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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Video games in psychiatry: "a vicarious experience with a dazing, almost anaesthetic, effect on the mind"?

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI

Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English).

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Neuromorphic control

Luka Ribar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles

Prof. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Deep learning as optimal control problems: models and numerical methods

Elena Celledoni (NTNU, Norway).

MR 14.

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science and the approximation account of knowledge

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

Foster Talks

Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling

Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Lecture: Extraordinary waves and math: from beaches to photonics

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Mark Ablowitz (University of Colorado; University of Colorado Boulder).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

.

(no venue).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Unified Transform, Medical Imaging, Asymptotics of the Riemann Zeta Function: Part I

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Thanasis Fokas (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Friday 15 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Understanding the chemistry of ageing and disease in the extracellular matrix

Prof Melinda J Duer, Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Unified Transform, Medical Imaging, Asymptotics of the Riemann Zeta Function: Part II

CAT - Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations

Thanasis Fokas (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Research and development of new vibro-acoustic methods in the commerical software wave6

Dr David Hawes, DS Acoustics SIMULIA.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Scaling laws in blood platelets cytoskeleton

Francois Nedelec, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A design analysis framework for base-isolated buildings against ground-borne vibration

Giuseppe Sanitate, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Imagers Interest Group

Extracting Universal Representations of Cognition from fMRI mega-analyses

Bertrand Thirion, Neurospin, INRIA.

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

What sets the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions?

Emma Boland, British Antarctic Survey.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Emotion and memory

Deborah Talmi.

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Simplified models for long-lived particles and reinterpretation of LHC searches

Note unusual time and room of this seminar

Giovanna Cottin (FONDECYT Chile).

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

In search of the molecules of memory - ANNUAL LECTURE

Roger Nicoll, University of California San Francisco.

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

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Davide Napoletano .

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Black hole interiors and modular inclusions

Ro Jefferson (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm).

MR11.

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

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

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

Biophysical Seminars

Emergence of life-like properties in coacervate droplets

Evan Spruijt, Radboud University, the Netherlands.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Visualizing Landau Orbits, Quantum Hall Nematics, and Topological Edge Modes

Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University.

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:15-12:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-principles Investigation of Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries (ASSBs)

Bora Karasulu, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Actual causation

Enno Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

System-bath quantum dynamics in chemical physics

Professor Peter Saalfrank, University of Potsdam.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

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

Cavendish Inspiring Womxn Talks

Physics over the Rainbow

Claire Malone (University of Cambridge).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

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, 18:30-20:00

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer- NB 9am start time

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation

chair: Dr Hisham Ziauddeen

Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in the Neurocognitive Bases of Mood Disorders, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Timothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

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

Dementia Journal Club

TBC

Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport

Dr. Curt von Keyserlingk, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

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

Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research

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.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation

Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen.

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The short Arctic summer

Robert Burton.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

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, 10:30-12:00

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Phase engineered two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for electrochemistry

Dr Manish Chhowalla Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

Amy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Friday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Robust code development with MATLAB

Dr Tim Johns, Mathworks.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Conservation and plant diversity

Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation?

Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation?

Novartis - Dr Adrian Clarke, Dr Chi Ming Cheung & Dr Aude Figuccia.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell.

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

Monday 25 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

Dr. Nicolas Bellouin, University of Reading.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond

David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 25 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of "The Spirit of Inquiry" 200 years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Monopoles and Number Theory

Harry Braden (Edinburgh).

MR11.

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

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

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction - Update from Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge); Camilla Schelpe (Cantab Capital Partners LLP).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:00-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Data Centric Technology: Hype, Hoax, Hope?

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge; The Alan Turing Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:20-11:00

ARClub Talks

Can the face predict the brain? The association between facial morphology and autism spectrum disorder

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Seals from Space - Automated Antarctic Ecosystem Monitoring via High-resolution Satellite Imagery

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Premdeep Gill (British Antarctic Survey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 11:00-11:40

Quantum Matter Seminar

The unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12

Dr Kathrin Götze, Department of Physics, University of Warwick.

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 11:15-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Edge Preserving Priors

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Hanne Kekkonen (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:00-12:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometric Numerical Integration for Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimisation

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Erlend Skaldehaug Riis (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:20-12:40

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Anisotropic Nonlinear PDE Models in Biology

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Lisa Maria Kreusser (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:40-13:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The good news about killing people

Bryan W. Roberts (LSE).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Halide perovskites for next-generation photovoltaics and lighting

Dr Sam Stranks (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Variance Risk Premium

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Silvia Stanescu (Cantab Capital Partners LLP).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-14:40

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Is an efficient intermolecular energy transfer from vibrations to electronic motion possible?

Professor Lorenz Cederbaum, Universitat Heidelberg.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Towards a Comprehensive Head and Neck Assessment for Stroke Prevention

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Julio Acosta-Cabronero (Tenoke Ltd).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:40-15:20

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Photoenzymatic Catalysis - Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions

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.

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

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

Sensors CDT seminars

The Evolution of PolyProx Therapeutics

Laura Itzhaki, PolyProx Therapeutics.

Johnson Matthey Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Jos Martin (MathWorks).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:35-16:15

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

To be confirmed

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Alhussein Fawzi (Google DeepMind Technologies Limited).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:15-16:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Poster Prize Presentation

TGMW72 - Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information - Connecting with Industry

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:55-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Building with DNA: From understanding to redesign of molecular machines

Prof. Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

On Nucleic Acid Feedback Controllers

Declan Bates, University of Warwick.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

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

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

Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity

Bryan Roberts (LSE).

