All Talks (aka the CURE list)


2026-04-21 10:00: RSC Organic Chemistry Community South & East Regional Meeting 2026 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-04-21 14:00: Am I a Member? Auditing Private Machine Learning (Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto)

2026-04-21 14:00: Spin wavs in magnetic textures and polarization waves in ferroelectric domains (Assoc. Prof. Yuelin Zhang (Beijing Normal University))

2026-04-21 15:00: Yielding and Fluidization of Sheared and Active Amorphous Solids (Professor Srikanth Sastry, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)

2026-04-21 16:00: Making Waves in the Cloud: A Paradigm Shift for Scientific Computing through Compiler Technology (William Moses)

2026-04-22 15:00: BSU Seminar: "Response Adaptivity Across Clinical Trials In Portfolios of Biomedical Innovations" (Zaile Li, INSEAD)

2026-04-22 19:15: Real-time nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in England (Daniela De Angelis, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

2026-04-22 19:45: Scattering Plenty: the people who made the modern countryside (Jim Dixon, former CEO of the Peak District National Park)

2026-04-23 09:30: Decoding genomic chaos - a pancancer compendium of chromosomal instability (Professor Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)

2026-04-23 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Lukasz Fidkowski (Washington))

2026-04-23 15:00: The Sherman-Morrison formula: numerical instability and stabilisation via iterative refinement (Behnam Hashemi (University of Leicester))

2026-04-23 16:00: RNA-Mediated Regulation of Germinal Centre B-Cell Fitness: a tale of two DEAD-box RNA helicases (Claudia Ribeiro Almeida, Group Leader, Babraham Institute)

2026-04-24 08:45: A novel hereditary encephalopathy in four related Labrador Retrievers associated with a missense variant in the ALDH5A1 gene’ (Georgina Harris and Ellen Schofield, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

2026-04-24 08:45: Title to be confirmed (Anya Patel, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

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

2026-04-24 14:00: Reachability Types, Traces, and Full Abstraction (Benedict Bunting (University of Cambridge))

2026-04-27 11:00: LMB Seminar - Mechanisms of mRNA packaging and export (Clemens Plaschka, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna)

2026-04-27 12:30:  Life, death, and the discovery of PDAR: the Pol II Degradation-dependent Apoptotic Response  (Mike Lee PhD, Associate Professor Department of Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School)

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 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Dmitry Filippov, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge)

2026-04-28 11:45: Cambridge AI in Medicine Seminar - April 2026 (Lingjia Wang and Shuaiyu Yuan)

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

2026-04-29 13:30: Title tbc (Marcel Goh (McGill University))

2026-04-29 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-04-29 14:30: Assembly of icosahedral quasicrystals from colloidal particles (Dr Eva G. Noya, Instituto de Química-Física “Blas Cabrera” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Calle Serrano 119, Madrid 28006, Spain)

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

2026-04-29 16:00: Descending into the Modular Bootstrap (Professor Jesse Thaler (MIT / IAIFI))

2026-04-29 16:00: Descending into the Modular Bootstrap (Professor Jesse Thaler (MIT / IAIFI))

2026-04-29 16:00: Descending into the Modular Bootstrap (Professor Jesse Thaler (MIT / IAIFI))

2026-04-30 09:30: From lab to clinic: an introduction to translational research  (Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals and  Department of Oncology )

2026-04-30 10:30: CONFERENCE: Chemical and material sciences enabled by AI and automation (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-04-30 11:30: TBC (Prof. John R. Taylor (University of Cambridge))

2026-04-30 14:00: Fun experiments you can only do with frogs (Professor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley)

2026-04-30 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Adrian E. Feiguin (Northeastern))

2026-04-30 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Ken Lewtas, The Falcon Project Ltd.)

2026-04-30 15:00: The Accuracy-Stability Trade-Off and Sharp Bounds in Inverse Problems (Nina M. Gottschling (Oak Ridge National Laboratory))

2026-04-30 15:30: Social values in scientific information: value plurality and the democratic view (Greg Lusk (Durham University))

2026-04-30 16:00: Good and Evil Plasma Cells: Guardians & Saboteurs of Immunity (Dr Dinis Calado, Senior Group Leader, Immunity and Cancer Laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute)

2026-04-30 16:30: Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE (Ròża Przanowska (Postdoc, UVirginia), Zhipeng Lu (PI, USC))

2026-04-30 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Floris van Doorn (University of Bonn))

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

2026-05-01 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-01 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Duncan MacLachlan, Rolls Royce)

2026-05-01 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Stuart Grassie, Stuart Grassie Engineering)

2026-05-04 14:00: TBC (Nicolas Burq)

2026-05-05 11:00: Trigger-Level Analysis at ATLAS (Tobias Fitschen (University of Manchester))

2026-05-06 14:00: Classical Reductions and Converse Bounds in Quantum Hypothesis Testing (Dr Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

2026-05-06 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Mihnea Popa (Harvard))

2026-05-06 14:30: How fast is Quantum?  Exploring the speed limits of quantum information spread (Dr Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, University of Cambridge)

