Trust & Technology Initiative events

Cybersecurity II - Fortifications

Prof Simon Moore (CST), Dr Jennifer Daffron (CJBS).

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdumuqz8vHNwEWntaZEvSjTk37-1uvLnJ.

Tuesday 04 August 2020, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems

Professor Ed Boyden.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 04 August 2020, 15:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities

Andrey Malinin, Yandex Research.

Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link).

Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00

CCIMI Seminars

Iteratively Reweighted FGMRES and FLSQR for sparse reconstruction

Silvia Gazzola.

Virtual Zoom meeting.

Wednesday 15 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Emergent Multi-Agent Communication: The story so far

Agnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge).

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Sciences Group

Anti-racist praxis in the digital age: Everyday Resistance against the Prison-Industrial Complex (PIC)

Mayumi Sato.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The Makings of Love: The Evolution of Non Monogamy

Ezra Hampikian.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Weighting Based Adversarial Approach to Fairness in Machine Learning

Mladen Nikolić, University of Belgrade.

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 23 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards explainable fact checking

Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

https://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

Friday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Iconic Plurals

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 18th of June, 12pm BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=tuYFO -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS / New York University).

Online.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Scalable, rapid and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 using RT-LAMP for laboratory and home testing

Max Kellner.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Addressing Imbalance in Object Detection

Dr Sinan Kalkan - Assoc. Prof Middle East Technical University and Visiting Researcher, Cambridge University.

Online.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

A nonparametric problem for stochastic PDEs

Randolf Altmeyer.

Virtual Zoom meeting.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand

Professor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand..

Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Sustainability, welfare and political change

Register for webinar access details, see below

Professor Donald M.Broom (Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge).

Zoom webinar.

Friday 12 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

Johannes Welbl (UCL).

https://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

Friday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

Online.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Cell biology of hereditary spastic paraplegias

Eliska Zlamalova.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trust & Technology Initiative events

Digital Democracy: All in this together? (Seminar 1, Digital (dis) comfort series)

Please register online to attend this virtual event.

Prof John Naughton (CRASSH), Sally West (Age UK).

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkd-ChrDItGNCB1lRoYApX4xiqepq9NE_w.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Adversarial Explanations - You Shouldn't Trust Me: Learning Models Which Conceal Unfairness From Multiple Explanation Methods

Botty Dimanov (University of Cambridge).

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Why can't I get rid of this belief?

Register for webinar access details, see below

Dr Anabela Pinto.

Online.

Friday 05 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement

Topic: Zangwill Zoom Meeting _Brian Earp Time: Jun 5, 2020 04:00 PM London 4-430pm social with Brian pre-Zangwill 430 to 6pm Talk + discussion.

Brian D. Earp, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford..

Zoom meeting.

Friday 05 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Alexandra Perovic (UCL).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Monosyllabic Salience in Cantonese: Facilitation of transference of monosyllabic English words (MEWs) into Hong Kong Cantonese-English mixed code

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 4th of June, 10am BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=NLNKu -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof David Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Online.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.

Professor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus..

Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Developing a Concept-Oriented Search Engine for Isabelle Based on Natural Language : Technical Challenges

Yiannos Stathopoulos and Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki.

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Working in research through the COVID-19 crisis

Register for webinar access details, see below

Professor Gordon Dougan (Department of Medicine, Univeristy of Cambridge).

Online.

Friday 29 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic representation and its disorders

Professor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 29 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery

Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 29 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content

Rescheduled

Maria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute).

https://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

Friday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

TBC.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Integration Strategies for Ultra Low Power Flexible Electronics

Professor Arokia Nathan.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trust & Technology Initiative events

Virtual Lunchtime Talk - Civil Servants and Social Media: A minefield or the new frontier?

Dr Dennis Grubs, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqde6uqDguGdAF3nb_kE4QkOp-testKuhk.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

Register at https://forms.gle/TKbaPv7PDDKLDmzDA

Professor Phil Baran, Scripps Research.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Representation Learning under Uncertainty (WIP)

Catalina Cangea and Ben Day (University of Cambridge).