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

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Ptychography

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

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

unusual venue

Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Members' enthusiasms

Short talks by several CNHS members.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Oncotripsy: Selective ablation of cancer cells through tuned low-intensity pulsed ultrasound

Prof Michael Ortiz, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Coffee with Scientists

Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication

James Dolan (King's College).

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

Friday 29 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Max Long (Faculty of History).

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Zonal jet variability: insights from a framework of idealised models

Laura Cope, DAMTP.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data Science: From System Identification to (Deep) Learning and Big Data

Lennart Ljung, Linköping University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to give good talks

Tom Manly.

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

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale

Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 02 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Di-Higgs at the LHC: A Window on our Universe and BSM New Matter

Mike Nelson (Stockholm University).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The search for invertebrate consciousness

Jonathan Birch (LSE).

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

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic maps for navigating high-dimensional data spaces

Professor Alessandro Laio, SISSA Trieste.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Food for health - food for thought

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge..

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sliding Modes for Estimation: theory and practice

Sarah Spurgeon, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR 12.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

unusual venue

Graham Ross (Oxford).

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

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

Foster Talks

Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps

Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

Members' Event.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Imagers Interest Group

Resting-State fMRI Pre-processing and Denoising

Joff Jones and Rik Henson, MRC CBU; Vasilis Karlaftis, Department of Psychology.

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

Monday 09 December 2019, 12:30-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Blood is thicker than water

Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 09 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A 60 Year International History of Antarctic Subglacial Lake Exploration

Send an email to the organizer if you're not from BAS but want to come in.

Martin Siegert, Imperial College.

British Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

Monday 09 December 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis

chair: Dr Nikolett Kabacs

Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Leptoquark Pair Production at Future Hadron Colliders

Maeve Madigan (DAMTP).

Potter Room, B1.19.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic anticancer therapy

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

Dr Gary Doherty (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Ode to the masalai: New Guinea as a crucible for evolution in plants and insects

Simon Segar (Harper Adams University).

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

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

ARClub Talks

An update on progress for the Autism Centre of Excellence

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

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

Foster Talks

Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding

Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia.

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

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

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Predictive models of bacterial response and the evolution of resistance to antibiotics

Bartek Waclaw, University of Edinburgh.

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 17 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt.

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Earth System Models

Dr. Cat Scott, University of Leeds.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

TBC

Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

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

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

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

TBC.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

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

Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf blog website.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Omar Knio, KAUST.

MR 14.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Foster Talks

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

Steve Harridge, King's College London.

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Deep learning for tomographic image reconstruction: some recent approaches

Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, University of Surrey.

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

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms

Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

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

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

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

Voice processing in autism

Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

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

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

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, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

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 Ann Waterman (aw244@cam.ac.uk).

Professor Tony 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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Moments of Nonlinear Systems: From Model Reduction to Identification and Circuits Theory

Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

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

On the derivation of the Boltzmann equation : irreversibility and fluctuations

Isabelle Gallagher (ENS-Paris).

MR 14.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Sabine Clarke (University of York).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Luigi del Debbio (Edinburgh).

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Frank Noe, Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:15-14:35

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Marta Correia, MRC CBU.

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates

Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections

Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

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

Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports

Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

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

Foster Talks

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Integrating Imaging and Computational Modelling to Gain Therapeutic Insights for Cancer

Becky Shipley, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Climate change (TBC)

Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Structures Research Group.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

A phenomenological constitutive theory for polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics based on orientation distribution functions

Dr Martin I. Idiart, Departamento de Aeronáutica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CONICET, Argentina..

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Eske Willerslev - title to be confirmed

Professor Eske Willerslev, Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Copenhagen.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

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

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Mitochondria and Cancer: Metabolites and Beyond

Christian Frezza, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Present day anthropogenic climate forcings: The impact of including Earth System interactions

Dr. Fiona O'Connor, Met Office.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

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

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Nuno Reis, University of Bath.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

Annette Fayet (Oxford).

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

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

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

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Evidence for finite dissipation during vortex reconnection

Rober Kerr, University of Warwick.

MR 14.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

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

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

Foster Talks

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

TBA

Helen Byrne, University of Oxford.

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation

Dr. Natalie Harvey, University of Reading.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bigging up behaviour on coral reefs

Sally Keith (Lancaster University).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

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

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Pier Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College London).

MR 14.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Noemi Tousignant (UCL).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Imagers Interest Group

Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI

David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ewa Marek, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Tina Potter, Cavendish.

TBC.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

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

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals: Modeling, Analysis, Computations and Experiments

Panayotis Kevrekidis.

MR 14.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Foster Talks

3D Genomics in development and disease

Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

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

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

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

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

Professor Jonathan Roiser, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Zlatko Bačić, New York University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 14:15-14:35

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Explosive and Degassing volcanic eruptions: natural analogues with relevance for geoengineering schemes

Professor Jim Haywood, University of Exeter/Met Office.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Liam Grover, University of Birmingham.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 29 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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Henrice Altink (University of York).

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

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

Foster Talks

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

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

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Martin Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 14:15-14:35

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

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

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Axel Gelfert (TU Berlin).

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

Thursday 07 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

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

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

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

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Elena Boto, University of Nottingham.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Biomedical Physics

TBA

Patrick Forterre, Pasteur Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 05 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

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.

Sunday 05 December 2021, 16:30-18:00