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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Seeking the protective shield in the brain: the role of inhibitory control in regulating unwanted memories and actions Talk 2. Social status and mood: from evolutionary theory to neural signature

Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian & Daisy Follett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions

Dr Marwa El Zein.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Hand Tracking on HoloLens 2

Dr Erroll Wood.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 16:15-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Paving an enlightened path to anyons and quantum computation

Dr Shovan Dutta (Physics Department, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Learning to read words: from novice to expert

Kate 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

NLIP Seminar Series

Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese

Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:30

Statistics

Nuisance parameters

Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

MR12.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The politics of the potato in the 19th century

Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

1. Neural competition accounts for differences in recognising and learning spoken words and pseudowords 2. Phonological mismatch negativity, and its relation to language skills and environmental factors in children

Carol Wang & Alexander Irvine (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

PLEASE NOTE, WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY. THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1.00PM. PLEASE ALSO NOTE, THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Coralia Cartis.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

How to design a programming language

Professor Alan Blackwell.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 16:15-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

From molecules to materials: new catalysts for artificial photosynthesis

Dr Souvik Roy (Chemistry Department, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

Matt 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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

Professor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 03 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Victoria Gould (University of York).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 May 2019, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

When is a cow not a cow?

Harriet Ritvo (MIT).

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

Monday 06 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees

Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

What else does researching with Haraway’s successor science make possible in childhood studies?

Dr Jayne Osgood, Professor of Education, Middlesex University.

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

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms of working memory training: not plasticity, but routines and fine-tuning

Sue Gathercole (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Trustworthy AI

Dr Adrian Weller (Machine Learning Group, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Alexa Morcom .

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

Kris Cao, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation

Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

How computerized assessment may transform measurement in mental health

Dr Jan Stochl, Department of Psychiatry.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 10 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)

Luz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

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

Monday 13 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

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

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

Dr. 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

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

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

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance Talk 2. Multivariate approaches to understanding the brain-behaviour relationships in cognitive ability

Alexander Quent & Ivan Simpson Kent (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Sense and Sensibility in Child Literature: Disinformation, Affect and the Literary Imagination

Katharine Jones Sullivan, Committee Research Office, Canberra, Australia.

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Persistent pneumococcal colonisation: Dynamics, genomic diversity and evolution

Dr Chrispin Chaguza (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Chaucer Club

Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory

Sarah 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

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

MR12.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation in plants

Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 17 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England

James Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter).

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

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Awareness in sight: Self and other appraisals of disability in acquired brain injury Talk 2. The regulation of intrusive autobiographical memories

Andrea Kusec & Giulia Barsuola (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Is the child the father of the political man?

Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The Language of Julia Donaldson: Rhetoric, style and cognition

Michael Burke , Utrecht University .

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM

Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

TBC

Dr Elizabeth Harper, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 24 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Visual nonlinearities

Alyse Brown (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face

Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Intersubjectivity, Place and Embodied Cognition in Children’s Literature Translation Studies

Beata Piecychna, University of Bialystok, Poland.

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

Milena 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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Roger Koenker, University College London.

MR12.

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?

Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Applied and Computational Analysis

An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

Ilse Ipsen (NCSU).

MR 14.

Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement

Giacomo Bignardi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Rebecca 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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception

Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Digitally Distracted

Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur in Children's Literature

Elly McCausland, University of Oslo..

MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens

Lisa-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

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

Felix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12.

Friday 14 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovative engineering: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the Square Kilometer Array

Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 24 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 11 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Monday 14 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Professor Serena Best - title to be confirmed

Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Susannah Gibson - title to be confirmed

Dr Susannah Gibson, Affiliated Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Professor Nigel Peake - title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Professor David Baulcombe FRS- title to be confirmed

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Volcanic Behaviour

Dr Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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