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

Statistics

Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning

Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 22 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

We will have a Tea and coffee informal gathering from 1pm to 1.30pm and the talk will start at 130.pm followed by questions and discussion at 230pm.

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88316473204?pwd=NGV5RHdh Q3o3am5sRVpabVRVSFhPZz09 Meeting ID: 883 1647 3204 Password: Bowman.

Friday 22 May 2020, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Marijke De Belder (Oldenburg University).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2020: The Future of Microprocessors

Dr Sophie Wilson.

Online.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 14:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Temporal Pointwise Convolutional Networks for Length of Stay Prediction in the Intensive Care Unit

Emma Rocheteau (University of Cambridge).

Online on Teams.

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Science-led Policy: From Global Pandemics to Climate Change

Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

How to Breed Better Politicians

Register for webinar access details, see below

Dr Joel Peck (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

Zoom webinar.

Friday 15 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions

Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

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

Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Classification

Xin Tong, University of Southern California.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 08 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics

Please sign up via the link in order to receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50YGCrYnFdptyU5

Dr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR 2020

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance

Hyunseung Kang, University of Wisconsin.

Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98898559684?pwd=MTZ2Q1dvUUZucDdwUXZVVUp1VjhsQT09 Meeting ID: 988 9855 9684 Password: likelihood.

Friday 01 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem

Online Seminar

Danielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt.

Friday 01 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] L2 phonological learning in adults: The role of language background, age of acquisition, and exposure

To register for the online event, please follow the link below: https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=DszBy

Dr Job Schepens (TU Dortmund).

Online.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Planning

Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Trust & Technology Initiative events

LIVE from NY: In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash: The Financial System as the joint product of Trust and Technology

Dr William H Janeway, Affiliate at Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

online event - see ZOOM link on https://www.trusttech.cam.ac.uk/events/live-ny-webinar-william-h-janeway-god-we-trust-all-others-pay-cash.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. From Medicine to Hamburgers. Cell and tissue culture applied to sustainable production of food meat.

Professor Mark Post, Maastricht University..

Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 27 April 2020, 19:30-21:00

Computational Neuroscience

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Online on Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Online on Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Rouse Ball Lectures

CANCELLED - Undecidability in number theory

Bjorn Poonen, MIT.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Monday 27 April 2020, 12:00-13:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Talk will be postponed

Dr Anabela Pinto.

Wolfson College, Lee Hall.

Friday 24 April 2020, 17:45-19:00

Statistics

Langevin Monte Carlo for Degenerately Convex Potentials

Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto.

Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96976140978 Meeting ID: 969 7614 0978 Password: likelihood.

Friday 24 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence of variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, GR06/07.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Zoom meeting.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop.

https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Strategic Classification

Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

Wednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Sets

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 07 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing Flows

Vincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg.

Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Trust & Technology Initiative events

POSTPONED - Towards a trustworthy Computing Infrastructure

Noa Zilberman, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford.

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 24 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Infectious diseases in Africa

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

Professor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge).

Wolfson College, Lee Hall.

Friday 20 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

Meeting has been cancelled

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEM

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and Wolfson Explores ✱BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

Professor Jane Clarke (FRS, President of Wolfson College).

Wolfson College, Lee Hall.

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

World Models

Dr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Frontiers for Life in Antarctica

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festivaand and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

Professor Lloyd Peck.

Wolfson College, Lee Hall.

Friday 13 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges

Juniper Hill, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Predictive oscillations in speech perception

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

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

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Cancelled: I know what you don't know: egophoricity and Jejuan morphosyntax

Dr Soung-u Kim (SOAS, University of London).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 17:00-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

Dr David Stillwell.

