Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH 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

CMIH seminar series

Non-contrast Enhanced MRI in Central Nervous System

Professor Meiyun Wang.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Case For In-Network Computing On Demand

Noa Zilberman (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 22 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Foster Talks

SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

Steve Wilson, University College, London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 22 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A systems biology approach to identify perturbed processes driving cancer

Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

The new framework in European Family Law

Lucia Ruggieri, University of Camerino.

Herchel Smith Building.

Monday 25 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

ARClub Talks

Longitudinal analysis of intracortical microstructural profiles during adolescent development

Dr 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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care

David Sontag, MIT.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Calcium-mediated processes as a potential common denominator in motor neuron degeneration

Roland Patai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The role of technology in improving the accessibility and quality of mental healthcare and accelerating research

Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Language Sciences

Educational Research Collaboration with Cambridge University Press

Niall Curry, Cambridge University Press.

Faculty of Education, room GS5.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Imagers Interest Group

Towards a theory of functional MRS

Paul Mullins, Bangor University.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 01 April 2019, 12:30-14:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Direct neuronal reprogramming of patient skin fibroblasts: a new approach to study idiopathic Parkinson's disease

Janelle Drouin-Ouellet, University of Montreal.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Osborn, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Dementia Journal Club

Title to be confirmed

Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Information theory in dose-finding trials"

Prof. Thomas Jaki, Lancaster University.

Small Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 08 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Phenomapping mtDNA. New perspectives in personalised medicine

Aurora Gomez-Duran, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies”

Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Carles Gomez (UPC)

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

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

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jakob Bardram (DTU).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

MR12.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making

Prof. Naomi Leonard, Princeton.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Zangwill Club

Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

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, 16:30-17:30

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Daniele Marinazzo, Ghent University.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Zangwill Club

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

PLEASE NOTE, THIS SEMINAR IS TAKING PLACE AT 1.00PM ON WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY. ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE SAME TIME (4.00PM)

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

History and Future of Psychiatry: Reflections on Kathleen Jones's "Asylums and after"

Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 09 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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?

Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

MR12.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Rosa Chiara Paolicelli, University of Lausanne.

TBC.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Derek Tracy, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London; Senior Lecturer, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

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

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, 16:30-17:30

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

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

CMS, MR14.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-related Diseases, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

Kris Cao, DeepMind.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

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

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

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Crossing over OMICS in mitochondrial diseases affecting the optic nerve

Guy Lenaers, University of Angers - France.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Giordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10:30-11:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anna Obenauf from Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

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

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

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 - 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 Medieval Book

Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

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