Guy Emerson's list

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

User Rory Waite (Emotif.ai).

Friday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA THIS WEEK

User Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

User Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Does maths matter to brain matter? The curious geometry of the brain

User Prof. Alain Goriely (University of Oxford).

Friday 17 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org

Food provided

User Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead.

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

User Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Abstract Diagrammatic Reasoning with Multiplex Graph Networks

User Duo Wang.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars

User Sanjeev Gupta.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

User Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Optiver: Machine learning in trading: Let’s build a quantitative trading strategy

Food provided

User Dennis Fleurbaaij.

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Digital Modeling of Reality with Machine Learning

User Dr Cengiz Oztireli, Graphics Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 15:05-15:55

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

A fusion power plant — why not

User Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

User Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

House GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

User Mira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

User Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Can meaningful hope spring from revealing the depth of our climate failure?

User Prof Kevin Anderson (University of Manchester, Uppsala University).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

User Zack Lipton, CMU.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

User Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

User Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

What is quantum field theory?

User Professor Nick Dorey (University of Cambridge).

Friday 24 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

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

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

User Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Design Partnership

Food provided

User Jason Mashinchi, Graduate Software Engineer and Tom Vajzovic, Consultant Software Engineer.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

User Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

User Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

User Jacob Deasy.

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

User Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space

User Dave Wealthy.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

User Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

User Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

House TBC.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

User Nicholas Zair, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

User Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

User Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2020 Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

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

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

User Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

The Hows and Whys of Living in Groups: Perspectives from Birds and Apes

User Prof Dora Biro (Oxford).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

House SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Doubt thy models: rethinking hypothesis testing in NLP

Rescheduled

User Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

Friday 31 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

User Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

User Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning

User Dr Chandrima Ganguly .

House Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00

Dimensional Analysis: How to get something for (nearly) nothing

User Prof. Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge).

Friday 31 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

User Paolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge).

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

User Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality

User Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College).

House LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO

User Nicholas Walton.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

User Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Machine Learning at the Extreme Edge - an Open Platform Approach

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Women@CL Events

What is High-Performance Computing and why does it matter?

Lunch provided

User Rosemary Francis (Ellexus).

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

User Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

User Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

How electron cryomicroscopy is revolutionising structural biology

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

User Prof Richard Henderson (MRC LMB).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Title to be confirmed

User Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

User Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

User Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands World_link.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Stepping up climate change mitigation

User Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

House Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

A lot of hot air? The fluid mechanics of building ventilation

User Prof. Colm-Cille Caulfield (University of Cambridge).

Friday 07 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dr Ljiljana Fruk - title to be confirmed

User Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Biology and Engineering 18.00-19.00.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

User Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

User Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3..

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Natural Language Processing for Health

User Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past

User Gareth Collins.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

User Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Ourpath

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Climate, Carbon, and Computer Science

User Professor Keshav - Robert Sansom Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

User Dr. Claudia Schneider.

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Class, Control and Classical music: Musical practices and white middle-class identities among young people in the south of England

User Dr Anna Bull, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic

tea served from 4.15

User Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

User Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

User Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Development of petal nanoscale ridges that scatter light and influence animal behaviour

Director of Cambridge Botanic Garden

User Prof Beverley Glover (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

User Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

User Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Women@CL Events

TBC

Lunch provided

User Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research).

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

User Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Eric Lauga (University of Cambridge).

Friday 14 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

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

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

User Chris Manias (King's College London).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

User Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

User Ben Day (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

User Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Green Custard Ltd: Innovating at pace in IoT

Food provided

User Zoltan Molnar and Gavin Dolling .

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

User Antonia Ruppel (Oxford).

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

House Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

From Mars to the Multiverse

Astronomer Royal

User Prof Lord Martin Rees.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Title to be confirmed

User Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

User Vanessa Didelez, University of Bremen.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

User Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

User James Kent.

House Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Green's functions: from physics to analysis

User Dr Anthony Ashton (University of Cambridge).

Friday 21 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

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

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

User Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

User Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks - Combining ML and Reasoning

User James Fletcher, Haikal Pribadi (Grakn).

House SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Like the Back of Your Hand

User Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes

User Sarah Bosman.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

User Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

User Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

User Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

The Renormalisation Group

User Prof David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Title to be confirmed

User Maria Liakata (University of Warwick/Alan Turing Institute).

Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

User Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

User Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

The non-abelian X-ray transform

User Prof. Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge).

Friday 28 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

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

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

User Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory - the history of star formation in the Universe

User Stephen Eales.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

User Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

User Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

User Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

User Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

User Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

User Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

User Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

User Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

How Statistics is changing the world

User Prof. Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge).

Friday 06 March 2020, 19:00-20:00

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

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

User J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

User Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

User Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

User Professor Clare Baker: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sounds of Space

User Nigel Meredith.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Language development in exceptional circumstances: effects of permanent childhood hearing loss

User Dr Lorna Halliday (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

User Dr David Stillwell.

House Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

User Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

User Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Gearset - Continuous Delivery in Practice

Food provided

User Ben Roberts, Software Engineer and Luke Drury, VP of Engineering.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

User Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges

User Juniper Hill, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Title to be confirmed

User Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind).

Friday 13 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

User Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

How do our brains form maps of the world?

User Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00