Nick Mackintosh Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Exploiting neural nonlinearity and temporal smoothing to measure the brain’s response to electrical stimulation

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

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Federated Learning

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Sounds of Space

Nigel Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Xizi Li (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning evolving node and community representations on dynamic graphs

Simeon Spasov.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

CANCELLED

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The exoplanet revolution

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Prof Didier Queloz (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 17:20-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Neutrophil transformation in cancer

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Dr Hafsa Munir (MRC Cancer Unit).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 17:00-17:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

A non-perturbative method for gravitational potential calculations within heterogeneous and aspherical planets

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Mr Matthew Maitra (Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 16:40-17:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The beauty of flavour at the Large Hadron Collider

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Prof Valerie Gibson (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 16:00-16:40

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Fluid dynamics of marine ice sheets

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Prof Grae Worster (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 14:20-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Explaining variations in responses to cannabis: molecular findings of CB1-5HT2A heteromers in humans

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Dr Liliana Galindo (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 13:40-14:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

3D displays in immersive technologies

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Dr Ozgur Yontem (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 13:40-14:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Invasion of red blood cells by malaria

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Dr Guilherme Nettesheim (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 12:20-13:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The C theory of time

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Dr Matt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 12:00-12:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Origins of genetics on the early Earth

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Dr Samuel Roberts (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 11:40-12:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Cheating Schrödinger

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Mr Adam Přáda (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 11:00-11:20

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Studying human tissues with single-cell RNA-sequencing within the Human Cell Atlas consortium

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Dr Elo Madissoon (European Bioinformatics Institute).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 10:40-11:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning

Part of the TCSS Annual Symposium

Dr Bingqing Cheng (Trinity College, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Sunday 08 March 2020, 10:00-10:40

Trinity Mathematical Society

'Bubble Sucking Tadpoles and other Animals: Using Mathematical Models to Explain Biological Phenomena' - George Fortune (damtp)

George Fortune (damtp).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Saturday 07 March 2020, 16:10-16:40

Trinity Mathematical Society

The importance of Diophantine equations in the Standard Model. -Philip Boyle-Smith (damtp).

Philip Boyle-Smith (damtp).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Saturday 07 March 2020, 15:30-16:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

Locomotion: from basilisk lizards to bacteria. -Maria Tatulea-Codrean (damtp).

Maria Tatulea-Codrean (damtp)..

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Saturday 07 March 2020, 14:50-15:20

Trinity Mathematical Society

Multiply-Charged Vortices in Nonconservative Quantum Hydrodynamics. -Sam Alperin (damtp).

Sam Alperin (damtp).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Saturday 07 March 2020, 14:10-14:40

Trinity Mathematical Society

Intervals in the Hales-Jewett theorem. -Eero Raty (dpmms).

Eero Raty (dpmms).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Saturday 07 March 2020, 12:00-12:30

Trinity Mathematical Society

Gaussian Latent Tree Models and their Statistics. -Thomas Marge (statslab)

Thomas Marge (statslab).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Saturday 07 March 2020, 11:20-11:50

Trinity Mathematical Society

An introduction to descent calculations on elliptic curves. -Jiali Yan (dpmms).

Jiali Yan (dpmms).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Saturday 07 March 2020, 10:40-11:10

Trinity Mathematical Society

"I just want to be pure": graded monads for program analysis -Andrej Ivaskovic (computer laboratory).

Andrej Ivaskovic (computer laboratory)..

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Saturday 07 March 2020, 10:00-10:30

Wolfson College Science Society

The only ways is upstream — The NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urge need for systems change

all are welcome! This event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society and the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows.

Prof Martin White, MD FFPH.

Wolfson College, Lee Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Network change point detection

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

How Statistics is changing the world

Prof. Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 19:00-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence

Prof Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

Translating basic science on autobiographical memory to improved clinical practice

Caitlin Hitchcock (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play

wellman@umich.edu.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory - the history of star formation in the Universe

Stephen Eales.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

Professor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep Graph Mapper: Seeing Graphs through the Neural Lens

Cristian Bodnar and Cătălina Cangea.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

CANCELLED

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

The non-abelian X-ray transform

Prof. Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Electronics on the Brain

George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Renormalisation Group

Prof David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mechanisms in non-native speech perception

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Motivational profiles of simultaneous language learners: A latent profile analysis of English major students in China

Meng Liu, PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MMLL, Sidgwick Site, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Opening the Pandora Box of the “E” in EMI: A quest for standardization, ELF, or something more?

