Guy Emerson's list


2026-04-20 12:00: A Novel Diffusion Model based Approach for Sleep Music Generation (Kevin Monteiro, Department of Computer Science and Technology)

2026-04-20 12:30: Numerically verified proofs in pure maths (Daniel Platt, Imperial College London)

2026-04-24 12:00: Representational Geometry of Language Models (Matthieu Téhénan (University of Cambridge))

2026-04-27 19:30: CSAR lecture: In a post-Ozempic world, have we cured obesity? (Professor Giles S.H. Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge)

2026-04-28 16:00: How Much Does Homology Really Know? (Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster))

2026-04-29 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Shelley McKeown Jones (University of Oxford))

2026-04-30 15:00: A Data-Centric Approach to AI Adaptation and Alignment (Prof. Stephen Bach (Brown University))

2026-05-01 12:00: Understanding the Interplay between LLMs' Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge  (Prof Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen))

2026-05-06 15:05: Title to be confirmed (Professor Tomas Petricek - Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic)

2026-05-07 15:00: Talk by Prof. Aaron Mueller (Boston University) (Prof. Aaron Mueller (Boston University))

2026-05-08 11:00: Talk by Tiago Pimentel (ETH Zurich) (Tiago Pimentel (ETH Zurich))

2026-05-08 12:00: CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Execution-Free Reward Models (Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST))

2026-05-11 14:30: The Dirac equation and geometry (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-11 14:30: The Dirac equation and geometry (Professor Nigel Hitchin - Oxford University)

2026-05-11 19:30: CSAR lecture: Decarbonizing road freight (TBC) (Professor David Cebon, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-12 18:15: From majority to minority: Heritage language in the diaspora (Li Nguyen, Nanyang Technological University)

2026-05-13 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Sakshi Ghai (London School of Economics))

2026-05-13 15:05: Title to be confirmed (Professor Simon Moore - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-14 16:00: Talk by Fazl Barez (Oxford) (Fazl Barez (Oxford))

2026-05-15 11:00: Talk by Lotem Peled-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) (Lotem Peled-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology))

2026-05-15 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge))

2026-05-15 12:00: TBC (Mohsen Mosleh, University of Oxford)

2026-05-16 15:00: The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery (Yuri Yuri (Oxford) )

2026-05-16 15:00: The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery (Yuri Yuri (Oxford) )

2026-05-16 15:00: The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery (Yuri Yuri (Oxford) )

2026-05-20 15:05: Reasoning in groups, with human and artificial agents (Professor Tom Stafford - School of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2026-05-22 12:00: Using A Function-Centric Lens to Re-consider Regularisation, Representation Transfer and Geometric Properties of Neural Networks    (Israel Mason-Williams (Imperial/KCL))

2026-05-27 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor David Kotz - Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College)

2026-05-27 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Jens Madsen (London School of Economics))

2026-05-28 14:00: Talk by Prof. Aditi Raghunathan (CMU) (Prof. Aditi Raghunathan (CMU))

2026-06-01 19:30: CSAR lecture: Beyond Net Zero: Can We Repair The Climate? (Dr. Luke Haworth, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge)

2026-06-03 15:05: Title to be confirmed (Dr Hana Aliee - Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge)

2026-06-04 15:30: Looking for intelligence in minds, machines and mathematics (Stephanie Dick (Simon Fraser University))

2026-06-04 16:00: Think Before you Speak: Next Gen LLMs with Global Reasoning and External Memory (Prof. Kilian Weinberger (Cornell))

2026-06-04 17:00: Positional encodings in LLMs (Valeria Ruscio)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-10 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Leor Zmigrod)

2026-06-11 14:00: Talk by Prof. Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University) (Prof. Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University))

2026-06-15 19:30: CSAR lecture: 46&: Development of a probiotic that supports the natural removal of forever chemicals from the body (Professor Kiran Patil, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge)

2026-06-18 16:00: Talk by Prof. Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) (Prof. Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago))

2026-06-25 10:00: Talk by Prof. Robert West (EPFL) (Robert West (EPFL))

2027-01-22 17:30: Cooperation as a Laboratory of Being (Professor Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht University)

2027-01-29 17:30: Cooperation in Nature (Professor Stuart West, University of Oxford)

2027-02-05 17:30: Market Failure, Organ Shortage, Pandemic and Climate Change: The Architecture of Cooperation (Professor Axel Ockenfels, Max Planck Institute)

2027-02-12 17:30: Welfare Reform and the Imperative of Cooperation (Sir Andrew Dilnot, Nuffield College Oxford)

2027-02-19 17:30: The Magic of Magnetism (Professor Russell Cowburn, University of Cambridge)

2027-02-26 17:30: Security Cooperation within Government and between Governments (Ms Suzanne Raine, Selwyn College Cambridge)

2027-03-05 17:30: Together Now: Cooperation and Collaboration in Social Art Practice (Mr Harold Offeh, Royal College of Art)

2027-03-12 17:30: Cooperation for Nature (Dr Mike Rands, Cambridge Conservation Initiative)