Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

MARLeME: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Model Extraction Library

Dmitry Kazhdan.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - Christmas Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

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

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

Dr Pablo Rodriguez - Telefonica Alpha.

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

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

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

Dementia Journal Club

Cryo-EM structures of Aß amyloid fibrils

Veronica Kane Dickson (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 12 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Dynamic Compilation and Optimization of Software Network Functions

Sebastiano Miano(Politecnico di Torino).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Ben Day.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

ARClub Talks

An update on progress for the Autism Centre of Excellence

Aileen Thomson, Appeal Director for the ACE, Autism Research Trust.

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

Chaucer Club

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

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

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

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

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org

Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Duo Wang.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Optiver

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 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

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

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

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

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

IMC

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

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

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

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

Financial History Seminar

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Jacob Deasy.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

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

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 Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Controlling time in networking: from delay-tolerant networking to low-latency networking

Kyunghan Lee (UNIST).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Chaucer Club

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Doubt thy models: rethinking hypothesis testing in NLP

Rescheduled

Haim Dubossarsky (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality

Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Machine Learning at the Extreme Edge - an Open Platform Approach

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

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

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

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

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

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

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Ourpath

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

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

Chaucer Club

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

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Green Custard Ltd

Zoltan Molnar.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Vanessa Didelez, University of Bremen.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

The use of multi-parametric maps (MPMs) in ageing research

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

Financial History Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

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

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

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

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

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

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

Financial History Seminar

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Tina Potter, Cavendish.

TBC.

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Gearset

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 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

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

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

Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Girls and women on the autism spectrum

Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

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

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

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

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

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Robin Ince, University of Glasgow.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

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

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

Danielle Turton (Lancaster University).

English Faculty Building, TBC.

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