Sin-Yi Chang, PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MMLL, Sidgwick Site, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Distributed distributional codes for learning successor features in partially observable environments

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Eszter Vértes, Gatsby Unit, University College London.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

Dr. Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

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

Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Lady Margaret Lectures

On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp

Professor Sir Michael Edwards OBE.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes

Sarah Bosman.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks - Combining ML and Reasoning

James Fletcher, Haikal Pribadi (Grakn).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

The fluid-mechanics of CO2 sequestration - Professor John Lister (DAMTP)

Professor John Lister.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Monday 24 February 2020, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Green's functions: from physics to analysis

Dr Anthony Ashton (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Statistics

The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses

Vanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.

MR12.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Shaping Recommendations in a Marketplace via User & Content Understanding

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

From Mars to the Multiverse

Astronomer Royal

Prof Lord Martin Rees.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

The living dead: cellular functions of pseudoenzymes

Iain Hay, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

(Nobel Laurete Lecture - CUAS & CUPS Joint Talk): The Exoplanet Revolution

Prof. Didier Queloz.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic narrative techniques and their areal parallels (Kurdish and Arabic)

Prof Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University, Sweden).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

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

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

Antonia Ruppel (Oxford).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Soft Aerial Robotics for Digital Infrastructure Systems

Dr Mirko Kovac - Director, Aerial Robotics Laboratory, Imperial College.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

CCIMI Seminars

The Cycle of Statistical Research

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Green Custard Ltd: Innovating at pace in IoT

Food provided

Zoltan Molnar and Gavin Dolling .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Some ideas on neural network modulation

Ben Day (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

GS15, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

The fluid mechanics in your daily life

Prof. Eric Lauga (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

"Why are so many hearing aids sitting in a drawer?"

Prof Brian Moore, PFBSA, FMedSci, FRS, Dr. h.c..

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

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

Statistics

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

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

Women@CL Events

Project Silica: Re-designing Cloud storage for a new era

Lunch provided

Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW11.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading Comprehension

Max Bartolo (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Development of petal nanoscale ridges that scatter light and influence animal behaviour

Director of Cambridge Botanic Garden

Prof Beverley Glover (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Brain organoids to study development and function

Dr Laura Pellegrini, Division of Cell Biology, MRC-LMB.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Rafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

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

Dr Anna Bull, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth.

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

Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

Dr. Claudia Schneider.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Climate, Carbon, and Computer Science

Professor Keshav - Robert Sansom Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

CCIMI Seminars

Computer-aided worst-case analyses and design of first-order methods for convex optimization

Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

Adria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past

Gareth Collins.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3..

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Wayne Soo (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

KRAB zinc fingers, transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulatory networks

Michael Imbeault (Department of Genetics, Cambridge Univ).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine learning for network inference

Ljupco Todorovski (University of Ljubljana).

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding, West Cambridge site.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Sankie: Using Data to Build Better Systems and Services

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Microsoft Research-India.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

[CANCELLED] A lot of hot air? The fluid mechanics of building ventilation

Prof. Colm-Cille Caulfield (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Stepping up climate change mitigation

Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

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

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

How electron cryomicroscopy is revolutionising structural biology

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prof Richard Henderson (MRC LMB).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Women@CL Events

What is High-Performance Computing and why does it matter?

Lunch provided

Rosemary Francis (Ellexus).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability

Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Understanding and exploiting self-assembly in liquid crystals on multiple length scales

Dr Mamatha Nagaraj, University of Leeds Department of Physics.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Machine Learning at the Extreme Edge - an Open Platform Approach

Prof. Dr. Luca Benini, ETH Zürich.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 15:05-15:55

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO

Nicholas Walton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

Professor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality

Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

Paolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Dimensional Analysis: How to get something for (nearly) nothing

Prof. Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning

Dr Chandrima Ganguly .

