProfessor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 24 March 2010, 19:30-20:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Incremental Modelling and Verification of the PCI Express Transaction and Data-Link LayersPeter Boehm - University of Oxford. Tuesday 23 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Networks in Crisishttp://www.gold.ac.uk/design/ Speaker to be confirmed. Monday 22 March 2010, 11:00-12:30 Does prefrontal cortex contain a variety of subsystems with separable functions: the neuropsychological perspective ?Prof Tim Shallice (SISSA Trieste and ICN, UCL, London ). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 18 March 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Abandoning Prenex Clausal Normal Form in QBF SolvingMartina Seidl - Vienna University of Technology. Thursday 18 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Michael Weber, University of Twente; Microsoft Research LecturesMichael Weber - University of Twente. Monday 15 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Datalog+/- : A Framework for Tractable Query Answering over OntologiesPr. Georg Gottlob - Oxford University. Monday 15 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Title to be confirmedProfessor Simon Schaffer, Department of History of Philosophy and Science. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Sunday 14 March 2010, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) The Copenhagen Accord: A significant 'first step' or a disastrously missed opportunity?Claire N. Parker. Friday 12 March 2010, 17:30-19:00 Normal clinical visual function in individuals with Autism Spectrum ConditionsDr Keziah Latham, Department of Vision & Hearing Sciences and Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 12 March 2010, 13:00-14:00 Molecular and cellular mechanisms for cold sensing'Prof Carlos Belmonte. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:00-17:00 Fronto-amygdala mechanisms underlying emotion regulationProf Angela Roberts (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 March 2010, 15:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Delivering genuine sustainability in the built environment - obstacles and opportunitiesDr David Strong CEO, Inbuilt Ltd; Board Member of UK Green Building Council. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 18:00-19:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Lessons from the Obama Campaign: Making the Obama Digital Model Work in Politics and BeyondJoe Rospars, New Media Director for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign. Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber. Monday 08 March 2010, 18:30-20:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society What should we do about the diabetes epidemic? Insights from epidemiologyDr R Simmons, Department of Public Health. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 08 March 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk and (Human-induced) Climate ChangeProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia. Friday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30 ‘Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells’GL BROWN PRIZE LECTURE Prof Graham McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00 Morpho-phonological Processing in the Human BrainTALK CANCELLED - Apologies for the short notice Prof Carsten Eulitz (Neurolinguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 March 2010, 15:30-16:30 Hearing God: an anthropological look at American evangelical ChristianityProfessor Tanya Luhrmann. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 03 March 2010, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Sex and Molecular EvolutionSir Brian Charlesworth. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 01 March 2010, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Sustainable Building in the UKDavid Adamson, Director of Smarter Construction in the Office of Government Commerce. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 01 March 2010, 19:30-21:00 Risk and Natural CatastrophesProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory. Friday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Human Cerebral Cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, Segregation of Function and Transmitter ReceptorsJoint Chaucer Club and Zangwill Club - Note the FRIDAY date, time and venue Prof Karl Zilles (Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University of Dusseldorf, Germany). Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. Friday 26 February 2010, 16:30-17:30 Diminished adaptation in autism: A working hypothesisDr. Liz Pellicano (Institute of Education, London). Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 26 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 "Development and organisation of connectivity in an embryonic motorDr Matthias Landgraf. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 Our Place in the CosmosDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy. Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 24 February 2010, 19:30-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Cities of the FuturePaul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc.. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Global Warming and the Melting of the Arctic IceAdmission to the lecture is free and no ticket required – for more information please contact Kerstin Enright, Millennium Mathematics Project, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (01223 766839) or email: mmptalks@hermes Professor Peter Wadhams, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Wednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The consequences of Chernobyl, from human health to genetic mechanismsProfessor Sir Dillwyn Williams, Strangeways Laboratory. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 22 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk, Security and TerrorismProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford. Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Autocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’Prof Horace Barlow and Dr David Berry, PDN, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and languageDr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 18 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Building Bridges between Genes, Brains and LanguageDr Simon Fisher. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 17 February 2010, 20:00-21:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 You must be joking; Cities as a force for good in the environmentProfessor Bruce Beck, University of Georgia. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 17 February 2010, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Imaging CancerPlease note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday Dr Kevin Brindle, Cancer Research Institute/Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Tuesday 16 February 2010, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Stationary Subspace AnalysisFrank Meinecke, TU Berlin. Tuesday 16 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society The Control of Cell DivisionSir Tim Hunt. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 15 February 2010, 20:00-21:30 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Literacy and ICT: Social Constructions in the Lives of Low-literate Youth in Ethiopia & MalawiMarije Geldof, Royal Holloway, University of London. Monday 15 February 2010, 14:00-14:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Title to be confirmedProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry. Sunday 14 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk and HumanitiesProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge. Friday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series DEVELOPING AND DISSEMINATING EFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS: SCIENCE, POLICY AND ECONOMICSProf. David Clark (Institute of Psychiatry, London). Lecture Theatre of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.. Friday 12 February 2010, 12:30-13:30 "Useful or just trendy? Using physics to solve biological problems"Dr Miodownik- King's College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 Inferotemporal cortex and face recognition learningProf Keith Kendrick (Babraham Institute, Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Sperm from Stem CellsProfessor Karim Nayernia. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 08 February 2010, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Dynamics of AvalanchesDr Jim McElwaine, DAMTP. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 08 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidanceProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford. Friday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 V1: Predicting the near future on the basis of the recent pastDr Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks You are not a gadgetJaron Lanier, Microsoft. Thursday 04 February 2010, 15:00-16:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series How do we really bring vision correction to those that need it in the Developing World?Professor Joshua Silver. Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber. Wednesday 03 February 2010, 18:30-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Stem Cells: Overcoming the EmbryoPlease Note this lecture is not on a Monday Professor Austin Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Tuesday 02 February 2010, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Stripping Down Science: The Story of the Naked ScientistsDr Chris Smith. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street. Tuesday 02 February 2010, 18:15-19:30 Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertaintyProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin. Friday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks L_p-Spherically Symmetric and L_p-nested Distributions for Patches of Natural ImagesFabian Sinz, Max Planck Institute Tübingen. Friday 29 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedDr Emma Rawlins. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Fetal testosterone in mindProf Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 January 2010, 15:30-16:30 Pandemic! Where do new infections come from?Dr Chris Smith, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 27 January 2010, 19:30-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Roadmap to 2050Professor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate. Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0. Wednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Efficient Bayesian Model Comparison with Differential Equations: a Population MCMC Approach via the Thermodynamic IntegralBen Calderhead, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 26 January 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Efficient Bayesian Model Comparison with Differential Equations: a Population MCMC Approach via the Thermodynamic IntegralBen Calderhead, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 26 January 2010, 14:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Understanding the Complexity of Eukaryotic Cells: Triumphs of Fungal GeneticsProfessor Lorna Casselton. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 25 January 2010, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Stirring Tails of EvolutionProfessor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 25 January 2010, 17:30-18:30 Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote LectureSir Michael Rawlins (National Institute of Clinical Excellence). Mill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1. Thursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-19:00 Title to be confirmedProf Lopez-Barneo. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiologyProf Robert Rogers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 January 2010, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte CarloMark Girolami. Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Inferring Signaling Pathway Topologies from Multiple Perturbation Measurements of Specific Biochemical Species : A model-based approachMark Girolami, University of Glasgow. Thursday 21 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Gravitational LensingDr Lindsay King, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 18 January 2010, 19:30-21:00 Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertaintyProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Discussion with movie director and writer of The Horse BoyRupert Isaacson. Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane. Thursday 14 January 2010, 18:30-19:30 Cognitive and Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted MemoriesDr Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 January 2010, 15:30-16:30 Modeling of MEG and EEG: from Surface Mapping to Multimodal ImagingPlease note change of date & time for this talk only - Friday 11am-12noon Prof Matti S. Hämäläinen (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Friday 08 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 Analysing and communicating uncertaintyPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Prof David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 17 December 2009, 15:30-16:30 Action and LanguagePLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Prof Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 10 December 2009, 15:30-16:30 Genetic testing: Truth or Dare?Dr Caroline Wright (PHG Foundation). Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 09 December 2009, 19:30-20:30 Title to be confirmedDr. Joaquin Fuentes, MD,Head of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Unit of Policlinica Gipuzkoa (San Sebastian). Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 09 December 2009, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communicationAn interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested SPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding. Monday 07 December 2009, 09:00-17:30 A systems approach to cellular shape and motionProfessor Jonathon Howard, Director of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00 Decoding memories in the human hippocampusPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Prof Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 03 December 2009, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Predicting biological functions at different spatial scales: From molecules to ecosystemsDr Peer Bork - European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Thursday 03 December 2009, 14:00-15:00 Obesity and insulin resistance: Lessons from human geneticsProf. Stephen O’Rahilly, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge. Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building Downing Site. Wednesday 02 December 2009, 16:00-17:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series The CyberknifeMark Brenner, MD, Chief of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife Center. Tuesday 01 December 2009, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Robotic SurgeryProfessor David Neal, Professor of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Research UK. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 30 November 2009, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Experimental and computational approaches to implicit learning of musical structureMartin Rohrmeier, University of Cambridge. Monday 30 November 2009, 11:30-12:00 “Language and Silence in Religious and Continental Philosophy”.Professor Graham Ward (Manchester University). Thursday 26 November 2009, 17:30-19:00 The importance of context in protein misfolding and aggregationAnne Bertolotti, MRC LMB, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 Navigating in a 3-d worldPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Prof Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 November 2009, 15:30-16:30 Clones, stem cells, and cell replacement (Hats Off Club)Professor Sir John Gurdon. Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge CB1 2EW. Tuesday 24 November 2009, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society HIV/AIDS: Science & MythProfessor Robin Weiss. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 23 November 2009, 19:00-20:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Cambridge - Treasure Island in the FensNicholas Chrimes. Gates Room, University Centre. Monday 23 November 2009, 18:30-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Tracing human ancestry using DNADr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Münster, Germany. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 23 November 2009, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA (MUM 2009)please see website details. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cambridge. Sunday 22 November 2009, 09:00-18:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Gates Coffeehouse Webinar: Breaking into PoliticsFour young Europeans and Americans engaged in politics; see website for more info. Online webinar; see website to register.. Saturday 21 November 2009, 17:00-18:30 Clockwork in the embryoJulian lewis. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 Change detection in auditory cortex: beyond the MMN paradigmPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Dr Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 November 2009, 15:30-16:30 Blind to the Obvious: the Resistance to Neo-Darwinian Sociology.W G Runciman. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 18 November 2009, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Laser PhotonicsPlease note the return to our usual venue Dr Bill O'Neill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge. Monday 16 November 2009, 19:30-21:00 Attention to faces in autism: An ERP studyOwen Churches, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road. Friday 13 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedSteve Williams, MRC LMB, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey and computational modelsPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Dr Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 November 2009, 15:30-16:30 Exploiting Bacteria to Battle CancerDr Guillermo de la Cueva Méndez (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre). Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 11 November 2009, 19:30-20:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Through the Looking Glass ....again and again!Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. For tickets please e-mail Kerstin Enright at mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk or call 01223 766839, Age level: 11+, general public Dr Sara Santos, Royal Institution. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Wednesday 11 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Burning Ice: Art, Science & Climate ChangeQuentin Cooper. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street. Tuesday 10 November 2009, 18:15-20:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Hearing loss and hearing aidsProfessor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 09 November 2009, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Proving the Correctness of Abstract Concurrency Control and RecoveryEliot Moss - University of Massachusetts Amherst. Monday 09 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Nesting Transactions: Why and What Do We Need?Eliot Moss - University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Monday 09 November 2009, 10:30-11:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Gates Internal Symposium: Social Science and the Scientific MethodVarious student speakers; see website for more information. Sunday 08 November 2009, 16:30-18:30 Addenbrooke's Annual Lecture and Reception - Dr Susan Robinson on 'A Matter of Life or Death'Dr Susan Robsinson. William Harvey Lecture Theatre, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital. Friday 06 November 2009, 18:00-21:00 SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTUREFree & open to all (suitable for families) Dr Hal Sosabowski, University of Brighton. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 05 November 2009, 19:00-20:00 "Chromatin architecture and transcription: a view form the fly genome"Steve Russell, Dept of Genetics, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 Brain mechanisms for ultra-rapid visual categorisationPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Prof Simon Thorpe (Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse, France). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 November 2009, 15:30-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Our cosmic environmentProfessor Martin Rees FRS, Astronomer Royal. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. Wednesday 04 November 2009, 17:30-18:30 "Music, rhythm, and movement: Why we fill the silence?"Dr Jessica Grahn (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge). Wednesday 04 November 2009, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Science and the MediaPlease note our temporary venue Quentin Cooper, Presenter of BBC's "Material World". Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Monday 02 November 2009, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research PhD Scholars Value Ordering Heuristics for Quantified Constraint SatisfactionDavid Stynes, University College Cork. Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-14:30 Autism: what has genetics taught us?Professor Dan Geschwind,UCLA School of Medicine. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 30 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 'Understanding the MRC's failure to fund Edwards' and Steptoe's work that led to the birth of Louise BrownMartin Johnson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 The ways in which context and knowledge can assist speech comprehension, especially in challenging conditionsPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Prof Ingrid Johnsrude (Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 29 October 2009, 15:30-16:30 Cancer as a Darwinian ProcessProfessor Ron Laskey FRS. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 28 October 2009, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD or NoT?PhD Students, Career Service, Board of Graduate Studies.... Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 26 October 2009, 18:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Measure of the Universe: a crisis for cosmologyProfessor G Efstathiou FRS, Kavli Institute for Cosmology. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 26 October 2009, 17:30-18:30 How can we benefit from autism theories?Dr. Meng Chuan Lai, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 23 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 CancelledEnrico Coen, John Innes Center, Norwich. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 Syntax in the human brainPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Prof Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 October 2009, 15:30-16:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Statistical network analysis in computational genomicsFlorian Markowetz - Cancer Research UK. Wednesday 21 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Invisible Children: THE RESCUECameron Barbour. Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre. Tuesday 20 October 2009, 18:30-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Plagiarism in SciencePlease note our temporary venue Professor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Monday 19 October 2009, 19:30-21:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events What Are The Odds?Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. For tickets please e-mail Kerstin Enright at mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk or call 01223 766839, Level: age range 14 - 16, KS3-5 Nadia Baker, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Monday 19 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks Fourth William Pitt Seminar: "A Blueprint for survival"Invite only - please contact organiser if you are interested in coming. Various speakers. Queen's Building, Emmanuel College. Dinner in Hall, Pembroke College.. Friday 16 October 2009, 15:30-19:00 Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars Cryo Electron Microscopy: From Molecules to SystemsProfessor Wolfgang Baumeister, MPI of Biochemistry, Head of Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Martinsried/Germany. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Thursday 15 October 2009, 17:00-18:00 José Scheinkman, 'Speculation and Bubbles'José Scheinkman. Mill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1. Thursday 15 October 2009, 17:00-19:00 Pathobiology of antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathiesDavid Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 Shrinking Down Nutrition: NanofoodsDr Dora Pereira, MRC Human Nutrition Research. Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 19:30-20:30 C P Snow's Two Cultures RevisitedC.P. Snow Lecture Professor Lisa Jardine, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London. Hamied Theatre, Christ's College. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 17:30-18:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Just listen they're scared: The application of hostage negotiation in everyday life.Richard Mullender, Former member of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, Scotland Yard. Tuesday 13 October 2009, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE - The internet and new forms of mathematical collaborationProfessor W T Gowers FRS, DPMMS. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 12 October 2009, 17:30-18:30 "Shaping the amniote embryo: the cellular mechanisms of chick morphogenesisOctavian Voiculescu, Dept of PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 The contribution of structural imaging to the understanding of language networksPLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM Prof Cathy Price (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 08 October 2009, 15:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Cradle to Cradle DesignBill McDonough William McDonough and Partners. Cambridge Unuiversity Engineerintg Department, LR0. Wednesday 07 October 2009, 18:00-19:30 HUNTING THE ANTISOCIAL CANCER CELLFree & open to all Prof. Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 01 October 2009, 19:00-20:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Generalized, Efficient Array Decision proceduresNikolaj Bjorner - Microsoft Research. Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Data redundancy and maintenance in peer-to-peer file backup systemsAlessandro Duminuco - Institut Eurécom. Thursday 01 October 2009, 11:30-12:00 How to control respiration: hydroxylation, hypoxia, and HIFProfessor Randall Johnson (University of California). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Monday 28 September 2009, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Use phase signals to promote lifetime extension for desktop PCsStewart Hickey - University of Limerick. Tuesday 22 September 2009, 11:00-11:30 Psychometric properties of Childhood Autism Spectrum TestChiara Horlin, Neurocognitive Development Unit, University of Western Australia. Library (first floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 15 September 2009, 11:00-12:00 TALES FROM THE BREWHOUSETickets £5 (over 18s only) Richard Naisby, Milton Brewery, Cambridge. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 10 September 2009, 19:00-21:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Machine Learning Reveals the Genetic Code Controlling SplicingBrendan Frey - Microsoft Research. Tuesday 14 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards focusing research and innovations on local needs: If wireless technologies are to connect the wireless continentDr Idris A. Rai - Makerere University. Tuesday 14 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical SocietyDarwin 2009 Lecture Professor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Thursday 09 July 2009, 17:30-18:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks From Verification to SynthesisMoshe Y. Vardi - Rice University. Thursday 09 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Learning Deep ArchitecturesYoshua Bengio, University of Montreal. Tuesday 07 July 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Cops, Crops and Mobile Phones: Machine Learning in AfricaJohn Quinn - Makerere University, Uganda. Monday 06 July 2009, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Sustainable energy without the hot airDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory). Friday 03 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Giving a good presentationKen Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques). Friday 03 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Internships uncovered...New time Peter Key (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 16:15-16:45 Microsoft Research Summer School Introduction to intellectual propertyJohn Mulgrew (Microsoft). Thursday 02 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Enabling intelligent management of the environmentDrew Purves (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Forza, Halo, Xbox Live: The magic of research in productsRalf Herbrich (Microsoft Research Ltd.). Thursday 02 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Systems and networking research at MSR CambridgeTim Harris (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School New hardware enabling new user experiencesJames Scott (Microsoft Research). Thursday 02 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to manage your supervisorTennie Videler (Vitae). Thursday 02 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Scientific computing on .NETNew time and day Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 16:40-17:00 Microsoft Research Summer School WorldWide Telescope - A computational science innovationNew time Yan Xu (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 16:15-16:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Tools and services for data intensive researchRoger Barga (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School The executable pathway to biological networksJasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Principles and applications of refinement typesAndy Gordon (Microsoft Research). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Hitchhikers guide to machine learningChristopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang (University of Cambridge). Wednesday 01 July 2009, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School EU opportunities for young researchersCarlos Morais-Pires (European Commission, DG INFSO). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 17:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Challenges in refactoringNew time Mathieu Verbaere (University of Oxford). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 16:20-16:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Interactive mattingNew time Christoph Rhemann (Vienna University of Technology). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 16:00-16:20 Microsoft Research Summer School Generative face models for image understandingNew time Brian Amberg (University of Basel). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:40-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Scalable display architecturesNew time Alban Rrustemi (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:20-15:40 Microsoft Research Summer School Hybrids of generative and discriminative modelsJulia Lasserre (University of Cambridge/Max Planck Institute). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 15:00-15:20 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Towards a Network Measurement ScienceDon Towsley, UMass. Tuesday 30 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Summer School New kinds of software for new kinds of scienceAlexander Brändle (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research). Tuesday 30 June 2009, 09:30-10:30 Lady Margaret Beaufort Commemoration Event Lady Margaret: Foundress of the Tudor dynastyDr David Starkey. The Yusuf Hamied Centre Theatre. Saturday 27 June 2009, 14:15-15:15 Lady Margaret Beaufort Commemoration Event Tudor Portraits: Icon or MaskDr Charles Saumarez Smith. The Yusuf Hamied Centre Theatre. Saturday 27 June 2009, 11:35-12:20 Lady Margaret Beaufort Commemoration Event Lady Margaret: Sponsor of the printed wordProfessor Lisa Jardine. The Yusuf Hamied Centre Theatre. Saturday 27 June 2009, 10:50-11:35 Lady Margaret Beaufort Commemoration Event Lady Margaret: Where did the money come from?Dr Francis Woodman. The Yusuf Hamied Centre Theatre. Saturday 27 June 2009, 10:05-10:50 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events THE SECRET WORLD OF CODES AND CODEBREAKINGAdmission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org Dr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 23 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Refactoring with GenericsKathleen Dollard. Thursday 18 June 2009, 19:00-21:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Analyzing the effect of noise on various models of Circadian Clock and Cell Cycle couplingAlessandro Romanel, CoSBi. Tuesday 16 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Reciprocal imprinting produces sex differences in autistic spectrum traitsGill Ragsdale. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 12 June 2009, 12:00-13:00 PRIVATE EVENING TOUR OF THE CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - NOW FULLY BOOKED!Limited numbers. Tickets: Adults £5. Under 16s £3. Botanic Garden guides. Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Thursday 11 June 2009, 18:30-21:00 The social brainSarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 11 June 2009, 16:15-17:15 “Interfaith relations, scriptural reasoning, and theories of deliberative democracy” (title to be confirmed).Anyone is welcome to attend. Dr Jeff Bailey.Tutor in Public Theology, Westcott House and Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity.. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 17:30-19:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Topological keystone species: network analysis in modern systems ecologyFerenc Jordán, CoSBi. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Workshop on Networks, Auctions and Pricing - 1 Dayhttp://naapworkshop.eventbrite.com/. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 09:00-17:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Towards disposable healthcare devices: a paradigm shiftProf. Chris Toumazou FRS, Imperial College. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 15:00-16:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents: A Formal Languages and a Game Theory ApproachMatteo Cavaliere, CoSBi. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Domain Knowledge Driven Program AnalysisDaniel Ratiu - TU Munich. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Happy Danes!" A scientific analysis of the recent EU survey into income and contentmentDr Luisa Corrado (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge ). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 08 June 2009, 19:30-21:00 Semantic Image Segmentation and Web-Supervised Visual LearningFlorian Schroff, University of Oxford. Monday 08 June 2009, 11:30-12:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Robot Scientists and the automated scientific laboratoryAmanda Clare - Dept of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University. Friday 05 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 Cognitive neuroscience of attention: insights from developmental disorderGaia Scerif (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:15-17:15 From microscopic to macroscopic descriptions of cell migration on growing domainsDr Ruth Baker, University of Oxford. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 17:10-18:00 Informed matter: The confluence of information processes and material scienceDr Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 16:20-17:10 Visual search and mining of large scale image collectionsProf. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 15:10-16:00 Progress on development of a microfluidic robot scientistProf. Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London. Tuesday 02 June 2009, 14:00-15:10 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of GamblingRescheduled from February Dr Luke Clarke (Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 01 June 2009, 19:30-21:00 Motivation and executive control in human prefrontal cortexEtienne Koechlin (INSERM-ENS, Paris). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 Cambridge University Biological Society "Global Education of Cervical Cancer"Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Chief Executive Officer of the MRC). Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 27 May 2009, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Bringing new medicines to market" How the biopharmaceutical industry worksDr Melanie Lee DSc (Hon) FMedSci (Executive Vice President of Research and Development, UCB Belgium ). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Tuesday 26 May 2009, 19:30-21:00 The Cultures of Climate Change The Economic Downturn and the Carbon EconomySeb Henbest, New Carbon Finance. McDonald Institute Seminar Room , Department of Archaeology. Tuesday 26 May 2009, 17:00-18:30 Asperger syndrome and the interbrainThis will launch Prof. Tantam's new book with the same title. A free lunch will follow the talk. Prof. Digby Tantam, University of Sheffield and University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 22 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society The plastic brainProf Colin Blakemore. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Thursday 21 May 2009, 20:00-21:30 The humble rat has a cognitive moment: coordinating limbic-cortical networks in cognition, sleep and diseaseMatthew Jones (University of Bristol). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 Title to be confirmedProfessor Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Magic SquaresAdmission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org Dr Jenny Gage, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Thursday 21 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Study disease-causing genes based on protein-protein interaction networksPhuong Nguyen, CoSBi. Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systemsSean Sedwards, CoSBi. Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Mental programs and the frontal lobeProf. John Duncan (Medical Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit). Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 18 May 2009, 20:00-21:30 Dissociating timing from temporal attention with fMRIJenny Coull (University of Provence). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 Function and regulation of the PTEN tumour suppressor in neurons: from axon guidance to soma size controlBritta Eickholt, King's College London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Model Abstraction Methodology for Temporal Behavior Analysis of Multiscale Biological SystemsHiroyuki Kuwahara, CoSBi. Wednesday 13 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedProf. Tony Attwood, Griffiths University, Brisbane, Australia. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Wednesday 13 May 2009, 10:00-11:00 "The war that never was: the mundane and the exceptional in contemporary Brazil".Anyone is welcome to attend. Dr Marta Magalhães. Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge.. Tuesday 12 May 2009, 17:30-19:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Chemotaxis. Do we understand it all?Orkun Soyer, CoSBi. Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Human Stem Cells: Therapeutic and Research PotentialDr Stephen Minger (King's College London). Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 11 May 2009, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Life in the Colonies" Social insects and their relevance to human behaviorProfessor Francis Ratneiks (Professor of Apiculture, University of Sussex ). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 11 May 2009, 19:30-21:00 KAM and RigidityProfessor Anatole Katok (Penn State University). Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Thursday 07 May 2009, 17:00-18:30 Clark Lecture seminar in conjunction with the History of the Book seminarAll are welcome, but it would be helpful if persons who do not regularly attend the History of the Book Seminar would contact Prof. Boyd Hilton beforehand (ajbh1@cam.ac.uk) Prof. Roger Chartier (École des haute études en sciences sociales, Paris, and University of Pennsylvania). Allhusen Room, Trinity College. Thursday 07 May 2009, 17:00-18:45 Auditory processing in singing and walking cricketsBerthold Hedwig (University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 Connexins and carbonic anhydrases: pH regulators in heart and in cancerRichard Vaughan-Jones, University of Oxford. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 Socrates versus DarwinProfessor David Sedley FBA. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 06 May 2009, 17:15-18:15 Life Science Interface Seminars A Journey in the World of MoleculesNOBEL LAUREATE Linacre Lecture Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg. Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College. Wednesday 06 May 2009, 17:00-18:15 Forms Affect Meaning: Pauses and Pitches in Early Modern TextsProf. Roger Chartier (Écoles des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and University of Pennsylvania). Wednesday 06 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 William MCDonough (CANCELLED)William McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle". Wednesday 06 May 2009, 00:00-00:00 Cardenio Lost. Or, How to Make a Play with Don Quixote?Prof. Roger Chartier (École des haute études en sciences sociales, Paris, and University of Pennsylvania). Monday 04 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 Physics and Complexity : ExamplesProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 "Shooting War: Ethics in Conflict Photography"For those attending the talk, there is a special offer of a 15% discount on subscription to dispatches, including a back copy of the last issue, "Beyond Iraq", for which Yuri Kozyrev shot the main photo story. Anyone is welcome to attend. Gary Knight. VII Photo Agency. Thursday 30 April 2009, 17:30-19:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing countryAll welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org Pavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 30 April 2009, 17:15-18:30 Lateralisation of brain functions: what and why?Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:15-17:15 Epigenetic control of genome function - physiology development and neuroscience of genomic imprinting in mouseAnne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00 Learning, Stress and Integrated Brain-functioningRefreshments served from 17.30 Director, Centre for Brain Consciousness and Cognition, Iowa, USA. Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, CB2 1TA. Wednesday 29 April 2009, 18:30-20:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series A 21st Century View of National SecuritySir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College and former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service. Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building at St. John's College. Wednesday 29 April 2009, 18:00-20:00 Physics and Complexity : MethodologiesProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 April 2009, 16:15-17:15 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "The Venetians certainly knew about building" The extraordinary and enduring properties of Lime MortarProfessor Geoff Allen (University of Bristol). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 27 April 2009, 19:30-21:00 Physics and Complexity : An OverviewProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 27 April 2009, 16:15-17:15 ART MEETS SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LAPIS LAZULI & ULTRAMARINEFree & open to all. Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton-Kerr Institute, Cambridge. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 23 April 2009, 19:00-20:00 Glass figures: a role for complex cells in visual processing?David Berry, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 April 2009, 16:00-17:00 Glass figures: a role for complex cells in visual processing?Horace Barlow, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 April 2009, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks TBCBen Fry (http://benfry.com/). Thursday 23 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 Charles Darwin and the pattern of evolutionProfessor Richard Fortey FRS. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Department. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 17:15-18:15 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Dynamics of cell cycle transitionsAttila Csikasz-Nagy, CoSBi. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Exploiting non-Markovian Bio-Processes within BlenXDavide Prandi, CoSBi. Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 Emotion and Memory: Explorations of the Amygdala.Prof. Joseph LeDoux. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 17 April 2009, 12:30-13:30 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series A parallel perspective of the dynamics of biological reactive systemsTommaso Mazza, CoSBi. Wednesday 01 April 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series KInfer and BetaWB: tools for supporting the modeling workflow of Biological SystemsAlida Palmisano, CoSBi. Tuesday 31 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Cosmic Centers and the Subject of the 21st CenturyNO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Shelly Errington (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz). Friday 27 March 2009, 16:30-18:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Magic SquaresAdmission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org Dr Jenny Gage, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Friday 27 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 Screening of: 'Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation' (2004)OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Andre Vltchek (Filmmaker and Political Commentator). Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College. Thursday 26 March 2009, 19:30-21:45 Introducing "Zomia": Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) Stateless Peoples in Mountainous Southeast AsiaNO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! James Scott (Political Science, Yale). Thursday 26 March 2009, 16:30-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series A Framework study of the NF-kB signalling pathwayAdaoha Ihekwaba, CoSBi. Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series On the deduction of chemical reaction rate constants from measurements of time series of concentrationPaola Lecca, CoSBi. Tuesday 24 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events The subtle science of uncertaintyProfessor David Spiegelhalter, DPMMS. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Saturday 21 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 The nature of life - a scientific debateProfessor Lewis Wolpert and Dr Rupert Sheldrake. Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Friday 20 March 2009, 20:00-21:00 Animals and ourselvesProfessor Aubrey Manning. Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Friday 20 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 Cafe Scientifique: can we read minds?Age 12+ (www.neuromedia.eu) Speaker to be confirmed. The Michaelhouse, Trinity Street. Thursday 19 March 2009, 19:30-21:30 What is consciousness for?Chris Frith, Professor in Neuropsychology. William Harvey Lecture Theatre, The Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital. Thursday 19 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 The cosmic century; a history of astrophysics and cosmologyProfessor Malcolm Longair. Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Thursday 19 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back YardAll welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org Dr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 19 March 2009, 17:15-18:30 Small and beautiful: Alex Hopkins lectureProfessor Brian Johnson. Bristol-Myers Squibb lecture theatre, University Chemical Laboratory. Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 Quantum anomalies and the origin of timeProfessor Shahn Majid. Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Wednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 Chemistry saves livesDr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 Entering the ecological agePre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk) Peter Head, Director of Planning and Integrated Urbanism. Wednesday 18 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Molecular and computational aspects of neuronal motilityProfessor Vincent Torre, SISSA, Trieste. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Wednesday 18 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 Statistics are either dull or wrong:discussProfessor David Spiegelhalter. Tuesday 17 March 2009, 19:30-20:30 Darwin's Islands: In Darwin's footsteps to the GalapagosAges 12+, Pre book (tel 01223 364721 ext 66147, email: ro6-Outreach@open.ac.uk Dr David Robinson. The Open University in the East of England, Hills Road. Tuesday 17 March 2009, 18:00-19:30 Carbon neutral communitiesPre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk) Gerard Evenden, Senior Partner, Foster and Partners. Tuesday 17 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 Born on the wrong planet? Using forum postings to test hypotheses about special interests and religious beliefs of autistic spectrum young adultsProf Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Boston University. Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road. Friday 13 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Darwinspotting in 2009: Are there any real ones out there?Dr Peter C. Kjærgaard, Visiting Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Thursday 12 March 2009, 20:00-21:00 Cultural Agoraphobia and the Future of the Library: the first Arcadia LectureProfessor James Boyle, Duke University. Thursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:15 A function of the time: the Cavendish Society and its postprandial proceedingsAge 12+ Speaker to be confirmed. Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Free School Lane. Thursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:30 A taste of teaching: D&T and SciencesThis event is for adults only Elaine Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Science Education and Raza Shah, Subject Lecturer in Design and Technology Education. Facutly of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge. Thursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:30 Oisin Comes Home: Yeats as InheritorProf. Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford). Mill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 3. Thursday 12 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 From a face to its category via a few information states in the brainPhilippe Schyns (University of Glasgow). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:15-17:15 Cambridge University Biological Society "Identifying lipid signals in normal and diseased cells"Prof Michael Wakelam (Babraham Institute Director). Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 20:00-21:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Innovating to sustainabilityProfessor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:30 Darwin and Genetics: 1909 and 2009Professor Marsha Richmond, Dept of History, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 17:15-18:15 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Evolutionary computation: optimization and inferenceMichele Forlin, CoSBi. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 11:00-12:00 Darwin in a global contextProfessor Jim Secord and Professor John Parker. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:00 EESCN question time - stem cell specialPre book (please visit www.eescn.org.uk) Speaker to be confirmed. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:30 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change THE POPULATION FACTOR- HOW DOES IT RELATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?Professor Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor, Community Health and Human Development, Berkeley, University of California. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Visual systems biology: design, understand, organizeLorenzo Dematté, CoSBi. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge University Biological Society "Plant-insect-interactions to drug development"Prof Monique Simmonds, Kew Garden, London. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 09 March 2009, 20:00-21:30 Can science beat terrorism?Speaker to be confirmed. McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street. Monday 09 March 2009, 20:00-21:00 'Orphan diseases' and research collaborations in global health innovationDr Monica Konrad, Director of PLACEB-O. The Michaelhouse, Trinity Street. Monday 09 March 2009, 19:00-20:00 Why do we like to eat?Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrookes. Monday 09 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Machines that seeProfessor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 09 March 2009, 17:30-18:30 The Boundaries of DarwinismProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter. Friday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30 A structural and functional imaging study of autism and its extended phenotypeplease note earlier start time Dr. Michael Spencer, ARC and Developmental Psychiatry. Library (first floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 06 March 2009, 12:00-13:00 Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery (A Few Places Now Available!)A few people have dropped out - we have about 17 seats available now!! Ben Shneiderman, Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 05 March 2009, 18:40-20:15 Lost in the Big House: Anglo-Irishry and the Uses of the SupernaturalNote change of day to Thursday Prof. Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford). Mill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 3. Thursday 05 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiologyCANCELLED due to illness Robert Rogers (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:15-17:15 G L Brown prize lecture: "And the beat goes on. The cardiac conduction system: the wiring of the heart"Mark Boyett, University of Manchester. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series) The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economyNigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College. LR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building. Wednesday 04 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars Sustainable Organic Fuels for TransportDr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK. Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering. Wednesday 04 March 2009, 15:30-16:30 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change RESPONDING TO CHANGES IN NATUREChris Smith (Lord Smith of Finsbury), Chairman of the Environment Agency; former MP and Cabinet Minister; former President Cambridge Union Society. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Tuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events The Four Colour TheoremAdmission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org Professor Imre Leader. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Where is it safe to go on holiday?" Antigenic Cartography; a mathematical method for mapping the spread of virusesProfessor Derek Smith (Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 02 March 2009, 19:30-21:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Vaccine Development in the Year 2100Dr. James P. Nataro, University of Maryland.. Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College. Monday 02 March 2009, 18:00-19:15 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Lent Internal Symposium 2009Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/GatesInternalSeminar.mp3 Joshua R. Cook, Will Smiley, Oleksandr Poplavskyy, Joseph C. Bonneau, University of Cambridge. Sunday 01 March 2009, 16:00-18:00 Is Human Evolution Over?Professor Steve Jones, University College London. Friday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Hierarchical modularity in human fMRI brain networksplease note earlier start time Dr. David Meunier, Brain Mapping Unit. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 27 February 2009, 12:00-13:00 What are illusions and why do we see them?Beau Lotto (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:15-17:15 Cardiac t-tubules: Ca2+ handling microdomainsClive Orchard, University of Bristol. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 Alternatives to Fossil FuelsDavid MacKay is a wonderful speaker: lively, funny, wonderfully clear and easy to follow. Do not think that you cannot understand the problem, or that talks by professors of physics are not for you. Professors are not what they used to be! David MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU. St John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 19:30-21:45 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainability in the resources sectorPaul Skinner Chairman Rio Tinto. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 18:00-19:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events The Mathematics of Evolutionary BiologyAdmission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org Professor Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change CAN WE ADAPT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN TIME?Professor Michael Kelly, Prince Philip Professor, Cambridge; Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government, London. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 The First Romantics: Young Irelands between Catholic Emancipation and the FamineProf. Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford). Mill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 3. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge University Biological Society How moral is bioethics?Prof Lewis Wolpert, UCL. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 23 February 2009, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society The biomechanics of Spiderman: how insects walk on the ceilingDr Walter Federle, Department of Zoology. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 23 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Evolution and Conservation of BiodiversityProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California. Friday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTSFree & open to all Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison-MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Research Centre, Cambridge. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 19 February 2009, 19:00-20:00 Prefrontal cortex and top-down control: ablation studiesDavid Gaffan (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:15-17:15 RNA-based guidance in axonsChristine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 A sustainable technology strategy for engineersDr Karel Muldur, TU Delft The Netherlands. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 18 February 2009, 18:00-19:30 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change CREATING NEW AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIESProfessor Peter Guthrie, Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, Cambridge; Fellow, St Edmund’s College. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Cambridge and the EnvironmentRecording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/ViceChancellorRichards.mp3 Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Hicks Room, University Centre. Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-19:00 The Politicisation of Irish LiteratureProf. Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford). Mill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 3. Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Genetics and Cancer" The BRCA2 gene (discovered by Professor Stratton and his team), and its involvement in human breast and prostate cancerProfessor Michael Stratton (Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Head of the Cancer Genome Project). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 16 February 2009, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society CANCELLED !!! "Uncovering and Exploiting Chinks in Cancer's Armour" - CANCELLED !!!Prof Alan Ashworth (Institute of Cancer Research Director – London). Monday 16 February 2009, 00:00-00:00 Darwin and Human SocietyProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse. Friday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causalityJoint lecture with Zangwill Club Stanislas Dehaene (INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Paris). Physiology Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Friday 13 February 2009, 16:15-17:15 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series Darwin in his time - and in oursFree admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org Professor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 12 February 2009, 17:15-18:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events The Maths of Diamonds, Race Fixing, Art Theft, and Professor MoriartyAdmission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org Professor John D. Barrow, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Thursday 12 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars Thyroid hormone transporter proteins: biology and insights from human disordersProfessor Theo Visser, Rotterdam. Seminar Rooms, Metabolic Research Labs, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science. Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:45-17:45 Plasticity, Regeneration and Repair of Spinal Cord InjuryJames Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Water, health and sustainable developmentDr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 11 February 2009, 18:00-19:30 Hydrodynamic simulation of multicellular embryo invagination and its biological predictionsPhilippe-Alexandre Pouille, Institut Curie, Paris. Wednesday 11 February 2009, 11:30-12:00 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change SMARTLIFE: GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGEDavid Arkell, Director, SmartLIFE and Head of Innovation & Partnerships, Cambridgeshire County Council. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Tuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 The Cultures of Climate Change The Cultures of Climate Change: Max Boykoff (ECI, Oxford)Speaker to be confirmed. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Tuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Parasites, people and policy: Infectious diseases and millenium development goals.Lord Robert May (Oxford). Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 09 February 2009, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?Dr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 09 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Darwin in the Literary WorldProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia. Friday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Journal ClubMichael Lombardo, ARC. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 06 February 2009, 12:00-13:00 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change INTEGRATING ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONSProfessor Julian Hunt (Lord Hunt of Chesterton), Professor of Climate Modelling, University College, London. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Thursday 05 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 The role of human prefrontal cortex in hierarchical decision makingJohn O’Doherty (Trinity College Dublin). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:15-17:15 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainable Development - great green dream or impossible ambition?Tony Juniper, former Director of Friends of the Earth. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 04 February 2009, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Forensic Genetics: application to crime scene investigation and the identification of human remains.Dr William Goodwin (University of Central Lancashire). Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 02 February 2009, 20:00-21:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Whether a creation-based religion can be consistent with science and evolutionRecording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/RabbiWeinreb.mp3 Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the executive vice president of the Orthodox. Union Debating Chamber at 9a Bridge Street. Monday 02 February 2009, 19:00-20:00 An a priori model of biased perceptual choiceChristopher Summerfield (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:15-17:15 New insights into neurogenic hypertensionJulian Paton, University of Bristol. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 Building bridges between genes, brains and language.http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512 Dr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.. Part II room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:30-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 The role of engineering in entering the ecological agePeter Head OBE FREng FRSA Director of Sustainability, Arup. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 28 January 2009, 18:00-19:30 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change ADAPTATION IN POOR COUNTRIESDr Flavio Comim, Senior Economist, United Nations Development Programme, Brazil and CSC/VHI, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:00 The Cultures of Climate Change The Cultures of Climate Change: Reading GroupSpeaker to be confirmed. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society All about stress in plants, from oxidative stress to programmed cell death.Dr Ilse Kranner. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 26 January 2009, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I Taylor Lecture - How metals can fall apart: Vision, observation and G I TaylorProfessor L M Brown FRS, Department of Physics. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 26 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 Darwin's Intellectual DevelopmentProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University. Friday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 Genetics of AutismPatricia Lewin, MD, IntegraGen. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 23 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B?Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org Dr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 22 January 2009, 17:15-18:30 Decoding the listening brain with human neuroimaging and machine learningElia Formisano (Maastricht University). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 22 January 2009, 16:15-17:15 Tonic inhibition regulates the transfer of sensory information through the cerebellar cortexIan Duguid. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series On Automatic Quantitative Verification of Biological SystemsTime changed Paolo Ballarini, CoSBi. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series BlenX, a language based approach for modelling biological systemsRoberto Larcher, CoSBi. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change RETHINKING PERSONAL MOBILITY: POLICY, TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS THINKINGDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy and Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Tuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "We know who you are, from the way you sound" Computer voice-recognition systems and what they can doThis lecture is joint with the Cambridge Philosophical Society Dr Kirsty McDougall (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 19 January 2009, 19:30-21:00 The Making of the FittestProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin. Friday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 Back to the future: memories for making predictions and decisionsMate Lengyel (University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 15 January 2009, 16:15-17:15 The Music of Life: metaphors for 21st century biologyDenis Noble, University of Oxford. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NECESSITIES AND PRIORITIESProfessor Martin Parry, Chair, IPCC's Task Group on Scenarios for Climate Impact Assessment. St Edmund’s College, Garden Room. Tuesday 13 January 2009, 17:00-18:00 Physics of Living Matter 3registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 16 December 2008, 09:00-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cellsREGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk SPEAKERS: Peter Andrews, Robin Lovell-Badge, James Byrne, Ian Chambers, Kevin Eggan, Martin Evans, Stephen Minger, Alison Murdoch and Kevin Shakesheff, CHAIRED BY: Chris Graham and Richard Gardiner, ORGANISERS: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon. Fitzwilliam College Auditorium. Friday 12 December 2008, 09:00-18:00 Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st centuryClosing date for registration is 5 December 2008. Fees range from £20 - £60. See here: https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/esales/confbookvmuh/intro.cgi Abbas Alhussainy, Michael Barry, Reinhard Bernbeck, Patrick Boylan et al. Gonville & Caius, Stephen Hawking Building. Friday 12 December 2008, 09:00-17:00 BIOFUELS – A VIABLE APPROACH TO CARBON REDUCTION?Dr Bruce Tofield, CRed, UEA Norwich. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 11 December 2008, 19:00-20:00 Still in the Aftermath of WaterlooMargaret Miles, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine. Fitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room, Trumpington Street. Thursday 11 December 2008, 17:45-18:45 Mobile Content-Sharing ApplicationsDaniele Quercia, University College London. Wednesday 10 December 2008, 11:00-11:30 The Imprinted Brain Theory of AutismDr. Christopher Badcock, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00 Top-down influences on visual processing studied with TMS and fMRIChristian Ruff (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:15-17:15 Title to be confirmedMagda Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Sustainable Energy - without the hot airProf David J C Mackay (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 01 December 2008, 19:30-21:00 OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEMDavid Haslam, MB BS, National Obesity Forum. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 27 November 2008, 19:00-20:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series Understanding Environmental Risk Perceptions: Climate Change, Energy Choices and Public Engagement with ScienceNick Pidgeon, Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University and ESRC Climate Change Professorial Fellow. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 27 November 2008, 17:15-18:30 Reward and choiceRay Dolan (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:15-17:15 Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attentionMani Ramaswami, Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars From Medical Images to Virtual Physiological HumansProf. Nicolas Ayache, INRIA. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 The Cultures of Climate Change Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008)Benjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge). CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society "Mysteries and Mechanisms of General Anaesthesia"Prof. Nick Franks. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 24 November 2008, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than othersDr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30 The Cultures of Climate Change The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of CivilisationDr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Thursday 20 November 2008, 19:00-20:30 Mirror-touch: A remarkable form of synaesthesiaJamie Ward (University of Sussex). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:15-17:15 Disease, experiment and physiologyJames Fitzsimons, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 Measuring osmotic modulation of synaptic responsesRichard Dyball, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Exactness and Approximation of the Stochastic Simulation AlgorithmIvan Mura, CoSBi. Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Colonies of Synchronizing Agents: Computability and RobustnessRadu Mardare, CoSBi. Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) “What goes round comes round” Making wind turbines from renewable materialsDr Jim Platts (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 17 November 2008, 19:30-21:00 Multimodal hypersensitivity in individuals with autism spectrum conditionsTeresa Tavassoli, Autism Research Centre. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 14 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Cerebral signature for pain perception and its modulation in health and diseaseIrene Tracey (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:15-17:15 Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafishCatherina Becker, University of Edinburgh. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 The Cultures of Climate Change Listening in PlaceDr Katharine Norman, City University. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society "Personal genomics, expectations and democracy"Dr Adam Hedgecoe. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 10 November 2008, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individualsProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30 Exploring the genetic and environmental causes of behaviours characteristic of autistic spectrum conditionsDr. Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck College, London. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 07 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Fireworks and Waterworks! Lecture & demonstration.Dr Andy Szydlo, Highgate School, London. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 06 November 2008, 19:00-20:00 Neural mechanisms of sequence learningBruno Averbeck (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:15-17:15 Controlling neural stem cell fates in the Drosophila optic lobeBoris Egger, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 Motor learning and the cerebellum: more of those blinking bunniesSteve Edgley, University of Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?Professor Sir John Sulston FRS. Wednesday 05 November 2008, 17:30-18:30 Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events Particle Hunting at CERNOpen to the general public - suggested age range 16+ Dr Ben Allanach DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 04 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Something’s come up": The Discovery of New Drugs, (including Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra)Dr Simon Campbell CBE (Former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Former Pfizer Senior Vice-President for Discovery). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 03 November 2008, 19:30-21:00 Human Evolution: past, present and futureProf Robert Foley, Dept of Biological Anthropology. Thursday 30 October 2008, 19:00-20:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible?All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:15-18:30 What's Left of Culture and Society?For further information and free tickets, please call 01223 332368 email: tanner.admin@clarehall.cam.ac.uk Prof Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary, University of London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site. Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-19:00 Geometric PDEThe lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College from 7 p.m. Prof Tobias Colding (MIT). Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30 Causal functional interactions between cortical areasWim Vanduffel (Catholic University of Leuven). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Axons, ions and injury: why synaptic machinery is present in your white matter and what it means for your chances during strokeRobert Fern, University of Leicester. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00 Millennia of Colour MakingDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site. Wednesday 29 October 2008, 18:00-18:45 Pulsars: A Marvellous SerendipityProfessor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Cambridge University Biological Society PhD or not PhD?PhD students (Cambridge). Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 27 October 2008, 18:30-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printingProfessor Ian Hutchings FREng, Institute for Manufacturing. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 27 October 2008, 17:30-18:30 What's the point of economics?Pre book on 01223 766766 Evan Davis, BBC Today presenter. Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Monday 27 October 2008, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge and the Meaning of LifeProf Alan Macfarlane, Dept of Social Anthropology. Friday 24 October 2008, 17:00-17:30 China: The World's Only Super-Power in the Late First MillenniumProf David McMullen, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Room 8-9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. Thursday 23 October 2008, 17:00-18:00 Remapping attentionPatrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Synaptic specificity in the visual systemJosh Sanes, Harvard University. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00 Into the Unknown: Medieval Travellers, Real and ImaginaryProf James Montgomery, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Room 8-9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 17:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars What makes cellular decisions irreversible?Prof. Béla Novák, University of Oxford. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series Computational analysis of the connection between cell cycle and circadian rhythmJudit Zámborszky, CoSBi. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Intelligence and the Living Cell": Adaptive behaviour and decision-making by single cellsProfessor Brian J Ford (President of CSAR). Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 20 October 2008, 19:30-21:00 The Enhanced Perceptual Functioning Model of AutismProf. Laurent Mottron, University of Montreal, Canada. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Monday 20 October 2008, 10:00-12:00 The Cultures of Climate Change Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy PolicyOliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse". CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Friday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:30 A funny turn in the brain: fMRI on jokesTristan Bekinschtein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 17 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Gods, Devils and Alcohol - Their Influence in Chemical NomenclatureFREE ENTRY Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Thursday 16 October 2008, 20:00-21:00 Perception and production of speech - a view from functional imagingSophie Scott (University College London). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Consider the mother as a pressure vessel: Adventures in Bioengineering and ObstetricsMichelle Oyen, Department of Engineering, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scalesProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Larmor Lecture: "Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scale"This lecture is jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society Professor Jeremy J Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre Department of Physics. University of Cambridge). Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 13 October 2008, 17:30-19:00 Molecules of MurderDr John Emsley. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 09 October 2008, 19:00-20:00 Imaging the relationship between structure, function and behaviour in the human brainHeidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degenerationMichael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-17:00 Conflict, competition and cognitive controlNick Yeung (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 02 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Isaac Newton Institute Distinguished Seminars Cryogenic TurbulenceInstitute distinguished event Professor K Sreenivasan (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste). Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute. Monday 29 September 2008, 17:00-18:00 A Scientific Wine Tasting - The Maturation of Port and Madeira WinesLuke Webster. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 25 September 2008, 19:00-20:00 Resting-state functional connectivity: Principles and applications in cognitive neuroscienceMichael Greicius (Stanford University School of Medicine). Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road. Thursday 25 September 2008, 16:15-17:15 Design of robotic toys and game scenarios for behavioral training of autistic children.Dr. Emilia I. Barakova, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 19 September 2008, 13:00-14:00 "Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"Prof. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School. Monday 08 September 2008, 15:30-16:30 Supra-regional brain systems in autism spectrum. Perspectives from neuroimagingnote special day Grainne McAlonan, University of Hong Kong. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Tuesday 29 July 2008, 13:00-14:00 An fMRI study of prior emotion processing on subsequent cognitive performance: relevance for psychiatric disordersDr. Nicholas Walsh, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 18 July 2008, 13:00-14:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Enzymatic computingKlaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Take control or how to manage your supervisorTristram Hooley, UK GRAD Programme. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 4Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Friday 11 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School In search of the holy grailWouter Spek, European Science Foundation. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How does the Internet work?Richard Black, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Summer School Grand challenges in computingTony Hoare, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Rough guide to being an entrepreneurJack Lang, University of Cambridge. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 11:00-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 3Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 10 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks The Geometry of the Space of ShapesHosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research) Prof. David Mumford (Brown University). Queen's Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College, CB2 3AP http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/conferences/maps/. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 16:30-17:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Mind-reading machinesPeter Robinson, University of Cambridge. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 2Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 09 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to give a great research talkSimon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 13:30-14:30 Microsoft Research Summer School How to write a great research paperSimon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 11:30-12:30 Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 1Several speakers. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 08 July 2008, 09:30-10:30 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Modelling and simulation of biological systems with COPASIProf. Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 25 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 Pragmatic me, pragmatic you: the development of informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspectiveDr. Napoleon Katsos, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 20 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 Spatial Representations in Numerical CognitionMartin Fischer (School of Psychology, University of Dundee). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:15-17:15 Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum THE ARMOURERS AND BRASIERS’ CAMBRIDGE FORUMsee http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/forum/ for details. Babbage Podium, New Museums Site. Tuesday 10 June 2008, 13:30-18:30 To what extent are autistic traits and intellectual impairment genetically related? Insights from a large population based twin studyDr. Rosa Hoekstra, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 06 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Containment and Democratic CosmopolitanismWine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm. Everyone is welcome. Professor Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Thursday 05 June 2008, 17:30-19:00 Binding temporary information in working memory: A role for an episodic buffer?Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:15-17:15 To Cross or Not To Cross? Transcriptional Control of Axonal Pathfinding Choices.Dr Sara I. Wilson, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00 "Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".Professor David Pellman, Havard Medical School.. Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 Getting in and out of mitosisThe Hutchison Grad Student Society are hosting their annual talk. The speaker is the Nobel Prize Laureate Prof Tim Hunt.For further details contact Amel Saadi (as741@cam.ac.uk). Sir Tim Hunt. Sackler Lecture theatre, CIMR, Addenbrookes. Tuesday 03 June 2008, 12:00-13:00 Isaac Newton Institute Distinguished Seminars Maps and graphs on surfacesInstitute distinguished event Professor C Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark). Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute. Thursday 29 May 2008, 17:00-18:00 Why does it hurt so much? Understanding the neurobiology of pain.Professor Steve McMahon, King’s College, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Structural analysis of cellular networksProf. Jörg Stelling, ETH Zürich. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 IMFAR 2008 conference jottingsARClub members. Library (1st Floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 23 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOURLIMITED SPACES SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY Speaker to be confirmed. Thursday 22 May 2008, 18:30-20:00 A magnesium-inhibitable conductance hyperpolarises the resting membrane potential of the human erythroleukemia cell lineDr Michael Mason. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-17:00 Does Sudoku Require Semantic Memory?A late amendment due to the cancellation of the previous speaker Karalyn Patterson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:15-17:15 Struggling to measure the number of protons pumped in by the calcium pump in snail neurones.Professor Roger Thomas, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:00-16:30 The Cultures of Climate Change The Disjointed Temporality of Climate ChangeKaren Pinkus, USC. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 19 May 2008, 17:00-18:30 ALL IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE - THE SCIENCE OF FOOD & FLAVOURDr Len Fisher, University of Bristol. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 15 May 2008, 19:00-20:00 Human evolution and the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.Robert Foley (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:15-17:15 The mammalian Y chromosome and infertility.Dr Paul Burgoyne, NIMR, MRC, London. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "I was nowhere near there at the time Guv - honest"Professor Sir Bob Hepple, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, former Master of Clare College. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 12 May 2008, 19:30-21:00 The Cultures of Climate Change The Ecological ThoughtTimothy Morton, UC-Davis. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 12 May 2008, 17:00-18:30 Event Related Potential (ERP) studies of autismDr. Howard Ring (Centre for Learning Disabilities and ARC, Cambridge). Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 09 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? STUDENT TALKS AND GRAND DISCUSSIONSpeaker to be confirmed. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Thursday 08 May 2008, 19:30-20:30 Imaging sub-cellular pH dynamics: from synapse to acinus.Dr Christof Schwiening, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:30-17:00 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). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:15-17:15 Analysis of cell movement in early embryos.Dr Benedicte Sanson, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-16:30 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? Chekhov’s poetic and social realism: poetry and politics on stageProfessor Anna Sica, University of Palermo, Theatre Studies. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Wednesday 07 May 2008, 19:30-20:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Twenty Chickens for a SaddleThis talk is open to everyone. Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the talk. Robyn Scott, Author of "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle". Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane. Wednesday 07 May 2008, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Cancer and the cell cycleSir Tim Hunt. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 06 May 2008, 20:00-21:30 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? Possibilities and limitations of understandingDr Michael Nedo, Director of The Wittgenstein Archive. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Monday 05 May 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? Are (human and other) animals rational?Professor Vaux, Department of Linguistics. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Thursday 01 May 2008, 19:30-20:30 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series International environmental governanceAdmission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 01 May 2008, 17:15-18:30 Adaptive face-coding mechanisms in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder.Liz Pellicano (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:15-17:15 Stem cell renewal and lineage selection in mammalian epidermis.Dr Fiona Watt, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:00-17:00 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? Understanding in ancient and modern Number TheoryProfessor John Coates, Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Wednesday 30 April 2008, 19:30-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and EthicsProfessor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Can we trust biologists?Lord Robert Winston. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 28 April 2008, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) www.Antibodies_Direct.comDr Jonathan Milner, Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 28 April 2008, 19:30-21:00 The Cultures of Climate Change Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable WorldNorman Myers, University of Oxford. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 28 April 2008, 17:00-18:30 Abnormalities in cultural knowledge in autism: a link between behaviour and cognition?Dr. Eva Loth, Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. Library (1st Floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 25 April 2008, 13:00-14:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problemAdmission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org Professor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 24 April 2008, 17:15-18:30 Phototransduction in Drosophila.Professor Roger Hardie, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:30-17:00 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). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:15-17:15 Placental evolution, structure and function.Dr Peter Wooding, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:00-16:30 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug designHiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainable Development at the Eden ProjectTim Smit (Eden Project). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 23 April 2008, 18:00-19:30 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Molecular arms race between host and parasite leads to evolution of robustness against gene loss in signaling networksDr Orkun Soyer, CoSBi. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 26 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 Wicken Fen: the science behind the visionSpeaker to be confirmed. University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge. Thursday 20 March 2008, 18:30-19:30 Science and technology in international developmentProfessor David King, Tim Radford, Peter Head. Cripps Court, Chesterton Lane, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Wednesday 19 March 2008, 19:30-20:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Not Mammoth Steaks Again?!Professor Martin Jones, Archaeological Sciences, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 17 March 2008, 19:30-21:00 A Beautiful LineAllan McRobie, Reader in Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room. Sunday 16 March 2008, 12:30-13:30 Sex, drugs and rock & roll – life in forensic scienceSpeaker to be confirmed. Arts School Room A, New Museums Site. Saturday 15 March 2008, 15:00-15:45 The aviation heritage of East AngliaTerry Holloway - Marshall's of Cambridge. Arts School Room A, New Museums Site. Saturday 15 March 2008, 14:00-14:45 Hyenas and minervas: women, science and historyDr Patricia Fara. Arts School Room A, New Museums Site. Saturday 15 March 2008, 13:00-13:45 Working at the speed of light: modern high power laser beamsDr Bill O'Neill. Saturday 15 March 2008, 12:15-13:00 The secret life of your brainAndrew Morris. Arts School Room A, New Museums Site. Saturday 15 March 2008, 12:00-12:45 It’s about timeAndrew Pontzen. Arts School Room A, New Museums Site. Saturday 15 March 2008, 11:00-11:45 Cambridge University Biological Society The human genome as an RNA machineProf John Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Friday 14 March 2008, 20:00-21:30 Smart drugs?Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry. Friday 14 March 2008, 19:30-20:30 Hidden in rock and frozen in timeDr Eric Wolff, BAS; Dr Aradhna Tripati, Dept of Earth Sciences. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 14 March 2008, 18:00-19:00 Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourismWill Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic; Duncan Law-Green, National Space Centre. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Thursday 13 March 2008, 20:00-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Memories are made of thisProf Steven Rose, Open University. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Thursday 13 March 2008, 18:30-20:00 Insight, Attention and ErrorIan Robertson (Trinity College, Dublin). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:15-17:15 Sustainable energy - without the hot airProfessor David MacKay, Department of Physics. University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 20:00-21:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Regulating Global CapitalismProfessor Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management and Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee, Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme (CBBP) at the Judge Business School. Gates Scholars' Common Room, University Centre. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 18:30-20:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Carbon Footprinting: Industry, People, the Universe and EverythingProfessor Adisa Azapagic (Manchester University). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 18:00-19:30 Acoustics and architectureProfessor Deborah Howard, Department of History of Art. University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 18:00-19:00 Art in Context: Two portraits by Bartel BehamDavid Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, The Fitzwilliam Museum. Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:15-13:45 Cambridge University Biological Society The early human occupation of Europe and BritainProf Jim Rose, Royal Holloway. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 11 March 2008, 20:00-21:30 Preserve the old, but know the newDr Ann Prentice, Medical Research Council. University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge. Tuesday 11 March 2008, 18:00-19:00 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? Student Papers and Grand DiscussionIs our university a place of free thinking? Mishko Hansen, Karin Doolan, Antoine Panaïoti. Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30 Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops?Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30 The big experimentDr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Monday 10 March 2008, 18:00-19:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME Professor David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany, Department of Plant Sciences. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 10 March 2008, 17:30-18:30 The Cultures of Climate Change The Bounding Main: On Poetry and FrostMelanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 10 March 2008, 17:00-18:30 Queens' College Politics Society National and International Environmental Policy and Climate ChangeSir Martin Holdgate. Erasmus room, Queens' College. Friday 07 March 2008, 19:30-21:00 Understanding Humans - Serendipity and AnthropologyProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University. Friday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? Are academics intellectuals?: a reading of Edward SaidIs our university a place of free thinking? Dr. Priyamvada Gopal (Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge). Thursday 06 March 2008, 19:30-20:30 The risk of terrorismSir Richard Dearlove, former Head of the Secret Intelligence Service. Fitzwilliam College Auditorium. Thursday 06 March 2008, 18:00-20:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing ChinaAdmission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org Sian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University, Hong Kong. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 06 March 2008, 17:15-18:30 Computational modelling of structural and functional development of the visual system.Dr Stephen Eglen (DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Science). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum Lapis LazuliDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Tuesday 04 March 2008, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Nanoelectronics and Quantum ComputingDr David Williams, Head of the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 03 March 2008, 19:30-21:00 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? Socrates and the invention of philosophical conversationIs our university a place of free thinking? Professor Malcolm Schofield (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge). Monday 03 March 2008, 17:30-18:30 Cosmological SerendipitySimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer. Friday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 The magnocellular theory of autismDr. Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge. Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 29 February 2008, 13:00-14:00 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? The thought of poetry and its institutional discontentsIs our university a place of free thinking? Dr Drew Milne (Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, University of Cambridge). Thursday 28 February 2008, 19:30-20:30 The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injuryDr David Parker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:30-17:00 Learning predictions and actions in the basal gangliaBen Seymour (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL & Dept of Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:15-17:15 The role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode identityDr Clare Baker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainable Development in the Built Environment; Progress or Procrastination?Professor Peter Brandon and Dr Patrizia Lombardi (Salford University). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 27 February 2008, 18:00-19:30 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? Freedom, Technology and TerrorIs our university a place of free thinking? Professor Ross Anderson (Security Engineering). Wednesday 27 February 2008, 18:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Spatial point process modelling and its applications in ecologyDr. Janine B. Illian, University of St. Andrews. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? What use is a college education?Is our university still a place for free thinking? Dr Don MacDonald. Tuesday 26 February 2008, 19:30-20:30 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series Local protein synthesis at synapsesJoin us after the lecture for sandwiches and sushi Professor Erin Schuman, California Institute of Technology. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 26 February 2008, 12:00-13:00 Cambridge University Biological Society From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulationProfessor Claudio Stern. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 25 February 2008, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Unpredictability and chance in science and technologyNOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 25 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 The Cultures of Climate Change "Serious Things": On Literature and EnvironmentalismGregory Norminton. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 25 February 2008, 17:00-18:30 The Cultures of Climate Change Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable DevelopmentDr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh). CRASSH Meeting Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 25 February 2008, 15:00-16:00 Serendipity as a Force in PhysicsProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series TALK CANCELLED: A clean start: the oocyte-to-embryo transition in C.elegansTALK CANCELLED: Professor Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road. Friday 22 February 2008, 13:15-14:00 The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08 Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary PerspectivesJanet Cardiff, Eric Clarke, Michael Bull, Graham Jeffrey, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Juliana Hodkinson, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Friday 22 February 2008, 10:00-18:00 Risk in PrisonsPhil Wheatley, HM Prison Service. Fitzwilliam College Auditorium. Thursday 21 February 2008, 18:00-20:00 A cognitive neuropsychological account of antidepressant drug actionCatherine Harmer (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:15-17:15 Early intracellular Abeta amyloid pathology and its relevance to Alzheimer's therapeuticsDr Claudio Cuello (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Why do humans share food?Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the lecture at 6 pm. This talk is open to the general public. Professor Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University. Tuesday 19 February 2008, 17:30-19:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Skin, scales and fins: Genetic Analysis of the Development of Adult Integumentary Organs in the ZebrafishProf Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 18 February 2008, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Rebuilding the Colossus of the Modern WorldTony Sale, Hon Fellow of the British Computer Society. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 18 February 2008, 19:30-21:00 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences EarthTalkDr Sally Gibson and Dr Lyall Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Saturday 16 February 2008, 13:30-14:30 Serendipity in Political LifeOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament. Friday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Reading our own emotions: How good are we?Jorrit de Kieviet and Bhismadev Chakrabarti (ARC). Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 15 February 2008, 13:00-14:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series The Economics of Climate Change: Governments, Companies and HouseholdsAdmission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org Adair Turner, Former Director-General of the CBI. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 14 February 2008, 17:15-18:30 Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia.Dr Andrew Murray (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:30-17:00 Developmental impairments of attention and working memory: Same of different?Sue Gathercole (University of York). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:15-17:15 The secret life of neural stem cellsDr Kojiro Yano (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Creating a Better Place - the Environment Agency - and shaping sustainabilityBaroness Barbara Young, Chief Executive of Environment Agency. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 13 February 2008, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Sundials and the calendarNOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME Dr Frank King, Computer Laboratory. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 11 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 The Cultures of Climate Change The Political Aesthetics of Climate ChangeKathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 11 February 2008, 17:00-18:30 The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing LifeSimon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'. Friday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series Glial cells generate neurons - mechanisms of neurogenesis and neuronal repairJoin us after the lecture for sandwiches and sushi in the Bateson Room Professor Magdalena Goetz, Institute of Stem Cell Research. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road. Friday 08 February 2008, 13:15-14:00 Cognitive processes and molecular mechanismsSeth Grant (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:15-17:15 Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease – Hype or Hope?Dr Roger Barker (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Climate change, peak oil, and the coming global energy crisisDr Jeremy Leggett (Solar Century). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 06 February 2008, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Journey of the FutureDr Liz Orme, Director of Transport, Cambridge Consultants. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 04 February 2008, 19:30-21:00 HIV and the Naked ApeProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London. Friday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Cell recording and fMRI reveal a specialized system for processing faces in the temporal lobeDoris Tsao (University of Bremen). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:15-17:15 Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair.Dr Colin Watts (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society (In collaboration with Trinity College Science Society) Lives in ScienceGeorgina Ferry, Science writer. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Monday 28 January 2008, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I Taylor Lecture - When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical odditiesNOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME Professor Jim Woodhouse, Department of Engineering. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 28 January 2008, 17:30-18:30 The Cultures of Climate Change Imaging the ArcticNick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 28 January 2008, 17:00-18:30 The Stratigraphy of SerendipityProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University. Friday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series Making neurons outside the stem cell nicheJoin us after the lecture for sandwiches and sushi in the Bateson Room Professor Sally Temple, NY Stem Cell Institute. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road. Friday 25 January 2008, 13:15-14:00 Be safe but starve, or eat but be eaten: how small decisions about risk have big consequencesWill Cresswell, University of St Andrews. Fitzwilliam College Auditorium. Thursday 24 January 2008, 18:00-20:00 Environment on the Edge Lecture Series Travelling 1st class on the Titanic?Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org Barbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Thursday 24 January 2008, 17:15-18:30 The neural architecture of social concepts and values: implications for neuropsychiatryRoland Zahn (University of Manchester). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:15-17:15 Chromatin and pluripotencyDr Veronique Azuara (Imperial College, London). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 The challenges of managing the American foreign aid program post-9/11 in Pakistan and AfghanistanMark Ward, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 23 January 2008, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Deadly companions - how microbes have shaped our historyProfessor Dorothy Crawford, University of Edinburgh. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 21 January 2008, 20:00-21:30 Serendipity's Guide to the GalaxyProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge. Friday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30 Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why?This talk is a joint Zangwill/Chaucer Seminar on FRIDAY at 4.30pm in the Dept of Experimental Psychology Colin Blakemore (University of Oxford). Dept of Experimental Psychology. Friday 18 January 2008, 16:30-17:30 CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC - LOOKING NORTH: ARCTIC SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR, 2007-2008Please visit www.soci.org for updated details/late cancellation notification. Prof Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar research Institute, Cambridge. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 17 January 2008, 19:00-20:00 Horses for courses in intrauterine programmingDr Abby Fowden (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:30-17:00 Reward and uncertaintyDr Wolfram Schultz (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience). Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-16:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Early-Modern Iberian Empires and the Scientific RevolutionThere will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm. PROFESSOR JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (Department of History, University of Texas at Austin—Author of ‘How to Write the History of the New World: History, Epistemology, and Identities in the 18th C. Atlantic World’). The Old Library, Emmanuel College. Tuesday 11 December 2007, 17:30-19:00 Three post-mortem studies of autism: new findings - TALK POSTPONEDDr Andrew Dean (Cambridge Brain Bank). Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 07 December 2007, 00:00-00:00 ARE WE STAR DUST OR NUCLEAR WASTE?Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 06 December 2007, 19:00-20:00 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). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 06 December 2007, 16:15-17:15 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Water that does not wet handsDr Zbigniew ("Andy") Szydlo. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 03 December 2007, 19:30-21:00 The Cultures of Climate Change Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of EnglandBettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 03 December 2007, 17:00-18:30 General Discussion SessionAll. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 16:30-17:00 Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cellsRon Weiss (Princeton). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 15:50-16:30 Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 14:40-15:20 Biological Engineering of Plant SystemsJim Haseloff (Cambridge). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 14:00-14:40 Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK PathwaysCaleb Bashor (UCSF). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 12:10-12:50 Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuitsGeorg Seelig (Caltech). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 11:30-12:10 Computational Design in Synthetic BiologyAlfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 10:20-11:00 The iGEM competition: Building with biologyJames Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 09:40-10:20 Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30)Gos Micklem (Cambridge). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2007, 09:05-09:40 Uncertainty and behavioural control: Episodes, actions and habitsPeter Dayan (University College London). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement and NeuroimagingThere will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm. PROFESSOR BARBARA SAHAKIAN, FMEDSCI (Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University). Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College. Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:30-19:00 The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08 Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war BeirutDominic Perring, Director, Centre for Applied Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Main Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane. Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:00-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Converting knowledge into treatments (Sex, drugs and frustration)Dr Peter Goodfellow, Head of Discovery, GSK. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 26 November 2007, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Hands-free writingNOTE: New start time and New venue Professor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30 The MRC Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (AIMS): An Updateplease note later start time Michael Lombardo (ARC). Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:30-15:30 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum Colours in GemstonesMrs Gill Mallet. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Tuesday 20 November 2007, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge University Biological Society What are imprinted genes doing in the brain: sex, polygamy and mental illnessProfessor Lawrence Wilkinson, University of Cardiff. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 19 November 2007, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Lives and Letters (the Robert Hooke Portfolio)Professor Lisa Jardine CBE, Queen Mary College, University of London. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 19 November 2007, 19:30-21:00 The Cultures of Climate Change ICT and Climate ChangeMolly Webb, The Climate Group. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 19 November 2007, 17:00-18:30 Cambridge University United Nations Association (CUUNA) The Future of the UNInternational Day of Tolerance Mr Tim Morris (Head, International Organisations Department, FCO). Main Physiology Lecture Theatre (Theatre 1), Physiology Department, Downing Site. Friday 16 November 2007, 16:15-18:00 Beyond localization. What brain imaging can tell usDick Passingham (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 Pain processing - what the brain tells the spinal cordProf. Anthony Dickenson, UCL. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-17:00 Millennium Mathematics Project Chance, Probability and Rankings: the Truth About League TablesThis lecture is fully booked. If you'd like to receive early notice of future lectures, please visit http://mmp.maths.org/events/eventlist.php to join our e-mail list. This is a low-volume e-mail list; usually only 1-2 e-mails are sent per term. Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge. MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for. Wednesday 14 November 2007, 17:00-18:00 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum The Sedgwick in the GalapagosDr David Norman, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Tuesday 13 November 2007, 19:00-20:00 The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08 TBCDalibor Vesely, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. Main Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane. Tuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Event Related Potentials and Maturation of Auditory Memory FunctionDr Oleg Korzyukov. MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm GS1. Tuesday 13 November 2007, 16:30-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)NOTE: New start time and New venue Professor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30 FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT !Dr Tom Smith, Davas UK Ltd, Kimbolton. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 08 November 2007, 19:00-20:00 Interneuron specification in the zebrafish spinal cordDr Katharine Lewis, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:30-17:00 Computational mechanisms for the generation and regulation of behaviourRichard Cooper (Birkbeck College, University of London). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 Mechanisms of Regulating Epidermal Stem Cell FateDr Michaela Frye, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:00-16:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society The physics of the Earth's interiorHONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE Professor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of LifeDr Nick Lane, UCL. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 05 November 2007, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Ancient VaultsProfessor Jacques Heymen, Former Head of Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 05 November 2007, 19:30-21:00 The Cultures of Climate Change What is a Climate Refugee?Deborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 05 November 2007, 17:00-18:30 Attention in autism: Evidence from change blindness studiesDr. Chris Ashwin (Essex University, Affective Neuroscience Lab, and ARC). Library (1st Floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Friday 02 November 2007, 13:00-14:00 Adapting a bacterial enzyme for gene therapy in the central nervous system.Dr John Rogers, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:30-17:00 The cognitive neuroscience of the human voicePascal Belin (University of Glasgow). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 Teenagers: A Natural HistoryDr David Bainbridge, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-16:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series The Global Conservation CrisisA wine reception will follow the talk. Offered in collaboration with The City Seminar at CRASSH. Mr. Anthony Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: the Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'. Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College. Tuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00 The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08 The Global Conservation Crisisoffered in collaboration with the Gates Cambridge Trusts' Distinguished Lecture Series Anthony M Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'. Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College. Tuesday 30 October 2007, 17:00-18:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Specialisation in the Human Brain: The Case of NumbersDr Roi Cohen Kadosh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept of Psychology, University College London. Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm 2S3. Tuesday 30 October 2007, 16:30-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Ancient WoodlandsNOTE: New start time and New venue Professor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge University Biological Society (In collaboration with Trinity College Science Society) Small silencing RNA - the dark matter of geneticsProfessor David Baulcombe, Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Thursday 25 October 2007, 20:00-21:30 Mesoderm formation in vertebrates - Identifying transcriptional targets of No tail in zebrafishDr Fiona Wardle, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-17:00 Sides, bottom and top; diverse mechanisms of cell adhesionDr Nick Brown, PDN. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-16:30 Fear conditioning deficits in Conduct Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome: Implications for amygdala-based accounts of developmental psychopathologyDr. Graeme Fairchild, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University. Library (1st Floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road. Thursday 25 October 2007, 13:00-14:00 Tanner Lecture: The RespondentsPlease note that this event is taking place at Robinson College. Registration for this event is not required (the main talk on 22 October is). Prof. Roger Brownsword, Dr. John Cornwell, Prof. Peter Lipton, Dr. Adrian Owen. Tuesday 23 October 2007, 09:30-13:00 Cambridge University Biological Society The Mystery of Intracellular Timers in Animal DevelopmentProfessor Martin Raff, Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 22 October 2007, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The invention of the High Power MicroscopeCelebrating Antony van Leeuwenhoek's 375th Birthday Professor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 22 October 2007, 19:30-21:00 The Cultures of Climate Change Klaatu barada nikto - Climate Change and other acts of ImaginationCaspar Henderson, Author and Journalist. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Monday 22 October 2007, 17:00-18:30 Medicine, Neuroscience, Ethics and SocietyImportant: Registration is required for Monday's talk given by Prof. Illes and Lord Winston. To register for tickets, please email Clare Hall's Alumni Officer at rw335@cam.ac.uk Professor Judith Illes and Professor Lord Robert Winston. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Monday 22 October 2007, 16:00-17:30 Functional interactions of frontal cortex during action selection and attentional selectionMatthew Rushworth (University of Oxford). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:15-17:15 Understanding actions.Dr James Kilner, The Institute of Neurology, UCL. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars Statistical mechanics of large optimisation problemsProf. Giorgio Parisi, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Thursday 18 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08 The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter BenjaminAlex Regier, Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge. CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane. Tuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of GalaxiesNOTE: New start time and New venue Professor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 15 October 2007, 17:30-18:30 Strangers and Brothers: The Divisions of the British PastC. P. Snow Lecture Professor Linda Colley, Princeton University. Plumb Auditorium, Christ's College. Friday 12 October 2007, 17:30-18:45 BEAGLE 2 AND BEYOND – THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATIONProf Colin Pillinger FRS, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 11 October 2007, 19:00-20:00 Knowing Me, Knowing YouNeil Macrae (University of Aberdeen). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 11 October 2007, 16:15-17:15 Where is the plasticity in cerebellum-dependent forms of learning?Prof. Christopher H. Yeo, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 11 October 2007, 16:00-17:00 Monoamines and mechanosensory behaviour in C. elegansDr William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Thursday 04 October 2007, 16:00-17:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Book Launch of 'Cool it' - bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg's latest releaseProf Bjorn Lomborg. Wednesday 03 October 2007, 19:00-20:00 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Global WarmingProfessor Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and Author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist’, ‘How to Spend $50B to Make the World a Better Place’, and ‘Cool It’. Gates Scholars' Combination Room, University Centre. Wednesday 03 October 2007, 15:00-16:30 DO ANIMALS HAVE MEMORIES OF TOMORROW?Prof. Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Friday 28 September 2007, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity Professor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College.. Wednesday 12 September 2007, 17:00-18:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Physics-Based Human Motion Models for Animation and TrackingAaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto. Tuesday 11 September 2007, 15:00-16:00 BITING BACK AT BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTSDr James Logan, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 06 September 2007, 19:00-20:00 Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: building bridges or falling between two stools?Barbara Wilson (MRC-CBU). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Tuesday 04 September 2007, 16:15-17:15 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Bayesian network structure learning from uncertain interventionsKevin Murphy, University of British Columbia. Tuesday 14 August 2007, 15:00-16:00 Physics - Educational Outreach MRAO at 50: Observing the Origin and Evolution of the Universe from CambridgeThis lecture is free and open to all but tickets are required: book on line at http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/mrao50/lecture.html Professor Malcolm Longair. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Saturday 28 July 2007, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Generative models for audio and music processingTaylan Cemgil, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 26 June 2007, 15:00-16:00 Human memory: new insights and fresh challengesNote Wednesday (not Thurs as usual) Dr Kim Graham. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Wednesday 20 June 2007, 16:15-17:30 Pluripotency and the early embryo: overriding development for production of embryonic stem cellsDr. Jenny Nichols, PDN/Stem Cell Institute. Thursday 14 June 2007, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Nuclear Fusion as a Global Energy Source? Work at UKAEA Culham Laboratory and elsewhere to harness fusion energyProfessor Chris Llewellyn-Smith FRS. Director, UKAEA Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Oxford. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 11 June 2007, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Take the Eurostar to Stratford...Dr Mike Glover, Director, Arup Engineering, London, project manager of the High-Speed link. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Saturday 09 June 2007, 19:30-21:00 Fundamental principles of cognition, which might apply across several cognitive domainsProfessor Nick Chater (UCL). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 07 June 2007, 16:15-17:30 Axon and dendrite geography predict the specificity of synaptic connections in a functioning spinal cord networkProf. Alan Roberts, University of Bristol. Thursday 07 June 2007, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars identity variables for face recognition: from distance based methods to probabilistic inferenceSimon Prince, University College London. Tuesday 05 June 2007, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) "Actually you were' and I can prove it"Mr Skip Palenik, President, Microtrace, Illinois, USA. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Saturday 02 June 2007, 19:30-21:00 Platelet Store-operated Ca2+ entry: The NCX trips up the TRPDr. Stewart Sage, PDN. Thursday 31 May 2007, 16:30-17:00 The time-course of response inhibition revealed by an examination of movement trajectoryProfessor Robin Walker (Royal Holloway, University of London). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 31 May 2007, 16:15-17:30 Arrhythmogenic mechanisms in the isolated perfused hypokalemic murine heartProf. Chris Huang, PDN. Thursday 31 May 2007, 16:00-16:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) www.Antibodies_Direct.com The story of Abcam; selling antibodies on-lineDr Jonathan Milner. Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 28 May 2007, 19:30-21:00 Imaging voice-specific responses in auditory areasCanceled Professor Pascal Belin (Glasgow). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 24 May 2007, 16:15-17:30 Central circuits that subserve pain of different behavioural significance and their descending controlDr. Bridget Lumb, University of Bristol. Thursday 24 May 2007, 16:00-17:00 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Neural correlates of number magnitude processing in children & adults: evidence from fMRIDr Liane Kaufmann, Clinical Dept. of General Paediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University. Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm 2S4. Tuesday 22 May 2007, 16:30-18:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks Accelerating Discovery: A Grand Challenge for HCIProfessor Ben Shneiderman. Monday 21 May 2007, 14:00-15:00 BACK TO THE FUTURE - TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT REVISITEDFree & open to all Prof. Peter Lillford, CBE, University of York. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 17 May 2007, 19:00-20:00 Can the mirror neuron system infer intentions from observed action?Dr James Kilner (UCL). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 17 May 2007, 16:15-17:30 Prenatal Origins of Heart Disease: The Role of Hypoxia and Oxidative StressDr. Dino Giussani, PDN. Thursday 17 May 2007, 16:00-16:30 Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual Grand DiscussionThe Place of the Intellectual Cristina Devecchi, Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn. Wednesday 16 May 2007, 17:00-19:00 Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual Plato and Aristotle on why an intellectual life is even better than a moral oneThe Place of the Intellectual Professor David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy. Tuesday 15 May 2007, 17:00-19:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Mending Broken Hearts: replacing damaged cardiac muscle; the MAGIC programmeMr Stephen Large FRCS, Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 14 May 2007, 19:30-21:00 Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognitionCanceled Professor Neil Macrae (Aberdeen). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 10 May 2007, 16:15-17:30 Acoustical Spacetime Geometry and Shock FormationProfessor Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH-Zurich. Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 08 May 2007, 17:00-18:00 Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual Intellectuals, oil, and violenceThe Place of the Intellectual Dr Alexander Etkind, Lecturer of Slavonic and Russian Studies. Monday 07 May 2007, 17:00-19:00 Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual A scientific approach to the nature of ethicsThe Place of the Intellectual Professor Robert Hinde, Emeritus Professor of Zoology. Thursday 03 May 2007, 19:30-20:30 The thoughts and brain activity of taxi drivers navigating in LondonDr Hugo Spiers (UCL). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 03 May 2007, 16:15-17:30 An interaction between the Trk and EphA tyrosine kinase families controls retinotectal topographyHost: Matthieu Vermeren Dr. Uwe Drescher, King's College London. Thursday 03 May 2007, 16:00-17:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Sustainable DevelopmentProfessor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 02 May 2007, 18:00-19:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous SystemProfessor Robin Franklin. Neurosciences Laboratory (Department of Veterinary medicine) and the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 30 April 2007, 19:30-21:00 Psychological factors in the epidemiology of diseaseDr Paul Surtees (Cambridge). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 26 April 2007, 16:15-17:30 Experience Dependent Mechanisms of Visual System DevelopmentHost: Bill Harris Prof. Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor. Thursday 26 April 2007, 16:00-17:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Why sustainable development might be bad for the environmentProfessor Susan Owens, Cambridge University. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 25 April 2007, 18:00-19:30 The effects of learning on the neural representation of natural objects in extrastriate, temporal and prefrontal cortexDr Gregor Rainer (Tuebingen). Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 19 April 2007, 16:15-17:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars A Bayesian model that links microarray mRNA measurements to mass spectrometry protein measurementsAnitha Kannan, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Tuesday 10 April 2007, 15:00-16:00 The 27km machine and the building blocks of the UniverseDr Brian Cox. Friday 23 March 2007, 19:30-20:30 The Scale of Science Panel DiscussionPanel of Speakers. Law Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ. Thursday 22 March 2007, 19:30-20:30 Who Do You Think You Are?Dr Wolf Reik. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Monday 19 March 2007, 19:30-20:30 Cabaret: Science of Sex, Drugs and Rock n RollDr Harry Witchel, Dr Graeme Jones and Dr Mark Lewney. Sunday 18 March 2007, 19:45-20:45 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Motion TrackingFabian Wauthier, University of Edinburgh. Friday 16 March 2007, 10:00-11:00 Science in the Real World and Stem Cell ScienceProfessor Colin Blakemore and Professor Austin Smith. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Thursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:30 Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognitionCANCELLED Professor Neil Macrae, Aberdeen University. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 15 March 2007, 16:15-17:30 The Importance of Being PeripheralProfessor John Barrow. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 19:30-20:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 A new sustainable way of life - the sine qua non of human development ? CANCELLEDClare Short MP (CANCELLED). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 18:00-19:30 Thinking Society: What is Life? Student Papers and Grand DiscussionWhat is Life? Gaurav Jaggi, Colin Higgins, Kevin Channon - Discussion. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 17:00-19:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars A complete set of rotationally and translationally invariant features based on a generalization of the bispectrum to non-commutative groupsImre Risi Kondor, Columbia University. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 15:30-16:30 From 1822 Until Today - Technology of PhotographyTony Kaye (ex Kodak UK). Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 13 March 2007, 19:00-20:00 The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH Title to be confirmedMirjam Struppek (Urban Media Research; Berlin). CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX. Tuesday 13 March 2007, 17:15-18:30 Thinking Society: What is Life? What is Music? What is Life? and other unanswerable questionsWhat is Life? Dr Nikolaus Bacht, Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music. Tuesday 13 March 2007, 17:00-18:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Reverse Engineering the Human Visual System with Networks of Spiking NeuronsSimon Thorpe, Brain and Cognition Research Centre, Toulouse France. Tuesday 13 March 2007, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'Professor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 12 March 2007, 20:30-21:30 SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERSPeter Crane, University of Chicago. Friday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30 Thinking Society: What is Life? Self-discipline as a way of life: Why would anyone eat only fruits and vegatables?What is Life? Professor Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy. Friday 09 March 2007, 17:00-18:30 A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physicsProfessor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 Thinking Society: What is Life? Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life?What is Life? Dr David Summers, Head of Genetics Department. Thursday 08 March 2007, 19:30-21:00 11thousand autobiographical memories: Results from the BBC memory surveyProfessor Martin Conway, Leeds University. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 08 March 2007, 16:15-17:30 Imaging neurulation in the zebrafish embryoNote change of venue Dr. Richard Adams, PDN. Thursday 08 March 2007, 16:00-16:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 One Planet LivingPooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series The Visual and the Visceral: Pornography and Sanctity, Modern and MedievalDr William Burgwinkle, Reader in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Fellow of King's College. Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium - Magdalene College. Wednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:00 Optics with laser-like atom wavesProfessor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 Thinking Society: What is Life? Incorporating Life into Philosophy: Dilthey, Bergson and HeideggerWhat is Life? Dr Melissa Lane, Senior Lecturer in History. Tuesday 06 March 2007, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Eternal Triangle: Science, Propaganda and Disease Control; the facts behind the 2001 Foot and Mouth EpidemicDr Mike Thrusfield, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, University of Edinburgh. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 05 March 2007, 19:30-21:00 Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trappingRefreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer Professor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 IMMUNOLOGICAL SELFPhilippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado. Friday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30 Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in episodic memory and strategy implementationDr Mark Baxter, University of Oxford. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 01 March 2007, 16:15-17:30 Sweet dreams: new pathways of glucose-sensing in the brainHost: Richard Dyball Dr. Denis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology. Thursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-17:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 Can we quantify sustainability ?Professor Richard Darton, Oxford University. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 28 February 2007, 18:00-19:30 The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH Kierkegaard & Copenhagen: From Genius in a Market-Town or Philosopher-FlâneurGeorge Pattison (Theology; University of Oxford). CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX. Tuesday 27 February 2007, 17:15-18:30 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Parietal mechanisms subserving the mental number lineDr Ed Hubbard, INSERM Cognitive Neuroimaging Service, Orsay, France. Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm 1S7. Tuesday 27 February 2007, 16:30-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with themProfessor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 26 February 2007, 20:30-21:30 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Dinosaurs from MongoliaDr Altangerel Perle, National University of Mongolia, Ulaan Bataar. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Monday 26 February 2007, 11:00-11:30 Clarifying the functional neuro-anatomy of face processing by combining lesion studies and neuroimagingDr Bruno Rossion, UCL Belgium. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:15-17:30 Plasticity of neuron to astrocyte signalling in the cerebellumHost: Steve Edgley Dr. Tom Bellamy, Babraham Institute. Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-17:00 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 When the Rivers Run DryFred Pearce, New Scientist. Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 21 February 2007, 18:00-19:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Web 2.0Dr Philip Evans, senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group. Boston, USA. Wednesday 21 February 2007, 18:00-19:00 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum Evolution in the giant marine reptiles of the MesozoicDr Leslie Noe, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Tuesday 20 February 2007, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Stem cell biology: hype and realityProfessor Austin Smith, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 19 February 2007, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Calving of Larson-B and other phenomena: Climate Change in the AntarcticProfessor David Vaughan, Deputy Director, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 19 February 2007, 19:30-21:00 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences EarthTalkDr Alex Piotrovski, Hilary Ketchum, Dr John Hillier. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Saturday 17 February 2007, 13:30-14:30 Epithelial Physiology: facts, fantasies and funThe Physiological Society 2006 G.L. Brown Prize Lecture Prof. Richard Boyd, University of Oxford. Thursday 15 February 2007, 16:00-17:00 The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH Title to be confirmedMette Ramsgard Thomsen (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen). CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX. Tuesday 13 February 2007, 17:15-18:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?Professor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 12 February 2007, 20:30-21:30 Cambridge University Biological Society From antibody inventions to start-up companies and blockbuster therapeuticsSir Greg Winter, MRC-LMB. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 12 February 2007, 20:00-21:30 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Margin- and Evidence-Based Approaches for EEG Signal ClassificationN. Jeremy Hill, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Friday 09 February 2007, 15:00-16:00 Investigation of the relationship between the BOLD response and cortical oscillatory dynamics using MEG and fMRIDue to weather conditions this talk is cancelled Professor Krish Singh, Cardiff University. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 08 February 2007, 16:15-17:30 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 The promise of energy biosciencesDr Steven Koonin (Chief Scientist, BP). Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street. Wednesday 07 February 2007, 18:00-19:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series Managing China's RiseSir Christopher Hum, KCMG, Master of Gonville and Caius College. Benson Hall, Magdalene College. Wednesday 07 February 2007, 18:00-19:00 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) Understanding selective attentional and perceptual abnormalities in autismDr Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, University of Cambridge. Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm 1S7. Tuesday 06 February 2007, 16:30-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Avian 'Flu - The origin of SARS and the impact of avian influenza H5N1 upon mammals and wild birdsDr Diana Bell, School of Biological Sciences, University of east Anglia, Norwich. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 05 February 2007, 19:30-21:00 Selectivity in the expression of pre- and post-synaptic mechanisms in cortical circuitsNote change of time; Host: Sue Jones Prof. Alex Thomson, School of Pharmacy, London. Thursday 01 February 2007, 16:30-17:30 Crossing the divide: Interactions between the processing of regular and irregular past tense wordsProfessor Elaine Funnell, Royal Holloway, University of London. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 01 February 2007, 16:15-17:30 The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH Alternative spatialities for a global cityDoreen Massey (Geography; The Open University). CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX. Tuesday 30 January 2007, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquidsProfessor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 29 January 2007, 20:30-21:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Mission Possible: Defeating the silent killerProfessor Frances Balkwill, Institute of Cancer, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 29 January 2007, 20:00-21:30 Modelling of primary processes in Drosophila phototransductionDr. Marten Postma, Hardie Lab, PDN. Thursday 25 January 2007, 16:30-17:00 Prefrontal contributions to dynamic cognitive controlDr Hugh Garavan, Trinity College Dublin. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 25 January 2007, 16:15-17:30 E.solo and E.pluribus: two new experimental organismsProf. Dennis Bray, PDN. Thursday 25 January 2007, 16:00-16:30 Gates Distinguished Lecture Series To Boldly Go. My Life in Physics.To reserve a place email GatesHawking@gmail.com Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law. Wednesday 24 January 2007, 18:00-19:00 Global Earth Science and SustainabilityC. P. Snow Lecture Professor Charles Kennel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego). Wednesday 24 January 2007, 17:00-18:00 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum Death , destruction and evolution of sea-shellsDr Liz Harper, Dept.of Earth Sciences, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Tuesday 23 January 2007, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Taking the stink out of instinctSir Patrick Bateson, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 22 January 2007, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) A Stitch in Time: The molecular Basis of DNA repairjoint meeting with Cambridge Philosophical Society Professor Steve Jackson, Wellcome Trust, CRUK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 22 January 2007, 19:30-21:00 Auditory processing, language impairment and developmental dyslexiaProfessor Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 18 January 2007, 16:15-17:30 Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuitsHost: Kate Lewis Prof. Steve Wilson, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, UCL. Thursday 18 January 2007, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Computer Go Research in the University of Alberta GAMES GroupMartin Müller, University of Alberta. Jasmine meeting room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge. Tuesday 02 January 2007, 15:00-16:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Where’s my rocket? – Stochastic simulations of rocket flight pathsSimon Box, Microsoft Research. Tuesday 12 December 2006, 15:00-16:00 Evolution lecture : Darwin's Dilemma - The Burgess Shale and The Cambrian ExplosionProf. Simon Conway Morris. Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of. Thursday 07 December 2006, 19:00-20:00 Hearing with a cochlear implant: The perception of sound intensityProf Colette McKay, Aston University Birmingham. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 07 December 2006, 16:15-17:30 THE CHEMISTRY OF CHRISTMAS - an exciting practical demonstration lectureDr Colin Pulham & Prof Lesley Yellowlees (University of Edinburgh). Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Wednesday 06 December 2006, 19:00-20:00 Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society DiscussionChair: Ian Fells, University of Newcastle. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 December 2006, 16:40-17:30 Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Nuclear fission and fusionWilliam J Nuttall, Judge Business School, Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 December 2006, 15:50-16:30 Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Tide, Wave, and Offshore WindTrevor Whittaker, Queen's University of Belfast. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 December 2006, 14:30-15:10 Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society BiofuelsKarl Carter, British Sugar. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 December 2006, 13:30-14:10 Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Carbon SequestrationJon Gibbins, Imperial College London. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 December 2006, 11:30-12:10 Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society The Transition from Fossil FuelsNick Butler, B.P.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 December 2006, 10:10-10:50 Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society The Big PictureDaniel Nocera, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 December 2006, 09:10-09:50 Experience-dependent plasticity as revealed by fMRIDr Zoe Kourtzi, University of Birmingham. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 30 November 2006, 16:15-17:30 Domains of the electrogenic Na/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 that contribute to function, expression, and ion translocationAdditional Talk: Host - Christof Schwiening Prof. Mark Bevensee; Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Bryan Matthews Room, Physiological Laboratory. Thursday 30 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Learning Conditional Random Fields with Hierarchical Features: Application to the Game of GoScott Sanner, University of Toronto. Wednesday 29 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Thinking Society: General and Particular Student papers and Grand DiscussionWebsite: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Dr Aldo Faisal, Rodrigo de Sousa, Alex Shannon. Tuesday 28 November 2006, 19:30-21:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Constraint Programming Techniques for Virtual Camera ControlMarc Christie, Nantes University. Tuesday 28 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets NanoscienceProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 27 November 2006, 20:30-21:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Protein folding, misfolding and diseaseSir Alan Fersht, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 27 November 2006, 20:00-21:30 MIXING CHEMICALS AND CHARACTERS: The craft of writing science-based fictionMalcolm Rose - prizewinning childrens science fiction author. Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Thursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:00 Thinking Society: General and Particular The death of theorising?Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Sir Patrick Bateson, Professor of Ethology, University of Cambridge. Thursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:30 Do S-cones contribute to the perception of brightness?The talk advertised for today (Dr Kia Nobre) had to be canceled, but we are fortunate to have Prof Wehrhahn step in at the last moment Prof Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany and the Visual Center Lab at the Salk Institute in the US.. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:15-17:30 Dynamics of gamma oscillations in the neocortexDr Hugh Robinson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 Functions, mechanisms and evolution of genomic imprintingDr Anne Ferguson-Smith, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 Thinking Society: General and Particular Varieties of theory in modern AmericaWebsite: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Dr Joel Isaac, Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 21 November 2006, 19:30-21:00 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum Preservation of Burgess-Shale-type fossils: implications for early animal evolutionDr Nick Butterfield, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Tuesday 21 November 2006, 19:00-20:00 Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE) The Role of Language in Mathematical DevelopmentDr Chris Donlan, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London. Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm GS1. Tuesday 21 November 2006, 16:30-18:00 The chemical synapse goes electric: GPCRs, voltage and beyondAdditional Talk: Host - Martyn Mahaut-Smith Profs. Itzchak & Hanna Parnas; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Tuesday 21 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Francis Crick's place in historyDr Matt Ridley. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 20 November 2006, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Children of Eve: Exon Sequencing; identifying variation in the human genomeDr Alison 'Pod' Coffey, Sanger Centre, Hinxton Hall, Cambridgeshire. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 20 November 2006, 19:30-21:00 Neural mechanisms of attention and cognitive control in the human brain: Evidence from TMSDr Chris Chambers, University College London. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:15-17:30 Motor neuron degeneration and legs at odd anglesHost: Bill Colledge Prof. Elizabeth Fisher. Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 Thinking Society: General and Particular Process or cultural relativism in prehistory?Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Dr Simon Stoddart, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 14 November 2006, 19:00-20:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous systemDr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 13 November 2006, 20:30-21:30 Cambridge University Biological Society Influenza virus membrane glycoproteins in virus replication and variationSir John Skehel, MRC-NIMR. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 13 November 2006, 20:00-21:30 The role of the hippocampus in relational memory: Evidence from amnesia and fMRIProf Mieke Verfaellie, University of Boston. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:15-17:30 How does the cytoskeleton regulate cell shape during morphogenesis?Dr Katja Roper, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 New brain cells for old - neurogenesis in the adult brain: what happens and does it matter?Prof. Joe Herbert, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars Learning microRNA regulatory networks from genomic sequence and expression dataJim Huang, University of Toronto. Tuesday 07 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Sleepfaring: A journey through the science of sleepProfessor Jim Horne, Loughborough Sleep Research Centre. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 06 November 2006, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Mother Nature Knows Best: Making Heat-Stable VaccinesDr Bruce Roser, Chief Scientific Officer, Cambridge Biostability, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 06 November 2006, 19:30-21:00 Thinking Society: General and Particular Is history science?Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Professor Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Monday 06 November 2006, 18:30-20:00 Spectacular Chemistry Lecture & Demonstration - Thunder & Lightning !Colin Baker, Director Studies, Bedford School. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, Department of. Thursday 02 November 2006, 19:00-20:00 Semantic knowledge and the anterior temporal lobes: why doesn't anyone believe us?Dr Tim Rogers, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. Thursday 02 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 Programming the blood & cardiovascular system in Xenopus & zebrafish embryosHost: Sarah Bray Prof. Roger Patient, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. Thursday 02 November 2006, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell CycleSir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK. Wednesday 01 November 2006, 17:30-18:30 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum The Cambrian explosion: as mysterious as ever?Professor Simon Conway Morris, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Tuesday 31 October 2006, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The life habits of the trilobitesProfessor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 30 October 2006, 20:30-21:30 Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need gliaDr Matthieu Vermeren, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00 Neuronal excitability is controlled by pH - but the pH of what?Schwiening Lab, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Malaria: from science to actionProfessor Nicholas White, Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Monday 23 October 2006, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Soft Small and Interesting - Soft Matter: towards Soft NanotechnologyProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Professor of Physics of Materials, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 23 October 2006, 19:30-21:00 History of Science : Gaiters and gunpowder - the extraordinary story of Richard Watson, professor of chemistry and bishop.Prof. Colin A.Russell, The Open University and the University of Cambridge.. Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of. Thursday 19 October 2006, 19:00-20:00 Roles of feedback regulation of signaling in kidney and brain developmentHost: Clare Baker Prof. Ivor Mason, King's College London. Thursday 19 October 2006, 16:00-17:00 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum Why study the Burgess Shale? Memories from the 1966-7 expeditionsProfessor Harry Whittington (former Woodwardian Professor), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Tuesday 17 October 2006, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Sentient Computing- Larmor LectureNote unusual time and venue Professor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building. Monday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00 Chipping away at genome regulationDr Rob White, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00 (feed)-Back to the Future: (feed)-Forward thinking on the interplay between Golgi cells and granule cells in the cerebellumDr Tahl Holtzman, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Why intelligent design is for stupid peopleProfessor Steve Jones, Department of Genetics, UCL. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 09 October 2006, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Colision Course - How Science is abused by the MediaProfessor Brian J Ford, Writer, Broadcaster and CSAR Member of Council. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 09 October 2006, 19:30-21:00 From sodium pump to calcium pump - going round in circles?Prof. Roger Thomas, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience. Thursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-17:00 Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum Magnetic Materials: Where are the limits?THE EIGHTH KELLY LECTURE Professor Michael Coey , Trinity College , Dublin. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site. Tuesday 13 June 2006, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Looking inside a star (and other stories) - Developments in Radio Astronomy made here in CambridgeProfessor Richard Hills, Professor of Radio Astronomy, the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Tuesday 06 June 2006, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Nobel Laureate Talk - John WalkerProfessor Sir John Walker. Monday 05 June 2006, 20:00-21:30 Art & Authenticity - Science in the fight against art forgeryDr Nicholas Eastaugh, Pigmentum Project. Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of. Thursday 01 June 2006, 19:00-20:00 Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments To be confirmedDr Tsuyoshi Kimura. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Physics, Department of. Tuesday 30 May 2006, 16:00-17:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) An Alternative to the Infernal Combustion engine.? - Modern Fuel CellsProfessor John Kilner, Department of Materials, Imperial College, London. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 22 May 2006, 19:30-21:00 Ergodic theorems along polynomials: from combinatorial applications to challenges for physicistsThe lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. in St John's College gardens. Professor Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University. Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 09 May 2006, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Obesity and Modern Humans - Diet, lifestyle or simply in our genes?Professor Steve ORahilly, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 08 May 2006, 19:30-21:00 Major Public Lectures in Cambridge Human Evolution: what can be known?Public Lecture - All Welcome Richard Leakey. Tuesday 02 May 2006, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge University Biological Society Biological Computation: The Machinery of the Cell - Nobel Laureate TalkNote venue is the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Chemistry department Professor Sir Sydney Brenner. Monday 01 May 2006, 20:00-21:30 An introduction to Molecular Gastronomy - Why do we like some foods and hate others ?Dr Peter Barham, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol. Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of. Wednesday 26 April 2006, 19:00-20:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Defence research: Changing world, changing priorities (R&D in the MoD)Professor Phil Sutton, Director-General (Research and Development), Ministry of Defence, Whitehall. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 24 April 2006, 19:30-21:00 Objects and the Scientific Self II: Wastelands and WildernessSpeaker to be confirmed. ffffff, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Tuesday 14 March 2006, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 13 March 2006, 20:30-21:30 Objects and the Scientific Self I: What Machines Demand of UsPeter Galison. ffffff, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Tuesday 07 March 2006, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Antibiotics are no substitute for good hygiene - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; the importance of hospital cleanliness and practicesDr Norman Alan Simmons, CBE, Emeritus Consultant Microbiologist, Guys and St Thomas Hospital Trust. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 06 March 2006, 19:30-21:00 Images, Objects and the Scientific Self: Picturing ObjectivityPeter Galison. ffffff, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Monday 06 March 2006, 17:00-18:00 SURVIVING LONGERCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco. Friday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30 Images, Objects and the Scientific Self: The Assassin of RelativityPeter Galison. ffffff, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Tuesday 28 February 2006, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.Professor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 27 February 2006, 20:30-21:30 SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINEAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Friday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Antibiotics, 75 years on - New antibiotics, using genes cloned from Streptomyces speciesProfessor Sir David Hopwood, FRS, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 20 February 2006, 19:30-21:00 SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERSJames Jackson, Cambridge University. Friday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Inositol: evolution's favourite molecule?Professor Robin Irvine, FRS. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 13 February 2006, 20:30-21:30 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Diquarks: Reforming Hadron SpectroscopyProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 10 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Dark Matters: WIMPs and AxionsProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 08 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Just print me another computer, will you? - The world of plastic electronicsDr Henning Sirringhaus, Chief Scientist at Plastic Logic, Cambridge Science Park, Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Tuesday 07 February 2006, 19:30-21:00 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family ProblemProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGESPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London. Friday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Hush, here comes an aircraft! - The Silent Aircraft InitiativeProfessor Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 23 January 2006, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Evolution of the EarthProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 16 December 2005, 09:00-18:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Receiving you, Loud and Clear - Digital radio, and its future in the UKMike Ellis, BBC Research and Development. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 05 December 2005, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteinsProfessor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 28 November 2005, 20:30-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Faster than the speed of sound - The M52 -the worlds first supersonic aircraftRod Kirkby, CSAR Member, aeronautical engineer, and aviation artist. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 21 November 2005, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society The Free Will TheoremProfessor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University. Wednesday 09 November 2005, 17:15-18:15 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Eve, Uncovered - Sequencing the human X-chromosomeDr Alison Coffey, The Sanger Centre and the Human Genome Project, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 07 November 2005, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Our Dynamic SunDr Helen Mason, DAMTP. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Monday 31 October 2005, 20:30-21:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The eyes: gateway to the soul? - Iris Recognition TechnologyDr John Daugman OBE, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. Monday 24 October 2005, 19:30-21:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) The Larmor Lecture: Epidemiology - where are the limits?Professor Nick E Day, Strangeways Research Laboratory. Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building. Monday 17 October 2005, 20:30-22:00 Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers This House believes that the European Union is bad for Britainsee abstact. Debating Chamber, Union Society. Thursday 13 October 2005, 20:00-21:30 Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers Robert FriskRobert Frisk. Debating Chamber, Union Society. Monday 10 October 2005, 19:30-20:30 Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers Sir Jeremy GreenstockSir Jeremy Greenstock. Debating Chamber, Union Society. Friday 07 October 2005, 18:45-19:45 Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers This House would rather warm up the planet than cool down the economy.see abstract. Debating Chamber, Union Society. Thursday 06 October 2005, 20:00-21:30 Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family ProblemProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 06 October 2005, 16:15-17:15 The Ramanujan Conjecture and its generalizationsThe lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. at the Trinity bowling green (Nevile's Court cloisters if wet). Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton. Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 17 May 2005, 17:00-18:00 Polynomials in Discrete MathematicsProfessor Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University. Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 25 May 2004, 17:00-18:00 Algebraic Topology and Modular FormsThe lecture will be followed by drinks in Pavilion E Common Room Professor Mike Hopkins, MIT. Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 13 May 2003, 17:00-18:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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