Online (Zoom)


2020-04-30 14:00: Integrable Kondo problems and 4d CS theory (Davide Gaiotto (Perimeter))

2020-05-07 13:00: Symmetry Breaking and Swampland Conjectures (Clay Córdova (Chicago))

2020-05-14 14:00: Instantons in five-dimensional O(N) vector models (Silviu Pufu (Princeton))

2020-05-21 13:00: The Holomorphic Modular Bootstrap for 2d Conformal Field Theories (Sunil Mukhi (IISER Pune))

2020-05-28 17:00: Koszul Duality in Field Theory & Holography (Natalie Paquette (Caltech))

2020-06-04 14:00: Covariant phase space with boundaries (Daniel Harlow (MIT))

2020-06-11 15:00: Charting the Landscape of 3d CFTs (David Poland (Caltech/Yale))

2020-10-15 14:00: Integrable Kondo line defect, 4D Chern Simons, and ODE/IM correspondence (Jingxiang Wu (Perimeter))

2020-10-22 13:00: Abelian gauge theories, spin-systems, anomalies and lattice (Tin Sulejmanpasic (Durham))

2020-10-22 14:00: An Optimal Control Approach to Covid-19 (Prof. Jan Maciejowski, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-29 13:00: Flips, dualities and symmetry enhancements (Chiung Hwang (DAMTP))

2020-10-29 14:00: Understanding and engineering biological networks using timelapse microfluidic microscopy (Somenath Bakshi, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-05 13:00: A geometric viewpoint on supersymmetric AdS solutions, black holes and their dual SCFTs (Dario Martelli (Torino))

2020-11-05 14:00: Self-Healing Codes (Dr. Michael Rule, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-12 14:00: Electronics on the Brain (Prof. George Malliaras, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-12 17:00: Berry phase in quantum field theory (Po-Shen Hsin (Caltech))

2020-11-19 13:00: Wilsonian RG in Fermionic Models (Slava Rychkov (IHES, ENS))

2020-11-19 14:00: A Digital Twin for Controlling Industrial Processes (Dr. Amritam Das, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-20 13:00: Linking Urban Public Space and Migrant Integration in China: The Struggle for and the Magic of Time (Chen Qu)

2020-11-26 13:00: Postponed - TBA (Miranda Cheng (Amsterdam))

2020-11-26 14:00: A canonical brain computation: from mechanism to purpose (Dr. Yashar Ahmadian, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-26 17:00: The new global apartheid (Professor Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University)

2020-12-03 14:00: Identification and model reduction of complex network systems (Dr. Xiaodong Cheng, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2021-01-21 14:00: Data-driven control à la Finsler and Yakubovich (Henk van Waarde, University of Cambridge)

2021-01-21 17:00:  Information Transfer with a Gravitating Bath (Andreas Karch (Texas, Austin))

2021-01-28 13:00: Quantum Modular Forms as three-manifolds invariants (Miranda Cheng (Amsterdam))

2021-02-04 14:00: A CFT distance conjecture (Leonardo Rastelli (Stonybrook))

2021-02-04 14:00: Stability of Optimisation-based Control: Brief Review and New Results  (Wen-Hua Chen, Loughborough University)

2021-02-11 13:00: Non-invertible symmetry and string tensions beyond N-ality (Yuya Tanizaki (Kyoto))

2021-02-11 17:00: The Option of Non-Violence (part of Subaltern & Decolonial Citizenships series) (Dr Humeira Iqtidar)

2021-02-18 13:00: The Supersymmetric Index and its Holographic Interpretation (Ohad Mamroud (Weizmann))

2021-02-18 14:00: Stabilization of Discrete-Time Switched Affine Systems and their Applications in Power Electronics (Dr. Lucas Egidio, Université Catholique de Louvain)

2021-02-25 13:00: Bootstrapping the space of Effective Field Theories (João Penedones (EPFL))

2021-02-25 14:00: Information transfer from biological to analog microcircuits (Prof. Alain Nogaret, University of Bath)

2021-02-25 17:00: Decolonial Kinship and Freedom through Indigenous Mobilities (Subaltern and Decolonial Citizenships series) (Dr Michelle Daigle)

2021-03-04 17:00: Wormholes and Islands in Cosmology (Victor Gorbenko (Stanford))

2021-03-11 14:00: The role of space in evolution: insights from microbial and viral expansions (Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-11 15:00: Anomalies in gravitational charge algebras of null boundaries and black hole entropy (Antony Speranza (Perimeter))

2021-03-11 17:00: Lethal Necessities: Precarity, Citizenship, and the Paradigm of Racial Violence (Subaltern & Decolonial Citizenships series) (Dr Franco Barchiesi)

2021-03-25 14:00: Generalized Nash equilibrium seeking under partial information (Sergio Grammatico, TU Delft)

2021-04-08 14:00: Distribution and regulation of ion channels in neurons:  Quantitative studies of global protein transport and homeostatic synaptic scaling (Adriano Bellotti, University of Cambridge)

2021-04-22 13:00: Winged Geographies: Birds in Space and Imagination (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-04-29 13:00: Gravity from Averaging CFTs (Alexander Maloney (McGill))