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Machine Learning Meetup

Marc Brockschmidt (MSR Cambridge) and Vincent Dutordoir (Prowler).

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Hows and Whys of Living in Groups: Perspectives from Birds and Apes

Prof Dora Biro (Oxford).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Conveying quantity pragmatically

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Second Language Education Group

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)

Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications

Dr Barbara McGillivray (University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute).

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

Nicholas Zair, Cambridge.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space

Dave Wealthy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Flexible deep learning for heterogeneous clinical time series

Jacob Deasy.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Cambridge Design Partnership - Think Small: Embedded Software FTW!

Food provided

Jason Mashinchi, Graduate Software Engineer and Tom Vajzovic, Consultant Software Engineer.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

What is quantum field theory?

Professor Nick Dorey (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Can meaningful hope spring from revealing the depth of our climate failure?

Prof Kevin Anderson (University of Manchester, Uppsala University).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

Mira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back Propagation

Uwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Digital Modeling of Reality with Machine Learning

Dr Cengiz Oztireli, Graphics Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 15:05-15:55

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Optiver: Machine learning in trading: Let’s build a quantitative trading strategy

Food provided

Dennis Fleurbaaij.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars

Sanjeev Gupta.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Abstract Diagrammatic Reasoning with Multiplex Graph Networks

Duo Wang.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

Using maths to clean-up our oceans - Dr Thomas Crawford

Dr Thomas Crawford.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Monday 20 January 2020, 20:30-21:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org

Food provided

Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Does maths matter to brain matter? The curious geometry of the brain

Prof. Alain Goriely (University of Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 January 2020, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Statistics

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR12.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

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

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

Rory Waite (Emotif.ai).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Using Evidence to Impact Public Policy

First talk of the term

Professor Dame Sally Davies.

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs?

Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison).

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Global Methane, Project MOYA, and the UK’s Net Zero target

Prof. Euan Nisbet, Professor of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment

chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian

Dr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Correlations Between Word Vector Sets

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Aleksandar Savkov, Babylon.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Globalizing music education and the international music education community

Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany.

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

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Neurocomputational basis of social learning and decision-making

Dr. Patricia Lockwood, MRC Fellow, Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional preferences of domain-general brain regions during executive function tasks

Moataz Assem (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Torp Jensen.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

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

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Geometrical Perspective on Deep Neural Networks

Stanislav Fort (Stanford University; formerly Google Research).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 13 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making

Chand Chandrasekaran (Boston University).

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

Thursday 09 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Moonshot Thinking to Unleash Innovation, Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha: MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

MARLeME: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Model Extraction Library

Dmitry Kazhdan.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

Zangwill Club

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Long Form Question Answering

Angela Fan (Facebook).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

Trust & Technology Initiative events

How will Brexit affect UK life online?

Open Rights Group.

Lecture Theatre 2, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms,.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 18:15-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The theory-led hunt for extreme materials

Professor Chris Pickard (University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Danielle Turton (Lancaster University).

English Faculty Building, TBC.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

Anna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Decoding the mysteries of quantum physics

Professor Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 19:30-20:30

CCIMI Seminars

Collaborative Analytics and Education in Data Science

Martin Spott (HTW Berlin).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes

David Burt, Andrew Foong.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The Mobile Computing Platform after Smartphones - Prof Romit Roy Choudhury: MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Prof Romit Roy Choudhury, UIUC.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Polluted White Dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets

Laura Rogers.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Work in progress: Diving deeper into building distributed representations graphs

Paul Scherer.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Some elements of algebraic geometry

Prof. Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 December 2019, 17:30-18:30

Trinity Mathematical Society

Some elements of algebraic geometry

Professor Caucher Birkar (DPMMS).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2, CMS.

