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2026-04-20 09:45: Director's Welcome (Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute))

2026-04-20 09:50: Organiser's Welcome (Michael Levitin (University of Reading))

2026-04-20 10:00: Talk title TBC (Javier  Gómez-Serrano  (Brown University))

2026-04-20 11:15: Using numerical simulations for solving spectral geometry problems (Beniamin Bogosel (Aurel Vlaicu University))

2026-04-20 12:00: From Surrogate Solvers to PINNs and Beyond Classical Methods (Carlo Nitsch  (University of Naples Federico II))

2026-04-20 14:00: Talk title TBC (Bogdan Georgiev (Google DeepMind))

2026-04-20 15:15: An AI-Assisted Proof in Spectral Geometry (Jonas Henkel (Philipps-Universität Marburg))

2026-04-20 15:30: What Can a Spectrum Learn? AI Perspectives on the Kohn Laplacian of Sphere Quotients (Yunus Zeytuncu (University of Michigan))

2026-04-20 15:45: Discussion I ()

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

2026-04-21 10:00: Machine Learning for Spectral Geometry and Vice Versa (Justin Solomon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2026-04-21 11:15: Necessary mechanisms for super AI and stopping hallucinations: The consistent reasoning paradox and the indeterminacy function (Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge))

2026-04-21 12:00: Formalising mathematics and spectral geometry in Lean (Laura Monk (University of Bristol))

2026-04-21 14:00: Surface Dynamics of Graphene and h-BN:  Molecular Mobility and Vibrational Energy Dissipation (Dr Anton Tamtögl, Graz University of Technology)

2026-04-21 14:00: From Physics-informed Neural Networks to Numerically Verified Proofs in Geometric Analysis (Daniel Platt (Imperial College London))

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 14:15: Discussion II ()

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 15:30: Discussion II continued ()

2026-04-22 09:30: A flexible Monte Carlo quantitative bias analysis for unmeasured confounding (Rachael Hughes (University of Bristol))

2026-04-22 11:00: Topology of the Ritz energy landscape (Gregory Berkolaiko (Texas A&M University))

2026-04-22 14:00: Title abstract tbc (Susanna Terracini (Università degli Studi di Torino))

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))

2026-04-27 14:30: Optimal metric and approximation of free boundary minimal surfaces (Edouard Oudet (Université Grenoble Alpes))

2026-04-27 16:00: Kirk Public Lecture | A proxy window into the beautiful and challenging world of causal attribution (Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania))

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 12:00: Geometry and Generalization: The case of Grokking (Matthieu Tehenan, Department of Computer Sciences and Technology)

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

2026-04-28 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

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

2026-04-29 14:00: Title and abstract tba (Delio Mugnolo (FernUniversität Hagen))

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))

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

2026-04-30 15:00: Coming soon (Prof Michelle Girvan, Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

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))

2026-05-01 11:00: Quantum graphs with a time asymmetry: spectral optimization and spectral statistics (Pavel Exner (Czech Technical University))

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)

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

2026-05-05 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-05-06 14:00: Differences between Robin and Neumann eigenvalues (Igor Wigman (King's College London))

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 16:15: The physics of decision: how competitive systems compute, route, and remember (Natalia Berloff (DAMTP))

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))

2026-05-08 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 10:00: Director's Briefing (Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute))

2026-05-11 10:05: Organiser Welcome (Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv University))

2026-05-11 10:15: Title TBC (Jon Keating (University of Oxford))

2026-05-11 11:15: Morning Break ()

2026-05-11 11:45: Title TBC (Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University))

2026-05-11 14:00: Title TBC (Laura Monk (University of Bristol))

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 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

2026-05-11 15:30: Title TBC (Will  Hide (University of Oxford))

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 16:30: Welcome Reception and Poster Session ()

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

2026-05-12 10:15: Title TBC (Yunhui Wu (Tsinghua University))

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

2026-05-12 11:15: Morning Break / Group Photo ()

2026-05-12 11:45: Title TBC (Tuomas Sahlsten (University of Helsinki))

