Theory of Condensed Matter

Towards the design of molecular materials

Dr Gerit Brandenburg, Heidelberg University and UCL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 16 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

‘Profit factory’ and ‘bathroom break’: How to analyse compounds and how to predict their emergence

Lonneke van der Plas (University of Malta).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 12:00-13:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Anisotropic Dipolar Interactions in Indirect Exciton Bilayers

Paulo V. Santos, .

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 23 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

How to Partition Resources and Eliminate (Most) OS Abstractions for Fast I/O

Pekka Enberg (University of Helsinki).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 23 September 2019, 15:00-16:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Advanced polarized light microscopy for mapping molecular orientation

 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 Rudolf Oldenbourg, Marine Biological Laboratory, MA.

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

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 09:30-11:00

Optoelectronics Group

Conversion between singlet and triplet states in the strong and weak coupling regimes.

Karl Börjesson; University of Gothenburg.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 14:00-15:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Paracoccus denitrificans oxidative phosphorylation, retentions, gains, losses, and lessons en route to mitochondria

Professor Stuart Ferguson | University of Oxford .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 25 September 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

TET-family dioxygenases, immune responses and cancer

Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Amulet and Auracle: Wearable Platforms for mHealth Research

David Kotz (Dartmouth College).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 30 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future.

Professor Tim Minshall, Institutue for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

An Overview of C++20

Bjarne Stroustrup.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 11:05-11:55

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

How PINK1- and Parkin-mediated Mitophagy Prevents Neurodegeneration

Dr Richard J. Youle | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 02 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 02 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Kendrew Lecture - How a ubiquitin-like protein brings ubiquitylation to life

Brenda Schulman, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Christopher Hicks, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Beyond the Energy Frontier: the changing eras of LHCb

Prof. Christopher Parkes (University of Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How To - An Evening with Randall Monroe

Randall Munroe.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

ARClub Talks

Autism and the Criminal Justice System

Dr Clare Allely, Reader in Forensic Psychology, University of Salford.

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

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution

Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rapid discovery and chemical synthesis of proteins

Professor Bradley Pentelute, MIT Department of Chemistry.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Equine Rotavirus Diarrhoea in Neonates: Situation in Argentina and optimisation of prevention and therapeutic methods

Dr Aldana Vissani (Institute of Virology, Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Clueless Voting

Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

BPI Seminar Series

Ptychotomographic imaging of nano-materials at I13-1 Diamond Light Source

Dr Charan Kuppili, Dept of Earh Sciences, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Complexities in Neural Parsing

Note unusual time

Natalie Schluter (IT University of Copenhagen).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room TBD.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

Host: Michael Imbeault

Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Brendan Battersby | University of Helsinki.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Coupling of rate-independent and rate-dependent systems with application to delamination processes in solids

Marita Thomas (Weierstrass Institute Berlin).

MR 14.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Using narratives to understand human conscious experience

Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

Thursday 10 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College, London).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Establishing CRISPRi in Campylobacter jejuni

Ruby Coates.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 11 October 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Will Bayton.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 11 October 2019, 08:45-10:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

***Please note this seminar is on a Friday***

Christopher Vakoc, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hamed Masaood (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

The way of the empty proof

Jean-Louis Lassez.

FW26.

Friday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Growth of dendrites in solid electrolyte Li ion batteries

Prof Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge).

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sam Livingstone — University College London.

MR12.

Friday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An Introduction to the DVRG

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space

Professor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How coordinated behaviour is achieved through selection, synchrony and sex

James Herbert-Read (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Shu Kawaguchi.

MR13.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913

Michael Sappol (Uppsala University).

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

The new clang constant interpreter

Nandor Licker (University of Cambridge).

GS15, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ed Segal, University College London.

CMS MR3.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Torsten Ochsenreiter | University of Bern .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Symplectic embeddings and infinite staircases

Tara Holm, Cornell.

MR13.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The role of nutrients in host-pathogen interactions

Dr Sheena Cotter (University of Lincoln).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

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

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Simulating liquidity stress in the derivatives market

Gerardo Ferrara, Ph.D., Economist | Market Behaviour & Activities Team | Capital Markets Division, Bank of England.

KH107, Keynes House, Judge Business School.

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

Genetics Seminar

What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time? 

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Interaction between humans and with robot

Etienne Burdet, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room TBD.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Stephan Roche, ICREA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

Cyclically Covering Subspaces in F 2 to the n

James Aaronson (University of Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Asynchrony, Ordering, and Protocols

Amit Chopra (Lancaster University).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Axion superradiance in rotating neutron stars

Jamie McDonald (TU Munich).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Please note: There will be no Zangwill Talk this week

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 October 2019, 00:00-00:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 18 October 2019, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Owain Salter Fitz-Gibbon (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 18 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Peter Orbanz — University College London.

MR12.

Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Moving away from equilibrium: from molecular interactions to transmembrane nano devices"

Prof. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 21 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Phenotypic Plasticity and the evolution of eusociality: How does the queen control reproduction in her workers?

Elizabeth Duncan (Leeds University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Vladimir Dokchitser.

MR13.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 14:30-15:30

Early Science and Medicine

Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?

William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University).

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

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 17:00-18:45

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Exact Calabi-Yau structures and disjoint Lagrangian spheres

Yin Li, UCL.

MR13.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Dr Javier Sotillo-Gallego (Instituto Carlos III, Madrid).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Crush Your Code

Food provided

Facebook.

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:15-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jens Bardarson, KTH Royal Technical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marthe Bonamy (University of Bordeaux).

MR12.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:30-15:30

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova).

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

TBC

Hansini Mallikarachchi, CUED.

Civil Engineering Building, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-16:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 25 October 2019, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Rodrigo Panosso Macedo (Queen Mary).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Surface energy approaches in modeling of nano-objects

Prof Anna Zemlyanova, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Song Liu — University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor Rebecca Kilner - title to be confirmed

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Human Regulator of TElomere Length Helicase 1 (RTEL1) couples nuclear envelope stability and functions to genome replication

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Steve Jackson

Arturo Londoño-Vallejo, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do organisms age? Beyond energy trade-offs

Alexei Maklakov (University of East Anglia).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Edwards, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alex Youcis.

MR13.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 14:30-15:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Francesca Carocci.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Tristan Rodriguez | Imperial College London .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Tristan Rodriguez | Imperial College London .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Nicolaus Heuer, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Modern Bootstrap

You may read an overview on 'the Bootstrap model' here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_model

Professor J Cardy FRS, University of California, Berkeley.

TBC.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Epigenetic memory over geological timescales

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

Hiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 31 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Scase, Nottingham University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Valerie M Weaver, University of California, San Francisco.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Maia Vergniory, Donostia International Physics Center.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

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

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

A voyage from bulk via thin film and nanoparticles to surface magnetism

Adrian Ionescu, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jose Eliel Camargo-Molina (Imperial College London).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 01 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Motile cilia - understanding the origin of collective dynamics

Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

MR12.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Andrew Smith, University of St Andrews.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 04 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

TBC

Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Feng Hao, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Luis Lomelí.

MR13.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 14:30-15:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Title to be confirmed

Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Kristin Shaw, University of Oslo.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Dr Claire Turner (The University of Sheffield).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knotted Surfaces in 4-manifolds and Distances Between Them

Oliver Singh, Durham.

MR13.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 07 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Intersection sizes of linear subspaces with the hypercube

Carla Groenland (University of Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 14:30-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Local regularity theory for Navier-Stokes equations and Liouville type theorems

Gregory Seregin, University of Oxford.

MR 14.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Raffaele Danna (Faculty of History).

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

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Ptychography

John Rodenburg, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Recent developments of Herwig7

Stefan Gieseke (Karlsruhe).

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Expression, Purification and Screening of Antimicrobial Peptides from Hermetia illucens

Leila Fahmy.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 08 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Georgina Harris (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 08 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Prof. Mette Kalager - Title TBC

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Mette Kalager, University of Oslo.

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

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Patricia Schmidt (University of Birmingham).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Modelling physiological and pathological glia-neuron interactions in cerebral organoids

Dr Andras Lakatos, MRC Clinician Scientist, Neurologist, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

100 Years of Universes

Professor John D Barrow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders

Trine Bilde (Aarhus University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Simon Parkin, Information Security Group, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

David Hansen.

MR13.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 14:30-15:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Title to be confirmed

Lochlann Jain (Stanford University and King's College London).

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Gareth Richards, School of Psychology, Newcastle University.

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Maria Falkenberg | University of Gothenburg .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Dr Wolfram Petzl, Ludwig (Maximillians-Universitat Munich (LMU)).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Homological representations for families of groups

Arthur Soulié, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

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.

TBC.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

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

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Mattheiu Cartigny, University of Durham.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Luka Ribar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

Inequalities on projected volumes

Zarko Randelovic (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice investigation of charmed and bottom hadrons

Padmanath Madanagopalan (Regensburg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Random explorations of materials space

Chris Pickard, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Rapid Identification of Bacteria and AMR Directly from Clinical Samples Using Mass Spectrometry

Daniel Buhl.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 15 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Andrea Mosca.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 15 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Making bonds by breaking bonds: An unconventional approach to making molecules

Professor Jun Yamaguchi, Waseda University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 18 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking trade in underground symbioses

Toby Kiers (VU Amsterdam).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Radio Protocol Vulnerabilities in 5G Networks

Ravishankar Borgaonkar, SINTEF Digital.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

Elaine Leong (University College London).