Monday 02 December 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: the life sciences on film and radio

CANCELLED

Max Long (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Mendeleev's Gift to Everyone (including you and me)

Sir Martyn Poliakoff (University of Nottingham).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Saturday 30 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

(Periodic) Table Talk — the beginnings of the Periodic Table

Dr Peter Wothers (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Saturday 30 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

One

Dr Andrew Szydlo.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.

Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London.

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Tales from the Table: Element facts and fictions

Andy Brunning (Compound Interest).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other irreversible MCMC methods

Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

MR12.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Women@CL Events

Women@CL Talklet Event

Lunch provided

Emma Rocheteau and Michal Rozenwald.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Virtual reality to facilitate multi-sensory molecular simulation and design: from quantum chemistry to ligand-protein binding

Dr David Glowacki (University of Bristol).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain

Anthony Wagner (Stanford University).

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Sexual Health, Risk and Migration: Challenging exclusionary constructions of migrant men who have sex with men

Arthur Davis - Centre for Gender Studies.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

women@CL Coffee and Cake

Women@CL Coffee & Cakes

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Building with DNA: From understanding to redesign of molecular machines

Professor Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

Joseph Marks.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

Hong Ge and John Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AI, Data Science & Mechanism Design in Sub-Saharan Africa

Daniel Mutembesa (Makerere University).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths

Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Model extraction for clinical decision support systems

Zohreh Shams.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

CANCELLED

Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (Newton International Fellow, British Academy and University College London).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Mathworks: MATLAB and NVIDIA Docker: A Complete AI Solution, Where You Need It, in an Instant

Food provided

Dr. Jos Martin, Senior Engineering Manager - Parallel Computing.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

The Limits of Symmetric Computation

Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 22 November 2019, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Exploring underutilised plants and fungi from Colombia to boost its bioeconomy

Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Statistics

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

MR12.

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Photonic-chip-based soliton microcombs

 Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Tobias Kippenberg: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

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

Zangwill Club

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Plurilingualism and Assessment (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume)

Dr. Nick Saville, Cambridge English Assessment.

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

Lucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Women@CL Events

Urban Driving with Conditional Imitation Learning

Corina Gurau, Researcher, Wayve.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation

Marco Damonte, the University of Edinburgh.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Is equilibrium overrated? Processing of optical materials at finite time scales

Prof. Ursula J. Gibson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

Professor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Children’s Literature at the Crossroads of Genre, Nation and Empire: Alice, Pinocchio, and adventure stories

Laura Tosi is Full Professor of English Literature at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice. .

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Earphones: The Next Significant Platform after Smartphones

Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:05-15:55

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

Henryk Michalewski.

CMS, MR14.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Attention

Elre Oldewage, George Hron.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Roku: Engineering Smart TVs for fun and profit

Food provided

Tim Granger.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory

Dr Athena Akrami (University College London).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Exozodiacal clouds - the local environment of habitable planets

Professor Mark Wyatt.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Finding an Analogy

Aaron Stockdill.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

High-dimensional data and the Lasso

Dr Rajen Shah (DPMMS) .

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Monday 18 November 2019, 20:30-21:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

Professor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Friday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Zangwill Club

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

MR12.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Recruitment Fair

Recruitment Fair.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 November 2019, 11:30-16:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Looking ahead in the world of science

1973 Nobel Prize in Physics

Prof Brian Josephson (Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof. Federico Federici (University College London).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence

Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg).

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Engaging Indigenous Communities in Malaysia: Snapshots of Culture, Genomics and Health

Maude E Phipps, Monash University Malaysia.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Leveraging non-expert semantic intuitions to support multilingual NLP

Olga Majewska, PhD student in Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Heritage language learners on the move: The transnational process of managing and learning Chinese in a Mandarin community school

Lini Xiao, PhD student, Faculty of Education.

Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Recruitment Fair

Recruitment Fair.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:30-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks

Omri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

BioNLP Research at Google

Ryan McDonald, Google.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

You Can Achieve Anything - with a Laser

There will be hands-on activities involving Laser Beam equipment.