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)

2026-05-06 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Katja Roeper and Nadine Muschalik)

2026-05-06 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Laura DeMarco (Harvard))

2026-05-07 14:00: Synthesizing Diverse Policies for Multi-Agent Coordination (Prof. Amanda Prorok (Cambridge))

2026-05-07 15:30: When is a mummy not a mummy? Andean bodies and the problem of scientific classification in Britain (Christopher Heaney (Penn State University))

2026-05-07 16:00: Interferon: Tug of War between Host and Pathogen (Dr Charlotte Odendall, Senior Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London)

2026-05-08 08:45: Grand Rounds - Oncology (tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

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

2026-05-08 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-08 13:30: Bigger Picture Talk: Developing future  marine engines running on ammonia and other green fuels (Johan Hult - Everllence)

2026-05-08 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Matt Bryan, PhD student, CUED)

2026-05-11 11:00: César Milstein Lecture - Title TBC (Edith Heard, Director General of EMBL and Collège de France)

2026-05-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Angeliki Menegaki)

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 16:15: Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex (Andreas Keller, University of Basel)

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

2026-05-12 11:00: Title to be confirmed: ANUBIS (To Be Confirmed)

2026-05-12 16:00: Carrollian momenta from anti de Sitter ( Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechnique))

2026-05-13 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-13 14:00: A Unified Framework for Change of Measure Inequalities: Applications to Generalization, Memorization and Privacy (Dr. Yanxiao Liu, Imperial College London)

2026-05-13 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Connor Box, University of Cambridge)

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 09:30: Overview of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (Dr Huiqi Yang and Dr Nicola Thompson, Cambridge University Hopitals Trust)

2026-05-14 11:00: Laser tomography for wide area gas emission spatio-temporal reconstruction (Dr Damien Weidmann, Space Science & Technology Dept (RAL Space))

2026-05-14 11:30: TBC (Quentin Kriaa, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-14 13:00: Seminars in Cancer (Francisco X. Real, CNIO, Madrid)

2026-05-14 14:00: Tissue-scale communication in cancer development (Professor Richard White from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

2026-05-14 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Raul Perea-Causin (Stockholm))

2026-05-14 15:00: Advances in Label-Free High-Resolution Molecular Imaging using J Series III Cluster SIMS (Naoko Sano, Ionoptika. Ltd., Chandler’s Ford, UK)

2026-05-14 15:30: Nature and law (Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira (Maastricht University))

2026-05-14 16:00: Professor Philip Rosenstiel, W3 Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University  (Prof Philip Rosenstiel, W3 Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University )

2026-05-15 08:45: JCTS Presentations (tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

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)

2026-05-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-15 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Kenny Conto-Quipse, Research Associate, CUED)

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) )

2026-05-18 11:00: John Kendrew Lecture - Title TBC (Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)

2026-05-18 12:30: TBC (Luke Gilbert, PhD, Associate Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco)

2026-05-18 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Borbala Gerhat)

2026-05-19 11:00: Title to be confirmed: CMS  (Michael Revering)

2026-05-20 14:00: The Inaccessible Game (Professor Neil Lawrence, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-20 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-20 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-20 15:05: Title to be confirmed (Professor Tom Stafford - School of Psychology, Universitry of Sheffield)

2026-05-21 09:30: The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck   (Dr Gill Barnett; Dept of Oncology; Dr Christopher Jones, Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals )

2026-05-21 11:30: TBC (Rashma Rao, Imperial College London)

2026-05-21 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Marko Ljubotina (TUM))

2026-05-21 15:00: How bubble acoustics can help in three apocalypses (Tim Leighton, Sloan Water Technology, Romsey, Hampshire)

2026-05-21 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Rosanna Evans (Fitzwilliam Museum))

2026-05-21 16:00: Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute (Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute)

2026-05-22 08:45: JCTS Presentations (tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

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))

2026-05-22 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-22 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Racquel Domingues, Visiting PhD student, Federal University of Santa Catarina)

2026-05-25 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Asma Hassannezhad)

2026-05-26 11:00: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO): Status and First Physics Results  (Xianguo Lu (University of Warwick))

2026-05-26 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Özlem Durmaz-Incel, University of Twente)

2026-05-26 16:00:  Shape modes of CP^1 vortices (Nora Gavrea (Leeds))

2026-05-27 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-27 14:30: Gas-phase photochemistry from a theoretical and computational perspective (Professor Basile Curchod, University of Bristol)

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 11:00:  Ice-core timescales and the synchronization of paleoclimate archives (Giulia Sinnl - British Antarctic Survey)

2026-05-28 15:30: Defining and detecting discrimination: a new way forward (Issa Kohler-Hausmann (Yale University))

2026-05-28 16:00: Arturo Zychlinsky, Director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Arturo Zychlinsky, Director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

2026-05-28 16:30: Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON (Miguel Aracena Velazquez (PhD student, UYork), Pedro Madrigal (Project Leader, EMBL EBI))

