Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell-of-origin of prostate cancer and clinical heterogeneity

Dr Esther Baena from CRUK Manchester Institute .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models

Martin Tegner.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 18 December 2018, 10:30-11:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955–1964)

Ksenia Tatarchenko (University of Geneva).

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

Thursday 20 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Mobile Systems group research

Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 13:15-13:45

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Trustworthy and Accountable Function-as-a-Service using Intel SGX

Andrew Paverd, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms

Hoda Heidari.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Craik Club

Visual categorization of simple stimuli

Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University.

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Centre for the Future of Intelligence / Faculty of Philosophy.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Finite Element Method

John Trevelyan, University of Durham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 18 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An 'Ashby map' for selecting musical strings

Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED Emeritus.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Evil on the Internet

Richard Clayton, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection”

Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University .

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Fan Vaults

Professor Jacques Heyman.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3A.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational approaches to Immuno-Oncology drug development

Dr Ben Sidders (Astrazeneca).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Imitation learning for structured prediction

Dr Andreas Vlachos.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:15-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Williams (IBM).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Craik Club

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

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

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition"

Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute.

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational Models—who needs them?

Dennis Norris (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Aga Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Maxwell Centre.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Pure Mathematics in Crisis

Professor Kevin Buzzard.

CMS, MR3.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Replacing pathologists with next generation diagnostics: use of artificial intelligence to analyse image and DNA sequencing data

Dr Elizabeth Sollieux (Dept of Pathology).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

TBD

Marina Riabiz, CUED.

James Dyson Building Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Ruth Salter (University of Reading).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Isabelle Lorge, TAL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory?

Rik Henson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Perpetual Computing: Technologies for Banishing Batteries

Joshua R. Smith - Zeutschel Professor, Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:15-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

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

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Mechanics Colloquium - Title tbc

Tea and coffee will be available in ...... after the talk

Professor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute of Theorectical Physics, Universitat Heidelberg.

Lecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

Friday 08 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Prof Mihaela van der Schaar from Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write good papers

Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Colin Hockings, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Dept of Genetics).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Open Source Quantum Computing

Mathew Treinish (IBM).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jian Kai Zhang, Cambridge University and Lanzhou University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Department of Engineering (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrew Firth (Dept of Pathology).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”

Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield.

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Thomas Ploetz (Georgia Tech).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Axel Gelfert (TU Berlin).

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Using Chemican and Biological Data for Drug Design

Dr Andreas Bender (Dept of Chemistry).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

A Framework for Data Collection and Management for IoT

Maribel Fernandez (KCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Mechanics Colloquium - Title tbc

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the talk.

Dr Pedro Camanho, Departmento de Engenharia Mecanica, University of Porto.

LR6, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor

Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chemical regulation of functional RNAs

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides, Eric Miska & Cambridge RNA Club

Yunsun Nam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Oscar Rueda (CRUK - CI).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write a Fellowship proposal

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexandra Rutz, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards the high-level sequence code of gene regulation

Dr Aleksandr Sahakyan (MRC WIMM, Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

Janet Rossant, University of Toronto, Canada.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Henrice Altink (University of York).

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

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Coralia Cartis.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, NY, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

CMS, MR14.

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

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