Dr Ray Davies, Photonics Academy of Wales @ Bangor.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Colloquium - The Statistical Finite Element Method

Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

The Digital Architecture of Future Cities

Dr Ian Lewis - Director, Infrastructure Investment - Computer Laboratory.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

James Allingham, Omer Sella.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Yelp: Datastore Architecture - Orchestrating Cassandra with Kubernetes: Challenges and Opportunities

Food Provided

Raghavendra D Prabhu.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Apollo at 50 - and the next giant leap for human kind

Dr Christopher Riley.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Zangwill Club

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR - THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Matrix Means for Signed and Multilayer Graph Clustering

Pedro Mercado (University of Tübingen).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Speech Recognition: What’s Left?

This talk is organised in conjunction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for which Dr Michael Picheny is a Distinguished Industry Speaker

Dr Michael Picheny.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

Coffee stains, cell receptors, and time crystals: lessons from the old literature

Professor Raymond Goldstein (DAMTP) .

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Monday 11 November 2019, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

Professor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP

Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Netcraft: Credit card skimming for fun and profit

Food provided

Graham Edgecombe.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-15:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Handles and Homotopies

Jake Rasmussen (Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 November 2019, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Rule extraction from deep neural nets

Urska Matjasec (University of Ljubljana).

FC22, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

MR12.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Cisco: How to break the Internet

Food Provided

Simon Chatterjee.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Documenting Endangered Languages: Experiences in Indonesia

Prof Mary Dalrymple (Oxford).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Musical Thinking: A Multi-Dimensional Model and Taxonomy

Dr Daniel Johnson, University of North Carolina.

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

Thursday 07 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Frontotemporal dementia – challenges, opportunities, progress

James Rowe (U.of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Antarctic climate of the last 115,000 years from ice cores

Isobel Rowell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Force Awakens

Professor Ben Allanach, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

Ebany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Deep learning on graphs and manifolds: going beyond Euclidean data

Professor Michael Bronstein (Imperial College / Twitter).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Building For Scale: How and Why Stripe Built Sorbet, a Type Checker for Ruby

Food provided

Aaron Broder.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments

Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Active Galactic Nuclei: the powerful cores of the most luminous galaxies

Amy Rankine.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 20:00-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Collaborative Poetics

Helen Johnson, University of Brighton.

Mary Allan Building, Auditorium, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH .

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational neuroscience journal club

Monika Jozsa.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine Learning Systems Design

Prof Neil Lawrence.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural information processing during behavior and sleep

Mayank Mehta (UCLA).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

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

Second Language Education Group

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development

Professor Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, Dr.Dieuwerke Rutgers, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

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

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Schrödinger and his Equation

Sir David Clary FRS (University of Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 November 2019, 19:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

MR12.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning

Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Zangwill Club

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Not even wrong

Dr Robert Brady (Cambridge Computer Laboratory).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making

Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam).

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

How to Build a Neuron: establishing spatial identity in a structurally complex cell

Michael Fernandopulle - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Google: The Life of a Software Engineer

Google.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Intelligibility in Vietnamese L2 accents of English and the influence of intelligibility on social evaluations towards the speaker

Trang Nguyen, Postgraduate Researcher, Anglia Ruskin University..

Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Investment in symmetrical multilingualism: researching successful white South African learners of African languages in the post-apartheid era

Michael James, 2nd year PhD student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Room 326, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning region based representations of categories

Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Modern Bootstrap

Annual Maxwell Talk (Collaboration with Archimedeans) - Free Entry

Professor J Cardy FRS, University of California, Berkeley.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 19:30-20:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Wataching Molecules in Action

Professor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Christ's College.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

New horizons for piano: historic women composers who wrote for the keyboard and how to reintroduce their work into piano education

Colin J Hazel, director of music at St Augustine's Church, Cambridge.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S5.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

StructureNet: Hierarchical Graph Networks for 3D Shape Generation

Professor Niloy Mitra - Professor of Geometry Processing in the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 15:05-15:55

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

John Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

My Secure Bank - Morgan Stanley

Food provided

Morgan Stanley.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder

Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and Efficiency

Haitham Ammar, Huawei.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Clusters of Galaxies

Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Question Answering in Realistic Visual Environments: Challenges and Approaches

Catalina Cangea.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

Is classical physics deterministic? - Professor Mihalis Dafermos (DPMMS)

Professor Mihalis Dafermos (DPMMS).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Monday 28 October 2019, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital.

