Cambridge Language Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

User Nicholas Zair, Cambridge.

House 1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Indo-European Seminar

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

tea served from 4.15

User Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

House 1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

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

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

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

User Antonia Ruppel (Oxford).

House 1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

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

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 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

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

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 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