2026-05-12 14:00: Title TBC (Ramon  van Handel (Princeton University))

2026-05-12 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

2026-05-12 15:30: Title TBC (Pär Kurlberg (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology))

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

2026-05-12 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

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

2026-05-13 10:15: Title TBC (Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France))

2026-05-13 11:15: Morning Break ()

2026-05-13 11:45: Title TBC (Stephen Muirhead (Monash University))

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

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

2026-05-13 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

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

2026-05-13 15:30: Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani ( EDI Film Screening) ()

2026-05-13 19:30: Formal Dinner at Selwyn College ()

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 10:15: Title TBC (Damien Gayet (Université Grenoble Alpes))

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 11:15: Morning Break ()

2026-05-14 11:45: Title TBC (Steve Lester (King's College London))

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

2026-05-14 14:00: Title TBC (Frederic Naud (Sorbonne Université))

2026-05-14 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

2026-05-14 15:00: Coming soon (Prof Manlio De Domenico. Department of Physics, University of Padua)

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: Spectral rigidity of random covers of compact hyperbolic surfaces (Elena Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

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

2026-05-15 10:15: Title TBC (Dmitry Belyaev (University of Oxford))

2026-05-15 11:15: Morning Break ()

2026-05-15 11:45: Title TBC (Lakshmi Priya M.E. (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore))

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

2026-05-15 14:00: Title TBC (Joe Thomas (Durham University))

2026-05-15 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

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

2026-05-18 12:00: Scientific Steering Committee meeting ()

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

2026-05-19 16:00: Rothschild Public Lecture: The Quantum Centenary: from Order to Chaos (Jens Marklof (University of Bristol))

2026-05-19 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-05-20 11:00: Spectral theory for Dirac operators with singular potentials (Jussi Behrndt (Technische Universität Graz))

2026-05-20 14:00: title abstract tba (Chris  Sogge (Johns Hopkins University))

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 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Sougato Bose (University College London))

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 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))

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

2026-05-25 16:00: title and abstract tba (joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds) (Egor Shelukhin (Université de Montréal))

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: Rothschild Public Lecture | Forty years of causal inference: Report of a great-grandfather (James Robins (Harvard University))

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

2026-05-26 16:30: Online Causal Inference Semina ()

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 (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))

2026-05-29 11:00: Title and abstract tba (Emily Dryden (Bucknell University))

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 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))

2026-06-02 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-06-03 11:00: title abstract tbc (Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M University))

2026-06-03 14:00: title abstract tbc (Alina Stancu (Concordia University))

2026-06-03 16:15: Quantum optics with organic molecules (Vahid Sandoghdar (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light))

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))

2026-06-05 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)

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

2026-06-09 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

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: Coming soon  (Prof Claus Hilgetag. Institute of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg)

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

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)

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

2026-06-23 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

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))

2026-07-02 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))

2026-07-06 14:30: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 14:50: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 15:15: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 15:40: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 16:05: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-06 16:35: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 17:00: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 17:25: Complete and Submit Project Choice Forms ()

2026-07-06 18:00: Dinner ()

2026-07-06 18:00: Teams Announced ()

2026-07-07 08:30: Morning Tea and Coffee ()

2026-07-07 09:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-07 10:30: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-07 11:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-07 13:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-07 15:00: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-07 15:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-08 08:30: Morning Tea and Coffee ()

2026-07-08 09:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-08 10:30: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-08 11:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-08 13:30: Group Work ()

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 15:00: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-08 15:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-09 08:30: Morning Tea and Coffee ()

2026-07-09 09:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-09 10:30: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-09 11:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-09 13:30: Group Work ()

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

2026-07-09 15:00: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-09 15:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-10 08:30: Morning Tea and Coffee ()

2026-07-10 09:00: Group Presentation 1 ()

2026-07-10 09:25: Group Presentation 2 ()

2026-07-10 09:50: Group Presentation 3 ()

2026-07-10 10:35: Group Presentation 4 ()

2026-07-10 11:00: Group Presentation 5 ()

2026-07-10 11:25: Tea and Coffee Break ()

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

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)