2021-05-06 13:00: Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space (Jaume Gomis (Perimeter))

2021-05-06 16:00: Conviviality and companionship: tarrots and people in the African forests (Nancy Jacobs)

2021-05-13 14:00: How Quantum Gravity Avoids Generalized Global Symmetries (Irene Valenzuela (Harvard))

2021-05-13 17:00: Imperial Slippages: Encountering and Knowing Ice in and beyond Colonial India (Tom Simpson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge))

2021-05-20 14:30: TBA (Zohar Komargodski (Simons))

2021-05-27 13:00: Symmetric Product Orbifolds & Holography (Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam))

2021-06-01 16:00: Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon (jsd24@cam.ac.uk)

2021-06-03 14:30: Defects and Anomalies in Quantum Field Theories (Yifan Wang (Harvard))

2021-06-10 13:00: Decomposition:  2d theories with 1-form symmetries (Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech))

2021-06-17 14:00: Graphical Nonlinear System Analysis (Tom Chaffey, University of Cambridge)

2021-06-17 14:15: TBA (Shu-Heng Shao (IAS))

2021-06-24 14:00: Spiking Control Systems (Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge)

2021-07-01 14:00: Combining two mechanisms to produce neural firing rate homeostasis (Paul Miller, Brandeis University)

2021-08-05 14:00: Closing The Gap Between Theory and Experiments in The Design of Biomolecular Feedback Circuits (Noah Olsman, Harvard University)

2021-10-14 17:00: Cosmology from confinement (Mark Van Raamsdonk)

2021-10-28 16:00: Magnetic scattering: pairwise little group and pairwise helicity (Csaba Csaki, Cornell)

2021-11-04 13:00: The onset of quantum chaos in disordered systems (Adar Sharon (Weizmann))

2021-11-18 13:00: Quantum Information Theory of the Gravitational Anomaly (Masataka Watanabe (Weizmann))

2021-11-23 14:00: Geodesic stars in Brownian geometry (Jean-Francois Le Gall (Universite Paris-Saclay))

2021-12-02 14:30: Fractons and D-branes (Shamit Kachru (Stanford))

2022-01-27 16:00: The Lattice-Continuum Correspondence for Abelian Chern-Simons Theories (Djordje Radicevic (Brandeis))

2022-02-01 14:00: Characteristic of a second class particle. (Mustazee Rahman, Durham University)

2022-02-03 13:00: On fixed points and phase transitions in five dimensions (Francesco Mignosa (SISSA))

2022-02-08 16:30: Entropic Independence and Optimal Sampling from Combinatorial  Distributions (Nima Anari (Stanford))

2022-02-17 16:00: Supersymmetry and trace formulas (Chagha Choi (Stony Brook))

2022-02-23 15:00: Science Publishing and Publishing in Science (Dr Stella M Hurtley | Deputy Editor, Science )

2022-02-24 16:00: What is the iε for the S-matrix? (Sebastian Mizera (IAS))

2022-03-09 15:00: Exploring the role of mitochondria in Parkinson’s disease (Professor Sonia Gandhi | UCL)

2022-03-15 14:00: Integrable fluctuations in random growth (Jeremy Quastel (Toronto))

2022-03-17 13:00: Gravitational Regge bounds (CANCELLED) (Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN))

2022-04-20 15:00: Building a Culture of Research Integrity (Dr Rhys Morgan | Head of Research Policy, Governance and Integrity, University of Cambridge)

2022-05-12 13:00: 3D gravity as an averaged large-c CFT (Thomas Hartman (Cornell))

2022-05-19 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Samuel Leutheusser (MIT))

2022-05-26 15:00: Combining local and extended operator algebras: 4d N = 2 vertex algebras and semi-topological descent (Mitch Weaver (Cincinnati))

2022-05-31 14:00: Scaling limit of the heavy-tailed ballistic deposition model with p-sticking (Santiago Saglietti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile))

2022-11-25 17:00: Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts (Steve Azzolin)

2023-01-31 13:00: When Vision Transformers Meet Cooperative Perception (Runsheng Xu, UCLA (USA))

2024-07-18 17:00: Cambridge RNA Club - July session ON ZOOM (Dr. John LaCava (University Medical Center, Groningen, NL), Dr. Alzbeta Chabronova (Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool, UK))

2024-12-19 17:00: Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE (Dr. Iddo Magen (Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL), Dr. Krasikova Alla (Department of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, RU))

2025-01-23 17:00: Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE (Dr. Anton Petrov (Director, Riboscope Ltd, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Oguzhan Begik (Senior Postdoc, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES))

2025-04-10 17:00: Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE (Dr. Adam Cawte (University of Oxford, UK), Dr. Isaia Barbieri (University of Turin, IT))

2025-07-17 17:00: Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE (Dr. Daniela Palacios (PI, National Research Council, Rome, IT), Dr. Arash Latifkar (Postdoc, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA), TBA)

2025-12-10 16:30: Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE (Martino Morici (Postdoc, UHamburg), Dmitry Kretov (PI, ULaval))

2026-01-22 16:30: Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE (Meenu Bhati (Postdoc, UEdimburgh), Roberto Campalastri (PhD student, MRC Tox, Cambridge, UK))

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

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