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

Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

Professor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Palantir - Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCL) & Machine Learning

Food provided

John Grant, Lead of Palantir’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Team.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 28 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time series

Vincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 28 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

The classification of black holes

Dr Harvey Reall ( DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Chasing the bacteria in the river Cam with real-time DNA sequencing: Results of the PuntSeq study

Dr Lara Urban, Wolfson College..

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 25 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Zangwill Club

How we remember and how we forget

Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

Song Liu — University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations

Oana Camburu, University of Oxford.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Re-entry vehicles for future space missions

Dr Paul Bruce (Imperial College London).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

Dr. Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks

Andrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) .

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effects of wind on trees and forests

Toby Jackson - Cambridge Conservation Initiative .

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Question Answering

Patrick Lewis, UCL.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Methodological Diversity in Design Fixation Research

Dr Nathan Crilly is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Design at the University of Cambridge. .

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

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities

Patricia Andrews Fearon.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural networks to model probability densities in quantum chromodynamics

Zahari Kassabov (High Energy Physics group, Cavendish).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical Models

Vidhi Lalchand.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A

Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Searching for exoplanets with PLATO

Dr Dominic Ford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Michael Rule.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Read Less, Learn More: Extracting Key News Themes

Food provided

Joshua Bambrick, Bloomberg.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:15-14:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Quantile QT-Opt for Risk-Aware Vision-Based Robotic Grasping

Cristian Bodnar.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

The Universality Phenomenon - Dr Roland Bauerschmidt (DPMMS)

Dr Roland Bauerschmidt (DPMMS).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Monday 21 October 2019, 21:00-22:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

JPMorgan Technology Showcase

Food provided

JP Morgan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800

Paul Sampson (Rutgers University).

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

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

Mathematics of Turbulent Flows: A Million Dollars Problem!

Edriss S. Titi (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society

James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the World

Dr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Statistics

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

Peter Orbanz — University College London.

MR12.

Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

Lucia Specia (Imperial College London).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL TALK THIS WEEK

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 October 2019, 00:00-00:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Origins of Life Systems Chemistry

First talk of the term

Prof John Sutherland (MRC LMB).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

The perceptual prediction paradox

Clare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences).

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Krill swarms: the carbon export highway - S*£% matters!

Anna Belcher - British Antarctic Survey.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Tensor product representations for RNNs / Revisiting post-processing for word embeddings

Shuai Tang, University of California, San Diego.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Understanding the Iceland mantle plume: Imaging deep Earth processes with seismic waves

Since this is our first talk, the talk is free admission!

Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, Bullard Laboratories University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Working with communities on language revitalisation: Some Australian experiences

Prof Peter Austin (SOAS, University of London).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:30-18:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Interactive workshop with Goldman Sachs

Food provided

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:05-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The emotional modulation of memory

Dr Deborah Talmi (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Dark Matter and Dark Energy - the hunt for the missing 95 per cent

Brian Clegg.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Accelerating Machine Learning on Arm

Food provided

: Isabella Gottardi, Software Engineer, ARM.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:15-14:15

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Verifiable robustness of neural networks in autonomous vehicles.

Edward Ayers (Department of Mathematics).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Trinity Mathematical Society

Higher Dimensions - Professor Imre Leader (DPMMS)

Professor Imre Leader (DPMMS).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Monday 14 October 2019, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

Dr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

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

Monday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Monday 14 October 2019, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Dealing with the 3 V's: Bigger, Faster, Weirder

Food provided. Please sign up online at www.gsacapital.com/careers so we can gauge numbers for catering.

Dr Joris Peeters, GSA Capital.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:05-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis

Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen).

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

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