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Peter Saalfrank, Universitaet Potsdam.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ben Sibley, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

CMS MR13.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Bert Smeets | Maastricht University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Quasimorphisms on groups of diffeomorphisms

Richard Webb, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Dr Camilla Benfield (University of London).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

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

The following article is related to the talk: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13265.pdf

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

TBC.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins revealed by ribosome profiling

Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Judith Campisi, The Buck Institute for Research on Ageing .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Curt Von Keyserlingk, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

An approximate version of Jackson's conjecture

Yani Pehova (University of Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:30-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

From the d'Alembert paradox to the 1984 Kato criteria via the 1941 1/3 Kolmogorov law and the 1949 Onsager conjecture.

Claude Bardos, Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions.

MR 14.

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Analytic two-loop multi-scale scattering amplitudes in QCD

Harald Ita (Freiburg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Imaging materials structure and bonding using coherent and incoherent electron imaging

Peter Nellist, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Valentina Ndolo.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 22 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Snipping out the stress: Variations in surgical technique for adrenalectomy with caudal vena cava venotomy in 19 dogs

Rebekah Knight.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 22 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

FW26, 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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Chandrima Ganguly (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Susannah Gibson - title to be confirmed

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Philip Zegerman & Eric Miska

Lori Passmore, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

Josh Firth (Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Lina Dencik, Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Properties of Elementary Particle Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station

Jie Feng (MIT).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Nick Goldman, European Bioinformatics Institute.

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Diana Tan, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia.

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Lorenz Cederbaum, Universitat Heidelberg.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Comparing obstructions to local-global principles for rational points over semiglobal fields

Valentijn Karemaker, Utrecht University.

CMS MR13.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Werner Koopman | Radbound Centre for Mitochondrial Medicine .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) The Keith Peters Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Todd Hyster, Princeton University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

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

Joseph Marks.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The lectin pathway of complement: The Swiss army knife of innate immunity

Professor Peter Garred (University of Copenhagen).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hannah Schwartz, MPI Bonn.

MR13.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Catalysis of Photochemical Reactions"

Professor Thorsten Bach, TU Munich.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Prof. Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On Nucleic Acid Feedback Controllers

Declan Bates, University of Warwick.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room TBD.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

Generalised Knight Tours

Nikolai Beluhov (Stara Zagora).

MR12.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:30-15:30

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Bryan Roberts (LSE).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Per aspera ad astra: Impact of high precision standard model predictions for new physics searches

Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham).

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 29 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Room Change: SS03

Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 29 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Dr Nick Steel - Title TBC

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Dr Nick Steel, University of East Anglia.

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

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

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title - tbc

Prof Michael Ortiz, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

MR12.

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

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 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Lennart Ljung, Linköping University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room TBD.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

David Loeffler.

MR13.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sarah Zerbes.

MR13.

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

Early Science and Medicine

Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia

Dror Weil (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Alessandro Laio, SISSA Trieste.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Paint-on antimicrobial bandages: a new approach for veterinary wound management

Dr Nuno Faria (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Fabian Haiden, Oxford.

MR13.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Prof Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

TBC.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

BPI Seminar Series

Amine-Functionalised Metal-Organic Frameworks as Next Generation Adsorbents for CO2 Capture

Dr Alex Forse, Dept of Chemisty, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Sarah Spurgeon, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room TBD.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Halfway to Rota's basis conjecture

Alexei Pokrovskiy (Birkbeck, University of London).

MR12.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:30-15:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Gonzàlez- Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Host factors that shape influenza evolution.

Wendy Barclay.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

REF2021 Open Access Workshop

Bea Gini (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 06 December 2019, 08:45-10:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Gaia Scerif, Professor of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do other cells do?

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Jacqui Shields - MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Professor Jerry Wells (Wageningen University & Research).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Prof. Stephen Baker - Title TBC

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Stephen Baker, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Gareth Tyson, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

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

TBC.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Hansong Ma

Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

George Carnell.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 24 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneering genetic therapies for Huntington's disease and its relevance for neurodegeneration

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: the Gurdon PhD Society

Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Grossmann, VU University Amsterdam.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Grossmann, VU University Amsterdam.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Moire superlattice effects in heterostructures of two-dimensional materials

Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Isabelle Gallagher (ENS-Paris).

MR 14.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Oliver Exton, Department of Economics.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 03 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Eric Miska

Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Craddock (University of Bristol).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Daniele Leonori, University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 10 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Frank Jiggins

Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Carmela Troncoso (EPFL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

A Wikipedia article on our speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Kent

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TBC.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Volcanic Behaviour

Dr Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong

Andrew McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA.

To be confirmed.

Friday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: David Summers and John Welch

Dr Trevor Lawley, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Marco Schiro, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Peter Treasure, National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 19:15-21:30

Rouse Ball Lectures

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

Professor Kate Storey, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Leibniz University Hannover.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Zoonotic Disease Transmission Risks in Displaced Populations

Dorien Braam (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 01 May 2020, 08:45-10:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Allègre Hadida, Judge Business School.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 19:15-21:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30