2026-05-28 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Thomas Powell (University of Bath))

2026-05-29 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-29 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Matteo Spadetto (University of Nottingham))

2026-05-29 16:00: Non-stationarity in structural dynamics, challenges and implications for modelling and structural health monitoring (Luis David Avendaño-Valencia, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark)

2026-06-01 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Emeric Bouin)

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)

2026-06-02 11:00: Angular analyses of b -> s ee decays at LHCb (Lorenzo Paolucci (University of Manchester))

2026-06-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Emil J. Bergholtz (Stockholm))

2026-06-03 13:30: Title tbc (Cosmin Pohoata (Emory))

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

2026-06-04 09:30: Using Light for Cancer Detection (Dr  Danielle Harper; Dept of Oncology and Early Cancer Institute )

2026-06-04 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. José J. Baldoví (University of Valencia))

2026-06-04 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Catherine Powell (University of Manchester))

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

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

2026-06-05 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-06-05 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Iarla Boyce, PhD student, CUED)

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)

2026-06-08 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Daniel Boutros)

2026-06-09 11:00: Semiconductor-based neutron detector development at QMUL (Adrian John Bevan (Queen Mary University of London))

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

2026-06-11 09:30: Early cancer clinical trials (Dr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology)

2026-06-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Tomáš Bzdušek (UZH))

2026-06-11 15:00: From Plate to Brain: Global Diet, Cognitive Function and Neuroimaging in Diverse Populations (Professor Sonia Anand)

2026-06-11 16:00: Studying viruses to understand what makes pandemic viruses special and how innate immunity works (Prof Greg Towers, Professor of Molecular Virology, Centre for Immunobiology and Infection, Queen Mary University of London)

2026-06-12 08:45: Grand Rounds - Equine (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-06-12 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-06-12 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Melisa Bozaci, PhD student, CUED)

2026-06-15 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Joao H. Andrade )

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)

2026-06-16 11:00: Title to be confirmed: The Ghost Collider (Peter Williams (Daresbury Laboratory))

2026-06-18 09:30: Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge;  Why the microenvironment matters during pancreatic cancer progression and treatment (Dr Kiran Purusothaman, CUH and Dept of Oncology; Dr Wenlong Li, Biffi Lab, CRUK Cammbridge Institute)

2026-06-18 11:30: Atmospheric Methane - rise, surge, and ongoing post-surge growth. Can we mitigate the rise, and can anything be done to reduce emissions? (Prof Euan Nisbet, Department for Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2026-06-18 13:00: Seminars in Cancer (Tyler Jacks, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2026-06-18 15:00: Professor James Davies, Professor of Genomics, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-06-19 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-06-19 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Jacob Pantling, PhD student, Centre for Climate Repair, CUED)

2026-06-25 09:30: Clonal haematopoiesis, early detection and pre-leukemia to leukemia development  (Prof Elisa Laurenti, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Dept of Haematology)

2026-06-25 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Denis Bartolo (ENS, Lyon))

2026-06-25 16:00: Dr Leticia Monin Aldama, Department of Immunology and Inflammation - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London (Dr Leticia Monin Aldama, Department of Immunology and Inflammation - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2026-06-25 16:30: Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON (Nida Ali (Postdoc, UCambridge, UK), TBD (Novogene, Sponsor))

2026-06-26 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-06-29 11:00: Max Perutz Lecture - Title TBC (Reinhard Lührmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry)

2026-07-02 09:30: A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy   and   Neurosurgery for the oncologist  (Dr Raj Jena and Mr Adel Helmy;  Cambridge University Hospitals; Departments of Oncology/ Clinical Nuroscience)

2026-07-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Teuta Pilizota (Cambridge))

2026-07-02 16:00: Dr Masahiro Ono, Reader in Immunology, Imperial College London (Dr Masahiro Ono, Reader in Immunology, Imperial College London)

2026-07-03 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-07-08 14:00: Harnessing Radical Reactivity for Molecular Innovation (Professor Huan-Ming Huang, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University)

2026-07-08 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-07-09 11:45: Cambridge AI in Medicine Seminar - July 2026 (Mengling Feng and Kai He)

2026-07-09 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Adolfo Grushin (Donostia International Physics Center))

2026-07-09 16:00: Dr Molofsky, Tissue Immunology Research Lab, UCSF, USA (Dr Molofsky, Tissue Immunology Research Lab, UCSF)

2026-07-10 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-07-13 14:00: tbc (Prof. Choon Hong Tan, National University of Singapore)

2026-07-16 16:30: Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE (Sung Chul Kwon (PI, UHong Kong), TBD )

2026-07-17 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-10-07 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Marta Zlatic)

2026-10-21 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Samuela Pasquali, Université Paris Cité)

2026-10-29 14:00: tbc (Prof. Andrei Yudin, University of Toronto)

2026-11-11 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Fabian Berger, University of Cambridge)

2026-11-25 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Roman Staňo, University of Cambridge)

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)

2027-02-11 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Enrique Zuazua (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg))

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)