Cabinet of Natural History

Title to be confirmed

Franziska Holt (University of York).

Zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The social brain in adolescence

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

Online via zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 16:00-17:15

CamBRAIN talks

So you want to be a neuroscientist?

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87543675352

Dr Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego.

Zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 16:00-18:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Audio-Visual Learning: Challenges and New Approaches

This talk will be on zoom

Dr Jie Pu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Petar Veličković.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Charles Malik in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1982)

Chloe Kattar.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Bedside to bench and back again, a path to translational pain research?

Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk)

Various.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:30-19:00

CamBRAIN Virtual Journal Club

Meta-analytic evidence of differential prefrontal and early sensory cortex activity during non-social sensory perception in autism

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

Nazia Jassim, Department of Psychiatry.

Zoom.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Genomically Humanised Mouse Models For ALS Research

Dr Thomas Cunningham, MRC Harwell Institute.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Clinical Neuroscience and the Heart-Brain Axis

Chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

Prof Sarah Garfinkel, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention

Mariam Aly (Columbia University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Prof David Knowles, Columbia University.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

iBox: Internet in a Box

Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research.

https://meet.google.com/ehj-dwaz-rea.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Human brain functional genomics and the mechanisms underlying genetic risk for schizophrenia

Dr Michael Gandal.

Online.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP

Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse

Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Statistics

Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests

Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership

Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Ageing in Harmony: Music’s Impact on Health & Well-being in Older Adults

Register for meeting access details, see below

Bill Ahessy (Heath Service Executive, Ireland).

Wolfson College Zoom meeting.

Friday 21 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

Ella Larsson (University of Westminster).

Zoom.

Monday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Ice templating for Regenerative Medicine - using ice to define cell-guiding frameworks for healing

Professor Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 24 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Long Sequence-to-Sequence Summarization: Efficient Transformer Models & Complementary Techniques

This talk will be on zoom.

Potsawee Manakul, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Computing eclipses at the end of the Wars of the Roses: the life and works of Lewis of Caerleon.

Dr Laure Miolo, Cambridge University Library Munby Fellow.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Professor Zoe Kourtzi - Title TBC

Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jamie Vicary - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Molecular traits of cell type-specific reactivity in neuroinflammation

Dr Lucas Schirmer, Manheim Center for Translational Neuroscience, Heidelberg University.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 27 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Translational medicine in Alzheimer’s disease – taking the unfolded protein response as a therapeutic target in to clinical trials.

Chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Ben Underwood, Deputy Medical Director CPFT.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 27 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Carving the world into useful task representations

Yael Niv (Princeton University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Dr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

TBC

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/UqMEAFyne44WyZCP6

Ashley Riggs (Université de Genève).

Online.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk

David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

TBA

Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Dynamic relationships between social connections and information transmission

Register for meeting access details, see below

Dr Ipek Kulahci (University of Notre Dame).

Wolfson College Zoom meeting.

Friday 28 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Regenerative Neuroimmunology - new generation molecular approaches to restore maladaptive inflammatory responses in the persistently inflamed CNS

Professor Stefano Pluchino, Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport

Elre Oldewage and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Morello - Arm's research prototype using Capabilities

Richard Grisenthwaite - SVP, Chief Architect & Fellow, Arm.

Online.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Network Function Virtualization and its Application to Improve the Architecture and Protocols of Future Cellular Networks

K. K. Ramakrishnan.

https://meet.google.com/ehj-dwaz-rea.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us?

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/Pv8gjUQsuMiyWnUMA

Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense Madrid).

Online.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Replication control during the cell cycle and development

Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time

Philip Resnik (University of Maryland).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections

Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: The Adolescent Brain

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, University of Cambridge.

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 07 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Mark Girolami - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session IV

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Experts by Personal and Professional Experience: A Novel Anti-Stigma Intervention Targeting Healthcare Professionals and Students

Chair: Dr Rashid Zaman

Dr Ahmed Hankir, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 10 June 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression

Jonathan Roiser (UCL).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes

Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk

Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Adaptations of Antarctic Marine Animals and Changing Environments

Register for webinar access details, see below

Professor Lloyd Peck (Science Leader of Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation Team, British Antarctic Survey & Fellow of Wolfson College).

Wolfson College Zoom meeting.

Friday 11 June 2021, 18:00-19:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

A Retrospective on the 2014 NeurIPS Experiment

Professor Neil Lawrence - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research?

Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Marta Zlatic.

Online.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Translating the Deaf Self: Translanguaging, interpreting & identities of deaf signers at work

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/PnyrnLjX4NAKnRMBA

Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process

Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Duncan, Imperial College .

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 18 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.

Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge.

Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 21 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Automatic Speech Recognition in a State-of-Flux

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Low-resource expressive text-to-speech using data augmentation

Dr Thomas Merritt, Amazon.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Jean-Pascal Pfister

Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk

Ferenc Huszár,, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - title to be confirmed

Professor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism for learning and regeneration?

Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Meaghan Creed, Washington University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meaghan Creed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meaghan Creed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - title to be confirmed

Professor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum Future - One day meeting

Date and venue to be confirmed

Organised by : Professor Ron Horgan and Professor Adrian Kent.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Saturday 30 October 2021, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE - title to be confirmed

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Julia Wolf - title to be confirmed

Dr Julia Wolf, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor Sadaf Farooqi - title to be confirmed

Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Department of Medicine.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 November 2021, 18:00-19:00