Guy Emerson's list

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories

User Daniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 24 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

User Dr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab.

House Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

User Alex Davies and Petar Velickovic (DeepMind).

Computational Neuroscience

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:15-14:15

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

House Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:30-15:00

House Delivered online via Zoom.

Black holes, galaxies and the Nobel Prize

User Professor Roger Davies, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Deep and reliable – Uncertainty quantification using Empirical Bayesian deep neural networks.

User Stefan Franssen (TU Delft).

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

The Quarks of Attention

User Professor Pierre Baldi - Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science Director, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics Associate Director, Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems, University of California, Irvine.

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 15:05-15:55

Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages

User Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University.

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 11:00-12:00

Trends, Determinants, and Effects of ESG-linked Pay around the World

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

User Professor Lin Peng, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

User Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) .

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments

User Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt).

Friday 28 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

User Minakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Monday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Life in Moving Fluids

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/g-i-taylor-lecture-professor-eric-lauga-tickets-250011550277

User Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

Monday 31 January 2022, 18:30-19:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Brain charts for the human lifespan

User Richard Bethlehem, Autism Research Centre & Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention

User Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Delivered online via Zoom.

A celebration of women in astronomy

User Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Dundee.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Learned Compression

User Gergely Flamich (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Improving Quality of Experience for Video Users in Cellular Networks

User Professor Cormac J. Sreenan - Professor of Computer Science at University College Cork.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 15:05-15:55

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search

User Nils Reimers, HuggingFace.

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

Assessing Implications of the Deployment of Sustainable Flight in the UK

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

User Mike Lau, University of Princeton.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Faculty of English and Online.

The development of Old English conjunct clauses: How syntactic changes interact

User Dr Richard Zimmermann (University of Manchester).

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior

User Professor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus).

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, Journalist.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800

User Sophia Spielmann (Technische Universität Berlin).

Monday 07 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations.

User Prof. Giles E. D. Oldroyd, FRS, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 07 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Adaptive Gaussian Processes on Graphs via Spectral Graph Wavelets

User Felix Opolka.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

Why is the suprachiasmatic nucleus such a brilliant circadian time-keeper?

User Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Delivered online via Zoom.

Celestial Incantations

User Dr. Nigel Meredith, British Antarctic Survey.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Optimal Transport Metrics

User Shreyas Padhy.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

On the Sample Complexity of Learning with Geometric Stability

User Alberto Bietti (NYU).

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity

User Carolyn McGettigan (UCL) .

Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

TBC

User Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL).

Friday 11 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories

User Anna Guasco (Department of Geography).

Monday 14 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

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

User Professor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

Monday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate

User Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merging neutron stars, kilonovae and the origin of the heavy chemical elements

User Professor Nial Tanvir, University of Leicester.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Circuits for Interpretability

User Lauro Langosco and Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Emily Shuckburgh - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 15:05-15:55

Can we use electrical energy to reduce carbon emissions? An investigation into the electrochemical approaches for carbon capture

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

User Niamh Hartley, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Title to be confirmed

User Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice

User Prof. Anne Charity Hudley (Stanford University).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

TBC

User Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

Friday 18 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution

User J'Nese Williams (University of Notre Dame).

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Monday 21 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Huawei: Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 13:05-13:55

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

User Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supernovae: origin, extremes and a future bursting with potential!

User Dr. Cosimo Inserra, Cardiff University.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Retrieval Augmented NLP

User Jiri Hron and Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Title to be confirmed

User Kolyan Ray (Imperial College London).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Alex Davies - DeepMind.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 15:05-15:55

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

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Title tbc

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

User Megan Groom, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors

User Lucina Uddin (UCLA) .

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

TBC

User Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Covid and Cognition

User Dr Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge).

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge

User Huiyi Wu (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré).

Monday 28 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

Monday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cross-modality imaging of the neural systems that support executive functions

User Dr Yaara Erez, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Surprising Universe

User Professor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 19:30-20:45

Title to be confirmed

User Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Columbia University.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 15:05-15:55

Wnt signalling in the gill arches of the little skate during development

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

User Jenaid Rees, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

User Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) .

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Faculty of English and Online.

Exploring Multicultural London English across Offline and Online space

User Dr Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

TBC

User Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University).

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird.

User Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania).

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659)

User Svit Komel (University of Ljubljana).

Monday 07 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

User Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Dr Petra Vértes - Title TBC

User Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts

User Dr. Anastasia Fialkov, University of Sussex.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 19:30-20:45

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Title to be confirmed

User Josef Teichmann (ETH Zurich).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

The Problem of the Earth's Figure and the Logic of Measurement in Modern Geoscience

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

User Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time

User Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) .

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

User Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Systematic inducement of sparsity

User Heather Battey (Imperial College London).

Friday 11 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology

User Emiliano Cabrera Rocha (Department of Geography).

Monday 14 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing .

Monday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

User Sara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 13:15-14:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Relativistic jets from black holes: connections to gravitational waves and neutrinos

User Professor Rob Fender, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 19:30-20:45

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

The Bayesian Learning Rule

User Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory

User Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Faculty of English and Online.

TBC

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

User Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19

User Dr Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) .

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity

User Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Danielle Belgrave, Deepmind.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Professor Allan Herbison - Title TBC

User Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Professor James Rowe - Title TBC

User Professor James Rowe.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Professor Sir Simon Baron Cohen - Title TBC

User Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Our Quantum Future - One day meeting

Note: Date in Easter term and venue to be confirmed

User Organised by : Professor Ron Horgan and Professor Adrian Kent.

Saturday 11 June 2022, 09:00-17:15

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built

User Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.